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Happy belated birthday both 😀

@sawboman Just to echo Bob’s concerns, are you ok?

Mostly Reddit and social media for me, but it tends to be Youtube for Ellen. She puts it on for Alice when we’re out and about, or need to kill time*, and it uses more data than I realised.

*If you need to kill some time with small kids, look up Dave and Eva on youtube. It’s mostly counting and alphabet songs, with actual speaking instead of…[Read more]

I dont know if EVs have got the right public image. They’re great, and for the majority of people they’d probably be the right choice, but the perception seems to be that they’re awkward to charge and still have a short range, so for the elderly and disabled they’d be unsuitable.

We know that’s not actually the case, but for people who don’t…[Read more]

This is what’s thrown me. 6Gb should be plenty for me, and Ellen’s averaging about the same, except she’s almost hit the 12GB limit more than once. Both of these figures are then without Netflix. Adding Netflix would then probably push us up to the 12GB tier on the SIM only deals, which includes Netflix on Go Binge, which cuts the usage back…[Read more]

Thanks for the replies guys 🙂

We’re both mostly happy with our phones, and it’s probably just the fact that we can upgrade that’s making me want to. We can afford the contract cost at the minute, so I’d rather get a new phone now if I’m going to, instead of paying out a lump. That’s not overly important though (but the Razer 2 is tempting :D…[Read more]

Alan Wake’s American Nightmare and Observer are the current Epic freebies:

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/collection/free-games-collection

Wouldn’t that stop it from installing rather than activating though? It’s installed correctly, other than I think two drivers, but it wouldn’t activate with a 10 key.

If it works like Alexa, you might be able to say something like ‘play the next episode of Stranger Things on Netflix’

(Great if you’ve got a Fire Stick in the main TV and another Amazon device in a different room 😀 )

Survivng Mars is the current Epic giveaway, until the 17th

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/surviving-mars/home

I switched from FF to Chrome quite a while back now, so started using FF for Alice’s email account and Google activity. I don’t know if it’s the way I’ve got FF set up, but it feels clunky and old fashioned compared to Chrome, but I don’t notice much difference in speed. Chrome usually uses more resources because I have more tabs open, and lots of…[Read more]

If I was doing a straight upgrade, then yeah, but I’ve bought her an SSD too. The original plan was to do a clean install onto the SSD with a cheap ebay key, then let her get used to Win 10 slowly. I had the first key refuse to activate, so the seller sent a new one, and that wouldn’t activate either. I’m hoping that it’s something to do with the…[Read more]

I started the process of updating Ellen’s laptop from 7 to 10, and found a link saying that if you enter a Win 7 key either during the Win 10 installation, or on the activation screen later, it will activate. I haven’t had a chance to test it yet, as she’s taking ages to figure out what she wants to keep from the old drive…

Bloody hell, that’s basically throw away pricing! 😲

Cherry Bomb is one of my favourite tracks 🤘

That’s odd. Zooming was the first thing I tried, but nothing changed. I just tried it again and it switched to mobile view at 125%

I could cry. It’s my phone contract that’s about to end, not my fibre. That’s got about six months left 🙁

Sitting next to my router I’m getting 11Mb through my fibre, and 45Mb through my phone. Time to argue with Talktalk then…

Sorry Steve, but this one tickled me 😂

(Definition of a shart for those who don’t know: https://www.google.com/search?q=shart)

Sorry, I thought I’d posted here too. The Dveetech is £15 now on Ebuyer. Here’s a Facebook post I put up about it:

There’s a decent 4K action cam for £15 on Ebuyer at the minute. It’s an SJ4000 clone, so a clone of a clone, but it’s compatible with GoPro accessories. I’ve got one and it’s pretty good. If you can cope with my dodgy riding, t…[Read more]