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british gas's web site is not fit for purpose

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British Gas have put their account creation thing behind recaptcha.  So you thought you were going to set up payments for your energy bills, but instead, you are now... IDENTIFYING MOTORCYCLES And, often, these things are never satisfied, so it best to just give up as soon as it comes up.  So, British Gas effectively do not have online accounts.  Yet all their literature claims, incorrectly, that they do. Note the classic web site flaws are everywhere, too: The imbeciles incorrectly put one thing in the first person ("my account"), then correctly but inconsistently address the victim, sorry, customer, in the second person ("you"). And as soon as you start typing your email address, it starts berating you for getting it wrong.  Having to do things via web sites like this is much, much worse than doing things by post in the 1870s.
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Switzerland has degraded over the last 6 years

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 The Swiss are participating in the pretence that you can have four seats across in first class on a western European gage train. The swiss are going down in the world, getting increasingly tacky. They have always loved to scam foreigners, but these carriages are for their own population as well. The luggage did still turn up around 20 seconds after i got to the carrousel, after not having to queue for passport control. They’re still pretty competent, at least compared to other groups of humans.
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tp-link default router password

 "admin" 'sake, write it on the router, so ppl don't have to look it up.
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If a sock is 20% merino wool, is it a “Merino” sock?

I was unsure at 44%. At 20%, the 
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G-GATJ diverted due to faulty transponder, BA2620 / BA2621

G-GATJ, a British Airways A320, diverted on flight BA2620 starting in LGW, and went to MUC instead of INN.  Of course, this also messes up BA2621, which would have been INN-LGW straight after. Usually, diversions from INN to MUC are due to weather.  They might make two attempts at INN, and if they still can't see the runway, go to MUC. On this occasion, it was a "piece of equipment needed to land" not working.  "hmm, wonder if that's the landing gear, lol".  But it was the transponder, that the captain said he only needed to use at INN.  What, so it's not maintained or tested, and they only notice it's broken when they try and use it?
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GPT, partitioning

To add a little more detail to <https://wibblement.blogspot.com/2023/07/partitioning-large-drives-use-gdisk.html> : The paritioning scheme that can handle drives larger than 2T is GPT. On linux, use gdisk to partition. The type codes are probably inherited from the old DOS / MBR partitioning scheme and then extended.  Or they are supposed to be GUIDs but, adhoc, have ended up being the above without being standardised. When selecting the type code, if you know what fs will go on there, use:  * for ext4, use 8300  * for exfat, esp for removable media, use 0700 ("Microsoft basic data")
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single wire ethernet has two wires and or doesn't exist

How many wires are there in Single Wire Ethernet currently?  Wrong!  There are two. The person whose job it was to count the number of wires miscounted. Single wire ethernet should be possible but does not yet exist.
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