Recent content by sor

As I said in my other post, there are numerous "legal obligations" that apply to many more people in this country, but for which the enforcing agency doesn't send out endless threatening letters to people who aren't on their books. This is true for optional activities too. I don't fish, so I...

Given the way they engage in borderline harassment when you do not have a licence and have not told them that you do not need one (which is not a legal requirement), I'd be surprised if there are that many people who are that unaware. I have always found it a bit odd that the BBC/Capita are...

The equivalent Australian alert system didn't exist until fairly recently, with its first public national test conducted only a few weeks ago, so it hasn't been used in anger yet. OP may be referring to existing systems that use app based push notifications or SMSes but those won't have the same...

replying to myself - but from clicking through to "past alerts" you can see the last "real" one was for storms in the south west back in January (and as someone who was in Cornwall then, it was very much justified). This sort of ruins the point of the system. It hasn't been used in the places...

a genuinely good thing about the UK system is that the alerts are made available on gov.uk, including when and where. Seems like its England and Wales only, with Wales additionally getting a Welsh language version https://www.gov.uk/alerts/current-alerts

There is a temporary ban on disposable BBQ sales in England, Scotland and Wales as of today - which is probably what has prompted the alert https://www.gov.uk/guidance/statutory-guidelines-on-disposable-bbqs

The alerts can be disabled for that specific reason. The UK implementation of emergency alerts intentionally doesn't use the highest severity level (sometimes called "presidential alert") so that you can do this. I do wonder why this was necessary to send out as a "severe" alert though, as the...

Personally I'd be asking the other people in the "share" if they would consider sharing the cost of a proper internet connection. But many third party routers (I think including the Fritzbox shown above) will accept the phone as an internet connection just by plugging it into a USB port, you...

I've never seen a "smart postbox" but RM lockers have label printers (at least the ones here do), and you can optionally ask them to bring a label if you pay for a collection Royal Mail have been trying to cut the Post Office out of the chain and the Post Office has responded by signing up to...

I think Argos do this, at least around here. If the item is listed as "available from 5pm" and is in stock at a nearby branch, I assume they get it brought over from that branch. Otherwise it's listed as in stock, or available tomorrow (I presume it comes from a warehouse) or out of stock...

I think it's shown a weakness of their system. The 25th amendment requires a majority of the cabinet plus the vice president to agree that Trump is not competent to serve as president, and Vance (as one of the few people Trump can't fire in retaliation) won't want to sign on until after the...

I must be one of the few people who like Argos and the convenience of it being in the nearest Sainsbury. I'm not sure they even had an out of town location near me before that, so this is a win as far as I am concerned. At the ancestral home there is no nearby Sainsbury's, so they've kept their...

Openreach is not comparable to the energy sector. There can be and are differences between ISPs using the Openreach network. Maximum speed is governed either by line lengths (except for FTTP) or by the products Openreach chooses to sell, but there are other ways to influence overall performance...

They actually do have electronic voting now, with card readers placed in the lobbies, but I gather that the manual count is still considered authoritative if there is a discrepancy. Still a far cry from the COVID era where the online voting system was being used as a leading example for other...

The Tesco example is probably an indoor femtocell that for some reason has not been upgraded or removed yet (this is the boostbox that one commenter notes). A few limited examples don't disprove the fact that the UK operators have shut down 3G and are shifting spectrum over to 4G/5G