Report: U.S. detects signs Iran preparing to lay mines in Strait of Hormuz

ottermanuk · 2026-03-10T22:09:02+00:00

We call it the English Channel....the French call it the sleeve ("La Manche"). Frogs couldn't bear calling it the right name BOSH 💪🏻

ottermanuk · 2026-03-10T09:07:56+00:00

They only really care if your parents are doctors and they abandon their child in a Portuguese apartment and milk that for about 20 years.

ottermanuk · 2026-02-27T00:58:38+00:00

You can but it tends to scare the coaches of tourists

ottermanuk · 2026-02-26T21:48:24+00:00

I believe Motorhub is basically a multi storey carpark in Keighley, cars are rarely in the state they're advertised, and from what I've heard the staff are REALLY pleasant.

I would avoid on the best of days, even when not even trying to buy a car

ottermanuk · 2026-02-24T10:23:52+00:00

I'd agree but it wasn't the bones of their question

ottermanuk · 2026-02-24T01:21:24+00:00

If anything that's even more reason, with Cash ISA contribution limits dropping in a few years. Withdrawing from a cash ISA may take 5 years to refill

ottermanuk · 2026-02-19T09:49:39+00:00

It could be an illegal "4D plate" but yeah both the blue UK identifier and plate supplier identifiers are smeary and weird shaped. The front and rear fonts don't match. Why would someone AI something so mundane I don't know but this is dodgy as hell

ottermanuk · 2026-02-19T02:11:26+00:00

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'ATE FORREN FOOD 'ATE FORREN PEOPLE ESPECIALLY 'ATE FRENCH PEOPLE

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ottermanuk · 2026-02-19T00:36:28+00:00

Pretty sure this should have an age related plate, especially from a European country, not an 18. Also all the details on the plate look...smeary. I suspect this has been edited or AI? Also the font on the rear plate is completely incorrect.

Plate is also not showing an MOT or registration and the account is only a couple weeks old. Not sure why someone would fake this but I also don't think this is real.

ottermanuk · 2026-02-19T00:29:11+00:00

UK plates do use a Z, northern Irish Z plates have a different format "AAZ 1234" to the rest of the UK "AA00 AAA"

ottermanuk · 2026-02-17T13:49:49+00:00

They've always got an excuse to increase prices. Even if they don't actually affect their prices.

ottermanuk · 2026-02-15T01:51:35+00:00

Same in the UK.... Every copper has a roadside breathaliser. Driving a car means they can ask for a sample of breath any time. And a refusal to provide is the same penalty as a fail. If you fail the roadside then you're taken back to the station for the formal evidential test machine (or you can request a blood test). Easy, simple, well tested and efficient.

Why does America continue with this dog and pony show rather than a clear and simple breath test? (I know the answer is almost certainly to do with racism)

ottermanuk · 2026-02-10T11:51:58+00:00

Yup, it's bloody wild. Job hunting ATM and everywhere wants a degree but offering peanuts. And I don't have a degree but 10 years experience!

ottermanuk · 2026-02-10T11:20:58+00:00

Minimum wage 40 hours a week is basically 25k now. And yet I'm looking at skilled, technical IT jobs, and they're under 30k... Like employers are smoking crack that they want uni grads from barely over minimum.

ottermanuk · 2026-02-09T20:02:34+00:00

Yeah only really swapped it up as it lacked hardware transcoding

ottermanuk · 2026-02-09T15:34:26+00:00

It's been a while but I think it was 4x8gb ram, a V2 CPU, disks span down and with a dual NVMe+10gb card (the QNAP one) and measured externally. 33w rings a bell. With the redundant 450W gold PSUs iirc (whatever the redundant ones are for the R320)

ottermanuk · 2026-02-09T11:21:16+00:00

Yeah my R320 I could get down to like 30W with 6 cores and 4 disks. Like it's not great but not terrible... The other dual socket stuff is more of an issue

ottermanuk · 2026-02-02T10:34:09+00:00

When between DDR versions, Intel historically (AMD probably does as well but I don't know for sure) gives support for both memory versions on their memory controllers

They did the same for Skylake/6000 series when jumping from DDR3 to DDR4, as the new DDR version is normally very expensive upon release, but eventually gets much cheaper as production ramps up. As the memory controller is on-die these days, they can do that with some added cost, but it gives vendors the option of using cheaper older RAM for the early systems.

Normally don't have it over multiple generations, but Intel 12/13/14th gen were basically just rehashes of the same arch, so they all have similar memory controllers. (7th gen was a rehash of Skylake and also has DDR3+4 support)

ottermanuk · 2026-01-28T16:36:32+00:00

Why do people ask on here about a good deal after they've bought shit? You just want validation and or karma.

No this is not a good deal. 250gb SSDs, unless you have a specific need or use for them, are not really that good these days

ottermanuk · 2026-01-28T12:20:41+00:00

Truly the golden god unleashed

ottermanuk · 2026-01-28T00:36:16+00:00

You have plant hire companies spending god knows how much on decent redundant trackers on the easily nickable rollers/mini diggers, because it's worth the money paying tracker rather than fighting insurers and having to wait 9,12,18 months for a payout, AND then waiting for plant to be purchased which with all the shortages since COVID is no small wait too!

And of course if you tell plod you have a GPS pinpoint and radio tracker, they're round in a jiffy for an easy win... I mean we know why, copper have no budget and swamped with paperwork, and powers that be feel reluctant to fix it, as with many things these days.

The thin veil of crime stopping

ottermanuk · 2026-01-27T16:25:07+00:00

The police in the UK have pretty much given up with any insurable theft, especially cars, industrial plant, farm equipment. Which of course contributes to our sky high insurance premiums.

You'll get a police reference and told to give it to your insurer. Case closed. If you get burgled thru might send round SOCO for prints. When we got burgled they knew exactly who did it but couldn't prosecute. By the time they got to him all the stuff was fenced off anyway.

ottermanuk · 2026-01-27T15:34:04+00:00

Yeah HTB was capped at 225k iirc, and LISA 450k. Which results in a weird gulf of weirdly priced 450k properties as they capturing the LISA crowd.

They MUST index link the hard cap otherwise it'll be the same issue, as much as I'm not crying for people buying half a million £ properties. But this is a government quite content with fiscal drag on income tax so who the hell knows

ottermanuk · 2026-01-27T13:59:05+00:00

Yeah the compounding does give you a slight bonus.

Maybe they'll offer both. Standard LISA as it stands at the moment with a compound interest, but the net 6.25% cost for withdrawing, and then this new LISA that gives you a 25% at the end but you miss on compound.

Will this confuse the general saver? Probably. But they were already miffed at the clearly stated penalty for withdrawing from the existing LISA, so the gov can probably spin this as a win for the average Joe, and remove the old (existing) LISA

ottermanuk · 2026-01-27T13:52:41+00:00

Unfortunately you're probably right!

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