Room 101

[Angle Poise-Lamp]

I tend to use it when paying for a pint etc now. If someone nicks my bank card they can use it (at least until I've cancelled it), but unlocking the phone requires my finger (or thumb) print.

My phone needs my face to unlock and authorize payments and, I've also set a long passcode (unlike most things, I can remember numbers). If another man's face looks enough like mine to open it, he has my sympathy.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

We've just had a pergola installed in the garden, and it's a lovely thing. But two of the roof louvres on one side are now sticking (after just a few days), and the supplier's response (after asking all sorts of questions about had we moved it etc) was that they will supply new parts, and we'll have to fit them. The third party installer won't do the job without being paid, which the manufacturer is not prepared to do. And this third party provides no warranty to their work beyond the time of installation. If we do the job, our warranty is not affected, they say. Given that it was pretty expensive, I'm pretty unhappy with this. Whether there's a trading standards angle, I don't know.

So if you are thinking of getting a Hygge pergola, or using SGK Distribution, you might want to bear this in mind...

 

[Cricketbat70]

We've just had a pergola installed in the garden, and it's a lovely thing. But two of the roof louvres on one side are now sticking (after just a few days), and the supplier's response (after asking all sorts of questions about had we moved it etc) was that they will supply new parts, and we'll have to fit them. The third party installer won't do the job without being paid, which the manufacturer is not prepared to do. And this third party provides no warranty to their work beyond the time of installation. If we do the job, our warranty is not affected, they say. Given that it was pretty expensive, I'm pretty unhappy with this. Whether there's a trading standards angle, I don't know.

So if you are thinking of getting a Hygge pergola, or using SGK Distribution, you might want to bear this in mind...

SGK yeah tell me about them. We use them for our two man deliveries and locations that would take our drivers too far off the beaten track. They are very good at damaging washing machines etc.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

SGK yeah tell me about them. We use them for our two man deliveries and locations that would take our drivers too far off the beaten track. They are very good at damaging washing machines etc.

I've deleted my bad review of them - one of the slats has warped, but it's not an issue of how it was installed. Still deeply peeved with Hygge though. We'll see where it goes.

 

[Gray]

I spent yesterday installing electrics in a brand new garden shed - that they'd had installed by the supplier.

It wasn't cheap but you'd have to see the poor quality materials and construction to believe it - floor bending to reveal daylight as you stood on it - three sheets of glass glued in place as windows, already letting in rain water.
Nails only half banged in.
Many things now are only as good as they need to be, this particular shed can only be described as inadequate.
(It's got light and power now, but it's made of matchwood and there's a real risk of it blowing away in the first storm).

 

[Cricketbat70]

I don't know wether it's already been discussed in this thread but.....Those annoying windows pop ups "support for windows 10 is ending blah blah blah upgrade to windows 11” LOOK MICROSOFT 🤬 we confirmed what I already knew about my PC when the first one of these came up months ago. My PC cannot be upgraded to windows 11. You'd think with the way every electronic device we have tracks us records stuff about us that they could work out a way to stop pop ups on windows PC's that can't be upgraded.
First world problems, I know. Or do they do it just to get you to buy a new PC?

 

[Jasonovich]

I don't know wether it's already been discussed in this thread but.....Those annoying windows pop ups "support for windows 10 is ending blah blah blah upgrade to windows 11” LOOK MICROSOFT 🤬 we confirmed what I already knew about my PC when the first one of these came up months ago. My PC cannot be upgraded to windows 11. You'd think with the way every electronic device we have tracks us records stuff about us that they could work out a way to stop pop ups on windows PC's that can't be upgraded.
First world problems, I know. Or do they do it just to get you to buy a new PC?

Just thought, is your PC a brand like Dell, HP etc. or was it built for you?
With the latter there are parts you can probably retain should you wish to upgrade.
It's possible you just need to change motherboard and the CPU.

 

[Gray]

...Or do they do it just to get you to buy a new PC?

They would say they're doing it to help you - by keeping you informed 😏

I'm another of the ones 'no longer supported' after this year.
My 2015 Lenovo laptop currently does all that it needs to.
By today's standards, I'm led to believe it's done well....think it originally cost about £270.

 

[Jasonovich]

They would say they're doing it to help you - by keeping you informed 😏

I'm another of the ones 'no longer supported' after this year.
My 2015 Lenovo laptop currently does all that it needs to.
By today's standards, I'm led to believe it's done well....think it originally cost about £270.

There's always life in the old laptop/desktop. The Linux distribution such as Ubuntu or Mint are excellent and best of all, free. Your old PC without the Windows bloatware will run much faster. 🙂

 

[Dave_]

They would say they're doing it to help you - by keeping you informed 😏

I'm another of the ones 'no longer supported' after this year.
My 2015 Lenovo laptop currently does all that it needs to.
By today's standards, I'm led to believe it's done well....think it originally cost about £270.

Install a lightweight Linux distro like MX Linux or Linux Lite on it, it'll breath a new lease of life into it.

It Will perform far better than it ever did with the bloated spyware that is Windows...

 

[Cricketbat70]

Just thought, is your PC a brand like Dell, HP etc. or was it built for you?
With the latter there are parts you can probably retain should you wish to upgrade.
It's possible you just need to change motherboard and the CPU.

My PC was my kids first gaming PC. Nothing special by today's standards. I use it for basic office tasks, zoom meetings etc. We have talked about upgrading it but to be fair I want a small form factor PC or laptop it's far too bulky for where it's located.

 

[Jasonovich]

My PC was my kids first gaming PC. Nothing special by today's standards. I use it for basic office tasks, zoom meetings etc. We have talked about upgrading it but to be fair I want a small form factor PC or laptop it's far too bulky for where it's located.

I have one of those mini Pc's for emergencies from eBay second hand - see below. If I'm upgrading my main PC and temporally not working. I use my little PC for internet, word docs and Zooming, does the job and inexpensive.