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by robotmay 6y ago
From the reports we're seeing over here the claim is that until the Wrexham factory came online, we were producing the vaccine in the UK but shipping it to the Netherlands for fill and finish, and then it was shipped back. If that is t
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by robotmay 6y ago
I was under the assumption that the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine was being produced at cost under the agreement with Oxford University. I'm curious as to what cost savings they were after - possibly on distribution or in establishin
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by robotmay 6y ago
From what I've gathered (unfortunately mostly on Reddit, before this article), Ursula von der Leyen wasn't exactly fondly thought of in Germany before this and somehow keeps managing to fail upwards. Is that accurate? The utterly
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by robotmay 6y ago
Aw I kinda like the brutally green card :D
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by robotmay 6y ago
I can second the problems with Revolut. Weird and dodgy, and they spend every second of your use of their app trying to sell you shitty addon services like mobile phone insurance. Starling, however, has been magic. I swapped my primary bank
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by robotmay 6y ago
Well having a large office would seem to be a start.
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by robotmay 6y ago
I did have a bit of a play with Manyverse (and with SSB itself in the past) and it looks interesting. The lack of syncing between desktop and mobile SSB accounts is a bit of a pain which I think will hinder adoption until they come up with
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by robotmay 6y ago
Looks interesting but from what I can tell currently isn't available on app stores to immediately try out. It does at least have a nice logo which is ultimately enough to make me try something :p I'd like to see the slew of new me
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by robotmay 6y ago
Are there any public forums on Briar? I'd kinda like to try out that aspect of it (and the blogs) but it suffers somewhat from a blank canvas when first setting it up :D Edit: Looking closer I see contacts have to share forums, which i
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by robotmay 6y ago
Good bands! Faustus and False Lights are another couple of bands that fit into a similar sound/style category which also have some good rurally-sourced songs. All those up-tempo bands are so much fun to see live. Solo singer-wise there
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by robotmay 6y ago
What about tape? I suppose the cost of the drive is prohibitive but I was under the assumption that was used for a lot of long-term storage.
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by robotmay 6y ago
Show of Hands were my introduction to the UK folk scene so I'll always have time for them. They typically have some great support acts too, with friends from the US and Canada often coming across to tour like Richard Shindell. England
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by robotmay 6y ago
It's not just elite artists though. I know plenty of small folk artists that tour Europe regularly as there's plenty of interest over there. Usually they can chain a few festivals across the Netherlands, Belgium, and France with s
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by robotmay 6y ago
Ooh something I have direct personal experience in. I currently use Zoom once a week for a music lesson. The latency is poor but my friend is not super great with computers so it's a reasonable compromise. Now _playing_ together is muc
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by robotmay 6y ago
I asked some French friends if there was any good French TV that I could watch to learn more, but also enjoy at the same time. They started talking amongst themselves and I honestly thought they hadn't heard me, until about 5 minutes l
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by robotmay 6y ago
Every time I try to pronounce "Auvergne" to a French person they quite literally cannot comprehend what I'm aiming for. It's pretty remarkable that I've been trying for years at this point and still can't get i
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by robotmay 6y ago
I have the LG 43UN700, and I paid about 700GBP at the time, I think. Brief review: I love it. Particularly excellent for photo editing (it's so huge I have to zoom out sometimes) and programming. There is a slight visual oddity on the
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by robotmay 6y ago
Ken Rockwell might be the most interesting reviewer I've come across in years. What he favours is well known (e.g. metal over plastic) but his opinions always feel honest and he's pretty pragmatic on what he recommends. Unlike mos
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by robotmay 6y ago
Ooh this is good to know, thank you!
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by robotmay 6y ago
Single 43" 4K monitor here and I'm not going back to anything smaller in the future. It was a bit of a compromise for me in terms of game performance (I'd have preferred 144hz over 4K really but less than 4K at this size woul
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by robotmay 6y ago
The modem is fine; this is a very intermittent issue, like once every two months, if that, and caused further up the line. In the UK most of our internet infrastructure is, frankly, a bit shit, and maintained by a small subset of companies.
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by robotmay 6y ago
Yeah I have run into this, notably with the Xbox Live app for Windows, which totally saturates the line and generates something like 15% packet loss reports. However that's a different event to the occasional lower but prolonged packet
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by robotmay 6y ago
I don’t have anything to swap it out with unfortunately, and due to the infrequent nature of the issue it’d be pretty hard to predict. Intermittent packet loss is something I’ve experienced everywhere I’ve lived in the UK and with different
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by robotmay 6y ago
Hah yes in this case I already had most of the tools lying about. In fact the hardest part was figuring out why the hell the barrel-jack didn’t fit in the modem. Ended up finding an Amazon review with the correct connector size.
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by robotmay 6y ago
It’s quite a peculiar issue when it does happen (which is rarely), in that the only way I’ve found of resolving it myself is by dropping the line at that modem. I’m always hesitant to have the line inspected in the UK because there’s every
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by robotmay 6y ago
There’s no problem with the device: I triggered the failures/packet loss manually by pulling the cable to test the system. The actual packet loss is intermittent and reasonably rare, and is I suspect a fault at the line level with BT&#
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by robotmay 6y ago
Interesting idea! It might be possible; I haven’t touched the thing since first configuring it a few years ago so I’m a bit fuzzy on how exactly the interface works.
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by robotmay 6y ago
I’ve never had a device brick by removing the power. The only button on the Vigor 130 immediately cuts the power too: there’s no “shutdown” button.
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by robotmay 6y ago
You can’t access that web interface from the internal network as the Vigor 130 is not a router. Unless someone has a fancy trick I’m missing I have to disconnect my router and connect a laptop directly to the modem with a fixed IP to access
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by robotmay 6y ago
A&A actually have a nice explanation on their wiki: https://support.aa.net.uk/Packet_Loss

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