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My Scalpel came with a wheel sensor as standard. As well as reporting speed and distance, in conjunction with the app it also tells you when you ought to go and spend a million pounds on getting the Lefty serviced. Anyway, this morning I was cleaning the bike and I thought I hadn't looked at the app for a while, so I opened it and it said there was a firmware update for the sensor. So I started the process, whereupon it decided that the battery was dead. No problem, I've got a load of spare 2032s, so I took the sensor off and replaced the battery. After 25 minutes trying to refit it, I gave in and removed the brake rotor so I could get better access, and even then it took another 5 minutes of swearing, dropping tiny bits of bracket, and general messing about. I don't think it would be hard to design a bracket that clipped in place before doing up the screw, instead of requiring you to balance tiny bits of plastic in a confined space while trying to do up a 2mm hex bolt.
Another one for my list having now tried to do some modest work on the child's new bike.
Internally routed cables. I can just about see the point on a proper race spec road bike. Using it on anything else is just stupid...
Well if you will go walking your dog, off the lead, in a place which has signs up saying no dogs allowed, don't be surprised if that dog very nearly gets squashed by me on my bike and I appear DC and shout that your dog is not allowed here.
Plumber turns up to flat to fix dripping bath tap washer, the landlord knows full well the bath taps are decades old, plumber says he hasn't got taps in his van or the ~2 hours to replace them.
Waste of time, plumber and landlord!
When you search for something on Google on an Android phone (maybe just a Pixel phone, I dunno), it opens the resultant web pages in some odd internal browser and not Chrome
When you search for something on Google on an Android phone (maybe just a Pixel phone, I dunno), it opens the resultant web pages in some odd internal browser and not Chrome
Do you mean the Google search bar you get at the bottom of the screen?
Yeah you need to tap the dot menu at the top and tap open in Chrome browser when you visit a search result, else it disappears.
Otherwise, just search in Chrome itself.
Do you mean the Google search bar you get at the bottom of the screen?
Yeah you need to tap the dot menu at the top and tap open in Chrome browser when you visit a search result, else it disappears.
Yeah, that. I know I can open it in Chrome, but why doesn't it by default (or why isn't there a setting that I can choose that it does it by default? Grr.
why isn't there a setting that I can choose that it does it by default
Okay, so I've had a quick play and it turns out there is, but it's buried.
Tap on the G on the search bar - Tap on your initial top right - Settings - Other settings - Deselect 'Open web pages in the app'
Personally, I avoid Chrome altogether. I noticed years ago that it was using huge amounts of space on my phone.
The Gemini Nano example of late is a sneaky silent install of 4GB (not sure if this one is also on phones...).
Google Chrome silently installing AI models on our devices | Cybernews
I have to attend a course to inspire me to be a better middle leader.
If that's not bad enough the last hour is our senior leader uninspiring us with waffle and unthought out nonsense. Whilst piling the work on with unrealistic deadlines.
I swear to god if I have to draw a triangle in the air with one hand and a square with the other someone dies.
Plumber turns up to flat to fix dripping bath tap washer, the landlord knows full well the bath taps are decades old, plumber says he hasn't got taps in his van or the ~2 hours to replace them.
Waste of time, plumber and landlord!
To be fair to the plumber here, he's been called out to replace a washer.
Okay, so I've had a quick play and it turns out there is, but it's buried.
Tap on the G on the search bar - Tap on your initial top right - Settings - Other settings - Deselect 'Open web pages in the app'
Handily next to the "autoplay videos" setting.
Facebook does this, there's a setting in the app for "open links in external browser" but I don't know why because it ignores the setting completely.
Sensodyne toothpaste.
I have sensitive teeth and the basic Sensodyne for Sensitive teeth works well for me. Thing is, on the supermarket shelf there are usually between 6-10 variants and working out which is the basic stuff for sensitive teeth is a 1st world pain.
Add on top of that the erratic pricing.
Grrrr.....Stupid little propitiatory product labels sewn onto or affixed to stuff. Bought a lovely pair of black leather cafe racer style gloves, loads of attention to detail to hide the armour and make them look retro then they sew a bright orange D30 label right on the outside cuff.......same with my 'heritage style' leather boots that have GoreTex proudly stuck on a metal plate like anybody cares.
I have sensitive teeth and the basic Sensodyne for Sensitive teeth works well for me. Thing is, on the supermarket shelf there are usually between 6-10 variants and working out which is the basic stuff for sensitive teeth is a 1st world pain.
Uh, they're all for sensitive teeth aren't they? Just pick...
Add on top of that the erratic pricing.
... whichever's cheapest.
Loud Reform supporters who read this morning's Daily Mail on trains....
Hyperformal American / US-influenced customer services. "Well, I can certainly help you with that today sir, however I will need you transfer you to another department." Well, you certainly can't do anything of the sort then, can you.
I wonder whether over on a bike forum in the US somewhere there's someone else complaining that they called a UK support number and were offended to be met by "aye, hang on a minute mate"...
People walking dogs at noon on what is widely tipped to be the hottest day of the year.
"There's were some ants, so I've put a bit of powder down"
A 'bit'? Crikey O'Reilly...
People who always know better than Google maps. 🙄
Just follow whatever it says I said. You remember what happened last time you didn't trust it? I said. It's based on real time traffic data I say. It should route you the quickest way if there's an accident or something, I say.
No. She thinks Google maps is nuts for sending her that direction. I mean, she grew up here. She knows the quickest way. Local knowledge trumps Google right?
Cue the closed road. People telling her to turn round. Standstill. 7 hour journey with her elderly mum and a shaggy dog, I'm told. Me having to not say I told you so...
People who always know better than Google maps. 😂
After the weekend, I've felt the need to vent about... People that do not indicate on roundabouts. It's irritating. It's annoying. I really don't like what appears to be a free-for-all on something that I use every time I use my van.
Ah, so you're the other person in the world who indicates on roundabouts. Well done 👏😉
Lazy, or just thick, people who insist on "flashing" you out at T junctions when you are approaching from the base and indicating right. Yes I know you are too lazy to turn the corner properly. Yes I can see you which is what flashing your lights is for and no other purpose and yes I can see that there is a queue of traffic behind you on the main road with a cyclist coming up on the left of you ready to be buggered about by me if I turn. Just do the job properly, which may be easier if you indicated as well. Courtesy has no place when it contradicts the rules of the road.
Might I also add people who whinge about the sun. It's 30 degrees FFS not 50. You won't die of dehydration or sun stroke. We, well my grandfather, won the Battle of Britain in weather like this.
Nice weather and the attached neighbours have all their friends round plus quite young children. Then light up with their drug of choice.
The smell fills our house (at bedtime too), not to mention the kiddies lungs. Will they ever grow up?
Ah, so you're the other person in the world who indicates on roundabouts.
Swedish chapter.
I also had to listen to a rant from a northerner (Östersund, so about half-way up the country) about how southerners (anyone south of Sundsvall, so about half-way down the country) can't drive in winter and cause all the accidents because they assume that, as soon as the snow melts in Stockholm, the rest of the country is also clear.
He was just angry at Stockholmers, but it was a great rant.
The plumber who installed our new bathroom a couple of months ago obviously didn't get a connection right and there has been a gentle drip of water running down the outside of the internal soil pipe* which we only discovered when the flooring in the downstairs loo below lifted yesterday evening.
Cue home insurance emergency plumbers coming out today. I reckon the built in vanity unit and associated tiling will be on the drive by lunchtime.
*boxed in, I should add.
We're just packing stuff for a week away, including this bag of clobber
So why pack it, half close the zip, dump it right at the top of the stairs, then walk down said stairs past it? Me no understandy this.
Also, it so happens the car hasn't been used for a couple of days. So I open it this morning to find grey/cream coloured oily smears on passenger seat, central armrest, door handle and door jamb. Yup, some bright spark smothered themselves in suncream on Weds before getting in and sitting on the black leather. Cleaning all that up is 20 mins of my life I won't get back.
Might have said it before but, DJs on the radio who have a big long talky bit with background music, and keep sliding that volume fader on, off, on, off, on, off, every time they say a sentence is off, then back on loud between sentences.
Does me nut bruv.
I'm looking at you Nick Grimshaw
The lawman - you appear to have curtains but no window (wink).
It's school holidays, it's warm, neighbours have their friends round until 10.40pm, children are screaming and playing swingball. Even with the windows shut i can hear the relentless smacking of the ball, some of us need to go to bed early.
I'm even getting cross with myself because I'm so tired.
Might have said it before but, DJs on the radio who have a big long talky bit with background music, and keep sliding that volume fader on, off, on, off, on, off, every time they say a sentence is off, then back on loud between sentences.
Does me nut bruv.
I'm looking at you Nick Grimshaw
It's probably reacting to his voice.
Can't say as I blame it, TBH.
1) Five posts a day on local Facebook group warning people not to walk their dogs in the hot weather. New this year - added bonus of AI slop images (highlight being one detailing how the doggies might burn their 'pours').
2) Administrators of local Facebook groups, where they have to approve a post before it appears, apparently being totally clueless on the concept of signal-to-noise ratio.
Bicycle "standards".
New fork, but doesn't have an integrated crown race like the original. No problem, most of a decent headset in the spares box.
Needs a new lower bearing. I've got two spares, both 0.1mm too big!
Internal cable routing (not specified in the product description and not obvious in the image). Can't be bothered to mess with the hose,cut the fittings off and then decide it's too short, replace hose and rebleed. Existing hose is helicopter-taped on the outside.
Fit Cane Creek carbon headset top cover that's also in the spares box, looks good but needs another shim that I don't have. That's why it's in the spares box!
Put everything together, mark for cutting, take it all apart, cut, put it back together. Finally!!
"I'm not complaining but..."
Right up there with "I'm not racist but.."
Just how many eateries empty the soapy water from their mop and basin onto the pavement?
The storm drain is right there, looook!
they could just as easily flush the soapy water down the toilet. It’s all going to the same place!!!
Link sausages. You get to a time critical point in the cooking process and reach for the sausages which are all in a big string. You then have to find the scissors to separate them. Does anyone actually cook sausages still linked together? No. So pack the bloody things as separate units.
they could just as easily flush the soapy water down the toilet. It’s all going to the same place!!!
Throw some soap down the bog and give it a good flush, report back. 😁
When I mop my floors, I’ve got no other option than to flush the water from the pail, back down the loo.
The lawman - you appear to have curtains but no window (wink).
It's school holidays, it's warm, neighbours have their friends round until 10.40pm, children are screaming and playing swingball. Even with the windows shut i can hear the relentless smacking of the ball, some of us need to go to bed early.
I'm even getting cross with myself because I'm so tired.
20 years ago I was camping at a place where a guy was randomly chopping wood late into the night. Every time i'd think of getting up to ask him to shut the hell up he'd stop. Just as I was getting to sleep it would start again.
As I walked past his site on the way to the ablutions block in the morning I noticed something laying on the grass near his fire and picked it up before anyone used it on him.
Now, whenever I use his tomahawk at a campsite I always make sure I finish using it before it gets dark.
