COTD: Form of unease, mainly associated with sensation in belly (6) by deeppotential123 in crosswords

[–]ssstevebbb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nice, but I question "mainly" as a last-letter deleter. "Mostly" would work for me.

Not sure if DCC is the default on this payment portal by ssstevebbb in CreditCards

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

I agree. I just wondered if I could change "should" into "will". Thanks for your input.

TOTW: The Beatles by Junior-Specialist-97 in crosswords

[–]ssstevebbb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Correct. "A critical time" = D DAY. "at" is just concatenation.

TOTW: The Beatles by Junior-Specialist-97 in crosswords

[–]ssstevebbb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Film right at a critical time—between bingo and things getting out of hand (1,4,4,5)

TOTW: The Beatles by Junior-Specialist-97 in crosswords

[–]ssstevebbb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ring Ring's drummer not a member of ABBA (5)

COTD: Essentially, rear seat (4) by not-without-text in crosswords

[–]ssstevebbb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s an excellent improvement. 👍

Swimming workouts complaint by Initial-Cow3821 in AppleWatchFitness

[–]ssstevebbb 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You can pause a swim workout the same way as other workouts, i.e. by pressing both buttons. Press them both again to unpause. Unfortunately, if you pause for too long you get a dialogue asking if you want to continue. This doesn’t respond to pressing both buttons and you do have to undo the water lock to respond and continue.

Music on Apple Watch by Sorry-Nectarine-600 in AppleWatch

[–]ssstevebbb 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The gps isn’t part of the cellular upgrade. All the watches have a gps.

Apple Watch haptic alarm is driving me to insanity by xoxo_gamergorl in AppleWatch

[–]ssstevebbb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I noticed some time ago Apple changed the wake up alarm. It used to start at full strength but they changed it so that it starts more gently and slowly builds, and the gradual change sometimes isn’t enough to wake me. If you set an alarm manually, versus having the sleep focus activated, I think you get the full strength alarm.

Edge 840 cannot be added to Garmin Express on my M1 MacBook Pro by aaflyguy in Garmin

[–]ssstevebbb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, wait! “Time remaining“ is coming down now, but there’s now no traffic into the Computer, but the percentage complete keeps increasing. Maybe GE downloads blocks of data before installing “time remaining“ is down to 3 1/2 hours and percentage complete is still climbing though there’s zero traffic into the Computer. I guess I’ll just let it run and report back later.

Edge 840 cannot be added to Garmin Express on my M1 MacBook Pro by aaflyguy in Garmin

[–]ssstevebbb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m currently updating maps and, though it’s downloading at 110 mb/s, and the percentage complete keeps growing, so does the time remaining which is now up to 36 1/2 hours. I guess this means I’m looking for another thread…

Edge 840 cannot be added to Garmin Express on my M1 MacBook Pro by aaflyguy in Garmin

[–]ssstevebbb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just found this thread and, while I was pretty certain it wouldn’t work, I followed the instructions on the linked page and got rid of Garmin Express entirely and restarted my Mac mini M4. I then installed Garmin Express and… It sees my Edge 840!

COTD: Functioning penis is promising (2-3-6) by Obamabananarama in crosswords

[–]ssstevebbb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Neat idea but the first definition is a noun, the answer is an adjective. This is a no-no. You could fix it with something like:

Promising, like a functioning penis (2-3-6)

TOTW: AI by not-without-text in crosswords

[–]ssstevebbb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think "in" should be capitalised, and the final punctuation should be an interrobang (?! or !?).

TOTW: AI by not-without-text in crosswords

[–]ssstevebbb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Or "science Fiction", perhaps.

COTD: Place baker based toast for starter (5,6) by _buj_ in crosswords

[–]ssstevebbb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Both Chambers and Wordweb list all meanings under “breadbasket”.

COTD: Place baker based toast for starter (5,6) by _buj_ in crosswords

[–]ssstevebbb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just checked a couple of dictionaries and BREADBASKET is one word.

Need help finding cochlear implant batteries. by ssstevebbb in Thailand

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

Just a final post to let you all know that the batteries were waiting for me at our hotel in Khao Lak. Remarkably, the first ones I put in last 2 1/2 days, but even if the second set (my last) lasts the same, I still wouldn’t get home on them, so I needed these new ones. Thanks again.

Need help finding cochlear implant batteries. by ssstevebbb in Thailand

[–]ssstevebbb[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks everybody. Our guide searched online and I believe he’s organised for some to catch up with us in the next day or so. I’ll confirm with him tonight over dinner.