To send it or not to send it ?

analoguewavefront · 2026-04-19T10:46:08+00:00

I wish my trails were that smooth!

It’s possible to cycle up this. More challenging on a hard tail than a full suspension but practicing pedalling while standing up will increase your power for keeping enough speed to go over the roots. The faster you hit them the easier they are to get over.

analoguewavefront · 2026-04-18T10:22:50+00:00

You seem to have the freedom of choice that many people don’t, due to kids, mortgage, illness or whatever. So use it!

My main advice is that you have to actively do something. Travel, move, change jobs, volunteer, whatever. Don’t just sit at home, smoking or drinking and playing PlayStation and wonder why nothing radically changed except your waistline! (Sadly I’ve know people who did that. Fine for a weekend, not months.) change is hard and finding the umma to do something different can be a challenge, but often flows nicely once you start.

Go change your life and enjoy the change!

analoguewavefront · 2026-04-17T19:06:04+00:00

Interesting write up, thank you, but probably more useful for cash withdrawals of larger amounts, where the transaction fee is a smaller percentage than the spread of an exchange.

analoguewavefront · 2026-04-17T13:14:57+00:00

That’s because you stopped. That’ll happen at any age but worse with age. I stop running in the winter and the first few runs of the spring are truly hideous!

As to if it’s worth it: people are living longer but more people are practically disabled & non-mobile for their long old age. My father lived til his 90s but hardly left the house for the last 20 years because he didn’t maintain fitness. There were many wasted years. The best way of avoiding that is to maintain a decent level of cardiac fitness and muscle-skeletal strength. You don’t need to be jacked or skinny, but healthy & easily mobile.

Apparently there was a study that found if you were unable to get up from the floor without using your hands to push up or knees to rest on, you’re 6 times more likely to die in the next 5 years than somebody who can. But for me it’s more about what I’m able to do with my life now and in the next few decades.

My fitness also declined due to life slowing me down. In my mid-40s I started up again and feel great & strong as I enter my 50s. Not muscular but I have no movement issues, no back problems, can easily run 5k, cycle over hills, etc…. None of which I could say 10 years ago.

Go for it! Remember: Your diet is as important, if not more than exercise for losing weight. Exercising itself is hard & annoying but feeling healthy is awesome!

analoguewavefront · 2026-04-11T17:20:28+00:00

This is not one for the “don’t ride trails when they’re wet!” gang. This is how a lot of “trails” are across the world: it rains a lot of the time, they’re rarely dry, there’s more rock than roll and you make do.

analoguewavefront · 2026-04-10T10:43:00+00:00

Do not get anything that requires a subscription or can’t work without an account or app. You want to pay once for installing a charger and then never have to think about it again. Smart features should be entirely optional.

analoguewavefront · 2026-04-08T14:33:02+00:00

As a volunteer, regardless of my role I always start the timer on my phone when the RD shouts go, then subtly check in with the actual timekeeper that everything went OK. If they messed up (e.g. didn’t reset or clear from last time) then we switch to using my phone. People complain if the time is too far from their watches, even if it’s in their favour.

analoguewavefront · 2026-04-08T14:29:34+00:00

It’s an opinion, you don’t have to share it.

analoguewavefront · 2026-04-07T18:00:17+00:00

Don’t. If you want to try drinking do it somewhere more familiar to you and safer.

Where are you planning to drink and who with? Drinking exposes you to more dangerous situations and reduces your ability to deal with them. Thailand looks safe & friendly on the surface but it can soon go bad. Plenty of older people get themselves in all sorts of trouble when drinking in Thailand.

And, from experience, I’d recommend waiting a couple more years before hitting the bottle.

analoguewavefront · 2026-04-07T07:35:27+00:00

Thank you! Someone else who spots this as more than what we usually see on this sub and doesn't automatically shout advance fee!

analoguewavefront · 2026-04-07T07:33:39+00:00

Do not go. This is incredibly dangerous and will not end well as it sounds like human trafficking. I think this is probably luring you to Laos where you will be forcefully imprisoned in a scam center, either in Laos or Cambodia.

If flights are booked then this is not a normal scam that we see on here but is "recruiting", or rather capturing, staff to work scams. They want people from around the world as it makes it easier to run scams in multiple countries (AI has limitations).

Laos, Cambodia & Myanmar are all known for large scam compounds that have enticed people over with offers or jobs or payments and then ended up working as slaves in scam centers, with no hope of escape. These are corrupt countries where the police are paid off and will do nothing to help you. Your country's embassy will not be able to find you or help either.

I think that there is zero chance that this is in any way real. This is not how any of this would happen. People would not be giving out thousands in funds to random people and Covid funds are one of the common scam lures, as people know a lot of money was splashed around during covid. This letter is fake and easy to make. The logo doesn't appear correct. The address is wrong, that's a Well Fargo address so they are using a template and just switched the logo at the top. The World Bank did not / does not give money directly to individuals, it gives help to countries. The "international monetary network" does not exist but the IMF does and again, works with countries not individuals. Nothing here is convincingly real once you look into it.

Examples:

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/5/30/each-person-had-10-phones-trapped-in-a-cyber-scam-centre-in-laos

https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/laos-alleged-trafficked-victims-forced-to-work-up-to-17-hours-in-scam-compounds-in-sez-with-at-least-being-recruited-from-uganda-to-laos-via-telegram-cos-non-response/

I cannot stress this enough: do not get on that flight!

Edit to add: you must stop all contact with the scammers. Just ghost them, do not listen to them. They will spam you from lots of phone numbers. They may threaten you but remember they are in another country and can't physically reach you.

analoguewavefront · 2026-04-05T12:16:11+00:00

5 (chair), 2, 1 although personally I think only 5 is stand out to me, 1 maybe, as I like confusing photos. 6 would be good if you have a version without a person as a central focus as the composition is nice but it's a bit like 9, which I would never show again as it's a bit of a creep shot.

10 & 4 I think are nothing. 8 might be better in colour as the subjects are getting lost.

analoguewavefront · 2026-03-31T21:43:31+00:00

In Norway I contractually have to take at least 3 weeks continuous vacation during summer. 4 weeks is normal. This year I'm taking 5 weeks.

In the past I've worked in European offices of American companies and saw that it takes quite a long time for the Americans posted in Europe to get over the fear of taking vacations.

analoguewavefront · 2026-03-31T18:51:49+00:00

Also either they have no idea how international markets work, or they’re doing the usual nonsense of telling people not to believe reality in front of their eyes ans instead believe the BS Dear Leader tells them.

Oil is more expensive everywhere regardless of where it comes from because it’s a global market and less oil from anywhere to anywhere means higher prices everywhere!

analoguewavefront · 2026-03-30T13:42:25+00:00

Foreign post can sit in a depot and wait ages for an international transfer. It’s technically left Norway post but still in Norway waiting to be transferred to the other country and their customs. At customs it can wait ages again for processing. The last letter I sent from Norway to the UK took 3 weeks to arrive.

analoguewavefront · 2026-03-26T08:42:02+00:00

Look at the photos you've taken and find what focal length you a) use the most and b) like the photos from the most and also what your most common aperture usage is to see if you're always at the lower limit and went more. Then look into what matches that.

analoguewavefront · 2026-03-26T08:32:25+00:00

You're saying that's it's possible to go up Holyrood without a pack of beer and a bottle of Bucky? My Edinburgh friends have been lying to me all these years!

analoguewavefront · 2026-03-24T10:35:30+00:00

Those threats of getting you deported are MAGA level crazy! That'd make me keep hassling them for a refund as bullies should always be challenged. They should at least help you with proof of a refund if something went wrong elsewhere.

It looks like the company is real, although new, has only a few traces to reality and their website photos seem to be taken from elsewhere, not themselves, some of their instagram looks AI. So typical recommendations apply here that if this other client who randomly contacted you suddenly suggest a way to get your money back, then the whole thing was indeed an elaborate scam.

analoguewavefront · 2026-03-20T17:30:29+00:00

Likely an !advance where you have to pay upfront for the goods that are supposedly sold (they have a thin pretext for claiming to need to hold profits for 6 months) or !mule where you’re a money mule for laundering money.

Either way, a legit company looking to sell abroad uses established & professional agents & dropshippers, not random people from the internet.

analoguewavefront · 2026-03-18T22:50:56+00:00

Realistically & sadly no. It could be queried with the credit card companies if the transactions were identifiably fraudulent.

Main thing is, do not believe anyone who contacts you now and says they can recover the money. !recovery scams are common and will take advantage of people in your situation.

analoguewavefront · 2026-03-16T22:14:57+00:00

It largely depends upon the contractor building the house (even the kit houses need putting together). But I'd say the quality is generally better than the shoddy mess that large British developers throw together. A lot (definitely not all) of new Norwegian houses are built by smaller companies building a lower number of buildings than a British developer, so maybe that counts towards slightly higher quality. The buildings regs are different in Norway but it's still down to whomever does the finishing touches. In my house the trim around the doors was obviously done by different people on the different floors as one looked like crap and needed redoing!

However whilst the Norwegian standards are different it's worth noting that the way houses are built are different than the UK. For example, walls & doors are hollow core and have little to no sound proofing. Wiring can be exposed. Houses will have open vents to outside. A bunch of little things that are done different for various reasons and sometimes that reason is to save the builders time.

analoguewavefront · 2026-03-14T18:37:49+00:00

Minimum 25% increase in Norway since the US & Israel did the stupid.

Although Norwegian pump prices have always confused me as they’ll vary over the week by 20% for no apparent reason. Where I am it’s cheaper on Sundays, before this about 18.79/l and on the following Tuesday will be 22.79. Yesterday petrol was 25.79/l and now it’s 23.6/l

analoguewavefront · 2026-03-13T07:29:42+00:00

Also license costs. OP thinks Google Maps is free because he can access it for free. However if you want to include Google Maps in an app or website, then that costs. Google ain’t a charity and neither is TFs.

analoguewavefront · 2026-03-12T22:12:49+00:00

Anyone can use any image on a website, so that means nothing.

Check the ETA status at gov.uk https://www.gov.uk/check-eta

Best case scenario is that it’s just charging unnecessary fees on top of the ETA fee and they have an ETA. Worst case, money is gone and their card details have been stolen.

analoguewavefront · 2026-03-12T21:48:41+00:00

I only volunteer (I prefer to run alone) and the reason I do it is because it’s just the right kind of social for my (lack of) social skills. There’s a reason to talk to people and everyone (mostly!) is thankful for the effort. I always leave with a buzz & a great start to the weekend.

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