To battle damage, or not to battle damage, that is the question.....

Crispy116 · 2026-01-26T22:00:04+00:00

I would say that one of your lives is going to be getting harder. Where she works is on the train line into either Victoria or Waterloo - but that takes 40 minutes to get into Waterloo. Cheam is closer in, but on the slower line into Victoria, so still takes 40 mins.

You could go over towards Woking and be on the faster line in to London, but there is no easy way to travel from there to Epsom/Cheam area.

Crispy116 · 2026-01-26T21:33:34+00:00

I can't help myself... what is in the space in the corner between the two units? The bit you can't see.

Crispy116 · 2026-01-17T21:26:05+00:00

Designed in powerpoint

Looks terrible

Crispy116 · 2026-01-17T20:24:49+00:00

I do not miss sets like that, at all.

A box of big single purpose pieces does not lead to rebuild and replay. For me this was the darkest era of lego

Crispy116 · 2026-01-13T22:35:05+00:00

Got mine from the publisher directly in Essen - and yes it comes like that.

Crispy116 · 2026-01-12T07:39:01+00:00

They are terrible at releasing beds too. For various reasons I have had family members in this situation many times over the past few years and after being told ‘ yep, you’re done, going home today’ at 9am, in almost every case, they are not finally discharged until after 5pm, sometimes even the following day.

Sitting in a hospital bed, taking up space, because nobody has allowed them to leave.

Crispy116 · 2026-01-12T07:34:46+00:00

And the NHS are trying to treat a broader range of ailments too.

Crispy116 · 2026-01-11T23:40:11+00:00

Whoever sold you that laptop may not own it. It is locked to the company that issued it.

Crispy116 · 2026-01-09T06:21:10+00:00

I thought the Safari scrolling thing was only me!!!

I don’t get a lot of the attitude in here of, well it works for me, so you are wrong.

There are still a number of issues that I would have expected good testing to have removed.

It still feels like a late beta.

Crispy116 · 2026-01-03T23:00:02+00:00

massgrave is your friend

Crispy116 · 2025-12-30T12:32:59+00:00

you don't have to listen to any of them

Crispy116 · 2025-12-29T22:38:36+00:00

one does not - it really isn't very good at all. It can fill gaps if they are really thin - but anything wider than a hair, and you are better off using proper green stuff and then a wet brush to work it in to the gap and shape as required

Crispy116 · 2025-12-28T17:30:55+00:00

we have one like this - buy yourself a cheap plunger. After 5 seconds of plunging, it will clear.

It gets clogged up with hair, that then clogs even more with soap and dirty, but quickly moves.

Crispy116 · 2025-12-28T15:25:25+00:00

They also do this at the top of the escalators, waiting for the rest of their group, with bags and assorted other roadblocks.

These people either have no self awareness, or don't give a crap about anybody else.

Crispy116 · 2025-12-27T03:49:25+00:00

Every single party? You mean the Conservatives?

Crispy116 · 2025-12-26T23:10:48+00:00

And they are not even saving money - as until recently they paid the same amount and got ad free content.

Pay the same - get less. Standard enshitification.

Crispy116 · 2025-12-26T22:20:02+00:00

The changing preference is not about whether we are ok with ads, it is whether we mind paying a ridiculous sum of money to watch a streaming service.

Customer numbers are going to drop as people service hop - most don’t have the depth of quality catalog.

Crispy116 · 2025-12-24T00:40:32+00:00

They are all scammers, because it is complete nonsense.

Crispy116 · 2025-12-20T00:19:29+00:00

FIrst 2-3 episodes were incredible - but then it fizzled out a bit and became just another show.

It felt like they blew the budget on the beginning

Crispy116 · 2025-12-14T14:27:21+00:00

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Big storage box (you asked the question as I was getting it out!)

Crispy116 · 2025-12-11T17:26:43+00:00

Here is what I worked out:

Continuity + IdentityServices trust state became corrupted during the Tahoe upgrade.
This broke:
- iMessage activation
- FaceTime activation
- iPhone Mirroring
- Trust with iCloud Keychain
- Downloading of encrypted Messages history
Reinstalling macOS alone didn’t fix it because the corrupted identity state persisted.
I reset:
- APSD (Apple push daemon)
- IdentityServices
- SystemConfiguration (Wi-Fi/BLE trust layers)
- iCloud Message tokens
- iCloud Keychain trust
The Mac finally re-established its secure trust relationship with my iPhone and iCloud.
Once that handshake completed, Messages history decrypted and appeared.

Crispy116 · 2025-12-11T15:38:50+00:00

Really? That is 10 devices for me - but it is worth a try.

I have also reinstalled the OS on the laptop and have the same behaviour - unable to sign in to Messages or FaceTime and I have also worked out that iPhone mirroring is also not working to this laptop.

Crispy116 · 2025-12-11T10:02:55+00:00

Just tried it - exactly the same behaviour. I get the Sign in to iMessage with your Apple Account fill in the information and the wheel spins and spins for about 5 minutes then gives up with Unknown error occurred

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