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Well OT - sparkling water shortage?
Recently there has been no sparkling water in any of the supermarkets. Is this localised, or country wide? Assuming that anyone else buys sparkling water, of course. Cheers Dave R
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E10 and petrol tools
According to an AA "Technical Specialist", we should be using super unleaded for our mowers and generators rather than E10. Suggestions about "increased corrosion". Anyone planning to follow this...
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OT Apprentice abuse
So for the last three days I picked the apprentice up from his house and told him I would pick him up a 7am Thursday he came out of the house at 7.03am Friday he came out of the house at 7.03am I only...
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Thumb drive -> HDD
Another gadget/converter question: I have a couple of AV devices (PVR, TV) which have added functionality if one plugs in a "USB HDD". But neither recognises a perfectly ordinary thumb drive as a...
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Car Tracking
Is it straight forward to re-stablish a car tracker module with a sim card. I had one working for about a year, but the subscription expired ages ago now.
 
OT: Naughty mathematicians
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Car radiator leak
Yesterday I noticed a damp patch on the garage floor below the car radiator and the level in the water reservoir was low. Not yet had a chance to investigate further, but I assume a leaking or split...
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Small Planks in loft
I am currently boarding my loft and I have small pieces of wood hammered at various angles access the joists. I thought they were for stepping on when the house was built but underneath are these...
 
Tools that cannot work
Some time ago I bought an i-Star Multi Lens Cleaner Disc with Fluid. Just now I tried it on my laptop drive which was malfunctioning, and it had no effect. It is a 5" disc with little brushes that you...
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EV charger
The Hypervolt and EO chargers included a fullsize Raspberry Pi :) Pi Zero in the case of the EO Mini 2) Might be nice to have a Pi-powered charger, means you could put custom firmware on it if you...
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How many Earths do we need if the world's population lived like....
How many Earths do we need if the world's population lived like... United States, 5.0 Earths Australia, 4.1 Earths South Korea, 3.5 Russia, 3.3 Germany, 3.0 Switzerland, 2.9 United Kingdom, 2.9...
 
Chinese bricks
Feel the quality... Dishonest brick manufacturer in China making rubbish brick. Building collapse compilation in China 😰
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Joining a damaged 200W appliance flex - any gotchas?
Managed to melt some of the flex on a slow cooker. [Posted about previously.] Looking inside, the wiring looks complicated with all the heat shielding, cable joins etc. I an considering that cutting...
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retaining wall
we have a rear garden that is higher than our neighbours. Soil is beginning to slide under our fence and into their garden. We need to stop this happening but can only work on it on my side of the...
 
On the absolute off chance that someone knows how to achive this...
I have a 3 Mobile PAYG android phone. After 7 rings it stops ringing and transfers the call to voicemail I am often 7 rings away from it. I would like to increase the timeout. I spent 2 hours online,...
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