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• Live, Laugh, Love.

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 2 days

  

  Live Laugh Drown?

• Live, Laugh, Love.

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 2 days, 10 hours

  

  I am pedalling to look for a proper bike rack.

• Chat about Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

  in COVID-19 • 2 days, 17 hours

  

  Clearly city dwellers hate other people and avoid them as much as possible.

• Electric Vehicles EVs

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 2 days, 18 hours

  

  The main battery is completely isolated by a contactor when the vehicle is parked (and not being charged). The contactor is operated by the 12V battery.

  There is a large DC-DC converter to charge the 12V battery and power the ancillaries when the car is on, but it’s not much use being on the wrong side of the contactor.

  I have pondered whether it would be possible to have a manual override of some kind to jump start the 12V system, but it seems no manufacturer considers it worth the hassle and complexity.

• LFGSS Camper Van owners?

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 2 days, 22 hours

  

  Just outside the New Forest, but I've camped here a couple of times. Is lovely and plenty of other campers (at least in summer). Beware the road east of the corner can flood at high tide.

• Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 3 days, 16 hours

  

  I don’t think there are camera-issued fixed penalties for no insurance / no MOT. They might flag you for attention by the local plod but they’ll do the Peter Griffin check before issuing a fine.

• The London 'Toxicity Charge' / 'T-charge' / Ultra-Low Emission Zone (ULEZ)

  in Improving Public Spaces • 3 days, 17 hours

  

  I’m still trying to figure out what’s going to happen on Monday - or just after, when the fines arrive.

  Are ~20% of motorists going to suddenly give up driving, or go along with paying £12.50 a day? Or go shopping for new cars all at once? Or torches and pitchforks at City Hall?

  I expected many more drivers to have switched already, but not much sign of it round here.

• Orient Express - Cheap Chinese Rims / Wheels / Forks / Frames / Cranks / Etc

  in Bikes & Bits • 4 days, 16 hours

  

  AIUI the only solution to this is to buy the leopard print bikini.

• Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 5 days, 19 hours

  

  It depends whether there's a real world performance difference between the various models for your particular task. I've seen people want to throw cores and RAM at tasks that are mostly likely disk constrained or single-thread constrained, for example.

  It's maybe not so true this year, but in the past Apple have been guilty of offering models at widely different price points with tiny differences in performance, because they know some people will just buy the most expensive one whatever.

• I want to get a dog but I have to work, how does everyone on broadway market do it ?

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 5 days, 19 hours

  

  Frontline was useless for us. Fiprotec eliminated them overnight, although we were doing so much other stuff it may have been coincidence.

  Prescription stuff from the vet is likely even better.