u/BarryTownCouncil

I've some bruising around my kidney / lower rib on one side from a recent unrelated fall. Checked out OK by the doctors, but at practice last week I took a moderate hit which has set me back a bit in recovery.

Is anyone aware of any protection that I could use in that area?

Sorry that this clearly isn't "etymology" but I've no idea where else to ask this with a chance of being taken seriously...

I understand that the phrase "How do you do" was never a question, and never used to be interpreted as one. It wasn't a question that people knew to not answer, it just flat was not a question, but a statement greeting and there was no ambiguity.

Since 100 or so years passed, we now so often are asked how we are when meeting someone, and we're meant to lie and say we're good, even when our lives get flipped turned upside down.

So I have this theory that we are asking these polite, but unwanted, questions now due to the loss of understanding of what "how do you do" actually meant in the first place and people now wrongly think when that ask "how are you doing?" they're just saying a modern version of it.

Anyone think I might be correct on this? As an AuDHD person often baffled by social conventions, I wonder about it a lot.

Heading in to town shortly, we'll have lunch somewhere like Medicine Bakery then go to the museum with our 9yo as she's somehow never been. Anything else I've overlooked for all these years of living here rather than being a tourist?

There were a fair few NFL fans at Camp Bestival this past weekend. Always fun to share a fake rivalry, or compliment them on the exceptionally reasonable price of their stadium hotdogs.

As expected, much laughs and smiles with Packers, Ravens, Chiefs fans, or at least hat wearers. Only hangup was a guy in a Cowboys... "You'd better keep fucking walking..." Delightful!

We are visiting Portland Bill today, on Portsea Island. Does anyone remember its namesake? This is the only episode I remember of it personally. Cracking theme tune.

I went for a bike ride with my daughter and coming home I was in charge of the music, so I put on National Express radio on Spotify.

Remembering back to inside music and all, listening to this track again, it was just like... Good, fun music. Why were songs like this kept in a small little pocket of weird when it's just lovely and fun and great?

Whilst most subs show hot posts on my main page, I never see a post on some subs, like AskReddit that's more than 5 minutes old. There doesn't appear to be a per sub setting for this preference as far as I can tell?

Presumably a question for those in 240v kettle land, but when switching to induction, did you stop pre boiling water for pasta etc..? It's not exactly the same but the difference between a kettle and induction seems very small compared to gas.

There does seem to be a real consensus that the Saturday screenshot rule is very good, but it's not automatically enforced. Could something like https://developers.reddit.com/apps/flair-schedule be used?

Especially on the wall, they always / need try to give examples of what 4 words are synonyms for. But if there are already 4 words that are synonyms for each other, that should be plenty to say by itself, right?

My neighbour replaced our shared (but legally mine given our half was sold off by the council first) fence, a few years back and now I've come to find, after clearing some water of space shrubs from my side and replacing with mini fruit trees, the bottom of the panels is already going a bit rotten in places. So I told them around April time that at some point I'd put concrete gravel boards in to protect the panels and lift them to the top of the posts. OK.

Shifting forwards to last Friday and I have a burst of redundancy enthusiasm and go buy the boards and in 34 degrees sun get 4 in as per picture. I then swanned off to watch some county cricket.

Later that evening enjoying a beer or 5, the wife texts me to advise the neighbours are not happy. I did not realise they had, in time for that last England world cup game but some strings of cheap and cheerful solar lights all along the top of the fence. So every time I hoiked a panel up high enough to get a board in at an angle, I ripped the wires out of the bulbs.

Oopsy.

He'd come round fuming, somehow thinking it was malicious, but my wife opened the door to him, cute kitten in hand and smothered him with kindness and smiles. And off he went, placated because my wife is awesome.

I could have said I had advised them I was going to, but they already said they'd presumed I wasn't actually going to bother (Ahh man they have no Idea how ADHD works!), so I extended the wife's kindness route, and rather than paying them the money to buy new ones, I went all the way to B&M to get exact replacements the same day, and seems like we averted falling out even more.

Well, I'm off to put some more in, and she said she'd have removed the last remaining working one by now, so wish me luck!

It really seems odd to me that there is no range sensing, or a proxy thereof in Bluetooth. I'd like my phone to automatically connect to my bedroom speaker if it's within 50cm of it, or if the power of the signal is above xyz, implying it's very close.

My car knows when my car key is inside it and won't start otherwise. That's not Bluetooth of course, but it's a really good system that achieves the same thing with some sort of triangulation I assume. My phone though will still connect to my car stereo when the wife goes to drive it and I'm still lying in bed...

Whilst a combination of NFC and Bluetooth could do it, it doesn't do it so seems self evident it's not a solution so a solution that could be part of a single tech standard is essential for proper adoption.

Was something fundamentally missed in the spec that 20 years on its just ever technically not possible, or have developers just never thought it was a feature worth adding.

Watching Wimbledon this week, and I love observing how, bar things like collisions and such, the players have absolutely no need to thank the ball boys etc. it's purely functional and serves making the sporting spectacle even better.

Similarly when my kid goes to table tennis. I'm there on my phone waiting and doing a Sudoku. Every few minutes a ball pings off my forehead. No need to apologise, it happens, quicker for neither mw nor the offending child to acknowledge it.

It's not rude in any way, it's just an unusual situation where manners and protocol are different and all that faffing has gone. Love it.

I've used fedora since it took over from Redhat. It does such great work for Redhat's upstream releases and Linux in general. It's so slick and well made for the level of testing work it does at the same time.

Yet... By far the most popular posts here are just irrelevant Gnome and KDE screenshots? Seriously...? I personally couldn't care less about someone's choice of wallpaper, but that's what r/fedora appears to be for on the average Reddit r/all view.

"I installed Fedora. Here's a picture of my desktop before I install Mint over it next week". Why are these posts upvoted? There's no content there.

TBH I didn't even know there was a "Saturday only" rule until now, that's still pretty much all I see in my feed, with interesting, technical posts being ignored.

Maybe better off in a history sub, but given its relation to the monarchy, I'm asking here... Why is the Regency Period so specifically defined as part of British history? A period of time spanning a lazy, arrogant prince becoming an awful king. Why?