Aspman

Could mean the botnet controlling it was taken out or the mailserver etc. Or some servers have been added to a blacklist. You'll never know.

IMHO they can make the limit 5mph, there will be no enforcement on 99% of roads so no one will pay any attention to it.

All Jimny's seem to be coveted just now. Mine back from MOT and service just this week. Speaking to the chap collecting he said they had a 2015 on the forecourt for £17k. Clicky click, looking at Autotrader mine has gone up about £1k in a year. that's +ve £1 a mile for me. I've never had a car that gets so much attention. I had the Maserati outside and the Jimny next to it. Twice people were round and they commented on the Maserati but spent more time talking about the Jimny.

We have a home AV setup but steered clear of Sonos since some of their business practices are less than agreeable to me. We have a similar system but have used Yamaha Musiccast. It's probably worth popping into a shop like Richer sounds and speak ingto their guys about options

Actually that date is the finish deadline for the switchover, it's been happening for quite some time. At previous job I was involved quite heavily in the switchover since this affected personal alarms for old folk and the vulnerable and there has been a sizable project underway for a good 5yr. BT/Openreach has been quietly switching over exchanges all that time. There is a planned progression but also if any analogue exchange failed they were switched rather than repaired.

A lot of text there and it seems awful. I was advising someone else the other day about a similar but less serious bullying campaign where the school was being unhelpful. I would urge caution regarding the use of body cameras. they count as CCTV and there are strict rules around their use. If you intent for the camera to be used without warning then it may be considered surveillance. Unfortunately you may find the police more interested in doing somthing about your daughters use of cctv than the bullying since it's easier to prove. https://www.saferhighways.co.uk/post/clearway-is-it-legal-to-wear-a-body-camera-in-the-uk That is for the UK not NI but I belive the rules should be fairly similar across the whole EU. General advice around complaining to the public sector. You must play the game. The complaints procedures are set in stone, if you deviate from the path it allows your complaint to be rejected or overlooked and often it cannot be repeated (double jeopardy almost). I do not know the procedure in NI but it it likely to be similar to this - Stage 1 with school Stage 2 with Local council or education authority Stage 3 with Public Sector ombudsman 'Stage 4' legal action via national courts or ECHR. Learn the process and do everything in writing. If you follow the process the school is locked into it. But you must follow the process, no short cuts. It will take longer than you want it to. Complain through official channels, and escalate at approriate points. Know the rules and laws that apply to the school. Use FOI to apply for copies of policies and procedures. Use non-adherance to their own rules within your letters and emails. Use their own words and phrases e.g. "duty provide a safe learning environment", Be unemotional and polite. If meetings are face to face insist on minuting and take your own minutes. You will probably be entitled to have an advocate (not necessarily a lawyer, in fact avoid lawyers) or supporting person with you. Do not insist on audio recording meetings you may not have right to do this but you can ask, if all present agree you can but at the start of the recording ask the questions again "I am recording this meeting [location date], [ask attendees to state their names], say [can I ask if anyone objects to me recording this meeting?]. If anyone changes their mind you must stop recording, you will have to provide a copy of the recording if requested. Do not raise your voice or insult anyone or make unfounded allegations (if you are agressive the meeting can be shut down and the authority may move to label you as an unreasonably complainant). Do not threaten legal action or send letters from solicitors since this can trigger legal action rules closing down the complaint Do not carpet bomb the organsations involved with emails or letters, you may get labelled as a 'Vexatious' or 'Querelous' complainant. This does sound like everything is weighted against you BUT if you stay to the path of the process and you educate yourself you will actually start to have the upper hand since it's likely the school does not know its own rules or legal obligations all that well, they will almost certainly have been complacent. If you know what is going on better than them you will start to see where to kick them where it hurts and exactly what words to use.. There is also the principle of In Loco Parentis which is the school acting as a child's guardian but as to whether that applies on a school bus is unclear. I found one reference from England - "If they are paying for themselves, then their parents are responsible. If they are over 16, they are. If the local authority subsidises their travel, they are the local authority's responsibility." NI law might well be different. Good luck, must be awful. [edit I've added some more info around recording meetings] I used to manage the team that carried out the stage 2 in a local authority although I wasn't involved myself. All the policies and procesures around complaints will be published online somewhere so I'd start there are familiarise youself with that. You may find you are partway through already.

I do too 🥲 I think I was in my 20s beforeI had a mobile. Not particularly liking using the phone full stop it never seemed like a very appealing tech to me.

Man logic certainly but current monitor was about £600 on sale

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vix6TMnj9vY

Loooong delay on reply. I've already got it and it doesn't have a KVM unfortunately

We're in a dip with a cellular shadow, we're also near the motorway which means if it's busy the cell we're in can shrink and we lose connectivity. Your download speeds are affected badly by contention, if the 5G is at 100% then you might well find more speed from connecting to a 4G at 50%. 3G going, I feel old, I remember when it was a big new thing. Actually I remember when 2G was quite the bees knees....actually I remember G 😪.

I've noticed an uptick in junk over the last month or so, makes me think some filter has been removed prior to being sold back to us. Most of what I'm seeing is so poor the filters from 15yr ago would screen no problem which is what makes me think it's being allowed through deliberately.

We've got a problem with speeders through the village, we're in a 40 but a lot (possible the majority) of cars are well above that. Traffic monitoring last year showed a lot of cars doing 80+ and an outright winner doing 105mph. We've no paths and kids have to walk along the verge to get the school bus and cross the road with cars doing these speeds so it's a real issue. We got a few VAS signs put up but if anything they seems to have made thing worse. The signs are in the middle of the village and ether side has now become an assumed NSL zone. Councils won't do anything unless you've proof so I found a guide online to setup a Raspberry Pi with a camera as a defacto speed camera. https://www.hackster.io/hodgestk/traffic-camera-9d3739 It uses OpenCV to detect objects coming into view and times their passing through. simple bit of maths works out the speed. I can follow instructions but I'm no coder and I can only get so far with this. The guide is a few years old and most of the software has moved on a bit. I've worked my way through but now got stuck. The code wants to call picamera for Opencv to work, but the newer versions of the OS use Libcamera. It's past my knowledged to switch the code from one to the other. Any Python gurus help out?

Not just Forfar it seems, they hit Kinross too. Quite a few cars now clamped up

BMW had (has?) an optional drivers package that includes upping the speed limiter to about 170. I wonder if those cas had been though that option.

I think it's more to do with volume of traffic. Motorways speeds down south (just back from a couple of long trips) seem to often be barely above 60mph. Lot's of cars have speed warnings but they're manual. I've got them set on a few of our cars but they are set at 90+, and they are just a warning bong not a limiter. My Maserati is a bit of an oddity, it's not signed up to the 155mph gentlemens agreement so in theory I can beat an M5 on the right road as the diesel Mas can ht 157mph.

We'll have to wait a few years for teh next headine that it was basically a scam to get get tax breaks and grant money. like the gigabattery factory. Billions spent, a few rich people getting much richer but nothing sold and no customers.

I think the world might be starting to pivot away from China actually. The Western political love-in with China is fading and the politicians are actually starting to listen to the idea that China is actually a lot like Russia and not to be trusted. We're shaking hands and rolling out the red carpet to a country which is actively attacking Westen interests 24/7. The US has started pulling out microchip fabrication from China and Taiwan and bringing them back home. That's not making much noise because it takes about 5yr to spin up a chip forge and billions of dollars. Russia as a former trusted partner in energy has opened some eyes that putting a large amount of your critical national infrastructure into the hands of your enemies is actually not a good iea no matter how many directorships it gets you after you are voted out. China itself has probably delayed its ambitions in the Western pacific for a few years now after Russia's play has backfired and resolidified NATO and Western military spending. But China and Russia both play a long game not the 4yr cycles of the West. Russia might be on it's way to being made a 3rd word country but China isn't Russia. They are much more strategic and disciplined. I think we'll start to slowly see some manufacturing be brough back to Europe. Not to the UK we're too expensive but to the Eastern states and probably to Ukraine when the dust settles. There will be big business to be done in Ukraine to rebuild. Lots of money to be made.

The refresh is 144Hz Needs to use HDMI as it's for a work laptop (only has hdmi) and PC. So just 2x input I have extensions right now but I think the port on the latop is starting to wear I did get a basic USB3 dock it does work but can't cope with the resolution

Does anyone know of a KVM that can handle an ultrawide (3840x1080) monitor?

I suggested to them that that car needed tested at "slightly naughty speeds". Enthusiastic overtaking speeds or possibly just any motorway down south speeds.

Dunno, but tbh I'll take it to a proper place for that myself

Car back, picked up and collected by salesman. Two new tyres, car checked for a tremor at higher speed. All 4 wheel balanced car tested with promise that appears to be sorted. Plenty of comms from salesman and service manager. Ok not the perfect start to new car ownership but I'll give credit to the dealer for handling the problem well.

It’s the far left shoulder that was really worn should have grooves to match the other side. Reminded me of my octy that used to do that on the rears. Aye car has quite a lot of leg room in the back🤣. My mate is 6’7” i think even he’d be quite comfortable.

It’s a 4wd model. All4 and JCW editions have 4x4