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  • in reply to: Happy New Year To All, Past and Present ! #70537
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      <p>HAPPY NEW YEAR!</p>
      <p>Or, as my wife puts it, 2022 can go f^*k itself.</p>
      <p>Thanks for keeping the mm community going.</p>

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      in reply to: Can you get a decent phone for under £300 these days? #69322
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        The last couple of phones I got was from BACK MARKET. They where Samsung s9 and s9+ I highly recommend a s9+ The two I got where as new for about 200 each.

        Contrast on their website is a bit lacking. Designed by yoof with 20/20 eyes!

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        in reply to: Can you get a decent phone for under £300 these days? #69272
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          Never heard of alza, but they have it for £299.90 – https://www.alza.co.uk/motorola-edge-20-128gb-grey-d6637882.htm

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          in reply to: Will Cummings get sacked/drop out. #43518
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            The rule about children was introduced (lobbied for) by women needing a way to escape abusive relationships. Typical of a rich white man to abuse such a clause.

            The world is lead by truly horrible men.

            Our social and political set up was based on a world where it was needed for communication and dissemination. It is not needed any more.

            Laws are bound by physical borders, whereas international companies are not. International ‘law’ is not capable of handling these companies. They choose the country with the law they want (lobby to create it where they want it). The laws are no good.

            We need new politics, new law, new social infrastructure. With these there would be no need for the tories to exist at all.

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            in reply to: Membership Updates #43040
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              +1

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              in reply to: Three 4G better through a VPN #42929
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                Sounds like ISP throttling/packet sniffing your HTTP traffic?

                VPS service is encrypted and uses a different protocol for the initial internal connection.

                1. Have you tried https://testmy.net/ to test actual file download times?
                2. How does Chrome browser vs Firefox vs VPN compare/

                (FF now encrypts DNS requests, bypassing many ISP domain blocks)

                EDIT: https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/25/21152335/mozilla-firefox-dns-over-https-web-privacy-security-encryption

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                in reply to: New dermatological treatment. #42759
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                  The zerodorm product looks like the soap alternative that I used to use (similar to the Hydromol). When prescription wasn’t available, I would use this: https://www.sebamed.co.uk/products/cleansing-bar-100g?variant=15498320314486

                  I don’t remember the exact thing I was prescribed at first. It was given around 10 creams for skin application, 10 soap alternatives and 5 bath oils – all try to try out in various combinations to see which helped me the most.

                   

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                  in reply to: New dermatological treatment. #42744
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                    NB: Still find it amusing that I use flammable creams 🙂

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                    in reply to: New dermatological treatment. #42743
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                      I spent several years applying thick layers of, essentially, paraffin to my skin. I bathed in paraffin soaked baths, washed with paraffin. I also wore all cotton clothes ( this is another ongoing problem that people don’t usually think about, but I can moan about that in another thread ;p ) and brought cotton sheets and blankets with me to prevent having to make contact with man made fibres.

                      After about 4-5 years of this it started to improve enough that I can manage in less conspicuous way. Have found that I can use Cetraben (https://www.boots.com/cetraben-cream-475ml-10191699) at home and Aveeno (https://www.boots.com/beauty/skincare/skincare-all-skincare/aveeno-lotion-with-natural-colloidal-oatmeal-500ml-10145087) in public.

                      Both used to be available on prescription. But, not so much any more.

                       

                       

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                      in reply to: New dermatological treatment. #42684
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                        Skin conditions appear to be amongst those more commonly misdiagnosed and often tricky to manage.

                        I was born with a skin condition that was misdiagnosed for the first 16 years of my life. The sensory overload when all your skin is bombarding your brain is tricky to describe to those that haven’t experienced anything like it.

                        Kudos to your pharmacy and GP 🙂

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                        in reply to: @oldles and Others. Bread making. #41879
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                          Uploads not playing nicely.

                          Here’s a Google photo link: https://photos.app.goo.gl/WMcrrhL1Ce26rK8b8

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                          in reply to: Donations Change Again #41117
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                            OK. Keep us informed.👍

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                            in reply to: Donations Change Again #41102
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                              How do I set up regular payments?

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                              in reply to: HUMAX – still the bees knees? #38888
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                                Looking around, it looks like the reception problem has been solved with the use of dishes (Sky, I imagine).

                                The FVP 5000T gets some pretty good reviews around t’internet. So, I might focus on that.

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                                in reply to: HUMAX – still the bees knees? #38790
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                                   TCBarrett: Do you mean recording live TV from “vanilla” Freeview, Freesat, or another source? If Freeview or Freesat, a Humax will do that, but I recommend an Ethernet connection.

                                  Yups. There’s a cliff and a hill blocking 2 of the 3 masts that I “should” be able to pick up, so there are not many channels (BBC 1,2,4 cbbc, cbeebies, itv1,2, ch4 and some +1s). I have an original nowTV box (£5 with a 6 month voucher) that I use for BBC catchup.

                                  So, all I want is a way to series record and pause live TV in addition to that.

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                                  in reply to: HUMAX – still the bees knees? #38768
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                                    Hmm, some food for thought there.

                                     

                                    The main things I want it for are recording and pausing live TV, and series record.

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                                    in reply to: Acidental Mobile View #37126
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                                      I had zoomed. Reset the zoom and all back to normal.

                                      :facepalm:

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                                      in reply to: Free Google Home MIni (Certain Google One members) #36924
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                                        Well, I say!

                                        Thanks 🙂

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                                        in reply to: Acidental Mobile View #36878
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                                          Thanks. It’s not the toggle in developer tools.

                                          Unless it is a site update and it was a cache refresh that coincided?

                                          I’ll attach a screenshot of my desktop view. There’s no dev tools open. Could it be a site option, rather than browser?

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                                          in reply to: Laptop – budget £300 – Mainly as a study aid #36794
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                                            874549

                                            Hmm.. not sure the quote is working?

                                            Anyway – study aid – meaning it is for someone that is studying 😀

                                            Seriously, they need to be able to research (Google stuff) and “do Office stuff” (Google Docs). So, genuinely not anything spectacular. It is currently a no tablets or PCs household. Not sure they even have smart phones. Even if they do, you can’t be writing essays on a phone.

                                             

                                            Thanks for all suggestions so far. They look good. Amazing B4B these days!

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