Off Topic The Goodhand Arms

Really? The £1 coin is being replaced?

 

http://www.royalmint.com/aboutus/news/the-new-1-pound-coin

 

Must have missed that, when announced.
I hope that parking machines will accept them, as the West Quay machines recently rejected the new plastic fiver.

 

My local Sainsbury's will be pissed off: they only replaced their entire trolley contingent a couple of months ago.

 

I'm going to need a new trolley coin. I bet the shops are happy they will have to pay out for new equipment.

 

MvG an unstoppable force in the darts. Relentless.

 

I get what you are saying 100%.

I though am a total geek and am in the 1% that stretch my iPhone - I run Beta versions of iOS and have apps to do everything. I use Siri & Alexa to automate my house - turn on lights, the house alarm, the kettle, the blinds, the thermostat etc. I've even build a fingerprint scanner running off a Raspberry Pi that integrates with HomeKit so I can run various Home Automation macros. I'm not shallow, but appreciate technology. Could an Android do the same? Maybe, but seeing as I am so heavily into the Apple ecosystem I wouldn't get the convenience of what I have now - neither would it be so slick (As all my devices are Apple - not saying Android isnt slick). To get that all to work I do have various backend servers and apps though and I realise it is beyond 99% of normal users (not being condescending, just fact). Home Automation is here now, just not ready for the masses. Within 2-3 years maybe.

But as I said, I am the 1%

 

My rabbits aren't as clever as your two dogs Siri and Alexa (nice names by the way), so they can't do all those things yet. Maybe I need to feed them more carrots.

In the meantime I'll continue to use my index finger operating system to turn on all those devices in my house.

 

I'm just lazy.

Also now I've hit Middle Age, I need to prepare for when my legs, arms and body fail me.

Though just how useful "Alexa, turn on the kettle" will be when I can't go to the kitchen, let alone hold the cup to put the boiling hot water in in a few years remains to be seen

 

Your body will fail you sooner if you don't use it. Automation will never catch on until it is built into a house/car etc when you buy it. They have often in the past asked people to predict the future....most go for automated homes, but, decades later, very little has changed. Most people see nothing wrong with getting up and flicking a switch...and is it such a headache to switch up the heating when you arrive home. The one area that has taken off and few predicted is the widespread use of computers and mobile phones for information and entertainment. Some people like gizmos....after all they are toys by another name....but most won't use it until its fully fitted and requires no knowledge whatsoever....after all, most of us use a car without being able to build one.

 

The mysterious internet. Been trying for ages to sign into my e-mail account....no luck, but the yahoo page kept changing to the Spanish version. Knowing how completely bonkers computers are, I wondered if Spanish Yahoo would let me sign in. It did....obviously unaware the UK site was having a tantrum.

 

Wow, it's a different world. You can control your house on apps. I need to get up to speed on this. I guess these apps are cheap and easy to run. I don't have Alexa to turn the kettle on, I seem to have a delux model. Mine is called Mrs rwmok but has very high running costs, shoes, handbags, jewellery etc. Not always reliable to all commands.

I will look into this further.

 

You're not in the 1%. You're in the 0.1%. You must know that anything I wrote wasn't aimed at the likes of you.

Yeah, in my experience Androids can do anything that Apples do. And you have more choice. But as you are so into your Apple heaven, who am I to judge.? Everyone else with a smartphone/apps/bridges can do the same, but they just don't.
Hey.! Significant numbers of people with programmed household heating manually turn it on and off it every day.! Why bother.? There's no saving as the programme does it very nicely. There's the difference - you understand what the tech does or can do, they don't.

I'm not being condescending either. I know where you're coming from.

 

For pete's sake Fran, jack in that leaky Yahoo account. Probably every bleeding hacker from here to Afghanistan knows everything about you by now.
I exaggerate slightly. Or maybe not. Really though, you should ditch Yahoo.

 

Alexa £150 + internet connection...a lot cheaper

 

Time to put away the Christmas decorations. Started the usual dry-January with Mrs Fodder. Long month.

 

I had a conversation at work with a 19 year old that went something like this:

Teen: my iPhone is broke and it's going to cost me £100+ to get fixed, what am I going to do?
Me: why don't you just get a £50 Nokia smartphone?
Teen: No because I use it for Twitter and Facebook
Me: ...

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Seriously, this kid thought you needed an iPhone to use social media apps.

 

Yep same for me. #DryJanuary

 

Same for me, but I'll wait until Twelfth Night...