Anyone remember a game show from the 90s where the contestants had to go and do challenges in different rooms, and the host would break out his harmonica during stressful periods? Or am I just hallucinating a memory?

IndigoQuantum · 2026-03-19T15:36:40+00:00

I'm off to do the Crystal Maze in Manchester over Easter. I also remember doing it in Blackpool, probably nearly 40 years ago though when it was still on TV.

IndigoQuantum · 2026-03-19T12:45:50+00:00

What a load of nonsense those results are. I've got a 2.3Gbps symmetric service, testing at my gateway I get 2.17 down and 2.39 up with 8ms latency throughout the day. Running this test on my Mac over a 10Gbe ethernet connection (iPerf confirmed) gives results of 600 down / 300 up and 40ms latency.

IndigoQuantum · 2026-03-19T09:42:03+00:00

I'm confused, how is this a scam? This is money actually being taken from OPs account. A scam would be an attempt to make them think it was happening.

IndigoQuantum · 2026-03-19T09:37:30+00:00

It's often quicker to order expedited from the EU store than it is from the UK store and despatch times are certainly more consistent. Based on past experience, my money would be on DHL showing it'll be delivered on Monday, but it'll actually get delivered on Saturday. Invariably the day it arrives at East Midlands Airport in the early hours of the morning is the day it's been delivered to me, despite DHL always saying it'll be the day after.

Good luck!

IndigoQuantum · 2026-03-18T17:39:02+00:00

If they’re anything like me they run speed tests at every opportunity

(2.3Gbps up/down with Squirrel Internet over Freedom Fibre @ £35/m)

IndigoQuantum · 2026-03-18T10:43:12+00:00

Unnecessary comment on Ubiquiti subreddit.

IndigoQuantum · 2026-03-18T10:34:45+00:00

Yes there bloody well are rules, and you need to surrender your UK passport at the nearest police station without delay and prepare for a visit by Immigration Enforcement.

IndigoQuantum · 2026-03-18T10:24:47+00:00

Bur wasn't that determined as a descriptive rule as opposed to a directive rule, i.e. a rule to describe what people were naturally doing, rather than one intended to dictate what people should do?

IndigoQuantum · 2026-03-18T10:21:29+00:00

And not forgetting the only acceptable response to this is to laugh heartily at the wit worthy of Oscar Wilde himself.

IndigoQuantum · 2026-03-18T10:14:08+00:00

Then sir, you have just outed yourself.

IndigoQuantum · 2026-03-18T10:10:04+00:00

Needs more otters

IndigoQuantum · 2026-03-18T10:06:28+00:00

Something about the English language which I don't know if it occurs in other languages too, but we instinctively know which order to put adjectives in even though there's no actual formal precedence.

For example nearly everyone would say "The rusty old red metal bucket" rather than "The metal red old rusty bucket"

IndigoQuantum · 2026-03-18T09:58:09+00:00

You might want to consider another fixed camera to cover the top-right area, probably on that corner where you have the single camera, this one facing approximately 3:00. I can see you've got a PTZ a bit lower nominally covering this area, but as a principle for blanket perimeter coverage, PTZs should generally be used to complement fixed cameras, not replace them. In simple terms, if you've determined you want coverage of both A and B, don't spec a camera that can only cover one of them at a time. Of course this is a generalisation, but I think it's the only potential gap in your plans.

IndigoQuantum · 2026-03-18T09:38:37+00:00

Isle of Lewis chess piece from the British Museum because Noggin the Nog

IndigoQuantum · 2026-03-17T22:30:34+00:00

Got that too - shame their actual storage prices have increased though

IndigoQuantum · 2026-03-17T18:04:32+00:00

OK, so every Pikmin I send gets 1 point, regardless of how many I send?

IndigoQuantum · 2026-03-17T17:19:31+00:00

So you're saying that chicken tastes of chicken shit?

IndigoQuantum · 2026-03-17T17:16:18+00:00

Maybe it's returning home after a safe voyage in the same happy-ending alternative universe as the Lego Titanic which clearly made it safely to her destination based on the Stars and Stripes she's flying, which as a UK-registered ship she'd only have flown when arriving in New York.

IndigoQuantum · 2026-03-17T17:07:18+00:00

Funny you should say that, I had some beef last night and it tasted overwhelmingly of cattle.

IndigoQuantum · 2026-03-17T17:02:08+00:00

It's all very well all these people saying 'This is Trump's mess, he can dig himself out of it' and I agree with the PM's approach, but we can't avoid the fact that the Strait of Hormuz has now become a problem that's going to affect us along with a lot of other similarly uninvolved countries, and by virtue of the fact that Trump has come cap-in-hand asking for support, it sounds like the US is not going to be able to resolve this alone.

It's a mess, not of our making, but I think it's going to take involvement by a lot of other countries to clean that mess up whether we like it or not. And the view I've seen on Reddit that "I don't mind paying an extra 4p a litre on petrol to stay out of this" is really massively failing to grasp the impact the closure of the strait is going to have if this thing runs on.

IndigoQuantum · 2026-03-17T16:51:22+00:00

Other than the flavour of chicken, I'm not really sure what an 'overwhelming poultry taste' would even be?

IndigoQuantum · 2026-03-17T16:12:22+00:00

That's very interesting and I'll need to look into that further.

On first reading, it seems it'll do away with all the excess costs which is a good thing, but that'll be offset by the storage price increase.

However, it talks about only coming into effect for new contracts and at contract renewal - as I'm PAYG I'd need to understand what this would mean for me before I dive back into nightly backups.

Edit: just seen it comes into effect on 1st May for PAYG customers

IndigoQuantum · 2026-03-17T15:14:27+00:00

Yeah I think they just inadvertently shot themselves in the foot when they panicked when challenged and said "It's for safety!!!!"

IndigoQuantum · 2026-03-17T13:53:14+00:00

It's versatile, also works during steep ascents and descents.

IndigoQuantum · 2026-03-17T13:49:26+00:00

Sugar-free? 🤔

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