How do you read the forum?

[helen&tony]

Hi
Mike
There is one Fb group that is managed by a well respected source on here, and the advice is genuine!
Cheers
Helen

[BongoBongo123]

Apply Tin foil hat ...I avoid any devices that emit microwave radiation as much as is possible to do so. In the end up exposure all adds up. I will also refuse any smart meters in my house (which you are legally entitled to do) when they try that cookie on us as it will have a small microwave transmitter that will emit low level microwave RF up to a few hundred times a day. For efficiency my a***, it will end up that we will pay more for electric and gas. They do not roll this stuff out unless they expect to profit from it.

I do not even have wi-fi at home and use a CAT 5 cable between my PC and modem/broadband box. Internet problems here are rare luckily.

I almost never surf on a phone and use my land line as soon as I can when speaking to someone with a home phone.

Since realizing FB is a bizarre form of communicating with old colleagues, tenuous acquaintances and real close friends I find it very filtered and odd. Got bored of cut and paste posts with the people posting them saying very little themselves just repeating "cool" or PC stuff all the time wears thin. So go on it less and less myself.

Long live BF as it is.

[Diplomat]

A ...I avoid any devices that emit microwave radiation as much as is possible to do so. In the end up exposure all adds up.

I think you worry too much. I have no such fears myself.

The microwave radiation is similar to infra red and it is only likely to warm you slightly, at the most. It is not ionizing radiation like radioactivity or like gamma radiation and will not have a cumulative effect.

Granted, an 800 watt microwave oven would cook you if you got inside it but phones and, even less, domestic wireless devices have miniscule power output in comparison.

Don't sue me if I'm wrong, but I wouldn't give the matter a second thought.


Frank

[Diplomat]

I will also refuse any smart meters in my house (which you are legally entitled to do)

However, I wouldn't have a smart meter because the whole point of them is to find out when you use most of your energy so that they can then put you on a tariff that really shafts you during those hours.

I've also heard it suggested recently that smart meters don't measure consumption in such a basic way as old watt/hour meters and take into account certain loads which in the old meters were hard to measure, notable things like fluorescent and LED lighting, which of course are now immensely popular.


Frank

[BongoBongo123]

I went off on one but thought better of it so edited. Sorry to go OT.

[the1andonly]

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28" monitor Linux Box
no smart phone or tablet no wifi or smart meters
No Aluminium foil headgear.
No facebook either

[05gt]

Mostly on my phone as I work away a lot where I can't get wifi. Forums to me are more in depth and serious, whereas Facebook is generally 'lighter' content.

[stuc]

I check this forum on my phone but find it much easier to type posts and find the relevant info on here from many people who have had many years Bongo ownership.
I do like social media site forums for pictures as its easier to upload them, but there is a few on there who seem to just want to argue and wind people up. If anyone asks anything which I have good experience of I am quite pleased to be able to give an informed opinion on things, but then some smart arse pipes up and says "oooh! I wouldn't do that your van will explode and kill everthing to death" I exgacerate a bit but you get the point. I would never put anyone at risk and I always speak from the good few years of bongo ownership I have and usually say it's up to you to make an informed decision.
Now even though it is good advice I usually pull my posts off if someone doesn't agree as life is too short to get involved in a night long slanging match as on most forums.
This forum I am pleased to add does not do that and long may it continue.

[mikeonb4c]

I check this forum on my phone but find it much easier to type posts and find the relevant info on here from many people who have had many years Bongo ownership.
I do like social media site forums for pictures as its easier to upload them, but there is a few on there who seem to just want to argue and wind people up. If anyone asks anything which I have good experience of I am quite pleased to be able to give an informed opinion on things, but then some smart arse pipes up and says "oooh! I wouldn't do that your van will explode and kill everthing to death" I exgacerate a bit but you get the point. I would never put anyone at risk and I always speak from the good few years of bongo ownership I have and usually say it's up to you to make an informed decision.
Now even though it is good advice I usually pull my posts off if someone doesn't agree as life is too short to get involved in a night long slanging match as on most forums.
This forum I am pleased to add does not do that and long may it continue.

Spot on Stuc