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yep. Won't be long before home electric is taxed for road use. I've probably said it far too many times already but solar panels on the car is the way forward. You'll probably still have to top up the battery occasionally but for shorter commutes it'll probably provide most if not all of the...

https://core.verisk.com/Insights/Emerging-Issues/Articles/2023/August/Week-4/Electric-Vehicle-Fire-Risk 'According to one analysis of U.S. government data, EV fires appear to occur less frequently than ICE vehicles, with 25.1 fires for every 100,000 vehicles sold compared to 1,529 fires for ICE...

I would agree that the current offering of EVs is not the solution to our transport needs as they are too big and rely on the grid for power. But I have a problem with the second part of the statement as it depends what you are claiming is the 'problem that doesn't exist'. If the problem is...

I think this comes back though to actually how many people are offended in the first place. We keep getting told everyone is offended by X and Y and the evidence is normally a few posts on twitter or a few hundred complaints to Ofcom etc. This is then promoted heavily by the media so by the end...

much of a muchness, I've found more random lost usb sticks than notebooks. But either way, what ever works for you. Generally speaking... As long as you have different passwords for each account and where possible use two factor authentication then it'll cover most bases. And don't ever let...

Write your passwords on a piece of paper. Nobody can hack a piece of paper remotely, and If someone is in your house reading your passwords you have a bigger issue.

This can only happen if you click on a link or allow images to be opened in the email. The 'image' is actually more than an image and contains a data string which is sent to the server as part of the request for the image. the database is then updated to say that email is active and the image...

True. It is also a very good way to distract people from the important issues. Every few years I see the news stories about whether the government is going to change the age to drive (up or down) and whether to increase the motorway speed limits. Both of which they have no intention of changing...

reminds me of this video which is of a ground crewman being sucked into a jet engine. it's amazing to watch his body being sucked around like a sock into a vacuum. Spoiler - he did survive. A more recent one sadly was a tourist I think in Greece walking around the back of a helicopter.... he...

It may be a requirement but I would bet a whole lot of money that the houses near me that have paved their front gardens have not done this. One house has entirely resin'd their front garden and drive, there is literally not even a border left where previously there was a probably at least a...

new builds yes, but so many people with older houses seemingly just do it without any planning involved.

I watch as more and more people tarmac their front gardens to create parking spaces and wonder if we will ever learn. I was pleased to see the legoland carpark is gravel (in grids to reduce movement - although whether plastic grids are good for the env is another matter) so the water can just...

Yeah I worked at a charity and the head of IT was a ...... well anyway he failed to test if the backups could be recovered after an issue. So after the first ransomware attack when he plugged in the second backup and had that also infected before he realised, we had another ransom attack later...

was it worse looking in real life as it looks like they spent a lot of time, money and effort to take out a white bath to replace it with a slightly different white bath.

Like others I use windows for work as I need Adobe products. Whilst it's annoying paying their prices, adobe have really got their software right or at least better than the alternatives. I built my parents a computer probably 12 years ago running Ubuntu and they have been fine with it, perfect...

It was avoidable if you know what the problem is. You don't know what you don't know. I'm willing to bet a lot of instructions just state something like ensure the workpiece is supported and held securely. Which at first glance is what that video showed. He had 2 points of contact and was...

Now if it was really clever it would double as a shower (and a downstairs water feature when the shower/lift was upstairs in use). Of course you wouldn't want to accidentally hit the down button mid-shower and end up doing a slow reveal!

If the video is longer than 10mins on youtube you can add more than 1 advert, if it is less than 10 mins you can only have one advert. So most likely they try and make it long enough to break the 10min mark. It's similar to recipes on blogs. There is 3 miles of why they are making whatever...

What I always do is drop the top blade guide down pretty close to the top of the wood, with a gap that is smaller than my finger so if so some reason I slipped or moved my hand there is little to no chance I'd get my fingers to hit the blade. The top picture in the above post for example looks...

Thanks for your reply. I understand your position a lot more now. I think we are looking at this from 2 different angles. I am looking at this more from the hobbiest worker rather than someone intending on working on a site or industry. That's not to say safety should be any greater for one than...