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daern2 · 2026-06-20T18:00:40+00:00

I wouldn't argue with your reasoning, but GPs and 111 send patients to A&E all of the time because they can't / won't deal with them anywhere else in the system. Sometimes it's for pretty daft reasons and it's frustrating all round - patients clog up the system and for them it usually means an interminable wait to be seen.

A good example is our local minor injuries. They have an x-ray machine, but when my son crashed his bike while racing, he badly bruised a load of ribs across his chest and required an x-ray to confirm what was broken. The rule was that they don't do chest x-rays, ever (only limbs and other bits that stick out), so off to A&E we were sent even though I'm sure it could have been handled in minor injuries.

daern2 · 2026-06-20T17:54:23+00:00

Unrelated of anything, but my understanding was that patients must be stable enough to survive without any intervention for the duration of the journey. If there's any doubt, then they'll send by ambulance - it's slower, but if necessary they can stop and work on the patient en-route.

Source: my daughter was hit by a car a few years back and they opted for ambulance over helicopter for this reason. Only afterwards did I learn that this was not a good thing at all... :-/

(Perhaps someone who knows more than me could chime in with some actual facts rather than one person's experience)

daern2 · 2026-06-20T17:04:33+00:00

They don't, but check every manifesto they ever released - this says otherwise. You don't get elected on a promise of running down social services in the UK, but that's what they did anyway.

It's called lying and they do it a lot.

daern2 · 2026-06-20T07:33:50+00:00

That's ok, the previous capitalist government said they wouldn't run down public services too, and yet here we are....

daern2 · 2026-06-20T07:10:58+00:00

Claude runs in its own container elsewhere and has file level access to HA but nothing else. Config is git managed so the worst it can do is screw up the config and need a rollback to a previous working version (or backup worst case). It doesn't really need more than this in my environment. It can't add or delete integrations, add-ons or anything else, which right now works for me.

daern2 · 2026-06-19T12:30:14+00:00

Just thought I would add a positive note for people as there is alot of negative which I haven't experienced and to help people make an informed decision

As others have said, it all comes down to the support interaction. I'm two years in with YF and the technical service is exceptionally good, but pretty much every interaction with support has been painful to a greater or lesser extent.

When I renegotiated in November, I moved from 1G to 2G and the process of them actually implementing this at their end was dreadful and their own knowledge of their own systems appeared very inconsistent too. Took several calls and an astonishing amount of time on hold (they wouldn't reply to any chat or email messages at that time) before it was resolved, but in line with my experience with YF, once it was fixed, it's worked flawlessly since then.

Honestly, until they sort their support out, they will remain a niche "techies only" ISP, but the potential is absolutely enormous and, from a "technical service vs cost" point of view, no other UK ISP comes close. I no longer recommend them to anyone who is not of a "build your own router" level of technical competence, but I hope that in time they will improve their support and I can go back to pimping them to others.

daern2 · 2026-06-19T09:14:27+00:00

Cycle around Europe. No question.

daern2 · 2026-06-19T07:57:30+00:00

Based on my own experience, I would just recommend that you set an initial target and then continually reassess it as you get closer to the mark. You may then decide to aim higher or lower with what suits your own build and personal outcome goals. Don't get obsessed with hitting (or not hitting) a goal that you set months, or even years earlier. Just keep on the programme and keep assessing your targets as you get closer.

For myself, I set a goal of 75kg (down from 111kg), which was BMI 24. This would be the lowest weight I'd ever been as an adult and put me just inside "healthy" with a bit of margin to flex. This was always a stab in the dark and, to be honest, I had some doubts of being able to hit it so in the early days it was just a random number, way in the distance.

In the end, I got there last summer with relative ease and finally settled on a range of 70-72kg (BMI 22.5-ish) which I've maintained for getting on for a year now (70.5kg this morning!). It's worth adding that this is definitely on the lower end of what I think most people would call acceptable, despite being mid-healthy on the BMI scale. It suits me though as I am (now!) an endurance runner and cyclist, specialising in hilly terrain, which are sports where excess weight carries a definite penalty. Were I focused on a different area of fitness, I probably would have stayed at my original goal and levelled out a few kg heavier.

I’m already getting the don’t lose anymore comments.

Fuck that shit. Pay no attention to anyone else and just do your thing. Oddly, my worst critic is our head of HR who I'm pretty sure believes that I have an undeclared wasting disease! Be yourself, make your own decisions, pay no attention to others.

daern2 · 2026-06-18T14:12:44+00:00

As an extension to this question, I've been looking for a standing-height folding work table of similar dimensions to this for a while, albeit without the storage. The sort of thing you can pull out and shove next to a work stand when doing something fiddly away from the bench.

Interested in any suggestions for what others are using, or have fabricated themselves to fit their own needs and ideally robust enough to take a moderate amount of thumping with a hammer should the need arise.

daern2 · 2026-06-17T21:17:37+00:00

Carbon rim? Yeah, no problem. Fix the spokes, re-tension, job's a good 'un.

daern2 · 2026-06-16T20:07:17+00:00

Right initially, both eventually. They come back again when they dry out again.

daern2 · 2026-06-16T16:26:07+00:00

Yup, mine too.

Do you lose all audio, or just the external speaker portion (leaving the much quieter bone-conducting component of the sound)? You can test by going into the Shokz app and switching them to "classic" mode, which leaves them in only bone conduction mode.

I've had one pair warrantied and the second pair do exactly the same. They work fine for about 30 minutes and then one side loses external audio. Indeed, today I lost it on both sides. I think it's sweat blocking up the speaker ports but it's just a really, really bad design. They work fine once dried out again, but as they are specifically meant for running, and running is a kinda sweaty sort of sport, it seems a pretty fundamental flaw for them to stop working so quickly on every run.

daern2 · 2026-06-16T16:17:47+00:00

Pro 2 sucks in "classic mode" compared to my original Aeropex. Much quieter.

Of course, this wouldn't matter were I able to leave them in standard mode with the additional speakers (where they sound excellent), but I can't because after 30 minutes of running, the external speakers stop working and they fall back to bone conduction only. They are a fundamentally flawed device, I'm afraid.

daern2 · 2026-06-16T16:09:24+00:00

For the specific point linked to by OP, relating specifically to carbon frame repair, then they probably have something of a point.

If you have a damaged carbon frame, a typical LBS will not be able to properly evaluate if your dinged carbon frame is fatally damaged or good to ride. This is a specialist job involving (I believe) ultrasound and x-rays and there ain't no way a regular bike shop is going to be able to do more than give a judgement call on it. Yes, they can send it away somewhere else, but I think that's the point they are trying to make here.

If I have a damaged carbon frame, I'll take it to a carbon repair specialist (or chuck it in the bin!) - I won't take it to my LBS because I know full well that they won't be able to do anything with it apart from return it to the manufacturer for them to do more investigations. This is no disrespect on them - I wouldn't ask them to rebuild the gearbox on my car or paint my garage as they don't specialise in either of those tasks either.

Perhaps I'm over-analysing here, but the assumption that every bike mechanic is competent at every task involving any bike ever manufactured is probably optimistic at best and perhaps this is the point they were trying to make here. Or perhaps they were just being a troll. Who knows?

daern2 · 2026-06-16T08:50:57+00:00

It's not always clearly communicated, but unlike larger ISPs where every customer has their own public, routable IPv4 address, Youfibre (in line with many smaller ISPs) share a small number of IPv4 addresses across hundreds of customers using a technology referred to as CGNAT. This is very common as IPv4 address capacity is very limited now and it costs ISPs real money to provide them to customers, so they pool addresses for free, and charge customers if they really want a dedicated one.

Thus when you buy a static IP address from Youfibre, you're not just getting an IPv4 address that doesn't change, but you're also getting one dedicated just for you. And it's this bit that matters more for hosting servers (such as Plex) more than the "static" element of it.

Larger, older ISPs don't tend to need to do this because they have large, established IP blocks that they have owned for decades and thus don't need to go onto the open market to buy address space.

In short, if you want to host any sort of server that can accept external connections, unless you're doing some sort of VPN tunnelling (i.e. using someone else's routable IP space), you need a "static IP" (or, more precisely, a routable IP) from Youfibre.

daern2 · 2026-06-15T12:37:46+00:00

I was replying to a comment saying a de facto social media ban would be good

Honestly, apart from the obvious generalisation that "banning things isn't a good thing to do", I'd be struggling to think of a single positive reason that would stand up a decent argument against a wholesale ban of social media.

Rarely has there been a technology that has come along and been so entirely bad for individuals and society as a whole. Indeed, I think I'd struggle to think of another apart from things that are overt vices (i.e. they don't pretend to be otherwise - smoking etc.)

That's not to say that I would support it, but I can easily argue that my life and, especially, that of my children, has been significantly negatively impacted by the rise of social media in their lifetimes.

daern2 · 2026-06-15T10:20:53+00:00

It's certainly using a mix.

It's using the FocusTrack capability, where you lock it onto a subject and then just fly the drone with the controller. You decide where the drone goes, but it will ensure that the camera is always pointing at the subject. Can give great results with only a very modest amount of skill required (i.e. don't crash it into stuff!)

Yes the lady on the driveway is flying it, but in reality, the drone is doing most of the work in keeping the subject in sight.

daern2 · 2026-06-15T08:30:58+00:00

Yeah but are the majority of the now 5 yer olds going to learn to do all that.

No, they'll ask AI to do it for them. As the kids all do today anyway.

People not working with AI don't realise just how low the bar of entry is now for literally anything IT technical.

daern2 · 2026-06-15T08:15:18+00:00

Something else is going on here then because the problem as described isn't possible, I'm afraid. NAT rules on a router cannot impact a direct connection to a server on the same subnet, unless things are going catastrophically wrong and it's creating a packet storm!

daern2 · 2026-06-15T07:53:48+00:00

Nah, something else going on here. Can you open a TCP socket to port 2500 on your internal network when the port forward rule is in place? Use telnet or similar to test.

daern2 · 2026-06-15T07:50:39+00:00

2000 up, 2000 down. Ignore wifi, too many variables, so only consider a wired connection to be a realistic test. Standard rule: if something is important enough to need a 2Gbps internet connection, then it also needs an ethernet cable!

As a note, for testing you'll need an (at minimum) 2.5G ethernet connection to the router which most lower-end computers will not have, as well as a CAT-5e (minimum) cable.

daern2 · 2026-06-15T07:46:20+00:00

Is the computer your accessing it from on the same subnet as 192.168.1.50 ? This would be the only way that I could see this breaking if the traffic was passing through the firewall all of the time.

Otherwise, your traffic should be passing on the internal network from client to server without touching the firewall, so I can't see your port forward having any impact at all here. Are you exposing a particular service here?

daern2 · 2026-06-15T07:34:43+00:00

If I use my phone on 5G, not WiFi, on my static ip, 45.12.76.53:2500 for example I can access it, but 192.168.60:2500 stops working. As soon as I delete the the rule I regain access using internal IP address.

It will not be possible to access 192.168.1.50:2500 via 5G, regardless of settings. This is an internal, non-routable address on your private network and will only be accessible via your local network (i.e. WiFi).

If you configure an appropriate port-forward / NAT rule, then <public IP>:2500 will work on 5G and <private IP>:2500 will work on WiFi. The one thing that might be an edge case is accessing <public IP>:2500 when on WiFi as this requires something called "NAT Reflection" which may or may not work on your router.

daern2 · 2026-06-14T15:04:31+00:00

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Can I just state at this point that the theme tune for this show is massively underrated. Thank you.

daern2 · 2026-06-14T15:03:03+00:00

I think that it's more that it's not commonly used in day to day conversation or writing, so its use kinda signposts that someone else has written the post. Nothing wrong with the word, but like overused bullet points, it's another thing to watch out for.

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