Posts by Zebo-the-Fat

Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill bankrolls $85M Space Shuttle shuffle

I have given up trying to understand the orange clown's mental processes

Florida man expands crypto empire with new wireless service and phone

Chips?

Will the chips in the phone be fabricated in America?

Microsoft will stop pestering Windows users about Edge in EU

One use

There is only one use for Edge, that's to download the browser YOU want (Brave in my case)

NASA keeps ancient Voyager 1 spacecraft alive with Hail Mary thruster fix

If only...

If only my toaster was as reliable as this!

Qatar’s $400M jet for Trump is a gold-plated security nightmare

Why would anyone need an aircraft in a library?

VIPER rover banished to storage as moonshot plan sputters

Watches as the US slowly slides back into the dark ages, it's only a matter of time before the witch burnings begin

BOFH: There's a fatal error in the blinkenlights

Sweet

So sweet, I have wasted my life!

HP Inc settles printer toner lockout lawsuit with a promise to make firmware updates optional

Once!

I bought an HP printer once, about 20 years ago, never again!

Crew-9 splashes down while NASA floats along with Trump and Musk nonsense

Payment?

They were supposed to be on the ISS for a week, they had to stay for months, do they get overtime for the extra time?

SpaceX Dragon pod arrives at ISS to finally pick up stranded Boeing astronaut pair

Terrible!

Oh those poor astronauts, training for years to be in space then spending much longer doing what they want to do!

(since they were supposed be be doing the job for about a week and not for many months, do they get paid overtime for it??)

Dark mode might be burning more juice than you think

Not for me!

I really dislike dark mode, I don't read books with white text on black paper and don't want to do it on a screen.

I don't see a problem with the screen being "too bright" or "straining my eyes" ... my eyes are 70 years old and have no problems.

If you like it dark fine, but it's not for me!

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

I learned a long time ago that USB drives can and will fail, I always have at least 2 copies of important stuff saves in different places

Even Windows 10 cannot escape the new Outlook

Windoze 10 may get Outlook, but I don't have to use it!

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

Money!

I will upgrade when Microsoft pay me to upgrade my motherboard, Wyndoze 11 thinks it isn't worthy to be blessed with the new OS, so it will either be Linux Mint or a dodgy download of Win 10 LTSE (maybe both, dual booting like I do now)

Richard Branson to take balloon ride to edge of space

I just hope he doesn't try to call himself an astronut!

Smart TVs are spying on everyone

Not watched broadcast TV for years, I can't stand the ads. Why should I have to waste my time watching an ad for something I don't want and will never buy?

Vulcan Centaur avoids FAA scrutiny after losing solid rocket booster nozzle

Details

Scott Manley did an excellent Youtube video about this, well worth watching

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIHg-PPUZnk

Chrome Web Store warns end is nigh for uBlock Origin

Be Brave

I have been using the Brave browser for the last two years, seems to do a decent job of blocking the ad crap

Things are going Z-shaped at Huawei: Chinese giant preps three-screen folding smartphone

I still don't see the point of paying fore than £200 for a phone... it makes calls, can send email and whatsap, browse the web, maybe the odd photograph but anything more is just fluff, I don't need it!

Also not convinced a folding phone will still be working in 5 years time!

NASA, Boeing opt to fly leaky thruster as-is for first crewed Starliner CST-100 mission

I wonder what the astronauts life insurance costs?

So you've built the best tablet, Apple. Show us why it matters

Just think

Just think how long the battery could last if they had had made it a little thicker (easier to hold and less likely to bend too!)

Samsung shows off battery tech it says will see you gone in nine minutes

How about making small ones to fit in phones??

Blue Origin to fly another 90-year-old into outer space

SAGA

Send All Grannies Away!

Japan's moon lander sparks joy by making it through a second lunar night

Nice

Very impressive!

Greener, cheaper, what's not to love about a secondhand smartphone?

Never!

I have never bought a phone new, I have an old Samsung S9.. checks emails and web browsing works fine... it can even make phone calls! battery is a bit past it's best, but an overnight charge lets it last a full day. What more do I need?

JAXA releases photo of SLIM lander in lunar faceplant

Scott Manley did an excellent video about this, it seems to lost one of it's engine nozzles while hovering at 50 M. there is a picture of it on the surface.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bFiJvbKyPs&t=625s

40 years since Elite became the most fun you could have with 22 kilobytes

ahhh... happy days (and lots of late nights!)

Amazon already has a colossal ads business and will extend it to Prime Video in January

Question

If I watch prime video on my PC, will UblockOrigin be able to remove the ads?

In my opinion, the only word for this is GREED, I already pay for the service and now they want to ruin it?

I think they may be loosing a customer very soon.

BOFH: The Christmas party was so good, an independent inquiry is required

Jingle Balls

Merry jingle balls and a happy Winter Foodfest!

Calculating Pi in the sky: Axiom Space plans to launch 'orbital datacenter'

Clouds in space??

Clouds in space??

the main problem will be cooling, maybe large external radiators like the ISS?

I can see how something like this will be needed in the near future though

Raspberry Pi OS goes goth

I don't read books printed on black paper with white ink, and don't want to that on a screen!

Bezos might beat Musk to Mars as NASA recruits Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket

But...

This is a company that hasn't managed to put anything into orbit yet!

Firefox slow to load YouTube? Just another front in Google's war on ad blockers

Grumble

I was using Vivaldi browser for a long time with Ublock Origin... no ads for crap I won't buy, suddenly I get the "3 views left" message. Clearing the cache and updating Ublock worked for a week, but now it's unusable. Switched to Librawolf, all good again.

Watching ads for crap I will never buy is wasting my time and theirs, if things get worse I will give up on YT completely... then they will be sorry!

Boffins claim invention of rechargable, biodegradable, supercapacitor drug pump

Hmmm...

You spelled sulphide wrong!

NASA's Psyche spacecraft beams back a 'Hello' from 10 million miles away

Optical

I suppose, strictly speaking Semaphore flags are optical communication!

Seriously well done to everyone involved, next thing is space will be shark lasers!

As NASA struggles to open OSIRIS-REx's asteroid sample can, probe heads off to next rock

Only one option left

Only one option left... WD40

Your phone's cracked screen may one day heal itself, but try not to drop it for now

I have never ever cracked a screen, but all my phones have been kept in cases to protect them, but I have watched people with iphones "spinning" them on a table and thought "you paid a lot for that, why are you not looking after it?"

Apple antique aficionados can boot to the future with OpenCore Legacy Patcher

Nice!

I got a 2009 imac for a silly price on Ebay, got it working on El Capitan, used Open Core Patcher to install Ventura, works well but a little slow opening apps, will replace the spinning rust with an SSD soon, that should help.

There is a nice Youtube video that walks you the install, step by step... works well, but I thought my machine was stuck in a boot - reboot cycle... after about 40 minute if finally arrived at the bootscreen :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LOqHMo5WSQ

DoD hopes $30M BEACONS will light the way to next-gen American battery designs

Re: Something OTHER than Lithium

Lithium ion batteries actually contain very little lithium, when they catch fire it isn't due to the lithium just the large amount of energy they store... it has to go somewhere!

Rocket Lab launch streak goes up in smoke with 41st mission

It's hard

Rocket science is easy... Rocket engineering is hard

pointy end up, burny end down, better luck next time !

Google rebrands 'android' as 'Android' to remove any doubt about its affiliations

Pointless

Until I read this I never even noticed that android had a lower case "a" I also don't give a damn about the logo, it makes no difference at all to the way I use my phone.

So a pointless (and probably expensive) waste of time

India lands Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft on Moon, is the first to lunar south pole

Re: Milestone moment

Must be cows, where else would the green cheese come from?

Judge denies HP's plea to throw out all-in-one printer lockdown lawsuit

Why?

What technical reason do they give for locking out the scan function when the ink runs out? (apart from an attempt to take your cash)

On the record: Apple bags patent for iDevice to play LPs

but can it play wax cylinders?

India's space agency set to launch lunar lander, rover

I hope they succeed

California man's business is frustrating telemarketing scammers with chatbots

After many many calls from a firm asking about the accident I never had (once 3 times in the same day) I asked to be removed from their list, when they called again a said "I hope you get cancer and your children die in a fire" For some reason they never called me again... was it something I said??

Virgin Galactic finally gets its first paying customers to edge of space

Cheaper?

Is this cheaper than zero G in the vomit comet, or does the zero G last longer?

One year after Roe v Wade overturned and 'uterus surveillance' looks grim

Happy

I'm so very happy not to be living in the hell hole that America has turned into!

Microsoft Windows latest: Cortana app out, adverts in

Why

Why would I click cortina or whatever it is then talk to the 'puter (risking misunderstandings) to launch a program when I could just click on the shortcut for the program? (when did programs turn into apps anyway?)

Why you might want an email client in the era of webmail

Never used!

I have a webmail service that offers IMAP, so I just use a local email client (Postbox) and never, ever get to see the wonderful advertiments that are splattered across the web client... works for me!