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OT: Windows license

I want to install Windows on a spare PC (I use Ubuntu but I have a specific need), I can't decide how snide to be about...
36 comments posted 5yrs
posted by rsandr
36 comments posted 5yrs posted by rsandr

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...
58 comments posted 5yrs
posted by wibble
58 comments posted 5yrs posted by wibble

E10 and petrol tools

According to an AA "Technical Specialist", we should be using super unleaded for our mowers and generators rather than...
11 comments posted 5yrs
posted by newshound
11 comments posted 5yrs posted by newshound

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...
26 comments posted 5yrs
posted by adamwadsworth
26 comments posted 5yrs posted by adamwadsworth

Thumb drive -> HDD

Another gadget/converter question: I have a couple of AV devices (PVR, TV) which have added functionality if one plugs...
59 comments posted 5yrs
posted by roland
59 comments posted 5yrs posted by roland

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...
0 comments posted 5yrs
posted by jon
0 comments posted 5yrs posted by jon

OT: Naughty mathematicians

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cox?Zucker_machine
5 comments posted 5yrs
posted by CK1
5 comments posted 5yrs posted by CK1

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 lo...
24 comments posted 5yrs
posted by me
24 comments posted 5yrs posted by me

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...
0 comments posted 5yrs
posted by david
0 comments posted 5yrs posted by david

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 m...
4 comments posted 5yrs
posted by max_demian
4 comments posted 5yrs posted by max_demian

EV charger

Has that lazy little f***er from work emailed you yet?
4 comments posted 5yrs
posted by adamwadsworth
4 comments posted 5yrs posted by adamwadsworth

Chinese bricks

Feel the quality... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zplHlJDs1U
11 comments posted 5yrs
posted by tabbypurr
11 comments posted 5yrs posted by tabbypurr

retaining wall

we have a rear garden that is higher than our neighbours. Soil is beginning to slide under our fence and into their gar...
1 comments posted 5yrs
posted by nefs
1 comments posted 5yrs posted by nefs