On a lease you’ve nothing to lose. The thing that is almost certain to be the first thing to fail will be the spinning disc – mean time to failure on those is only 5 years. Everything else in a well made computer is at least intended to last a lot longer than that but a spinning disc hard drive *will* fail at some point.

Yes, I’d buy an all-in-one again. Currently working on a nearly 7 year old iMac that would have been bottom of the range at the time (except for the upgrade to a Fusion Drive). I paid Apple £200 to replace the disc last year.

still not sure whether it’s better to run one with an SSD and a USB disc for extra storage or a fusion drive and just accept the repair cost after c5 years. Cost is about the same and having all storage in the case is more convenient.

Latest Macs have 10Gbps network ports that you’re plugging into a 1Gbps router port to use a 40Mbps DSL connection.

All a bit academic when the OP is talking about plugging a BT wireless access point into the other end of the cable that’s going to top out at maybe 200MB/s and likely operate far more slowly than that.

when you take them off, everything looks dull again…

that’s the biggest issue with them – you realise you’ve quite literally been looking at the world through rose tinted glasses…

Prism trail really don’t block much light at all, I am amazed anyone would need even less without it being just clear

Not my experience. Great in summer but I switch to my Rad8 Photochromic for dull days and winter.

Need Prizm Photochromic – now *that* would be a lens

The regs are actually tighter than I thought.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UvSxBC4rdN0K8cV_n13EuEAJliBLpz2E/view

was thinking about this too – our local asian supermarket hasn’t had the big bags since start of lockdown and I’m craving Kim-cheese toasties.

Anyone bought any https://www.redrickshaw.com/products/ajumma-republic-red-pepper-paste-500-g?awc=18038_1587657812_5e352cb9030750f7451825c30f521385&utm_source=awin&utm_medium=affiliate type stuff?

Its questionable whether we’re going to get to use our place this year – this being the case I’m not paying any council tax.

And they’ll rightly take you to court to recover it. It doesn’t just pay for bin emptying you know, and those bin men still need to be paid even if your bin is empty.

A London borough but pretty typical –
Your Council Tax is your contribution to the many services the council provides such as schools, roads, libraries, support for vulnerable children and adults, and rubbish collections. Council Tax also pays for the police, the fire service and many other local services.

The lever action is different to the old (silver paddle) Bonty lever, but not worse. The action isn’t quite as nice as the Fox Transfer 1X lever, b

Really? having broken 2 Transfer levers with my knee I’ve had one of the sliver paddle levers since and prefer it to the Fox lever.

I think that’s a no. (Guardian liveblog)

Social distancing will likely be needed until a vaccine is available for Covid-19, according to the chief medical officer for England Chris Whitty. He told the daily news briefing he is hopeful for a vaccine within a year but there is a long way to go between having a vaccine and widespread immunity. It would therefore be “wholly unrealistic” to think that restrictions would be relaxed any time soon and some “very socially disruptive” measures would almost certainly have to remain in force for the rest of the year, he said. Whitty added that coronavirus isn’t going to be eradicated, so we must accept we will be working with it globally for the foreseeable future.

Take the lowers off, turn them upside down and give them a few sharp pulls.

my CRC OEM Pikes are the same – assumed they’d been squashed slightly in transit but I’m going to go have a good tug on them now.

The front plates seem to be about £7 here –
Pedal Parts

Springs no longer a replaceable part on current models due to the way they’re assembled.

I wrote off quite a few. New pedals time if it’s not retaining properly (but keep the old ones and hope you break a doing on the other side next time)

re the camera, per Daring Fireball

The new SE betters the iPhone 8 with a main camera that is physically — sensor and lens — equivalent to that of the iPhone XR. But in practice the SE should be more capable than the XR as a camera system because of the A13 imaging pipeline (compared to the XR’s A12). This is evident from the fact that the new SE supports Portrait mode features the XR does not — the background-masking “stage light” and “high-key light” effects.

Yes, one of the ones on the proto Structure is like that. It doesn’t seem to affect function and still holds its normal position until knocked.

IME the ‘composite’ lever bodies on Magura *feel* very delicate (I had a set of MT8’s a few years back) – it always feels like you’re going to strip the threads installing or bleeding them – but I’ve not actually managed to break one in use.

Apart from supermarkets, most places like hardware stores are now delivery only, no customers in the shop. Phone or email orders only

And the ones I’ve seen in London are doing a really good job of distancing. Pre order by phone, collect from the door. Socially distanced queue.

Buying paint and brushes, simply to redecorate a kitchen.

I don’t get that either. People are home, if they can do something useful, that generates some economic activity and is little or no risk to their health, they should be encouraged.

Greek Coconut yoghurt from Aldi/LIDL.

I want that, sounds great.

It’s great, but sweet.

Where do you live – I know I’m in Brixton but even the small supermarkets here have coconut milk. As does Lidl.

Saint M820 SPD here (used without the pins – which don’t seem to add anything except the potential to slash your legs when pushing or carrying)

List is over £100 but I picked mine up for 60 on eBay.

https://www.gov.uk/dormant-company/dormant-for-corporation-tax
https://www.gov.uk/annual-accounts/microentities-small-and-dormant-companies

Katie files dormant statement accounts for a flat management company each year. It’s trivial – see if you can work it out yourself and if not maybe ask your accountant to show you what needs doing.

In the spirit of recommend what you’ve got, Wusthof Trident. Ours must be 20 years old with daily use and still better than anything else I’ve used (a lodger melted the handle of one leaning it on a pan but otherwise they’re fine).

I must have tried every sort of sharpener in that time – standard steel, diamond steel, anysharp, one with two angled steels. Katie’s got traditional flat diamond stones and whetstones for the workshop as well.

For the last 5 years or so have been using one of these and it’s quick and foolproof and only cost £20. Recommended.

meh. It’s cheap enough but having had the whole of the UK at 1:50 in both Anquet and Tracklogs over the years I reckon you’re much better off having smaller areas of the country at 1:25
(though they have got 1/3 off the UK at 1:25 as well)
https://www.memory-map.co.uk/maps/2020-memory-map-os-explorer-1-25-000-great-britain

Sure you can probably mess around with the settings, but why bother. I’d rather have a set I like out of the box.

No TV will look good out of the box. The ‘out of the box’ settings are designed to make the picture stand out when it’s displayed next to 20 other TVs in a badly overlit branch of Best Buy. The out of the box settings will be called something like ‘vivid’ or ‘dynamic’. These always have massively oversaturated colours, excessive sharpness and all sorts of motion smoothing type ‘enhancements’ switched on.

What makes a screen stand out next to a bunch of others bears no relation to what looks good at home in normal viewing light levels. See –

I was in an airbnb a while back that had a fancy telly. We were watching a film but it just looked…..weird. Like the picture quality was so good that it made it weird. Made it look like a documentary or something, not cinematic if that makes sense.

My in-laws insist on using whatever the default is on their tv and I avoid watching anything I really want to enjoy when I’m there. I think it’s the sharpness setting that seems to give it an artificial 3d effect (a bit like a view master picture)

Generally, the advice is to switch off all of the ‘enhancements’ and use what’s probably called the ‘cinema’ preset (which will look really dull compared to the ‘dynamic’ until you get used to it) and then tweak from there.

https://www.whathifi.com/advice/how-to-set-your-tv-and-get-best-picture isn’t bad.

Glad I didn’t wait for this and bought an 11 back before Xmas. It’s exactly what has been predicted since then.

The things I really like about the 11 are FaceID, a battery that will get easily get through a day without needing charging, and a screen that makes full use the size of the phone. They’ve not fixed any of those with the new SE

most of the time it’s fine but the 11 still feels big and heavy (eg it’s really too large to stick in an armband for running)

https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/121230-can-you-fit-3-car-seats/

“I know this is quite an old thread but this is the reason I have just ordered a Roomster, 1 Britax ISOFix and 2 standard boosters with backs fit in with no problems. Tried them in a Yeti and it was impossible. Also tried and failed in a Pug 3008, MitsubishiASX, Any Vauxhall (apart from Zafira). The only other 5 seat cars that managed to fit the seats were the Pug 308 SW, Citroen C4 Picasso and Pug Partner Tepee.
I am sure there are other cars that could do the job but my other criteria was the car had to be smaller and more efficient than my current (7 seat) Toyota Verso and the only 5 seater I could find that did that job was the Roomster.”

My light large arrived. I’d normally wear a medium from most brands but would have been very snug on this. Fabric looks and feels good, well made. Neck hole a bit larger – it’s going to let a draught down unless worn with a buff but a steal at this price.

Hey Stu –

I’ve got 2 of em. A G13 and a G16

How do you find the difference between the G13 and G16 – do they have a different character?

That failure is very odd, as it looks like both an inner and outer link have failed simultaneously in the same manner.

Or a moment apart. One side fails, double the force on the other which breaks at the same, weakest, point on the link

Personally I’ve reused loads without any issue – list price of them is nearly £4 each.

I’ve ordered some hipster fixie ped straps and will report back how I get on with them.

Probably best not to try them out during the Covid crisis to avoid load on A&E, but when you do please get someone to film you.

As gonefishin.

We’ve had it in a smallish flat (one rectangular room with kitchen at one end, dining table in the middle, and living area at the other).

You want quiet appliances and a dishwasher with a delay function so you can set it off overnight. You really don’t want to be in the same room as a washing machine – that would be the deal breaker for me. Cooker hood – you want a good one (there are some really effective recirculating ones but they’re not cheap).

How do you keep track of threads you’ve started or replied to? Function seems missing under profile all of a sudden (and it barely worked before)

I switched to flats to teach myself to bunny hop properly, then switched back to clips.

I agree, I think it’ll be means tested and possibly contain some form of caveat about savings.

The means testing is the 50k earnings limit. I think the point is to make it as near as possible matched to the position for ‘furloughed’ employees, who are paid 80% of their salary (up to the same monthly cap as self-employed). There’s no savings restriction for employees so shouldn’t be for self-employed either.

Yes, there will likely be some people who manage to keep working and claim but in the bigger scheme of the $40bn the schemes are costing it’s going to be lost in the rounding and theres going to be such a massive economic shock I’m guessing we’re all going to end up poorer.

then they backtracked later to suggest earnings during lockdown would be taken into account.

I can’t see how they’d do that and the admin overhead would be huge. I’m sure it will just be 3/12 of your average self employed ‘profit’ for the last 3 years. It’s going to be taxable like any other income.

Whatever they do will have some edge cases that lose out (or do well) but that’s the fairest thing for the majority.

I connect my phone to it with a wire. We have had loads of blue tooth speakers. They have never been 100% reliable

I bought a chifibluetooth headphone adaptor for <£6

It’s rechargeable but it’s actually used permanently connected to a phone charger to add bluetooth to an old stereo. Surprisingly it’s been 100% reliable.

Land is worth what someone is willing to pay for it. Nothing more nothing less.

True to an extent, but there are ways of getting a ‘fair’ value if both sides are looking to do that.

There have been a few suggestions above but the one that rings true to me in this case is the value it adds to your two properties. What are they worth as they are, what are they worth with this extra chunk of land. That figure is likely to be larger than any other use of the land from what you say but it’s also the value the seller would be transferring to you. A surveyor/estate agent would be able to help.

What are the disadvantages of GP 4 Seasons in real world use? My rear needs replacing. 4S are meant to have the best puncture resistance arent they?

A P would fix that

It has for me. There is something particularly resource heavy about STW ads for some reason. On Chrome it’s even worse.

I’ve got one of these which is pretty minimal.
M5

Could do with a Torx instead of the screwdriver for modern bikes and the frame could be lighter but its small..

It does 6 Music and R4, I think it has some other stations but I’ve never tried.

We are all so predictable on here. My Tivoli radio in the bedroom has two alarms on it. The first plays R4 from 0659 to 745 (just before thought for the day) at which point the second alarm switches it to 6music. Do I win a prize?

https://www.youtube.com/user/yogawithadriene

is supposed to be the online yoga goddess.

At some point you really want to find a good ‘hands on’ teacher who corrects your poses to learn properly as its hard to know if you’re doing it *right* (even in front of a mirror). though Pilates is much worse.

Do it. if they only exercise you do is cycling it makes a big difference