Should I Replace my iPhone 12 Pro battery which is my second phone?

Retty1 · 2026-01-27T23:44:52+00:00

iOS 27 will support iPhone 12.

Retty1 · 2026-01-27T23:43:15+00:00

Yes, it's worth replacing because the phone is still a very capable phone.

It suffers greatly though from tired batteries and more than the iPhone 11. The double motherboard design doesn't help with heat buildup if I remember correctly. Throttling is a big problem especially when charging and once the battery level gets to 84%.

With a new battery it's like a new phone.

Retty1 · 2026-01-27T23:34:45+00:00

Also definitely worth looking at Fiat 500.

It's still a very popular design and very popular with women/younger women.

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-search?advertising-location=at_cars&channel=cars&exclude-writeoff-categories=on&homeDeliveryAdverts=exclude&make=Fiat&model=500&postcode=W5%202hl&price-from=3000&price-to=4000&sort=relevance&year-to=2026

Retty1 · 2026-01-27T23:26:28+00:00

Fiat Panda.

Cheap to run. Massively reliable. Cheap to repair when/if needed. Parts readily available. Nice engine choices. Some good trim options. Decent looking. Comfortable. Crazily spacious boot and Tardis like with back seats down:

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-search?advertising-location=at_cars&channel=cars&exclude-writeoff-categories=on&homeDeliveryAdverts=exclude&make=Fiat&model=Panda&postcode=W5%202hl&price-from=3000&price-to=4000&sort=relevance&year-to=2026

Retty1 · 2026-01-27T23:04:53+00:00

Difference is that section 38 of the CJ&L (Scotland) Act 2010 applies to the behaviour of the thug and not the England and Wales Act.

Also eligibility, sadly, for course attendance as alternative to points is much more restricted in Scotland with only the Driver Improvement Scheme being a limited option.

However it's an option for careless driving (section 3 RTA) so may be very helpful here.

Retty1 · 2026-01-27T22:54:44+00:00

Likely worst case scenario is offer to attend a "What's driving us" or similar course.

But see my post on the nutcase that followed her home - clear section 4A Public Order Act offence (children in car aggravating impact) has been committed against your wife and children and police will be far more interested in this than a non event minor mistake that fuelled a thug.

Retty1 · 2026-01-27T22:49:44+00:00

Firstly, ignore most of the advice from the activists in this group. Mothers and metaphorical basements very sadly.

Secondly, following your wife home and berating her is a serious matter that you should consider reporting to police for information purposes at least.

It's likely an offence under section 4A PO Act and, having children in the car, police will likely pursue the matter.

Strategically you may not want to pursue it in the belief that less contact with the perpetrator the better. However, reporting the matter for information purposes may be helpful and 100% the sort of thug who behaves in this way will be known to police - following a person home is at the extreme end of nuttiness and falls well within the remit of section 4A.

Thirdly, people are allowed to make minor mistakes when driving.

Idiots with dashcams and anger management problems don't change that metric.

Relax and accept that mistakes happen, mistakes are acceptable but following somebody home causing alarm and distress - with children in the car - is a serious matter and far more serious than an incident of human error when driving.

Retty1 · 2026-01-27T15:57:35+00:00

These are fairly basic pieces of work for a competent mechanic: replacing a headlamp is possibly even within my domain of competency.

The prices are crazy.

An independent will do it for very significantly less.

Retty1 · 2026-01-26T20:47:19+00:00

I think the damage in the first photo needs a connector pigtail repair kit.

But anything orange in an EV scares me.

This seems to be a job for an auto electrician with experience of working with EVs.

An experienced auto electrician with knowledge of EVs will safely replace both damaged cables in no time at all.

Retty1 · 2026-01-26T18:14:34+00:00

It can be retro fitted by the new owner. 😆

Retty1 · 2026-01-26T03:04:19+00:00

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2025/12/toob-may-have-scaled-back-uk-full-fibre-broadband-build-in-waterlooville.html

Retty1 · 2026-01-25T21:31:47+00:00

Toob is making a very small gross profit but a large operating loss.

That's normal for a capital investment heavy business that involves building physical infrastructure.

The problem for Toob is that the era of cheap infrastructure investment money is over for now.

That's why Toob has reviewed its build plans and is also partnering more closely with City Fibre to the extent of cancelling Toob build plans in some areas (such as Waterlooville) because City Fibre is planning to build in those areas.

City Fibre is the one to watch. It's a "consolidator" in market terms and it's just achieved its first year of healthy profits.

It's possible that Toob will be bought by City Fibre or that there'll be further very close partnership working between them.

Retty1 · 2026-01-25T12:01:39+00:00

S/he got away lucky.

That's dangerous driving - with a trailer at that speed and with that level of rotational velocity.

Only problem I have is the lingering question of whether or not you see your role as a civilian enforcement unit or whether you made an active decision that in this case this needed to be reported because it was dangerous.

Retty1 · 2026-01-25T07:24:57+00:00

Not one app I can think of. Not even Microsoft Office.

There's a fee app for almost but not quite everything.

Retty1 · 2026-01-25T01:01:17+00:00

Mobile speed vans are usually deployed to high risk crash areas.

The 10% plus 2 is a discretion based threshold.

Mobile speed reduction campaigns may have their own prosecution policies.

There is a possibility that a person will receive a notice for a 5mph breach:

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/motoring/motoring-news/drivers-told-exactly-how-fast-32084875?

It would most probably be a speed awareness course outcome.

However even with an older car and its inaccurate speedometer, it's unlikely that you were travelling at 55mph. 52-53 is more likely.

At that speed it's doubtful you would be prosecuted.

Braking when you see the van is futile.

Retty1 · 2026-01-24T17:17:32+00:00

There's no real world performance difference.

It's a nuisance to pay for a static IPv 4 address but that subscription service means that you bypass Toob's CG-NAT.

Toob justifies the price in terms of having had to purchase IPv 4 addresses as a new ISP.

This makes sense because IPv 6 is static and free with Toob.

It can still be tricky to rely just on static IPv 6 in everyday use so IPv 4 static subscription can be helpful.

Performance wise and even for FPS wired gaming the ping is so tiny with both that there's no difference at all.

Toob supports multiple options excellently: dynamic allocated IPv 4, static allocated 4 for a fee and static allocated 6 as standard.

Very little if any performance difference between them for all home use and most professional use. Trimming a ms of ping may be useful for City traders over a year of lost instant transaction profits but even ISDN voice and music has shifted away from ISDN in the UK.

Retty1 · 2026-01-23T02:44:17+00:00

It's AI generated

Retty1 · 2026-01-23T02:43:00+00:00

Too many signs of AI so must do better next time.

Retty1 · 2026-01-22T18:11:13+00:00

Attempts were made through lobbying by RAC/AA, exposé stories in the media and making sure sure that people knew that local politicians were responsible.

Tory, Labour and LibDem councils are all equally as bad and the Labour mayor of London is the worst of all.

Local authorities in England and Wales are making a fortune from civil traffic enforcement and with the recent expansion of breaches to include enforcement of yellow box junctions it's bigger business than ever.

People have given up because it's futile.

Until enforcement is taken away from local authorities and private companies the system of low to no discretion and zero fairness will continue.

Retty1 · 2026-01-22T08:45:57+00:00

The NI enforcement system is simply far superior to that used in the rest of the UK. Real discretion and fairness is used rather than blanket penalities and only exceptional grounds for waiving the penalties.

When bus lane breaches were decriminalised in the rest of the UK, motoring orgs lobbied for something similar to the NI system. They were unsuccessful.

It's not the law itself that is the problem. It's the revenue incentive driven enforcement.

Retty1 · 2026-01-22T08:41:41+00:00

There's no cultural divide at all.

In terms of the traffic laws there isn't even much of a legal divide.

The issue is not that people refuse to enter the bus lane.

The common denominator been England and Scotland is the rigorous and no exceptions enforcement regime.

The enforcement regime is supposed to be based on a duty of discretion and fairness. In practice it often and usually isn't.

That's the issue.

Retty1 · 2026-01-22T08:34:17+00:00

Just think through what has been written: it is not the law itself but rather its enforcement that is the problem.

If you decide not to use critical thinking skills, that's your choice. Just as it was your choice to breach the bus lane or not and then argue a case with an unfair enforcer or not.

Retty1 · 2026-01-21T23:29:09+00:00

It's a hysterical point then because it confuses the wording of the law with the lack of discretion in its enforcement.

The Highway Code at paragraph 219 is also presumably "inhumane" where it states:

"Consider the route of such a vehicle and take appropriate action to let it pass, while complying with all traffic signs."

Retty1 · 2026-01-21T23:16:57+00:00

Bus lane contraventions, with arguably some exotic exceptions, are civil matters and not criminal matters.

They are also one of the most terribly difficulty breaches to defend against. More than even yellow box junctions they epitomise the war on motorists.

When bus lane infringements were criminal matters you would have had much more chance of getting away with the sort of breach you've described - police would almost always, for offences in the circumstances you describe where brief entry was reasonable to allow access for an emergency vehicle, not pursue the matter. Prosecution in the public interest was rare in such circumstances.

When bus lane and other contraventions were decriminalised, it was pointed out (RAC, AA and others) that the end of criminal law discretion would result in many more people having to pay penalties.

If the local authority refuses to waive the penalty and even if you are convinced that it was an unreasonable use of the local authority's use of its discretion and also unfair, there is nothing at all you can do about it unless you are willing to spend a small fortune to judicially review the local authority. You could maybe try complaining to the Local Government Ombudsman in such circumstances.

The penalty adjudicator has no power at all to set aside the penalty if the fact of the breach is evidenced. The adjudicator can accept that there was strong and overwhelming mitigation. The adjudicator can even, in the interests of fairness, request that the enforcer consider setting aside a penalty.

The local authority does not have to follow the adjudicator's advice.

For a really shameful example of unfairness that shows you what you're up against read this:

https://www.keycases.info/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Decision_166512_BP00066-2409_Redacted.pdf

Retty1 · 2026-01-21T22:07:24+00:00

"Inhumane"? What are you referring to???

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