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PlaneMan wrote:

Dave, I feel your pain about the heat. My little house is on a NE/SW line, front to back.

We’ve got the same layout. By about ten the upstairs living room and front bedrooms are too hot, 27+ degrees. Luckily the downstairs stays fairly cool. By the evening, the kitchen and back bedroom are too warm, and the front rooms still haven’t cooled.

Thankfully there was a nice breeze today, so even though it was over 28 degrees, it didn’t feel it.

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Irish punk? Contains swearing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwgjM-teND8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDTQQWSmo8s

 

 

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I’ve been listening to Space a lot lately. They played up here last week, so I was doing some revision before the gig. I can’t get this out of my head 😀

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XuzOwWt-nk

 

EDIT: Embedding doesn’t want to work for me 🙁

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We’re relatively ‘rural’ here (almost a metropolis for Wales 😉 ). BT and their associated line checkers all told us that we could get 26mb+ fibre, but we later found out that they measured the distance to the cabinet in a straight line, rather than where they laid the cable…

Spot the built up areas 😛

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Thanks guys. Sorry about the slow reply, but the lurgy struck again 🙁

I forgot to ask, can you get USB-C pads for the phone with a passthrough port, so it can still be plugged into the normal charger? The pads all seem to be wireless or nothing.

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Another member of the Awkward Bastard club here 😀

When I was in the coma, I was given high dose sedatives to keep me out while I recovered. If they gave me a vaguely normal dose I’d start fighting back, trying to push them away and pull tubes out (obviously not aware of anything, and not deliberately giving the staff a hard time).

Apparently Ellen was told that my dosage should have knocked out an elephant, but it made her smile to see me full of tubes and needles, but trying to stop them putting in eye drops of all things! ??

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PlaneMan wrote:

Found them. Don’t bother with a cheap Qi charger, I’ve had 2 develop potentially dangerous faults. The Nokia is the white one, complete with proprietary plug-may well be a use for old chargers they had sitting about as it looks like one from the Nokia 3220 era. The red one uses a micro usb port. Both are yours if you want them Ryan. Just let me have your addy. (Again)

That would be brilliant, thanks 🙂

Do you have any suggestions on chargers? Ideally I want to put a few around the place so I can’t forget to charge 😀

@sgb101 The Honor 9 is similar in a lot of ways to the P20, including the fast charging. The problem we tend to have though is we put our phones down, then realise as we’re about to do something with them that they’re low on charge, usually as we’re about to go out. There are only a handful of places that we tend to leave them, so wireless chargers there would be a workaround for our forgetfulness (We’ve already got extra chargers and battery packs, and still get flat batteries) 😀

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Ed P wrote:

It might, but it would lose a kitchen socket

Something like this?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pro-Elec-Gang-Adaptor-Switch-CAB5186/dp/B00LGWNJZO/

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The Duke wrote:

I just didn’t get what you ment by HD dvd, as it’s a format that has been dead for about 5 years now. It just never took off.

Yeah, sorry about that. HD DVD was doing quite well, until I bought a cheap drive to go with my Xbox 360. Not long after, they practically disappeared ??

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Nice one Nolan, thanks 🙂

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I reckon you need a couple of drones with wireless charging, and just leave them floating 😉

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As I understand it, USB is storage only, so recording and playback from e.g. a pen drive or hard drive. I think you’ll have to connect through the HDMI sockets. You can get a scart to red, white, and yellow cable ( I’ve gone blank on the name of the connection), but you’ll probably get a lower quality picture.

I haven’t used a soundbar, so I’m not sure how that will affect anything. At a guess though, I’d connect both the Freesat box and DVD player to HDMI, and the sound bar to the optical port on the TV. Essentially, what you’ve got, but adding the DVD player to the spare HDMI.

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Bob Williams wrote:

He loves the 80’s stations, plenty of them on DAB.

Heart 80’s has been very good on the few times I’ve been able listen (DAB in Ellen’s car and Alice’s TV, so I get outvoted 😀 ). Ignore the tuning info on the website, as they list the instructions for the bog standard Heart FM station only. It’s one of the few stations where I’ve been able to leave it on for a few hours without getting bored and wanting to switch.

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tadka wrote:

Boris wrote:

This one is for sale from Pontyclun (by coincidence ? next door to the Mint) https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PADDINGTON-BEAR-IN-PADDINGTON-STATION-2018-50P-RARE-ACCIDENTAL-RELEASE/132660613632?

The description in your link looks very similar to the one with £16k of bids. I’m 99.99% sure it’s the same person.

The one bid is from a bidder who has only made seven bids, on seven items, so one each. Five of them are on coins.

https://offer.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBidderProfile&mode=1&item=132660613632&bidtid=1480240786003&_trksid=p2471758.m4792

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The Duke wrote:

Do any oems offer a 2 door car without memory anymore? I couldn’t live with mine if it didn’t return to its previous position. It would drive me nuts.

I find as a passenger that it’s the complete opposite. Ellen’s new car is the first one we’ve had with it, and it drives me up the wall. If someone short has been in the front, I can’t get in the car. There is a way of pushing the seat back with the handle rather than the bar underneath, but it rarely works. We went to her mother’s for a few days recently, so wanted to put a case behind my seat. I had to slide the seat back with the handle, sit in it, then pull it forward with the bar ?

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I don’t understand why, when all new builds seem to come with solar panels, they don’t also have battery banks built in, and home electronics don’t run from 12V etc.

Surely it would be safer, and bulk buy discounts from the big home builders would make it affordable?

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I’m not 100% sure, but I think that’s what CEC is for. It should be in the settings somewhere, and lets the TV switch source automatically. It may be listed as HDMI CEC.

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Fair enough. The offer stands though, just let me know ?

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Richard wrote:

Is the house prone to flooding? It would have needed a very deep flood to get its feet wet, in excess of 40 feet above that road and about 300 feet above sea level. (The river estuary was perhaps a couple of miles away and pretty much at sea level). I said not within my knowledge.

My mother’s house is near the top of a steep hill, and roughly 200M above sea level. She’s been flooded three or four times.

There’s an old stream that runs underground somewhere nearby, and when the local housing association refurbished the house next door, they caused some sort of problem along with putting in a completely waterproof seal under the floor. Now, if there’s an unusually heavy flow in the stream, their seal seems to stop the stream from taking any extra routes downhill, and forces it to flood my mother’s house and the neighbour’s flat that is two houses higher! ?

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@bdthree If you want, send me a copy of the file, and I’ll convert it with Media Monkey and send it back. It might not be until tomorrow night though, I’m out all day tomorrow.

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