Re: Any particular Android apps?
I sideloaded TV and movie apps like Cinema HD and Cyberflix. Much faster and more stable and reliable than websites which offer the same
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because millions to them are like pennies to us.
Like this £122 million just lost, with no clear outcome on where it went
Betsi Cadwaladr health board: £122m fraud probe launched
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-64068921
And concluded, but with no explanation:
https://forums.theregister.com/post/reply/4810265
I find it amazing how they can do so little to protect users, but give me a 3 day ban for "breaching community standards" (no warning to edit or remove) when I remarked on someone getting a bargain on a retro sales site with "That's an amazing price, I'd have snapped their hand off for that".
Apparently this age-old UK expression is a threat of violence to them.
RE: "significant performance penalty
I've found a hacked version of Windows 11 starts and runs much faster than 10 on my "ancient" Core i5-4570 with 8Gb RAM and an SSD. It uses under 2Gb at idle after startup, compared to over 3Gb for 10.
and if "memory security controls" are such an issue - why isn't the Linux installer being picky about my hardware?
I manage a lot of old hardware (by "old" I mean core i5s and i7s with 8gb of RAM dating back from around 2016 that I'm not replacing because it works fine) and I've found that at start-up Windows 11 uses 1Gb less RAM than 10.
It also comes on and closes down much faster than 10.
"Israeli state media said Thursday its military did receive intel about a Hamas attack - three days before a rocket barrage and roving squads of gunmen killed over a thousand people - but opted not to take action."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/12/israel-hamas-war-egypt-warned-foreign-affairs-gaza
I wonder if the action is based on your rep with Google.
I upload a lot of pics and do reviews so I have a good score. Whenever I report a business had changed location, or their hours, or even shut down, the results get actioned within an hour.
A nice idea in principle, but until we have a "none of the above" option what choice do we have?
Labour - who slate the Tories then decide they'll probably continue to do what the Tories are doing, or
Lib Dems - who seem more concerned with providing tampons to men who identify as women.
Greens - see Lib Dems.
Blair has history when it comes to vaccine donors:
"A businessman who benefited from a lucrative contract with the government for vaccines - and was later ennobled by Tony Blair - has donated half a million pounds to Labour"
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2004/aug/24/partyfunding.uk
Its wrong to lump all social media as bad. I use Facebook to keep in touch with distant friends and family and just use groups where there's little or no infighting or other battles going on - owners groups for my particular car, some old TV shows I like, mine exploring, and a few humorous ones like "Angry People in Local Newspapers" and "Crap Signs".
Stay away from the obvious local curtain twitching sites and other places the uneducated tend to congregate and you'll have a positive experience.
Edge hijacks any usage of IE as well.
I had to recently manually log into some factory reset old Ruckus access points where the web interface would only work with IE, not Chrome, edge or Firefox.
But every time I entered the 192.168.0.1 address, Edge would close IE and put the URL in its browser - which of course didn't work.
I can understand the need to want IE retired, but it was incredidbly frustrating to have the application closed without my say so.
My 9 year old machine (core i5 with 8Gb of RAM still on Windows 7) booted up quicker and used less RAM the last time I tried Windows 10 on it.
Reason I didn't stick with it is that I just prefer the look and feel of 7, without having to use a third party program to make 10 or 11 look and operate like 7.
When I do finally migrate, I'll be buying no new PC or parts.
Glad its not affected output as I rely on them for quality articles like this
'Upward-thrusting buildings ejaculating into the sky' – do cities have to be so sexist?"
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/jul/06/upward-thrusting-buildings-ejaculating-cities-sexist-leslie-kern-phallic-feminist-city-toxic-masculinity
Ask this on the FB group "Spectrum for everyone", there'll be someone there happy to help.
I don't have any physical hardware anymore, but before I sold it all I copied all my 3" disks to 3.5" and then used the emulator REALSPEC to convert them to IMG files to run on an emulator.
I wondered where the "i hate twitter 'cos its a cesspool and don't need it" post would be.
Like all social media, its as good as YOU make it - you get back what you put in. If you're coming away from it angry and riled up, then maybe you're not using it right?
I use Twitter to keep up to date with more highbrow celebs and a few parody accounts (RAF Luton for one) and use Facebook to keep in touch with far away relatives and subscribe to a few special interest hobby groups where the trolling and abuse is virtually non existent.
If you're going to engage in the more toxic parts - well, the old saying applies - "lie with dogs and you'll get fleas". Or that boring twit in your local pub - you're not forced to sit at his table and listen or argue with him.
"Lab did a lot of good (schools, health, police & courts)"
Sadly they also did a lot of "bad" for schools. I remember BSF and the consultants, and all these modern school designs.
Replacing traditional brick built school designs for modern ones of glass looked stunning, but they cost a fortune to heat in winter, cool in summer, and when a huge pane of glass was smashed it costs far more than a regular piece of glass and often required professional services and cherry pickers.
Or the bank level Cisco switches they specced for the internal networks. We could get several HP ProCurves for just one of their Cisco ones - from their "preferred supplier" of course.
The worst one was a Dell PC. Cost to us from Dell was £299. Once we bought it from our managed service provider, who bought from a company who then bought it from Dell it was £450.
"another problem with Windows' single-user ancestry is that the default Windows user all too often must run as the all-powerful PC administrator"
I've been managing Windows networks in education since 1999 and I've never come across anything that's needed admin access to run.
And there's no greater hacker out there looking to exploit the system than a bored schoolboy.