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learnincurve posted:Need something added to every OP. DWP have been told not to tell sanctioned people about this. Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 00:52 on Jun 1, 2023 |
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Continuing from Spring Thread:fuctifino posted:This looks grim: Fatty posted:Titanium frames are supposed to be hypoallergenic but I'm not sure how that works when the main things making contact are the plastic pads.
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It's already too drat hot, whatever happened to the perma-drizzle of my youth!
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Might want to remove the link to Scotpol in the OP, considering the thread hasn't seen a post in three years.
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sebzilla posted:It's already too drat hot, whatever happened to the perma-drizzle of my youth! Well, we carried on burning ever escalting amounts of the carbon sequestered millions of years ago, but otherwise profits would have been down this quarter so who can say if it was a bad idea?
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Jedit posted:Might want to remove the link to Scotpol in the OP, considering the thread hasn't seen a post in three years. 
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RIP Scotpol, died with covid.
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nearly a whole month early this time dire consequences if you don't honour and obey the solstice imo
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sebzilla posted:It's already too drat hot, whatever happened to the perma-drizzle of my youth! 
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https://twitter.com/CasualUK_/status/1663990238077763585
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Unbelievable weather scenes here in NI. Its been tropical for nearly a week now, with not a cloud in the sky,, and theres another 10 days to come. I actually lay on a beach and sunbathed and went for a paddle on Monday. Crazy times
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And El Niño hasn't even gotten started Edit: the UKHSA is doing a thing: quote:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-65769165 Microplastics fucked around with this message at 07:47 on Jun 1, 2023 |
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Guavanaut posted:It's now the Irish politics thread, that's getting the posts, no joke Jack. I want him and zizek to have a fight, or a contest to see who can scarf it down faster. Or one followed by the other. zizek would win both, obviously
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DesperateDan posted:nearly a whole month early this time 
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It was chilly yesterday
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Guavanaut posted:Shredded 80s fantasy art men break into your house and shout at your glassware? I said "dire consequences", not "my barely concealed fetish" NotJustANumber99 posted:It was chilly yesterday    was like that in the morning here but then around noon the sun came out and then there were bees
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I really do enjoy the trend of unbelievably yoked wizards. Bring your spell book to leg day energy.
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OwlFancier posted:I really do enjoy the trend of unbelievably yoked wizards. It makes sense. Wizards are supposed to be needs who studied real good. Modern society have shown us that needs have figured out ways to apply study and focus to maximise gains from physical working out. It's just about making sure that your lesson plan has time devoted to working out. That or you cast Tensure's Transformation every day and just lie and claim your ripped body is from constant hard work.
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Nick Cohen reading this and muttering amateur...
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Turns out the virgin>O2 switch over has gone all fucky so if you're expecting a call today, good luck on getting it. (i was expecting a call from my mechanic and he's had trouble reaching multiple customers... texts getting through ok though)
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The Virgin O2 Switch vs the Chad Mechanic
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Shoulda got a proper repairman in there, bish bash bosh job sorted. Sorry mate looks like your MIMO is worn out, you need a whole new one, that'll be *tuts, shakes head, whistles, looks at piece of paper* 2 billion pounds
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tee hee, wouldn't it be funny if i just casually dropped hints I'm going down the Bill Cooper radicalization pipeline, might encourage some stochastic terror later tee hee https://twitter.com/ValeryNorth/status/1663987036263522308 When David Icke appointed himself king of the 5G scalar transphobes, it was bound to start flowing back the other way too.
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Guavanaut posted:tee hee, wouldn't it be funny if i just casually dropped hints I'm going down the Bill Cooper radicalization pipeline, Hope she speedruns the "shot by police while resisting arrest" ending
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Phonechat (Giffgaff in this case) - made an annoying discovery yesterday when for the second time recently, I got cut off mid-call with a text saying that I'd run out of credit. This despite having a plan with unlimited calls and auto credit top-up. Turns out, buried deep in the small print, that "unlimited" ain't quite so unlimited. I already knew that premium-rate numbers didn't qualify, but surely a call to a mobile number beginning 07 does? Nope! There's a whole swathe of "non-mobile" 07 numbers to trick you, used by answering and forwarding services for companies. These are excluded from the unlimited tariff for Reasons, and cost a ridiculous amount per minute for more Reasons. A call to a plumber yesterday burned through my entire credit in five minutes. (Why my auto top-up didn't kick in is a mystery.) It does explain how I somehow racked up £26 of extra credit costs recently, though - I had to call the insurers after someone hit my car. Surprise surprise, their number is one excluded from the unlimited tariff. Since I don't have a landline any more (like lots of people), this is another case of lovely Britain finding new and interesting ways to rip everyone off without telling them.
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Way back when unlimited never applied to non-geographic numbers, I used to use this page a lot to find the regular UK numbers for services: https://www.saynoto0870.com/
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:Way back when unlimited never applied to non-geographic numbers, I used to use this page a lot to find the regular UK numbers for services: https://www.saynoto0870.com/ Depending on the organisation, they may have an 'if calling from abroad' number which you can also use. Those weird 07 numbers are 'personal numbers' that follow you around and been available for at least a couple of decades. Not sure how to distinguish them from mobile phone numbers - are they shorter? Just googled, they seem to be 070- numbers. Don't know if there are any regular mobile phone numbers starting 070? I have several mobile numbers (private, general, work) and none of them have 0 as the third digit. https://midlandnetworks.co.uk/070-number-scams/#:~:text=Numbers%20starting%20070%20are%20Non,taking%20your%20products%20and%20services. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 13:08 on Jun 1, 2023 |
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dunno what heat you're all talking about, it's 16 degrees and hasn't been over 20 all week I do really want to go for a run in the sun though, loving quad strain
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It's been hovering about 12 up here, bit annoying really as it's my week off.
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Anyone have experience with dongles or mobile routers for internet when travelling? We're driving to the UK in the summer and travelling around a bit while there, and my partner needs to be able to do video meetings. I know that nothing short of satellite internet is going to reliably get her online if we're out in the Highlands, but any idea what's good for areas with 4G/5G connectivity? When I search half of them are devices you rent and pay some ridiculously high daily rate for access, but I'm after something we can buy and put in our own SIM card with more reasonable data rates. I did find an £800 Netgear 5G device that fits the bill but that seems a bit steep.
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We've used a few MiFis back when 4G was a lot worse than it is. One was a Vodafone branded one, one was from EE and we got them from the high street carrier shops. Both came with their own sims but you could open them up and swap them out but this was a few years ago now, I dunno if the ones that they're selling now let you do that or if they're more locked down. Looks like they're about the same sort of price they were, less than £100 but it depends on your budget i guess.
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You can get second hand BT Mini Hubs for cheap. Phone without all the phone stuff, just put a SIM and battery in. If you have 4G you should be able to do same with a phone's hotspot function, but if that won't do those might. If it's a low signal problem then Netgear do a similar but more expensive thing with an antenna jack that you could connect a high gain directional LTE antenna to.
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Diet Crack posted:dunno what heat you're all talking about, it's 16 degrees and hasn't been over 20 all week 25 here in NI all week so far. People are losing their minds 
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Thanks. I'm honestly not sure if the MiFi style hubs are any more reliable or effective than just using the phone as a hotspot, but she really doesn't want to drop out or have bad connection during a meeting so I'm trying to figure out the best method. Maybe a thing that can take an external antenna is helpful there. Is 4G reasonably widespread and dependable in the UK now? When I last lived there it was often pretty spotty outside of cities (and sometimes even inside them).
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^^^ IMHO 4G is far more reliable and available than 5G. The only time my internet plays up (other than during powercuts) is when 'they' are messing about with 5G masts. Also I can think a router would be more reliable purely because it can remain plugged in to the mains while using it. Hotspotting from your phone, not sure how long the battery would last and how long she needs to be on calls for. I've had several mifi dongles in my time and all have been absolutely fine. I had a Three one which I used constantly when travelling until about a year ago (purchased in 2013 for about £15 IIRC!) when I switched to Smarty for my phone SIM. Still have Three 'home hub' as my at home broadband. Also had a TPLink mini router which I used all the time in Egypt for several years (before I had a phone that could do hotspotm- ed not that that would have made a difference as the phone was in my home), because the only way I could get a signal in my ground floor flat surrounded by high buildings was to hang the SIM card (in the router) out of the window on the end of a broomstick. Only thing to look out for - having used it without a problem for 7+ years, I was out one day and had it buried in the bottom of my handbag connected to a powerbank. My handbag started to feel hot and when I took it out, the case of the thing was blown out. It went back down as it cooled, but I didn't dare risk using the battery after that and had to order a replacement from AliExpress (£8 instead of the £20+ UK suppliers wanted!) which took a few weeks to arrive (thanks to covid!) Can't understand £800 for a netgear one? Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 15:39 on Jun 1, 2023 |
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if you have 4/5G most phones will plug into a laptop and let you use it like a wifi hotspot thing, or just use the wifi hotspot feature
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Can't understand £800 for a netgear one? It'll be one of those things aimed at home office and it'll be based on the capability to fail over to mobile when the primary thing goes down. A friend mentioned having looked at something similar. There's a lot of utter bullshit when it comes to stuff in that market segment.
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smellmycheese posted:25 here in NI all week so far. People are losing their minds My brother is back with his two kids from Australia, first time since 2018. The kids are only one and two, and spending the month here. First week there were here was before the sun or heat, and every tourist place they went to was empty. Now its our yearly two days of sunlight is upon us, everywhere is full of people.
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I've been using my phone as a 4G hotspot as my only internet for years. Everything in the flat that needs a connection goes through it and me and my partner are often using it simultaneously streaming different things and whatever. Seems to work fine, and is usually even faster than wired internet in my experience. As long as you're not somewhere super rural it's fine. We've had a couple of occasions where it's shat the bed for a few days when they've been working on nearby masts, but you can plan for that by having an alternative sim running a different network. Why can't we just have BT running the whole thing with all the masts and near 100% coverage? gently caress you, that's why.
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