* Posts by The Mysterious Monty

5 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Feb 2012

Tech ambitions said to lie at heart of Britain’s bonkers crash-and-burn Brexit plan

The Mysterious Monty

Surely this was a good opportunity for investment?

Surely Reaction engines with their Sabre engines and Skylon would have been perfect to invest in? Sadly last i heard was that they had to go to the US for funding

Brit consumers still holding off on buying new PCs until that Brexit thing is over and done with

The Mysterious Monty

This is true but most end users don't have the nerve or inclination to have a go. With most Windows 10 based modern computers you have to turn off secureboot in the bios to even stand a chance to load a different o/s. For the person who looks at the news or reads emails its like asking them to wander to an area with a sign that says 'Here be dragons...'

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I'm guessing because you're not the standard home user. You've proved this by running Linux on your hardware rather than what was preinstalled if its an off the shelf computer

The eyes don't have it! AI's 'deep-fake' vids surge ahead in realism

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Re: Can we have....

Unfortunately its not video but i use an extension on Chrome that replaces Trump pictures on websites with kittens! (Will replace other annoyances too eg Farage)

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/make-america-kittens-agai/klchnmggepghlcolikgaekpibclpmgcm?hl=en-US

Didn't write it myself but thankful to the chap/chappette that did!

Avast false alarm hits Steam's weekend gamers

The Mysterious Monty

Faffing about?

Or you could have just gone into the virus vault and restored steamservice.exe like i did!