MrsDoyle
@MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Andrew will be banished from royal premises to King Charles' private and remote Sandringham estate 1 day ago:
You can have afternoon tea in the restaurant after your visit. And there’s a gift shop of course.
So remote though.
- Comment on Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while? 2 days ago:
No, is the answer. Moving to another ISP when my plan runs out. I’m paying extra for a VoIP line and want to move to WiFi calling.
- Comment on Why don't cars have a way to contact nearby cars like fictional spaceships do? 2 days ago:
I do a lot of water sports in the UK and we use VHF radios. Certain frequencies are used by marinas and the like, and nearby boats will be tuned into them. Then there is a frequency used for emergency calls - the coastguard listens on that and answers, and will move your call to another frequency for more details, leaving the mayday one open again.
We mainly use VHF for boat-to-boat comms, or boat-to-shore. The local range is decent - a few miles from our base, depending on atmospheric conditions, obstacles etc. I honestly have no idea if you could use VHF radios between cars though. It’s not private for a start - everyone can hear you - and once someone is yammering on the marina frequency no-one else can transmit. So it’s just brief messages with protocols.
- Comment on Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while? 3 days ago:
I hate the SMS ones, because I don’t have a good phone signal in my home, so I have to ruin around trying to get a couple of bars so I can get the effing code. My banking app just uses a fingerprint.
- Comment on What's the best way to ease getting back in shape after years of little to no exercise? 4 days ago:
Swimming works for me. I joined a gym at a hotel that has a pool, reasonable price and usually fairly few people. I like to swim lengths, thinking of nothing at all, for half an hour to an hour. Good for general fitness, stamina.
- Comment on Where is modern Punk? 6 days ago:
- Comment on What went wrong with Pizza Hut? 1 week ago:
I’ve never had a Domino’s pizza and never will - they’re spending so much on TV adverts their food is probably shit.
- Comment on What are some good things to purchase to add a new distraction to my life? 1 week ago:
The best thing about digital photography is that you can keep trying your shot with different settings for exposure, aperture etc. it’s a great way to learn what works best in what situation.
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 1 week ago:
He also invented CFCs, the chemical that nearly destroyed the earth’s protective ozone layer. Quite a guy.
- Comment on Is there an anti- sleep-paralysis device? 2 weeks ago:
It’s my understanding that everyone has sleep paralysis - the brain “switches off” the body (apart from essentials: breathing, heart beat etc) so you don’t come to grief acting out your dreams. What we call sleep paralysis is when you wake, but your body hasn’t been switched back on.
I used to have horrible sleep paralysis nightmares quite often. But then I read about what it really is, and I stopped having them. It was like my brain realised it was out of sync and corrected itself.
- Comment on Pubs could stay open until early hours in move to boost UK growth 3 weeks ago:
Late licences (to 5am in Scotland) are the main reason I fled Edinburgh’s Old Town for the suburbs. No fun having your front door used as a toilet, drunks ranting and fighting in the close at 3am, having to dodge “pavement pizzas” every night. Yay, growth!
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Raven at the Tower of London. They are big, with massive beaks.
- Comment on tall tails 1 month ago:
Vibe coded lion:
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 1 month ago:
Of course we remember Dolly! She was stuffed and is on display in the National Museum of Scotland.
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 2 months ago:
I think doctors just ask what day it is or “who is the prime minister” to work out what’s wrong. When I found my neighbour wandering along the street unable to find her own front door I understood her problem without an acronym.
- Comment on What is the maximum number of potatoes you could grow in your house or on property you own before it becomes a crime? 2 months ago:
Well you SAY that, but one of my neighbours grew potatoes in her front garden, and there was a LOT of tutting. Really a lot. Everyone knows front gardens are for flowers, not potatoes. I’m surprised the police weren’t called.
- Comment on UK lawmaker urged ministers to crack down on Palestine Action at request of US company 2 months ago:
Yet it’s somehow cost-effective to arrest and prosecute a bunch of people - they’re already making room in prisons for the expected surge over the weekend. Bloody ridiculous.
I lived in London during the Troubles. I think I know what terrorism is, and pensioners waving placards aren’t even close.
- Comment on US education 3 months ago:
I may be an outlier here, but I’ve experienced mild electric shock from touching a random bare cable sticking out of a wall, and I found it weirdly pleasant. Refreshing, almost.
- Comment on Anon witnesses excellent security 3 months ago:
Our workplace did that. You had to change every month and you weren’t allowed to just add a digit. It meant that people started writing their passwords on post-its stuck to the monitor.
Mind you, back in the 90s your password was the same as your username. It was very handy, because if someone went home leaving a document locked, you could just log in and unlock it. Our first “proper” IT professional was horrified.
- Comment on Does anyone struggle with spending money foolishly on prostitutes? 3 months ago:
A lot of Nazis were Christians.
- Comment on Does anyone struggle with spending money foolishly on prostitutes? 3 months ago:
We live in a society. I believe that a predisposition to empathy, compassion, love, all those good things, is inbuilt in us to help maintain a stable, cohesive society. They are taught to young children, who learn to share, care, co-operate. It seems like some people never grow up, and still need a “parent” to guide them.
- Comment on How do you combat boredom? 3 months ago:
I’m never bored. What’s it like?
- Comment on Does anyone struggle with spending money foolishly on prostitutes? 3 months ago:
Morality matters, friend, even for atheists like me. The trouble with the “only believers can be moral” standpoint is that believers can end up doing the most heinously amoral things in the name of their god. Like burning people alive for example. Stoning sinners to death.
- Comment on Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding 3 months ago:
I know!! Sometimes it’s even painted on the road in huge numerals. I explained everything to her.
- Comment on Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding 3 months ago:
My idiot sister racked up nine points in six months after moving to the UK. She claimed not to have seen the 40mph sign she blew past at 50. “They’re so small!” She only started paying attention when she realised she was one ticket away from a ban.
- Comment on Two men behind ‘senseless’ felling of Sycamore Gap tree jailed for more than four years 3 months ago:
Councils are constantly cutting down trees. inews.co.uk/…/trees-felled-uk-councils-10-years-3…
- Comment on Date set for millions of phones across UK to receive emergency alert test 3 months ago:
The first one was wild for me. I knew it was happening, but it happened that it happened at the very moment I was on holiday in Welsh Wales, busy navigating my way around a small town. My phone is bluetoothed to my hearing aids, so very abruptly I had a voice shouting inside my head in Welsh. The message was repeated in English, but by that time I’d died of my heart attack, lol.
- Comment on What's up with all the moth memes? 4 months ago:
I blocked the moth person, I got sick of those posts.
- Comment on What's the e-reader you would buy if you were in the market? 4 months ago:
I’ve discovered I can still load books on my aged Kindle Keyboard via email. When you register a Kindle you get an email address for that purpose. More fiddly that just dropping files in its Document folder, but it does work. (I’m so bloody annoyed at Amazon for that change to Kindles.)
- Comment on That's me 4 months ago:
Don’t be embarrassed, you’re keeping her in a job.
