James Pickett

Geek with enough social skills to mix with normal people and blend in if required :)

[James Pickett @jfpickett]

Does anyone ever use their car's auto-park feature to actually park, rather than show it off?

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Feel like O2 has a bit of a cheek demanding more money mid-contract when even WhatsApp struggles to work and opening a web page demands 1998 levels of patience (or just fails)

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@bobbyllew Seems to be plenty of bad press about queuing for public car charging and ‘Charge Rage’. Surely this can be solved in software? Digital queues! Pay a small deposit, enter some deets and your car is next!

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@channel5_tv Except the ‘turn off your WI-FI router’ that’s a bad idea if it’s supplied by your ISP

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How do I tell Liz about my awesome idea for paying for the #CostOfLivingCrisis ?

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@robertcnichol @UniOfSurrey Thank you - I'm curator of this museum. Been collecting over my 20 years at Uni of Surrey :-)

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The first game on sign-up to Xbox Live appears to be working out how to convince it you've already paid

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@virginmedia Hi There. Appreciate you following up. It’s been better this morning. I’m convinced that it’s local capacity issues and that it’s going to happen again though. After 10 years of solid speeds, it has been all over the place this past few months. I’ll monitor it for now :-)

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@virginmedia What happens when my broadband is so slow the test won't even finish? The system promised an engineer booking yesterday if I tried again today

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@virginmedia I've only soft rebooted the hub. I'll try the pinhole reset. The online checker failed with a 'technical problem' part way through every time.

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@virginmedia Thank you. No :-( It says I'm only allowed to run it 6 times in 24 hours. I was trying every 20mins or so.

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@virginmedia No problem. Thanks for reaching out. You’ve picked a good moment to ask. I’m getting a good experience this morning. I’ve normally found things have slowed by now, although it’s worst in the afternoon. Right now 188d 21u and that’s with 2 people working.

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I’ve been so impressed by the tech. Even tempted to buy a game or two, but the ‘Killed by Google’ website always made me nervous. I shall heed that warning and move on.

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Google is shutting down its Stadia game studios https://t.co/jrFp9LZ0Ii

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Just installed #Signal and #Telegram. A search for contacts only reveals my friends in IT who have done their cyber security training

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@DominicWillit This looks great! Are there any additional costs? For example Azure resource usage

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@moinsyyed1985 Haha, thanks!

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@CurlyHairedHero Yeah I think so. Instead you'll need really fast internet access

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@moinsyyed1985 The power of the cloud