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Comment Re:Once again, cash rules (Score 1) 113

When I was a student, I had trouble budgeting across a monthly wage and a per-semester grant, so I set up a second account (which at my bank was free) with only an ATM card. I'd pay myself from the main account once a week by standing order. I think I was living on £50/week, but I set it up to pay myself £52.50. That way, I had an extra £10 for treats every fourth week. The card for the main account was left in my desk drawer in a sealed envelope with NO! written on it.

I still do something similar now, though I'm not as disciplined about it as I was then...

Comment Re:Range & Need to get rid of big centre conso (Score 1) 170

If I'm expected to operate controls while simultaneously operating a vehicle (regardless of whether it's on autopilot or not), I want to be able to do it by feel. At worst, a glance then by feel. I want to know by feel that I've got the right control, and I want to know by feel that I've moved it.

I rented a Peugeot which had a touch screen for everything including climate control. Bouncing around the wilds of Scotland on what passes for an A road up there, the amount of concentration it took was downright dangerous. I ended up having my girlfriend work the damned thing. A car should not need a first officer.

Less Apple, more Fisher-Price, please.

Comment Re:Scooters are underlining a latent demand for tr (Score 1) 169

I saw an actual pile of the damned things in Helsinki last time I was there. People apparently ride them through the park, can't be arsed to carry them up three steps, and just abandon them in the middle of the path.

As long as there is no penalty for being a lazy inconsiderate asshat, lazy inconsiderate asshats will be lazy inconsiderate asshats.

Comment Hangouts, indeed... (Score 2) 13

Hangouts came pre-installed on my phone. My entire experience of it consists of spam messages from (supposedly) girls who (supposedly) just want to let it all, well, hang out.

At least, that was my entire experience of it until one attempted a video call at 3am, just last night. I've shut the damn thing down before Google got round to it.

Such a shame. I did enjoy dragging the "look at me in my cute dress" photo into TinEye and sending them the *last* photo in the porn shoot they stole it from...

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