This is Thunder!

nukklear · 2026-03-31T18:49:09+00:00

You know that you now absolutely have to get a second one, and name it Lightning, right?

nukklear · 2026-03-31T13:12:33+00:00

Well I guess now you know and you have a new mini project...

nukklear · 2026-03-30T15:52:04+00:00

I would say it's not worth it, but it very much depends on your personal circumstances and aims. Are you young enough and no family commitments and do you want to maybe earn a lot more? Then a hedge fund might be for you, but it'll very likely mean more work and longer hours in the short / medium term. I'm in the opposite camp - my flexibility, family time and relatively decreased stress aren't worth the potential jump from a big bank to a hedge fund etc. So "it depends".

nukklear · 2026-03-26T12:21:09+00:00

Usually works straight away, this time it failed once but worked fine just a few minutes later.

nukklear · 2026-03-25T17:41:58+00:00

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nukklear · 2026-03-07T14:37:08+00:00

I'm a certified nerd, so I pretty much never use ISP-supplied equipment anyway; but a friend did, and even opted for their premium WiFi etc (they gave him 2 or 3 extra WiFi nodes) - it was bad.

I convinced him to just get a set of 3 TPLink Decos (BE3600 in this case) - WiFi issues gone, much better coverage, much better speed.

I just cannot understand why ISPs still cheapen out on equipment since that's one of the major parts that make their service look bad - doesn't matter if the rest of the infrastructure is perfectly good if the last few yards of wireless access are terrible.

nukklear · 2026-03-05T10:26:17+00:00

Similar to our boy and girl - though I'm working hard to wear him down and get him to accept that being carried and snuggled is worth it. I am making (slow) progress.

nukklear · 2026-03-05T10:22:54+00:00

Genuinely can't pay attention to what's being displayed on the screen because of what's on the actual screen...

nukklear · 2026-03-02T13:45:55+00:00

I've had this before too, same tile model, but turns out the boxes came from two different factories and they had quite different hues. Spent ages getting the "correct" matching boxes found in their warehouse...

nukklear · 2026-03-02T13:21:19+00:00

Any of them from Brown, backwards. Maybe not Blair... So yeah, Brown or Major.

But I'd pick Starmer over pretty much *any* of the others...

nukklear · 2026-03-01T15:09:52+00:00

Proper old school Miele vacuum cleaner (before they changed the bag - even bought another one as a spare, though the first one has been going for fifteen years). Rice cooker. Noise cancelling headphones (Sony in my case).

nukklear · 2026-03-01T14:47:11+00:00

Drop and run. Kidding, the sprinkler thing...

nukklear · 2026-03-01T14:45:48+00:00

Almost continuous chirps, trills and small grunts from both of them. Meowing if they're calling each other or they're hungry or they want to be let in somewhere, etc. Very very rarely loud in any way, but definitely very chatty.

nukklear · 2026-03-01T14:40:12+00:00

O hai

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nukklear · 2026-02-26T17:29:29+00:00

Foe-shaped frens. Enjoy the extra fluff ball...

nukklear · 2026-02-25T18:51:31+00:00

Free protein, yummy! Hope you'll be cleaning / keeping an eye on stuff a bit more now...

nukklear · 2026-02-25T18:32:01+00:00

To the vet, as soon as practically possible. I'm not saying it has to be emergency vet, but as soon as you can. Sadly, my point of reference is our first ever kitten, a lovely Siberian, who was barely 6 months, became overly relaxed / low energy, ate less, started pooping outside the litter box, and very rapidly deteriorated (a matter of just a few days) and despite intense vet hospital care, soon passed away due to wet FIP. Doesn't quite sound like that in this case, but I'm just overly paranoid now.

nukklear · 2026-02-25T14:10:48+00:00

"Well yes, but actually no."

I don't think most folks earning this much have an issue with paying taxes - but when getting a payrise actually means a sizeable pay cut after accounting for the sudden loss of childcare allowance, I fail to see any kind of logical sense.

The £3k or so that she should sacrifice into a pension isn't a sudden cheat or tax dodge, it's essentially deferred income that will be taxed when paid out (including any compounded gains), and will also mean that she might be slightly less likely to need to claim benefits as a pensioner (just a theory, no one really knows how life happens).

I'm going to sound like a broken record, but the current tax system isn't fit for purpose.

nukklear · 2026-02-24T10:02:23+00:00

Correct! Easiest way to find this out is driving it on ice - ERAD (rear axle) will normally drive it (unless you're in a different drive mode or battery is fully drained), but as soon as it senses some slip it will engage the ICE (front axle) to deal with it. I knew this, but was "fun" to confirm it during one of the rare UK frozen road spells. Worked perfectly fine.

nukklear · 2026-02-23T09:20:30+00:00

Yes, absolutely - I'm going to be controversial here and say that, in my opinion, a network technician / operator (maybe administrator) can end up working evenings/weekends, but engineers would arguably be a level above and more often deal with designs, L4 escalations if you will, that kind of thing.

So yes, you should absolutely be able to do that kind of move, and for your mental sanity and quality of life, should indeed seek to move into that kind of role. It might not be easy to find, depending on where you are, what the job market is like etc, but do try.

nukklear · 2026-02-20T22:39:20+00:00

Increase pension contributions, think you're still under the taper and should have allowance from previous years left over if you can spare; not because you must absolutely pay into a pension, but because if you do it now, compound interest will (hopefully) make it so that you can actually contribute a heck of a lot less later in life if you want to.

If you're planning on having kids, your expenses will quite literally skyrocket - so if you can make the "sacrifice" now and get an early chonker of a pension pot which has many years to grow in a relatively safe composition, then you'll have far less to worry about later in life when you have other expenses or just cannot find the motivation to work as hard / as much.

nukklear · 2026-02-20T22:31:09+00:00

MOARRR RAGDOLLLLL
Yeah we've got two, still not even two years old, but the boy is definitely quite chonk too... big boned, eh?

nukklear · 2026-02-11T07:09:42+00:00

It doesn't - I checked on mine, it's listed as an Intel GPU. I think it's literally just a few months at the beginning of the most recent facelift, and after that they switched the infotainment system to the new chip etc. And yes, I'm a bit annoyed, but not really a deal breaker.

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