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@vfrmedia @catch56 @Fizzfizzpopop @Bez_Lightyear Yeah, that's a problem - you find yourself running away from people who are wanting to be nice to you.
Like, one of my mates at work once - I didn't know he lived there, and kept walking fast when I heard someone calling after me.
@catch56 @Fizzfizzpopop @Bez_Lightyear Just giving some technical info which might be interesting to people who aren't in the business.
I'd be surprised, actually, if Reform had actually done any training of their volunteers.
@Fizzfizzpopop @Bez_Lightyear Yeah, you do tend to get out of the way of people who come out of their houses and follow you. You never know what they have in mind, best to be safe.
Part of the personal safety training is not to be trapped in a dead end by anyone coming out of their door after you, eg when you're in a corridor in a block of flats you start delivering from the far end and work you way back towards the stairs, so you've always got an escape route.
Another part of the training is "all death threats go to the police, it's their job, not yours, to decide how serious they are". I personally have never bothered, though I did once check with the council about a tenant. (This is *not* a recommendation - follow your training.)
@Bez_Lightyear It usually works though - anyone who's done any door knocking will know that most people *are* out most of the time.
@Natasha_Jay I've not seen domestic cats play in water like that - tigers, yes, but not domestic cats.
I *have* seen a kitten jump onto a waterlily leaf, apparently to get closer to a goldfish, and be very surprised when it turned out that the leaf wasn't solid and didn't support its weight. The kitten learned to swim *very* quickly.
@xinjinmeng @Linux_in_a_Bit We had an Apple laptop at home once, brought home from work.
We couldn't get it to work on our home LAN (which had no other Apple equipment on it). There were various settings that looked like they might be something to do with networking, but they all had dumbed down names and descriptions and we failed to find the one that should have been labelled "turn off all the crap that assumes an Apple networking ecology and turn on the DHCP client instead".
She took it back, swapped it for a Windows laptop, and has had no trouble ever since.
(This was a long time ago. One might hope that Apple laptops are rather better at connecting to non-Apple networks these days?)
@briankrebs As far as I am concerned this will work as designed - I won't be visiting the USA.
