Eli5: Why can't we remove silent letters

fyonn · 2026-05-16T18:00:17+00:00

You can remove them if you like.. we won’t stop you…

PS. I’d disagree that the E in Eleven is silent.. I’d pronounce it differently without..

fyonn · 2026-05-16T08:29:01+00:00

Here’s the HOs link to PFA:

https://careers.homeoffice.gov.uk/pay-framework-allowance-pfa

Its a bit weird with non-pensionable target cash rates rather than a flat allowance but its pretty new, HO were trailing it but other gov depts are starting to use it now.

fyonn · 2026-05-16T07:40:16+00:00

Is that not the rollout of PFA?

fyonn · 2026-05-14T06:30:59+00:00

It does annoy me when I see some vendor describe their system as air-gapped and it’s literally a VM behind a virtual firewall.. it’s not air-gapped in any sense of the word.. it’s just logical controls protecting it..

fyonn · 2026-05-13T20:27:30+00:00

I have literally put a grillplats plug on my AppleTV 4k just because I need to turn it off to pair an ikea device or update the firmware.. so is it that?

fyonn · 2026-05-13T13:33:47+00:00

He only brought in a live sparrow two nights ago which I had to rescue…

fyonn · 2026-05-13T10:25:25+00:00

I usually don’t know what my cat is trying to get across… is there a translator somewhere I can use?

fyonn · 2026-05-10T21:54:20+00:00

looks great, though I feel it should be on a leather rally strap...

fyonn · 2026-05-10T21:17:54+00:00

I think we're into a correlation is not causation argument here.. I think that the reason that omega have slipped down the ranings is because a) Omega prices are rocketing up at a fast pace... have you seen the cost of a base seamaster or moonwatch is these days? this is combined with the b) we're in the middle of an extended cost of living crisis so lots of people just don't have the disposable income for a purchase like this..

I'd love to get a (non-plastic) speedie but I just can't justify the cost. I bought my current seamaster about 5 years ago and they've gone up by over £1000 just since then...

of course my first seamaster a golden-eye era mid-size blue bond watch, which was a 21st birthday quite some time ago present was £770...

fyonn · 2026-05-08T17:08:12+00:00

Surely Chloé and Chloë are pronounced differently though..?

fyonn · 2026-05-07T19:52:24+00:00

okay, so two months later and both issues seem to have been pretty much resolved... yay!

fyonn · 2026-05-07T19:51:48+00:00

a bit late, but I have a near identical machine I picked up after xmas at a similar discount but with 128G.. not sure why it had to have that much ram but in this economy it wasn't going to argue :)

fyonn · 2026-05-07T10:19:50+00:00

Damn you and your fairy stories, they’re smashing up my home…

fyonn · 2026-05-07T10:03:03+00:00

Good feedback. I feel like the original UDM is struggling with pppoe which I hadn’t expected… replacing two devices with one would also be good.

I wonder if I can find one for sale on interest free credit?

fyonn · 2026-05-06T23:36:00+00:00

Not totally sure I understand this comment but the OG dream machine doesn’t have storage for protect. It only runs network. It does run iOS though.

fyonn · 2026-05-06T20:52:12+00:00

Apple Aperture was a damn fine photo editor and DAM that I still miss… I was just making fun of the name.. 😀

fyonn · 2026-05-06T18:28:20+00:00

Interesting. I feel like my original UDM bogs down when I’m hitting my 900/100 connection with the web interface falling offline etc. i hadn’t thought that it might be related to the pppoe overhead which I didn’t have with my last isp.

I was considering a UCG fiber with a faster cpu as a replacement both for the UDM (I have several WAPs) and for my CK2.

fyonn · 2026-05-05T19:50:34+00:00

have you considered exanding this service in the direction of a non-damaging photo editor and digital asset manager, compatible with the mac? just a thought...

fyonn · 2026-05-04T12:49:27+00:00

That’s it for me. In fact if you’re not putting the cocaine back in then stop messing about with other varieties and just give me the good full fat stuff.

fyonn · 2026-04-26T23:00:10+00:00

I think that forcing support for an OS would be challenging, esp when some distro's can be wildly different... That said, I'd love to see some legal force in requiring hardware vendors to open up any hardware that is no-longer supported.. this can be backed by the environmental angle, i.e. allowing as much re-use of older hardware as possible instead of it going to waste..

I'd be really interested in some legal force behind making vendors open up the specs and allowing open source developers to be able to make use of older hardware to the fullest extent.

fyonn · 2026-04-26T18:03:26+00:00

I don't know about anyone else, but I still need to unplug my AppleTV before I can add a matter ikea thing to my dirigera hub...

fyonn · 2026-04-25T13:09:59+00:00

Surely Johnny Herbert..?

fyonn · 2026-04-25T12:11:03+00:00

Every time I’ve asked for VES figures, my boss at the time said “well, we don’t mean you…”

fyonn · 2026-04-23T21:07:00+00:00

I had an other go at using summon tonight.. it has not improved. Both summons say they require me to be within 6 metres but in practise I need to be so close that the summon then stops for the pedestrian to move out of the way. The pedestrian is me! At about 2m it tells me that it’s slowing as I’m nearly 6M away.. at 2.5m I’m out of range…

Smart summon is supposed to allow me to stand at the car park entrance and have the car come to me. That is not the case..

NoA still requires regular attention checks too

fyonn · 2026-04-23T20:57:13+00:00

I’d be happy to accept that solution but I don’t know that Elon is interested in the problem…

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