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OT: Things to come

When everyone is assigned an annual standard carbon footprint limit by law. Those that have more than one child are ste...
8 comments posted 5yrs
posted by jon
8 comments posted 5yrs posted by jon

Recommissioning Vintage Mobile Phones

Hi all, Digging around in some old boxes upstairs, I came across a Motorola Flip Phone LT which I haven't used in donke...
10 comments posted 5yrs
posted by cw9877
10 comments posted 5yrs posted by cw9877

build one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDiA4_Hs61A&ab_channel=GregMitchell
4 comments posted 5yrs
posted by kinvig.netta
4 comments posted 5yrs posted by kinvig.netta

When we are all EV drivers

Then this bloke will have no more fun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV03xY5Q_Tk&ab_channel=BENGREGERS
213 comments posted 5yrs
posted by adamwadsworth
213 comments posted 5yrs posted by adamwadsworth

OT: pre-buying gas by inflating meter readings?

I'm on a variable tarriff and have an old dumb gas meter. Given that gas prices look likely to rise when the cap is fin...
17 comments posted 5yrs
posted by nospam
17 comments posted 5yrs posted by nospam

tap to ceramic sink sealing

I have had a problem with an upstairs bathroom. It seems a basin tap has been dripping. The drip has run not into the s...
4 comments posted 5yrs
posted by timw
4 comments posted 5yrs posted by timw

[COP26] the very height of hypocrisy....

Bill Gates sails into Glasgow on a $2m-a-week rented superyacht. Jeff Bezos flies in on his $60m private jet. All to te...
86 comments posted 5yrs
posted by Aero.Spike
86 comments posted 5yrs posted by Aero.Spike

Land Registry log in for 'alerts'

The log-in says I will get an email that will start my account. No email has come after two days. When I emailed to ask...
24 comments posted 5yrs
posted by wrightsaerials
24 comments posted 5yrs posted by wrightsaerials

OT: Sound and Vision Auction

https://www.twgaze.co.uk/auctions/catalogues-and-auctions/current-catalogues/sound-and-vision Lots of singles, Vinyl pla...
0 comments posted 5yrs
posted by davey
0 comments posted 5yrs posted by davey

OT Yahoo Mail ... GRRRRRR ! ! ! !

Yahoo Mail has started blasting unwanted adverts on the screen. Why isn't Ghostery muting them? Time to stop using Yahoo...
4 comments posted 5yrs
posted by headstone255
4 comments posted 5yrs posted by headstone255

Getting a duplicate SIM card

Hi all, As part of my "de-Googlifying my life" strategy, I would lke to have an identical SIM card made to the one I no...
16 comments posted 5yrs
posted by paulb
16 comments posted 5yrs posted by paulb

1975 Goblin Teasmade Kettle Spout Gasket

Just picked this relic up at car boot, tested the element before parting with my fiver. With such simple engineering it...
15 comments posted 5yrs
posted by no
15 comments posted 5yrs posted by no

Buying gas permeable contact lenes online.

I got my current gas permeable contact lenses from Specsavers. Good value (for the UK) at £100 a pair then. Oddly, they...
7 comments posted 5yrs
posted by dave
7 comments posted 5yrs posted by dave

Using One Coat Plaster

I have a few chases to fill along with a few holes where back boxes have been removed so I am going to try a one coat p...
6 comments posted 5yrs
posted by tricky.dicky
6 comments posted 5yrs posted by tricky.dicky