You are in fact correct, I asked my birder colleague and he said it was a carrion crow!

There’s rooks, crows and jackdaws around here, and it gets pretty easy to tell them apart. Rooks are slightly bigger than crows and have a thicker, bigger beak (often with the lighter bit near the head). Jackdaws are slightly smaller than crows, and they have this silver-grey top and back of the head

Anyway, I’m pretty sure I shot a took, here. I’ll see if I can confirm with a colleague, who is a massive birder, but I’m already pretty confident.

Edit: my confidence was, alas, unfounded, my photo was of a carrion crow.

There’s a small herd living at walking distance from my house, I often see them (and take pictures of them too, of course).

Last drive I replaced was a consumer desktop drive that had been spinning in my server for 7 or 8 years. Get better drives than that and yeah, they’ll typically last a while.

Not all hearing aids are cochlear implants or bone conducting types. There’s plenty that are basically an Airpod.

Source: am a user.