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General Discussion Area / Re: Openreach
« on: Yesterday at 11:32:28 »
I forgot to mention, I also have a 'free' UPS+ box from BT :)
Presumably to provide power to the router (and phone adapter id separate) for use in power cuts.  That's something all telcos have to do for vulnerable people when switching from PSTN to Digital Voice, so emergency calls can still be made in power cuts.

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 28 November 2025, 13:20:26 »
Another week of non-use, so topping up with electricity again.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Budget.
« on: 28 November 2025, 13:19:52 »
There's a cohort of voters that can have more than one wife and hoards of kids between them all, that Starmer and the Labour party are desperate to keep on side.  :-X
And they are fast becoming the majority.  So maybe Starmer and Theeves aren't as stupid as we think....

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General Discussion Area / Re: Boiler boffins.
« on: 28 November 2025, 13:17:31 »
touch those bits with a licked finger. You will soon know by the bit that kills you which is faulty ;D

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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 28 November 2025, 13:16:27 »
I personally use a lot of tapo stuff, particularly their smart sockets and bulbs.  In my case, I keep them on an isolated network, as, well, they are chinky.

I wouldn't mind betting she'll end up with the expensive Ring or Blink stuff, mostly because my other remaining bro uses those devices, and as he's retired, will likely be him setting it up.  Whatever it is, it needs to be perfect and reliable due to distances required to "pop over" to fix it.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Budget.
« on: 28 November 2025, 10:37:15 »
Not enough for defence. 2.6 % GDP so a soft budget. You got off lightly.

Weren”t NATO members supposed to up spending to a target of 5%, as per Trumpy?


( buy shares in drone building companies)
We can't spend money on defence and take 500,000 children out of poverty. The wánker Starmer was getting all emotional about these children on the news at lunchtime. Playing to his back benchers again.
Call me old fashioned, but if you can't afford more than 2 snotty kids without the taxpayer funding your little bastids, don't have more than 2.

Simples*


*Useless you are Starmer.

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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 28 November 2025, 10:24:12 »
Some scrotes have done mum's place over again, and nicked her safe.  Sod all of value in there, but it's gonna be at least £2k for a new front door, and then the emotional costs.

I suspect the old bill will muster up enough enthusiasm to give her a crime number.


The police really need to get a better handle on this shit.  Sat with thumbs up arses only encourages it to happen more.
:(

Have you considered fitting a couple of alarm bell boxes with flashing LED front and rear on all the time
(not an alarm system if too complicated for her)
video door bell ,TAPO one is subscription free  (micro SD card) and very good
https://www.argos.co.uk/product/5647389
Tapo do some decent AI PTZ outside cameras too

my deter the scum
The house and outbuilding are alarmed.  We're considering a doorbell and external camera with a cloud subscription so as not to be prone to the evidence being removed.  Though, as little bro who lives next door discovered, and who has full CCTV covering his home, outbuildings and grounds, the old bill ain't interested.  They said they know who the culprits are, but chances of a successful conviction are low, so they just give out a crime number.

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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 26 November 2025, 12:14:30 »
Sorry to hear this.  >:(   As you say, the emotional toll will never go away.  ;(   It’s not nice knowing that someone has rifled through personal stuff without giving a shit about how traumatised the home owner is afterwards.
She's coping really well, but this ain't her first rodeo. Or second. Or Third. Or fourth...   ...and can't remember if it's her fifth or not...

Thanks :y

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General Car Chat / Re: 2009 XF 3.0 petrol project
« on: 26 November 2025, 12:08:51 »
Certainly the alternator on my 2010 3l diesel XJ didn't need any coding, and I imagine its a similar setup.

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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 23 November 2025, 11:22:04 »
Some scrotes have done mum's place over again, and nicked her safe.  Sod all of value in there, but it's gonna be at least £2k for a new front door, and then the emotional costs.

I suspect the old bill will muster up enough enthusiasm to give her a crime number.


The police really need to get a better handle on this shit.  Sat with thumbs up arses only encourages it to happen more.

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General Discussion Area / Re: 3D Printer Chat
« on: 23 November 2025, 11:18:47 »
All looks cool, guess once you have it and learn its capabilities you find uses very easily.
You're limited by your imagination, and the limits of the machine and materials you are using.

For example, most FDM and resin printers create prints that are weak in the plane the layers are printed, as with force, you can separate the layers.  Sometimes you can reorient the model before printing to overcome, sometimes you have to redesign it with that in mind if you need the strength in that plane.  Sometimes, it just won't work.

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General Discussion Area / Re: 3D Printer Chat
« on: 23 November 2025, 11:15:34 »
Yup, I use Tinkercad and awful lot, mainly because it's web based, free, and not blocked by our work firewalls when I'm on this long tedious calls listening to knobjockeys who like the sound of their own voices and licking the piles of their bosses...

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General Discussion Area / Re: Nathan Gill
« on: 23 November 2025, 11:12:28 »
He was, is, and always will be an obnoxious horrible k haunt
That, I can't argue with  :y

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General Discussion Area / Re: Nathan Gill
« on: 23 November 2025, 11:12:05 »
He categorically sold out our troops and by default our security, to suit his own ends.

I think that qualifies.
I very much doubt it would if it was tested in law.... ;)

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General Discussion Area / Re: Nathan Gill
« on: 22 November 2025, 17:07:06 »
None of those are acts of treason....

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