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Carat
Carat is a free app that tells you what is using up the battery of your mobile device, whether that's normal, and what you can do about it. After running Carat for about a week, you will start to receive personalized recommendations for improving your battery life. Carat is a research project based out of the AMP Lab in the EECS Department at UC Berkeley, collaborating with the University of Helsinki

http://carat.cs.berkeley.edu/
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Just seeing if I can get rid of the bot's name, I've deleted the post but the name has remained for some reason.
I am hoping that this post will remove the bot name from the list :evil:


That worked, now out of curiosity, if I delete this post will the bot name return?

No it didn't :)
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I’ve always loved active fun — and escape rooms are my favorite way to challenge the mind while staying on the move. 🧩🚪
If you’re into puzzles, adrenaline, and teamwork — you have to check https://i-have-broken-another-of-your-link.s.com
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I’ve always loved active fun — and escape rooms are my favorite way to challenge the mind while staying on the move. 🧩🚪
If you’re into puzzles, adrenaline, and teamwork — you have to check.....
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Seriously.... do you just sit and think of ways to fit your crappy ads into posts here? This forum is like an old sweater and we love it. It doesn't get much traffic anymore but when it does, we hope it's something worth posting. Rest assured, sooner or later I will kill your links. (Probably later.)
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Rat wrote: ↑Thu Aug 07, 2025 10:11 pm
I’ve always loved active fun — and escape rooms are my favorite way to challenge the mind while staying on the move. 🧩🚪
If you’re into puzzles, adrenaline, and teamwork — you have to check.....
Blah blah blah

Seriously.... do you just sit and think of ways to fit your crappy ads into posts here? This forum is like an old sweater and we love it. It doesn't get much traffic anymore but when it does, we hope it's something worth posting. Rest assured, sooner or later I will kill your links. (Probably later.)
I like the old sweater analogy :mrgreen:

They give themselves away so easily with the links now, but I'm scared about the day when the AI gets so good that we can't tell whether they are bots are human :evil:
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this forum is basically my favourite jumper, bobbly elbows and all... wont bin it 🙂
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battye wrote:I'm scared about the day when the AI gets so good that we can't tell whether they are bots are human
battye, mine went the other way round mate. last spring i was bashing on about the CB250 carbs on another forum and some bloke replied with this very polished, helpful essay, and i was dead sure it was a spammer so i pretty much ignored him. turned out he was a retired mechanic from Wigan who just types properly, and when i finally replied he talked me through the float height over three evenings. bike now idles like a dream, which is more than i can say for the Leicester back four... so these days im a bit wary of writing someone off just cos theyre too tidy. definately felt a right numpty about it.
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