Posts by joner847

Windows 7 lives! How to keep your favorite fossil running

I'm not that emotionally attached to W7 to be bothered to go through this entire article for the two Laptops I had gathering dust and what to do with them. Whilst not as old as some here, neither are W11 "compliant"; one has TPM, blah blah but is 7th Gen i3. The other (that got me through my Computing BSc) is a 5th Gen i7 ULV. They've both had SSD upgrades. So the 7th Gen i3 was easy....now running Mint (with Cinnamon Desktop) and its great, still need to replace the CMOS battery though!! The older i7, that's had a tough life in the hands of my offspring (running Minecraft, Roblox, Fornite on a teenage bed strewn with god knows what) when I graduated, now has a dodgy mouse trackpad and one of the USB A ports is getting dicky. That one was a little more tricky, but as an avid Retro Gamer installed Batocera 40, already had a MAME 2010 ROM Set download on an old HD, using a Bluetoothed XBox Controller now entertains by being able to play the classics; Defender, Donkey Kong, Galaga, Pheonix, Robotron 2084 etc...even Street Fighter 2 and managed to get Mortal Kombat running too!! Will swap out the XBox controller for a decent Arcade stick as I'll have a better chance of making Ryu go "HOOCHIT" more often and perhaps get a couple of light guns (I have Operation Thunderbolt!)....and a steering wheel!

Wisepay 'outage' is actually the school meal payments biz trying to stop an intruder from stealing customer card details

The usage of these school payment systems pre-dates the current Pandemic by some years (the schools my children go to, started using these systems 3 years ago)! So there isn't really any conspiracy regarding cashless being a method of "control" during the pandemic (starting to get tiring now!) or a means to close local business (why would a school do that anyway??); on the contrary the local sweet shop here is still alive and well!!

Even though parents no longer give their little darlings any dinner money it doesn't stop children from spending their pocket money in the local area.

As a parent it is convenient means to admin and monitor all school activity (I get notices, progress and other relevant teacher/parent comms)...plus pay for stuff like school trips (not there's been much of that recently) and lunches; meaning that these are pre-ordered and paid for in advance, so my kiddies can eat without the arse ache of forgetting their dinner money, the catering company can also effectively plan ahead to reduce food wastage.

Sociology student gets a First for dissertation on Kardashians

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I do believe that Kim's ol'man was a high flying lawyer and was the person that managed to get OJ Simpson off his murder charge.

For reasons completely unknown to me a few years later some shitty US television network scraping the barrel decided to do some kind of documentary about this bunch of affluent oxygen thieves; and then the internet and twitter took over.