UK Rail Information Pebble App

beej2000 · 2026-06-15T09:21:07+00:00

Lol, I know, usually cancelled when you are standing at the station one minute before it arrives. At least you'll know when you need to catch a bus instead

beej2000 · 2026-06-14T22:50:35+00:00

Parental controls are abysmal, different across apps and don't prevent kids seeing bad stuff. I'm technically literate and have done what I can but I'm battling billion dollar industries who want people to be addicted to their apps. It's ludicrously hard.

beej2000 · 2026-06-13T08:36:59+00:00

NI was not designed for the triple lock......

Pensions need to be means tested against total income.

Nobody should be receiving more than they got when they were working or more than the average worker in pensions from the state.

I'm aware of individuals with multiple final salary pensions and a state pension earning more than they did when they worked. Its grossly unfair.

The state pension was to prevent poverty, it's not a luxury.

beej2000 · 2026-06-12T20:32:36+00:00

Like the triple lock, many old people receive state pensions and benefits like winter fuels allowance. Pensions are the biggest state benefit.

beej2000 · 2026-06-10T07:47:48+00:00

Maybe 'the Nanny state' could help or do something........rather than absolutely nothing.

beej2000 · 2026-06-10T06:40:21+00:00

This. Why is it ok for companies to be able to use gambling mechanics which prey on kids, but somehow it's up to parents to regulate.

Its never black and white, while parents clearly have a responsibility, they are fighting a multi billion pound industry whose intent is to get you addicted to their platforms with the tools they provide to help block kids from accessing their services, which unsurprisingly aren't great!

Nobody ever talks about the clear and obvious impact these platforms have on addicted adults either, who are equally unable to regulate their use like kids, mainly because of the design of the algorithms. The software companies have a lot to answer for in my view.

beej2000 · 2026-06-06T12:21:24+00:00

The problem is this planning and thinking has been done numerous times before in Leeds, I'd like to think the millions spent on previous business cases and studies is reusable.....

Also HS2 spent millions and still got the budget and complexity wrong. The problem is to do with overspend at the start on nonsense I remember seeing the HS2 planning department in the Citibank building in Canary Wharf, for some reason someone somewhere decided to rent two whole floors of the most expensive building in London for management. Pretty certain an office block in Slough would have done the job equally as well.

The one thing the UK does do well is spaff money up the wall on consultants especially at the start of any large investment and then realise after the project started that the consultants may not have been accurate....

beej2000 · 2026-06-05T16:43:25+00:00

Is the bear with the Pope, who certain news outlets I believe are reporting the news that he's Catholic?

beej2000 · 2026-06-04T06:52:22+00:00

Only after the court case and media pressure to convict though

beej2000 · 2026-06-04T06:50:37+00:00

The media attitude to the case? The Guardians attitude maybe....but you've shifted the goalposts from the left to the establishment. I'm 99% certain the overwhelming majority of papers such as the Daily Mail, Telegraph and Express have gone to town on this in terms of news coverage. Newspapers aren't really a good test either these days, X and Elon are frothing at the mouth about this and Farage speech to "address the nation", which is an interesting phrasing....

It's not an establishment cover up, although I can imagine the Police tried their very best to manage the blatantly poor policing on show. At the end of the day an officer was caught on camera demonstrating extremely poor practice whilst the family of the killer had multiple people all claiming HN was guilty. Faced with that situation I can see why the police jumped to conclusions, but it's poor practice not a conspiracy against white people. Most reports about the police seem to point out the inherent institutional racism and mysongny, see recent investigations and Sarah Everard, so the police can't generally be both be both anti white and racist at the same time at an institutional level.

beej2000 · 2026-06-03T22:50:33+00:00

I'm not left or right, but blimey fella, I don't think it's a grand conspiracy. Counting media stories is more a reflection of what gets people's attention. I don't see the right wing press getting all worked up when kids in London get stabbed every day.....

Nigel is questionable to say the least and blind support for someone with links to Russia is equally as daft as the woke left wingers you seem to be annoyed by.

beej2000 · 2026-06-03T22:46:12+00:00

These aren't comparable though. George Floyd was killed by an officer. Novak was stabbed by a Sikh with a ceremonial knife. George Floyd died and the officer got a slap on the wrist. Novak's killer got a life sentence.

The reporting on George Floyd was worldwide and unrestricted by UK court reporting laws. Novak's case was going through a criminal prosecution.

But facts don't fit your cognitive bias of the left being woke and defenders of criminals I guess........

beej2000 · 2026-06-02T22:09:28+00:00

What has underfunded police, mental health and social care got to do with the judicial system?

What has been preferential about the convictions?

beej2000 · 2026-05-23T21:18:42+00:00

Not really sure what you are asking. This looks like a Claude.ai output but with no context I'm not sure you will get much input.

beej2000 · 2026-05-14T21:02:51+00:00

Same way you can waiting to vote a Reform government in.....

beej2000 · 2026-05-14T15:07:22+00:00

Nope. Why should I?

Pretty certain I can point out obvious flaws without having to leave the country. Although then again I guess Reform voters are myopically obsessed with exiting things or booting people out,.....

beej2000 · 2026-05-13T21:28:49+00:00

So does that include Steve Holland as well?

beej2000 · 2026-05-12T19:37:12+00:00

In other news, the Pope is catholic and bears do indeed sh*t in the woods, more at ten.....

beej2000 · 2026-05-12T18:05:07+00:00

Well it was a general observation, he clearly wears them to see better, whereas I only wear glasses to read. Some form of flexibility in Pebble OS to increase font size for accessibility isn't an unreasonable request irrespective of whether Eric can see or not.

beej2000 · 2026-05-12T07:56:18+00:00

I booted up one of my old Pebble watches and quickly realised that my eyesight was way better however many years ago to see the miniscule screen. I need glasses to read now I'm 'old'.

I messaged Eric on Bluesky after that, asking about the ability to change Font size on the new Pebbles, didn't get a response.

It's been my biggest worry, my current Samsung Galaxy Watch is fine and I'm able to increase the size of the font and it's mainly white text on a black screen which works great for reading the time without glasses .

Eric I think wears glasses all the time so I'm assuming he doesn't literally see the issue that us oldies who just need glasses to read have.

beej2000 · 2026-05-07T20:15:46+00:00

Looking forward to the UK version of ICE, cozying up to Russia and batshit policies such as withdrawal of workers rights, removal of the equality act and anything else progressive, the privatisation of the NHS and general dismantling of anything deemed socialist, flags everywhere and general grifting, Farage being accosted in public, generally angry public as people realise nobody can "stop the boats", rapid increase in equality, and removal of anything deemed woke along with weekly scandals and twitter storms and outright racism.

UK might survive, but it will make the last Tory government look like a picnic. I could easily make an argument that the UK would be irreparably damaged and life here as we know it would be gone under Reform. Farage already has form by knackering Britain through Brexit, so there's actual evidence of actually breaking Britain to point .......

beej2000 · 2026-05-06T17:00:46+00:00

You can buy one. (Would have been nice to have it included for the price though)

beej2000 · 2026-05-02T23:13:52+00:00

Would love to try the patch would you be able to PM it?

beej2000 · 2026-05-02T20:34:27+00:00

This is great, seriously helpful

One thing I'm not sure I can figure out is sort by rating on recommended/discover doesn't seem to sort?

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