Bonkers... Have paid for #TheAA breakdown cover for 8 years. Every year they try to put my fee up (a lot) and I have to argue with them. This year the fee goes up by 58%, so I ask for a discount, which they agree to, but will not match the price they offer to new customers (which is only £5 less).
So the lose a customer because they take the piss with a "loyal customer penalty".
Hmm, this is a bit horrible. I have #TOR set up on my firewall to catch traffic to a few web sites and send it via not-UK exit nodes. Recently I have noticed some of those sites detecting that I am in the UK regardless, but only when I use my phone (even in Firefox in private browsing mode). I'm not *sure* but it looks like connections are going to socialuserlocation.googleapis.com, and if I send that via TOR I no longer seem to be detected as in the UK.
Oh look, #Google #Play #Integrity has failed again on my phone. ARRGH!
But also, why the fuck does the app for my car, which just allows me to look at the car's state of charge and turn the aircon on, require Play Integrity in the first place?!
@beasts We're currently managing .sch.uk domains directly with Nominet because finding a registrar that will handle .sch.uk is very hard. Nominet are withdrawing this service and have told us to move them to a registrar (and have helpfully given us a list of registrars who do not handle .sch.uk!)
Do you support .sch.uk domains? (I realise there's no money to be made on them, although we would probably be inclined to gradually migrate our other stuff to keep everything in one place)
Thanks!
Oh well... #Santander started charging a monthly account fee on my "free business banking for life" bank account, so I'm switching to another bank. #Revolut looked interesting, offered £100 credit for opening a business account for them. They fell at the first hurdle - in order to open an account with them you need to install an #Android app which refuses to run on a #rooted phone. Time to find a different bank then.
@neil Have you tried to use IPv6 over TOR's SOCKS5 server? I have Privoxy set up to forward to TOR over SOCKS5 and am finding that when Privoxy tries to connect to an IPv6 address TOR says the connection failed. Wondering if I have missed some config.
Getting quite hacked off by this point, I replied to the email again. This time I got an actual human responding, who said... sorry that I had had a terrible experience in the store, and that they suggested that I should go to the store and discuss my options...
What a horrible #Customer #Hostile system. I have now had to resort to making legal threats since they are refusing to honour both their own "returns policy" and their obligations under the Consumer Rights Act 2015.
3/3
So, emailed customer services, got back an auto-response saying that no one was going to read my email (which was sent to the address printed on the receipt!) and I needed to submit a query through the web site. So I then battled through the FAQs on the web site until I found a contact form. Pasted my email into the contact form, got back an auto reply that basically said no one is going to read my message, go look at the FAQs instead, and if that didn't answer my query, reply to the email.
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#GoOutdoor's warranty appears to be worthless. Bought a #tent in the end of season sale last year - £400 discounted to £127, so quite a bargain. Came with a "returns policy" card saying that faulty items returned after 28 days will be repaired. It has developed a fault, so took it back to the store. They basically told me to feck off, they don't do repairs (they offered to knock £127 off another £400 tent), and to contact the customer services email address on my receipt.
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@bloor ISTR you have/had plug-in solar? Can I ask if you know why sticking generation on the "consumption" side of an RCD is safe? I've been trying to figure it out, and can't understand why the RCD wouldn't be (partially) defeated if (part of) your power isn't being supplied through the RCD?
To be clear, these are fees, not disbursements, and neither the price increase, nor additional items have been discussed with us. I would have expected that once a quote was accepted it would be fixed.
The T&Cs say that they may increase fees if it is unusually protracted or time consuming, and whilst 11 months is a bit crap, is that really protracted for buying property?
#Solicitors' fees... We received and accepted a conveyancing quote 11 months ago. Other party's solicitor has been crap, so we are only just about to complete. Our solicitor has increased our costs by an inflationary amount and added some fees that weren't in the original quote. (Note, although the quote says "quotation", the T&Cs say "you have received an estimate", which doesn't seem right?)
Anyway, is this reasonable behaviour from our solicitor?
Why do they employ morons to write forms for the Student Loans Company?
HTF do you interpret this question? [In the 2022-2023 tax year] "Did you receive any UK income that was under a tax threshold?"
Looking forward to filling in my solicitor's "how'd I do?" form when they finally complete this transaction... Its not going to be good. HTF can it take 5 months to purchase a small piece of land that both parties have already agreed, and doesn't require any searches?
Hazzah, just pointed my browser at @neil's https://dlegal66uj5u2dvcbrev7vv6fjtwnd4moqu7j6jnd42rmbypv3coigyd.onion/ (through non-transparent proxy) and that works too! Might need to do something to make .onion work through a transparent proxy... I guess resolving *.onion to a bogus IP might work...
This lunch time I have rigged up my Squid transparent proxy (which already catches all the web traffic from my network) to push traffic for certain domains through privoxy, which in turn shoves it into Tor. Thus transparently circumventing age verification for my whole network.
Note: this requires Squid to examine the SNI, so it will all go to hell once ECH becomes a thing :(
Slightly morbid, but how would you allow executors of your will to log into your #Nextcloud account (which is TOTP protected)?
I thought that creating an "app password" would be the solution, but that doesn't seem to allow logins to the UI (I guess its intended to just allow API access for apps).
@neil - any thoughts?
#Property... what are people's thoughts on surveys prior to purchasing a #house? The survey I had done on my current house was a complete waste of money (didn't tell me anything I couldn't see with my own eyes, big list of stuff they got completely wrong including things that they can't possibly have checked!)
Buying a new house and I'm erring towards not bothering with a survey based on my past experience...
