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Comment · 1 month ago
I quit Apple Mail (due to its poor handling of Gmail accounts) and started using Mimestream years ago. Truly excellent mail client. Actively and thoughtfully developed.

Paid but worth every penny.

Comment · 3 months ago
They've been abysmal and borderline criminal since the start.

They randomly withheld £20k from a business I was involved with for no stated reason and no direct means to talk to a human about it. It took months to resolve.

And as for their actual website...

Comment · 3 months ago
(Not recommended at home kids) use a key (or, safer, an upside down UK Earth pin) in the Earth hole to open the Live/Neutral shutter - then insert the EU prongs. The width of the EU prongs is handily the same as the UK holes.

Touring musicians do it if venues don’t have convertors.

Doesn’t work if the EU plug needs a live earth of course.

Comment · 4 months ago
What is the solution?

Where are the free nuclear plants?

Sizewell C = £40 billion

That’s a lot of PV solar and battery storage.

Comment · 4 months ago
It doesn't.
Comment · 4 months ago
Neither are other capex heavy items like chip fabs.
Comment · 4 months ago
Oh so exactly like Apple Maps via Carplay then.
Comment · 11 months ago
Is a fascinating theory I’ve been following for several months. It certainly feels truthy, would be great to have a little more hard science backup.
Comment · 1 year ago
Never used a screen protector, have been using iPhones since iPhone 3G, never shattered or cracked a screen.

I started using a silicone case with iPhone 6S as found it was slippy. Have a leather case for iPhone 15 Pro but considering going naked again.

Comment · 1 year ago
How understanding of you.
Comment · 1 year ago
I also discovered that dehydration was a migraine trigger for me. I tend not to get big headaches now but get quite intense visual aura / disturbance.

Interestingly I also discovered that electrolyte supplements were also migraine triggers for me.

Leading me to think that electrolyte imbalance was the actually trigger. Caused by too little water increasing the concentration or added salts increasing it.

I tend not to feel thirst very strongly and think I do often confuse it with hunger.

I pay loose attention to urine colour as a gauge and make sure I drink plenty, kinda robotically when playing sports / walking in heat etc.

Comment · 1 year ago
Well clearly it is complicated as this comment thread shows. Many people don't feel thirst because of age or other reasons or confuse thirst with hunger.
Comment · 1 year ago
Dailies were a vast improvement in comfort and convenience for me over permanent lenses that required cleaning and storing overnight.

Permanent lenses had also led to some blood vessel overgrowth due to lack of oxygenation.

Using a new pair everyday does make quite a few tricky problems go away downside being slight extra cost and extra plastic pollution.

Comment · 1 year ago
Passkeys work very smoothly with Safari and Apple Passwords.

Apple Passwords now sufficiently good to replace 1Password for me and I’m slowly transitioning.

I don’t mind subscription models per se but there was something about subscription for your own passwords that made me refuse to jump the fence when 1Password switched to that model.

Would be a bit faffy if you’re a Chrome user.

Comment · 1 year ago
Bad how?

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