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No risk. If it worries you, log in to your router admin page occasionally and see the list of connected devices but there is no need.

Hastily drafted legislation introduced by regulation without proper scrutiny often has unintended consequences. Fine, government says to councils that they can't charge for DIY waste, and do a look-at-me how we are helping the ordinary citizen puff piece announcement. But as Osborne's...

You might find that your local chamber of commerce can give advice, I think they do things like certificates of origin so may know the rules. Worth a phone call.

I suppose it depends on scale and what the OP means by small. 10mm is more than enough for a gallery piece, Hepworth divided circles, 3m + high bronze, in a windy courtyard maybe not so good :)

Football boots have screw in studs, I wonder if there are different lengths and forms for things like cricket or golf shoes?

Most of my journeys are short and well within the range of an inexpensive pre owned EV. About 1/5 of my journeys, and the majority of my annual mileage, are ill suited to EVs with the current infrastructure limitations. If the cost of personal transport was skewed towards use cost rather than...

If you don't ever need it to come off, just buy some steel bar or threaded bar, cut to length with a hacksaw, glue into hole in plinth with 10 min epoxy then glue the sculpture on. Toolstation do 10mm and 12mm threaded bar for (if i recall) about £4 per meter. If you need it to come off, the...

Be more decisive. I am a hobbyist, mostly woodturning. I have a fair few purchased blanks and spindles plus plenty of bits of 'gifted tree', but often I have a design in my head and then stall because I don't want to risk messing up a nice piece of wood which might be useful for somethign...

Exactly, and you still get areas of poor signal and if outside UK, high charges. Pre loading the EV with 'money' is a very good idea. A slight aside, our nearest station no longer has debit card parking payment, all ANPR, you must have their app or a whole series of text message exchanges with...

Maybe you can't standardise things like connectors or charging rates but you can have a common way to pay. I can take my petrol car to any filling station in Europe, maybe the world, the hose nozzle fits the filler hole and I can pay with almost any credit or debit card or in all but a few...

I think that sets a dangerous precedent. As a site user and potential customer for advertisers, I might infer that any advertised item that hasn't been removed is by default "safe" otherwise it wouldn't be allowed. Would you be a site owner or a moderator and take on that responsibility? Yes...

I often wonder why electric cars look like cars. The 3 box shape - engine, people, stuff - evolved for big heavy ic engines, a few manufacturers swapped the stuff and engine ends. Surely if you have a rectangle with a wheel at each corner, the distributed battery and engine bits in a layer, you...

There is a Catalina based at IWM Duxford, not far from me, and it flies regularly at displays in season. Classic Wings have a Rapide, also based at Duxford, which is used for pleasure flights, in peak season it trundles over our garden several times a day. Stately is the best way to describe...

I have an old Titan breaker, similar to the one listed now as an SDS drill with accessory kit for £90, I think I paid £70 years ago. Its rarely used but did what I needed which was smash some old cement fence post sockets, and I used it later for a bit of patio adjustment and other odd jobs...

Brother in law bought a 1970's built house, after a few mishaps we realised the electrician/builder had saved a few yards of cable by running everything by the shortest possible route including diagonally from sockets and switches. I reckon they would have dangled cable diagonallay across the...

And another thing.... If you do decide to take the broken piece off and go on a quest, you could photograph a good square, print it, stick it to thin card and pop it in the gap so you can carry on making your moves until something shows up. (It sounds like its a 'family' job, but if you were...

Thats the whole basis of a business transaction, you wouldn't go and buy a new sofa and expect to pay less because the truck delivering it arrived early because didn't get held up in traffic. You agree a price for something, the risk and opportunity lies wih the provider: if they do it quicker...

A couple of unconventional ideas. First, you could remove the remaining bit of the missing square and put it in your wallet. Every time you pass a charity shop look at their bits-and-pieces shelf, you often see tatty old boxes and you might stumble on one that you can cut a close-match piece...

Just for interest really, shows how problems creep up on you. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/dec/14/australia-will-become-the-first-county-to-ban-engineered-stone-bench-tops-will-others-follow?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other Never thought about this until I read about it this...

Had the exact same problem a few years back on my old boiler, immediately after a service. The air mix had been set right at the limit for max efficiency, there was not enough. yellow in the flame, so the photocell kept thinking it had gone out. I use a small family firm, lad did the service...