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• Owning your own home

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 2 hours, 16 minutes

  

  I quite like that! If it weren’t ground floor, anyway.

  About the going rate for a 1 bed in the area, and no more disappointing.

• Any question answered...

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 day, 23 hours

  

  Looks like house paint? A mildly abrasive polish like T-Cut might take it off without buggering the finish. Depends how thick the clear coat is.

• Owning your own home

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 2 days, 7 hours

  

  Stick a tea towel hook just above it.

• Audax rides

  in Rides & Races • 5 days, 10 hours

  

  Yes, but there's not a lot of point. DIY the first 300 km in case you fall off / get hit by a car / lose interest at 302 km.

• Owning your own home

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 5 days, 10 hours

  

  They have admitted they messed up, got it wrong and in the one email said we'd be refunded in the next billing cycle so end of the month when they get reimbursed.

  Unless there's some particularly weaselly wording in your lease, you only have to pay for services received, so they owe you cash, arguably out of their own pocket.

  How you go about obtaining that is another matter.

• Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 6 days, 9 hours

  

  Go here and see what “Accept-Language” header is being sent in the request.

  https://www.whatismybrowser.com/detect/w­hat-http-headers-is-my-browser-sending

  It should match Safari’s language, although I don’t know how monkeying with the app language changes that.

  You might end up having to switch to a different browser that lets you set the language header explicitly.

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

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 week

  

  Diesel cars are still bloody horrible things whether they actually ban them or merely wait for the worst ones (pre Euro 6) to die out.

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

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 week, 1 day

  

  especially as I doubt the car has limited slip diffs on the centre or rear diffs.

  The Outlander PHEV has no centre diff at all. The rear wheels are electric drive only.

• Home DIY

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 week, 3 days

  

  is this a dimmer, bulb, or my wiring problem? the previous bulb was incandescent if that makes a difference..

  If it's clicked off there shouldn't be any power going to the bulb, so the dimmer portion of the switch isn't a consideration (assuming the switch is working!).

  What can happen is a tiny amount of parasitic voltage can jump from the always live core of the switch cable to the bulb core, and if the bulb is sensitive enough it can power it.

  A different bulb might fix it.

• Mechanics and Fixing Any Questions Answered

  in Mechanics & Fixin' • 1 week, 5 days

  

  It it's coming off anyway, you can take it out and see what it says on the label.