10th June, 2026: 161.
Right … I had a visitor, yesterday … !
As you may or may not know, I was having issues with what’s called my ‘in-home display’: the little gadget that shows me how much money I’ve got on the gas and electric … wasn’t showing how much electricity I had.
Which was inconvenient.
So … ?
After a lot of to’ing, fro’ing, phoning, and chatting with engineers?
Cause of the problem — the smart meter for my flat, in a cupboard in a corridor, outside — was replaced, yesterday: and a new one installed.
A new one that now is communicating with the in-home display, and telling me I have some eighty or so pounds credit, available.
That credit?
Was transferred by a call centre agent from my electricity supplier: transferred from my gas supply, I should add, as I get my gas from the same supplier.
The roughly £170 that was on my old meter, though?
Is going to take some ten days to be transferred from the old meter, to the new one.
The sooner the better.
I could do with that money: I want to wash my socks!
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You’re possibly aware — as am I — that there’s been a gradual shift in entertainment.
Or, at least, in the media movies and TV shows are on.
There’s been a movement away from optical media — DVD and blu-rays, for example — to streamed content.
That’s affecting the games industry, as well: there’s moves from games sold on disc, to games made available online, for some years.
It seems many games companies are disabling popular games: with little to no warning.
Without even the decency to make an offline version available.
Something that — according to this piece — gamers are seriously annoyed about.
After all, gamers — like film and music fans, everywhere — stand a lot of money on these things.
And expect the content to be around for a long time.
What’s to be done about this?
I don’t know.
But there’s a lot of annoyed gamers, out there … !
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