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johnbarry wrote:

Thanks Ryan Not bad, great price including freepost, so I had some. I added myself to the mailing list, see what’s cheap next. I love a bargain.

No worries 🙂

Just be careful, as they have a lot of offers on, so it’s easy to spend money with them 😀

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johnbarry wrote:

Thanks blacklion The heaphones are all packed ready to go back, had a probe (Taotronics) a bit above my price. I have my eye on these (once I get refund) I like the slide volume rather than button. I am using some old wired headphones for now.

Don’t know if these are any good, but they were in an email on sale

https://www.7dayshop.com/products/urbanz-wireless-bluetooth-4-1-headphones-black-MAX/BLACK

They can be wired too

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Sorry I haven’t come back to this thread sooner. It looks like my mother’s laptop problem might just be a dodgy charger with an intermittent fault. I remembered that I’ve got a charger with variable voltage and swappable pins, so I tried it on her laptop and it worked. For the time being she wants to try a new charger instead of a laptop, even though she’s been complaining about her laptop for ages ??

On the bright side, I convinced Ellen that I need a new laptop, so I had a look at Wasbit’s link and found a Dell Latitude E5530 for £99. I’ve already swapped my existing laptop’s hard drive for an SSD, so can swap that with the drive in the Dell, and I bought an i5 a while back, before I found out that my laptop cant be upgraded. Threads online suggest that the Dell will take it, but if not, it’s still ten times better than my current laptop.

Thanks for all the help guys 🙂 I’ll let you know how my laptop and my mother’s charger get on.

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I’d lean more towards cashless if I could, and would love to be able to get motorbike gloves with contactless. Imagine just riding up to the pump, filling up, then touching your hand to something and riding off. No more carrying a wallet, no more having to take gloves off and put them back on, especially if they’re wet or you’re sweaty. No more fiddling with zips that you can’t see and hoping that you’re done it up properly so you don’t lose your wallet half way through Wales.

No more carrying pockets full of shrapnel after a tea stop 😀

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Bloody hell, you’re not having much luck are you.

Don’t give up, give them an arse kicking if needs be, and hopefully someone useful will help you get this sorted soon.

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Sorry I’m a bit slow replying. Alice has got my throat infection now, so we’re having a few sleepless nights 🙁

I’m placing a curse on Chromebooks and the various copycats ?

My mother’s been looking for laptops too, and even though her current laptop is a refurb, she’s decided that she wants new, but for about £150! She’s seen the cloudbooks on Argos and now thinks that they’re a typical price for laptops…

Our Cash Generators had a Vaio in this week for £200 that was an i7 with 8GB RAM and a 1TB hard drive. I’ve got a spare SSD she could have had too, but now she thinks that’s too much.

Luckily she’s changing to Talk Talk this week, and should be getting fibre. As long as everything goes ok, a Chromebook might work, but in the meantime I’ve got to try to explain the difference and why the cheap laptops won’t work on her less than 1MB broadband ?

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Thanks Steve, I always forget about them 🙂

I’ve been digging through their site for the last hour or two and realising how out of date I am :/ I really need to get myself up to speed again 😀

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Bob Williams wrote:

there must be something I can do with that old eePC. Wonder if it would take Linux, for me to learn it? Still has a good charger and battery, boots fine but is horrible with Win7 Basic.

It will run Linux, but now it’s going to be an old version, and the screen is an odd resolution if it’s the same as mine ( 1024 x 600 I think). Other than the odd screen size, it was a fantastic XP machine. I used to take it to hospital as it was so small, and the battery would last forever. You’ll probably find now that it won’t even browse the web properly 🙁

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Back to Spain, my lad suffers with asthma and hayfeaver, it all clears up once our of Dover and driving south. Even his asthma subsides.

That’s what I found too. When I was first ill I had some minor damage to my lungs and throat, along with the rest of it, and something about being in Spain just made it easier to breathe. I found that I generally had more energy too.

Talking about it to others with the same illness, they all said the same. Spain apparently has a reputation for making you feel better if you’re ill. One of the reasons it’s got so many expats (call them immigrants if you want to wind them up 😉 ).

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Bob: At least you’re waking up for them! 😀

I’ve never been a fan of the heat. Give me a cold dry day anytime. I don’t mind rain either, but prefer it dry so I can get out on the bike now and again.

I used to find Spain much easier to cope with than British heat. Apparently it’s to do with the humidity, but their buildings and towns are designed for that heat too. Our local bar had big windows with shutters to stop direct sunlight, but would otherwise be open all day. There was always a breeze, and always a break from the heat.

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The Duke wrote:

Another thing he does, is tell you how to do simple jobs yourself. Hardly good business sense, give the simple jobs are all profit for a mech.

Speaking from a motorbike point of view, that’s one of the best things that a mechanic can do.

My local bike garage did MOTs at a discount for the club I’m in, so I went there for my first ever MOT. Didn’t tell him that I was in the club, as I wanted to get to know him first before taking advantage of the discount (only a fiver anyway). He failed me for having a misaligned headlight, and because I couldn’t get the bike back within seven days, wanted to charge me the full test cost again. The bike’s previous owner’s MOT was still in date, and a few friends said that he seemed to have been harsh, so I took it to my other local garage.

He put it through the MOT and noticed the light. He pointedly put a screwdriver in my hands and said he was just going for a quick toilet break. Wouldn’t it be a shame if someone turned that screw there, no, the one next to it, about half a turn anticlockwise. I turned the screw, and when he came back he said that he couldn’t remember if he’d checked the headlight, and when he did, it was perfect. By the way, can he have his screwdriver back please?

I’ve used him for my bikes and at least half a dozen of my friends bikes now ?

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Thanks guys, but I’m going to have to postpone this for a day or two. It hasn’t dropped below 30 degrees in the house today, so even going near anything electrical has been painful 🙁

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tadka wrote:

P.S. Baby Shark for those who haven’t had the pleasure yet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqZsoesa55w

This is going on my phone as a text alert, people at work are going to be so annoyed [/quote]

That’s a great idea. I might do it to my other half’s phone while she’s sleeping ????

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You’re definitely right. She’s not three yet, and has already figured out the fake crying. Doesn’t like it when I do it back though, I get a little laugh and called Silly Daddy 😀

The Duke wrote:

What you need is to buy a hand full of cheap £3 kids over head cans. Especially for the car. If she doesn’t take to them at least you can drown out the crappy kids shows.

Thanks for that, you’ve just reminded me that I need to make a thread. I’ve got an old tablet and holder etc. with headphones, but it’s too old to install a decent media player from the Play Store.

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VFM: You might have a shock if you think Corbyn will get in. I follow a lot of left leaning commentators on social media, the type of people who, until this year, were following Corbyn almost religiously. Now that the fact that he wants Brexit is getting more well known, there seem to be a lot of people distancing themselves from him. Complaints of no real opposition to the Tories are popping up more and more, so I think if he does get in, it’s going to be a close call.

At this point I think that if a relatively centrist party popped up and said we’ll postpone Brexit but do it properly, there’d be the usual wailing from the hard right ‘Brexit means Brexit or we’ll have a civil war’ numpties, but most people would say sod it, get them in and get it sorted one way or the other.

I would like to see Corbyn get in though. If half of what he says is true, he’ll either make us or break us, and right now that’s better odds than anyone else is giving us ?

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The Duke wrote:

And lots of sounds I never knew was in songs ect.

We’ve just found out how tinny the Honor 9 speakers are. We haven’t really used them properly for music yet, so everything’s just been played through the speakers. Alice was upset in the car, and it’s got the funky new Bluetooth setup. I played Baby Shark, and all of a sudden it was like being in a nightclub, with never before heard bass lines, and random unheard parts of the song ?

P.S. Baby Shark for those who haven’t had the pleasure yet ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqZsoesa55w

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I’ve got three programs that *have* to use Windows, and I’ve barely used one of those this year.

Photoshop has hardly been used. Since Alice came along, I’m not getting the time and energy to get out with the camera, especially to late night gigs.

MediaMonkey is due to release version 5 sometime soon, and their next project is supposedly to go multi platform. They’ll probably take a few years to switch, but in all honesty, once I’ve finished properly organising my music collection, it will just be convenience that ties me to it.

My video organiser is Windows only, and probably will always be. The developer is a sole developer and is invested in Windows. It’s not a major problem, as I’ll always have my media on a separate machine anyway, it’s just a minor annoyance.

If one of the phone companies made a genuine ‘PC in your pocket’ that could either plug into a desktop or laptop base, I can see no reason why that wouldn’t be my next mobile. I almost went for the laptop dock recently, but didn’t end up going through with it.

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I’ve always used a bog standard butterfly tin opener to get into a Fray Bentos pie. Just make sure that the whole section with the blade is over the lip of the tin, not just the front half like with most tins (both black bits in the image).

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The Duke wrote:

I’ll delete any pro or negative brexit posts. Unless they are relevant to the thread.

How about ‘Brexit is an awful idea, and it’s made my internet slow’? ???

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Richard wrote:

There were also the tinned pies from which you removed the lid and then baked in an oven.

They’re still about. I’ve got a few of the Fray Bentos pies in the cupboard. The steak & kidney are the best 🙂

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