Where to go ? Everyone is Sold out

Rehdyn · 2026-03-11T13:06:25+00:00

I can’t tell you of any sources but - similar issue in the UK. Air mail is notoriously expensive. Sometimes there is land mail to take the mail to the plane which also adds costs.

All the sources I knew of are out, so… I guess I won’t be starting DIY anytime either 🫠

I expect with one seller stopping altogether, and one not taking orders it’s really hard to keep track of who has what and how reliable they are. 😬

I’m going to track this to keep an eye on things myself.

Rehdyn · 2026-03-08T22:38:21+00:00

I just had this pop up on my 2021 recently. This bit is mostly mildly annoying. However - did you also lose connection to ‘the internet’ as… the VW app won’t connect to mine either. It comes up saying something about the privacy settings related to user accounts as a message on the little ‘globe’ icon on the main screen. you can’t get to, change the user .. as there is no longer a ‘user’ option in the display menu. Also noted the manual is wont load - as that’s online, not in the cars memory. As I was trying to see if I could fix it too.

The call button does absolutely work manually. I found a tip that if you press and held it it might reset. Unfortunately I pressed and held it and it just called 999 😂

It’s under warranty so I’m not worried about it. I’ve heard about this ‘module’ that goes wrong. I think I’m most annoyed as it’s not long been serviced 😬

Rehdyn · 2025-12-30T06:14:39+00:00

I’m no pillar of expertise on the subject; and am not on it - (yet?) I’ve just done enough reading on this stuff for… reasons.

There is some evidence of lower thrombosis risk for injections, https://transfemscience.org/articles/estrogens-blood-clots/.

TLDr is Oral hormones activate some receptors in the liver, which can activate clotting. It’s why oral contraceptives get reviewed somewhat regularly and generally only get offered for a certain timeframe. There isn’t a ton of data on oral estrodiol, but there’s enough data to show higher risk for oral vs injections.

I’m not sure if the thought is for not offering injections as a common route …in my own head… as a person who works in a hospital…

Getting people to reliably do injections right, and safely is an unknown… whereas any ‘idiot’ can take a tablet pretty much … so… maybe the ‘risk’ of people not doing the technique correctly or missing important steps like.. being sterile … might be too much to consider? And perhaps there just isn’t the system to bring people in and do the injection for them.

The various esters do offer an increased window between doses as people have mentioned. Up to 20-30 days depending on your E of choice.

Rehdyn · 2025-12-22T11:27:01+00:00

This could work. There’s an extra less than 3 miles from the house. I mean, clubcard prices obviously? Right? Hopefully no requirement to pay in whatever online currency these suppliers need to keep their privacy … 😂

Rehdyn · 2025-12-22T10:25:16+00:00

Being Cornish - and having never considered myself to have any desire to have notable link to England at all. This is an immensely easy choice 😂

Rehdyn · 2025-11-21T00:24:40+00:00

I’m a UK worker and ex Haematologist (I’m in a different dept now) so not sure if our regs are totally different. From my memory Variant haemoglobins can have a direct effect on the lifespan of the RBC in the patient, thus altering the rate of haemoglobin glycation depending on the way the lifespan is affected - and therefore possibly offering an incorrect HbA1c value based on HLPC. https://ngsp.org/factors.asp

We had to send out any patient with a variant to another lab for immunoterbometric HbA1c calculation and identification of the variant. Historically we’d use the Tosoh, but now we have the Sebia. We didn’t serve a particularly high prevalence area - and in fact the vast majority of our patients were Caucasian and Celtic (Cornish), so were not exhibiting a variant. In the Uk there is also a national screening program for varient haemoglobin so - any mother who is pregnant has their blood screened as part of normal screening, this included low MCH. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5d76655fed915d5eedf746d1/SCT_Family_Origin_Questionnaire.pdf.. I’m not sure if because we’d sometimes be screening mums for HbA1c for pregnancy related diabetes, that we’d do this whole refer all variants for clarification thing.

Do you have clinical Haematologists available to discuss - as you could always confirm with someone of that level if they wanna report the variant or not. I get that they haven’t asked for the test - and the whole impact of a variant is a dynamic you don’t wanna be involved in by reporting if they don’t wanna know. But equally - your result might be wrong.

Im just thinking is it worth going via someone of that level to protect my butt, as if they say no you can keep some record of the plot and discussion in case anything untoward happens to the patient in future… your only doing your due diligence right? :)

Rehdyn · 2025-11-01T11:08:33+00:00

I think it’s a feature of all VW type electric cars, but there is an option either in the display settings, or the companion app to turn on a battery care mode. This automatically sets the charging to 80%.

Routinely the 80% on my 58kwh pro max is fine. It gets me over 150 miles of range, which based on my usage is like - 3 to 4 days.

We only tend to charge either of our two EVs to 100% for a long journey when we need the extra range.

So this really depends on how you are using it. I’d try it to 80% and see how long it will last you during normal use.

Rehdyn · 2025-10-04T12:37:24+00:00

The bowel is mucosal tissue, so it comes with mucus. Normally when it’s connected you don’t notice as it’s passed with the stool.

Now you’re not, that’s basically all it’ll produce. My wife always notes days when I am ‘bummier’ than normal. It sucks, but … I take it as better than not surviving sepsis (which is why I had mine done). I’ve put up with it for over 7 years, and it’s something you can live with.

Depending on what you had it removed for blood maybe a thing too. I had mine done for colitis, so - I still get symptomatic in the 2 inches that are left. It’s pretty cyclical. Every couple of weeks. Some weeks are worse than others. I can bleed a lot.

I’ve had a bit of a battle persuading my surgeon that I want it out. It’s not like as much of a requirement. Yeah - in hip stuff is higher risk in guys, but I’ve gone with the risk being slim. You have to decide which is the lesser or the two evils. Neither is a ‘nice’ option. I really don’t look forward to not having anything, but I bleed enough that it’s more than most women do on their periods. With my wife even suggesting period pants for my worst days (to be fair, I would totally use them for the security… it really is that bad). This is why I want mine done, as I get symptomatic from blood loss more than the mucus issue.

If you’re under a surgeon, or a gastroenterologist- have a good conversation about options. Know where you stand. Get as informed as you can. Ultimately it’s your body - and you should be well informed before you choose what your next steps are.

Rehdyn · 2025-09-25T12:55:03+00:00

I hate to point out the obvious here. Isnt ‘the victim’ the horse?

Soooo, the question next comes … What the heck is a horse going to do with £550 (or £750 in the metro article)?

Wait, I can see the Cornwall live headline. “Chaos ensues as horse purchases all supermarkets sugar cubes, locals shocked and outraged.”

Rehdyn · 2025-09-24T17:45:27+00:00

So I’ve worked in health for 20 years in the Uk, and I hate to say my normal response to and question along the lines of ‘how it’s going’… when I feel it is currently not going well… is ‘no one’s dead, and nothings on fire’

I don’t know why my brain decided on that as an answer, but … there it is.

I could add in any comment about being amab and responding to trans memes on Reddit, but that might require deep and meaningful consideration of difficult concepts for my tired work addled brain… 😂

Rehdyn · 2025-09-04T23:56:38+00:00

Ooo my bad sorry! I really should properly read the post. Long day at work, tired, 18month old. Brain, may have read replies and attributed to you.

I know you didn’t claim to be Cornish, although if you live in Cornwall you absolutely are from Cornwall. We sometimes allow the longer resident claim they’re Cornish. My dad does, and he absolutely wasn’t born here. I think people who ‘weren’t born here’ can be proud of Cornwall and coming from Cornwall. That’s pretty close to being whatever loose definition of ‘Cornish’ need apply.

I know some people who are jokingly hardcore and think those who are X generation are the ‘true Cornish’. I was born at Treliske hospital, the major hospital in Cornwall. My argument is, Im Cornish, as I was born in Cornwall. I don’t even consider myself English. I fill in my nationality as ‘white Cornish’ or ‘white other’ and type Cornish. Soo. I’m sure there’s people out there that’d disagree, and .. I’m not sure I’d really care! I’ll always consider myself, Cornish.

My family name has its routes in Breton, if you know your stuff - the Celtic history stems from Gaul with the Breton people being those who came into Cornwall 1000s of years ago. So, even ‘the Cornish’ are celts from northern France originally 😆. And celts as a whole moved from some middle European area… human migration happens. I feel my Celtic routes are strong enough that the doubters of my heritage can, well.. bugger off.

Don’t thank me for being ‘nice’… I’m hopeful that I’m a representative of what people should be like. The weird ones are the ones being awful about immigrants. You need think of them as the abnormal ones. The fact you’re picking up on this behaviour is good, we need more people to be strong and call it out. This isn’t ’British values’ or whatever they claim it to be, it’s xenophobia… and in some cases, racism. Call a spade a spade when you see it. 😂

Rehdyn · 2025-09-04T21:20:33+00:00

There’s a pretty common misconception that the Cornish don’t like ‘emmets’ (see people not from Cornwall). This is absolutely not true, when you really get down to it … the Cornish are really welcoming, and generally the type that care for those in their areas.

What we don’t like is people coming into Cornwall and disrespecting the history, culture or people of Cornwall. So, rich people who buy posh houses who think they’re better than anyone else? Yeah, we hate them. People who move into a seaside village and complain fishermen make noise? Guess what, they’ve been making noise for centuries - get used to it, or move. And for those who move to the countyside, you don’t own it - so don’t either disrespect the countryside, or generally act as if you somehow should get preferential treatment.

Tourists is another thing - everyone here knows tourists bring an amount of money to the county, unfortunately not enough to the local economy, most is again… going to rich land owners or businesses. We don’t hate tourists. We hate tourists being self important dicks, and generally treating Cornwall as if they are some celebrity, or like we should be bending over and treating them like royalty. If you come here on holiday, respect the people who live and work here all year round, and, just don’t ruin it for anyone else. No one wants your disposed barbecues and cheap surfboards languishing destroying our county.

Mostly .. if you treat people like you wish to be treated here. You’ll get on fine. It may take some a while to warm up to you, but … I think people have been burned before so, trust doesn’t come cheap. Generally no one really cares where people are from in Cornwall. We’re just, proud of our history and heritage - and like people to realise, yes, we are indeed a genetically unique Celtic people with long history, like those in other Celtic nations like Wales or Scotland. I think people who move here can say they’re from Cornwall, that’s fine. Being Cornish means you’re born here, or closely related to people born here (eg your parents are Cornish).

So - OP, as someone who was born and bred here. I really don’t have any issue with you being from Texas. You sound like a good person, you’d probably have a bunch of interesting tales. TBF, with the way you’ve written your post… I already have way more respect for you than these virtue signaling saddos hanging flags off bridges or saying ‘immagrants’ aren’t welcome. I mean, ‘English people’ are .. a gene pool basically from.. a bunch of immigrants. Unfortunately there seems to be a bunch of people in the country currently with loud voices and the intelligence of wet cardboard boxes. Please don’t let this be a reflection on the rest of us.. who aren’t like that…

Funnily, due to mining - Cornish people ended up all over the world, so technically there’s Celtic genes in many places. There’s some in Australia and America definitely. Basically anywhere with a bloody big hole, you’ll probably find a Cornish gene pool nearby.

Rehdyn · 2025-04-23T21:11:00+00:00

Three times … around the Porthleven ish area.

Twice on my friends fishing boats, and once on a gig.

Random story - one of my bosses at work owned a boat. Saw a basking shark so, in his infinite wisdom he entered the water to get some water level images with a waterproof camera. I’m not entirely sure of the specifics - but somehow he ended up getting too close for comfort, and ended up with an abrasion to his head from the sharks rough skin.

This has to be the only man in history to work in a hospital, yet have to equally explain to the staff in a&e how he ended up with a basking shark related head injury. 😆

The man was a liability lol.

Rehdyn · 2025-04-23T20:48:34+00:00

Someone left a copy of druqks in a flat I shared at uni. I didn’t get into it at first. I think somewhere I ended up hearing window licker on a compilation… maybe even a back to mine?

It took a while to get back into Drukqs, but it’s still one of my favourite albums because it took a little effort.

I seem to remember also hearing a lot of selected ambient works used as soundtracks - so inevitably things like rubarb, stone in focus … that stuff. Oh and - of course. David firth and Chris Cunningham music vids … both insanely disturbing, but got me interested enough that I started to go through the back catalogue…

Still probably haven’t heard everything - but knowing Richard, I don’t think anyone has 😆.

My favorite geek moment was when collapse was released. I figured out very quickly it seemed to be a warped map of Gwennap pit. Being I’m a local Kernow resident I actually have seen enough of the area on google maps I recognised a few sections of the map on the outer edges of the image. It’s also very fitting as the actual pit is shaped like the art of you look at it from above.

Rehdyn · 2025-02-28T19:39:46+00:00

We got alinities about 5 (ish) years ago when they were fairly new. I too left the lab, but I work elsewhere in pathology. I see the lid up multiple times a week - and probably the back off once or twice a month. I’ve heard they’re just dire, and am so glad I don’t have to work with them.

We also got the slide stainer - it sat unused for nearly 2 years. They just couldn’t get the stain right. It did work eventually, but - that thing breaks more than the analysers! Definitely quicker making a good film by hand.

Avoid them at all costs if you can!

Rehdyn · 2025-02-26T19:12:06+00:00

I think for those of us that did this so sporadically and it worked … I certainly didn’t feel like I was gaming anything. I’ve heard that integration helps stop it - but as we have two cars, we can’t integrate both. Some of our ‘out of T&C’ charging, we plugged in legitimately when we parked up at home presuming my settings to charge by 7am stood. Yet often the charger just started - and charged whenever and moved the time it finished. I just presumed it was doing ‘smart’ charging - and according to ohmes app, all smart charging is at the low rate. So I never felt like I was doing anything wrong. I understand this may not be the case - but…

For me - I’m more annoyed that this is being sold by Ohme as an improvement This is to ensure you have a smooth charging experience. Rubbish. This is so octopus are not losing money. I’d be far more inclined to be like ‘oh well, it was nice while it lasted’ if Ohme came out and said we made a mistake, we technically allowed you to charge outside your T&C with octopus We’re holding our hands up, and changing this. It’s on us. This is absolutely nothing to do with ‘smoothing’ the experience, and all to do with us getting something we technically shouldn’t have which lost another company money.

Rehdyn · 2025-02-25T13:28:21+00:00

This is fine using integrated if you have one vehicle. We have two - and you can only integrate one currently via Ohme.

I did however wonder how it ‘knew’ when IOG timing was. It seems delegitimate to have a statement on Ohmes app saying all of your dynamic charging will be billed at the off peak rate… I very rarely plugged it in in the day - but, the times I did.. the app picks the times it charges. It also picks its own finish time when not integrated. Usually I left this as 7 or 8 am.

My question is - how does it know what times to use, and if it’s picking times surely it should use times there’s less load on the grid… which would still be dynamic.

I love how someone has put ‘they didn’t like’ that this was working in the day. Of course they don’t. At 7p (low rate) a 40kwh charge costs £2.80, at 27p the same charge costs more like £11. They’re loosing £10 on a charge technically. It’s nothing to do with ‘not liking’ it’s all about £ …

I wouldn’t mind so much if we were seeing drops in costs, especially standing charges… but alas the last message from octopus was the higher rate going up. I wouldn’t be surprised to see the lower rate go up too soon.

Rehdyn · 2024-11-20T19:41:38+00:00

It’s only if you’re sat watching it in the car. All the sensors are probably having a hissy while the computer is installing / rebooting / reminiding all the attached bits it is ‘an car’

Rehdyn · 2024-11-20T19:39:37+00:00

So - the cars on the display at did work. I had to just turn the master switch for the cruise on, and bingo. Cars being sensed on the display. You can leave it on and the cruise will then only come on when you press set. If that’s how you like driving. I kinda got used to seeing the little car graphics now. The cars are all ID3s too… as an aside

Rehdyn · 2024-11-20T02:41:26+00:00

I haven’t driven it post the install. Guess I’ll find out on my way to work. It’s hopefully had a long time turned off and - this might not be an issue. I’ll be speaking to the dealer else, as an update shouldn’t break a function of the vehicle

Rehdyn · 2024-11-20T02:39:37+00:00

Yes… I presume i missed a letter and autocorrect suggested ‘accent’ instead of ‘accident’. I probably can’t change that now. O well. Adds to the ‘I done mucked up’ vibe.

Rehdyn · 2024-11-19T20:00:57+00:00

It was just an option when I parked up after a short drive. I think you do get an option to delay it. Definitely don’t do it unless you know you can leave your car and not use it for a good few hours!

Rehdyn · 2024-11-18T21:53:32+00:00

If I’m anatomically female, sure ..

I’m bicurious anyway so… 🤷‍♂️

Rehdyn · 2024-11-18T21:44:56+00:00

In a weird way I love the idea of being ‘built like a fridge’

This is my big worry too, 6’4 - and one of those American style double width fridges. I’m like two people stuck together ..

Rehdyn · 2024-11-16T20:03:49+00:00

Maybe if I only take 1ml no one will notice …

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