* Posts by MJI

7027 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Mar 2009

The 'End of 10' is nigh, but don't bury your PC just yet

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New PC, went Mint

Due to finding 10 at work stressful, then a downdate to 11 cemented that opinion.

Mint was a no brainer for a home PC.

UK Ministry of Defence is spending less with US biz, and more with Europeans

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Re: The GCAP is (currently) a British/Italian/Japanese project.

Can't see any reason to not buy UK and European kit.

Quick list, BAe, Rolls Royce, Martin Baker, MBDA, Leonardo.

No problem at all.

Microsoft updates the Windows 11 Start Menu

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This is why they have....

CMD.EXE

Control<enter>

Control panel

You soon learn the ones you need.

That is how you are supposed ot do it, isn't it?

Like turning off is CMD.EXE shutdown enter since they hid the buttons.

Actually the button issue was shown to me to be quite simple, was red in 7 and before, later on grey, my work PC has never been shut down by the buttons, always command lines.

BTW Red in Mint, as it should be

Brewhaha: Turns out machines can't replace people, Starbucks finds

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Well, we tend to go to small cafes, garden centres and the like

Found out that on long cross country trips, garden centres are the best place for a break, usually decent food and drink.

A little one near Llandovery does great sandwiches.

One near Cardigan, great toasted sandwiches with chicken in.

One near home, fantastic burgers.

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Nevre bene in one.

American, I don't like coffee, American.

Plenty of reasons

AS they say

Tea, best drink of the day.

Google goes cold on Europe: Stops making smart thermostats for continental conditions

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Smart stuff worries me

Looking at age of stuff, thermostat and boiler were new 26 27 years ago when house was built.

TV 15 years old, last pre smart model

Getting worried about replacing, especially if we do not move, may get a heat pump.

As our boiler is a system boiler, and a long lasting model, it would be left in use, so winter would still be warm.

Yes I am considering hybrid heating.

However the one rule I do have is do not get involved with Google only environments such as the Lagia game streamer (if you have played against one you would understand)

CIO and digi VP to depart UK retail giant Asda as Walmart divorce woes settle

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Who is waiting for....

ASDA to go bump, or be sold on again.

I hold out little hope for them.

Users hated a new app – maybe so much they filed a fake support call

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Ahh LA

Remember it well, great for spotting.

It is the real and only place called LA to us lot.

Vodafone: Be in the office 8 days a month or lose bonuses

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Re: But what's the bonus?

A month

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Re: But what's the bonus?

£60, that is nothing, I was spending nearly £300 on tractor juice pre Covid

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Working from home is a

£4000 pay rise

Fuel, tyres, insurance, wear and tear.

7 hour shorter week as well

Apple has locked me in the same monopolistic cage Microsoft's built for Windows 10 users

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Re: Security & updates

I have only owned 4 TVs and I am in my 60s.

My current one, does not have Freeview HD, just SD, but does have lots of HDMI and SCART. Also pre smart TV but top end.

Previous was 2K DTTV

The one before had SCART

Before a portable.

Shortest life a decade, three of them I wore the tube out.

My 15 Y/O TV works fine.

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Re: About that office suite

I can create and save a file in Libreoffice, but Word will not let me.

I have to copy an existing one, then name and place it where I want, then open it.

It then saves where I want.

A simple process made hard.

Eutelsat in talks with Euro leaders as they mull Starlink replacement in Ukraine

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Re: Hmm

But USA only interest backfire and hurt them.

F35 cancellations already happening

UK must give more to ESA to get benefits of space industry boom, says Brian Cox

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Re: Um....

Yes, but we are being blocked on some projects.

And the point was ESA rather than other groups, and of course Borrris messes everything up

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Re: Um....

They are the local group, so best to join in with, but we can blame Borrris for that

Microsoft unveils finalized EU Data Boundary as European doubt over US grows

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Re: "Guarantees" are meaningless

BTW, things like this count as treason by the USs own laws.

BOFH: The USB stick always comes back – until it doesn't

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Backups

two portable HDDs, slightly different sizes, but both Elements.

3 copies SHOULD be enough

mainly photos

Trump can't quickly or easily kill the CHIPS Act, but he can fire the workers funded by it

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Re: New Superpower

They have a born there Royal already.

The plan is working.

WFH with privacy? 85% of Brit bosses snoop on staff

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Re: Relax.

VPN up, Reminna up - Work

My very fast internet connection, no remote connection, home

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I am often in yellow as away as I am working something out.

Even starting at lines of code, I am using the PC, it goes yellow.

What a load of crap.

US freezes foreign aid, halting cybersecurity defense and policy funds for allies

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Re: Eurofighters not F35

That is Tempest

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Eurofighters not F35

Better to keep your local military suppliers going, than rely on US kit.

Buy Typhoon for air forces.

Google Maps to roll out Trump-approved Denali and Gulf of Mexico rebrands

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America Mexicana

That is the country just south of Canada

A very old name

Windows 10's demise nears, but Linux is forever

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Re: Lots of cheap windows 10 computers

I stretch my W7 PC to this year, and then built a new high spec. PC and chucked Mint on it.

W11 is a bully and hostile

British Museum says ex-contractor 'shut down' IT systems, wreaked havoc

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Re: lax procedures

There are lots of memoriable 4 digit numbers, your own birthday.

Depends on interests or hobbies, more can come from that.

Obvious to the setter, not to anyone else.

Linux rolls out the welcome mat for Microsoft's Copilot key

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Re: Microsoft makes keyboards?

Their mice are pretty good, and pretty boring.

For non gaming, they are fine.

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Re: Microsoft makes keyboards?

I have a Logitech keyboard and a Microsoft mouse on my home PC.

The Georgian Bar key brings up my Mint menu.

Mint is a nice and pleasant OS for home use.

Problem is it means my PC is not Microsoft free.

GM parks claims that driver location data was given to insurers, pushing up premiums

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What is GM actually for?

They have shrunk their car production, now a lot with the same group who own Chrysler, sold off their railway loco building.

Is there anything left?

Are they relevant?

To Europe, Austrailia, and New Zealand, not at all.

Suggest buying a car from a company actually wanting to make them, as to who, I do not know.

Tired of begging, Microsoft now trying to trick users into thinking Bing is Google

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I did a quick ask around

"That looks like Clickworker"

"Not Google?"

"Only a little bit"

So they were not taken in.

Not defending MS at all, mind you not Google either despite having a phone with their OS on it.

Luckily on our PC I just used the default browser as installed, so none of this MS Google nonsense.

Microsoft declares 2025 'the year of the Windows 11 PC refresh'

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I did the move

Now on Linux Mint

So refreshing and unbossy.

DEF CON's hacker-in-chief faces fortune in medical bills after paralyzing neck injury

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US sounds like hell, a complete shithole of health insewerance instead of a centrally funded health system.

Had 3 rides so far, one was life threatening, all OK after a week.

The most recent was suspected stroke, they appeared to know what they were doing as they did not do a CT in the end, but did not know, had MRI later in week, no fault found.

In the end came down to me getting Covid for a second time, and very weird symptoms, like losing the ability to talk for about 1 hour.

Fear of Foxconn reportedly driving possible Nissan, Honda and Mitsubishi merger

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Re: computers on wheels

Back in leaf spring days you could get a Diesel Land Rover with NO electrics.

Compared to the multiple ECUs in new ones

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Re: Not just Foxconn

Thought it would be Renault styling, Nissan quality, instead other way round.

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Not even the Skyline?

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Lets shut British factories

Whan PSA bought Chrysler, the entire Chrysler setup disappeared. No more Rootes, no more Simca.

I had the moderately hot hatch and that factory was the first to go, Then Ryton.

Now they have GM and of course shutting time, Luton going, when will Ellesmere Port go? Russelheim?

And who are they going to buy next?

There is a very valid reason the surviving car brand in the last Blade Runner film was a Peugeot, they had bought everyone else.

As to that 3 way merger? What about the bike divisions?

Wubuntu: The lovechild of Windows and Linux nobody asked for

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Ughh.

One of the main issues with 11 are still there, ie it looks like 11.

Sticking with Mint.

It replaced my old 7 box.

Microsoft preps big guns to shift Copilot software and PCs

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Re: Is msoft slipping?

Forgot to mention a VM for my photo scanner, as no native software except Mac and Windows, and WINE would not work

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Re: Is msoft slipping?

My 10 in only connected enough to relicence the scanner software then immediately disconnected

Ransom gang claims attack on NHS Alder Hey Children's Hospital

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Organ donors first, don't want to waste the kidneys/livers ect

Microsoft flashes Win10 users with more full-screen ads for Windows 11

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Re: Win11 easy when it is, and impossible other times

>> XBox bar

As I mentioned to hardware support.

"But I have got a Playstation!"

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Re: Linux in the new year

Try Mint

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Re: <shrug>

I have a VM for a photo scanner that will not need updating.

May be once I am sure all slides and negatives are scanned I can delete it.

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Don't want a coprolite PC

It will be shite.

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Re: Win10 will be the last OS from Microsoft I will ever use...

Your forgot 7

Airbus A380 flew for 300 hours with metre-long tool left inside engine

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Re: Multi-Fail

Had mine on local, swilled it in anasthetic, was big arrow on my forehead

Both times.

Anyway cannot phacoemulsify an IOL

Weekends were a mistake, says Infosys co-founder Narayama Murthy

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Re: The inefficient

Roughly 25 productive hours a week.

That is peak code time, brain would not cope with more.

But I get a LOT done in a short period, then cool down, and repeat.

Called pacing, and if I didn't I would have to quit work.

Add more working time, get less work.

I reckon I could lose a day and still turn out the same amount of work, as 3 days off not 2.

Windows 11 continues to creep up behind Windows 10

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Re: Win11 is still awful

It stole paint and sausagised all the dialogs, and made scroll bars too narrow, and at least 3 designs, plus of course show desktop is miniscule

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Re: Ageing?

Went to Mint on a new PC and my wife was annoyed I thought she may have to ask for help.

She used it straight from W7 no issues, no training beyond passwords

Mozilla Foundation crumbles as third of staff cast off

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I was going to donate but

They removed a feature I use a lot, so stuff them.

Waterfox still has it.