Any question answered...

option goes live tomorrow so I'll decide on a whim just then no doubt.

That's just to pre-order, you give wheel details at a later stage.

Brilliant, more time to procrastinate, only to decide on a whim at the last moment still.

This is the way

I have an old landline phone that you plug into the phone socket with a cable. I'd like to make it wireless - i.e. move it to a different room without having to run a cable. Can I do this? If so how?

Can I do this?

Anything is possible, but the amount of effort required to implement such a scheme is disproportionate when you can buy a twin DECT set for about £30

If you're incredibly attached to the aesthetic or ergonomic factors of your existing telephone apparatus, the easiest way to make it wireless is going to be by buying a DECT set and patching the existing speaker/microphone/dial[ling-pad] into the guts of a DECT handset, and plugging the DECT base station into your socket.

Landlines are going to cease to be a thing in 2025, so a landline VOIP adapter ("ATA") is part of your future whatever happens. Most are ethernet only, so you'll need an ethernet wifi dongle.

Landlines are going to cease to be a thing in 2025

For real? I just got a reminder from BT that my contract is almost up and the prices are going up, thinking about switching to "community fibre" should I just forget about landline? I never use it. (But I do quite like having an old school phone in the front room just in case. )

For real?

BT, including Openreach provided, analogue and ISDN lines are planned to be switched off by December 2025. Other licensed operators with their own network might keep going, eg Kingston or Virgin.

Whoever you have a contract with might supply you with a device with a voice port, eg on the back of your broadband router. There might be a cost.

I've been unable to work out what BT are going to do for services that can't get broadband or mobile. ATA in the PCP?

Other licensed operators with their own network might keep going, eg Kingston or Virgin

When I got Virgin at my place a couple of years ago the phoneline they provided was VOIP.

When I got Virgin at my place a couple of years ago the phoneline they provided was VOIP.

They still had some legacy analogue deployments when I was last properly involved in this stuff. Once upon a time the cable companies would drop a figure of eight cable which had a couple of pairs of copper and a coax stuck together. The copper was jumpered in the road side box while the coax went into an amp/splitter thing. Perhaps all gone but the timetable will be different to the BT (Openreach driven) switch off.

Some more about BT at https://www.openreach.co.uk/cpportal/products/the-all-ip-programme

I'd forgotten about the exchange closure programme. Need to step up my exchange bagging, only been to about 20 of ~5,600. Need to get the ~4,600 before they go! Could be some great rides.

I was having issues with my virgin phone line and they switched me to VoIP.

The only person who rings that number is my mum.

They cornered me into deciding on range 15 or 30km at this point. I'm intending on only using bike for allotment or office commutes so 15km should be plenty but the lingering doubt already begins.

If I have 4m2 at 3mm thick would I get 12m2 at 1mm thick?

Im sure I would. But doubt can be a powerful thing.

4m2 at 3mm thick would I get 12m2 at 1mm thick?

Those two things have the same volume (0.012m³)

Yes.
Were working out coverage from a 20kg bag.
Goalposts have moved anyway, Its a formula I should have to hand really.

20kg gives 4m2 at 3mm thick
20kg gives 0.8m2 at 15mm thick

I now need to find the coverage for 10mm thick. So we can work out how many 20kg bags we need.
I think 11.7mm would be 1m but then the next sum doesnt work so I dont think im working it out right, or even close.
Im multiplying the mm by 3 and dividing the m2 by 3.

Flippin contractors!

I'm going with 1.1m2 per 20kg at 10mm deep.

Ive drawn a graph and everything.

I'm going with 1.1m2 per 20kg at 10mm deep.

If you multiply the thickness by 10/3, you need to multiply the area by 3/10, so 4×3/10=1.2m²

I'd buy 20kg per square metre to allow a bit for wastage, tolerance and levelling.

Yeah the client is a pita.
I said you nees 91, take 95, showed him it was actually 90.5(ish) and he was like "you got any open bags"

Fuck off you tit, get in your range with piss down your leg cos its all over my flippin toilet floor.

Really appreciate your help Test.

Funny you should mention it but it's exactly for aesthetic reasons I'd like to keep the phone. @grams suggestion of a VOIP adapter looks promising following a cursory Google. Anyone have any recommendations to avoid the inevitable follow up questions from me?

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Hello, is there an area of the forum to help me find a bike courier to take a toddler bike and a small metal rack from E3 5BW and take it to Edgware?
Thought I had an option lined up but it appears to have fallen through. Rather pay someone on here or an environmentally friendly company rather than a van if possible, any suggestions welcomed. Thanks

any suggestions welcomed

We've been here before, and E3 to Edgware is even less favourable than Hornsey to Fulham.

You could try https://pedalme.co.uk/cargo
not sure of distance or cost

Pedal me would prob do it for like £40

In lieu of a "full boutique wanker" thread, I'll ask here.

I need a crankset that sits somewhere between "faux retro bollocks" and "spaceship": 165mm, external BB (68mm British shell). I'll cross the PCD/chainline/clearance bridges when I come to them.

So far only White Industries R30 meet the criteria.

TIA!