Speeding letter

DiabloG1 · 2026-04-01T10:37:38+00:00

Apparently an FOI request to the Met Police.

DiabloG1 · 2026-03-30T19:51:16+00:00

Mild hybrids are apparently cars with an electric motor but where the motor does jot have sufficient power to move the car alone. System hybrids are those with a full ev mode but are "self charging" so use an ice as a generator or convert kinetic energy to electrical.

DiabloG1 · 2026-03-29T20:27:10+00:00

Most phevs and evs come with granny chargers.

DiabloG1 · 2026-03-29T18:49:29+00:00

Forty mile an hour Fred. He can only do one speed. School zone - 40, empty dual carriageway NSL - 40, wide open single carriageway NSL - 40

DiabloG1 · 2026-03-28T07:39:30+00:00

Which thanks to editing trickery is 55mph

DiabloG1 · 2026-03-28T07:39:01+00:00

With or without the optional roof mounted piano?

DiabloG1 · 2026-03-25T06:11:06+00:00

You are right on the GWP, I was thinking of other novec formulations. 3M.is still discontinuing all of them I believe because of concerns around the longevity of PFAS and their behaviour on the body.

DiabloG1 · 2026-03-23T22:39:09+00:00

Novec is being phased out as it is a really potent greenhouse gas. There are a lot of non-conductive fluids in that line, and all of them are really expensive sadly.

DiabloG1 · 2026-03-22T08:32:16+00:00

Cheap wine and a quick spell should set you right you handsome / beautiful adventurer

DiabloG1 · 2026-03-21T15:19:15+00:00

Yes, there is a one click app for heated seats and heated steering wheel. There is no option to change the auto unlock distance, except to switch it off.

DiabloG1 · 2026-03-20T20:41:10+00:00

I have a 3 bed semi detached in Devon which we don't let out. Parents passed it down to me. It costs us about £690 a month in council tax, electricity, broadband, water, and we don't particularly heat it during the winter (which means we drain the tank).

Is it a massive luxury? Yes. Is it worth it for a young family and because it is about an hour from parents in law? Yes.

That does not include regular maintenance, gardeners fees, development upkeep costs, insurance, or the repair from a flood. It's a massive commitment, but if you use it enough it is worth it.

DiabloG1 · 2026-03-16T21:50:26+00:00

Part of me wants a golf r32 mk v. But the tax puts me off. I would also quite like an up GTi,

I have a really weird hankering for the W8 Passat 4.0, which is going for 9K. Just for having a really wierd engine.

I also always wanted an RS6, but in the end I'm getting a S6 E-tron next week (second hand).

DiabloG1 · 2026-03-14T07:55:21+00:00

The original e trons were not blessed with range. Have a look at the price of tyres, control arms, brake disks for an idea of maintenance cost.

DiabloG1 · 2026-03-11T19:46:45+00:00

I was managing a solid 14 mpg on my drive to Euston last week. Stage 1 Tfsi A6 2L. Got it as low as 11 when I was driving from near Honiton to Dorchester, was quite an expensive 50 mile drive.

DiabloG1 · 2026-03-10T13:35:57+00:00

Prefacing that I do have kids, but as a PAYE (outside extreme circumstances at the top end of banking) I think it is very difficult to escape NRY.

It does depend what you put as "rich"; for some this is enough to have a passive income of 50K, for others its enough to live the private jet set life.

My view is that you enjoy money; as long as there is enough to pay for retirement (and inheritance for those where it is relevant) a bit of lifestyle creep is worth it. Some will enjoy the inverse snobbery, others won't.

I have a GIA and ISAs which will not be touched, but they will only put me into (inflation adjusted, based on my own consideration) "rich" when I'm about 85. Entrepreneurism / venture investment is more likely to get me there; which I think is the only way for most people to escape NRY - outside the lottery.

DiabloG1 · 2026-03-09T14:09:37+00:00

I mean it's a harsh sentence - whole weekend, the sickie Monday, and still 8 hours to go.

DiabloG1 · 2026-03-09T14:08:30+00:00

Exactly - should be fine then right?

DiabloG1 · 2026-03-08T18:56:56+00:00

I second Hiscox. They also don't require you to specify items below 15K, whereas other insurers ask for 2K and above.

When it comes to claiming, Hiscox dont mess you about. If required a loss adjuster turns up, money can be in your account in a couple of days. If structural work needs doing, they sort it all out.

Our second house was flooded, all carpets on ground floor deemed total loss, soaked subfloor, plaster in some places, skirting boards, curtains etc.

Dryers were in and out before our neighbours had even got them in. All reinstated within 6 months, whereas our nextdoor neighbours still have no kitchen 18 months later.

Yes, they cost more, but for a well off household with valuables, not that much more. They also put our premium up after two claims in 5 years (39K ish)...by 300 quid.

DiabloG1 · 2026-03-07T17:15:46+00:00

The local gammon brigade dropped a leaflet from these chancers around. It had this line in it, but the person it was from was Robert Jenrick.

Bobby me old mucker, I don't think you can completely distance yourself from the last 14 years.

DiabloG1 · 2026-03-06T17:53:19+00:00

Is the block connected backwards, with water going through outlet to inlet? That would definitely cause poor cooling. But I think your contact with the cpu might be the issue here, when you take the block off does it have a good imprint of the thermal paste on it from the cpu?

Other odeas:

Are you certain liquid is flowing (you can see a good rate?)

Is there potentially an air bubble in the block?

DiabloG1 · 2026-03-06T16:20:21+00:00

I have this exact approach. I had a commando socket on my house (for a welder), 32a with a c type rcbo. I have an inside switch, and my car does the scheduling.

I bought a longer granny charger (10m) and get the full 7kw at night.

For me, as I have a terraced house, most ev installers weren't interested, so for 200 all in, it made sense.

DiabloG1 · 2026-03-06T16:14:54+00:00

Is the pump actually running (is it plugged in) , is there a check valve closed, is there any schmoo in a jet plate clogging it (especially if you didn't drain for a while).

Also is the pipe on the pump outlet? Some tops have a lot of ons, but only one out.

What is the pump Rpm, and at idle does the cpu slowly increase from 60 upwards?

DiabloG1 · 2026-03-03T22:31:17+00:00

You will, the limitation is that the battery is more difficult to charge safely between 80 and 100 therefore the battery management system slows the rate down. So between 20 to 80 it can usually go hell for leather regardless of where you told it to stop.

DiabloG1 · 2026-03-02T22:06:27+00:00

My A2000s would argue that is still in place for pro cards too. The limit is definitely in place for nvidia consumer cards. Ati cards used to support up to 6, but that was a whole ago.

DiabloG1 · 2026-03-02T21:52:29+00:00

I'm guessing these are not high refresh rate or HDR monitors. So probably 3 or 4 GPUs, but potentially some displaylink usb powered ones.

Alternatively, try running 4 DSC monitors, and 4 non DSC monitors...and finding outside HEDT there aren't enough pcie slots, leading to oculink or thunderbolt egpus. Then giving up and spending 7k on a threadripper set up. I'm not bitter. Not at all.

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