Microsoft Recall is even worse than you think.

It has apparently been snuck into the Edge web browser even if you don't have the Windows version that adds it.

h/t @laimis who pointed out to me that #Recall starts with Windows 11 24H2; I only have 23H2.

BUT I found it in my Edge Browser which updated today to Version 125.0.2535.51.
The setting is:
{3 dots button} =>
Settings =>
Privacy Search and Services =>
Save screenshots of sites for history
(all the way down, default on).

#Microsoft

Condenser Dryer plumbing

When we first got this dryer, our laundry room had one of those vertical drains you shoved the washing machine waste pipe into, so we jammed the (smaller) waste pipe from the dryer down that same waste.

We moved into the garage for 10 months while our house renovation was done, and I set up a temporary laundry/kitchen/bench area at the front of the garage with the cheapest kitchen cabinets I could find from Bunnings. I glued them as well as screwed, and they're actually quite good even compared to the house kitchen which cost us exponentially more from a kitchen place. Next time I will do the kitchen myself and maybe get fancier doors and benchtop – and not pay a kitchen place to do the boring/easy part. The overpriced house kitchen is still just shit chipboard carcasses. But I digress.

In the garage, I re-plumbed the dryer on the rear to use the internal tank, which you empty into the sink between loads. It worked fine, even if I had to remind the demi-humans to do it every single time.

I could have plumbed it into the sink waste, but I figured why bother if we're only in there for a few months. 3 to 6 months, the builders informed us. So I bet on 6.

10 months later we moved into the house which still wasn't complete, even though the builders would have actually been on site less than 4 months in that time, and if they had done stuff correctly the first time it would have been even less. I am totally not bitter about this.

Anyway, the drain waste fitting for plumbing in washing machines is far larger than the pipe from the dryer so I stopped in at my local pipe and fittings supplier, and grabbed a bunch of stuff which totaled $26. Not bad.

I assembled the parts to adapt from the waste fitting (the waste includes these, and has blanking bungs when unused) through to the smaller hose barb.

And then secured it all in place. I probbaly didnt need the hose clamps, but I dislike leaks so that's a bit of piece of mind longer term.

The last step was to change the outlet on the dryer over from the internal tank to the hose. So I pulled out the dryer and changed over the hose coming from the dryer, and pushed it back in. Job done.

Here it is plumbed for the internal tank.

And here changed over to the external waste hose.

And all pushed back in under bench, I also adjusted the feet as it was a bit rocky. So hopefully that is better too when my wife overloads it and it tries to launch around the room when running.

#HomeRenovation #DIY

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SparkNZ Facebook/Google opt-out

Hunted this out since I discovered Spark sharing stuff with my freshly made Facebook account.

I hate that I had to trawl their privacy policy (okay, Ctrl+F, then type “Meta”) and then copy and paste a link from their pdf because it isn't a hotlink. I mean, that is a deliberate choice these days. When was the last time you saw something not automatically become a link that should be...

https://www.spark.co.nz/secure/myspark/opt-out-form/opt-out-fb-google.html is the link, anyway.

Here is the full Privacy Policy on their site, also uploaded here for redundancy as of the post date.

On their opt-out page there is this, annoyingly:

If you opt-out, we will still partner with customer insights providers to understand your preferences, and you may still see ads and other information from us, but it may be less relevant to you.

Why would I see ads.... you're a phone and broadband provider. This feels copy/pasted from elsewhere.

Also, if you return to that page, you get the same page with the opt-out unchecked again – so who knows if it is even doing anything behind the scenes. I suspect probably not, if it can't even set a checkbox then is it even storing that selection?

The pop-up assured me that I was opted out though when I submitted it.

Very convincing.

#Spark #Meta #facebook #google #dystopia

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