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wind’

Unbelievable, in more ways than one: Quote: So far in 2025, Britain has wasted £691,570,685 switching off wind turbines...
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posted by aero.spike
94 comments posted 1yr posted by aero.spike

Temporary Car Insurance

I am trying to insure my son to drive my car for 15 Days. The £100 temporary insurance quote doesn't stipulate a named...
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posted by me
7 comments posted 1yr posted by me

Scottish accents, I can't understand

Trying to deal with an insurance company, to add my visiting son to my car insurance, but I cant understand the guy.
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posted by me
10 comments posted 1yr posted by me

Imaging Win10

Imaging Win10 I have discovered that Ventoy offers both a UEFI and non-UEFI menu if the computer's BIOS allows legacy m...
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posted by jgnewsid
10 comments posted 1yr posted by jgnewsid

The concrete birdbath is broken

Bit of tree fell off onto the birdbath being held up by a statue. Statue is fine but concrete birdbath is in three piec...
5 comments posted 1yr
posted by nospam
5 comments posted 1yr posted by nospam

PC Data migration

A while back the topic of moving stuff from one windows PC to another came up, so I have done an introductory article o...
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posted by see.my.signature
9 comments posted 1yr posted by see.my.signature

Progress?

While the rest of the world is adopting battery powered cars, I have purchased (second hand) 2 mobility scooters! Death...
10 comments posted 1yr
posted by tim
10 comments posted 1yr posted by tim

Where did my water go? (Moved from wrong NG)

I have a 'Smart' meter on my water supply. I have a softener for the house supply that regenerates based on the amount...
24 comments posted 1yr
posted by davey
24 comments posted 1yr posted by davey

McAfee problems

I'm trying to uninstal McAfee from an HP desktop running Win 11 Pro. I've used McAfee's uninstall program but I'm still...
5 comments posted 1yr
posted by iain
5 comments posted 1yr posted by iain

Induced atmospheric oscilltions

RJH and others have a habit of saying "until cheap storage comes along" or similar, as if the coming along such cheap s...
95 comments posted 1yr
posted by timstreater
95 comments posted 1yr posted by timstreater

Making sense of water hardness

I have an IKEA diswasher manual in front of me, https://www.ikea.com/nl/en/manuals/rengora-integrated-dishwasher-ikea-3...
21 comments posted 1yr
posted by daniele-at-vurt-dot-org
21 comments posted 1yr posted by daniele-at-vurt-dot-org

OT: Breakdown Cover

I have been an AA member since 1977, but am increasingly fed up with the annual call to get them to discount the renewa...
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posted by chris
13 comments posted 1yr posted by chris

TG Timber Clad Ceiling - Edges

I've just put some cheap T&G pine cladding on a ceiling to cover up the mess that's there. Looks fine, but the edges wh...
16 comments posted 1yr
posted by patchmoney
16 comments posted 1yr posted by patchmoney

Windows 10 - Bitmap as Icon

I've used that heading because many years ago I found a way of getting Windows Explorer (as it was then) to show an ico...
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posted by jgnewsid
4 comments posted 1yr posted by jgnewsid