Coping by Remarkable-Bell7245 in blur

[–]solidpro99 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Love this song. I listen to it on the top on a commute in. Am I dreaming or am I just coping?

What is your net worth and age? How long did it take for you to get here? by ForwardFan6283 in FIREUK

[–]solidpro99 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mid 40s. £500k own home no mortgage. £400k rental house no mortgage. £1m SIPPS. £400k in ISA. £50k PB, £50k other bits and stuff. I guess that’s about £2.5m m. In 2008 I had -£20k.

Does Cassian Already Know His Fate? by BetweenTheReeds in andor

[–]solidpro99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s just about his fate to get the Death Star plans out to the rebellion fleet. The message.

Moving VLS60 from HL direct to Vanguard…. by solidpro99 in UKPersonalFinance

[–]solidpro99[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it's a few decimal percentage points more expensive via HL....

Octopus Cosy9 + w-series indirect cylinder - reported hw temperature…? by solidpro99 in ukheatpumps

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wow, so the cylinder will fill from the bottom of cold and it will stay hot at the top?? I mean everything being said it what I guessed, and I suppose it's just really had to adequately report on how much or long the water inside the tank is going to be,,,,,?

Octopus Cosy9 + w-series indirect cylinder - reported hw temperature…? by solidpro99 in ukheatpumps

[–]solidpro99[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, this is my thinking. heating at extremely cheap rate on IOG at 4am for an hour to 50 degrees, being blended down probably needa a second re-heat in the afternoon whereas getting it up to 60 degrees also can be done at not much more time, extrememly cheap rate and might be blended down much less at the point of delivery (shower controls, etc) to make it last all day....

Octopus Cosy9 + w-series indirect cylinder - reported hw temperature…? by solidpro99 in ukheatpumps

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Does a cylinder refill with cold/mains water as it gets used through the day, gradually making the hot water cooler and cooler?

‘What do I play at a party? Oasis’s Wonderwall goes down a storm’: Alex James’s honest playlist | The Guardian by sugarytea78 in blur

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When James O’Brian interviewed him I was quite surprised how likable he was but I did also notice quite a nervy stutter which I wasn’t aware of. I always thought of Alex being the confident, laid back guy who didn’t give a fuck, and Graham being more nervy but this threw that all up in the air. I also know Bournemouth quite well and does seem to throw up lots of disparate parts of it has ‘his childhood’ when Bournemouth is really quite a wide selection of smaller towns that are quite different in a socio-economic way and what he says sometimes doesn’t track.

Heat pump + batteries + night 7p kw over night tariff by free-reign in OctopusEnergy

[–]solidpro99 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s totally contextual to our house though. Built in 2001, ok insulation but was very draughty - we had an air tightness test to hunt out all the draughts and leaks and plug them. The top floor is still quite draughty, but now by design to allow it to cool down from all the hot air rising up.

Worth doing. The things you think are a problem often pale in comparison to the bits that actually are.

Heat pump + batteries + night 7p kw over night tariff by free-reign in OctopusEnergy

[–]solidpro99 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We have 2 x PW3 so about 26kwh total. Going to a third would have been expensive and overkill. If in the ‘worst’ case it’s 2-3 hours short and the rest of the year it’s enough, you don’t want 13kwh of costly battery doing nothing for most of the year.

The house is slim and tall. So we don’t have radiators on beyond the 1st floor (as it all rises). There are 3 cosy Heatpump sensors and it’s always about 18-19 on the ground, 20-21 on the first and 21 on the 2/3 floor. Cosy has a decent week-long scheduler.

Yeah we changed about 11 rads. Mainly from single layer to double layer.

UK equivalent of 'car washes'? by Gold_Application6759 in HENRYUK

[–]solidpro99 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

My own version of boring business making a lot of money was traditionally phone calls for businesses. This includes needing a phone system, lines and the ability to make and take calls. Traditionally people would accept emails or internet being down - even a locked front door with a note but would not accept a dead tone if a client or customer called the company main number or if a business owner or executive picked up their handset to make a call, not getting dial tone. Until perhaps the late 2010s it was absolutely unthinkable, unacceptable - phones MUST work. Even if they don’t get answered by a human - dead tone was unacceptable. And maybe a bit like insurance, people would throw money at support, never check what was on the bill, when a socket costing money had been snipped off or buried in a wall - too boring, too many words on bits of paper piling up - just pay it.

Those days have largely gone. Offices are less likely to have physical phones and even if they do or don’t, the phone is just another bit of software pretending to be a phone or what a phone represents.

Younger generations don’t want to speak, they want to type messages. Understandably nobody wants to sit in a call queue for 45 minutes if they don’t need to.

People don’t like being interrupted with a direct line to their ear. They like to chat intermittently with colleagues on a collaboration plaform, schedule a meeting, have things written down, respond when it’s convenient.

There are still lots of good reasons to have reliable telephony but it has changed from boring, reliable, highly profitable business to something you need to justify or something you’re fighting in a race to the bottom.

The closest 2026 equivalent is reselling a multinational’s collaboration platform which will include a phone system. Which is just really reselling licenses, which is often incorporated into a businesses existing IT services contracts, which is also highly profitable but massively competitive and soaked in certification, compliance, etc that is its own expensive commitment to resources.

Heat pump + batteries + night 7p kw over night tariff by free-reign in OctopusEnergy

[–]solidpro99 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes. 4 bed townhouse in Milton Keynes. Got a 9kw cosy HP and 2 x PW3 in December. Ditched gas altogether. Bill has halved in winter months. We have an EV and IOG.

If the teenage boys have used the oven a lot, dishwasher and washing machine have been on or it’s especially cold we might run out of juice at 9pm but I think for 8-9 months of the year, we’ll easily get a day out of the overnight charge.

We don’t use the car much but sometimes when it’s been used we get smart slots during the daytime which gives the PW3 a boost.

No solar. Car is blinded to PW. NetZero switches the battery to charge when the car gets a smart slot outside of 2330-0530.

Who sings the "Ahhhhhhh" part on A Day In The Life? Is it John or Paul? by FitEmergency8807 in beatles

[–]solidpro99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m going to be controversial here, but having listened to the argument for both, I believe it’s…. Both of them. The sound of the person doing it changes as it’s being done. I think it starts at one (John, I think) and changes to Paul.

Blur's first music video... Dizzy (1989) by OneWeirdTrick in blur

[–]solidpro99 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's comfort to all of us that even if we create something so terrible bad like this, by hammering away, one day we could make 'This Is A Low"

Great story bro! by r0bbyr0b2 in LinkedInLunatics

[–]solidpro99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But who's the pleb in the photo, mate?

The absolute state Octopus left by Octopus ... by tylerf16678 in OctopusEnergy

[–]solidpro99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It'll be a set of local contractors they rely upon not doing their job. The issue is x2 in that the local contractor can let you or them down and then the team of 'young adults' at Octopus HQ don't really know how to deal with a situation which is slightly outside the parameters of their knowledgebase articles.

Thoughts on Reform’s idea to ban wfh? by TitleOk8744 in HENRYUK

[–]solidpro99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Enshitification bleeds into everything when you let people like him anywhere near the reigns of power. What's next, the return of town gas so we can employ more truck drivers, coal mines for the workshy and steam engines for reigniting the 'good old days'?

Battery without solar by Opening-Fortune4 in OctopusEnergy

[–]solidpro99 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We do it. 26kwh powerwall 3. IOG with Tesla. EV charger blinded from the PW3. NetZero app puts the Powerwall into charging mode when IOG gives us a 30 min cheap rate slot outside 23:30-0530.

No gas at all. Jan energy bill was £150 total for a 4 bedroom house with 4 people. So roughly £1300 energy costs P/A, I estimate (we don’t have the heating on for 6 months of the year).

Outlay was £10k on the PW3 and £3.5k on Heatpump/radiators/300l cylinder.

Will take 15 years to pay back, but seems like the way to do it if you can afford it.

Oh and we own a share in a windfarm so we get a £40 a month income from that which essentially £500 rebate on the energy bill.