The Retirement Thread
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I have the battery charge display on the task bar. If I click that, THIS pops up...
The second arrow points to the conservation mode selector.
I found that the laptop often 'forgot' the setting and I often wouldn't notice until the battery had been charged back up to 100%. I then discovered that as long as I close the lid of the laptop with the power still connected, and make sure that the power is connected when I reopen the lid, it just carries on as before with conservation ON.
PaulSB
Squire
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
168 customers are affected,
estimated time of restoration 11/02/2021 18:00
It certainly is! Local FB group is alive with info. Thank God for 4G and a fully charged battery. Fire lit.
Discovered we are a Priority Customer for electricity from ENWL. Only found out when text messages started pouring in to assure us everything is OK.. Here's a short extract for those who don't know about electricity:
"We are aware some properties in your area are without power. This means the lights and plugs will not be working...." 😳
No sh1t Sherlock
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I'll give that a minute or two now but if I can't crack it, I'll put it off until late this evening. Somehow, things keep cropping up that are keeping me from getting on with my scheme to dominate the global puzzle games industry***!
For example... Bubble pal just rang to ask if I have fixed her camera yet. I gave her my old Olympus digital camera a few years ago and the lens has started jamming when going in or out. I'm hoping that it is just some dirt that has got down the side of it. It is quite a nice camera, but a bit too big to carry on bike rides so I bought a Canon which is about 40% of the size. Of course, even that doesn't get carried often because my phone's camera is good enough for most of the pictures that I want to take.
*** Ok, more realistically - finish at least one game, publish it, and get a few thousand people to play regularly! That should give me a small income to top up my coming pension. It would be nice to earn enough to keep my bike fleet in good order and be able to take a few cycling holidays in the UK every year.
monkers
Veteran
Nice to know that even they don't know a plug from a socket.
My MacBook has a similar “ smart battery” feature which charges the battery up to 80% and then pauses. This can be switched off, and it’s quite “ smart” in that it adapts to your usage patterns.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I do think that 60% is a very, er, conservative conservation level! 80% makes more sense to me, but there isn't an option to choose the percentage on the Lenovo. I'll have a quick poke around in the Windows Registry to see if I can spot it there. Occasionally, I have found things that I can tweak even if it is not supposed to be possible!
PaulSB
Squire
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
So what did people do before there was electricity?
BoldonLad
Not part of the Elite
- Location
- South Tyneside
Went to bed when it got dark?
Seriously, and, showing my age now, but, my great-grandfather was still alive when I was a child, and, his house had no electricity (gas lights, coal fire with a cooking range). I cannot remember exactly when that would have been, but, about 1953-55, when I would have been 6-8 years old.
I am not sure how old my great-grandfather must have been, at that time, but, certainly 90+. He was (understandably, perhaps) a cantankerous old so and so, my abiding memory of him, is, him sitting in his rocking chair, in front of the fire, smoking his pipe, drinking a bottle of stout, and spitting in the fire.
One ls99 holder was Greenflag the car thing.
gavroche
Getting old but not past it
- Location
- North Wales
I remember those days. My grandmother lived on a farm and didn't have electricity till the late 50s.
Woodburner for hot water and cooking and oil lamps for lighting.
Yea ok but how did she get Facebook without it ?
BoldonLad
Not part of the Elite
- Location
- South Tyneside
Lambs liver, onions and chips for dinner.
Thursdays are my "turn" to cook (Mrs @BoldonLad, does not like cooking, so, we normally divide it up, Mon-Wed is Mrs @BoldonLad, Thu-Sat is me, and Sunday, is a joint effort). Today, I did a new meal, out of the Recipe Book, Turkish Lamb, wasn't difficult, and tasted good, Mrs @BoldonLad even said it was good).
Pre-Covid we reduced the cooking by eating out a couple of times per week, not possible now of course.
