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Google has the early warning system that gives people maybe 20-30s to e.g. turn off gas, stop vehicles, get under something solid. There was a lot of news recently about how this s…

Fwiw I have a pixel and run a lot. It's never happened to me.

Massive in London.

North Korea has a bunch they're willing to sell. Russia is buying already so get 'em while they're hot. I have been vaguely watching the Ukraine conflict over the past few years. F…

Sigh. For me Wikipedia is synonymous with petty bickering and fiefdoms and politics. Why I am not surprised by this? It's like student unions only worse

My wife has one. Been rock solid for years. I recommend them to relatives who just do email and browsing etc.

I think the "worst case" won't just be losing the phone. Do you think they'll get to the stage of keeping your phone but then let you walk out the airport as if nothing happened?! …

There is a time and a place. If someone jumps out at you in a dark alley and they have a weapon and they ask for your wallet, what are you going to do? Swallow your pride and give …

I think in these situations your absolute best bet is fawning compliance. Ask precisely how high they want you to jump. Perhaps your friendly smiling Yes-Sir-No-Sir-3-bags-Full-Sir…

Yes this is the whole $5-dollar-wrench XKCD thing. "Ahah! I've won! The data has gone!! MUWAHAHAH! Take THAT border guards".... congrats you're still going to the same prison thoug…

Dude I said 1,2,3-FIVE! jesus did you break my phone?! What the hell did you do?! Man my wife is going to be so mad she didn't even want me to upgrade to a new handset.

How does this handle motion detection? Anyone tried it? I have a bunch of Nest cameras and some cheaper Tapo cameras. The "motion detection" is night and day different. The Tapo do…

Personally I have used GitHub pages and cloudflare pages for hosting static sites and have been very happy with them considering the zero cost involved. I don't think there is much…

I wouldn't get too hung up on actual speed or numbers, but try to just keep it slow. I hear what you are saying. Running gait is more sort of a lean-forward-and-push-off-with-toes …

Well I said "at least for me" 10 words in, and "give it a go" etc so I am not suggesting this is universal. Sorry it doesn't work for you. 4 to 6 times a week is a lot though, max …

Running is quite meditative when you get in to it (at least for me when outside - indoor running on treadmills is soul destroying though I agree). You don't have to go fast or far,…

Opus 4.5 was the high point for me. It was like a mind-reader, it just got it and did pretty much exactly what I wanted. Since then, I've been less impressed and I agree it feels a…

Appears to be iPhone only? Title needs updating

Only live for an hour. But that won't stop people doing bad stuff for an hour I guess. Vibe code up some on-demand thing that you ping...

I visited a decade or so ago. Most of the islands you are forbidden from staying overnight on. No running water. No power. No phone signal. You're going to need a big big solar pan…

There is no dead lingo. The term "log" as a list of entries in some kind of journal predates the internet in en-GB by several hundred years, having strong nautical origins in the s…

No, it's always been blog in en-GB. Try reading in light of basic facts, if you need more hint consider if a spell checker might put a wiggly underline under the letters "loug".

Cable channel? Are you talking about fibre-optic frequency channels? What kind of cable are we talking? Perhaps you can be more inclusive in your language on the future.

+1 very similar situation, one of only two Brits the rest from all.over who speak "international English" Despite all the woke stuff I still have to hide my en-GB background in my …