Cupra aren't just EV's, they are Seat, they just changed the name in 2018, and all Seat have been since 1986 is a mish mash of the VAG parts bin.

I'm not quite sure what your point is given the large proportion of road fatalities in this country are on rural roads not road junctions, removing the 5'ish red light cameras on the whole of the island would make very little difference.

Doesn't even need an old laptop, mines running on a Pi3

Depends on where you live, the two European countries that I've lived and worked in my employers would allow additional leave for funerals of aunts, uncles, cousins and some even allowed for the death of a pet.

Attending funerals, births etc aren't really holidays

Gotta get them clicks!

Because you have excellent taste in music perhaps

999 - Emergency

I've watched 4 episodes, it sticks nicely to the theme and format of the original 4 panel cartoon. Me and my teen are thoroughly enjoying it, my wife on the other hand spends most of the episodes just looking confused.

Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

No Such Thing as a Fish

The Bugle

Mid Flight Brawl

Are all currently keeping me entertained while soaking in the bath.

We'll get info on changes on radio stations and streaming service ads here in Ireland, also updates to any changes on the annual roadworthiness test, I'll let you look up "Irish road safety advert" on YouTube, they're quite graphic.

Got a source for that figure?

Only 55,000 heat pumps were sold in the UK last year, compared with more than 620,000 in France. Twenty other European countries also had higher installation rates than the UK

That's my "mowing the lawn music" sorted for the day !

The Human League - Being Boiled

Do you not have an equivalent of "the highway code" or "rules of the road" etc that's regularly updated and distributed or frequently mentioned in the press to keep people informed of regulatory changes?

You'll probably die while being t-boned by someone else sharing the same view as you, it's strange that your country's road safety record is far worse than any country that has been using roundabouts for decades.

I try to do as much as possible myself, saves a fortune, it's really only anything on the cars that requires a lift that I farm out, but plumbing, electrical, carpentry, welding and fabricating etc I'll do myself, usually as it's a good excuse to hide in the workshop away from being found other things to do.

The NAS is an ancient Qnap TS-209 Pro II a friend gave me after the psu and cooling fan died, this is the first time it's failed again in about 10 years, it's only used for backing up photos and stuff from a car owners club I run, so nothing fancy.

I'm hoping to have a day off from having to fix broken things, so far this week

Monday and Tuesday - taking all the guttering, soffit trims and soffits down on the front of the house because a small furry thing nibbled the wires to the outside lights.

Wednesday - replacing a dead capacitor in the lawnmower.

Thursday - replacing the dead cooling fan in my NAS.

Friday - fitting two new glow plugs in one of the cars (I'll be glad when it's replaced with an EV).

Yesterday - stripping down the dishwasher and cleaning load of gunk out of it that was stopping water going in.

Quite a good cover version of that was done by Bruce Foxton , former bassist from The Jam, only made it as far as a B side though.

If you dropped it on Gravesend you'd take out all of Kent and Essex, so an added bonus?

https://github.com/dalathegreat/BYD-Battery-Emulator-For-Gen24

Makes for some really cost effective storage if you don't mind a little bit of soldering and crimping

Yeah, the cost of domestic batteries are mad, hence the cannibalised leaf route, I can pick up a 24kwh battery car with around 15kwh left for €5k, then I'll just use the motor and rest of the gubbins to convert one of my classic ICE cars.

They're quite expensive when you compare them to a normal inverter, they can't be that different inside the box.

I'm going the ultra cheap 2nd hand Leaf route for my solar storage using the canbus hack to make the inverter think it's a BYD domestic battery.

It's just the Tories trying to cling onto the last voters they have, it won't be long until the boomers that vote for them have shuffled off their mortal coil leaving just the 50% of GenX that vote for them and the small smattering of Millennials that lean right.

Wasn't it supposed to be free from 2003 onwards?

Curly bread, old fella with lashings of Brylcreem and a sticky plastic table cloth, pretty much sums up 1980s Brighton

Sat down to have a quick look at The After Party the other night, several episodes and several gins later I realised I've now watched too much of it for the wife to watch it unless she plays catch up while I'm out.

Android TV can be installed on a variety of cheap boxes if you don't mind getting a bit nerdy and flashing a custom firmware

https://www.atvxperience.com/

Digiguide seems to have a full list of episodes with titles if that's any help

https://digiguide.tv/programme/Talk-Show/The-Jeremy-Kyle-Show/433090/season-all/#

I'm currently getting quotes in for a 5kw array and 5kw inverter, some of the prices are so comical I've been tempted to phone them back and just laugh hysterically down the phone at them.

It's a German test by a German news service, rest stops with DCFC units are very common, as they are throughout the rest of Europe

It's a bullshit test when every vehicle tested has a different size battery, they'd have been better off listing what the kwh/100km figures were for motorway driving.

But as you say, charging speed is more of a factor

Odd, worked fine for me yesterday, now get an error

https://doubledouble.top/ does individual tracks, full albums and playlists

Started watching Secret Invasion and Hijack Finding Secret Invasion a bit meh, it's a bit They Live/V so not really grabbing me, Hijack on the other hand is quite good, although I keep waiting for Neil Maskell to suddenly ask "where is Jessica Hyde?"

Another day, another "Toyota claims" headline, they've been claiming a lot for quite a number of years without actually delivering much, while the rest of the auto industry is spitting out stuff now.

Most stuff I've seen about SMR's puts them at over a billion each to build, 157m looks more like it's going to end up lining a couple of mates pockets than actually progressing anything.

Sadly it no longer supports messenger, and is a bit flaky on some links.

I've had to buy some in the past for railway equipment, probably more 50's/60's than 70's and 80's

Yesterday, one of his allies said: "It is not true that Boris does not remember his PIN number, it is just that he does not have 100% confidence he remembers it.

Jesus fucking wept