// #eevblog — 2026-08-16
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00:09:52 <rc-garage> nooooes
00:27:32 <arch> related: https://www.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/dnd7tk/how_people_of_australia_canada_and_england_handle/
01:52:31 <rc-garage> mmhmmmm
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09:54:08 <MrMobodies> Seeing this sh*t appear in Firefox
09:54:10 <MrMobodies> https://github.com/bitwiseworks/mozilla-os2/issues/177
09:54:10 <EEVBot> [GitHub] [bitwiseworks/mozilla-os2 #177] closed issue by dazarewicz, created 10 years, 2 months ago: Refresh firefox question always appears | Even though I use Firefox every day, every time I open Firefox now, a question appears in the footer that says: "It looks like you haven't started Firefox in a while. Do you want to clean it up for a fresh, like-new experience? And by the way, […]
09:54:14 <MrMobodies> Absolutey disgusting
09:54:20 <MrMobodies> Another thing i have to set
09:56:13 <MrMobodies> "It looks like you haven't started Firefox in a while. Do you want to clean it up for a fresh, like-new experience? And by the way, welcome back!"
09:57:57 <MrMobodies> https://i.postimg.cc/GmSHDb79/Ff-harassment.jpg
09:59:30 <MrMobodies> Sarcasm: Mass majority = stupid and confused don't know what they're doing and need to refresh their PC to modernise it to modern standards to be media enrich their experience.
09:59:50 <MrMobodies> now I have to go through EACH profile and set that parameter.
10:04:32 <MrMobodies> Media enrich YER pc into something like this
10:04:34 <MrMobodies> https://i.postimg.cc/Zn7hQ5yH/FF-orig-crapui.jpg
10:05:08 <MrMobodies> with things that MOVE as I type something in the address bar.
10:06:14 <MrMobodies> Big, bloated, the things I want hidden away... the mass majority don't use it like that... you can do so against our wishes but we'd make it difficult.
10:12:02 <MrMobodies> some of them were actually set
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11:00:54 <Nothing\> neato, i found a field of oil pump jacks in alberta on google maps
11:01:53 <Nothing\> looked weird, it's all of these tiny maybe 50 acre cleared areas with a single structure on them there are countless thousands and they're all spaced exactly 500 meters apart
11:02:05 <Nothing\> i found an identical site in texas
11:02:51 <Nothing\> which reminds me, i wonder how alberta's bid to leave canada is going. last i heard, they won the vote for it in the house of senate commons
11:03:41 <Nothing\> and you know they'll be the real 51st state if they do leave. But, if quebec couldn't even secceed back in the 90s i doubt this will happen
11:03:56 <Nothing\> and they tried so many times to leave
11:04:47 <Nothing\> ohh provincial referendum scheduled for october
11:05:02 <Nothing\> i don't think quebec got this far
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13:52:39 * steve30 hisses at Windows XP
13:58:45 <MrMobodies> I am quite skeptical of this:
13:58:46 <MrMobodies> https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/met-office-rain-107-areas-37556739
13:59:20 <MrMobodies> I remember similar happening in August to September in 2024. It never did rain for weeks and weeks.
13:59:32 <MrMobodies> despite claims of downpoors
14:00:09 <MrMobodies> "The UK is expecting downpours across the nation next week.." UTTER BULLSH*T.
14:00:28 <MrMobodies> not on this map: https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/article37556741.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200e/0_Screenshot-2026-08-16-at-10626PM.png
14:00:54 <MrMobodies> This is not across it's on the edges
14:00:55 <MrMobodies> https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/article37556742.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200e/0_Screenshot-2026-08-16-at-10600PM.png
14:01:40 <steve30> well, i hope it does rain
14:05:14 <MrMobodies> https://i.postimg.cc/wHHNG2Lv/SFEW.jpg
14:05:27 <MrMobodies> I removed the words to compare, I noticed one map was moved lower.
14:05:31 <MrMobodies> but it isn't
14:05:33 <MrMobodies> oh it is
14:06:05 <MrMobodies> I wonder what did they do to that map I find it very confusing to look at
14:06:54 <MrMobodies> Oh I see it now
14:07:04 <MrMobodies> they are the EDGES of the country the coasts
14:07:32 <MrMobodies> ""The UK is expecting downpours across the nation next week.."" RUBBISH. It it is NOT across
14:08:01 <MrMobodies> I tend to get annoyed when they exxagerate over a little bit of rain or ran elsewhere
14:08:58 <MrMobodies> I'd expect to see most of that blue across London and the Midlands not around it
14:10:14 <MrMobodies> It is VERY NICE as it has cooled down
14:11:40 <MrMobodies> Look what I had to do on Friday morning when it cooled down outside for a bit
14:11:47 <MrMobodies> https://streamable.com/eujuv0
14:11:48 <EEVBot> [url] Watch VID_20260814_060727 | Streamable | streamable.com
14:12:43 <MrMobodies> the room was like a furness. The walls were hot and everything else. One large fan wasn't doing anything so I brought the other from downstairs to put on the window.
14:12:50 <MrMobodies> it took 10 minutes to cool that room down
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15:05:42 <MrMobodies> I remember a laserjet one in a bathroom warehouse in 2013
15:05:47 <MrMobodies> oooh scroll stuck
15:05:58 <MrMobodies> damn
15:45:36 <MrMobodies> https://www.gbnews.com/money/water-companies-surge-pricing-ofwat-thames-water
15:45:36 <EEVBot> [url] Water companies to introduce 'surge pricing' during droughts under new plans | www.gbnews.com
15:45:45 <MrMobodies> I don't know if this is true or not coming from GNews
15:46:11 <MrMobodies> but it is worrying and this is why I am against these meters and want my privacy
15:46:19 <MrMobodies> I don't want them to know which time i turn the tap on
15:46:58 <MrMobodies> Charge customers indirectly for these meters so they can charge them even more.
15:47:44 <MrMobodies> "A seasonal surge pricing system would allow water companies to lower prices in winter and increase in summer." ALLOW? Rubbish, they MAKE the decisions already.
15:48:50 <MrMobodies> Ofwat no longer protecting the customers
15:49:04 <MrMobodies> soon as they were over rules 2 years ago
15:49:20 <MrMobodies> oops over ruled by the government to allow price increases
15:52:06 <MrMobodies> What do you think of that Steve30?
15:52:28 <MrMobodies> Charge more more and more and whatever they like
15:58:45 <MrMobodies> This is worrying "The proposals to formalise surge pricing follow small trials in several parts of the country, the largest covering about 14,000 Anglian Water households in Lincoln and Norwich."
15:58:52 <MrMobodies> That's my provider
15:59:43 <MrMobodies> All the crap the men come out with, oh it'll save you money, reduce your bill, detect leaks... no it's detect WHEN you are using for this surge pricing
17:47:40 <rc-garage> I hope they get the text wrong, and all of canada except alberta, gets stuffed into alaska
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23:49:35 <Kuschelpony> friendlywhinny
23:50:10 <rc-garage> non-angry animal sounds
23:51:12 <rc-garage> I am looking at the other frankfurt today. have you ever been there?
23:51:46 <Kuschelpony> Frankfurt at the river Oder? Not yet but i am curious
23:51:55 <rc-garage> yes, that one
23:52:18 <rc-garage> it looks pretty nice, for being a city. just from the pics i have seen.
23:52:23 <Kuschelpony> i could say, any Frankurt that is not at the river Main might be better
23:52:49 <Kuschelpony> (have been a few times at their main railway station and its a unwell feeling there)
23:52:57 <rc-garage> heh, yes. I am not hearing much positive about that one, except that they have roads going away from it
23:54:39 <Kuschelpony> the best thing to say about Doberlug-Kirchhain is that it has railroads to leave in the four directions of the compass
23:55:06 <Kuschelpony> (if you dont know that location, you are missing nothing except a interesting rail crossing)
23:57:59 <rc-garage> it was not on my list, no, lol
23:58:23 <Kuschelpony> hihi
23:58:49 <Kuschelpony> i traveled through that on one tour to visit Berlin two years ago
23:59:19 <rc-garage> but, I like train things, and old industrial buildings. so, you never know. maybe that is a place I need to see, some time
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