MrsDoyle
@MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on What Phone do you guys use? 2 days ago:
Oppo Reno 12, running on Android - via Oppo’s “ColorOS”, which is ok.
- Comment on World's longest coastal path opens in England to the public 1 week ago:
It’s a local path, for local people.
- Comment on Customers of three UK banks report being able to see other people’s accounts on app 1 week ago:
Well that sounds like fun! Shame I’m with a different bank.
- Comment on How to I prove to someone that the U.S. moon landing wasn't staged? 2 weeks ago:
I saw a guy on YouTube talking about the capability of videotape tech at the time. Upshot was that it was that the footage had to have been broadcast live, it couldn’t have been prerecorded. Didn’t convince my idiot acquaintance of course.
You could always try the Buzz Aldrin approach: m.youtube.com/shorts/hqoYiUAppmI
- Comment on Realistcly how much can be cleaned out of a house, as a child of a hourder? 4 weeks ago:
In a similar vein, Calum’s Road: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calum_MacLeod_(of_Raasay)
- Comment on We conduct affairs of state in a building that’s riddled with asbestos and mice. Can’t Britain do any better? 4 weeks ago:
“Dangerous and squalid” describes quite a few MPs.
- Comment on Awkward interaction with my doctor 4 weeks ago:
I would appreciate someone just saying quickly, “oops, wardrobe malfunction!” in a jokey way with eyes covered. I’d hate to discover the open zip later and recall everything I’d done while exposed.
- Comment on ‘Seasons have become confused’: the people struggling in UK’s relentless rain 5 weeks ago:
In Scotland there’s “smirr”, which is a very light drizzle.
- Comment on Dual nationals to be denied entry to UK from 25 February unless they have British passport 5 weeks ago:
That’s what I do - an extra bonus is avoiding the tourist tax in the country of my birth.
- Comment on Are there any cultures where kissing is taboo? 1 month ago:
Lots of cuts to fireworks displays, crashing waves etc.
- Comment on What's with companies naming things "MyNoun"? 1 month ago:
Yup, myPhonak. They’d better be mine, given the cost!
- Comment on Revolution bars set to disappear from the high street after going bust 1 month ago:
I see one of their reasons for going bust is the increase in the minimum wage. OK comrade…
- Comment on Why Do We Keep Fretting About the Future of the Full English? 1 month ago:
Bubble and squeak in a full English? I think not.
- Comment on Why are they different shapes? 2 months ago:
Love a well-packed baguette.
- Comment on The Traitors Is Fake Scotland at Its Worst 2 months ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darien_scheme
It’s a great yarn.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
My house spiders are cool. They eat the flies etc and I fish them out of the way before I have a shower. The only disagreement we have is over their little lair in the kitchen. There’s a tiny hole in the skirting board in one corner, and cobwebs gather there. Now and then I brush away the webs and plaster over the hole. A week later the hole is back and the webs too.
- Comment on Britain to be blanketed with snow and ice for new year as Met Office issues warnings 2 months ago:
The forecast for next week: “Scotland to be blanketed with sleet and drizzle.”
- Comment on Andrew will be banished from royal premises to King Charles' private and remote Sandringham estate 4 months 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? 4 months 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? 4 months 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? 4 months 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 months 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? 4 months ago:
- Comment on What went wrong with Pizza Hut? 4 months 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? 5 months 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 5 months 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? 5 months 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 5 months 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 6 months ago:
Raven at the Tower of London. They are big, with massive beaks.
- Comment on tall tails 6 months ago:
Vibe coded lion:
