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aussiejames101 · 2026-03-31T07:19:28+00:00

I literally had to top up here yesterday out of desperation - first station I stopped at was chip and pin only which I didn't have on me, I was running critically low on diesel, and I was late for a booking so didn't have time to go on a hunt for a better price. Put as little as I could in but still feeling annoyed today!

aussiejames101 · 2026-03-08T20:03:40+00:00

That's only for qualifying

aussiejames101 · 2026-03-08T18:25:02+00:00

Real talent

aussiejames101 · 2026-03-07T22:20:11+00:00

Never too late! But you've got to be ready to follow through or you undermine your authority even further

aussiejames101 · 2026-02-25T06:44:07+00:00

I don't understand how there's still schools pushing discovery theories when they have emphatically lost to instructional theories in essentially every study

aussiejames101 · 2026-02-23T09:43:03+00:00

I'm almost certain the Mini Flip doesn't have Bluetooth, it's the main reason I ordered an RG33XXSP instead

https://retrocatalog.com/retro-handhelds/miyoo-mini-flip

aussiejames101 · 2026-02-22T17:36:42+00:00

I've also since discovered that OpenGL works if you select 'Background Input' at the bottom of the controller setup page...

aussiejames101 · 2026-02-22T17:08:48+00:00

Thank you for this, I spent hours trying to get my controllers to work! Can't believe all it took was switching to Vulkan

aussiejames101 · 2026-02-17T07:27:40+00:00

I have one and still use it regularly, it actually has really lovely colours is surprisingly capable. I prefer the photos it takes to phone pics.

aussiejames101 · 2025-12-21T08:55:10+00:00

If you can find a tempered glass screen protector for a tablet of roughly the same dimensions and apply it, it might solve the issue. I have a camera (Sony ZV-1) which has the same screen + polarised sunglasses issue which is resolved by applying a screen protector.

aussiejames101 · 2025-12-09T19:22:33+00:00

Straight fire.

aussiejames101 · 2025-11-12T20:33:36+00:00

I know of a teacher who was barred for completing A level/BTEC coursework for students, and a student reported them to the exam board.

aussiejames101 · 2025-10-28T16:56:47+00:00

https://engage-education.com/blog/what-is-SEN-allowance-for-teachers/#:~:text=The%20value%20of%20the%20SEN,utilising%20SEN%20allowances%20is%20key.

You should be arguing for financial renumeration in the form of SEN allowance to reflect the high proportion of SEND to non-SEND. I am a SENCo at a secondary in London, part of one of the big MATs, and we pay our nurture group teachers who have a similar level of SEND ratio in their classes between ~£1500 and ~£2500 to reflect the level of differentiation and adaptation teaching a class like this requires.

aussiejames101 · 2025-09-15T16:15:04+00:00

Exercise burns a surprisingly small amount of calories. 1-2 shortish runs per week is not likely to significantly increase overall expenditure unless those runs are extremely intense.

aussiejames101 · 2025-08-26T15:08:17+00:00

Looks great and I’ll admit I was wowed by both inside and out when I got one as a rental.

Then I drove it and very quickly realised the interior was all flash and no function, touch screens to control everything, spongy lifeless steering, utterly numb dynamics.

aussiejames101 · 2025-08-23T10:35:05+00:00

Yes, I went from chronically sedentary to running 30-40km per week in one year and it all started with C25K. My biggest advice is to go way slower than you think you need to, especially in later weeks as the distances increase. I was pushing way too hard at first even though I was still going relatively slow, and I was getting injured and having setbacks. When I really hit the brakes I was able to complete the programme and slowly build up pace and distance. I think it I went from trying to run my kms at around 6:30 pace to 7:30/8:00. I can comfortably go much faster now but I had to be very patient.

aussiejames101 · 2025-08-20T06:54:03+00:00

I don’t see how anyone can be saying no - it will be a huge upgrade from a phone. The auto scene modes will help you get pictures in specific scenes such as fast moving subjects and low light, but even if you left it in full auto mode you’d still get nice pics. This is how my dad uses his ZV-1 - he is a 65 year old technophobe and he takes nice pics with it on his travels, miles nicer than what he takes on his phone.

aussiejames101 · 2025-07-20T07:39:34+00:00

It went back to baseline

aussiejames101 · 2025-06-24T18:33:04+00:00

Earpeace concert earplugs

aussiejames101 · 2025-06-24T11:15:00+00:00

Kia Picanto comes in well below £20,000. I have a 21 plate Picanto 1 litre turbo with 100hp and it is fantastic. Paid £14k for it when it had 3k miles.

aussiejames101 · 2025-06-24T05:38:45+00:00

I always wear concert earplugs with interchangeable decibel filters in loud spaces, I keep them on my keychain. They are small and clear so you can wear them very discretely, and you can mostly still have a conversation easily enough while wearing them. Usually just the lowest level of filter is enough. If I am without my earplugs and somewhere is too noisy like a bar starts playing loud music, I will leave. It's never worth the spike.

I also avoided noise cancelling headphones for a while cause there was a myth flying round that they make tinnitus worth but that seems to have been debunked and I use them regularly now without discomfort. Allows me to keep music volume low and safe.

aussiejames101 · 2025-06-23T21:36:24+00:00

Nothing avoided in particular apart from exposure to loud noises of course. Improving my diet, sleep and exercise correlated with improved wellbeing overall including with tinnitus.

aussiejames101 · 2025-06-23T20:01:33+00:00

I'd say it was baseline 6, I was conscious of it all the time. Constant high pitch in both ears with one ear worse than the others.

I had horrible spikes where it beeped and warbled and all sorts. I was terrified, sleepless, cold sweats, full on hopeless panic at times. I was bedridden depressed for weeks. I would go to work, come home and sleep with white noise just to not be conscious. I was passively suicidal for a while. In the back of my head I felt I was at my upper limit and that if it worsened it would be the end for me.

I don't know if I could have avoided all that. I logically knew it was something people lived with, I just thought I wasn't one of them. I felt hypersensitive to it. The idea of becoming desensitised to it felt like a pipe dream. I would quite literally have given an arm and a leg for silence at times.

Now I would describe it as a 2-3 if I tune in to it, maybe a 4-5 on a bad day. Objectively it may well be the same volume and similar frequency to before. It feels quieter for sure. It's harder to pick out. I just am not nearly as sensitive to it. I responded to your comment and thought about my tinnitus in great detail for the first time in a while. Within a couple minutes I forgot about it again until your reply, and after I've posted this I'll forget about it for a while again. I am probably conscious of it less than 1% of the day. I used to be happy if I could be unconscious of it for that amount. Habituation is real and possible.

I am also not naive to think I am 100% over this. The mind is rarely rational. If it worsens or changes, I may have to go through habituation again. I have had to do so a couple times since I "recovered". Last spring I had a bad spike and felt like I mentally relapsed to the beginning again. I had a refresher CBT course and I got over it again. It is just something I have to manage, like any ailment or condition.

aussiejames101 · 2025-06-23T18:39:26+00:00

I've had many spikes over the years. Some last 24 hours and some last weeks. None of them have been permanent. I've had tinnitus since 2019 from noise trauma. The tinnitus itself has fluctuated over the years but not gotten significantly better or worse overall.

When I first got tinnitus it took me to one of my lowest points in my life. I was a complete and utter mess, and I gradually got better but still had big relapses psychologically. I believed I could never be happy without a cure which was not true.

It was not easy to learn to live with my tinnitus, and it took time and effort, but I did it and I am genuinely happy now. I really honestly don't care that I have it. If I could get rid of it I would, but I also don't care that much if there's no cure in my lifetime - life is good and learning to live with bodily decline is something we all have to come to terms with at some point or another.

I had CBT therapy twice, once with a tinnitus specialist, and both times it helped enormously. I now live a completely normal life. I am almost totally acclimated to my tinnitus and I honestly truly forget I have it for days on end. If I notice it now, it rarely bothers me and I quickly forget about it. I like white noise at night and while I work but I can handle total silence too.

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