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I just recieved a "TV mini box"* and it works fine - except it doesn't have the main free channels: BBC1, BBC2, ITV, and Channel 4 (and probably others). Channel 5 is there, but not the ones before it. So checking online I need to look at the TV settings, and there is a button "Update Channels". No, there isn't. Just some info on how many channels I have, and a single "Done" button. The main box is connected to the same router via the same Wifi and has 'em all ... but not the new box.
So I go to the supplier site, and look in the help, and it says to click the "Update Channels" button that doesn't exist so I go to tech support and find the "contact us" button. Move the mouse over that, and ... the button appears on the TV. 
Click it, and the channels appear.
I think I scared it into working ... 
* I junked Sky back in January in favour of a "streaming only" TV service for 1/2 the price and twice the reliability, and just got sent a box to work in a second room
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It's either that, or a super-efficient response team.
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How fine do you grind your coffee grounds for american coffee? I'm curious to know how other people do it, as I have very little experience with that coffee making process.
I use coarse for french press, midway between coarse and fine for moka, ultrafine for turkish but I never know how to grind it for american.
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I just set my bean to cup machine to "finest grind" and leave it there.
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I tried with a fine grind yesterday and it seems it improved the taste quite a bit, I will sample better when not sleepwalking.
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I decided not to vote this election, mainly due to despair at the Tories' failure to run a proper Conservative government. The alternatives are too awful to contemplate and we all know what is in store for us over the next five years. I doubt that my X will be missed.
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Apathy is the main problem over here Richard - the current government's track record is beyond appalling , Liz Truss should be in the tower with Boris - oops just remembered the no politics in the lounge rule.
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I recently discovered I have reason to like Liz; if it weren't for her budget, our new house would have cost £60K more!
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- Homer
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You're lucky living where you do. Down here in Surrey prices never seem to stop rising.
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Isn't there an option called NOTA (None Of The Above) on the ballot paper? We have such an option in India.
Once NOTA gets above a certain threshold percentage of the votes, then there will be re election (hopefully with a different set of candidates).
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Not here. You can actually spoil your ballot by writing such on the paper, or vote for every candidate. But that does not have any real effect on the outcome.
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Was introduced in India about 10 years ago, as an electoral reform. Not sure whether it has made any big difference till now. But at least, there's such a choice for the voter.
The Constitution of India allows any citizen to contest, and it is interesting to see that a number of candidates get lesser than NOTA itself.
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I didn't know you had that in India - very sensible.
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An example election result is here - my constituency - Bangalore North, in the recently concluded Indian Parliament Elections.
Election Commission of India [^]
Look at the NOTA numbers at the end.
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I figure that if you don't vote then you lose the right to complain about the government you do get. So get out there and - or spoil your ballot.
Personally, I'd like to see a compulsory "none of the above" option at the bottom of all ballots. If it wins the seat, nobody is elected and everybody on the ballot is banned from public office for ten years. If "None of the above" wins the whole election, you have to restart with new candidates until we get ones the voters trust ...
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I agree that I have that choice, and by not voting I have effectively spoiled my ballot. And I've been complaining since John Major's time, but it hasn't made any difference.
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Bit like the Mercan election, to choose between the decayed and the corrupt.
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Except here we have decay and corruption on both sides.
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That should make the decision trivial!
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Kodos: It's true, we are aliens. But what are you going to do about it? It's a two-party system. You have to vote for one of us.
Man 1: He's right, this is a two-party system.
Man 2: Well I believe I'll vote for a third-party candidate.
Kang: Go ahead, throw your vote away.
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- Homer
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It's worth voting to try and ensure an effective opposition.
If the landslide is too big then they will be unopposed and then the hard left will be emboldened and it will be as bad as the hard right have been since the 2019 landslide that gave the hard right the upper hand in internal party politics. At least with centrists, corrupt or otherwise, you get some sort of livable stability where companies invest and the market behaves normally (as far as we can call traders normal). Without that stability the UK is in for years of hard right hard left ping pong between zealots and that will be benefit nobody and further condemn the UK to continue its slide into irrelevance on the international political scene.
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I agree with some of what you say, but I had better not get into a discusion so Chris does not have to come at me with the big stick. 
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Japan declares victory in 'war' on floppy disks[^]
I had no idea anyone was still using them (or that any still worked!) let alone that a government agency would require submissions on them. I haven't even had a floppy disk drive in any computer this century, and use the A: drive for network storage.
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Still used, especially in military and industrial production.
I had to interface with a 1978 system... in 2017.
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That'll be fun ... the last manufacturer of floppies (Sony) stopped production back in 2011 ...
And the ones I bought when I still used them definitely had a "shelf life" before they degraded beyond the point of readability!
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