Random thoughts on life
Last year I finally ditched my Humax Freeview Recorder for a shiny new Manhattan T4-R – the latest iteration of their own recorder, and I’d heard good thinks about their past devices.
However, reporting issues to them has been a combination of frustration and rude responses. Everything is your fault, not theirs. And it seems I’m not the only one with this issue.
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Water flossers are great dental hygiene product but, for what they are, they can be pretty expensive. Spending over £100 for something that sprays water through a nozzle is steep – whichever one you buy, it’s just a pump and a water container.
Normally, though, you get what you pay for in terms of better design but, recently, I’ve had an experience of, well, this not being the case.
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Anybody who knows me will know that I love to try and make people laugh. At school is was predicted I’d be a comedian. Computers came along and changed that path for me.
But, it’s still within me.
The thing about humour is that everyone has lines in the sand where humour doesn’t land with them – topics that are unacceptable. People often making sweeping statements that particular jokes aren’t funny, but that’s never true – a joke is always funny to at least one person, if only the person delivering it. Humour means different things to different people after all.
What the person is saying is that the joke wasn’t funny to THEM. That doesn’t make the person delivering the joke wrong.
And when that line is crossed between 2 people, how do you best deal with it?
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I’ve not had a clothes dryer for at least 15 years and even when I did, I rarely used it. Growing up in the 1970s, they never were a thing so I’ve got used to natural drying.
As the UK weather turns warmer, drying your clothes outside seems an even better idea now.
And, in recent years, I’ve been looking at more environmentally friendly ways to do it.
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So many people have dashcams in their car, and I’m no exception. I have a Nextbase model but, recently, it’s been randomly restarting during journeys. After discussion with the AI support bot (I had no choice – don’t judge me!), it turned out that the internal battery was pretty much dead – after fully charging, the dashcam should stay on for around 8 minutes without a power supply. Mine shut down as soon as it had started up.
So, a new battery it is.
But, although Nextbase have made it easy for you to get into the dashcam (possibly for their own advantages), they’ve made it frustratingly difficult for the average person to then make the battery replacement themselves.
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