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OT: Redneck's view on weather forecasters.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2AxktiHLypA -- If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventuall...

4 comments posted 6mos

posted by tnp

4 comments posted 6mos posted by tnp

PDF Files

I down loaded an 8 page pdf from Nextbase telling me how to download files from my dashcam. Very helpful but following...

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posted by jgnewsid

10 comments posted 6mos posted by jgnewsid

TOT: Screen lock button on iPad

I recently updated to iOS 26.2 on my iPad Air, since then a floating black button has appeared on the screen whose only...

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posted by tricky.dicky

3 comments posted 6mos posted by tricky.dicky

OT: Blink security system Sync Module not recognising Micro SD card in USB card reader

I have a Blink security system which includes a Sync Module 2 which has a USB slot for USB storage, and which talks to...

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posted by me

8 comments posted 6mos posted by me

USB Data Cable

Second try, I managed to spell cable properly this time. I have my new Picanto home and it slept in the garage last nig...

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posted by jgnewsid

11 comments posted 6mos posted by jgnewsid

USB Data Cbale

-- Jeff Gaines Dorset UK It may be that your sole purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others.

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posted by jgnewsid

3 comments posted 6mos posted by jgnewsid

Printer Advice

I'm looking for a new Inkjet colour AIO printer for home use. It needs WiFi connectivity compatible with macOS and Windo...

19 comments posted 6mos

posted by alanrichardbarker

19 comments posted 6mos posted by alanrichardbarker

250V 20x5mm glass fuse. 7630mA??

I am trying to repair a venerable Coleman camping gaz 240V to 12V cigar lighter socket converter. The fuse has blown, a...

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posted by wibble

13 comments posted 6mos posted by wibble

Social Meeja

Does anybody use any Social Media other than Usenet that allows reasonably free discussions? I am in the sin bin with F...

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posted by jgnewsid

19 comments posted 6mos posted by jgnewsid

OT: Green Party Broadcast

The nerve of those people! "Pensioners have to choose which rooms to heat" - yeah - thanks to you and your bonkers anti-...

38 comments posted 6mos

posted by dhg99908

38 comments posted 6mos posted by dhg99908

semi OT.: How are the might fallen...

https://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org/events/event/one-day-meeting-david-mackay-energy-and-information Begins i...

20 comments posted 6mos

posted by tnp

20 comments posted 6mos posted by tnp

LED GU10 lamp flickers and goes out in one socket but not another

Our kitchen has a grid of about 10 GU10 lamp sockets in the ceiling, on the same circuit and light switch. A certain br...

8 comments posted 6mos

posted by me

8 comments posted 6mos posted by me

Adding a water tap

Gentlemen, I've decided all the vodka you can buy now in the shops is crap now all the Russian stuff's been pulled (tha...

19 comments posted 6mos

posted by cd

19 comments posted 6mos posted by cd

Doh! Octopus & meter replacement

OK, so I’ve got the email telling me I have to have my 20+yo dumb meter replaced. Engineers (sic) are working in the vi...

54 comments posted 6mos

posted by aero.spike

54 comments posted 6mos posted by aero.spike

Heaphone headband break

I have some bluetooth headhones thsat I bought for when I go walking. I listen to digital radio from my cellphone. When...

4 comments posted 6mos

posted by pinnerite

4 comments posted 6mos posted by pinnerite