A Life Of Grime
RIP Mr. Trebus.
The special they ran about Mr. Trebus' after his passing away was excellent.
An opportunity presents itself in today's column of bork to inject some honesty into a local estate agency thanks to a screen that is begging for a bit of casting. Hard though it may be to believe, there is a lot of bork in the world. Screens of blue or burger-splattered signage are all too familiar. Often there is little one …
Not so if you can see the screen and have the IR remote. Though some use BT too or instead.
Depends on the model.
Same with BT keyboard pairing. If the victim goes to loo or stares at some handsome hulk / pretty person, use the opera glasses to read the 4 digits popping up on the screen when you pair. Oddly nothing needed pressed on one Android tablet I tried. The 4 digits had to be typed on the new keyboard to complete pairing.
I always have my laptop BT off, except if testing some BT device.
In the early 80's I used to take my Fergusson TV remote to the pub (his allowed me to change their TV from my stool - and on the way home change all the TVs in the Radio Rentals window. It seemed like fun at the time - calling up Teletext pages etc. But in those days stations went off air in the early hours and it was all back to normal the next day.
If you can see the screen and have a remote for some TVs:
You can enable Peer to peer networked WiFi. No SSID & password of WiFi Router.
You can then use that for Casting from Android. Works on some Sony TVs. It may even already be on and you only need to select ScreenCast source.
I think it's also madness to connect AndroidTV and most other Smart TVs and any IoT thing to WiFi or ethernet.
Also make sure uPNP is off on the Router and everything else.
A friend from the US wanted to see some modern British homes and so we went to the show house at a nearby development.
Her eagle-eye quickly spotted the 75% scale three-piece suite, magnolia paint, vanilla-scented air-freshener, strategically located ornaments, and the absence of any internal doors.
She was however impressed by the size of the master bedroom's walk-in wardrobe - right up to the point she realised it was the second bedroom.
I can confirm this. I moved to the US a few years ago and it blew my mind how much bigger the houses are, like-for-like, compared to their equivalents in the UK.
For what my mortgage in the UK on a 3-bed semi cost me, I got a 4500-sq-ft ranch property on 10+ acres here in the Pacific Northwest. Loving it.