GreatAlbatross

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[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I remember seeing a RAM 3500 around Sydney, and wondering what would posses someone to import it.

[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 21 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Piston aircraft still use it. Which makes it doubly annoying when some tit in a cesna decides to circle around town at 1000'.
Not just making a noise, also cropdusting with TEL.

 
[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Stars of the bestselling children's book "The Snails in The Mail"

[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 3 points 1 day ago

I unblock ads on AVForums. And honestly, the ads are either really well targeted (because I'm probably going to buy that amplifier eventually), or random ebay stuff.

If they started serving up the generic "reduce belly fat in 2 seconds with this simple trick" with some AI generated picture, I'd re-evaluate very quicly.

[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago

I get the feeling that in the past, the effort required to cycle self-selected people a bit.
Now with cheap assisted bikes, it's easier than ever to become a 100KG object travelling at 20mph.
So maybe it should have more requirements, in a "greater good" kinda way.

Kinda like when drones took off (heh). The rules for how to use model aircraft needed refining, because the barrier to flying a 2KG object near an airport became much lower.

[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Teletext may be gone, but it's legacy lives on in subtitling.
I still have to mulch around with character sets and swapping between hex for page numbers, 50 years later!

[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago

But what if the CEO is a five-star-man?

[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If you give people a reasonable, legal way to do things, people will generally do them.
And the odd twat doing 30mph on the pavement is much more obvious, rather than blending in with people who would otherwise be following the laws.

[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 1 points 2 days ago

Another not expert. My understanding is that a heat pump should be sized to run more than half the time on the coldest day imaginable.

I'll also double check: Is your house heating system ready for a heat pump? Are your radiators sizes for a flow temperature of 40 degrees?

Because if it isn't, you may end up running any heat pump in a less efficient mode to hit a higher flow temperature.

[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 1 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Honestly, I might even extend it to push bikes.

And make it so inexpensive to get the insurance that there is no excuse.

[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 5 points 3 days ago (7 children)

This seems like a good first step.
Move them out of the "technically illegal, but lots of people use them anyway" area, and into the "legal to use, but you have to register and carry some form of insurance".

 

Someone looted Lush.

"Don't worry darling, I got something for you"

 

And it is delicious.

After the nearest outlet shut its doors, and facing a walk of almost 800m (!) to the next closest, I decided to try Aldi's not-greggs-but-basically-is.

And honestly...They're not half bad.
We tried the rolls, chicken, and steak bakes. They're about 1/4 of the price. And live in the freezer. Ideal.

This post was not supported or sponsored by Aldi. No free snacks for this albatross.

 

We played through it this weekend. tl;dr: It's funny, about 3-4 hours (or maybe more), and worth the money.

It is incredibly silly, and fantastic for it.
imho, if perfectly captures stupid british humour.

Our favourite moments involved vegan sausage rolls, mysterious sausage holes, and a very friendly mole.

You will also probably be quoting the marrow song for a while.

(And I will just clarify since I'm an admin: I paid for the game, and CoalSupper didn't put me up to this positive mention)

 

Has anybody on here had an experiment with the supermarket tags?

My understanding is that you get a bunch of the tags, somehow get a base-station/transceiver working with them, and push data as images.

I'd love to hear from anyone who's had a go. I quite fancy having some little displays around the house with useful info for the room.

 

Direct link to the update in the live reporting of the chancellors speech. Will update the link to the full article once beeb publish it.

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