To build on this good answer, there’s an additional factor: How well a receiver can make use of the signal it receives.

I have both an old and a newish DAB radio. One can decode the audio pretty much anywhere in our home. The other only has stable reception if I put it by the window. It’s the same signal, but it’s not strong enough for the old DAB radio in most places at home.

Edit: This may be true for different FM radios too, but less noticeable as FM doesn’t have a “digital cliff” where the decoding just fails as seen heard on DAB. Plus, DAB is comparatively new technology… Oldish FM radios still have decades of techy wisdom in their design, whereas as of today, old DAB radios haven’t had the benefit of time for the engineers to optimise their design.

I agree. This website has been very useful and encouraging on my language learning journey.

Does the fifth cyclist only cycle at the velodrome?

I’ve often thought cold fizzy drinks or bottles of water on hot days

Technically, no, as in the UK, you can’t steal electricity… you can only abstract electricity, which is an offence in its own right. (IANAL)

I’ll get my coat.

I was so annoyed to get that email. Never using them again. Going to install a non-smart wireless thermostat, or maybe a HA install if I’m feeling brave.

Thank you for letting me know! I didn’t realise that it had connectors at all. I’m looking forward to checking it out tomorrow :) Cheers!

That is good news. I have to draw a lot of diagrams and I find myself stuck between a few tools, none of which is perfect. Any one of those that improves is a great thing!

• Draw.io is brilliant for quickly creating stuff, but you can’t easily reshape shapes
• Visio is ok, but for software that aims to be diagram -focused, compared to draw.io, its connectors are appalling
• Affinity designer is good, and not too expensive, but the lack of (outline+text*) objects (compared to draw.io and visio) quickly becomes a pain with complex diagrams. Plus complete lack of support for variable fonts is a showstopper for me.
• I was really pleasantly surprised by inkscape when I tried it again the other year after many years of not using it. It’s really come along and improved. I know its not intended for diagrams, so dynamic connectors and (outline+text*) shapes aren’t there. If they were, it would be the perfect tool.

I’m looking forward to trying out the new features of this release.

*When I say (outline+text) I mean a shape with text in it that isn’t two separate objects I have to wrangle with careful alignment or grouping etc. If you don’t know what I mean, take a look at how easy it is to put text in shapes in draw.io compared to inkscape

Not quite a direct answer, but since watching Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing, we’ve enjoyed referring to things in tins/cans as trapped potatoes, trapped beans etc.

It brings me a lot of joy to contribute to OSM. I haven’t written anything other than the occasional script for years, so it feels good to help the community in ways like this instead.

I’ve sunk so many hours into it. Either “armchair mapping” with OSM and the imagery overlays, or (more fun) wandering with the android Street Complete app to fill in gaps when I’m out and about.

This thread about the most northerly The North sign might be of interest, and possibly even help :)

That’s not quite true… just less than half of voting Conservative party members voted for him, preferring instead the steady hand of Liz Truss. Well done there guys.

*cries

Maybe he thinks that more of his constituents are pro breathing decent air than pro driving smoggy private vehicles. I’d like to think he’s onto something.

Much of my work us collaborative document creation. I’d love to use LibreOffice but try as I might, I can’t work out how to connect it to corporate SharePoint sites etc.

Working with MS Word on anything but trivial documents is miserable. So many bugs and weirdnesses. How is it even possible for Word to let its documents become sour using its own file format!

I say “sour” because the documents are still accessible, so not fully corrupted… but over time, weirdnesses creep in such as tables losing their positioning data, cross-references breaking for no reason etc.

That sounds more of a !ukpersonalfinance question, but I can see why you posted it here. Best of luck.

The trees are still plotting my demise.

Well, as realtimetrains was mentioned (It’s brill), we might as well make a list!..

I use https://traintimes.org.uk for speed and ease of use. Pre-pandemic I had a whole list ot traintime.org.uk bookmarks for different commuting routes.

Also, when stuck waiting for trains, https://traksy.uk/live/M+63+RDNGSTN is brilliant for watching your delayed train stuck at a red light.

Have I missed any others?

Oh that is interesting, thank you! Shall check it out!

You’re right of course :) I guess I spend so much time IRL with traffic, seeing the virtual equivalent doesn’t spark joy any more. It’s a shame, I used to love city builders.

I’d love a car-free option. Mass transit, bicycles and foot travel only would be a great challenge.

I’ve spent many happy hours playing the original… My only gripe is that it always turned into a traffic management sim. Yes there were other challenges, but traffic was always front and centre. (At least for my cities)