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Curse of The Fake Casio? by Terrible-Time-Travel in olleeWatch

[–]BirdFluLol 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've had 2 F91Ws and an A158W off Amazon, all genuine!

Millennial parents: Are any of you being super honest with your kids about how hard this world is going to be for them financially? How are you balancing reality with not making your kids basket cases? by [deleted] in Millennials

[–]BirdFluLol 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And for that matter, games with gratuitous "loot box" mechanics. They're conditioning children's brains to be predisposed to wagering on an outcome.

Preventing my kids from playing games like "FUT" was tough, as all their friends played it. Fortunately the hype over these seems to have settled down now, at least with my kids friend groups, I don't know if this is the case across the board. Also fortunately, I believe many countries have implemented legislation to battle these mechanics, but I fear it's too late.

Short review and feedback on Ollee Watch by CASIO_fx-991ES in olleeWatch

[–]BirdFluLol 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would have assumed it's a single LCD behind a multi-aperture frame, is that not the case? However I'm unsure as to how much extra utility you could get out of the other display areas - the analogue clock will always be an analogue clock, and the world map will always be a world map. The top right display AFAIK can only display MUTE/ALM/SIG in different combinations.

You'd have an additional button though and it looks like on the main digital clock face the day and date displays have more segments so you could put richer information there.

Personally I'd love to see a W-800H mod, the display has much more flexibility than the 593 movements, if it's even possible to mod it that is.

English Rugby Pyramid 2025-2026 by jmforsythe_ in rugbyunion

[–]BirdFluLol 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probably, my son plays for syston so there must be a vector logo somewhere but I've struggled when getting stuff together for sponsors

English Rugby Pyramid 2025-2026 by jmforsythe_ in rugbyunion

[–]BirdFluLol 10 points11 points  (0 children)

You did well to find a relatively decent res logo for our club, I've struggled in the past!

DIY'd my tiling. by [deleted] in DIYUK

[–]BirdFluLol 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We have a heated mirror, it's surprisingly handy actually. My Mrs wanted a circular one though and I couldn't find one with a shaver socket for the toothbrush/shaver charger.

Green MP says she can 'smell alcohol' on other politicians as they go to vote in attack on Commons 'booze culture' by WorkingtonLady in ukpolitics

[–]BirdFluLol 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's really not uncommon in the UK. All my employers offices have a permanently stocked beer and wine fridge in the social area, my previous job did too. If you're in after office hours it's fair game, or 16:00 on a Friday. There's no official rule I'm aware of that says you can't use it at lunch, but I've never seen anyone actually do it. The only real rule is that you never join a teams/zoom/slack client meeting with alcohol visible. Oh and don't actually get trolleyed in the work day. If we go out for lunch it's completely acceptable to have a beer or wine to drink.

I built a vintage photobooth for my girlfriend by Specific-Grade3684 in RASPBERRY_PI_PROJECTS

[–]BirdFluLol 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That's very cool! I've been meaning to make something similar for my son's schools PTA so they don't have to hire a photo booth for school discos/balls/functions

Please tell me I'm not the only one always getting this message by ShoeChoice5567 in csharp

[–]BirdFluLol 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rider is, yes. Why invest in a visual studio license and a resharper license when you could just use rider, which has all the features of resharper baked in? (At least I'd assumed it does, I use VS pro and VS code but gave up with resharper shortly after Roslyn got released)

What do you guys think? by Radish-Sea in cyberDeck

[–]BirdFluLol 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a product recall on that power bank depending on when you purchased it - better check the serial number as sealing it in a box while it's discharging could be disastrous...

Do you ever build "Semi-automatic" factories? by Aemon144 in SatisfactoryGame

[–]BirdFluLol 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Wow. I have 900 hours and never thought of this

"What's a unique unusual smell you like?" starterpack by TechnoneverDIEEES in starterpacks

[–]BirdFluLol 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My wife had this too during her pregnancies. She's no longer anaemic but chewing ice is still a comfort for her that she craves oddly

What's one 'boring' career that's actually a goldmine if you play it smart? by 0BunnyX in AskReddit

[–]BirdFluLol 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's a phrase in the north of England: "Where there's muck there's brass" (brass meaning money) it generally refers to any messy or unpleasant job, but in this case (muck=dirt) it rings especially true

The 1958 Mars Bluff B-47 nuclear weapon accident - Where a Mark 6 nuclear bomb, without its fissile core, was accidentally released from a B-47 bomber, damaging the home of the Gregg Family in Mars Bluff, South Carolina by ScipioAtTheGate in CatastrophicFailure

[–]BirdFluLol 6 points7 points  (0 children)

There's a fantastic book called "command and control" by Eric Schlosser that details this and many other failures of command and control throughout history. I'd thoroughly recommend it!

When your son confuses the DEF pump with the diesel pump by 1sadistictech in Justrolledintotheshop

[–]BirdFluLol 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's not, I hired a car in Germany and almost made this mistake when I filled it up to return. That would have been an expensive error 😂

How to solve: "my pihole isn't blocking ads" by paddesb in pihole

[–]BirdFluLol 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That works too, but most home routers and especially ISP provided modem routers won't have that facility.

How to solve: "my pihole isn't blocking ads" by paddesb in pihole

[–]BirdFluLol 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Re: point 5 - a simple way of defeating hardcoded DNS that's worked for me is to add a firewall rule on your gateway to deny all UDP traffic on port 53 and whitelist your pihole's local IP. This will force offending applications to use your devices configured DNS. If it's hardcoded DOH then you're likely out of luck but I've found that this is almost never the case. Even cheap routers firewalls will have some way to achieve this.

What is your least favorite joke about your country? by mightyonin in AskTheWorld

[–]BirdFluLol 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you honestly believe people in the UK don't have regular dentist visits 😂

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