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True. But we load shift to the cheap period things like the washing machine, dryer and dishwasher. We have an old 5 bed house - currently eon reckon our bill for the month is about £50.

My girlfriends X4 was stolen 4 months ago. Replaced it with an Audi A6 etron. Her insurance renewal came up 30 quid cheaper at 510 last week! We were stunned.

The EV was definitely the right choice, due to luck rather than knowing Trump was about to kick off with Iran. It costs us £8 to charge the car overnight for around 380 miles range.

Most use of VCD I saw was in karaoke, the low res graphics but decent sound worked fine for that - my karaoke DJ mate had hundreds.

Jesus this man has issues.

"I built" these days means they ai coded it and have no idea what they're doing. Utter slop.

Go look on autotrader in the UK, there's tonnes around that price. Think they had to make room for the 2026 model.

We did the same btw, have a 4 year old Labrador with hip displacia so wanted the estate with the low boot, hence the estate.

Cost me £40k for it with 15 miles on the clock. They are definitely having issues shifting them.

Didn't Google have a previous lawsuit against foundem? Not a fan of Google but foundem were fucking awful.

We just bought an Audi A6 Avant Performance which is a year old and about the same spec?

Missus is a BMW person and really wanted another, but they were not competitive. I did a 380 mile journey in it at around 85% battery and it was awesome.

Having interviewed with them for a SRE role I can definitely see how they are awful. The amount of technical debt is hilarious.

That's exactly my memory too, using a tab was second nature and it irked me when I went to gui apps with a mouse and the tab order was wrong, mainly with visual basic apps.

So glad they called out Solovair as a replacement for Doc Martens.

My first pair of DMs lasted me 7 Glastonbury Festivals - and if you'd ever been there you know the muddy ones are a mare, I average 40000 steps a day at the festival and just trying to lift your feet up in thickening and warming mud is a nightmare. Only threw them as I couldn't bear to clean them.

Next two pairs of DMs after moving the manufacturing to Thailand? Crap. Didn't even last a single festival, soles came apart, waterproofing was non-existent.

Solovair are fantastic. They're using the original tooling in the original DM factory. Expensive but worth it.

Yup. Is this post from 2019?

My Pixel 8 Pro is more secure than your iOS 18 handset Apple don't care about.

I don't think I've ever something so incorrect.

I was working at a place in the UK where I only had BPSS but everybody else in the office had top clearance as they worked on military stuff, this was when The Guardian were doing the Snowden stuff.

It was easily the best way of clearing the office for some peace - mention the front page of the newspaper and everybody would lock their laptops, pick up their papers and walk.

From what I can gather the fact you know something you shouldn't, even though it's in the national news, it causes problems when renewing your clearances, so...

This is actually Apple doing this? What is going on there?

It's reliant on a bounty iirc for the server and device side code to be open-sourced. Will be about an hour after that I reckon and I cannot wait to contribute.

"have a buffer of days"

Interesting. So if your product cannot connect to the cloud/subscription, but still works, why is there an issue with it working fully locally?

> If you go to Italy there are no mc donald's

Eh? https://www.mcdonalds.it/

Really? It's a rounding error. Both are essentially video mirroring protocols with some bidirectional stuff for speed / fuel level etc.

Compare that to the effort made to do your own satnav, or integrate an existing one, then get back to me.

Good point. Though certainly Google Maps (through AA) lets you download the route in advance so you don't technically need data.

Toyota want a subscription for AA/CP? For something with a one-time development cost and nothing ongoing after?

Wow.

The built-in nav is always awful anyway.

My partner replaced her 11 year BMW 5 GT with a new X4 last month. The nav is slow (probably updates the view twice a second) and out of date. I think it needs new roads updating via a USB stick.

The Android Auto and Carplay integration are fantastic though - silky smooth (better than the phone they're coming from) and always up to date.

Who ever uses those built-in things?

Ad-free, but is it tracking free?

I think we know the answer to that one.

When I worked for Cisco via an acquisition every single person I knew refused to use Webex in lieu of Google Meet etc

Yup, thank you.

No mention of CGNAT which caused me many problems at a previous role?

We've had issues with Carplay and AA over wired and non wired connections in our motorhome (camper van for you yanks)

So we've got a 5g router with wifi in there - if that's on whilst you're driving the phone, whether iphone or android, will not connect to the headunit so no Carplay / AA.

These things are still extremely buggy which is hilarious considering how long they've been around.

(not to mention losing the connection on both AA and Carplay when going through a toll booth in France)

Because it's the best option I've seen and it's one they haven't ruined?