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Best of luck.
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
It appears that I am mistaken – the issues are still there today.
@EdP – That appears to show the items aren’t working at all, whereas mine will work perfectly for a peirod and then lag or miss key presses. And only on Mac, not Windows.
This Mac Mini is beginning to royally annoy me – it’s already had a dead logic (mother) board within the first year, it often doesn’t shut down when you tell it to without turning it off via the switch and it was having issues with the USB-C video :negative: I don’t think I’ve had this much issue with a Windows machine ಠ_ಠ
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
Yeah, I’ve did a google search and people were indicating issues with macOS Catalina and the items not working.
However, I downloaded the firmware updater and updated the reciever. That appears to have sorted it for the time being – time will tell I guess! I’ll give it a go throughout the day. It had seemed to go through periods of working and not, so I’m hoping that it’s resolved now, and I’m hoping it doesnt’ revert to lagging later today!
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
We are probably 3 weeks behind England regarding restrictions, exercise is still only allowed ‘5 miles’ from home.
I think this weekend is the first time my parents have been legally allowed to pick up my sister from her student house in Cardiff and bring her back to Devon, due to the differing Welsh rules.
Or she’s finally had enough of her rule breaking housemates and has decided to go home!
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
From what I can see there is zero science behind it, as all scientists agree that the virus does not survive in chlorinated water. Without some way of cooling off it was all very predictable.
My understanding is the changing rooms, as we’re having this conversation about the pool at work. The gym is desperate to reopen, as it’s a source of income to the University, but the Government has been very clear at the minute that gyms can’t open. Besides, we’ve got the mammoth task of getitng the other buildings reopen!
Some of us are still working so can’t go off to the beach, even if we wanted to! (counting my blessing there though, as I’d rather be working than furloughed or unemployed…)
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
One was for the Admiralty Interview Board who want to keep 3 years worth of officer interviews,
No luck for that in the RAF for my officer selection interview – had to have my interview within the mess, as the fire alarm went off in the middle of the interview in the selection centre and we had to improvise! :good:
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
It would be useful for game storage – I’ve a 3TB that I now need to keep an eye on for storage, and that’s with a second 256GB SSD that I’ll move games to and from :wacko: Of course, I don’t need to keep them all downloaded, but even with reasonable broadband, the sizes of some of them mean it’s easier to keep them downloaded! COD was a ~125GB download itself and I bought Star Wars: Fallen Order the other day and that was ~55GB. Don’t want to have to wait 4-5 hours for that to download again if I want to play.
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
Bitlocker, domain joining, RDP and Hyper-V are the main ones.
I forgot RDP :good:
Still blows VNC out of the water.
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
Too rich for my blood, but why only Win 10 Home at that price? Or does it not make a difference?
I don’t think there’s a huge difference – you lose out on Bitlocker (well, creating Bitlocker drives, as you can still open them). Micorsoft have a page on the differences, and there’s very little there that would get me as a home user to upgrade.
That said, I did upgrade my laptop to Pro using a key from eBay for Bitlocker – that was only about £10.
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
Based on the specs and costs of the Zephyrus G14 (which apparently has the best AMD chip in at the minute), you might not be able to have all you want for that price. (you’re looking at double the cost for most of the specs you want according to eBuyer. The cheaper one is just over £1000 but that drops you to 8GB.) Both are 14″ not 15″ though.
It would be what I would have purchased, had I not just gone back to macOS for a portable :whistle:
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
I was serving when mobiles was becoming main stream (1997), by about 99 we all had one (all useless and expensive). We was never allowed them with us when in uniform/on duty..
When we do base visits, we often have to leave to our phones outside certain locations – avoids people taking photos of items they shouldn’t do.
It reminds me of the news a few years ago about Strava global heat map and military bases in the middle of nowhere… (Wired, Guardian). It was apt, as I had recently gone for a run around RAF Leeming and it hadn’t occured to me…
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
The petition to have Cummings sacked now stands at over 1 million.
I’m not sure why people bother with Change.org. The only petition site that is worth it is the Parlimentary one, as they actually have to discuss that. They can ignore any others if they wish – and in fairness, they can ignore the other one, but at least it has to be raised in Parliment.
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
My chair at home was from IKEA – the Markus. Had it now for three or four years and it’s still great. My office one though is nicer, but far pricer! It’s the Conway from BOF, though I have seen very similar elsewhere, and may well get one when the Markus breaks.
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
I’ve been thinking about this: “Origin block port forwarding unless you pay for a static IP address” Can I assume this to mean your external IP address is in one of the private ranges of 10.0.0.0/8 or 192.168.0.0/16 or 172.16..0./12? If so you’re screwed and always will be if even you paid for a fixed IP and used a USB dongle. As you know I use Draytek a lot and for anything but 4G they are a go to for being able to do anything, but the sim slot versions are just too much £££. I now have a TP-Link MR200 and whilst it’s miles better than the Huawei it’s no Draytek. What I’ve been searching for is head unit that’s really good at being a 4G modem and just passing the connection through to my Draytek. I believe I may have found the answer in the Teltonika range, but if you’re starting from scratch the cost means you might as well got for the sim slot DrayTek Vigor in the first place. I’m starting to think that my first thoughts are correct, it’s going to take 5G to do this “all wireless” thing properly. The 802.11 protocols are pretty much there for local distribution and mesh is coming along nicely, it’s the internet end that needs sorting and IPv6 to take a lot of the routing pain away. I fear for people like us that it will be “this is what you get” at the consumer end and “this will cost you a lot” at the “I want some control” end.
If I paid for the fixed IP address, I’d have no need for a dongle, as then Origin would allow me to SFTP in to my NAS without issue, which is all this comes down to really.
Which, from looking around, will be the cheapest possible option in the end! (£1.50 extra to get the static IP x 18 months = £27 for the contract)
I was just wondering if I could harness both, as I’m already paying for the Three connection, as well as the Origin connection, and I had no issues with the Three.
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
I’m not trying to remotely access the router, but to remotely access my NAS. Origin block port forwarding unless you pay for a static IP address. When I was using the 4G router (the Huawei one that Three sent me), I was able to access my Synology by port forwarding on the Huawei router and DDNS was sorted by the Synology.
I can’t use VNC to access – at least, not when I’m at work, as Eduroam blocks VNC connections I believe (certainly, it wont connect whilst on the University wifi).
The main use case is to access my NAS whilst at work via SFTP and create an offsite backup at work. At the minute, it’s not an issue as we’re at home but since swapping to the Origin service, I’ve just been sneakernetting my files to keep a copy at work.
I just thought if I could have them both on the network at home, that would solve an issue.
When I checked the 2762 demo, I didn’t see load balacing yesterday, but I’ve now seen that’s a possibility.
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
I reckon he wont, but personal opinion is that he should. ಠ_ಠ
I’d love to go 250 miles and visit my family, but I’m not with the lockdown, as I’m trying to follow the Government advice…
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
Mac Mini user only at the minute, though the new MacBook Air is on it’s way but wont be here until 6th June as I used the Education discount (perks of working at a Uni)
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
I’m not sure. We moved away from Three in March, when we got a fixed line with Origin and that had been serving me well.
However, I have dug out the Three router today as Origin seem to be having issues (at least, I couldn’t resolve the situation my end this morning).
We’ll use this for a few days before going back to the fixed line – however, I am looking at a new router with load balancing, as this isn’t the first time that Origin have gone down this month.
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
Yeah, hit and miss I guess. I may try moving it upstairs and seeing if that helps at all, but with the issues, we’ve just decided to go for the fibre.
Have gone with Origin broadband, which were priced at £25 a month for the 67Mb pacakge, so we’ll give that a go (though I did upgrade the router they send me for a fee, which I thought was interesting, first time I’ve seen a firm do that!)
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
We’ve given up now – have ordered regular fibre to be installed on the 4th. When it works, it works fine. However, we’ve had more slow downs and drop outs that we ever had with BT and with working from home, I’ve been struggling to use Office, and general usage has been very poor today. I’d also been getting it in the neck from the other half, so we’ll end up paying for two contracts which is a pain (but still cheaper than Virgin).
I’ll probably take the SIM card to use in my travel router.
A shame, as it worked perfectly when I was in Manchester with cadets (though not on Three) and we were probably hitting it pretty hard there.
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
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