scrchngwsl

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[–] scrchngwsl 7 points 7 months ago

Yeah, my general philosophy on phones these days is to use the OEM rom until either it gets slow and rubbish, or it stops getting updates, then switch to LineageOS or something. OnePlus has done a pretty decent job of not making my phone shitter every time it gets an update, so the OEM rom has lasted much longer than I expected. I reckon with a custom rom it'll last me another 2-3 years at least, which is great value for a phone I bought 3 years ago for £290.

[–] scrchngwsl 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Honestly this is better than nothing and very welcome for me. Not often I say good things about Michael Gove but he's done a great job on this and the cladding fiasco.

The real thing that cripples me as a leaseholder though is the service charges, which have doubled since I bought the place. The whole thing is a total con.

[–] scrchngwsl 4 points 7 months ago

Say that to a tube driver, he’ll land a really good punch on your face.

The tube drivers, who famously never go on strike.

[–] scrchngwsl 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I am now a motorway nerd, having first seen Jay Foreman's "Unfinished London" series with the stuff on the Ringways, and then found this channel a month or so ago. Every time we pass the M25/M26 interchange, I comment on the fact that, to exit the motorway, you have to use the right two lanes (!!!). It's a whole thing with my wife now, where she is a little bit interested but doesn't want to encourage any further motorway history conversation. I've got to really tread a careful line.

[–] scrchngwsl 3 points 7 months ago

Thanks, that at least makes some sense!

[–] scrchngwsl 28 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Even in her "apology" and longer "clarification" it's incredibly hard to understand what her substantial point is. I bet you could give her 10 years to try to explain how the Sydney stabbing was in any serious way related to pro-Palestine marches and it still wouldn't make sense. Does she tweet the same thing any time there is a stabbing somewhere in the world? "Oh look, a stabbing in South Korea -- perfect time to tweet about intifada?"

[–] scrchngwsl 5 points 7 months ago

I have a similar printer but with duplex printing, which I bought because it fits under my sofa. It does everything I wanted it to do; namely, to print double-sided black and white documents and fit under my sofa.

BTW I also recommend the Brother ADS-2xxx series of document scanners, which I bought to scan multi-page double-sided documents automatically. I put the stack of papers in the top, press Go, and it scans to PDF in a few seconds.

[–] scrchngwsl 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I had assumed it was a Uniqlo style thing using tags. That truly is magical, like living in the future. This Amazon stuff with the cameras and constant surveillance, not so much....

[–] scrchngwsl 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not sure exactly what you're asking but I have a Coral mini pcie with frigate and it works great. Hardly any cpu and tiny power consumption.

[–] scrchngwsl 4 points 10 months ago

It's very weird. I would have thought walking would feel more free than being stuck in traffic all day.

[–] scrchngwsl 4 points 10 months ago

that's cool 👍

[–] scrchngwsl 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Frankly I think they are still too expensive for most people up front. It's a lot cheaper to run if you can charge at home, but if you can't afford the extra £5k-£10k vs an equivalent petrol car then you're not going to buy it. New EVs in particular are overpriced IMO, whereas the used market is actually pretty good value right now. There's just no point in spending £37k-42k on a new Kia Niro EV when you can get a 3 year old model for £15k-20k that's just as good.

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