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  • Never had any trouble bringing laptop into a shop before. They don't want valuables left at the door to be stolen, people would blame them. Been to some pretty big second hand shops carrying a laptop and other stuff, never had an issue.

  • Fascinating.

    I have no facebook account, but family members who insist on Whatsapp instead of something more secure. I use it to contact them. How is it associated with a facebook id? Did they generate one? Or am I piggybacked on them?

  • In newcastle I have generally found Google Maps innaccurate at best, adding massive legs to short trips at worst. Apple maps hasn't sent me on doglegs yet in Newie.

    Rurally, they're both bad, but useable. But over the last year they have both got a lot worse.

    I miss my NSW UBD paper book, frankly.

  • An X, and I have no trouble with it on city roads, I think it just has started doubting rural ones. Not shown is Google Maps doing exactly the same thing. I had downloaded maps, I didn't need to, we were close enough to civilisation to have reception, but the gps insisted the road wasn't there.

    More and more rural roads seem to be dropping off the gps over the last six months.

  • For over 100 km? probably not. This wasn't a moment in time, it was the entire length, until we got on a more well known highway. At which point we "teleported" there I guess. It was all very weird.

  • It was a perfectly normal road. Tarmac, two lanes one way, one the other, alternating, you know. Both Apple and Google maps insisted, yet again, that it was closed, then that it didn't exist, then that we were nowhere. It has been happening more and more, on various roads, over the last six months. Never lost mobile connection. Got onto a highway 140km later, and it "found" me, as if nothing happened.

  • Google Maps, not shown, had exactly the same problem. It repeatedly told me to turn around and tried to direct me onto a freeway (out of my way, but theoretically a possible route, I guess) and then it told me the road was closed, then got lost and decided we were nowhere. We still had coverage, and the downloaded map remained, but we weren't on it.

    Google maps does not know Newcastle, incidentally. It has repeatedly sent me on circular loops around my destination in Newie, and insists the tip has an entrance that doesn't exist, among many other inconvenient wild goose chases. It's fun to use, but gets massively unreliable outside Sydney. I cannot trust it, so I have both and check both when starting out.

  • Yeah, I had all the maps, and the connection, I wasn't lost, just the GPS was lost. I don't 4X4, I'm just rural.

    Yeah, there was a website called "TomTom is trying to kill me" many years ago, no idea if it still exists but I guess I should go look it up!

  • No, not for years. Except that it seems to be decaying over the last few months.

    Not shown is the same argument I was having with Google Maps. Both insisted the road either wasn't there, or was closed, which hasn't been the case for the last forty years that I have used it.

  • The maps were downloaded, I could read them and did, but moving or parked, the gps insisted I was at best "on a road that is closed", and at worst tried to find me in the world. Not shown: Same problem with google maps, which also insisted that we weren't on any road.

  • Looks almost like a flattie, but interesting folding pattern and likely too much webs. Good news is that it is not one of the dangerous ones. The people who get bit are the people who try to kill or injure the spider. Killing spiders is unlucky anyhow. Gently help it leave with a broom or brush with a long handle. Let it escape into a plant is best, like a hedge on the side of the road.

    To prevent more spiders, keep the place you keep the bike free of webs. Don't keep it in a bunch of plants, or in a place that is well lit at night; Lights and plants attract insects, and insects attract predatory spiders. Encourage spider-eating wasps (they don't sting you, they sting spiders) with a "solitary bee hotel" in your garden. Encourage birds. The grey thrush and the magpie both eat spider. Or keep a cat. Cats love taking out spiders....