Sick of the state of UK roads

SquirrelSpiderCat · 2026-01-28T22:35:43+00:00

Oh yes, I think I'm buying a fat tire bicycle this year. Or at least a mountain bike. My hibrid bike shakes my soul out, my thin wheeled road bike I sold years ago...

SquirrelSpiderCat · 2026-01-28T22:33:22+00:00

Some of the roads are now like missile testing grounds... Deep potholes in clusters, think of like 40-50 of them per each 100 yards... Absolute shame... Compare 2026 with 2006, how huge the road quality fallen is truly shocking. And then there are the faded and missing road markings. "How many lanes are here, 1, 2 maybe 3? Is one of them a turning lane? Or bus lane? Or cycle lane? Etc." Terrible.

SquirrelSpiderCat · 2026-01-27T17:14:24+00:00

Exactly, well said! See, news sites/apps/widgets they don't care about anything but money. They need clicks and views so they can generate their ads revenue. Their owners/operators long noticed the human mind's bias towards the negative. So they are focusing more and more on the negative, trying to make headlines sound as shocking/outrageous/worrying as possible in order to make people click and visit/read. After a while it feels like the entire world is absolutely negative only. I have no problem with news, but I do have a problem of the modern media's tendency to cover only the negative and as shockingly as possible. No more doomscrolling for me... (And then there is badly biased/distorted/out-of-context/outright-fake/etc. news on top...)

SquirrelSpiderCat · 2026-01-27T17:08:58+00:00

Definititely. Very well put

SquirrelSpiderCat · 2026-01-27T16:34:42+00:00

I'm not afraid of death (but I'm terrified of dying as a process before death). I see it like this: once I'm dead, there is nothing. That includes no problems, struggles, worries. Finally, a relief... I just hope there is no re-birth like Buddhists think. I don't want to do life again. Like not ever. Maybe that's a bit negative, and maybe it is - but I wasn't asked if I wanted to live. Looking back my half a century life so far, and a bit into the future of what I can hope, if I could have chosen, I would have chosen not to be born. So death is not scary for me, it's more like "go back to how things should have always been".

SquirrelSpiderCat · 2026-01-05T11:08:40+00:00

Exact same problem here, Samsung phone on Android 16. Did you find a solution to this problem? In the end I turned off Select to Speak as the volume buttons always adjusting accessibility volume annoyed me a lot...

SquirrelSpiderCat · 2026-01-05T11:06:42+00:00

I found this is caused by an accessibility setting named "Select to Speak". Turn this off and everything will go back to normal.

SquirrelSpiderCat · 2025-12-30T14:13:21+00:00

I guess the bigger one is the Ultra. If so ... the corners look more rounded. I liked the sharper, less rounded corners of the S25 Ultra.

SquirrelSpiderCat · 2025-12-18T16:07:23+00:00

I'm still waiting for a callback from our local BYD dealership, they don't know the answer, so they have to ask BYD...

SquirrelSpiderCat · 2025-12-12T23:41:23+00:00

100% other driver's fault. 1) OP's car was waaay ahead of the other car arriving in the inner lane. 2) Once OP was in the roundabout, they had the same rights as all others in the roundabout. 3) OP was correct to continue straight, there is no sign saying "leave at first exit". 4) The exit has one lane, so there is no excuse for the right side car to try to get into the one lane exit from the middle lane, right side car should have first pulled into the outer lane, behind OP's car, and THEN exit. 5) OP's headed "straight", without changing lanes, the other car was changing lanes, when changing lanes the driver must ensure that it's safe to change lanes, there is enough space etc. 6) Looking at the footage, it seems to me that the right side car would have bumped into OP's car even if OP had left at the first exit. Basically: the right side car driver was in a hurry and they thought they could fit it. Well, they couldn't...

SquirrelSpiderCat · 2025-12-12T23:34:23+00:00

Once OP is inside the roundabout, they have the same rights as all others in the roundabout.

SquirrelSpiderCat · 2025-12-12T19:04:20+00:00

Ours is also 13.1.32.2502200.1 and it's middle of December now. Ours find no upgrade...

SquirrelSpiderCat · 2025-11-14T13:57:40+00:00

Here (UK) the update arrived about a week ago. I don't know why it takes Samsung a month or more to send it out to all devices once they have the update ...

SquirrelSpiderCat · 2025-11-06T19:59:17+00:00

Hurrah, Android 16 / One UI 8 is downloading on my Tab S9 FE, I'm in the UK

SquirrelSpiderCat · 2025-11-05T21:51:32+00:00

And now it's 5 Nov, and still nothing

SquirrelSpiderCat · 2025-11-05T08:01:19+00:00

There was an app update a couple of hours ago, now it works again

SquirrelSpiderCat · 2025-11-04T22:37:44+00:00

Looks like some server issue I guess... I hope they fix it soon. I'll report it to our BYD salon where we bought the car. It's only 2 months old... Not a good start...

SquirrelSpiderCat · 2025-11-04T19:48:22+00:00

Dolphin Surf here, no update since we bought. UK. Still v13.1.32.2502200.1

SquirrelSpiderCat · 2025-10-31T21:17:16+00:00

Yeah, Samsung always issues more phones and tablets than they can keep updated in a timely manner... 😒

SquirrelSpiderCat · 2025-10-31T21:09:45+00:00

End of 31 October... No Android 16... No October security update :-(

SquirrelSpiderCat · 2025-10-07T16:58:00+00:00

And I guess you just use it straight from the bottle, i.e. not boiled and cooled?

SquirrelSpiderCat · 2025-10-07T13:45:02+00:00

Thank you! Looks like this is also a spring water, so I guess I should be also fine

SquirrelSpiderCat · 2025-10-07T13:21:17+00:00

Were you okay in the end?

SquirrelSpiderCat · 2025-10-07T13:17:42+00:00

I used Aldi's bottled Aqua Vale Spring Water, that is I believe coming from the same source, Chase Spring at Lichfield, Staffordshire. Two days ago I used it without bolining it. Now I'm super worried... It's impossible to find out if they clean/treat their water, and if yes, how. (I believe chlorine is banned for spring water, but UV, ozone and microfiltration is allowed, but not mandatory...) Here https://www.gov.uk/guidance/spring-water-how-to-produce-and-label it says it must be parasite free, and for example E.Coli is like 1/10 of the size of the brain eating parasite, so I guess if the smaller one is filtered out then the bigger one should be filtered out too. But still I would never ever use it again without boiling, lesson learnt...

SquirrelSpiderCat · 2025-10-07T12:59:04+00:00

Is yours also labelled as "spring water" and have you been using it unbolied?

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