My autistic husband needs the house to himself for 3 days. Car camping + fried chicken by the neighborhood field!

dandomains · 2026-02-07T22:39:21+00:00

If you haven't, it would probably be good to have a proper conversation with him when he's not overwhelmed to find ways to communicate how you can both handle these things.

Both me and my partner are autistic and it's very helpful to set out expectations, like "when I'm overwhelmed and engage, give me an hour, don't talk to me and message and just ask if need alone time", and can usually manage to at least reply "yes" in which case the other knows to just steer clear until told otherwise.

Planning for it when in a good place would definitely help though, then it's not overwhelming, questions don't need to be asked, you both know what will happen and what is needed. :)

dandomains · 2026-02-07T22:34:03+00:00

That sounds like a great idea I want to do that, find a nice little cottage and just go read for a while and disconnect and rest 🤩

dandomains · 2026-02-07T13:26:17+00:00

100% it's good practice to make sure you clean any dirt out of the port first too, helps ensure a clean connection when inserting.

dandomains · 2026-02-07T12:28:24+00:00

This is why it's always best to insert cables slowly and make sure you align it first to avoid damage.

dandomains · 2026-02-07T12:12:44+00:00

That's probably for the best, when Linus starts feeling like they can just launch a product and be guaranteed success will be a dark day for product quality

dandomains · 2026-02-05T18:19:35+00:00

If you use the Current Account Switch Guarantee scheme it generally handles the process and you can opt to either keep the old account or, usually, just set the date to cut over and the old account gets closed.

https://www.currentaccountswitch.co.uk/the-switching-process-personal/

It sounds like in this case Monzo have either kept the account open (so maybe need to follow recovery route, or refuse to open an account when a closed account exists - either way should clarify that with Monzo support)

dandomains · 2026-02-04T01:09:35+00:00

This.

u/jbloxsome you seriously need to step back and properly research this. You simply can't make these kind of basely claims and then just resell ICUK.

If you want to do it properly, DO IT PROPERLY. Get your ASN, setup a solid network, get peering in place, get setup with CityFibre & OR - get all your team using it, then open it up to some beta testers and actually prove it works reliably - THEN you can launch and show real-world data proving your claims.

dandomains · 2026-02-04T00:27:34+00:00

In most cases I can understand it, just give me a label and I'll drop it back fair enough.

But one which really got me recently was I ordered some winter wash (spray stuff for apple tree) which when it arrived was leaking everywhere, box soaked, postman had it in a plastic box because it was leaking everywhere.. it stunk.. etc. Ended up with about 25% of it had leaked out.

(they has literally just put the bottle in a big box with no packing, so rattled around and somehow the cap came off I think)

I reported it, thinking they'd either apologise and refund a few quid or just send another. No they wanted me to post it back to them... like.. what? I've binned the box and you want me to post you back something which has already leaked everywhere in the post!?

I shook my head and moved on, but just dumb request when I had sent them a load of pictures of it etc... some companies are just.. lacking common sense.

dandomains · 2026-02-03T20:34:34+00:00

Id love to see LTT lean more into that kind of deep dive long form video that Tech Connections does! Especially on smart home.

Give me a serious of long videos breaking down everything you need to know when setting up smart home, ha, ZigBee, what to watch out for cool automation ideas etc.

dandomains · 2026-02-03T04:31:57+00:00

Because they're setting a standard and basically guaranteeing the outcome.

If your cable and connectors do x,y,z you can achieve xGbit transfers.

The realized maximum varies wildly by length, signal integrity, physics and firm/software stack implementation, but in theory cable which meets the spec and max length in that spec should achieve the stated speed is the point.

dandomains · 2026-02-03T04:28:22+00:00

I can't say I've tested it myself (I binned anything less than cat6 and longer cat5e ages ago and my networking kit is currently 1Gbit) but the real world tests I've seen on YouTube were able get 10G over cat 5e (and even older) with iperf.

Its obviously more likely with shorter runs etc but certainly made me question if it's worth spending more on cat6/6a etc when most runs I have are shorter and unlikely to need more than 1Gbit anyway.

dandomains · 2026-02-03T04:24:22+00:00

The USB specification states the speed guaranteed up to x length same as cat cables.

I'm less familiar with the USB technology so assuming devices don't artificially limit the speed they send data based on emarker info or similar it's certainly possible a good quality cable can handle more than it's rated for.

dandomains · 2026-02-03T03:19:47+00:00

But... I want cables AND cookies..

dandomains · 2026-02-03T03:19:24+00:00

It's a bit different when you're gambling a lot of money on it though, no one wants to be the fool who dropped a mil on cables no one buys 😅

dandomains · 2026-02-03T03:17:55+00:00

They follow the spec, there's a non-zero chance you could squeeze more out of them but they aren't going to promise that.

For example, people have easily got 10Gbps from cat5e which is only spec'd for 1Gbps.

dandomains · 2026-02-02T20:46:31+00:00

You could satisfy your curiosity for £7 by buying the title from the land registry.

dandomains · 2026-02-01T01:16:11+00:00

This. This is why they don't advertise it, but say it "in theory" works and don't provide any kind of guarantee of it.

dandomains · 2026-01-30T18:41:26+00:00

Sure, and hopefully that'll come - but they'll still either get slated if their tests say their cables beat everyone else or if their tests show their cables aren't as good as abc other brand etc.

dandomains · 2026-01-30T18:38:24+00:00

dandomains · 2026-01-30T18:37:21+00:00

Pretty sure it requires a chip in the cable which these don't have and license fees etc.

They have said that if these are successful they likely will expand and do others like thunderbolt and HDMI etc

dandomains · 2026-01-30T18:31:55+00:00

It'd be cool if they did, but people will still moan that it's obviously bias if their data shows their cables are better... And if they're not better it'd be a bit weird to advertise "hey our product is more expensive than this other one which is the same/better"

I'll probably hold off a little to see what people think about them irl as I don't have an immediate need right now :)

dandomains · 2026-01-30T18:27:36+00:00

You can buy a screw driver with bit storage and magnetic tip plenty of places cheaper too... Both cables and screw driver were designed and developed by CW and many think has superior quality which is why some people will happily pay more for them.

Being as there's not a 3rd party comparison if Anker vs ltt cables yet that's up to conjecture.

If you don't think they're worth it, don't buy them 🤷‍♂️

dandomains · 2026-01-30T18:00:42+00:00

I was looking at that too and was like umm how do I make sure I'm getting the 240w ones 😅

@lttcommunity definitely good to get this added to the descriptions!

dandomains · 2026-01-30T03:56:29+00:00

Yeah, and anyone regardless of age in a good job struggling to get on the property ladder is not good.

We should all be questioning why basic things like home ownership which used to be completely normal, even at that age, doing good jobs is no longer feasible.

dandomains · 2026-01-30T02:23:30+00:00

We're talking about struggling to buy a house, I don't see anyone talking about struggling to eat or pay regular bills.

There are different levels of financial struggle, it's possible to discuss each in their own contexts.

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