u/Antique-Wonk

Loving the EX60. Especially from what I've seen of the cross country. Tempted ahead of the ix3 even though I prefer the ix3 interior, displays etc. Cabin storage has been mentioned as an issue a few times. Lack of real centre console storage and the centre glove box. Not remotely a deal breaker but I'm hoping some options are emerging that could help?

Is this cabin storage question an over stated issue or a real one?

Thanks

Hi all,

Firstly, apologies I've not been around much over the last 12 months. First was an account hack and deletion of everything and I've had a heavy work schedule with a lot of travel combined with poor and deteriorating health. Getting old. I'm slowly getting back into this wonderful hobby so that's my silver lining.

We have a close to full solar eclipse tomorrow in my part of the UK so as well as setting up my smart telescope I did wonder what the effects could be of the eclipse on SW and if there's anything interesting I could try before, during, and after for no other reason than the fun of it 🙂🙏 Long shot but...

Thank you

Tried via the BLE update method using the Android meshtastic app without success but I may be doing something wrong? Good signal on Bluetooth btw when I go upstairs under the mast.

I'm loathe to borrow a very tall ladder and connect a USB cable and laptop. 😅

Nothing is broken btw and it has been great, seeing out directly to about 20 to 30 miles and reasonably reliable 2 way messaging out to over 80 miles. But the firmware is now well out of date. Currently on firmware 2.7.15.567.

Edit: this isn't a Bluetooth range issue. I can do everything from my living room with a good connection through several floors. I've tried the update from the top floor window only 15ft away from the device with direct LoS and the Bluetooth is a very strong signal.

Well, I mean, he must be blind right? Or a Big Pessi Dumb Fan!

Always losing them, keep buying them. Thinking maybe a lanyard and key on every radiator?

I mean I just have to eat and drink like crazy. Sounds crazy but I just wondered if anyone else has that. I'm not sure it helps by eating and drinking but it's like an insatiable need. Especially for sweet foods.

So Argentina have automatically qualified for the next World Cup and will get at least 1 game on home soil?

Just discovered this FIFA weirdness. Probably old news but, WTAF.

It's a bit like being at school and the teacher coming in and saying on sports day, in today's sack race Lil Lionel will be starting from 10 yards ahead and won't be racing in a sack. Just FO FIFA.

I dunno where to start or restart the educational process. I've failed. She isn't even a teenager anymore. 🤦🏻😅

Found the alarms literally thrown on the floor in bits. You know, like a zombie breaking into a half open skull to eat brains kind of thing. 😆

I thought Xbox controllers were rechargeable anyway?

I even have a drawer full of batteries. 🤷

Update: Everyone at home has been fully debriefed. Punishment made. Don't mess with anything that is life assurance related. I've ordered 10yr life sealed battery smoke alarms (thx all for that advice) and will bin the cheap ones we were using. Swapping done batteries every year or two was a risk in itself. Justification received was they were borrowed for 20 minutes to do something I don't understand with the X box. They would have been put back and we have a further 2 other alarms. I thought we had one other but I forgot about one of those on top of a shelf which is a combined CO and smoke one. It's no excuse IMHO. Directions to the battery drawer provided. I'm still angry tho.

Hi,

Narrowing down to an MCAS diagnosis. Slowly. So trying to understand treatments, symptom reduction meds, and how folks have got along with them. Anything worth noting really.

I'm not in a good way TBH. Probably like most folks here. Sudden multi system episodic onset and 1 to 4 hours before It dissipates. Short of breath, chest and back pain, tachycardia, joints swell up and painful, total loss of energy, headache, hot and sweating, blurred vision, bad stomach. I've had most tests we can think of. Possibly unrelated but my carotid arteries have dissected. On a timer now. Unknown cause. Started nearly 3 years back not long after a COVID vaccine but I may have also contracted it. Unclear on cause. Fit as a fiddle up until that point, 20 miles fast hiking over mountains in 5hrs kind of thing. Mid 50s male. UK.

Weird thing is in strange periods of wellness I can still get up and down a small hill. But that's the exception. Mostly I can barely get out of a car park walking when it's hitting.

My triggers are strong artificial smells, mold, alcohol (so I virtually don't drink - last night was an exception and strangely I didn't trigger!), strenuous exercise although sometimes just straining to pick something up off the floor is enough to trigger it off.

Anyways that's all just context. I go see a multi system immune specialist in 2 weeks. Just trying to be prepared.

Thank you for your help and understanding. 🙏

We don't really know them other than the odd hello as they're diagonally opposite at the back of the house which is a shame otherwise I'd have been round! Could still go round right? Suggestions welcome. 😅 Also what is it likely to be as my mouth is watering?

What are you cooking inside or outside tonight?

Wondering if I should get the BBQ on now to be done by 20:00! Neighbours welcome. Something on the telly I want to watch.

UPDATE: Due to unforeseen circumstances involving the consumption of 5 beers at the time of writing the post and a further 3 more while contemplating going round I was physically unable to walk the 10 minutes there and 10 minutes back. Both houses are near the end of long cul de sacs. This was probably for the best as no one wants a drunken stranger turning up on their doorstep. Given the amazing response regarding the lovely Sikh people (I also had a Sikh friend as a teenager who I met at boxing - he was good, me not so much) I am going to pop around on Saturday with some gifts as a means of an intro. 🙏🏼❤️ Thank you so much for the amazing response.

Hi everyone,

Just looking for advice, thoughts and experiences mainly. McTuna (f3.5yrs) has been to the vet a couple of times including this morning. I'll come back to this. She is well stimulated, has a great life, has a whole huge decking pergola catio to play out in, has her own planters of cat grass and more. Living the dream. Rescued via RSPCA at around 10 months. Very skinny cat at the time, big cat and only slightly overweight now. Loves food.

For probably 2 years now she has had a bald patch on her belly. Over grooming was suspected. At times it grew back but it didn't correlate with anything in terms of diet or other changes at home. Now it's pretty bad with lots of red pock marks and her back two legs are a bit fur-less. Like a plucked chicken. She also has a small bald patch on her head. Around her mouth looks a little sore.

She seems happy enough bouncing around with high energy.

Here's what we've tried:

1. Different foods including no grain and hypoallergenic. Both dry and wet. In case she was allergic to something in her food.

2. She's de-flead, no worms, no mites. Confirmed via vet.

3. Tried calming vapours. Felaway in 3 plug sockets. No difference. Just in case it was a nervous disposition. She didn't have a good life before we rescued her.

4. She has always had slight breathing problems. Snores, wheezes. Was always like that. Vet said probably had cat flu as a kitten as we went in not long after we picked her up. On occasion she gets a steroid injection from the vet for this but only twice in the last 2.5 years. Not significant enough to be put on steroids which have bad side effects. Noting we have high end HEPA air purifiers in almost every room of the house as I suffer from MCAS and my daughter has asthma and bad hayfever. It's not the house or mold BTW. House is clean, very, relatively modern. Well vented. Humidity normal.

Today the vet gave her a steroid injection and thinks this is an allergy of some description. The fact her mouth is a bit red makes me wonder about food again. She's back in the vet in a couple of weeks. Vet took pics of her bald belly, patch on her head and mouth and was really good by all accounts. Wife took her while I was working on something I couldn't get out of.

So I'm just looking for experiences and ideas in the meantime. I hope this is ok. As I say she's her usual self. Playful, mischief, ambush, good appetite, drinks well, sleeps well, deadly assassin.

Loving the show and wondering what comes after the last season? Any of the spin offs worthwhile?

I was at first not a fan of Jack's comedy characteristics but I've grown to love him.

But I have to say my favourite character is General Hammond. I think he's got the patience of a saint that looks after his people. I feel like I want him as my boss and my dad. 😅

Anyone else come very late to SG-1?

Glad the resolution improved by S7 too 😅.

Hi Each,

Whether it was coincidence or not about 4 or 5 years ago my immune system went crazy during COVID. Nearly 3 years ago I was in hospital in the ICU then 2 weeks in a hospital bed. The verdict was I had bilateral and extensive carotid artery dissection, sudden onset COPD and allergic asthma, AF tachycardia, shirt of breath, random throat swelling, sore red joints with skin falling off, various abnormal blood markers, gastro issues and more. But with no explanation on cause. I'm now legally disabled in the UK but fighting on.

Triggers are eating, alcohol (hardly touch the stuff as a result l), and exercise or exertion. And sometimes no obvious cause at all. Just kicks off.

Despite dozens of tests since this first started, when I was as fit as a fiddle, I'm no closer to any results to explain it or offer treatment to counter it. What I do know is it all kicks off together (all symptoms), goes into remission together, and the only thing that can stop an episode is prednisolone steroids and antihistamines (fexofenadine). Unfortunately, the docs in the UK will not provide me with steroids even though my life is miserable and I am clearly steroid responsive.

I've been in hospital multiple times and each time came out feeling great after a large dose of steroids. Zero symptoms for the following 2 to 6 weeks.

So I'm wondering if anyone else was in a similar boat or storm and how did you get diagnosed for the docs to give you treatment (even if it's just steroids to reduce the total meltdown - which I feel will kill me in the next few years).

Thanks

Hi All,

My Dell G5 5500 laptop just died. Won't power up. Tried everything obvious and not obvious (took it apart as far as I could too). It's probably a goner. I'm getting a rated repair specialist to take a look but odds are I need to upgrade anyway as it is 6 years old.

My needs (same as what I was using the broken laptop for):

Running Hermes and Hindsight (bot and bot memory) connected to telegram. Running under WSL2.

Running small LLMs locally.

Various mini AI development projects and training course workshops.

Web browsing.

Taking it around and presenting from and including presentation builds when I am away - Office365 suite (I have a license).

LAPTOP QUESTIONNAIRE

• UK

[Country or countries intending to purchase from]

• $2000 or £1500 +/- 10%

• Are you open to refurbs/used options? NO

• Screen size

15", 16", 17", 18"

• Weight limit

No weight limit.

• Purpose

Running bots and small LMs, Office 365 productivity, web browsing, various. Portability with screen essential (don't want a mini PC).

• Form factor

regular laptop

• Intended usage

Running Hermes bot, hindsight bot memory, office 365, web browsing, AI development - but on the go - not my main machine (already got a monster).

• Desired battery life

1 to 1.5 hours is perfectly fine.

• Please list, in order of most important to least important, the priority between Size, Weight, Performance, Battery life

Robustness, reliability, and GPU performance and memory. Need RTX40 series or 50 series for AI development. I can work with 6GB VRAM but 8GB or more is better. 32GB RAM is comfortable. 16GB uncomfortable.

• Info/Requirements

I don't need a monster laptop as I've got a desktop I built a year or two back with dual 5090s, Ryzen 9 9950X, and 128GB RAM. That's my main machine where some heavyweight AI dev occurs and running Gemma4 31b locally and very fast.

I really want a laptop with a solid build, good warranty, no overheating issues, and 32GB RAM with (ideally) an RTX 40 or 50 series GPU to make the upgrade worth while. 15.5inch screen minimum but ideally 17 inch. Windows 11 because of all of the other productivity stuff I do on the go and app compatibility. I use Linux under WSL2.

I've seen a few that match the criteria but when I've read reviews folks have complained about severe overheating issues.

Many thanks in advance.