Base model?
Any chance of a small version available for a few quid to hobbyists?
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We have a DC41, which always leaves the carpet cleaner than any other vacuum. It will fill its bin from a carpet that's just been cleaned with another machine. The DC40 and earlier were better, as they were allowed to have full-fat motors (thanks EU!).
We also have a V7 portable. We chose an earlier model as they are lighter. The 20-minute run-time is quite adequate for a semi - you tend to use it little and often as it is light and easy to get out and use.
Having said that, both are only working as I am a bit handy at fixing.
Since the barrow rotates about the axle of the ball when you tilt it, instead of the point of contact of the wheel with the ground, the barrow does not have a tendency to fall over when it is not held dead level. You can also make small course corrections by gently tilting it, instead of stepping round at the back.
Certainly, the disinclination to fall over makes it easier to operate.
Wow, what a crock that is! Wave the mouse near it and suddenly a load of your workspace is covered in this massive popover panel that captures clicks on it. And what's in it? Just a load of generica, that nobody really wants. Of course, whilst you can hide it, it's not really gone it's still snooping in the background.....
I have fixed Nemo by replacing it with Caja (out of MATE). Much nicer for connecting to other boxen, with the neat trick that "Console here" will open a SSH terminal in the right folder of the other box if you connected over sftp.
Aside from that, it's got much more of a "windows file explorer, back from when it was usable" feel.
Schrems III is kinda the point.
As long as the US has a law that says "It doesn't matter what's in the contract between a non-US national and a US corporation, or the subsidiary of a US corporation, or wherever the data is actually located, under whatever jurisdiction, if the US security services ask the US corporation for the data, it must be provided, without necessarily notifying the non-US national.", any data stored in a US cloud service cannot be locked such that only the non-US national has access.
"Never not windy"?
Try looking at http://gridwatch.templar.co.uk/ on many days in winter. The "Wind" dial goes to pretty much zero quite often.
The weather patterns around the UK mean that you do indeed get windless days over the entire land mass, and over the sea for quite a way.
They make the numbers up, of course! Otherwise the real answer (it can replace a single power station for about 6 minutes) sounds less impressive.
One trick is to use the daily consumption and divide by 24. Like we cook and wash through the night too.
Homes use between 8-10kWh/day (Ovo, repeating a figure from BEIS suggests 10.2kWh). So at 10kWh, that's going to be 10/12 kW (about 830W) mean consumption during the daytime. So the actual answer is ~236000 homes for 1 hour. Their figure assumes average consumption is 327W, a daily waking hours consumption of about ~4kWh. Fantasy.
What is forgotten is that the anti-democratic Benn Act was pushed through to enforce an unnecessary deadline.
No deal in time, no Brexit.
This meant that the required haggling and hardball couldn't be done, so we got a crap deal. Which was the plot all along to bring forward the frabjious day when it could be undone.
Also rather deceitful.
“We are acutely aware of the impact that this is having on some of our staff and students, and we will continue to keep them informed with progress"
... but we get paid, and our fat pensions are still being topped up whatever, so fundamentally you can just eat it. Whatever happens, no blame or responsibility can possibly be attached to us, so any problems are not really problems.
"Thanks to Trump and his stupidity, China has finally woken up to the fact that it has most of the resources everybody else wants.". Really? China knew this all along. Only Trump was rude enough to point it out. Many people were pointing out that relying on China for all our tech was a bad idea, but they got condemned as protectionist nutjobs, in order not to interrupt the smooth flow of cash into executive pockets, or something.
Cheap PCs subsidised by ads only work if you can only use them with the delivered software. So these machines will have to be Pluton'ed to the max to ensure only the Microsoft cloud client OS will run - no sneaky Linux install for you!
So when the sub runs out, or they "expire', many will just get chucked out.
If you want to run an archived Linux version, you will have to get hold of the correct versions of the source for all of the applications supported at the time, and their dependencies. Then build them all, and recreate the package archive. Basically, respinning an old distro. A job that is far from trivial.
"any bending of the wires within 35mm of the connector "may lead to an uneven load across the other wires, increasing the risk of overheating damage.""
Means that the pins aren't sufficiently well located in the housings (to allow for sloppy moulding tolerances) and don't latch on to the receptacles well enough.
So too thin, too flimsy, not big enough.
What's to bet that the engineers originally designed a chonker of a connector, but it was shot down for being too big, and containing too much copper.
To be fair, away from Geocities, web "applications" (static pages generated from dynamic data) - i.e., web1.0 - could at least express a reasonable amount of data
A suitably-crafted <table> attribute makes a reasonable on-screen simulacrum of a paper table, or a spreadsheet.
Nowadays you can fit about 6 rows on a HD screen.