You just reminded me I still have an inspection camera which can only work with software that requires Windows XP, last time I used it I had to run it on a virtual machine on my laptop, it’s been a few years, I probably don’t have the VM anymore. The camera works perfectly, I wish I’d paid the extra for the one with its own screen.

I guess we will see, but with the 3p per mile the average EV costs 2x as much per mile to fast charge on the public network as petrol.

I’m going to respectfully disagree; had the phone kept shutting down you would have gone to Apple or a 3rd party repairer and got a new battery for 30-80£€$.

By masking the real issue and just giving you a poor experience, you wonder if it was always like that, or if there is something wrong at all, maybe you compare it with a snappy new phone and decide to upgrade for 1000£€$

Get ready to watch the EV sales figures tank with the 3p per mile tax.

Not come across that one, maybe it didn’t affect iOS 16, so us iPhone X users are safe?

It is funny that all the responses so far have been about phones.

Got to be Apple slowing down older iPhones to mask battery degradation, and hoping no one would notice.

Heat pump driers use a bit of electricity to get up to temperature then a tiny amount to run the compressor and keep the heat topped up thought the cycle, they can take longer for some fibres (ones they have high resistance to airflow and also like to hold on to water) but they use far less energy to do that. The amount of energy used is not consistent through the wash.

Some loads my machine takes just over 1kWh (25p) to dry, maybe 2.5 hours, other loads take 30mins and 0.3kWh. (~8p)

It’s mainly down to our strict energy efficiency regulations, when shopping for a drier (which is already rare in Europe) they stick a big red flag and an “F” on the non efficient ones, and a green flag with “A+++” on the most efficient heat pump versions. There is also lots of data which need to be provided at point of sale and in advertising regarding the cost to run loads on various programs that make choosing an energy efficient model make sense.

I’d start with a search for “unistrut” tracks as these are pretty standard across multiple industries and applications, which makes them cheap, then add “wheel trolly”.

One track down each side 4 trolleys per board and make each board two and a bit feet long and you can have 3 down there. Attach them together with some webbing and a couple of snap fasteners, so you can pull each board out and remove it or just let it dangle down the wall.

So it’s ~3ft high, 4ft deep, and runs along the wall we are looking at behind the cupboard around 7ft?

I’m assuming the frame on the left is a doorway, as you walk through that door is there a wall on your right that you can make an opening in for this space?

Having a direct shot along the 7ft length you could make some simple trolly platforms or just store boxes along the length with straps attached so you can pull them out from the back.

I have a similar space in my garage over my porch, where I have a pressurised air cylinder, that’s probably more use in a garage than a kitchen… but you could dry your plates really really fast.

The APP3s were a present so now I’ve got £200 allocated to a nice pair of headphones… I don’t even mind adding to that for some nice earphones that will switch between Windows, Linux and iOS nicely with good battery and top tier noise cancellation. Never lost one so I’m not too concerned about that, but now I have the fun of trying to work out what is a genuine review and what is just trying to get me to click on a referral link. Any recommendations welcome.

Sadly they just put a ticket on the car and post you a fine if you don’t pay it… I could however just swap number plates with for example a blue Reliant Regal nearby and truly embrace my inner Mr Bean.

In my imagination I’m Jonny English in a V8 Vantage, ducking into a space whenever the warden turns around…. In reality it’s more Mr Bean in an Austin Mini.

We spend a lot of time together, this gives us 30ish minutes of alone time to browse Lemmy for me and Facebook for her, there are almost never parking wardens, but it makes it a bit exciting. Finally if we shop together we end up getting lots of things we shouldn’t buy, alone we tend to get what is on the list and get out.

About 5 years ago our town centre introduced parking charges, so now one of us goes shopping while the other sits in the car looking out for parking enforcement so we can drive a loop around the carpark. We probably pay less than once per year, but we park there at least once per week. Saves us ~£100 a year.

I think you will have to report your millage when you pay your car tax, which was only applied to EVs in April this year.

They really seem to hate EV drivers.

The police in my area have an advertising campaign showing all the e-bikes they are confiscating, encouraging people to report their neighbours, and reminding people they are illegal.

This is so infuriating:

• money off brand new cars, enabling price gouging for manufacturers and a slight discount for people who can afford a new car.

• rumor of pay per mile

• public charging still making 200% profit by selling 25p electricity for 75p, could you imagine the uproar if a garage made 200% on petrol???

Labour are just messing up every potential win so badly.

Squeeze the can until it flies up and lands in your mouth.

You’d get about 1M views on TikTok and YouTube