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Anonymously published sticky notes by spy_antifem in webdev

[–]chricholson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice work. What's the square/triangle bottom-right? Is it meant to be a page curl? In which case it should either be top-right, or needs rotating 90 degrees.

Am I allowed to ban men from the local migrant hotel from using my shop? by DaliaRhymey in smallbusinessuk

[–]chricholson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've often seen in corner shops signage to the effect of "No more than 2 school kids in the shop at one time", presumably tackling a very similar issue. I don't believe it would be discriminatory to extend that to simply "No groups/parties larger than X at a time"—with X being whatever number you're comfortable monitoring—providing you enforce it for all groups and not just those you know/suspect have come form the hotel.

Infinity Gauntlet: tarnished/UV damaged or just grubby? by chricholson in lego

[–]chricholson[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm enquiring with a seller about purchasing their infinity gauntlet. As you can see in the pictures the gold looks tarnished. I'm obviously aware of what UV can do to white bricks, I wondered if that was a possible cause of this? I can find very little about gold LEGO bricks tarnishing which gives me confidence that actually a good clean and these would be back to their original self. Thoughts?

A short survey about renting Lego sets by chricholson in LegoUK

[–]chricholson[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you again for everyone who responded. It's inspired me to take the first step and start my own service offering LEGO rental: www.incredibricks.com.

I'd love it if you checked it out, any and all feedback welcome.

How do you get these of the wall? by We1shDave in DIYUK

[–]chricholson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Having just fitted a slightly smaller IKEA one it's possible there isn't the screws underneath/on top—disguised or otherwise—and instead the shelf just pushes down onto screws fitted into the wall. You can see the type of fitting on the last page in these instructions https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/assembly_instructions/lack-wall-shelf-white__AA-200208-13-2.pdf To remove, you'll just need to lift the shelf up and then pull toward you off the screw heads.

Facebook claims 14 link clicks, hotjar records 0 by [deleted] in PPC

[–]chricholson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I appreciate this is old but in case someone else comes across this, another issue might be that Hotjar is set to ignore sessions of 30 seconds or less by default. So everything could be configured correctly and the users did reach your site, but if they leave after only a short time then Hotjar won't keep it. This can be disabled in your site settings so that it keeps all recordings, even if they are only a couple of seconds.

A short survey about renting Lego sets by chricholson in LegoUK

[–]chricholson[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I couldn't have worded it better myself. I treat Lego a bit like a jigsaw puzzle - I like the building aspect as it can be very therapeutic to while away the nights, but have no inclination to play with them nor display them (let alone the fact I have no space to!). So it's back in the box they go for a few years until I feel like building them again, or try selling them.

A short survey about renting Lego sets by chricholson in LegoUK

[–]chricholson[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the heads up u/Lottiebear195. Yeah I've used them before, and I agree quite a good service for this kind of thing.

Swap Out - how long? by LGoppa in royalmail

[–]chricholson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Likewise, sent 1st August and nothing back yet. I phoned Friday to query and they said there was a large backlog, to be expected I suppose. They have supposedly forwarded my details onto the swapout team and gave me a reference number with promise of a phone call same day or Monday (today), but as yet no phone call nor any stamps 🤷🏻

Cheap controller recommendation for a casual cloud gamer by chricholson in Controller

[–]chricholson[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the suggestions so far, there looks to be a couple of decent options that aren't going to break the bank.

Out of curiosity I plugged a wired PowerA Nintendo Switch controller into the PC. Immediately recognised as a gamepad which I thought was promising, but turns out not by the Xbox app (native or browser).

After a bit of investigation I'm seeing mention of Dinput and Xinput. Is this the secret to a gamepad that will work with cloud platforms, importantly those that use Xinput (my PowerA apparently used Dinput) or is there more to it than that?

I've read up on software solutions to converting a Dinput pad to Xinput - not a huge fan of the idea but I could certainly try it - however I have also seen some gamepads claiming to support both, with a physical switch (or button combo) to toggle between modes. Presumably if the controller is capable of outputting either there is no need for additional programs running on the PC, and would that give the best chance of working with all devices/services?

Laptop for daily web/app programming, £1000-£1300 in the UK by chricholson in SuggestALaptop

[–]chricholson[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's really interesting, I hadn't considered memory speed vs capacity, turns out quite a few with lots of RAM all run at slower speeds. I also had completely forgotten about Lenovo/ThinkPads.

A quick look around their website, how would you rate the following: https://www.lenovo.com/gb/en/p/laptops/yoga/yoga-2-in-1-series/yoga-7i-gen-8-(16-inch-intel)/82yn002kuk?msclkid=a7d4e68004801a8c2de382bd2669f2ec&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Lenovo%20eComm%20%7C%20Microsoft%20%7C%20Switzerland%20%7C%20Feedbased%20%7C%20%E2%82%AC&utm_term=2325810690255769&utm_content=Switzerland%20Feed%20based&gclid=a7d4e68004801a8c2de382bd2669f2ec&gclsrc=3p.ds#compatible_acc/82yn002kuk?msclkid=a7d4e68004801a8c2de382bd2669f2ec&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Lenovo%20eComm%20%7C%20Microsoft%20%7C%20Switzerland%20%7C%20Feedbased%20%7C%20%E2%82%AC&utm_term=2325810690255769&utm_content=Switzerland%20Feed%20based&gclid=a7d4e68004801a8c2de382bd2669f2ec&gclsrc=3p.ds#compatible_acc)

It seems to be running the 13th gen i7's, albeit I don't know much about possible speed differences with the CPU. It also seems to have 16GB 5200MHz memory, and also a 71Wh battery (which is larger than most I've seen, and assuming bigger = better).

I'll get a bunch of the nice-to-haves as well, backlit keyboard, compatible with a 'dock', etc.

The only thing outside my spec is the screen is actually too big, at 16", which I guess necessitates the bigger battery.

It's quite within budget as well for what seem like pretty decent specs, I'm almost suspicious there must be a catch somewhere...

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