Thanks that was a really detailed explanation!

I’m a bit Google shy since I was looking for dinosaur action figures for one of the nephews and one of my asshat friends suggested BadDragon do extra large models that are really good… let’s just say my advertising profile took a really weird turn, and has not fully recovered.

Can a millennial get some definitions?

I would Google, but you have to be careful what ends up in your search history and global advertising profile these days

Wow nice! I have done the same but I always forget and stick a fork through them at least once a year!

Every time I consider the plastic/stainless pipe option I think about drilling holes all down it and putting a hose fitting on the ends for integrated irrigation… then the project gets to complicated and I stick a 2x4 across instead.

One day though.

Those look to be very long boards, every time I do this in ~1-2 years they tend to flex outwards under the weight of the wet compost and start to collapse.

Just wondering if you have anything in place to prevent flexing?

I’ve been considering plastic pipe or stainless rod bolted to each side through the soil.

It’s the equivalent of $16.50 a month where I live and that is not an insignificant proportion of my monthly income. The adverts are constantly repeating and often for products and services that are actual scams. I firmly believe as soon as enough people pay… we’ll have to pay more or they will show us a smaller number of “specially selected” ads.

What phone do you have?

Me! I need that. I use thermal imaging to fix things from plumbing, cars, to circuit boards. I use it to see if my dog is still at the end of the garden at night and to find draughts in the home. Thermal imaging is useful AF.

Reading the replies with interest, partner moved in with me to a 4 bed house. 1 room is now a closet with 4 wardrobes 3 chests of drawers, and two giant bookcases full of shoes, and no floor space left. 2nd room is full of boxes of clothes, and she on at me to build a new quad wardrobe in there. Then we have my office which is storing all the non-clothes items from all the other rooms, and our bedroom with 6 wardrobes and two chests of drawers all full to bursting. Clothes and shoes count is easily in the 1000s. I have one pair of jeans and 10 t-shirts on rotation. She keeps buying me stuff too that I never wear. She keeps saying people need clothes but I’m just here to say OP, it could be worse.

I think my keyboard and mouse use Bluetooth 5 and they have been rock solid.

While I use cloud for automatic phone and picture backups just because it’s built in to the OS, all manual and PC backups are to NAS via RJ45.

I suppose it depends on your needs but a NAS/external with the smallest disk you can find would take a while to pay for itself if you compare it to a 99p a month cloud storage package.

Sorry @Ziggurat but you might be the one behind the times; keyboard/mouse/headset - Bluetooth, External Hard drive/ memory stick - cloud/ WiFi, camera - WiFi/Bluetooth, Webcam is still USB.

The true connector crime here is that single USB-C, any new PC should have more than that.

I had no idea why it had done this, but I figured I would just ignore it, and everything would be ok.

That’s the stuff, serves me right for only half paying attention to a documentary. Either way I’ll probably steer clear of Teflon pans in future.

I did try to find ScotchGuard a few years ago when I got a new Sofa (Couch for the Americans) and I found it was discontinued because it was probably just PFOA in a spray bottle :)

There was that town in the US where 3M dumped PTFE into the rivers and it made it into the drinking water, I watched a documentary where people in that town have a cancer rate 169 times the national average. IIRC

PTFE is one of the greatest chemicals to ingest… if you want to grow some extra body parts.