Posts by PCScreenOnly 436 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Sep 2024
If you drive your car and are about to get into the lane after a bus lane has finished and your rear left wheel touches that fat bus lane line - fine - no getting off
you go to a box junction, when at the time you start you can get your car across and then another on the wrong lane races in and cuts in front leaving you in the box junction - fine. And even if you have the dashcam footage to show that - Fine.
Let them have some of their own medicine
"Fraudsters will combine various tooling and commodities to perform fraud at scale, but it's not always obvious what they are using, or for which purpose," said Jérôme Segura, VP of threat research at DataDome, in an email to The Register.
I do not see how they are fraudsters. Bastards - yes, but they are seeing an area and exploiting. Not fraud
If they got some dodgy 1GB RAM and fudged it to say it was a 16GB stick - fair enough, but using a tool to buy low so you can sell high,
For me the main driver of a new phone is the camera and that it has a microsd slot
Most camera's have not improved over the years. I only got the phone i have now is down to the S9 Edge and the green screen issue and not being able to trust it on a holiday
from Becky Thomas, who is retiring. "I'm incredibly proud of what we've achieved together as an agency,"
Lets see, you provide an app that lets people learn the answers to just those few questions which is enough for them to pass the practical, but ensures they do not know the Highway Code (bit like the muppet in "The Apprentice" who besides having a maths degree was struggling with basic maths)
A system where any tom, dick or harry can book driving test slots and then sell them on. even a couple of basic questions could elimnate a lot of that
I guess proud is only when you compare to other government projects... at least this is not billions over budget, late and crap.... just crap
Misses does nearly the same (except for the car - mine). I now have all hers on quick release clips as the amount of times I got "can I have your front door keys?" as she does not want to take all of hers.
I don't get why she wants all the keys - boggles my brain.
I also worked with someone years ago who had quite a big bunch of keys too. He stopped when his car (merc) had ignition problems and it was blamed on the weight of the keys inside the ingition fob wesring it down (sounds iffy to me). cost him a fair packet to get that sorted. He stopped after that
If it can mean it can assess your full medical record so if you are taking drugs a,b and c for one symptom and then get perscribed drug d for another, then if it can flag that it is a bad combo and not to do that, then I am all for it.
An uncle was often between different departments for heart, lungs, kidneys and so on and ALWAYS the medication that 1 perscribed screwed another. Seems that no one ever bothered to look at what you were taking and carried on regardless.
A friend has the same right now with his Diabetes and kidneys.
Dont have that on my apps, but I have 2 from the same banking group. the finger print reader on my phone is utter shit and as I do quite a bit of DIY my finger prints are often buggered so fail
One of the banks app fails as soon as my finger gets near to the reader, the other lets me have 3 goes before it wants the password.
Don't mind, but then the MFA is often text - so bloody useless
At least on a laptop that may have a similar size keyboard it does not have a numeric keyboard so looks better spaced.
Me, I have a portable "office". full size KB, trackman and USB screen for when travelling. No great shakes and the KB and trackman use a single connector (logi uni instead of BT)
I get the flexability of 2 screens and a decent KB
Might not be part of the ai fad, but all those data centres that need power and cannot get it from whatever grid are having to go their own way, and quite a few are talking of smr
Clearly the AI boat is worth more than fossil fuels and so smr technology will undoubtedly come along on leaps and bounds over the next couple of years
Good luck. When I got one I found that while you can get a dumb TV they are a premium, even a plain display type is bonkers and they have no audio (mostly)
The kids moved back for a a bit and used this TV (inbuilt firetv). I never configured and so was ok, but they did... Still their profile now
Our usage is virgin or Plex - the later suppliesd via a Roku even though this TV can do it internally. Do not trust the fuckers
Our other TV is a Sony who seemed to have used one of the worst processors going as some apps removed themselves from this model of TV. When I looked into ( as an uncle had a similar model and used the apps a lot and said they went.missing) I found that was the reason. So that is also a Roku and the TV is disconnected from all networking
Noise Cancelling. Tried that years ago on some headphones. For a lot of items it was pretty good, but as soon as I tried live tracks it really screwed them up
I have not tried since as I prefer noise isolation instead.... has the noise cancellation improved that much in the last 20 years (I would hope so)
Agree, but there are times where you will write a document on something and your expectation is that whoever is going to use said document has some basic understanding and you do not need to explain certain parts as anyone who has used or uses said system just "knows".
I do always get someone else to go over my docs incase I have missed off something because I know and I forget not everyone does know, or what makes sense to me is gobbeldygook to everyone else
I have a more modern Lenovo for streaming in the front room while watching other stuff with the misses. Pretty quick and largely replaces a laptop.
Can't do the same in the outbuilding as none of the apps let me output from it to a TV (casting or hdmi). An old laptop does.
In the office I have an old freebie galaxy tab. Showing its age and does have lineage on it. It works, but can be a bit slow to get itself into the streaming apps, but once there it is OK. May upgrade if I find a decent cheap enough unit during Black Friday - only because it is mostly on the net and I am not too happy about it not having official updates or a more recent lineage on it
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