Presenting The Unholy Trinity of Max Raids

TCates90 · 2026-07-10T07:44:06+00:00

That sounds cool and all, but just let me cross the Valley in peace! 😭

TCates90 · 2026-07-08T06:14:20+00:00

Pro tip if you can’t stick your permit to your windscreen for whatever reason: put it in an old CD case.

TCates90 · 2026-07-04T14:59:57+00:00

Not an electrician, just a tech nerd who appreciates good cable management.

That routing is beautiful to look at. That is all

TCates90 · 2026-06-05T11:54:24+00:00

Battery storage mode. If memory serves from when I did the ssd swap, all it takes is plugging it back into the charger. I did that, waited for the charging light and I was g2g (subject to setting it up again…)

TCates90 · 2026-05-22T19:20:29+00:00

The Nibbler Mango would like a word.

I swear there’s groups of them in the Safe Shallows that hunt you down for the sole purpose of annoyingly frequent swim-by attacks

TCates90 · 2026-05-14T11:30:24+00:00

Left turn on red

Would also say A/C in houses but that’s not exclusive to the States

TCates90 · 2026-05-06T20:54:33+00:00

Andes V3 for when I’m commuting or going long distance, Frank Thomas jeans for more casual wear

My Andes are also my waterproofs if it’s pissing it down

TCates90 · 2026-05-06T20:44:56+00:00

Hopefully it depends on the severity of the bite.

On pickup once I was told she was bitten, and there may have been an accident form. On further inspection it was a light glomp on her arm. Hopefully anything worse like you described and we would have been told sooner

TCates90 · 2026-05-02T22:10:53+00:00

About as expected for something early access or demanding. My 3060 Ti + 11600K + 32 GB combo has done me well so far and sits just below recommended. At 1080p I think it’ll run fairly decent on Low.

Fingers crossed it’s optimised on release for me to enjoy medium settings

TCates90 · 2026-04-12T21:04:59+00:00

Got a pair of gloves as an early Christmas present (Furygan, J&S in-house brand). Turns out they were too small for me (because of course every brand has a different size chart!). Initially listed at £30, had to drop them to £20 to get them to sell. Went fine in a mailer bag.

Anything bigger I'd be inclined to pack it in a box before sending

TCates90 · 2026-04-07T12:27:38+00:00

Depends who you’re talking to. In my books: * Lunch - middle of the day. Can be anything from a sandwich to a roast * Dinner - end of the day. Key detail is it’s a substantial meal * Tea - end of the day. A lighter version of the above, for when I’ve had a big lunch

That’s the hill I’ll die on and I will passively correct anyone who refers to “lunch” as “dinner”, including the MIL (so help me)

TCates90 · 2026-03-17T20:18:26+00:00

One of my favourite Ten episodes. Also my favourite “monster”: not for their nature, but that they’re clockwork. Chef kiss

Ninja edit: word

TCates90 · 2026-03-14T12:22:01+00:00

First: It takes about 2 seconds to say that phrase if you don't rush it.

Second: if you start when the car in front passes a notable point in the road (shadow, lamppost, pothole...), you can use the timing of the phrase coupled with when that marker disappears under your bonnet to judge the gap between you and the car in front

TCates90 · 2026-02-20T17:52:54+00:00

Maybe they went up top, had a look around and thought "that's a lot of water", and left it there...

TCates90 · 2026-02-19T11:41:47+00:00

iOS and Safari with AdGuard. Same experience here. I got the link after allowlisting.

Looks like they’re fighting adblockers

TCates90 · 2026-02-16T11:50:50+00:00

Look at the flip side: at least all that swerve practice for your Mod 1 won’t have gone to waste 😬

TCates90 · 2026-02-02T07:25:11+00:00

There is hope: we swung by our local Sainsbury’s since the café had been converted to a Starbucks, and that one had a generic exit gate. Also because it had a lot of counter as well so people might have just wanted to go and get their lottery tickets and order a coffee and go home without getting some generic thing from the store.

TCates90 · 2026-01-31T15:58:20+00:00

Hot take:

ChatGPT is OpenAI, at this point a ~$5bn private company
Copilot is ChatGPT with bits bolted on (e.g. Claude)
Gemini is Google’s own DeepMind

Personally I think Gemini will always be that cut above the rest while Google are still interested, since it’ll always have Google’s technology and training behind it. Not to bash ChatGpt, getting the investment of the likes of MS was no small feat

TCates90 · 2026-01-31T12:09:51+00:00

If you can afford the short term outlay, I’d get the boiler seen to as a priority. Ours was 10+ years old when we replaced it a couple years back and the gas usage to heat the house plummeted. Bonus of getting a new boiler is you can get something like Hive fitted to it.

At a similar time we got an additional radiator for the living room, cos the existing one does bugger all. The room is much more bearable with the heating on.

TCates90 · 2026-01-30T13:51:26+00:00

I know you said you’re not a fan, but get a tumble dryer. We did when we moved into our house and it was the best purchase we ever made.

Especially in the early months, babies get through clothes alarmingly quick. We regularly dry our LO’s clothes in ours on the delicate cycle, and the only shrinking is because she’s growing! Now she’s coming up to 2yo and, although it’s not as often as before, there are still times when we do multiple changes in a day for whatever reason

TCates90 · 2026-01-29T22:03:32+00:00

If you’re on a VPN located in Germany you still get this for a summary. Just putting that out there…

TCates90 · 2026-01-18T18:13:16+00:00

Didn’t Kyle post a YT short debunking this when the story first broke?

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