Any question answered...

Ah ok.

I always wonder whether the B in B'twin was more of a short thing (buhtwin)
Because of the punctuation mark

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I've been saying bee twin though

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Why don't garage forecourt signs and pump just state petrol and diesel. Why "unleaded"?

Well it hasn't got any lead in, has it?

Why "unleaded"?

Because there used to be leaded, and they never changed the labelling after leaded was banned.

Leaded petrol isn't quite banned and is still available in small quantities from specially licensed retailers for use in historic vehicles. I used to work with someone that had a car that needed it. It also had a leather strap connected to a lever and wrapped round the rear axle for a brake.

I know but the UK hasn't had leaded petrol on forecourts since 2000. Perhaps E10 or E5 petrol?

Yeah, I nearly took the time to make the necessary anti-pedant edit, but I couldn't be arsed and anyway, why spoil your fun? 🙂

Ya.

What the fuck is chirping away every 38 seconds in my house?

Ruled out burglar alarm and carbon monoxide alarm. Current guess is a smoke alarm. They're mains powered and not showing any error light but I guess they must have a battery backup or something but I can't work out which one is making the noise.

My mains powered smoke alarms have batteries in them. Took me ages to realise.

Hah I have experience in this particular game. Took me ages to locate the culprit then I had drop a fucking ceiling to get to the bastard thing

Smoke alarms or CO2 alarms and they are not always where they were originally installed.

I've found them in nearby cupboards or drawers before now.

Fortunately I know there aren't any discarded ones around. The only room where that was a possibility I ruled out during last night's wander round the house listening.

Looking like it is probably the battery backup then. Obviously the most likely candidate is the one over the stairs that is awkward to get to. I assume I should turn off the power to them before fiddling.

Mine just split so the half with battery (and no mains wires) slides off. Never needed to turn the mains off

Google shared calendars: I want to hide items from their calendar from my view, anyone know how?

There's usually a bit of a trick sliding a screwdriver into a slot which you can't really see because of the angle until you've torn the whole thing off the ceiling when it becomes very easy to see what you should of done in the beginning.

The mains supply shouldn't be accessible if all you've done is remove the user serviceable cover to reach the battery.

If you open the calendar in a full tab of its own, on the left there is a pane called My Calendars that has all the calendars you're subscribed to and you can uncheck them

Yeah, but I don't want to remove the calendar entirely, just hide the passive aggressive entries in it :)

That's all it does, unticks the visibility, similar thing on your phone on the hamburger menu at the top right, I think it's done on a per device method, not per account.

The guy that invented leaded petrol also invented CFCs and died after getting caught in in a winch thing he made to get in bed after being partially paralysed by polio.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/one-man-two-deadly-substances-20th-century-180963269/

But this doesn't work for visibility of specific calendar items. All or nothing

Cheers, I've had a quick nosy at the smoke alarm I can get to and obviously I've no idea how to get the fucking thing off (but did nearly pull it off the ceiling). Neither twisting or levering seemed to work. Conveniently no manufacturer on there so I can google it.