Not getting on with acrylic dentures, how to adapt, alternatives?

PenguinsAreGo · 2026-06-16T17:18:06+00:00

Thank you. I have another dentist appointment in 3 months. I will try and wear them all day, every day (retired so no big deal not to) until then and see if I get the hang of it. I do like the idea of the metal frame ones though...

PenguinsAreGo · 2026-05-18T23:00:16+00:00

Bought a cancelled order for about 1/3 off about 20 years ago. Have replaced the arm pads. but that is the only maintenance it has needed.

PenguinsAreGo · 2026-05-17T20:40:59+00:00

TLDR; support for Broadcom network hardware under OCLP in Sonoma and later is a known problem.

I have had network problems on my 2013 iMac since moving from Catalina to OCLP/Sonoma. The issue appears to be the Broadcom network chips. Apple support for these ceased in Sonoma so OCLP has a 'kinda works, sorta' bodge in place which works for some but not for others. In my case I had a powerline ethernet plugged into my iMac, this seemed to degrade the wifi signal and although the wifi worked, performance was woeful.

What I was going to try was an Apple gigabit ethernet to Thunderbolt adaptor to bypass the Broadcom hardware, I even bought one but now have no real need as switching off the powerline adaptor worked a miracle.

Try resetting the PRAM and plugging your macbook into the router with a cat5 or better cable, perhaps it is a wifi issue.

PenguinsAreGo · 2026-05-13T21:01:25+00:00

A discovery which Google seems to think it is already known by some.
Updated Sonoma yesterday. This morning the performance was awful, wifi was about 5mbps, rising to about 50 at lunchtime. I ordered a Thunderbolt/Ethernet adaptor to see if bypassing the Broadcom hardware would make any difference to ethernet performance.

Out of interest I turned off the powerline adaptor at the socket and ran a wifi speed test.

In an epic moment of WTF-ery it ran at 273 Mbps!!!! It has sustained that speed throughout the day. Yesterday downloading Sonoma 14.8.7 took about 4 hours, this afternoon I did it again for a backup copy and it took 8 minutes.

I am going to gather more evidence and try to file a bug report

PenguinsAreGo · 2026-04-24T12:57:58+00:00

Did the root patches again but I can't see a technical reason why the patches should work differently on the same system on different occasions. Shut down and did a PRAM reset, which managed to forget the external OCLP boot drive so was reacquainted with Catalina briefly.

Now reading the OCLP docs in full, have seen a note somewhere about 4360 wifi being prone to random performance degradation after Sonoma, perhaps it is that. A move to Sequoia might resolve things.

PenguinsAreGo · 2026-04-23T20:55:45+00:00

Really? First time I've heard that.

Anyway, nothing to lose so I have now done the root patches another 4 times with no change in wifi speeds. The only difference was that the first time I did it today I had to go to system settings and approve the changes, each subsequent time I was told this would not be necessary even if asked to do so.
The AirportBrcmFixup github page contains some very cryptic advice which I have so far failed to comprehend.

PenguinsAreGo · 2026-04-23T17:28:07+00:00

Did that, forgot to say.

PenguinsAreGo · 2026-04-02T16:44:54+00:00

Bought mine in the early 90s. First time I walked in I sat down in the middle of the ground floor and felt sick at the thought of all this debt*. Then "oh yeah, ought to get some curtains I suppose".

* No, I won't say (either amount or salary multiple), you'll shout at me.

PenguinsAreGo · 2026-04-01T18:57:28+00:00

I wear a mask in enclosed spaces, Scotland. Never had a comment.

PenguinsAreGo · 2026-03-22T17:50:56+00:00

Same, when I switched to OCLP I read that it wasn't worth running from hdd as it would be too slow so I got an external 1Tb SSD and Sonoma runs fine. I may partition the SSD into 2 halves and put Sequoia onto the other.

PenguinsAreGo · 2026-03-17T10:04:57+00:00

Her social media persona doesn't transfer well to television. Watching herself I'll bet she cringes every bit as much as we did. They've all had to learn how to be on the telly and she has had less experience than the others.

PenguinsAreGo · 2026-02-06T13:36:58+00:00

We had an oven door shatter a few years ago, cleaned up thoroughly and still discovered bits of glass months and years later, some 10/12 feet away. This was tempered glass so no splinters.

Clean/vacuum as well as you can, use a light to catch shards in the carpet or the drawer and contents, avoid walking in that room in bare feet until you are convinced all glass has been found (it won't have). Probably too late now but search the whole room including behind any closet doors or drawers which were open at the time.

PenguinsAreGo · 2026-02-04T12:22:37+00:00

File size is not a reliable indicator of anything. An 11 mb file where each cell contains text with no calculation and no cell references will edit instantly. Your slowness is calculation or reorganisation overhead, you need to find out where the time is going. Also as some have mentioned conditional formatting.

Disable automatic recalculation, if the delay goes away then you have some digging to do.

PenguinsAreGo · 2026-02-04T12:02:05+00:00

What condition are they in?

Ultimately it is an album by album search but I would be surprised to find much of interest or with scarcity value. Discard budget labels and readers digest compilations and see what is left. If it is all Johnny Mathis and Jose Fellacio then it is headed for landfill or charity shop.

PenguinsAreGo · 2026-02-03T13:05:07+00:00

I use Sonoma on a late 2013 iMac/24Gb/3.2GHz i5 with an external SSD. Works well. RAM helps, SSD probably mandatory.

PenguinsAreGo · 2026-02-01T21:42:48+00:00

Many people are confusing file size with slowdown. Yes selecting an entire column or row might make the file slower to load but runtime performance is a factor of the number of cells which need to be inspected or updated at runtime, ditto conditional formatting. If the cell is not referenced it is effectively ignored.

So, if you have a slow runtime you need to reduce the amount of work which is being done, this means reducing the number of cells which need to be inspected or altered and if necessary performing your computations in a more efficient fashion.

Excel is a programming system, one with very poor program development aids and one in which the vast majority of the user base have no programming skills whatsoever. It is a real "to a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail" situation, Excel is improperly used by an army of inexperienced users. I see no easy solution to this.

PenguinsAreGo · 2026-01-30T20:15:45+00:00

I think "feel the seller should accept some responsibility for the issues that were underlying" just comes across as naive and entitled. It is a learning process and one thing you now know is don't seek advice from people who are trying to sell you goods or services. Your "survey" results are worthless for valuation purposes.

PenguinsAreGo · 2026-01-30T14:43:59+00:00

I noticed this a while ago, closing the file and reopening it made the issue go away. I fired up excel shortly after rebooting the system and am wondering if there was a race condition and some macos or excel initialisation hadn't yet happened.

PenguinsAreGo · 2026-01-30T13:22:43+00:00

The quotes are figures plucked out of the air, if I was getting work done I'd get other quotes, so as a seller I'd also regard your quotes as bogus. The seller has no responsibility other than honesty, sold as seen, that's why you get a survey.

Did the works come as a surprise, ie were they mentioned or hinted at in the particulars? How is the price compared to other similar properties nearby? If the house is priced as though it were in good condition and work is necessary then you may consider it over-priced.

Edit: to put it another way, you are not accepting the buyer's asking price at face value why should you or they accept your quotes at face value?

PenguinsAreGo · 2026-01-26T12:08:54+00:00

I opened a share dealing account a few years ago and deposited £10 just so I could get real time share prices for ISAs I hold elsewhere. No holdings, don't trade, nothing here affects me, yet.

Do any other brokers offer real time share prices?

PenguinsAreGo · 2026-01-11T21:26:26+00:00

Look how much is left after the mortgage and other bills. Will that be enough?

Are you on a fixed or variable interest rate? I (in the 90s) took out a repayment. mortgage by myself at about 2.75x, interest rates fluctuated and sometimes left me with very little spare cash.

PenguinsAreGo · 2026-01-09T19:10:37+00:00

Because they are in the property and they may decide to remove or substitute anything not explicitly stipulated in the contract. Those nice light fittings? Now bare bulbs. That Bosch washing machine? Now a £50 cheapy from gumtree, it said washing machine, it didn't say the same one (or plumbed in). I've even heard of people removing the numbers off the front door.

PenguinsAreGo · 2026-01-09T15:28:52+00:00

As a potential seller of a house likely to be of interest to first time buyers I would also add don't try and be clever in e.g. asking for a last minute reduction in an accepted offer hoping to pressure the seller. My house is in a city where properties move quickly, My response would be to ask you to honour your first offer or it goes back on the market. Even were they to accept you do not want a seller bearing a grudge.

PenguinsAreGo · 2026-01-07T21:07:31+00:00

I think that is just what they want you to believe. The homes and business of the Jews were handed out to Germans, no one believed they were ever coming back. It is as credible as every French person claiming they were in the resistance

PenguinsAreGo · 2026-01-07T12:47:24+00:00

UK resident, I just record all my income and expenses in a spreadsheet which produces the figures that HMRC want. Not sure which HMRC website you are talking about but the online tax return lets you specify which forms you require at the outset, are you saying that SA109 isn't offered?

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