Posts by PCScreenOnly 509 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Sep 2024
How well does that work on laptops with different user profiles ?
At the moment on our laptops at home, three of us can logon and our OneDrive accounts sync locally and are downloaded, so we have quite a decent "backup" besides a remote nas.
I tried that with mint and a couple of tools that work brilliantly for a single profile, but as soon as I tried that with 2 profiles it went gaga
Giving each of us 1TB of space that automatically backs up the photos they all take on their phones (I dont use much) and is a handy way to keep it all on sync across devices (all OneDrive is set to keep a local copy), and an option on a Synology Nas elsewhere
Last time I tried owncloud I found it lacking, this will force me to relook and if I can get it working properly (or as like like) then all windows machines will get migrated to Unix and fuck M$
A lot of people were put off by the cost of replacing perfectly good kit because of MS's poor, false, hardware requirements. Now those same people are in a far worse position as all kit is astronomical now due to the cost of RAM
I have a perfectly good T490 which via rufus does run W11, but officially it is unsupported, likewise W10 on an old X13 or a Macbook (core M model). The x13 will do alright with W11 when I tested it, but the Mac - crap with any modern OSX and W11 is not good - even the Tiny installations. - these I don't care about as they are the /holiday/ kit and mostly used to get photos/video off cameras
Just tell me how to change my licenses NOT to include it (I did not pay for it, so do not want but MS have activated it on my Family subscriptions) and how to remove this thing from any device without having to faff and find it via whatever setting or tool I need t download
I can image the average joe bloggs suddenly getting one or two of MS's useage bills as neither of their systems agree, so billing the user must therefore be the right thing to do
Btw, I liked the macs and their users. The the bods with the purse strings didn't like them
We went through checks every so often to see if they could be moved to pcs. Mostly there were compatibility issues with older files (typically quark), but then to get an equivalent spec to their macs, the pc equivalent cost more
So forget the percentages, get the real users from
The decision followed a steep decline in traffic: Pornhub's UK visits fell 47 percent shortly after the rules took effect and were reportedly down 77 percent by October.
And then do the same for the percentage / real users from other countries that suddenly increased.
Bet they will be pretty close as "User" figures
Had that recently on a website. Advertised as "a pair" and then in the order page you could choose 1 or 2
I chose 1 as I wanted a pair. Of course only 1 unit arrived. I complained and they told me it was for a single item. I pointed out UK, stated as a pair so 1 must be a pair
Got a refund, but didn't really expect that kind of mistake these days
Usb c port in my phone is fubar after swmbo was asked to plug my phone in whilst in the car.
The end in question is one where you can flip it from a lighting cable to usb c
She really did try shoving the lightning end in while telling me "it don't fit"
Not nothing really fits and I often find it hasn't charged overnight as the cable was not sitting "just right"
Keep on getting letters and debt collector letters for my address with the suffix A
It existed about 7 years ago, the annex was converted back to the main house about 6 years ago and we bought it 5 years ago
I really really want to be here if they ever send anyone.
I've even told them to stop being tight arse bastards and to buy an upto date post code database (I can tell who does and who doesn't)
Do they sell any that are not AI ?
I am not a typical HP buyer, but looking at their laptops many do say AI - so eliminate them. Go into some of the ones that do not mention it and there are NPU's listed.
So not sure if the link between new kit and AI is valid of you don't sell many non AI units or make it bleeding obvious.
Someone still has a couple of my power tools - I can't recall which of two people and both deny.
Before summer my neighbours had their garden refreshed. He was the putting some new decking out Infront of an outbuilding. I heard the sawing so offered my small cross mitre pull saw. On more than one occasion I heard noises id rather not hear
Left with my O levels and fell into IT as a couple of other kids from my school had joined this company and career progressed. They came back for another which was me.
Started in telex which I knew was being replaced by a program on an s/38 (MM400)
Given 2 books to read (only read Norton's guide to hard disks). Asked which I preferred, so said Norton and the following Monday I was in the PC team.
The other book (war and peace) was a book on RS-422 which would have moved me into the Comms team and the world of pabx's
First time I came across those was on the M20. I had a Saab at the time that had a dirty EGR that would manifest itself as an engine fault - now speed limited to 50mph.
I was going on the M20 and then the engine light came on. Came to a sign for roadworks and speed cameras - OK. I was driving along, stuck at 50 and all these other vehicles were busy over taking me and I was "where are the speed cameras ? I can't see any", but I did see what could be the TomTom camera / traffic detectors but on the pole it looked like a globe or 3 leaves.
Came home, even going downhill the car still stuck at 50. A few weeks later and I had to go into the office again. The EGR had sorted itself out inbetween these trips into London so I was quite happy going in and then, as I approached the M20 it struck. Once again miles of miles of 50mph being over taken by the local snails and tortoises. More cursing and swearing and still no "speed cameras, just Tom Tom's"
I then decided to look these new "TomTom" cameras up and found they were average speed cameras. No mention of that on the M20 - just "Speed Cameras".
Never have I been so glad of an intermittent issue on a car and wonder how many people were caught speeding as they were unaware (lots by the look of it)
I got one of the above, which is a pain due to, well, Apple being apple. No variations of Linux work well - at least one thing with the keyboard, trackpad, audio or suspend make it not right,
I have gone down the W10 LTSC route with the debloaters.
Fine with VLC or films etc on the plane and can do my Onedrive to backup all the photos and videos from the cameras overnight,
Light as anything
Not that I need one at the moment, but I was having a look at the cost of a 14TB Ironwolf the other day, hoping to see the price had reduced. Nope, almost the same as before.
I know these are a different class to what the AI need, but working on the assumption that they are switching drive factories in much the same way memory manufacturers have gone from DDR4/5 to HBM
Recently built 3x identical (new to me) laptops.. One of them would not take a patch last month, so tried this months patches and after hours it fails.
The old reset of Windows Update does nothing. I thought it maybe the efi partition (these all have 200MB, so thought about increasing to 500MB - that ain't fun)
In the end a Recovery patch / repair seems to have worked, but that has been running ALL afternoon and only rebooted about 30 mins ago.
Why do backups ?
Do not trust the cloud - its not yours
I use OneDrive for me, the misses and her mum - mainly for auto backup of phone pictures - of which they take lots and is generally, hassle free
All the devices we have Onedrive installed, it is configured to download all files to the local device so no matter what MS do I still have local copies (Ok. more a problem now with prices going through the roof, a 2TB NVME is now 4x the cost 18 months ago)
I have a NAS that can also download.the different OneDrive accounts
