Collection
The Car on Hour Five of a Long Drive
Five fixes for the state a car reaches on a long drive: nothing has a place, everything needs charging, and the back seat is too bright for anyone to sleep in.
4 min read
On the Road
The car becomes a moving pile of rubbish and cables.
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The Car on Hour Five of a Long Drive
Five fixes for the state a car reaches on a long drive: nothing has a place, everything needs charging, and the back seat is too bright for anyone to sleep in.
Guide
Food and Drink on a Long Drive
Stopping to eat costs more time than the food is worth, and a bag on a seat becomes the footwell. What travels well, and what a cool bag actually needs.
3 min read
Comparison
A Dedicated Sat Nav vs Your Phone
The phone wins on maps and traffic and loses on the two things that end a journey badly: no signal, and a battery that overheats in a windscreen mount in summer.
3 min read
Guide
Car Sickness in the Back Seat
A mismatch between what the eyes see and what the inner ear feels. Almost everything that helps works by fixing that mismatch, not by settling a stomach.
4 min read
Comparison
Seat-Back Organiser vs Footwell Box
The organiser sags and takes knee room. The box slides and becomes a projectile. Which failure you can live with, and the loading rule that outranks both.
3 min read
Other things that might be annoying you
- Warning lightThe light is on and nobody can tell me why.
- A long drive coming upSix hours in the car and I have not thought about any of it.
- Wi-Fi that keeps droppingThe PC is upstairs and the router is by the front door.
- The desk is set up wrongThe screen is too low, the chair is too high, and I have never changed either.
- A screen that is hard to look atGlare across it, or text I keep leaning in to read.
- Stuck at the roadsideSomething failed away from home and I had nothing useful with me.
- Taking a handheld awayCharging it, filling it, and getting it there in one piece.
- A PC that will not startIt was fine yesterday and now nothing happens at all.
- A car that barely movesIt sits far more than it drives, and that is its own problem.
- Nobody can hear me properlyHum, echo, or a microphone that picks up every keystroke.
- Losing work to a power cutA flickering supply, a failing drive, and no backup worth the name.
- Dead batteryThe car sat for a month and now it won't turn over.
- No garage spaceThe car fits, but only just, and nothing else does.
- Car clutterEverything I own is loose in the trunk and rattling.
- Dirty interiorThe interior has grit in places a vacuum cannot reach.
- Bad lightingI cannot see what I am doing under the hood or under the car.
- Lost toolsI own three 10 mm sockets and can find none of them.
- Loud PCIt sounds like a hairdryer the moment a game loads.
- PC runs hotFrame rate drops after twenty minutes and never recovers.
- Cable messBehind the desk is one knot I refuse to look at.
- Cannot drillI rent, so nothing can leave a hole or a mark.
- Nowhere to put itThe flat is full and there is nowhere left to put anything.
- Bag will not closeIt all went in last time and now the case will not shut.
- Everything needs chargingFour devices, one socket, and a flight in the morning.