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Thank you @ianpspurs. I think fbg will be truly awful tomorrow. I didn't have even a 5 minute break between 8.45am and 6pm so was really tired in the evening so had way to many peanuts and Montazumas 100% chocolate buttons and peanut butter after my evening meal. When I am really tired I do seem to lose control over my eating.
 
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It looks s good news that you have permanently switched off horrendous alarm noises @gennepher. Very annoying about the other stuff switching back on.
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Thanks @Krystyna23040
The noise alarm noises were the absolute worst, because I was right next to them (obviously), but with the cochlear sound processor any strident, persistent, insistent plethora of noises and alarms usually do amplify and distort several times over, and my scan function which is is the hearing program on the processor (it scans the surroundings I am in for noise/sound and tries to adjust it automatically, but it doesn't do it appropriately, for example in a coffee shop, the irritating, what I perceive as a high pitched screeching noise from the coffee machine causes the processor to dampen all surrounding noise at the moment to virtually zero incoming sound for a good few minutes even after that coffee machine sound ends, but I am sitting a little distance from the coffee machine).

But when I am right on top of the alarm noises, such as the horrendous loud noise alarms in the car, each with a different signifying sound, it is as if my hearing processor cannot deal with it, and the incoming alarm sound is amplified and distorted to an intolerable degree.

I had every setting on the cochlear sound processor turned to as low as it would go when I got in the car, but it was nowhere near enough.

I found someone, a hearing person, online who rented a car like mine but took it back and refused to drive it a moment longer because she said all these safety alerts were a dangerous distraction from driving.

I did go on a chat line to the car firm, but they insisted these were safety features for the safety of the driver. So no help there.
 
If only the processor had acted in the same way for the alarms @gennepher.
 
Krystyna23040 said:
If only the processor had acted in the same way for the alarms @gennepher.
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Yes @Krystyna23040 precisely...

I will be contacting the cochlear implant team/audiologist etc and I will be bringing this issue up, and asking for another program, alongside my current program that could possibly deal with this car alarms/alerts issue. I don't know if this is possible. But if I can think something, then it is possible somewhere.

But first, I need to contact Cochlear itself, or some forum, to see if others have this concern, and if Cochlear have addressed it in any way...

Life was so much easier when I had no incoming sound....
 
Fbg 6.7

Wildlife Nighttime video
Cats Jade & Midnight, then Foxy Loxy & Skinny Fox, then Chunky Marmalade is ignored by Jade, then Ma & Pa Badger
59 secs


Creative...pen drawing and a water brush on a postcard...

I need 48 hours in one day....not enough time...

Have your best day.

I got some interesting information this morning, and I need to research it...

Time for a cuppa...I would like a nap, but the day calls...


 
Morning all on Sexagesima (second Sunday before Ash Wednesday) so don't forget to order the Betty Crocker mix and Jif lemon for the Normies: probably Nutella and Maple syrup now. Anyone able to make edible LC pancakes - oops, my bad. Five generation family meal today - pork shoulder reared in Cambs, about 5 miles from "home." As one wag observed (ahem), either 8 pigs at the table but only one roasted or one swine cast among 8 pearls. @Krystyna23040 great fbg, enjoy Oxburgh Hall. @JohnEGreen surely Faron Young's carb song on youtube was on loop? Y'all make your own kinda music this very day especially Taylor who annoys the whatsit outta Trump. He can't shake it off.
 
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Thanks for sharing that creative and teasing us with the hint of interesting information As for the tree, non woke granddad joke incoming. Two guys from the Emerald Isle were looking for work and saw a sign saying tree fellers wanted urgently. One quipped, shame there's only two of us. #1 son has Irish in laws who are fine with those type of jokes according to him. The Scillian side are best treated very differently
 
Looks like a very windy place
 
Lovely pen and water brush sketch. Happy researching.
 
Good morning everyone from the little house in the forest. Forest walks yesterday and just over 5 miles. Paid for it later. Mrs Miggins and her twin celebrated their “no, you can’t have your bus pass just yet” birthday. Daughter in law had made a very low carb cake - strawberries, cream and hardly anything to keep it all standing up. Had the terrible job of testing out the sauna and outside shower this morning. Art bit, yes, there are trees here. Hope your day is kind to you. My travel cafetière is proving quite popular.


 
Thank you very much @ianpspurs
 
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Thank you for sharing artistic things arboreal and news of matters both corporeal and gastronomic (eal). Many happy returns for yesterday to Mrs Miggins and sister. Enjoy the call of the wild but remember we are none of us as young as we were.
 
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Sounds a brilliant glamping holiday @dunelm
Glad the grown up twins enjoyed their birthday.
I love the trees...
 
By 7 AM fbg was 5.6 so happy with that.
My mate paddy in the RAF was banned from every pub in Sandwich Kent every time any one made an Irish joke he would start a fight he was a 5 foot 4 inch ex Irish jockey so nearly always ended up losing the fight and then getting banned there are a large number of pubs in Sandwich you would not think it possible to get banned from them all.
 
It turns out that I have a complimentary Bluelink free in my car until 2027. This runs the infotainment centre along with the sat nav and all the controls for other features and safety features which are within the car infotainment centre.

At various times something comes up on the infotainment screen when I turn on the engine and it says I cannot use Bluelink or satnav or all the features on the infotainment centre, unless I agree at the end of this lengthy document. Currently I have this complementary Bluelink up to 2027.

I was talking with my daughter in Australia this morning, and explaining about all my problems with the car and the noisy intrusive alarms. And explained that the software on the infotainment centre changed from time to time as though it had updated. I also explain that there is an icon on the right of the entertainment centre telling me that it is LIVE as I am driving as though it is connected up to something and some transmission is taking place. I do not use the radio.

The icons sometimes change place on the infotainment screen, as if it had had an update. I couldn't understand this because I didn't know it was connected up to something for this to happen.

Apparently there's an app to go with this, the car's infotainment screen did invite me to download the app when I first got the car, but I did not do that.

I have learnt that this is OTA software and it's updates my car's vehicles system software remotely and automatically and it keeps up to date without me doing anything or visiting a dealership.

I've had a look at the app but I have not downloaded it because there is a whole new world on that app to me... Things that you can do with your car that are way out of my knowledge. Like you can even make a digital key with your phone and the app to start your car.

I have had my fill of new technology today and I cannot take one more thing into my poor little brain.

I am just a girl who was brought up on a farm with no electricity, no sanitation, it was an oil drum in the pig sty. I didn't attend school most of the time (I couldn't hear what was being said anyway). I just roamed the countryside with my dog.

Life was simple back then.

I am a cantankerous old biddy and I want my life to be simple in my old age.

According to the app I can get alarm notifications if someone tries to break into my car, I can do remote diagnostic checks, and a whole pile of other stuff. But all I want to do is turn off all these alarms and safety alerts, which are unnecessary in my opinion.

Apparently I can even find my car up to a 1 mile radius, if I have forgotten where I have parked it, if I have the app...


Now I said that this car snitched on me (I was only joking when I said that last week), when I tried to turn off safety settings because initially it let me turn them off and did not reinstate them, but a day later the imfotainment screen now decides that it's going to tell me straight away that I cannot turn these settings off and it is going to recheck these safety settings immediately. It did not do that in the first place.


Now I am thinking of long term implications of this, what I am now going to call remote monitoring of your car. Say for example you have night blindness, but you still take the chance and drive your car at night because you think you can get away with it (I do not have night blindness but this is the example me and my daughter came up with). The car, assuming it has this information, is now going to not start when you get back in it next time and says sorry you do not have permission to drive this car between the hours of darkness of such and such, but at 8:01 in the morning you may drive the car again. And you are stuck 100 miles from home....

Oh, and apparently this Bluelink feature can be a battery drain, and cause failure in this 12 volt battery which runs a pile of things including the infotainment centre...mine failed a few weeks back...
 
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