but travel around 5miles and it's typically 5-9p cheaper

no way can this make it worse for me - hopefully people will travel to punish the garages.

aka competition

but if enough people use their time to go to the cheaper station further away, then they may force the closer garage to to reduce their price

either that or the close garage goes out of business and the one further away puts up the price because they can.

but still, it can be more complex

the recline feature should be baked in to this as well

Bigclivedotcom (nice, basic fun) : https://www.youtube.com/@bigclivedotcom/videos

Mend it Mark (more advanced) :https://www.youtube.com/@MendItMark/videos

my excessive procrastinating definitely overlaps with this (as I call it in project) meaningless bollocks. and I intentionally let people go on and on, until things stabilize. Endless meetings going around and around, discussing loads but coming up with nothing much

Mostly I put it down to education/ understanding - eg people need around 5-10 repetitions to understand stuff.

To combat this, I modify my documents and diagrams to show how simple things are, make sure all acronyms are explained properly (over and over again) and make 'solutions' into a "story" eg beginning, middle and end explaining how/ why / decisions.

Meaningless bollocks still exist, I let other people run around like headless chickens - I think people like the chaos and fun (well I try and make it fun)

This what I do 90+% of the time, I work with my ADHD and put off doing as much as I can until the last minute. Then do weeks worth of work in hours.

To note: If you're thinking of doing this, be careful, it can be extremely stressful

Only do it on stuff you're good at or understand the implications if it goes wrong, because this method doesn't allow much time to change your mistakes.

If its something new i will not do this (or i'll break it down in chunks)

Kind of like wanting to learn how a car engine works and asking about fleet management in trucks/ lorries.

BGP is one of things I've learnt then forget the next day (multiple times)

very good recommendation, that book help me turn my studies in to reality

electronic circuit emulators will help with the basics as well (eg https://www.falstad.com/circuit/)

being tested on trains makes complete sense

Which then leads me to think the whole thing is a smoke screen, not sure why

Get a cool tool from a magazine? yep just throw it on to production servers - no testing or letting people know what the hell they did (I got burnt a few times from people doing this!)

no change control, no documentation - just reverse the changes, if it doesn't work immediately - although some people never even made back ups of the previous files - crazy shit

everything fit's nicely in the 10.0.0.0/8 range

in my many decades of enterprise infrastructure, no-one has ever mentioned IP6 either.

why would they, whats the business case?

From my anecdotal evidence, is that it's fucking stupid and hated