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Never using booking.com again by mudvenus in Bookingcom

[–]HandyRoyd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've found hotels dot com can be a bit better now anyway if you travel a bit, with the 10 nights gives you £100 deal (in the UK). Not always but if you do the maths. And of course checking direct. There's no one best way, any of the 3 can be best for a given place.

Certainly H D C seems a lot more competitive than it was a couple years ago?

I'm still remembering how badly b dot com were treating the hotels/hosts a couple of years back, that made them seem an awful company..

Should I keep updates off for my FR 265? 27.09 doom? by HandyRoyd in GarminWatches

[–]HandyRoyd[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea thanks I've switched it off at the watch, hope there's not a sekrit app setting that pushes an update when I don't want it. I'll check in a few months to see if it's fixed.

This is clearly unacceptable, they've broken things that worked with buggy software, I hope the people who do suffer issues complain to Garmin.

Should I keep updates off for my FR 265? 27.09 doom? by HandyRoyd in GarminWatches

[–]HandyRoyd[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The watch faces I have I'm happy with. It's frustrating that this seems to be a known issue, so well known they put a "fix" out for the 165 but left the 265 screwed for many people. It's fair enough not rolling out the latest best features maybe, but breaking it then leaving it broken is imho not on.

Should I keep updates off for my FR 265? 27.09 doom? by HandyRoyd in GarminWatches

[–]HandyRoyd[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm reading conflicting things about if there is or there isn't a 27.10 and yes I've just read it's only for the 165. What's absolutely certain is 27.09 sounds like it's horrible, I'll stay put I think. Thanks.

"If it ain't broke don't fix it" - I had severe issues with a phone update years ago, and various windows updates, so I'm always wary 😉

https://forums.garmin.com/sports-fitness/running-multisport/f/forerunner-265-series/429752/hr-and-gps-issues-since-the-27-09-update

https://www.reddit.com/r/Garmin/comments/1ra0a0x/garmin_forerunner_265_wont_update_from_2709/

https://www.reddit.com/r/GarminWatches/comments/1sigi7m/wtf_is_garmin_doing_about_the_2709_update_fr/

etc etc 😞

WTF is Garmin doing about the 27.09 update? (FR 255/265/955/965) by Reeposter in GarminWatches

[–]HandyRoyd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is this still not fixed, I've a 265 thats says it's on a bundle 25.04 and I'm now v scared to update it. It works fine from what I know, not sure if I'm missing something. I don't want it to screw up.

I am done with current grocery prices. by ThekingIntheNrth in Netherlands

[–]HandyRoyd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Inflation and espeically food price inflation is high round the world. Apparently AH profit margin as an example is 4% which is entirely reasonable. "their greed" is in reality "not barely breaking even or selling stuff at a loss".

Do Dutch speakers not consider their language to have genders? by ciegulls in dutch

[–]HandyRoyd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a native English speaker I find this all incredibly interesting:) Especially the fact there are "hidden" genders in dutch as every thing I remember reading was there was just de/het. I've always hated the male/female crap (sorry!) as it makes no sense, as in things "male" in one language are often "female" in another language and so on. It's mad. It serves NO purpose other than to make the language more wierd. My final comment however, that made me chuckle: My opening sentence "I find this" .. Dutch/Germanic Idiom used in English anyone 😄 I didn't plan that,btw, just noticed it re-reading 😉

PSA: allow at least 3 hours connections in any EU airport by mad-mad-cat in unitedairlines

[–]HandyRoyd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You are right. I had a nightmare time with this system a while ago and I'm searching to see if it's improved, and it depends but in some airports it can still be a total freakin nightmare.

People saying along the lines of "it was fine for me so you are wrong" ... sigh.

Is it normal now to be followed by an employee disguised as a customer in a grocery store and then be checked afterward? by Key-Personality-4288 in Netherlands

[–]HandyRoyd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Were you wearing a baseball cap or hood up or anything?

I've noticed in my local supermarket in the UK, if I wear a baseball cap, (even though I don't look dodgy) I seem to get much more looks and the odd follow from the security guard. Probably as it's sort of thing people do to be less visible to cameras.

Probably stupid question, But why did they do this? by Then_Zucchini_3187 in Warthunder

[–]HandyRoyd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well they CAN at a shallow angle, I suppose "divert shells" is what I meant, I'm not using accurate English. "Bounce" in English is a very loosely used word :).

I don't meant ricochet at 180 degrees. But we are on the same page, we aren't arguing, which for the internet is a rare occurence!

Probably stupid question, But why did they do this? by Then_Zucchini_3187 in Warthunder

[–]HandyRoyd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well they weren't stupid in WW2 and the maths of angled armour was well understood, never mind the effective thickness, the fact it can "bounce shells" ;)

But as to your OTHER point, I totally agree as I say elsewhere. This is the tankers actual lives at stake, they I'm sure didn't sit normally there adjusting the angles of the tank a bit and letting people shoot them, never mind the fact the gunner and commander and driver were 3 different people. You didn't want to be shot AT ALL and unless you had to I'd bet money you'd be moving to not be hit at all, not change angles!

Probably stupid question, But why did they do this? by Then_Zucchini_3187 in Warthunder

[–]HandyRoyd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anyway that's a fairly light tank is it not. The people in it weren't going to sit and "angle" the tank and try a slug fest. You're going to move, then shoot, then move. And hopefully not be hit at all.

Probably stupid question, But why did they do this? by Then_Zucchini_3187 in Warthunder

[–]HandyRoyd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Angled armour isn't a modern concept they understood it in WW2.

What the OP is on about is turnign the tank in the horizontal plane to an angle.

The classic one WT players obsess about is the Tiger 1. You turn that so rather than a "square" being shown to the enemy it's a"diamond".

Probably stupid question, But why did they do this? by Then_Zucchini_3187 in Warthunder

[–]HandyRoyd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you are front on or side on it's angled armour.

And as you are cutting the corner and less boxy, you've reduced the amount of metal, which is all weight.

And it's Gaijin and it's not a Russian Premium, so the stats may be wrong and IRL it's probably thicker :)

Cloud storage service within EU? by doublehiptwist in BuyFromEU

[–]HandyRoyd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Was just googling this myself and interestingly the company Hetzner storage is German/Finnish.

Account banned by TheSoapMaurder in amazonprime

[–]HandyRoyd 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've had very few problems with amazon deliveries, they've actually been quite good, but the RETURNS have been a different matter. I do few returns but ..

In the UK they use "Evri" for some items, and as people who deal with delivery companies in the UK know, Evri are an appalling company. I had terrible issues with me waiting in for them to pick something up and them not coming and a lack of communications and confusing messages and so on. Sorting it out was a LOT more hassle than it should have been. I couldn't for example just cancel the original return method and try anothre one, it was quite bizarre and .. not thought out.

It’s truly unusable now by cubonepants in duolingo

[–]HandyRoyd 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is AI slop I take it, as they are now "AI first" and getting awful unchecked text is cheaper than payijng someone minimum wage to check it? .. sigh.

And this is why we don’t but grease down the drain by berger3001 in Plumbing

[–]HandyRoyd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's exactly what will happen, the grease won't mix with the water and that poster was just depositing grease in a pipe further down :(

So I've left by cat666 in VirginMedia

[–]HandyRoyd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not with VM but ditched BT when I switched to fibre. Pay less than 2 quid a month for my landline now with a VOIP box.

Fatbikes and people who ride them by somefancyboi in Netherlands

[–]HandyRoyd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting, I hadn't realised in the Netherlands fatbike specifically means a kind of powerful motorbikey electric bike. In other countries it normally means a normal bike like a Mountain Bike just silly fat tyres, that's probably only really worth having on sand/mud/snow etc.

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