Posts by Is It Me

It is possible to have not enough space for the toys you need, but not possible to not need more toys.

Re: Not just in Japan

Happened to Bart's teacher in a Simpsons episode

Re: Here in the EU generally and specifically Spain

I haven't looked at Spain, but in France anywhere that is considered part of a town is off-limits even to the sub-250g drones, it also has a much lower maximum height of 50m vs the 120m or 150m I have seen elsewhere.

That said France the operator ID is free and lasts 5 years, it is also valid across the EU, which the UK one isn't since Brexit.

I have been looking in to it before taking a drone on holiday.

I also looked at Egypt and THERE they are basically banned, and will be confiscated from luggage on arrival as a tourist

Re: super thread drift.. but..

It maybe down to badly created Start/Stop systems, if I take my foot of the break after the car has turned off automatically it restarts it.

Re: Doooom!

Surprised I had to scroll this far down to get to this.

Set up with cheats so everyone had the chaingun and could keep topping up ammo, if a while of everyone running around constantly shooting each other with that and it was probably OK

Re: Nice day for a trip to Scotland

Used to have that at a couple of ADSL sites, once every few months the connection would drop and just doing the automated BT line check (you called a number and asked them to do a test on another phone number) would fix it every time. But if you called and asked if there was a line fault there would be a pause and be told that there are was no errors but the line would have started working anyway.

Re: Thermoelectric fridges

Once you have a 3d printer almost every problem looks like it can be solved with one.

Re: Ah the good old days

I know some people use their mobile so rarely that PAYG still works for them, but when you can get unlimited calls, unlimited text and some data (the I looked at was 4GB) for £6 per month it seems that that PAYG is really becoming unlikely for anyone in employment how actually uses their phone at all.

Have you seen that they did a graphic novel of at least one of the Stainless Steel Rat stories?

Re: Gateway computer had identical keyboard and mouse sockets

A reasonably number of motherboards had a fuse on one or both of the PS/2 sockets that would blow if it was plugged/unplugged while live.

They usually weren't designed to be easily replaced either

Re: Better to find a Mr Whippy van

The ones I have seen in the last couple of years all take card payment now.

Re: I wonder

When travelling to a country where roaming isn't included in my plan I take an older phone with me to put the local SIM in and then use it as a hotspot for data,

If you have a phone that supports an eSIM you can now get an app that will sell you a local 1 week, 1 month etc plan via the eSIM (not used it yet as I haven't been outside the EU since I have had a phone that supports eSIMS)

Re: All your QWERTY belong to us...

That is not the description of a first world country in the twenty first century.

That is a county using at best a late twentieth century system.

Re: Clean keyboards

I was using acetone to clean some superglue off some magnets at my desk, a few drops splashed on the hand rest of my keyboard and it now has some interesting shaped melted spots.

Sanding them down a little has helped disguise them, but some of them still look like cigarette burns (I don't smoke)

I am pretty sure that I have mentioned it before, but that are dive computers with user replaceable batteries and these are things that are designed to keep their waterproof at depths of 100 meters and deeper.

Re: Legit Google Play apps getting compromised happens fairly often

I am on a Google Pixel phone and when using an app for the first time it asks about permissions and gives options that include "this time only" and "only while using App", it also regularly prompts for removing permissions from apps that I haven't used for a while.

Re: "by the time they are 12 it's something like 97 percent"

From when GCSEs came in you used to do coursework (which counted towards your final grade) as a mix of in school and at home, that might be essays for English, paintings for art etc.

My understanding from the comment was that now all of the coursework part is now being done under supervision in school and not a mix of in school and at home.

Re: YouTube Shorts

YouTube seems to have been pushing the channels to create these things, several good channels seem to be taking clips from their main videos and releasing them as shorts for a few days before the main video release.

I think that is because the logarithms push channels that post content more often and so they will do better releasing this little videos every day or so than just the main video once a week or so.

Re: Video on Ring's servers is the problem

The difference being that the owner gets to see the warrant and know what it being looked for/at

Re: Classical music calms?

As someone who has worked retail in the past, you really need to think of the workers.

Even looping a whole CD will drive the workers insane by the end of one working day, let alone a week of it, at least now you can store enough music to keep it different over the course of a day

Not everything has to be managed by market forces, why should ticket prices by managed that way?

If the law was that the secondary market could only charge face value plus (as a random figure) 10% the on;y people to suffer would be the scalpers.

It would reduce the pressure from bots as they could no-longer mark everything up by 1000%, and fans would be more likely to get a ticket to an event they actually want to see.

Venues and artists would lose nothing, and possibly gain as the people at the event might have more money for food/drink and merchandise

Re: Safe decommissionning

I believe it is now, but in the '80s it wasn't.

There are several companies trying to get money for safely de-orbiting older satellites, don't know if any of them have actually started to do anything practical yet though

Re: fratzonic chambered exhaust

But only on the inside of the car, you want the driver to suffer not everyone else

Re: Slow moving

Audible (at least on Android) doesn't stream, it downloads all or most of the file first.

I haven't had any real issues with BBC iPlayer here or using VPN back here when abroad, I don't use the BBC Sounds app but wouldn't rely on streaming when driving.

Re: Do any analog watches

Relatively easy and people can do them at home, but more importantly pretty much any jewellers or watch shop can do a 100m/200m battery replacement and a decent number can even do a pressure test afterwards.

There are a fair few dive computers (and I have one of them) where replacing the battery is a user task as they are designed with a battery compartment that is sealed from the rest of the device, admittedly these were noticeably bigger and thicker than a smart watch

Re: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who insisted...

These comments aren't anti-right wing politics they are anti-useless Prime Minister who has broken the law and lied about it while Prime Minister

Re: Irony…

Pretty sure I have seen at least one film/tv show which used the 1USD bill cleaned up to create higher denominations.

Can't think what it was though, so probably not a great one.

Re: Under construction

Dreamweaver used to come with an option to strip out the extra code from Word (and possibly Frontpage)

It was a personal computer in that it was designed to be used as one per person rather than mainframes with dumb terminals.

Re: A possible solution

No need to do that, powercycling 200 times has already done the job.

Re: I'll allow myself a smug grin

As far as I am aware the Z-Wave and Zigbee kit works with local controllers that don't need an internet connection to work.

My 9 year old Vera Z-Wave controller no longer connects to their web servers and still works perfectly using the web interface built in to it.

Re: Dells

Thanks,

I came to see if anyone had checked if they had a built in Ethernet port, and it is a shame that they don't.

Re: junk-food punnet of chips and gravy with cheese

I am in my 40s and only remember one place that did it in newspaper, and that was somewhere on the Gower Peninsula in Wales.

They must have had a contact at a printing press as the newspaper pages were never complete, often missing photos or whole articles.

Re: Good as far as it goes

I think you under estimate how long schools will want to eke out their investment even in "cheap" computing devices.

They will likely be buying a set for an entire class to be able to use at once, so that will be in the region of 30 of them.

I have been involved in upgrading very old desktops and laptops with SSD and RAM upgrades for complete sets of 30 in a previous job.

Being able to extend their useful life by another couple of years will be important most of the time.

88mph I believe...

Re: Not ride sharing

I am not an Uber fan, but I believe the original idea was that it was a way of setting up ride share that shifted when it realised it could make more with the ride hailing/taxi option

Re: Always wondered who buys those £4K books

There are rumours that they are used for money transfers and laundering.

Also it can be down to a pricing algorithm going screwy

Re: "Is it plugged in?"

another "correct" reply is to ask them to check where it is plugged in (what colour the port is etc.)

Re: I have too much time on my hands...

I believe TFA = The "F" Article", I have seen the F to mean full, but usually not.

Re: Why a submarine?

And the start and end are likely to be in ports, which are usually in a harbour that is designed to shelter the vessels from the weather

Re: The "inspector"

There used to be a video that compared what happened when you took the heat sink and fan off and Intel CPU and an AMD CPU running a game.

The Intel based one started glitching and crashed before it had any permanent issues, the AMD let out the magic smoke.

Re: Castling

Depending on what border you are near you will hear different versions, usually it is expressed as within a towns walls after midnight.

First time I heard was about shooting Welshman in Shrewsbury, and also heard it for Chester (again shooting the Welsh)

Re: Even maintenance can be hard

I went swimming with out realising that my Pixel 2 was in my shorts pocket, only found out when my wife pointed it out on the bottom of the pool

Picked it up blew out the USB-C port and kept using it until a year or so later it fell foul of the camera issue that they were known for.

I also spend time on boats and sometimes get wet enough that I would worry about my phone if it wasn't water proof.

I realise my use case isn't yours but waterproofing can be a good thing, and doesn't mean that it can't still be repairable as I have various waterproof items with user changeable batteries etc.

Re: Reversed polarity

I have seen more wall sockets wired up the wrong way then extension leads