// #eevblog — 2026-05-19
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00:00:32 <K> hhnnng
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00:08:30 <chaff> Is this active at all?
00:10:47 <T3sl41> nope
00:11:49 <Ysjoelfir> definitely not
00:16:47 <Ysjoelfir> I mean, this is basically extinct. nobody is here at all, right, K?
00:17:32 <K> nein!
00:19:14 * arch tosses a tentacle hentai mag to T3sl41
00:20:15 <K> why is it all soggy and slimey?
00:20:28 <arch> i tripped and dropped it into a puddle
00:25:41 <Ysjoelfir> I'd complain about the inferior paper quality
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00:45:15 <Ysjoelfir> I wonder who is now active at all, and who not.
00:46:05 <rc-garage> not me, I am busy
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01:23:34 <MrMobodies> https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c74r1xxexveo
01:23:34 <EEVBot> [url] Avanti West Coast cuts services after government asks for savings - BBC News | www.bbc.co.uk
01:24:06 <MrMobodies> I have worked out the pattern of this government and and the previous one since 2010
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01:24:45 <MrMobodies> remove all the little individual services here and there, to one big service/programme whatever they call them
01:24:59 <MrMobodies> and once everyone is moved onto them.
01:25:37 <MrMobodies> They YANK THE CHAIN on the funding like an old cistern on their existing funding
01:26:27 <MrMobodies> then they'll move that lot of people onto another service, don't increase funding and when everyone is on there, YANK THE CHAIN on that one and when that gost bust and so on
01:34:27 <MrMobodies> when the trains are all in public ownership, I'd imagine it "would" improve but instead of my experience I'd expect them to yank the chain on the public ownership.
01:35:31 <MrMobodies> like an old toilet cistern with a chain used to flush it where the funding is in the cistern
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07:59:31 <MrMobodies> Hello
08:00:14 <steve30> o/
08:00:17 <MrMobodies> Found another article with the example of yanking the chain
08:00:42 <MrMobodies> Now I didn't know they, moved all the civil service pensions into capita
08:00:47 <MrMobodies> control I mean
08:00:51 <MrMobodies> https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce3pw153dvpo
08:00:51 <EEVBot> [url] The widows left in pension limbo following husbands' deaths - BBC News | www.bbc.co.uk
08:01:30 <MrMobodies> They move it onto Capita, and yanked the chain.
08:01:53 <MrMobodies> That must be devastating though
08:02:15 <MrMobodies> Steve30, what do you think of that? Has it gone too far privatising things with Capita?
08:03:52 <MrMobodies> I imagine their's would be unfunded
08:03:57 <MrMobodies> system I mean
08:05:21 <MrMobodies> It seems like so many are crumbling in this country. Other than that I'd looking for a battery for the Archos 7, which doesn't seem to last long.
08:06:08 <MrMobodies> the problem it seems non standard and part of the back cover
08:06:57 <steve30> usually anything involving crapita ends up in chaos
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21:35:45 <steve30> I just went out to test my local payphone
21:36:25 <steve30> The audio was very loud (and clipping), and the "wrong number" etc announcements have changed
21:36:36 <steve30> I wonder if its been upgraded to VoIP or something.
22:41:05 <MrMobodies> My SPA122 seems to be running flawlessly
22:41:33 <MrMobodies> hardly no drop out when that turned out to be the power supply as it was a used one I brought in 2022
22:41:36 <MrMobodies> https://www.theengineer.co.uk/content/news/engineers-warn-on-uk-energy-digitalisation-delays
22:41:38 <EEVBot> [url] Engineers Warn on UK Energy Digitalisation Delays - The Engineer | www.theengineer.co.uk
22:41:54 <MrMobodies> I don't know what to make of this article but I am skeptical
22:42:11 <MrMobodies> "digital infrastructure"
22:42:22 <MrMobodies> "digitalised electricity"
22:42:29 <MrMobodies> "advanced digital servoces"
22:42:50 <MrMobodies> It's blooming ELECTRICITY through some cables and substations
22:43:09 <MrMobodies> that'd appear LINEAR no matter what they put in front or back
22:43:49 <MrMobodies> it is already regulated by substations especially in the city with reroutable stations nothing new that I last read about and was told
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