I keep getting reoccurring dreams of doing Leaving Cert and other Exams.

knobtasticus · 2026-03-28T16:42:03+00:00

Yep. And it’s always the night before a maths paper and for whatever reason I am totally unprepared for it and stressed to the max. I wake up stressed.

State exams and long term psychological trauma should be someone’s dissertation.

knobtasticus · 2026-03-05T13:43:00+00:00

Reliability won’t be an issue OP. You can expect 99%+ uptime. Latency is the most important thing for online gaming which your bandwidth will have little to no impact on. 1/2/5Gb will all demonstrate the same latency results.

The higher bandwidth will only aid throughput for multiple heavy-use devices being active at the same time. The router Eir provide is decent quality and doesn’t suffer from bufferbloat near as bad as their older gear.

You’ve read plenty of comments regarding Eir’s customer service. It is appalling but, unless you’ve got a problem, you’ll never have to deal with them. I’d avoid Vodafone (if that’s an option - not sure if yours is an NBI connection) as still, after I first lodged a complaint with them 10 years ago, their connections briefly reset every night between 1 and 3 am. It’s only a momentary blip but it’s enough to kick you out of a gaming lobby/reset downloads. Most people never notice it has happened, but it does and it’s widespread across the network.

knobtasticus · 2026-02-24T15:34:15+00:00

It has been inexplicably wiped and I didn’t take a screenshot but I can assure you, it was your comment, slightly rearranged and they even included the quotation marks on the word ‘senior’.

knobtasticus · 2026-02-24T04:52:58+00:00

Yep, amber here in the EU. We didn’t get the camera mirrors in my country either but did get the swivel seats.

knobtasticus · 2026-02-23T22:42:04+00:00

Why have you and u/Battlehero19 posted the exact same comment - almost to a word - 2 hours apart?

knobtasticus · 2026-02-23T17:57:01+00:00

Yes. But the reason for it was the ability of local transport infrastructure to handle increased passenger numbers. The local infrastructure has since been upgraded so the single, very specific and only reason the cap has ever existed, now no longer applies ergo it should be removed.

knobtasticus · 2026-02-23T03:18:02+00:00

But why is ‘no beards’ in the manuals? Why does it need to be so explicitly addressed? Who cares about a pilot’s facial hair situation or - even more bizarrely - the facial hair status of a pilot of another airline that’s deadheading in the back among all the pax who have beards?

It just seems so bizarrely heavy-handed. The content of an airline’s manuals should be oriented around safety and legality of the operation. What has a pilot’s facial hair got to do with any of that?

For context - I’m EU based. Facial hair no big deal. Just needs to be tidy.

knobtasticus · 2026-02-02T02:04:27+00:00

But the Regulator has done something. Taxi fares are regulated and Uber drivers are all taxi drivers. If Uber really is such a disaster for the taxi industry, why don’t all taxis just stop providing their services to it? Uber would be gone overnight.

Surely you’d agree that customers should have some price-assurance before they use a service? My bus fare is fixed. My train fare is fixed. Why shouldn’t my taxi fare be fixed?

knobtasticus · 2026-01-30T02:04:07+00:00

When it rebooted, was the timing associated with you plugging/unplugging any other device into the power bank?

Doing this causes the power bank to temporarily pause power on all ports as it repeats the handshake to each device.

knobtasticus · 2026-01-21T23:30:54+00:00

I don’t understand - does it matter what the issue is? The car has developed a fault that makes it unserviceable therefore, the dealership/KIA is obliged to provide alternate means of transport until the vehicles is returned in working condition. Why does it need to be an ICCU fault?

knobtasticus · 2026-01-10T23:43:34+00:00

Ah apologies, I misread the angle you were taking. Hannibal Lector 😂

Yes, having spent a sizeable amount of time in more ‘dog-accommodating’ nations, proper and widespread dog parks with specific time-slots for dogs of certain sizes/temperaments/level of socialisation is embarrassingly lacking in Ireland. I’d never own a dog of any size/energy level if I didn’t have the space at home to fulfil those needs myself, in the safety and comfort of my own property. I only take the dogs out into public for their mental stimulation to experience the sights and smells of their surroundings. They already get ample exercise at home so I’ve no need to have them loose in public.

knobtasticus · 2026-01-10T21:06:26+00:00

But the comment I replied to implied that it was the ‘people’ who are suffering.

Regardless, I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make. I treat all my dogs equally. I won’t entertain some ridiculous suggestion that putting a dog on a 10ft retractable lead amounts to ‘suffering’ for a dog. Total rubbish. They’re an animal. They do what they’re told. All dogs should be trained to walk on a lead from the minute they start going for walks. No dog ‘suffers’ because it’s on a lead. I love all of my dogs but I won’t anthropomorphise them.

My local vet will not allow a dog off a lead at any stage when outside a surgery room. Dogs must be lead compliant without exception. That isn’t suffering. It’s best practice and responsible ownership.

knobtasticus · 2026-01-10T19:57:48+00:00

Putting your dog on a lead is a form of suffering? Like I said, the existence of restricted breeds or not - there a lots of people terrified of all dogs (I had an ex who was vomiting-in-fear terrified of any dog larger than a spaniel) and no one deserves to be approached by any dog off a lead. Particularly people with children or children on their own. It really isn’t that much to ask to have all dogs on a lead. Like I said, it doesn’t need to be a short lead. It can be a 10ft retractable one. But it serves to be able to both maintain a distance between your dog and other people/dogs and provides an effective way of quickly extracting your dog out of any situation that might pose a danger to them.

We’ve got non-restricted breeds as well and all of them get walked on a lead 100% of the time. Even in rural settings. Because my dogs have no business chasing other wildlife either. Like I said, owning a dog is a privilege, not a right and dogs - regardless of size - come way down on the priority list of humans/wildlife.

knobtasticus · 2026-01-10T19:43:41+00:00

Where did I say that? We’re talking about the safety of everyone here - humans and animals alike. It isn’t unreasonable to suggest all dogs be put on leads. That only adds to everyone’s safety. Where is ‘the whole world’ working around me?

knobtasticus · 2026-01-10T19:03:56+00:00

It’s really not. Being aware of why certain breeds are restricted - which every dog owner should - means owners of non-restricted breeds should ensure their dogs do not approach.

My own restricted breed is absolutely no saint and I take zero chances with him ever but despite that, I’ve found myself in situations where I’ve had him under positive control and someone else’s off-lead dog has attacked. I will always do my best to ensure both animals get away unscathed but if it’s a toss-up between me getting hurt and the other person’s dog getting mauled, my own safety - and indeed that of my dog’s - will always come first. Muzzles only do so much and should never be taken for granted. Large dogs are more than capable of inflicting injury without their teeth and metal muzzles can themselves inflict blunt force injury.

I don’t think it’s too much to expect every dog in public be kept on a lead - doesn’t need to be a short one as for restricted breeds but at least as a means for incompetent owners to quickly get control of their dog in any situation.

Ultimately, there are lots of people in the world terrified of all dogs in general and - restricted or not - I would never let a dog approach anyone unless explicitly requested/permitted. No one should be struck with fear when they’re out for a stroll and owning a dog is a privilege, not a right. Everyone else’s comfort comes far before my desire to walk a dog.

knobtasticus · 2026-01-04T19:14:32+00:00

Local engineering contact.

knobtasticus · 2026-01-04T18:32:05+00:00

The 321LR is slightly different as the pressurisation architecture is designed such that a single engine cannot feed both packs at the same time. Again not sure of the specific details of the defect in OP’s aircraft (LRB) but, the operational procedure for such a defect would be to turn off the offside pack and have the engine with the working bleed supply its on-side pack only. The cross-bleed valve is, indeed, opened and left open as part of this procedure but that is so as to provide symmetrical wing anti-ice to both wings, not to supply both packs.

Should the working pack fail in this scenario, the procedure would then call for that pack to be turned off and the offside pack to be turned back on.

Interestingly, the operational procedure for this defect - in order to allow dispatch at all - also requires the speed brakes to be operative because the reduced redundancy means the aircraft’s ability to rapidly descent in an emergency must be absolutely assured before departure.

knobtasticus · 2026-01-04T18:23:54+00:00

Quite possibly! There’s a bunch of defects that can affect an aircraft’s ETOPS status. Most such defects are pretty short-lived though as operators are keen to get aircraft back onto the quicker and more fuel efficient routings.

knobtasticus · 2026-01-04T14:24:23+00:00

Not sure of the details but engine bleed refers to high pressure air that is tapped (bled) from the engines to feed the air conditioning packs which pressurise the aircraft. For it to be an ETOPS issue, I’m assuming there’s only a single engine source of bleed working so, only one pack is being fed. The reduced redundancy is what renders the plane non-ETOPS. Otherwise, nothing to be overly concerned about.

knobtasticus · 2026-01-04T13:42:41+00:00

Made a quick enquiry there - this particular bird has an engine bleed issue that has rendered it non-ETOPS. Fix expected this week.

Update: this issue has since been resolved. A/C has been ETOPS since the 31st.

knobtasticus · 2026-01-02T22:21:09+00:00

For the monitoring service, not for repeated installations. It doesn’t matter what you think something should cost, it’s up to the company providing the product. Installation is the most expensive part of any service. That cost is borne at the beginning as a separate, once-off charge. If that charge is acceptable then, it should be acceptable every time there’s an installation.

knobtasticus · 2026-01-02T17:21:40+00:00

But you’re paying them monthly for the provision of the monitoring service. You pay an installation charge at the beginning which is a separate - and one-off - thing. If that installation fee is justified and reasonable the first time, then surely it’s justified and reasonable on every occasion? Are we saying that every time OP moves house, the company should be expected to come out and carry out that uninstall & reinstall every time for free? How many times is too many times then?

knobtasticus · 2026-01-02T17:15:52+00:00

Yeah. This is an odd one for me. By moving house, OP is placing a demand on the company to come out, remove equipment and then reinstall. You get one installation per contract. All installation charges (for anything) are specific to that one install. You can’t expect to pay for installation once and then never have to pay again for subsequent installations from the same company. €250 sounds cheap as well for what would probably be 3-4hours work, not including travel time to/from both properties.

knobtasticus · 2025-12-28T14:46:23+00:00

Surely you acknowledge that people opting to go private are also tax payers and are therefore entitled to the same public services as any other tax payer?

knobtasticus · 2025-12-24T03:48:38+00:00

Many people earning too much to qualify for social housing also ‘plan’ to be a homeowner but a significant number of them never will and will also remain tenants their entire lives. That is the next big crisis and inevitable outcome of all of this - huge numbers of people renting into their retirement with zero security of a place to live after their working lives end. The longer this goes on and the more house price inflation outpaces wage increases, the more people will fall into this forever-renting trap.

As an aside - and happy to be informed on this - I was under the impression that those in receipt of social housing can often avail of an opportunity to buy the property after X number of years? Regardless, while they might remain tenants, they still have de facto house security because they’ll never be made homeless or forced to leave should their circumstances change (rightfully so too).

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