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… if so, could you please help with what seems to be a very simple requirement, but it has me defeated ?

My cheap & cheerful Alcatel 1S runs Android 11

Where I live is a ‘not-spot’ for 4G signals because the tower is shadowed by a cliff, but some nearby locations have nearly line-of-sight, and it would be convenient to identify them.

Signal Level can be accessed on the ‘phone but is buried under several layers of menu !

Is there any way that I can put a shortcut on the home-screen that takes me directly to the relevant page:

|Settings| |System| |About phone| |Status| 

… it would make life a little easier.

Thanks

MichaelG.

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 24/09/2023 14:13:31

There are loads of 9/16 UNF nuts on ebay.co.uk

With or without flanges, and a few interesting ‘specials’

list them with cheapest with p&p first …and take your pick

[ some are ‘stiff-nuts’ … which may, or may not, be useful ]

MichaelG.

9/16 BSF has 16 threads per inch and a 55° thread form

9/16 UNF has 18 threads per inch and a 60° thread form

I suggest you need to use the correct nut

MichaelG.

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Post crossed with Nigel’s

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 24/09/2023 13:09:34

… it is now ‘later’

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09/08/2023 08:47:11

9/08/2023 08:57:08

09/08/2023 11:36:33

09/08/2023 15:33:09

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It is perfectly reasonable that Rob might confuse AI with AI

but I was trying to understand how [any version of ] AI prompted thoughts of Aluminium

.. I offered my hypothesis

MichaelG.

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Now wish I had never mentioned it.

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The question was directed to another contributor

… off for a walk now but will post references later

MichaelG.

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Been there, contributed, and didn’t get an answer to my question

… shows how reliable humans can be

MichaelG.

… and there’s a very disturbing story from the real world on BBC News this morning:

AI-generated naked child images shock Spanish town of Almendralejo

MichaelG.

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Edit: Stepping back a little from that ^^^ 

It may be of interest to see how effective such graphic work has become …

Look for a report in the Independent on Wednesday 20-Sept.

“People are obsessed with a 24-year-old AI influencer – this is why her developer created her”

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 24/09/2023 06:53:25

Absolutely glorious

Thanks again, Steve

… and it’s good to see some [comparative] youngsters so devoted to it.

MichaelG.

As a slight digression …

Stephen Fry was suitably impressed [and more than a little annoyed] by the AI cloning of his voice:

… Story available in the Evening Standard, and presumably elsewhere.

MichaelG.

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Speaking at the tech-based CogX festival in London, he played a clip of a history documentary that faked his voice, without his knowledge. It appears as though the actor is narrating the show but the AI-generated voice was actually created by technology learning from Fry reading all seven of the Harry Potter audiobooks.

“I said not one word of that, it was a machine,” Fry told attendees, as reported by the Guardian. “Yes, it shocked me. They used my reading of the seven volumes of the Harry Potter books and, from that dataset, an AI of my voice was created and it made that new narration.

“It could… have me read anything, from a call to storm parliament to hard porn, all without my knowledge and without my permission. And this, what you just heard, was done without my knowledge.

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 23/09/2023 20:08:52

Nice fixture, Greg

… and well demonstrated too

Just one naive question from me: What grinding wheel do you use?
… it appears to cope quite well with Brass

MichaelG.

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It is visible as the top two rows when you are composing a post

MichaelG.

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Edited By Michael Gilligan on 23/09/2023 14:02:21

Thanks, Steve !

I’ve only watched the first few minutes, so far … but it is obviously essential viewing for later today.

MichaelG.

Certainly, Vic : Here’s 638 but you will find 601 elsewhere on the site.

**LINK**

https://www.henkel-adhesives.com/bg/en/product/retaining-compounds/loctite_6380.html

638 is a little stronger, and 601 is more fluid

MichaelG.

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Dysfunctional might be a good descriptor !

**LINK**

https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/77189/prunus-domestica-cambridge-gage-(d)/details

MichaelG.

Probably of no direct relevance, but, for the benefit of the forum in general …

There is a lot of useful information about thermocouples here:

**LINK**

https://www.thermocoupleinfo.com/thermocouple-types.htm

MichaelG.

It obviously doesn’t count as authoritative, John … but this ebay listing gives 1740°F

**LINK** https://www.ebay.com/itm/284020624313

[ look in the ‘detailed description’ ]

MichaelG.

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Which reminds me … there’s a handy but of ‘schoolboy physics’ here:

**LINK**

http://www.reuk.co.uk/wordpress/solar/measuring-the-power-of-a-solar-panel/

MichaelG.

No experience of it, Mike … but it appears to be well-thought-out

**LINK**

https://www.sherline.com/product/4017u4117u-mill-saddle-lock-upgrade/#description

MichaelG

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Haven’t found a video, but here’s a reasonably detailed write-up explaining the principle:

**LINK**

http://www.reuk.co.uk/print.php?article=Solar-Greenhouse-Heat-Sink.htm

MichaelG.

Well … it does look like they are supplying one cord less than you might require

MichaelG.

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Edit: __ actually, it’s pretty clear from this Advert that English is not Lidl’s first language

https://www.lidl.co.uk/p/parkside-20v-cordless-mini-angle-grinder-rotary-tool-set-bare-unit/p10007676

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 22/09/2023 18:07:05