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11 days agoBluey. I’m an adult and don’t have children. It’s my guilty pleasure.
MrsDoyle
Go on go on go on go on go on
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I’m not talking about rowing machines. I’m out on the water with a crew, hauling on an actual oar. It’s the best thing ever.
Rowing and swimming (in a pool, not because the boat capsized). Both are non weight bearing, easy on the joints. Rowing is excellent for your core.
Espresso is proper coffee!!
2·1 month agoNo, is the answer. Moving to another ISP when my plan runs out. I’m paying extra for a VoIP line and want to move to WiFi calling.
I do a lot of water sports in the UK and we use VHF radios. Certain frequencies are used by marinas and the like, and nearby boats will be tuned into them. Then there is a frequency used for emergency calls - the coastguard listens on that and answers, and will move your call to another frequency for more details, leaving the mayday one open again.
We mainly use VHF for boat-to-boat comms, or boat-to-shore. The local range is decent - a few miles from our base, depending on atmospheric conditions, obstacles etc. I honestly have no idea if you could use VHF radios between cars though. It’s not private for a start - everyone can hear you - and once someone is yammering on the marina frequency no-one else can transmit. So it’s just brief messages with protocols.
I hate the SMS ones, because I don’t have a good phone signal in my home, so I have to ruin around trying to get a couple of bars so I can get the effing code. My banking app just uses a fingerprint.
Swimming works for me. I joined a gym at a hotel that has a pool, reasonable price and usually fairly few people. I like to swim lengths, thinking of nothing at all, for half an hour to an hour. Good for general fitness, stamina.
8·1 month agoI thought it was interesting that she was ok with all the neighbourhood surveillance until it was used against her.
Since at some point recently. You can still email files (epub not mobi now) to your kindle, but usb transfer doesn’t work any more.
A live hedgehog. He was obsessed with them. They would roll up tight to protect themselves and he’d grab them, prickles and all. To get them off him was a real pain, literally. What worked best was holding his head so tight he couldn’t move, and repeatedly pinching his nose until he dropped the poor creature. We both caught ringworm, a variety unique to hedgehogs.
My old greyhound was not very bright at all, but he often had a Cunning Plan.
Example: On a walk near home he found a forbidden item. He knew I’d take it off him but he wanted to keep it. Cunning Plan time. He ran home, knowing I would never keep up. In your face, slow poke! I strolled back and there he was, waiting to be let in the gate. The look on his face was priceless, lol.
I’d never heard of him, but I’m not American. I saw a headline something like, “panic after Kirk shooting” and wondered if someone had shot up a church service in Scotland.
I’m poised… might try a dual boot first.
They can’t convince me to switch to Win 11 because apparently my computer isn’t good enough.
7·3 months agoElon Musk, speaking by video link to a massive right-wing rally in London today: “There’s so much violence on the left, with our friend Charlie Kirk getting murdered in cold blood this week and people on the left celebrating it openly. The left is the party of murder and celebrating murder. I mean, let that sink in for a minute, that’s who we’re dealing with here.”
Meanwhile, said right-wingers were the ones shooting fireworks at mounted police, throwing bottles & cans, and getting batoned. The smaller counter protest had turned into a dance party.
In the UK the bank account number is just a form of ID. Sort code identifies the bank and branch.
When I add a new payee, the bank runs a check to see that the name, sort code and account number match (even if it’s from another bank). Even if they do match there’s a pop-up warning about scams before the transfer goes ahead. Once they’re on my list of payees it’s just click and transfer. I do all that on my phone via my bank’s app.
There’s no way to “pull” money from another account purely using its number. Banking scams do exist here, but they generally rely on bamboozling people into paying money themselves, eg buying gift cards, or giving the scammers control of their phone.
I have a ceramic filter holder that sits on a mug. It uses two-cup paper filters, which I compost after use. https://algeriancoffeestores.com/products/ceramic-filter-cone
When I have people to stay I dig out my old filter coffee machine, the kind with a water tank and a glass jug. I have a couple of cafetieres, but rarely use them; some of my visitors prefer them.