Gwadien
Uneducated Northern Cretin
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Other brands are available
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5000 micrograms of microplastics in your brain, per gram of tissue! 
That's nearly 7 grams of plastic in your head, right now.
www.theguardian.com
That's nearly 7 grams of plastic in your head, right now.
Levels of microplastics in human brains may be rapidly rising, study suggests
Research looking at tissue from postmortems between 1997 and 2024 finds upward trend in contamination
Overdriven
Dumpster Fire of The South
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5000 micrograms of microplastics in your brain, per gram of tissue!
That's nearly 7 grams of plastic in your head, right now.
Levels of microplastics in human brains may be rapidly rising, study suggests
Research looking at tissue from postmortems between 1997 and 2024 finds upward trend in contamination
Explains why I'm so fat.
Not eating too much. Micro plastic.
Overdriven
Dumpster Fire of The South
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Just got off the phone with one of my medical teams as they want to see me face to face next week. It takes me 2 hours to get to London and a bit longer to get home...
Me: "Can you make this a telephone appt please?"
Then: "Sorry, we have pre-booked face to face and pre-booked telephone appointments"
Me: "Surely it's easy to have a phone call as they don't need to inspect me for anything?"
Them: "Not how it works, even though you're right"
Me: "Then I need to reschedule"
Them: "April"
Me: "Cool, done"
I may have just found an improvement for the NHS. Maybe if it's not a mandatory F2F (e.g. not sticking their fingers in me and playing puppet master) then a phone call would do.
Me: "Can you make this a telephone appt please?"
Then: "Sorry, we have pre-booked face to face and pre-booked telephone appointments"
Me: "Surely it's easy to have a phone call as they don't need to inspect me for anything?"
Them: "Not how it works, even though you're right"
Me: "Then I need to reschedule"
Them: "April"
Me: "Cool, done"
I may have just found an improvement for the NHS. Maybe if it's not a mandatory F2F (e.g. not sticking their fingers in me and playing puppet master) then a phone call would do.
Embattle
FH is my second home
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I had to go back a page when I realised you weren't talking about the photo at the top of the page.
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Still. Not necessarily ruling that out.
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I mean, this just looks like a giant pile of win:
www.audiovolt.co.uk
But no fucking google integration? Apple and Amazon, sure, but no google?!
Zuma Lumisonic Wireless In-Ceiling Speaker & Downlight | Bluetooth & WiFi built-in
Zuma Lumisonic In-Ceiling Speaker & Downlighting System with a All-In-One Clutter-Free Design. Create the Perfect Smart Home Audio Ambience, Click Now
www.audiovolt.co.uk
But no fucking google integration? Apple and Amazon, sure, but no google?!
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Nah. Unless there's a hardware failure then it'll just carry on working. It doesn't require anything external to validate. Now if google stopped supporting google home, that'd be a thing.
I'm looking at these as an alternative:
Lithe Audio WiFi V2 | Multi Room IP44 Bathroom Ceiling Speakers (Pair) - Master & Slave (AirPlay 2, Chromecast & Bluetooth)
Lithe Audio Wi-Fi V2 speaker is an all-in-one solution for music streaming. IP44 rated. iOS & Android compatible. App-controlled. In stock. Free UK delivery.
www.audiovolt.co.uk
I like 4 hour baths after a freezing cold full-day bike ride. Falling asleep to chopin, or listening to an audiobook in the bath is a genuine couldn't-feel-more-blessed pleasure.
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If the recent Chromecast outages teach us anything, you should keep the brains in a separate box from the rest so when they explode you don't have to rip out everything and start again
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Nah, because what happens when that separate box goes fubar?
Cursory google shows Google has an expired cert. They're fixing it by pushing a number of updates. Google was able to build new firmware and start pushing to 10 year old devices in just a couple of days. Find that level of service from some pokey home-automation system and I'd be flabberghasted.
Google literally wrote the book on site reliability engineering that all the big corporates - including Amazon and Apple and all the banks - are following.
The fact that they're not tracking certificate expiry so well is unsurprising to me as it's a historical challenge for a lot of organisations.
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Google says it's rolling out fix for stricken Chromecast kit
: It'll take a few days, give or take your situation
Tom
I am a FH squatter
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Nah. Unless there's a hardware failure then it'll just carry on working. It doesn't require anything external to validate. Now if google stopped supporting google home, that'd be a thing.
I'm looking at these as an alternative:
Lithe Audio WiFi V2 | Multi Room IP44 Bathroom Ceiling Speakers (Pair) - Master & Slave (AirPlay 2, Chromecast & Bluetooth)
Lithe Audio Wi-Fi V2 speaker is an all-in-one solution for music streaming. IP44 rated. iOS & Android compatible. App-controlled. In stock. Free UK delivery.
I like 4 hour baths after a freezing cold full-day bike ride. Falling asleep to chopin, or listening to an audiobook in the bath is a genuine couldn't-feel-more-blessed pleasure.
Far too expensive for what is basically cheap technology. Much more reliable and cost effective to just install dumb speakers, wired to an amp somewhere.
DaGaffer
Down With That Sorta Thing
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5000 micrograms of microplastics in your brain, per gram of tissue!
That's nearly 7 grams of plastic in your head, right now.
Levels of microplastics in human brains may be rapidly rising, study suggests
Research looking at tissue from postmortems between 1997 and 2024 finds upward trend in contamination
Ah well we needed something to fill the space left by all the lead we were ingesting until 30 years ago.
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Balls to that. For a start I've got to have an amp somewhere, then I have to trail wires all through a house which has 1m thick stone walls. And if I did that, I wouldn't be able to whack 'em into my current speaker groups - and I like playing music in every single room in my house, outside, in the shed, in the shepherd's hut and out by the hot tub and fire pit, should I so desire.
Or maybe, when people go to bed, just the outside speakers.
Or when I'm in the bath, just change what's playing in the bathroom, from my phone.
Balls to dumb everything. Even my old dumb stereo from 1991 has a chromecast hanging out of the back of it.
#firstworldproblems I know, but I'd never go back to old tech for music.
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Farmers need to stop doing fucking stupid things:
www.bbc.co.uk
Wildfires spread across Wales after period of dry weather
Firefighters have been dealing with grass fires around the country.
www.bbc.co.uk
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My fucking fitness. Or rather lack thereof.
Just rode to Bangor, ostensibly to pick up a couple of sample tiles. About 27 miles / 2300ft of elevation gain. Then train back to Betws Y Coed and a ride back up the hill to my house.
The hill to my house took us about an hour. On a bike it should take about 15 mins, tops.
Just rode to Bangor, ostensibly to pick up a couple of sample tiles. About 27 miles / 2300ft of elevation gain. Then train back to Betws Y Coed and a ride back up the hill to my house.
The hill to my house took us about an hour. On a bike it should take about 15 mins, tops.
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I will add to this, I saw a different advert on the second episode, for some comedy show (the usual Taskmaster crew) I then saw the same advert every single fucking episode, I think advertisers are just trolling now. Useless industry, serves zero purpose. If I wanted to watch it, which I won't, then 1 advert would have been plenty, 6+ repeats of the same advert is not going to change my mind.