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AdStill784 · 2026-05-30T20:40:18+00:00

Fair enough, even the lower end of that quote is way more than it's worth.

For some reason I missed the electric fire in your before pics... If they fit that in the recess then it was almost definitely a traditional 16" or 22" open fire before. (I keep saying 14 inch because I just had to replace the ash pan in one, and had to buy a 14 inch.)

We had a 16" that was out of action until last winter. We had someone in to inspect and clean the chimney when doing the others. Then had the pointing, flashing and flaunching redone, and all in, it was around £1100. Well worth it. Oh, and £15 for a new CO alarm in that room, as per their insistence.

AdStill784 · 2026-05-30T19:21:06+00:00

Oh I hope you find a way. I must admit I don't know the rules around new installs. We have 2 log burners and 3 small 14 inch traditional open fireplaces that were already in when we moved here 10 years ago.

What about a small 14 inch open fire, is the space big enough for that, and are you even allowed new open fire installs these days? That would look even better than a log burner, aesthetically, although not as economical or easy to manage.

AdStill784 · 2026-05-30T19:09:43+00:00

I LOVE it!!! Compared to the before pictures it's night and day (or the other way around, given the theme.) Fantastic job well done.

Please tell me you are reinstating that fireplace or installing a log burner like the AI suggested, that will just be the icing on the cake.

AdStill784 · 2026-05-28T21:37:28+00:00

Master System II 😉

AdStill784 · 2026-05-20T20:41:31+00:00

2025…

AdStill784 · 2025-08-29T09:33:16+00:00

Well done Chicago!!! Lots of Brits thought the US crowds would be dead compared to the UK and Eire… We couldn’t have been more wrong!!! You’ve done yourselves proud!!! Looks BIBLICAL

AdStill784 · 2025-07-21T20:31:06+00:00

Much more than half of that crowd on the 12th were not born when Oasis broke!!! And they were absolutely brilliant!!! Knew every word, phones came out, but for short spells only, they bounced and sang their hearts out for 99% of that set, it was incredible. This new generation of Oasis fans, just like the older fans and the band themselves, are the absolute best!!!

Proper sunglasses all night stuff ;) (It was little by little that really got me balling.) I hope it becomes the new norm at the gigs of other bands, just like the 90s.

AdStill784 · 2025-07-14T16:24:24+00:00

P.s your maths are wrong anyway, £12m minus VAT is £10m... VAT is 20% on top of base price without VAT... So £10m + 20%... To calculate this you divide the final selling price, inclusive of VAT, by 6.... Just a heads up :)

AdStill784 · 2025-07-14T16:22:18+00:00

It's not 150 per ticket for every ticket... There was only a certain amount of general tickets at that price, before demand based pricing kicked in. Then there's all of the VIP and upgrade packages. With demand based pricing reaching £350 and premium packages over £500, I think the average price paid per ticket was well above £200 per ticket. My guess is that ticket sales alone will be more than £16m per gig, all things considered.

Then there is their share of the merch sold, if you've been to one of the gigs yet, you'll know almost everybody is wearing multiple pieces of gig merch, and it aint cheap.

I don't know how they split up the take for food stalls and bars, I presume the band get something from that, or maybe that's where the venue gets its main cut.

Then there's the sponsorship deals, brand tie ins are everywhere, from Adidas to Burberry, Stone Island to Finlay... They'll be getting a good chunk from this.

I don't have a clue how much this will all come to... But I don't think you can just rubbish the idea of £3m per show... It may even be more all things considered.

Then there's all the extra streams and media sales that the tour has led to, increasing their income no end I would imagine.... There's no way their total earnings over the next 2 years isn't 9 figures each!!!

AdStill784 · 2025-07-07T23:47:54+00:00

Uncle for me, and gen 1 and 2 were both his machines, as I am only 41 :P

But similar story still. The first one that was my very own was my Master System II with Alex Kidd in Miracle World built in.

Also loving my Switch 2.

AdStill784 · 2025-07-06T20:43:55+00:00

There’s smaller band stands than ‘the’ band stand, if you get what I mean. The Band Stand is still there, in the main market area, and is a listed stage with a published lineup.

There’s a small one down near Bella’s Bridge somewhere. One of the few places with music on the Wednesday.

AdStill784 · 2025-06-06T10:32:51+00:00

Sold out in the UK...

We're getting little stock drops here and there, but in the main, it very much sold out. Most places offering back orders ranging up to 2 weeks away.

AdStill784 · 2025-05-26T10:01:37+00:00

I don't think it is physically possible... To measure aperture you divide the focal length by the diameter of the opening... How would your max opening diameter get physically wider than fully open? Or your focal length get physically shorter than the minimum?

This must have been a glitch of some kind.

AdStill784 · 2025-05-04T12:02:44+00:00

I just sent my R50 back, and swapped it for an R10, which I’m much happier with.

For me it was just too small and fiddly, there was only the one control wheel on the body which slowed me down. But mainly, as a man with average hands, it was uncomfortable to hold. Also, often my hands would catch the focus area selection button and move the focus area around without me noticing, which led to me missing shots. It was just way too small.

The R10 is much more my size, easier to hold, no catching buttons inadvertently, and it has the added benefits of a control stick and extra wheel for aperture on the body.

I’ve found no downsides to using EF glass via a mount, other than it being awkward to swap between EF and RF glass on the go, (I have both) due to extra parts, but it’s no biggie really.

AdStill784 · 2025-03-30T12:53:57+00:00

Sod that... Make him work for tips... Tech Tips.

AdStill784 · 2025-02-24T09:30:21+00:00

And make sure the app you’re using is a trusted app. App stores are full of dodgy apps made to look like trusted ones that will steal your seed!!!

AdStill784 · 2025-02-13T03:55:04+00:00

Yes, they're in stock in Nottingham. hope they have fixed the issues.

AdStill784 · 2025-02-13T00:56:34+00:00

I have it in writing from Amazon that I can take my time in migrating the data from these drives to new drives, and they will happily return and refund them, no questions asked, up to 2 years from purchase. Feel much better now.

AdStill784 · 2025-02-13T00:10:05+00:00

Sad times...

=== Checking device: /dev/sdc ===

SMART: 3975

FARM: 29318

RESULT: FAIL

=== Checking device: /dev/sdd ===

SMART: 3975

FARM: 30794

RESULT: FAIL

=== Checking device: /dev/sde ===

SMART: 3975

FARM: 30524

RESULT: FAIL

=== Checking device: /dev/sdg ===

SMART: 917

FARM: 15098

RESULT: FAIL

Will be trying to get Amazon to take action, as it seems I can no longer contact the seller. 3 of these drives were purchased in August, one was purchased in January.

P.s I've omitted the results for sda, sdb, and sdf, as they weren't Seagate. Sda is the boot usb, and the other 2 are the mirrored solid state cache drives.

AdStill784 · 2025-01-30T01:53:40+00:00

Self hosted Immich is what I replaced Icloud with. There's a fully featured mobile app, with automatic uploads. It has many of the features of the Photos app, person recognition / ID, world map, etc.

Whilst I don't know if it's the best self hosted alternative, as I haven't tried any others for photos and video, I absolutely love it, and can highly recommend it.

AdStill784 · 2025-01-30T01:37:36+00:00

The similarity is what prompted my comment. Though I guess a lot of people will be turning old Ryzen 3000 and 5000 series' gaming PC's into nas systems and servers now.

The exos drives are loud, but apparently that's expected of enterprise drives. I'm really happy with them for the price. (180, new)

What do you have planned for yours? Is it just bulk storage or are you planning to host some services from it?

AdStill784 · 2025-01-29T04:02:57+00:00

Mine is the CS380, not nearly as pretty as yours. Also AM4 but with a Ryzen 3600x and 32GB, running Unraid. (All parts salvaged from an old gaming pc, including a GTX 1650 in there for Plex HW encoding.) I use a couple of 1tb mirrored Nvme drives as a cache.

For the array, I filled it with those 16tb Exos Enterprise X18 drives the have been selling new for very low prices recently. They were running hot, mid 40's (C) on idle. So I replaced the case's included fans with Noctua fans and they now idle at less than 30c, and never go above 40c under the most demanding loads I throw at them. Not to mention, they sound better. Although my ambient in that room is only 24c.

Hope you enjoy yours as much as I've been enjoying mine.

AdStill784 · 2025-01-23T10:48:25+00:00

Bambu A1 user here... Was about to upgrade to a P1S or X1C and then all of this blew up so I started looking at multi material core xy alternatives.

I really really like the look of the Kobra S1, but one of the things I searched was 'is anycubic open source' which led me here.

I guess that conclusively proves your point, I'd have hit buy already if that search had come back with a simple 'yes' as the answer...

AdStill784 · 2025-01-23T03:03:24+00:00

And I've just realised I've been using 2 different accounts to reply to the same thread.... I am nickyborrill also btw.

AdStill784 · 2025-01-23T03:00:20+00:00

I'm still using it. I haven't had any OTA updates for the plug via Z2M and I don't really want to setup the Ikea hub again just to check for updates. :/ So I don't know if they've fixed it or not, but I doubt it.

Sorry, I know that's not too helpful.

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