MrsDoyle
@MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Andrew will be banished from royal premises to King Charles' private and remote Sandringham estate 2 weeks ago:
You can have afternoon tea in the restaurant after your visit. And there’s a gift shop of course.
So remote though.
- Comment on Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while? 2 weeks ago:
No, is the answer. Moving to another ISP when my plan runs out. I’m paying extra for a VoIP line and want to move to WiFi calling.
- Comment on Why don't cars have a way to contact nearby cars like fictional spaceships do? 2 weeks ago:
I do a lot of water sports in the UK and we use VHF radios. Certain frequencies are used by marinas and the like, and nearby boats will be tuned into them. Then there is a frequency used for emergency calls - the coastguard listens on that and answers, and will move your call to another frequency for more details, leaving the mayday one open again.
We mainly use VHF for boat-to-boat comms, or boat-to-shore. The local range is decent - a few miles from our base, depending on atmospheric conditions, obstacles etc. I honestly have no idea if you could use VHF radios between cars though. It’s not private for a start - everyone can hear you - and once someone is yammering on the marina frequency no-one else can transmit. So it’s just brief messages with protocols.
- Comment on Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while? 2 weeks ago:
I hate the SMS ones, because I don’t have a good phone signal in my home, so I have to ruin around trying to get a couple of bars so I can get the effing code. My banking app just uses a fingerprint.
- Comment on What's the best way to ease getting back in shape after years of little to no exercise? 3 weeks ago:
Swimming works for me. I joined a gym at a hotel that has a pool, reasonable price and usually fairly few people. I like to swim lengths, thinking of nothing at all, for half an hour to an hour. Good for general fitness, stamina.
- Comment on After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence 3 weeks ago:
I thought it was interesting that she was ok with all the neighbourhood surveillance until it was used against her.
- Comment on Where is modern Punk? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on What went wrong with Pizza Hut? 3 weeks ago:
I’ve never had a Domino’s pizza and never will - they’re spending so much on TV adverts their food is probably shit.
- Comment on What are some good things to purchase to add a new distraction to my life? 4 weeks ago:
The best thing about digital photography is that you can keep trying your shot with different settings for exposure, aperture etc. it’s a great way to learn what works best in what situation.
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 4 weeks ago:
He also invented CFCs, the chemical that nearly destroyed the earth’s protective ozone layer. Quite a guy.
- Comment on Is there an anti- sleep-paralysis device? 4 weeks ago:
It’s my understanding that everyone has sleep paralysis - the brain “switches off” the body (apart from essentials: breathing, heart beat etc) so you don’t come to grief acting out your dreams. What we call sleep paralysis is when you wake, but your body hasn’t been switched back on.
I used to have horrible sleep paralysis nightmares quite often. But then I read about what it really is, and I stopped having them. It was like my brain realised it was out of sync and corrected itself.
- Comment on Pubs could stay open until early hours in move to boost UK growth 1 month ago:
Late licences (to 5am in Scotland) are the main reason I fled Edinburgh’s Old Town for the suburbs. No fun having your front door used as a toilet, drunks ranting and fighting in the close at 3am, having to dodge “pavement pizzas” every night. Yay, growth!
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 1 month ago:
Your “Send to Kindle” email address is in your profile details, under devices and apps. In the app (Android) it’s under settings.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 1 month ago:
Since at some point recently. You can still email files (epub not mobi now) to your kindle, but usb transfer doesn’t work any more.
- Comment on tall tails 2 months ago:
Vibe coded lion:
- Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 2 months ago:
I’m poised… might try a dual boot first.
- Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 2 months ago:
They can’t convince me to switch to Win 11 because apparently my computer isn’t good enough.
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 2 months ago:
Of course we remember Dolly! She was stuffed and is on display in the National Museum of Scotland.
- Comment on xkcd #3135: Sea Level 2 months ago:
Cramond Island, Edinburgh
- Comment on Yes, you can store data on a bird — enthusiast converts PNG to bird-shaped waveform, teaches young starling to recall file at up to 2MB/s 2 months ago:
- Comment on xkcd #3135: Sea Level 2 months ago:
There’s an island near me that has a pedestrian causeway at low tide. There are huge signs warning to check tide times or get cut off, but still people don’t get it.
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 2 months ago:
I think doctors just ask what day it is or “who is the prime minister” to work out what’s wrong. When I found my neighbour wandering along the street unable to find her own front door I understood her problem without an acronym.
- Comment on What is the maximum number of potatoes you could grow in your house or on property you own before it becomes a crime? 3 months ago:
Well you SAY that, but one of my neighbours grew potatoes in her front garden, and there was a LOT of tutting. Really a lot. Everyone knows front gardens are for flowers, not potatoes. I’m surprised the police weren’t called.
- Comment on UK lawmaker for life urged urged ministers to crack down on Palestine Action at request of US company 3 months ago:
Yet it’s somehow cost-effective to arrest and prosecute a bunch of people - they’re already making room in prisons for the expected surge over the weekend. Bloody ridiculous.
I lived in London during the Troubles. I think I know what terrorism is, and pensioners waving placards aren’t even close.
- Comment on Does anyone struggle with spending money foolishly on prostitutes? 3 months ago:
A lot of Nazis were Christians.
- Comment on Does anyone struggle with spending money foolishly on prostitutes? 3 months ago:
We live in a society. I believe that a predisposition to empathy, compassion, love, all those good things, is inbuilt in us to help maintain a stable, cohesive society. They are taught to young children, who learn to share, care, co-operate. It seems like some people never grow up, and still need a “parent” to guide them.
- Comment on How do you combat boredom? 3 months ago:
I’m never bored. What’s it like?
- Comment on Does anyone struggle with spending money foolishly on prostitutes? 3 months ago:
Morality matters, friend, even for atheists like me. The trouble with the “only believers can be moral” standpoint is that believers can end up doing the most heinously amoral things in the name of their god. Like burning people alive for example. Stoning sinners to death.
- Comment on Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding 3 months ago:
I know!! Sometimes it’s even painted on the road in huge numerals. I explained everything to her.
- Comment on Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding 4 months ago:
My idiot sister racked up nine points in six months after moving to the UK. She claimed not to have seen the 40mph sign she blew past at 50. “They’re so small!” She only started paying attention when she realised she was one ticket away from a ban.
