Posts by PCScreenOnly 59 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Sep 2024
Trust me, the first time my car slammed on the anchors it was Hard, and that was on a motorway - nearly new pants time.
It has also, on a few occasions, decided to abruptly turn the wheel to avoid I know not what,which is not a lot of fun and is quite aggresive especially when you are getting used to how light modern car steering is even compared to slightly older power steering
Mine has done it on the motorway. I can see a car in the left hand lane doing around 60ish judging on the speed I am catching them up, start to indicate to move into my lane (middle lane). So I start to indicate to move to my right. If the aforementioned car then moves into my lane - and seems many drivers think "I have started to use this flashy thing that tells them i am moving across" they just go for it, my car will try to avoid / slow down. If i am now part way through me moving into the fast lane as there is a safe gap at 70mph, if my car now drops down to under 60mph (and it has), then I am a bloody hazard in the fast lane and nothing to do with my driving, it is the bloody car
Is a great idea, but if you have some apps that you use a lot, it can restrict you or make you wonder how to do it
I want Sky Sports / Virgin Media. So unless I fudge a ChromeOS onto a machine to be able to install apps,it is not going to work. It was a faff to do, and as it is, I cannot remember if Sky Sports actually ran or not.
I want Onedrive and to download all the data to my local machine (for backup reasons). I can fudge that with a couple of 3rd party apps for linux, but that does not run Sky Sports, but the Chrome OS I cannot see where it may even download the files from OneDrive too.
So for me, to have a device that does sky/vrigin and onedrive is a challenge. I currently have a PC in the front room with this, which I use a lot when I am watching some sport in the quiet while other programmes are on that we watch together, and the one in the outbuilding is the only way to get sky/virgin on that TV. Don't fancy getting linux running to do Onedrive elements and then buying a table of some sort for the Sky. As it is I am not sure if there is a 15" tablet which is what my laptop screens are.
A lot of business buy decent machines that had a lot of useful features on that mean they can run W11. If I look at some Lenovo's, I am not sure about a T460, T470 / x240 and later definately can and they are quite old now - though still great devices. (some think the T460 can get to TPM 2.0 via a firmware update from what i read)
Why would they upgrade ? It is not as if there are great leaps and bounds in processors or RAM once you get 16GB and an SSD. OK, SATA vs NME may add more of an improvement, but from rust to ssd is the big one.
There is no killer PC app that needs to do AI
Bit like phones, no real point in upgrading these days as they are always so similar to the last generation or the competition's phone there is no killer reason - better camera, can handle a microSD, better screen
Assumes that people update !
The MiL only updates the laptop when I am there and insist, otherwise she will just switch on and use it. Yes I do try to remind her, and also to sort her Onedrive out.
I also look at it as with an older TV I have. No longer has "smart" features, but an external stick in the HDMI resolves the loss of functionality. Windows may not update, but as long as the browsers which is what most people use get updated, they will not care as their only exposure is "the browser" - if they don't just call it "google". Oblivious to the risks to the OS
It is a basic text editor, you make quick notes in it and not much else FFS
I'd use one note, but I cannot get that bastard to run in just plain text mode, wants me to hand write into it (I can't read my hand writing), and fucks text on the apps by putting it where your finger pressed... No just add everything I write under the damn text above
Trying to make things too clever when more basic if the way to go
Most things I do not want connecting, but there are exceptions. TV, music - yes, and I do have my Robo Vacuum (only because it lives under a sofa and the risk of pulling a sofa out and damaging the floor is not worth the aggro)
One thing I have noticed, if my little robo vacuum loses the internet or decides to reset (twice now), getting the little bastard back on line is an interesting challenge, often made worse by phones refusing to stay on a wifi that is not connected to the internet (even though my settings say to stay put)
The Hive makes the above look like a walk in the park when that looses its shit. Just waiting for it to be pulled or die and go back to my old trusty RF theromostat (it was installed as part of the new boiler)
That alone is enough to put me off.
If my driving was mutliple hundreds a day, ev is not my choice of car, maybe a hybrid. If mainly motorway driving I would want to consider diesel, but having been stung by a ULEZ recently, I doubt I would choose diesel again.
I have an EV based on my current driving patterns and usage and is fine, and in the exception of a long journey, a fast charger is great, but they are exceptions and I can live with that.
Told to never hard code any ID's or records in their system - fine
If you are doing SAM, then their latest versions running in flow have connections all hard coded. Limits what you can do for clients, but I do wonder if "code assistant" was involved.
Other bits of dubious code do exist too
Should have an option to auto block unknown contacts.
If you are not a contact of mine then I do not know you and do not want to engage with you at all in anything. Once I know who you are and have your number you are added to a contact list.
If you are starred, you can ring me
If you are not starred and ring me, I will see and I may get back to you
If you are not in my contact list, leave a message and hope I listen to it as otherwise I will ignore you.
Private / Withheld calls - never bother with
Lights - we have a couple in the outbuilding which work and are needed due to the way it was wired when built (previous owners) and subsequent splitting of the room, but changing the wiring is a lot of unnecessary work. 2 x bulbs work well. The hallway and landing have them, but people forget and seems that some in this house can forget which switch controls what light and frequently the lights are "reset" as the on/off sequence has been performed
Smart TV's - soon stop being smart
Heating - Hive - which the plumber installed, is a nice gimmick for me, but all I want is a simple schedule and they constantly try to ram more down your throat and now charge more for what I deem basic features (away from home).
Just do not want CoPilot anywhere thank you, so please give us an option to disable.
As for the colours. Really, can you not fix USEFUL things like the status bar working across muiltiple screens (I mean, why does the right click on snip and sketch not work on all ? or the notification bar only on one screen)
If they are giving out extra capacity to 5x home user packs, yes please.
Shared folder between accounts often just stops for whatever reason
If the IDE is using a fixed font, I don't mind either but if it is no then it does my head in when they are out of alignment with spaces so I tab.
Saying that, l have taken code from an IDE and put into sometihng like notepad++ or VSC and it is all skewed. Use a formatter and put back into the IDE and it is off again
I tend to use a tab and let whatever fix the formatting afterwards and be done
Whereas we went with them specifically for that reason (design)
A double oven that has a split door so it can work as two single ovens, a microwave combo that looks the same, but besides a microwave has oven (Inc fan) and grill
I do get the sentiment with many new products Vs older ones
Don't think I can get rid of copilot so easily.
I tried to remove a W11 laptop of any file/folder that had "copilot" in it. Finally achieved it, but while the laptop will still boot and kind of run, Start Menu is non functional
Word and Excel which have copious files with "copilot" in worked as far a I need them too
Back in the days of NetWare 3.11, I was in a computer room watching the screens and saw that the NetWare server started running a few commands, I also knew the only person who ran those types of commands was out resident programmer "Dave"
Could not resist the " I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I cannot do that"
Freaked him out as he didn't know I was in there
Good simple laugh
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