GM
Legendary Member
- Location
- North of the river
A wet afternoon here, perfect for feet up and watch the snooker.
The Retirement Thread
- Thread starter Dirk
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PaulSB
Squire
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
Well I did think about getting the bike out but to be honest wimped out. I have though checked the rear brake. There's a little lever on the caliper that reduces the tension.............I wonder which idiot forgot to tighten that the last time he punctured? 🤔
In other news the LBS phoned. My titanium Kinesis frame has arrived. I've been down to stroke the top bar and say hello. If all goes well the build should be completed by Saturday.
She's cool with hairy chests
😍🥰😍
In other news the LBS phoned. My titanium Kinesis frame has arrived. I've been down to stroke the top bar and say hello. If all goes well the build should be completed by Saturday.
She's cool with hairy chests
😍🥰😍
Good wor it?
welsh dragon
Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
Just had to pick my grandson up as his motorbike started to smoke just as he pulled into the garage.
Mo1959
Legendary Member
- Location
- Perthshire,Scotland
I did, and thought I would keep it going but it was lost on some folk!
welsh dragon
Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
I did, and thought I would keep it going but it was lost on some folk!
Cheek. I didn't read the previous post.
It wor.
We both found it fascinating.
Cheek. I didn't read the previous post.
At our ages that is not difficultI did, and thought I would keep it going but it was lost on some folk!
welsh dragon
Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
Grannies taxis are back in business today. I'm going to have to take my grandson back home now he has stuffed his face here.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
My Galaxy Tab A (2019) 10.1*** arrived this afternoon, less than 24 hours after I ordered it.
My mini-review!
It is ex-demo device but was described as being in near immaculate condition. I get stressed very easily and I was lying awake in the early hours worrying that I might end up with a heap of crap so my heart sank when I opened the box and saw a sticker on the back of the tablet saying "cracked screen"... OFFS!!!!
I turned the tablet over and took a look, but... I couldn't see any cracks!
I switched the tablet on and spent an hour letting Google Play install my favourite apps etc. while I browsed the web and watched YouTube videos. Definitely no cracks... Either the device used to have a broken screen but somebody did a perfect repair job, or there was another explanation. I looked extremely hard at the glossy screen... no cracks. Eventually, I held it up to the light and angled the screen this way and that until I finally found the tiniest of defects - a very light 3mm scratch right up in the corner of the screen bezel, away from the viewing part of the display. It isn't a crack; just the wimpiest of scratches. So, 'immaculate' it is!
The superior quality of the screen compared to my 8 year old Samsung tablet was immediately apparent. It is full HD resolution (with a bit extra on the smaller dimension - 1200 pixels rather than the normal 1080), 10.1" diagonal. I know that some screens are crazy high resolutions these days, even on phones, but this is easily good enough for me and I am quite fussy about such things. It is bright (too bright for me, so I turned the brightness down by 50%) and the viewing angles are good. Very little change of colour and brightness as you move your head from side to side or turn the tablet.
Everything so far seems quite snappy. I have some music software which I will try later. It wouldn't even load on my old tablet. I reckon it will run nicely on this one, but we'll see. [PS I just tried it - it works really well.]
It is a nice design. It is thin and has a quality metal back. That back has a couple of minor problems though... It is slippery so it would be easy to drop the tablet, and the metal can feel cold to the touch. The parcel had obviously spent the night in cold vans/depots on its journey down from Scotland and my fingers got quite chilled holding the tab for an hour. Stored in a room at 20+ degrees, it wouldn't be an issue but bringing a cold tablet into a room still only at 14 degrees, it WAS. I like the design, but it isn't practical for me so I will be buying a cover for the tablet.
The other issue was that the tablet actually felt a little on the heavy side. It could be that I was having to clamp my fingers onto it to stop it slipping to the floor. At any rate, my hands started to tire after an hour of using it and the extra weight of a case wouldn't help in that respect! Still, normally I use: laptop once up, phone on the move, tablet in bed. I rest the tablet on my legs, and the weight then wouldn't be an issue.
The speakers have a bit more bass than I expected. Not brilliant, but not unusably bad. They did sound a bit muffled at first but I found a graphic equaliser in the settings and used that to boost the treble to acceptable levels.
There is one biggish negative issue though - speaker location. The tablet is clearly designed to be mainly used in portrait mode, and has 2 speakers at the top/bottom (depending which way up the device is.) That is fine when using the tablet that way, but you will want to turn it to landscape for watching videos full-screen and then the speaker placement seems weird - hearing stereo signals go up and down on the left or right, with nothing from the other side is... just wrong! TBH, I would normally wear headphones for any serious video streaming, and there IS a standard mini headphone jack socket so that option is open to me. Wrong is still wrong though! Some tabs have 4 speakers, 1 in each corner, so whichever way you hold the device, you can always have 2 speakers on the left and 2 on the right. (I'm assuming that such tablets have a way of routeing the signals appropriately according to how you are holding the device?)
The version of Android is 9.x, which is 8 versions higher than what I am used to on my old Tab. The improvements are already obvious and I have only used this one for an hour.
I am a happy bunny! Especially since I saved £25-30 for the sake of a tiny scratch...
*** The reason for being so precise in describing the tablet is because various versions have been made over the past 4 or 5 years. You'd want to make sure that you were buying the one that you thought you were. I found loads of people moaning online because they had bought the wrong case, or got the wrong screen resolution, RAM, main storage, Android version etc.
My mini-review!
It is ex-demo device but was described as being in near immaculate condition. I get stressed very easily and I was lying awake in the early hours worrying that I might end up with a heap of crap so my heart sank when I opened the box and saw a sticker on the back of the tablet saying "cracked screen"... OFFS!!!!
I turned the tablet over and took a look, but... I couldn't see any cracks!
I switched the tablet on and spent an hour letting Google Play install my favourite apps etc. while I browsed the web and watched YouTube videos. Definitely no cracks... Either the device used to have a broken screen but somebody did a perfect repair job, or there was another explanation. I looked extremely hard at the glossy screen... no cracks. Eventually, I held it up to the light and angled the screen this way and that until I finally found the tiniest of defects - a very light 3mm scratch right up in the corner of the screen bezel, away from the viewing part of the display. It isn't a crack; just the wimpiest of scratches. So, 'immaculate' it is!The superior quality of the screen compared to my 8 year old Samsung tablet was immediately apparent. It is full HD resolution (with a bit extra on the smaller dimension - 1200 pixels rather than the normal 1080), 10.1" diagonal. I know that some screens are crazy high resolutions these days, even on phones, but this is easily good enough for me and I am quite fussy about such things. It is bright (too bright for me, so I turned the brightness down by 50%) and the viewing angles are good. Very little change of colour and brightness as you move your head from side to side or turn the tablet.
Everything so far seems quite snappy. I have some music software which I will try later. It wouldn't even load on my old tablet. I reckon it will run nicely on this one, but we'll see. [PS I just tried it - it works really well.]
It is a nice design. It is thin and has a quality metal back. That back has a couple of minor problems though... It is slippery so it would be easy to drop the tablet, and the metal can feel cold to the touch. The parcel had obviously spent the night in cold vans/depots on its journey down from Scotland and my fingers got quite chilled holding the tab for an hour. Stored in a room at 20+ degrees, it wouldn't be an issue but bringing a cold tablet into a room still only at 14 degrees, it WAS. I like the design, but it isn't practical for me so I will be buying a cover for the tablet.
The other issue was that the tablet actually felt a little on the heavy side. It could be that I was having to clamp my fingers onto it to stop it slipping to the floor. At any rate, my hands started to tire after an hour of using it and the extra weight of a case wouldn't help in that respect! Still, normally I use: laptop once up, phone on the move, tablet in bed. I rest the tablet on my legs, and the weight then wouldn't be an issue.
The speakers have a bit more bass than I expected. Not brilliant, but not unusably bad. They did sound a bit muffled at first but I found a graphic equaliser in the settings and used that to boost the treble to acceptable levels.
There is one biggish negative issue though - speaker location. The tablet is clearly designed to be mainly used in portrait mode, and has 2 speakers at the top/bottom (depending which way up the device is.) That is fine when using the tablet that way, but you will want to turn it to landscape for watching videos full-screen and then the speaker placement seems weird - hearing stereo signals go up and down on the left or right, with nothing from the other side is... just wrong! TBH, I would normally wear headphones for any serious video streaming, and there IS a standard mini headphone jack socket so that option is open to me. Wrong is still wrong though! Some tabs have 4 speakers, 1 in each corner, so whichever way you hold the device, you can always have 2 speakers on the left and 2 on the right. (I'm assuming that such tablets have a way of routeing the signals appropriately according to how you are holding the device?)
The version of Android is 9.x, which is 8 versions higher than what I am used to on my old Tab. The improvements are already obvious and I have only used this one for an hour.
I am a happy bunny! Especially since I saved £25-30 for the sake of a tiny scratch...
*** The reason for being so precise in describing the tablet is because various versions have been made over the past 4 or 5 years. You'd want to make sure that you were buying the one that you thought you were. I found loads of people moaning online because they had bought the wrong case, or got the wrong screen resolution, RAM, main storage, Android version etc.
classic33
Leg End Member
The blood banks let you make withdrawals!!
welsh dragon
Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
My Galaxy Tab A (2019) 10.1*** arrived this afternoon, less than 24 hours after I ordered it.
My mini-review!
It is ex-demo device but was described as being in near immaculate condition. I get stressed very easily and I was lying awake in the early hours worrying that I might end up with a heap of crap so my heart sank when I opened the box and saw a sticker on the back of the tablet saying "cracked screen"... OFFS!!!!
I turned the tablet over and took a look, but... I couldn't see any cracks!
The superior quality of the screen compared to my 8 year old Samsung tablet was immediately apparent. It is full HD resolution (with a bit extra on the smaller dimension - 1200 pixels rather than the normal 1080), 10.1" diagonal. I know that some screens are crazy high resolutions these days, even on phones, but this is easily good enough for me and I am quite fussy about such things. It is bright (too bright for me, so I turned the brightness down by 50%) and the viewing angles are good. Very little change of colour and brightness as you move your head from side to side or turn the tablet.
Everything so far seems quite snappy. I have some music software which I will try later. It wouldn't even load on my old tablet. I reckon it will run nicely on this one, but we'll see. [PS I just tried it - it works really well.]
It is a nice design. It is thin and has a quality metal back. That back has a couple of minor problems though... It is slippery so it would be easy to drop the tablet, and the metal can feel cold to the touch. The parcel had obviously spent the night in cold vans/depots on its journey down from Scotland and my fingers got quite chilled holding the tab for an hour. Stored in a room at 20+ degrees, it wouldn't be an issue but bringing a cold tablet into a room still only at 14 degrees, it WAS. I like the design, but it isn't practical for me so I will be buying a cover for the tablet.
The other issue was that the tablet actually felt a little on the heavy side. It could be that I was having to clamp my fingers onto it to stop it slipping to the floor. At any rate, my hands started to tire after an hour of using it and the extra weight of a case wouldn't help in that respect! Still, normally I use: laptop once up, phone on the move, tablet in bed. I rest the tablet on my legs, and the weight then wouldn't be an issue.
The speakers have a bit more bass than I expected. Not brilliant, but not unusably bad. They did sound a bit muffled at first but I found a graphic equaliser in the settings and used that to boost the treble to acceptable levels.
There is one biggish negative issue though - speaker location. The tablet is clearly designed to be mainly used in portrait mode, and has 2 speakers at the top/bottom (depending which way up the device is.) That is fine when using the tablet that way, but you will want to turn it to landscape for watching videos full-screen and then the speaker placement seems weird - hearing stereo signals go up and down on the left or right, with nothing from the other side is... just wrong! TBH, I would normally wear headphones for any serious video streaming, and there IS a standard mini headphone jack socket so that option is open to me. Wrong is still wrong though! Some tabs have 4 speakers, 1 in each corner, so whichever way you hold the device, you can always have 2 speakers on the left and 2 on the right. (I'm assuming that such tablets have a way of routeing the signals appropriately according to how you are holding the device?)
The version of Android is 9.x, which is 8 versions higher than what I am used to on my old Tab. The improvements are already obvious and I have only used this one for an hour.
I am a happy bunny! Especially since I saved £25-30 for the sake of a tiny scratch...
*** The reason for being so precise in describing the tablet is because various versions have been made over the past 4 or 5 years. You'd want to make sure that you were buying the one that you thought you were. I found loads of people moaning online because they had bought the wrong case, or got the wrong screen resolution, RAM, main storage, Android version etc.
I like mine as well. I put a cover on it to srop it from being slippery.
welsh dragon
Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
Back from taxi duties now.
rustybolts
pedalling tediously
- Location
- Ireland
I think you should stand up for yourselfAdvice needed here.
We have just heard that pregnant women won't be offered the vaccine as 'they' can't guaranty it won't affect them
So.......MrsD has taken a stand and told me NO SEX until Covid is eradicated, just in case.
I am worried that it may not be eradicated for many years.......I may be 80+ by then.
So......do I insist on my conjugal rights or just accept things.
Urgent advice needed
