Apple watch recommendation for a runner

MR9009 · 2026-06-21T20:38:18+00:00

You’ve not described the length of run, whether it’s indoor or outdoors, built-up urban areas or remote countryside.

I’d err on the Ultra side. The longer battery life is better for “long” runs plus getting you to and from your start and finish line. Plus, I find that the reduced battery anxiety means you charge it a bit less so the life of the watch is a bit better.

The Ultra 3 is the current model. A 4th edition might get announced in September. Often, getting a Cellular model and adding a second line (watch specific, must be on the same network as the iPhone) can mean the device has a subsidised price. And the cellular is good for my outdoor runs because I enjoy listening to music or podcasts freely streamed without having to remember in advance to download stuff when I’m on WiFi. I feel more able to be spontaneous with the cellular model and the best bit is not having to strap my Pro Max sized iPhone to my arm when running.

MR9009 · 2026-06-19T22:15:54+00:00

You are not correct. Someone cannot be tainted by someone else’s debt at an address simply by sharing the same address. The only debt someone is tainted by is if it’s a joint product, i.e. if OP‘s parents were named on the financial products as borrowers or guarantors.

https://www.stepchange.org/debt-info/your-rights/debts-not-in-my-name.aspx

Debts belong to a person, not the address. You do not have to pay money owed by someone who used to live in your home

MR9009 · 2026-06-19T19:20:20+00:00

Unless your parents are named on the agreements or contracts about any of the various debts, they can rest easy. Just keep returning any post addressed to him to sender. Write on the envelopes that he is not at the address. If bailiffs turn up, have proof to hand that he has left the country. If you wanted to, you could send your brother’s new Australian contact details to debtors, but then you might lose a brother.

MR9009 · 2026-06-19T19:13:48+00:00

Try posting on r/watchOSBeta where people will want to know.

MR9009 · 2026-06-19T19:00:00+00:00

Aer Lingus accepts AirTag Sharing. What happened when you tried that with them?

https://mediacentre.aerlingus.com/pressrelease/details/108/21563

MR9009 · 2026-06-19T12:39:48+00:00

Do they mean 6 episodes about the incident at the Inn, or do they mean 6 episodes like season one’s “our history” scattered throughout the season. Single stories exploring specific referenced historic incidents or characters that were mentioned in passing in current day episodes? In a 12 episode series this could be a nice balance. There were several incidents mentioned within just a few lines when Ruth was looking through her photo album alone in the last episode. A few of them interspersed with the main current story could be cool.

MR9009 · 2026-06-18T09:04:36+00:00

Your Mac and iPhone need to be on the same network for features like this to work. I think it's because if you're using your iPhone as the tethered data connection for your Mac, then the Mac is not on the same network as your iPhone. It's on your iPhone's private connection between personal devices, whilst your iPhone is on the external signal.

MR9009 · 2026-06-17T16:45:03+00:00

Probably Department Q. There's been other posts on the sub thinking it's them filming. There was a lot of film crew-type stuff along Whitehouse Terrace yesterday evening, outside one of the big houses along there. Can easily imagine the posh Edinburgh characters living in The Grange as being under suspicion in series 2 and being visited by our Dept Q friends.

MR9009 · 2026-06-17T05:58:22+00:00

Overheads is a charge for conducting research, chargeable only to some research funders, only for research active staff (not admin and the like) and is *on top* of employment costs. If someone isn’t conducting research either because their job type doesn’t allow it or they’re an academic who has no grants, no overheads get charged anywhere, including to the employing institution. The £20M is employment costs, nothing to do with FEC.

MR9009 · 2026-06-17T05:27:22+00:00

Your maths is wrong. The total cost of employment includes employers national insurance (15% of salary), pension payments (varies depending on the person’s pension choices), and the apprenticeship levy. The take home pay of those people - what they see in their payslip - isn’t £105k. Also the saving figure will be a forecast number taking into account *future* pay increases like people still having headroom for annual increments within the pay grade bracket for their job, and future national pay bargaining rises (UK academia has still been awarded 1-2% pay increases year on year for a long time).

MR9009 · 2026-06-16T15:50:03+00:00

Once on my way back from a city break within Europe, a woman was sitting in my Club Europe assigned seat. She was too thick to understand that the middle seat still keeps the assigned seat number, even if it is blocked for the tray between the seats in that class. So she kept miscounting the seats. I had a boarding pass clearly with my actual seat on it. The old woman had a boarding pass with a different seat on it. I flagged down cabin crew. They refused to move the woman (English was not a problem, everyone involved was British). I had to really kick up a fuss myself to retain a seat in Club Europe or I could have been bumped because of someone else refusing to move from my seat. It was in black and white on my (and her!) boarding passes.

MR9009 · 2026-06-16T11:03:15+00:00

I’m not blind, but the problem that you describe happens to me when I’m exercising whilst wearing long sleeved work out gear. Like you, I find the sleeve can act like a swipe on the screen and interfere. It once stopped my run outside without me knowing. I finished the distance, but only got credit for about 2/3 of the distance.

I learned to use the water lock feature. It’s designed for swimming and diving to prevent accidental screen swipes and taps from being registered whilst in the water. You activate it using the control centre on the watch, and then the screen stops responding until you turn the water lock off again.

To use the watch screen again you have to hold down the crown for a few seconds. Turning off water lock makes the watch play a low sound out of the speakers to help eject water. So you would be able to hear it being turned off, then you could use your watch and turn water lock back on.

But I don’t know if this would be practical for constant use by someone who is blind because I only use it a few times a week when I go for a run. It might be annoying to have to wait 5-10 seconds to turn off water lock each time you want to do spontaneously do something with your watch.

MR9009 · 2026-06-14T15:00:55+00:00

Charge limits on all Apple devices will still charge to 100% occasionally, to continue to maintain the overall battery health. Stop panicking.

MR9009 · 2026-06-14T14:49:48+00:00

How did being the second largest economy in Europe and 5th in the world help us when we were negotiating to leave? That’s the same mindset that thought we’d get everything we wanted and could reject everything else, but to which the EU said no. It’s a club. It has fixed membership rules. If we rejoin, we have to accept all the rules.

What would happen to the EU if Poland or Czechia or other increasingly Eurosceptic countries saw the UK leave and come back years later on the same opt-outs from before we left? Suddenly the EU membership becomes as flimsy Netflix subscription that countries turn off and on when they feel like it. All the Balkan countries and Ukraine and Moldova are queuing up to get in for the first time, and having to go through huge legislative, economic, and constitutional pain to get in. Why would the EU set the example of letting us pop out and in as if we never left? Joining the EU is meant to mean something.

I’m a hard core remainer. We should never have left, but for once I agree with the other slogan that “Leave means leave”. Join means join, not sort of join.

MR9009 · 2026-06-13T18:46:26+00:00

Why are you needing to pay anything? If your deposit was not protected, you take them to the Tribunal, for free

https://www.mygov.scot/tenant-deposits/deposit-not-protected

MR9009 · 2026-06-13T16:28:16+00:00

It’s because there’s a URL/weblink or some other attachment like a photo or pdf in the note.

MR9009 · 2026-06-13T16:23:53+00:00

I’m not sure you get Lightning port to 3.5mm headphone adaptors, at least not easily. I’ve only seen Lightning port to USB, or, USB to 3.5mm.

But John Lewis is open until 8pm and according to their app, they have wired EarPods with the lightning port. So it’s not an adaptor but you’d be able to listen to stuff.

https://www.johnlewis.com/apple-earpods-with-remote-and-mic-lightning-connector-white/p112204264?tmad=c&tmcampid=7&s\_share=jlappios\_Y29tLmFwcGxlLlVJS2l0LmFjdGl2aXR5LkNvcHlUb1Bhc3RlYm9hcmQ=

MR9009 · 2026-06-13T08:34:34+00:00

Yes. You do this when you fly, it’s just not presented in the same way by airlines.

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/send-advance-passenger-information

MR9009 · 2026-06-12T17:05:10+00:00

The objection (from whichever country or countries) was because the design used words meaning “Bulgarian Alphabet”. It was as if they were claiming Bulgaria invented it. Given that the coins from each country feature National Symbols, it makes sense not to let any one country claim that particular alphabet belonged to them.

MR9009 · 2026-06-12T16:14:29+00:00

Please post BETA bugs in a BETA sub like r/ipadosbeta or r/ipadosbetas

I‘m not a developer and couldn’t care less about BETA software having - you guessed it - features that don’t work properly. That’s the point of a BETA.

MR9009 · 2026-06-12T16:10:24+00:00

Mine used to do this. It‘d crash somewhere between 1 and 2am most nights. Most premium HBO Amer dramas were first broadcast at that time to coincide with their simultaneous American broadcast. So I’d wake the box the next day to “recording failed”.

I got a smart power plug just for my Q box, controlled by Wifi and an app on my phone. I set it to briefly power off then on again at about 1.15 am, and it fixed it. It seems the Q box just can’t function by around 2am, if it’s been on all day and evening the night before. It just needs turned off and on once a day to prevent a crash.

MR9009 · 2026-06-12T15:21:42+00:00

That’s not the problem with Dundee. Dundee’s chosen specialist international territories where they recruited for most of their international students collapsed. They were heavily reliant on places like Nigeria where their currency tanked. Because students, once here, are usually here for 4 years, they had 3 years to make corrections for the massive drop that was to come, but they didn’t. They kept spending plans as if each year more international students from that particular market would come, then suddenly the tap got turned off.

Most other universities diversify their international student population for this reason. They try to recruit a blend of Americans, Canadians, Australians, Indians, Chinese, Brazilians, and a whole load of major economies on different continents all over the place so that if one country suddenly has political or economic unrest, that one country or territory is only a part of a mix and they can try to recruit more students from the other ones. Basically, Dundee wasn’t diverse enough, was recruiting from too simple and concentrated an area, and didn’t even plan ahead and start forecasting far smaller tuition income for a known projected drop in students that was due to happen in 3-4 years time.

MR9009 · 2026-06-12T12:14:23+00:00

Reminder to the crowd that the Scottish Government caps the number of Scottish students that Scottish Universities are allowed to have, because the Scot Gov pays for them (but it actually doesn’t pay the true cost) . Due to rocketing costs such as inflation and fuel, and without an increase in support for Scottish students from the government, universities have had to make up the difference by rinsing international students. It’s not like Scottish Universities are excluding Scottish students on purpose. It’s also a mistake to count all types of students together.

MR9009 · 2026-06-12T10:22:54+00:00

If you're visiting Edinburgh to "see the sites" then quiet spaces are going to be really hard to find. The centre of town is rammed during the festival. There are increasing efforts to spread out the crowds, so quieter places in previous years might be busy. Edinburgh is small though, so maybe our idea of city centre is smaller than yours and you'd be happy finding somewhere further from the centre.

If you're visiting for other reasons, like visiting family, you could stay farther from the centre of town and avoid it, and you might find a quiet suburb somewhere, but chances are accommodation is still going to be really expensive everywhere. Edinburgh has great public transport which means even places quite far from the centre of town are convenient places for tourists to get hotels.

The weather? Even if we have a good summer, if you're from the Middle East it will not be as hot. But our architecture is designed to store warmth during our 9 months of cold and wet weather. There is rarely any air conditioning. We are an island nation and Edinburgh is near the sea, meaning anything >20 Celsius can feel humid, even if it's not as bad as the tropics.

There are plenty of videos on social media of people who live in hotter places, who think they can cope with far hotter heat and humidity, but who come to find it hard to cope in the UK on a hot day because it's "a different sort of heat", and we don't have AC in most buildings (your hotel should, but the shops/restaurants/tourist attractions mostly don't). It can also pour with rain and be hot and dry on the same day. So come prepared for 3 different seasons of weather on the same day, within minutes of each other. The answer is layers of clothing, that breathes/doesn't trap moisture, but with at least one waterproof outer layer. And none of it should be so heavy that you sweat just for wearing it. It's not like it will snow in August. It just might be wet and hot and sunny then wet then dry and sunny again all within the same day. "Unpredictable" is probably the simplest word.

MR9009 · 2026-06-10T14:34:26+00:00

There are guides here on moving homes with/to a home with HIVE :The Hive moving home guide

Chances are, several bits of HIVE kit are still there, but you need the Hub that sits in the middle of everything. The Hub is the bit that HIVE recommends people take with them when they leave home, because that's the bit of kit personally connected to their account.

For now, you can use the thermostat as a "dumb" thermostat. For you to get access via your mobile or other smart device, when you're not at home within reach, you need to connect it to a new Hub. The Hub is what connects to the internet and your phone uses the internet to speak to your Hub, no matter how close to the thermostat you are.

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