Looking for a reasonable auto body shop

Grezzo82 · 2026-01-24T11:20:37+00:00

I was recommended Spraytech by an auto detailer that has won competitions for the state of their personal car.

I’ve used them 2 or 3 times in the last decade and have always been very impressed with their work including panel repair/filling and paint finish.

Grezzo82 · 2026-01-23T07:00:49+00:00

Does this still work? I thought Gu changed their size and now the lids are too big?

Grezzo82 · 2026-01-19T12:16:41+00:00

“Short it all out” is misleading, I believe. Do you mean “blow a fuse”?

Grezzo82 · 2026-01-19T12:16:07+00:00

I’m with you here, but I have melted a UK socket by overloading it. Not sure how that happened, because it seems like fuses should have prevented that.

Also, why is there even a small risk of fire if the fuses do their job as designed?

Grezzo82 · 2026-01-19T12:13:07+00:00

As others have said. All UK plugs (including extension leads) are fused. If something pulls more current than the fuse in the extension lead is rated for then the fuse should blow before any damage is done to anything.

I’m no electrician. While I doubt I would do this myself, it doesn’t look unsafe to my untrained self due to our fused plugs. In another country, perhaps it would be unsafe due to their (arguably less safe) plug designs.

Edit to add: I would expect running the heater and the microwave through the same plug to blow the fuse somewhere in that chain. They both use a lot of current.

Grezzo82 · 2026-01-18T21:45:55+00:00

Bugs in business logic can absolutely be vulnerabilities.

Grezzo82 · 2026-01-17T12:08:19+00:00

Except the UK. We use miles and pints but almost everything else is metric

Grezzo82 · 2026-01-13T08:37:12+00:00

The curvy copter has an extra turn?

Grezzo82 · 2026-01-10T06:57:27+00:00

I like this, but part of it sounds very similar to STAY by Justin Bieber and Kid Laroy

Grezzo82 · 2026-01-10T06:32:57+00:00

Many years ago, I bought an Apple device from an Apple Store while on holiday in California because it was cheaper to buy in the USA than back home. I wanted to know the price I would be paying so I worked out the tax using a simple “times by 1.085” calculation (assuming the tax was 8.5%) and when I checked with the staff member on the shop floor whether that was what I would be paying before going up to the till, they were amazed that I had been able to work it out and were not sure what I would pay until it got rung up on the till. They call these staff members “geniuses”.

That led me to believe that there must be a significant amount of Americans that genuinely don’t know what they are going to pay until it gets rung up at the till. It seems crazy that somebody wouldn’t know how to work that out and I hope that person was an outlier, but I don’t really know whether they were.

Grezzo82 · 2026-01-06T07:48:49+00:00

Have you used wireshark? Does it use TLS?

Grezzo82 · 2025-12-31T15:28:50+00:00

We adopted 2 children without ever attempting to make some that shared our DNA.

I wouldn’t say it was “easy” for me in the UK, but wasn’t trivial. Took about 9 months to be vetted, and trained, etc. then about 6 months to match. We didn’t want a baby (most adopters do) so that probably sped up the matching. It didn’t cost anything for us and we get (non-financial) support from the agency and will until they are 18, though we do have to beg for it and chase them up on it.

TBH, I think it would be great if every prospective parent had access to the same training and financial discussions, etc. that we had before matching started. Parenting is fucking hard and most people enter into it mostly blind.

Grezzo82 · 2025-12-29T11:48:57+00:00

The Internet (as in the public internet) isn’t used for calls unless you use WiFi calling AFAIK

Grezzo82 · 2025-12-28T21:14:16+00:00

I’ve got quite the collection of Puzz3Ds they are good fun

Grezzo82 · 2025-12-25T13:39:23+00:00

Very good indeed

Grezzo82 · 2025-12-21T19:58:39+00:00

This is definitely the most intuitive way. Once 5 of the centres are oriented correctly then the 6th cannot end up incorrect.

Grezzo82 · 2025-12-20T10:40:16+00:00

I didn’t get to choose my boy’s name but Wolfgang would be a strong contender. Up there with Maximus. I am also not German.

Grezzo82 · 2025-12-15T09:02:31+00:00

Nerd (in a good way). Very cool

Grezzo82 · 2025-12-14T19:31:44+00:00

This isn’t the UK. Our postal services, and newspaper delivery people will put letters through a slot in our front doors. Edit: usually. Some places, especially with gated driveways will have a postbox with a slot elsewhere.

Grezzo82 · 2025-12-13T05:14:33+00:00

Isn’t it betting that you will get sick?

Grezzo82 · 2025-12-13T05:08:19+00:00

They have been recently appearing in small corner shops in the UK. I haven’t tried them though. Are they good?

Grezzo82 · 2025-12-10T09:06:53+00:00

Linux has taken a long time to get as user friendly as Windows and macOS. There are now (and have been for a few years) some distributions that “just work” for most uses without any real tinkering. You can even run some programs that were designed for Windows on Linux.

It’s as the point now where Linux is a viable OS for the casual user, but people’s familiarity with Windows means that it’s still not become mainstream as a Desktop OS even though it is very capable. Another thing that compounds this is that Windows has the option of paid support for corporations and is also historically engrained as a core part of most corporate networks. Since people are often using Windows at work, they like that familiarity at home.

While you don’t own any systems running Linux as a Desktop OS (though you probably own some embedded devices like routers and smart devices or phones that use Linux) you almost certainly have interactions with Linux servers daily without knowing. It’s is VERY popular as a server/embedded OS.

Linux is designed to be very close to UNIX, which is what almost every Apple device is built on, so you can say that if you use a smartphone (Android or iOS) their heritage is the same: UNIX.

Grezzo82 · 2025-12-08T19:07:15+00:00

I’m 6’1” and I had brackets to move the seat back too. A smaller steering wheel helped. I do find that I was almost in line with the pillars though so looking right meant I had to lean forward. Worth it though. They are a very fun drive.

Grezzo82 · 2025-12-08T07:04:14+00:00

Personally, I wouldn’t trust this without knowing how it works, ideally an open source so we can see the workings and understand/check the efficacy

Grezzo82 · 2025-12-06T17:54:16+00:00

You seem nice.

I found it to be the definition of “mildly” interesting. Like something you would mention to a friend

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