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goddamnedtwisto posted:Oh poo poo I never even knew that was an option, I know someone who would have gone mental for those. IDK if LIDL UK is on the same schedule as LIDL IE but theyre in the shops here right now
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We fell for Canon's cunning trap and bought an actually very good printer from Argos for £35 and tiny brand cartridges turn about to be like £50 each. Anyone point us towards the best cheap supplier?
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:To the person who sent me a PM: Can I recommend a swiping keyboard like MS SwiftKey? If you're a decent typist and know the letter layout like the back of your hand then it's brilliant - you never need to actually hit a key, you just drag your finger to make the rough shape of the word going from letter to letter and the keyboard uses what I can only assume is magic to recognise what you're trying to type. I'm using it right now and banged this whole thing out on a phone in 60 seconds only correcting three words (the to three, your to you're, today to typist)
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Of course taking that too far is how you get those "I'm a WELDER born in MARCH and I love BOLTON and if that offends you KISS MY rear end" t-shirts, Oh poo poo I never even knew that was an option, I know someone who would have gone mental for that
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I was extremely smart and got an earlybird price on a Kickstarter product for a family member's present last December, knowing that delivered by summer would probably mean delivered by November. Then there were rumblings about a new flu in Wuhan and now I hope to get it in time for their birthday 
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I only really buy christmas presents for the wife and for my mum but I also plan on giving 2 friends weed this year
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Dec 9, 2020 18:57
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TACD posted:The doctors even had the gall to ask her what her partner (i.e. me) would think of her getting sterilised as if that should have any loving relevance at all. You should stand out in the car park waving a big foam finger with "sterilize!" written on it. Gort posted:Anyone got genius Christmas present ideas? Feeling particularly clueless this year. Also a big foam finger with the word "sterilize!" written on it.
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Dec 9, 2020 19:04
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Can I recommend a swiping keyboard like MS SwiftKey? If you're a decent typist and know the letter layout like the back of your hand then it's brilliant - you never need to actually hit a key, you just drag your finger to make the rough shape of the word going from letter to letter and the keyboard uses what I can only assume is magic to recognise what you're trying to type. I'm using it right now and banged this whole thing out on a phone in 60 seconds only correcting three words (the to three, your to you're, today to typist) I've discovered it does do that for writing but I still can't get the cursor in the right place for starting the reply. Present chat: I rarely know what to get people and wish they'd just give a list. I always find cash very acceptable. There have been warnings this year about vouchers with so many firms going into administration. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 19:19 on Dec 9, 2020 |
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Dec 9, 2020 19:08
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I still think it's weird that my old nokia flip phone had autocorrect that allowed me to type by just pressing the old phone key pad and it would automatically know what word I wanted every time based on the 3 letter groups on the keys and the order I pressed them in. Yet my current phone keeps suggesting the stupidest loving poo poo. Curse the bastard that invented the touch screen, and a blight on the house of Jobs and his thrice damned company for popularizing them, and to the darkest depths of the stygian pit with whoever the hell is responsible for "apps".
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JollyBoyJohn posted:I only really buy christmas presents for the wife and for my mum but I also plan on giving 2 friends weed this year Can I be your friend too
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Chubby Henparty posted:We fell for Canon's cunning trap and bought an actually very good printer from Argos for £35 and tiny brand cartridges turn about to be like £50 each. Anyone point us towards the best cheap supplier? I know you just put up the Teethsignal, but: if you don't want to just buy the same printer again because it is cheaper, look for a cartridge refilling shop. E: @Camrath - add Lotus biscuit to your list of experimental fudge sorceries, would you? Jedit fucked around with this message at 19:21 on Dec 9, 2020 |
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Dec 9, 2020 19:15
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He doesnt lower himself to inkjets i dont think.
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Chubby Henparty posted:We fell for Canon's cunning trap and bought an actually very good printer from Argos for £35 and tiny brand cartridges turn about to be like £50 each. Anyone point us towards the best cheap supplier? I used to have an Epson that worked well with compatibles but found other brand printers weren't so good without real ones. Since they started microchipping cartridges I found it much harder to get good quality printing from any but real ones.
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Dec 9, 2020 19:24
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SpicePro posted:By no means am I defending such a dumb idea are they really more of an e-waste problem than regular dvds? I mean regardless of if a dvd can be played for 5 days or 5 decades it's still going to last 1000 years before it's had a remote chance of disintegrating. I admit having it playable for longer makes a hell of a lot more sense but I guess what I'm saying is our e-waste problem is loving mind-blowingly huge. for the same reason that a restaurant using actual glasses produces less waste than one using disposable cups
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OwlFancier posted:I still think it's weird that my old nokia flip phone had autocorrect that allowed me to type by just pressing the old phone key pad and it would automatically know what word I wanted every time based on the 3 letter groups on the keys and the order I pressed them in. Search "T9 keyboard" on whichever app store your phone uses and discover a whole new old world of typing, now with added privacy concerns.
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Convex posted:Can I be your friend too just for clarification, one of the friends had his mother die and got testicular cancer this year and the other friend has picked up my weed for most of the year so I'm not just throwing little bags at anyone from my santa sack
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Search "T9 keyboard" on whichever app store your phone uses and discover a whole new old world of typing, now with added privacy concerns. I mean my complaint is also that have no tactile feedback on a touchscreen and giant loving thumbs. I miss my blackberry.
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JollyBoyJohn posted:just for clarification, one of the friends had his mother die and got testicular cancer this year and the other friend has picked up my weed for most of the year so I'm not just throwing little bags at anyone from my santa sack yeah twas a joke grounded in my frustration that i gave up 13 years ago and am no longer in a position to indulge, at least not in this country 
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The delightful green santa distributing dank nugs to all the good children.
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OwlFancier posted:The delightful green santa distributing dank nugs to all the good children. 
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Chubby Henparty posted:We fell for Canon's cunning trap and bought an actually very good printer from Argos for £35 and tiny brand cartridges turn about to be like £50 each. Anyone point us towards the best cheap supplier? back when I bothered with the ink shenanigans, I had a pretty good experience ordering ink refills from Aliexpress/eBay with one initial purchase of the refillable cartridges it's definitely a messy, unpleasant business though. People also give you funny looks if they see the syringes and needles in your office. Canon does region-lock their cartridges, so a UK shop might work better: e.g. in the long term I'd get a laser - cheap inkjets that are infrequently used will dry up; cheap inkjets that are frequently used should just be a known CISS-compatible purchase (which a microchipped, region-locked PIXMA certainly isn't), and the wedge of suitability in between is perilously narrow
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Convex posted:yeah twas a joke grounded in my frustration that i gave up 13 years ago and am no longer in a position to indulge, at least not in this country nah man thats cool, i just wanted to highlight that my friend has had an especially lovely year the other friend has had a bad year too (losing his job, found out his second child is on the way, girlfriend banning him from playing dota) so really its a fairly wide application
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I have given a friend of mine an ounce for Xmas every year for the last... ooh, ten years? Perfect xmas present for all ages. My actual great idea, which has alleviated the annual pain of trying to buy my mum a scarf or whatever, is to tell my parents I’ll make them a hamper. Then periodically google “[country] shop uk” and order a few things. If you’re feeling flush throw in a jar of Fortnum&Mason jam or whatever. I’ve got them a hamper ready upstairs with savoury and sweet treats from China, Japan, Indonesia, Portugal, Turkey, South Africa, Ghana, and Mexico. I think there’s maybe one or two more things coming. It’s genuinely great and provides at least an hour of “ooh, check out this weird looking food” entertainment on Xmas day, and you can pick stuff up through the year and spread the cost (although not this year, obvs).
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I've discovered it does do that for writing but I still can't get the cursor in the right place for starting the reply. The standard Android keyboard Gboard has swipe text, and you can move the cursor by swiping back and forth on the space bar. You can also delete whole words by swiping left on the delete key, then swiping back and forth to adjust. And I am one of those people who always makes a list for people. It is partly motivated by me being absolutely crap at buying without one, and also my intense hatred of being given poo poo that I don't want.
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stev posted:Yeah I really miss the two year period where every UK and US channel shoved their entire back catalogue onto Netflix along with most films. Its interesting because Piracy soared due to the massive cost of getting all movies/tv shows etc so when Netflix came around it was an instant hit. Now its going the exact same way where theres 14 different streaming services and you need them all to watch everything. Piracy is a tad harder now than the glory days of torrent sites but there will always be ways around it.
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mediaphage posted:as for xmas presents, i'm a big fan of giving stuff i make or stuff that will be used (food, cosmetics, whatever) so that someone isn't forced to keep something around forever. but not everyone will respond well to that. OwlFancier posted:You should stand out in the car park waving a big foam finger with "sterilize!" written on it.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:To the person who sent me a PM: If you are struggling to get the cursor to specific bits of text. On most phones now if you hold down the space bar and swipe left or right it moves the cursor one character left or right
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A few years ago, I told my brother that if he didn't tell me what he wanted for christmas, I'd get him a brick. So I did. I did tape a gift card to the bottom, though. I'm tempted to do the same for my other brother this year, just not bother with the gift card.
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https://twitter.com/GenZdemagogue/status/1336630432289480705?s=20 Obviously we did not need telling this. I'm certain it applies in the UK too.
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Dec 9, 2020 20:07
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Thanks for printer advice. Really does seem like buying a new one would be smarter. 
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I'm not sure how expenditure in Labour CLPs is done, but this Skwawkbox (yes i know) story looks a teeny bit bad if accurate (yes i know again)quote:Bath members were due to vote through a donation totalling £3,600 to three charities: Bath Food Bank £1200, Mercy in Action – a charity that helps poor children £1200, Julian House charity for homeless people £1200.
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Can sombody grab the labour party and shake it like an Etch-a-Sketch please
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Chubby Henparty posted:We fell for Canon's cunning trap and bought an actually very good printer from Argos for £35 and tiny brand cartridges turn about to be like £50 each. Anyone point us towards the best cheap supplier? If you're not anti Amazon you can buy multipacks of compatible cartridges for the same price as a single standard ink.
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Look the principles of the party just don't align with helping the hungry, poor or homeless.
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With the chat about chapo and tf last page, just noted that 80s old-school leftie Alexei Sayle has a podcast now. First episode is called "Keir Starmer, Corporate Tool(?)" and the second is called "The Art of War" so might be worth a listen and if good add to the list in the OP. E: https://audioboom.com/channels/5038428 Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 20:42 on Dec 9, 2020 |
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Jedit posted:I know you just put up the Teethsignal, but: if you don't want to just buy the same printer again because it is cheaper, look for a cartridge refilling shop. Already do them, in my Vegan Scofflaw flavour! Which admittedly I’ve not made for a while.
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ronya posted:back when I bothered with the ink shenanigans, I had a pretty good experience ordering ink refills from Aliexpress/eBay with one initial purchase of the refillable cartridges Yeah region locking is a pain. Had an inkjet in Egypt and couldn't find any replacement cartridges for it there and the number of the ink cartridge just doesn't exist in the UK market. While I thought the 300 series (?? Might have misremembered) was the same as UK 700 series the cost was too high to risk it.
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CGI Stardust posted:Charity stuff I had a meeting with someone from Julian House on Monday and she spoke very eloquently on the work they do, and the difficulties they face operating in a "rich" area. One of their biggest expenditures is getting people out of abusive households with an immenent risk of violence. This is sickening and I am enraged. That "party official" should spend half an hour with her and then see what he thinks.
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Looks like Nick Clegg has had his first taste of success over at Facebook https://twitter.com/JamesClayton5/status/1336759989986213888
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Rumda posted:for the same reason that a restaurant using actual glasses produces less waste than one using disposable cups I don't think that's a good analogy. You might get more e-waste from disposable DVDs because they can't be rented out again but it's not like normal DVDs are any better at being recycled, unlike glass. Clearly the answer is glass DVDs.
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