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  #2870250 17-Feb-2022 12:39
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The developers of Nerdle, a puzzle that requires concentration, have decided to add an animated ad to the page to distract you. Fortunately I was able to CSS it into oblivion, but still. Now I just need to dive into the JavaScript at some point and hook up the Enter key to submit a guess.

 

Edit: They've added a "hide ad" link :)


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  #2870319 17-Feb-2022 13:14
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Feeling like crap after my COVID booster. 

 

Thought it was the after-effects of the sedatives, but it's not. It's the old booster-lurgy. 





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Handsome Dan needs to stop adding three dots to every sentence...

 

Handsome Dan does not currently have a side hustle as the mascot for Yale 

 

 

 

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  #2870328 17-Feb-2022 13:28
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frankv:

Ads for block-placing puzzles (e.g. blockudoku) with IQ scores.

 

 

Well they have to invent something to get you to play it, otherwise who would install a toddler block puzzle on their cellphone.

 

 

The scary thing is we don't seem to be anywhere close to peak dot-com-2.0 yet.

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  #2870436 17-Feb-2022 16:09
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Handsomedan:

 

Feeling like crap after my COVID booster. 

 

Thought it was the after-effects of the sedatives, but it's not. It's the old booster-lurgy. 

 

 

Heads up - it‘s a strong indicator that your immune system is intact.





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  #2870599 17-Feb-2022 21:00
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When you are home isolating due to having had a covid test, waiting on results, so you order a bunch of stuff so you can spend the weekend cooking and having some fun, and countdown substitute exactly one *critical* ingredient from every planned dish and no you can't proceed.

 

If I am lucky, my result comes in soon and if it's negative, I can do a quick run around to find some of the items, but what a PITA.

 

Every single planned dish!

 

 


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  #2870606 17-Feb-2022 21:16
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networkn:

 

Random aches and pains.

 

My ankle is really sore. I didn't injure it, woke up like that yesterday. Doesn't hurt if I don't move it. feels like a nerve is squashed or something, but not exactly like that.

 

 

Gout?





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  #2870609 17-Feb-2022 21:20
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networkn:

My ankle is really sore. I didn't injure it, woke up like that yesterday.

 

 

Do you have a large dog, and does it like chewing bones?

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  #2870639 17-Feb-2022 22:25
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eracode:

 

networkn:

 

Random aches and pains.

 

My ankle is really sore. I didn't injure it, woke up like that yesterday. Doesn't hurt if I don't move it. feels like a nerve is squashed or something, but not exactly like that.

 

 

Gout?

 

 

Nope.


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  #2870655 18-Feb-2022 00:08
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networkn:

Random aches and pains.


My ankle is really sore. I didn't injure it, woke up like that yesterday. Doesn't hurt if I don't move it. feels like a nerve is squashed or something, but not exactly like that.


 


 



Try wearing a different pair of shoes, not the same ones every day. It will change your foots pronation and can often ease the stress on the foot.

Nerve pain or even osteoarthritis responds well to any cream containing Capsaicin. Think chilli. The slight burning sensation tricks the nerves and the heat soothes.

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  #2870661 18-Feb-2022 06:26
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Talking my elderly grandmother (93!!) through to her email on her iPad (as I'd emailed her links to family videos on YouTube) only to hear bloody Siri everytime she pressed the home button.
The one time she did manage unlock it, the iPad is open to her settings (presumably that's the last thing someone used) and we can go no further. Argh!

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  #2871315 19-Feb-2022 13:11
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Every day the press mention 'record' case numbers. Yes we get it, but it's going to increase every day now we don't need any sense of occasion around it.

'will today's break yesterdays record' ah yes. Yes it will. That's how it works.

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  #2871324 19-Feb-2022 13:52
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mudguard: Talking my elderly grandmother (93!!) through to her email on her iPad (as I'd emailed her links to family videos on YouTube) only to hear bloody Siri everytime she pressed the home button.
The one time she did manage unlock it, the iPad is open to her settings (presumably that's the last thing someone used) and we can go no further. Argh!
Ask her if there's a thin horizontal white line at the bottom of the screen.  If she slowly pushes that up and drops it in the middle of the screen it should perform the same function.  AKA swipe up from bottom edge but using that white line to explain makes it easier over the phone.  Is she in a rest home?  See if a staff member can assit





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  #2871349 19-Feb-2022 14:31
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MadEngineer:

 

mudguard: Talking my elderly grandmother (93!!) through to her email on her iPad (as I'd emailed her links to family videos on YouTube) only to hear bloody Siri everytime she pressed the home button.
The one time she did manage unlock it, the iPad is open to her settings (presumably that's the last thing someone used) and we can go no further. Argh!
Ask her if there's a thin horizontal white line at the bottom of the screen.  If she slowly pushes that up and drops it in the middle of the screen it should perform the same function.  AKA swipe up from bottom edge but using that white line to explain makes it easier over the phone.  Is she in a rest home?  See if a staff member can assit

 

 

She was not keen on persevering unfortunately. She's not in a home yet, so she's doing ok, just missed the IT thing by a few years or so I guess. My aunt doesn't live too far away and was able to show her the videos. Had some fifty year old 8mm film digitised and was stoked how they came out.  


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  #2871379 19-Feb-2022 16:05
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Those severe storms with windspeeds up to 152 kmph since a week here. Sleepless nights due to the noise.





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  #2871748 20-Feb-2022 22:35
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Trade Me fees.

 

They have reached stratospheric levels - I sold some expensive binoculars and the fees were not far off 10%!






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