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[ronnyd]

Trying to buy an item on line without signing up to receive endless marketing emails. I want to just buy something i want, not be a friend for life.

[STEMO]

Applying to renew my driving licence. Download One Login app, register, scan photo page on passport, scan biometric chip on passport, take photo of myself. After each stage, you get sent back to one login to sign in again, luckily I saved my details in passwords, and each time receiving an OTP by text.
When I deleted the texts afterwards, there were five of them.
Anyway, all done.

[Sir Tigger KC]

Applying to renew my driving licence. Download One Login app, register, scan photo page on passport, scan biometric chip on passport, take photo of myself. After each stage, you get sent back to one login to sign in again, luckily I saved my details in passwords, and each time receiving an OTP by text.
When I deleted the texts afterwards, there were five of them.
Anyway, all done.

See how much easier that will be next time when you have your Digital Starmer Card!                           

[LC0112G]

BT & Plusnet.

Got the dreaded "we're downgrading your perfectly functional analogue phone line which has worked since the days of Edison to a digital alternative that won't support a phone and inter-web from different suppliers" letter.'

Plusnet don't have a landline + internet product I can change to.

If I mess with the BT landline there is a risk I'll lose the phone number I've had for 50 odd years.

And apparantly you can't transfer analogue phone lines to other suppliers anymore, so Virgin, Vodaphone etc are non starters.

So looks like I'm going to have to change to BT internet, and wait for the dust to settle on all the digital cra9.

[TheBoy]

I am absolutely certain you can port your number in the same way you can with a mobile.  Obviously, you can't port it to a copper lined analogue supplier who uses the Openreach Network due to a stop sell of all all-copper products from Openreach.

Who you go with depends on how you want it plugged in at your end.  If you want the phone plugged in to your router directly, you may end up having to use an ISP that provides a router capable enough - most do now as Digital Voice is the only future for fixed landlines.

If you don't mind an external adapter, you can pick any Digital Voice supplier, or SIP supplier, with the phone plugging into the adapter, and the adapter plugging into your wired network (WiFi isn't ideal).  Generally, better deals can be had by not taking out the DV service with your ISP, and shopping around.

If you have a SIP phone, unlikely now, but you may in the future, it can just plug in your network.

I've been using a SIP provider for over 20 years, mine is free rental (though this is no longer offered), about 1p per min to landlines and 11p per min to mobiles, and around 1.5p per min to my relatives the other side of the pond.


Downsides of these systems enforced upon us is they are reliant on electricity and a working, good, stable internet, whereas a traditional phone line isn't.  Most exchanges, even most of the small ones had batteries and small generators to keep the exchange up and running during power cuts, and providing enough power for non-cordless phones.

[TheBoy]

Nothing a strip of gaffer tape wont put right. 

Stirrers from McDongals and some spray foam will soon see it sorted

Just for giggles I might see how much of it I can glue back together, filling in the gaps and taping it back up.  The broken aileron should be fixable with aileron tape.  The wings have suffered some damage where they are mounted inside the main fuselage, but should be able to 3d print something there.  The spine of the fuselage looks bent to me though, need to run a straight edge down it to see how badly.

If I can get it to fly-ish again, I might do some stupid things with it


Sadly, this crash wasn't recorded, as the camera unusually fell off on the previous flight so I never bothered putting it back on.

[LC0112G]

I am absolutely certain you can port your number in the same way you can with a mobile.  Obviously, you can't port it to a copper lined analogue supplier who uses the Openreach Network due to a stop sell of all all-copper products from Openreach.

At the moment it's all on copper - which is what I mean by analogue. I'm being told that some time in the undefined future (but before 2027) it'll go digital whether I like it or not. BT will convert my current analogue phone number to digital but when that happens I'll lose my plusnet interweb access.

Now of all things, the phone number is most important to me. Had it for 50 odd years and don't want it changed. Can't move it to anyone other than BT without moving the interweb at the same time - because I would have to move them to an all digital supplier. I'm strongly of the oppinion to only change one thing at a time, because when (not if) it goes wrong you know who to shout at. So I don't want to risk changing phone line and internet suppliers at the same time. I don't use any plusnet services - email, web hosting etc so losing them isn't a problem. Therefore AFAICS the safest sequence is...

1) Move the interweb to BT, leaving the analogue/copper phone line alone for now.
2) Wait for BT to downgrade everything to fibre/digital
3) Once safely downgraded, shop around for the best deal.

[Doctor Gollum]

Got back to a note on the windscreen.

"THANK YOU FOR YOU'RE INCONSIDERATE PARKING !

NEXT TIME ALLOW SPACE FOR OTHERS TO BE ABLE TO GAIN ACCESS TO THEIR VEHICLES....."



I wouldn't mind, but it is perfectly in the space... Centred and straight

Still at least they spelt 'their' correctly.

Oh, and definitely a girl from using a circle for the dot of the exclamation mark