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Did you try disabling JavaScript on Amazon? It actually doesn't function too badly. I know, I know, you shouldn't need to do it and I agree.


I fiddled with NoScript but I must have done something wrong because I broke the site entirely.


So, you trust some other random people with your privacy instead then?


I bought a wool jumper from Next about 7 years ago for probably around £30, and it's lasted me until now, and will probably last another 7 years.

I don't really take any special care, just put it in the washing machine every now and again.


Yeah Next are pretty good if you know what to look for, lots of their stuff isn't great but their 100% wool products are not bad at all. They use cheap dyes so their stuff isn't particularly colour fast, but if you take care of it, it will last a long time.

They use Merino wool, however not very much of their wool is sourced through the Responsible Wool Program(4% as of 2022), so there is a lot of wool in their cloths come from places you may not like how the sheep are treated. Their cotton is around 60% slave free(not bad for a fast fashion brand).


Anyone else use YouTube as basically background noise? When I'm working I live putting on some ASMR and just listening to it in the background.

I find it less distracting then music or podcasts.


Odd, the large Tesco near me has no coin required for the trolleys. However, the Lidl and Sainsbury's do. I don't carry cash, but I keep a few pound coins in the car just in case.

At least with Sains', if you ask the security guard near the door he'll unlock one for you anyway :)


I've already heard stories of people coming back to the UK from a trip abroad, and UK border staff insisted to see their BRP even though it's acceptable now for it to be digital. I'm assuming it's going to be a right pain in the arse for my wife when she comes back to the UK from visiting family abroad.


I recommend printing some documentation from the government website wherever it says that $x is allowed or $y is deprecated. It won't stop some officious c*nt at the border, but when they call their supervisor, the latter might be able to recognise enough of the words to look it up and figure it out.


The article states that the change is due later. I know someone who received a BRP just days ago and was told that the electronic visa system isn't yet available. So the BRP has always been and remains mandatory for travel, until these changes take effect.


As far as I know they are live. People are using the share codes for renting, etc. On /r/ukvisa I've seen a few stories already.


Yeah, no crime in Malaysia for sure!


I mean, it's beautiful but also another reason I'm disappointed.

I walked Hadrian's Wall a few years ago in a very hot (for the UK) summer, and there were very few places some days to get shade and have a rest.

The tree provided lovely shade and lots of people chose to sit there to relax, cool down, and have a drink.


The sad thing about this tree is that there aren't hundreds more!


Previously when I installed Windows, I had the option to create a local account. I had to click on a few misdirections but I was able to do it.

Recently though, I had to reinstall Windows to do something, and I could not find a way to create a local account at all. AFAIK they removed the option now, or made it much harder to find.


I did a Windows reinstall on a Surface in the Spring, it installed with no MS Account.


I'll be honest, and a little rude (sorry!).

If something is causing some physical pain in your eyes, why wouldn't your solution be to get off the computer and give your eyes a rest?


People typically work to earn money, which they then use to buy necessities like food, water, and shelter.


Fair, but they say:

> With the glasses I can work all day, then play video games, watch movies etc without feeling anything.

So it's not just working. It's working, then playing video games and watching movies. They also say they have to take breaks much more often when they don't wear them, which implies they don't take a break as many breaks when they are wearing them.

I have quite bad wrist pain when I use a PC, and I'm a developer. I feel like it's like me taking ibuprofen to dampen the pain rather than taking regular breaks from my PC.

Sometimes your body is trying to tell you something and IMO it's good to listen.


“You should simply not do the thing!”

Because life is about give and take?


I don't say that at all, that's pretty bad faith. My point was that taking regular breaks as they say they do when they forget their glasses is a better solution than just powering through with some glasses that may or may not work.


I mean definitely that would be best, but it so happened that most of my daily life, career and entertainment is related with screens. At least in my case this condition is not getting worse so for now these glasses allow me to do all this in a pretty comfortable way.


Yeah that's fair enough :) I have similar issues with my wrist which is easy to say "take a break" but in reality it's not always that easy.


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