"This all leads us to the thorny issue of Windows 10. Has it been deprecated? While the AI overview provided by Google says..."
Oh, if only Microsoft had their own AI tool that you could have asked...
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I’ve had to phone up Southern Water before, to discuss a broken drain leading out from my property. They couldn’t help.
Later that day, a local plumber pulled up and asked if I needed any work doing. I asked how he knew and he said “I’ve got a mate who works at Southern Water.”
re: "yet more tweaks to the veteran Notepad applications in terms of autosaving."
That sounds like a nightmare. I'll be switching off that option.
Imagine using Notepad to type a new line into a website's Web.Config file. You're halfway through typing it, and NotePad thinks "this is a good time to save the changes so far"....
"Speaking of redundancies"
VM/O2 have told their UK workers than many of their jobs are at risk. Soon after this, their email service stops working for three days....
Source: https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2023/06/job-cuts-set-to-strike-more-of-virgin-media-o2s-uk-staff.html
Hmmmm.
Hive Cameras. and other products, which are being turned into bricks from this summer. Hive is switching off our devices for us, for so-called "environmental reasons". Because ending a product's life artificially early, and forcing a replacement (Non-Hive) product to be manufactured, purchased and installed is great way to achieve Net Zero.
-mobailey
re: "I suppose you could set the bookmarks bar to be on all the time."
I did this for many years, until recently.
But I regularly need to screenshare / send browser screenshots for my work. It got a bit unprofessional to always include my bookmark icons for Amazon, Just Eat, Spotify, Facebook, Register... (and worse).
ALSO: for security purposes. To avoid using the bookmark toolbar to switch a tab between banking and a less-reputable site. I'm now forced to close the tab when finished with it, and open a new one.
Hiding the bookmark toolbar, except for new tabs, is a good compromise that helps with both of these problems.
-mobailey
Just updated to Version 108 after visiting Help | About Firefox.
Shift+Esc shows the new Process Monitor tab. Looks like this will be most useful when dragged to a new monitor - so you can use Firefox and monitor the brief CPU spikes at the same time.
But I'm failing to spot any improvements to the bookmarks toolbar shown on new tabs.
-mobailey