Posts by Semtex451

Re: Gross misunderstanding of the tool

"Let there be Light"

Re: Happy Anniversary!

Only 10 years - it feels a lot longer.

This Melenchon, did his family invent sadness?

Re: And even stranger things have happened and are happening .....

@ AMFM1 - I'd say he had a deserved 'right to be forgotten'

Re: Linux on a foobared HDD

That's on account of L Torvalds

e.g mails like https://yarchive.net/comp/linux/must_check.html

Re: "I don't always need to look up the address of a bit of kit I need to contact"

For many of the younger staff the word 'Administrator' is too long

Re: "you will wake up to find a QR code tattooed onto your privates"

Re 'Look here'

I shall politely decline.

Re: Pretty routine back then...

Yes its what happens when there are successive non-catastrophic coffee spillages.

I say coffee, I mean milky Nescafe with sugar, but as you know, it passed for coffee back then.

Re: 2022 Progress Fatal Disclosure

Perhaps its just me, but could you rephrase that?

Re: It's an iPhone

The point of the walled garden was that you didn't need a fw as outbound could be 'trusted', but since everyone one else wants to tear the walls down, you'll need one sooner rather than later.

Time was you did not need to act paranoid with an iPhone /iOS device), it was the point of owning one.

Re: Well, this is all fair enough, but...

Agreed but I think he's missed more than one basic step in his logic

Re: but how is it selling?

Agreed.

If it is selling, it's to folk with an old SE who have finally realised there will never be a replacement and they have to accept this faster iPhone 8 (that they are calling an SE), instead.

There very little reason for anyone who owns a working 7 or 8 to bother with it.

Re: After 3 years my iPhone...

Agreed. If Apple had released a proper replacement for the SE last year that could have spared them the slump (outside of china). Instead this year they simply put a newer chip in an iPhone7/8, call it SE and expect the cash to roll in. Not from 7/8 owners it won't, it offers them very little indeed.

actually its only 30fps

Re: Twinning toilets

I wondered if the one in Uganda also had lines of what looked like talcum powder in it too

Re: You can pry my honorifics from my cold, dead brain cells

Being surrounded by people at the other end of the bell curve, I don't feel the need to celebrate the marvellous diversity of human brains.

I find myself in a perpetual state of being staggered because I live in a scene from Idiocracy.

The waste of time, money and resources these people represent is quickly becoming unaffordable IMHO.

So while I believe intellect should be celebrated by our species, it would be enough if society could stop celebrating Stupid.

Re: Hmm

Thought I was on the Grauniad site, but noticed there were no begging letters.

Re: 110,000 miles per hour

Andromeda is getting closer to us all the time, in 2 billion years it will be very close

That sounds like French efficiency.

Has anyone actually measured the EM output that's radiated from any complained about Linky? Did the bills go up with the extra draw required?

Re: Where is the problem?

Should have been one in the 8's box - there was in mine.