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<p><p>The BBCodes seems to be a default since early December when Lee did a ‘cleanup’.</p><br />
<p>This post is a bit of a test as I ‘cleared formatting’ before beginning the post.</p><br />
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<p>Well that did not help!</p><p><p>It all looks fine to me – I just do not have anything to post at the moment, so I pop in for the occasional lurk!</p><br />
<p>Oopps just noticed one minor problem the spell checker does not work or it likes my spelling of ‘occassional’!</p></p>
<p>[edit] It also seems to be posting in BBCodes.</p>Login page gives 404. Trying to ewrite this drops into bbcode
Richard, sorry to hear about your wife, and your constant pains. I hope 2023 brings you some relief and a little happiness.
Some years seem to be full of downers, I just hope that 2023 is a turnaround year for everyone, and that we can all start feeling optimiistic once again.
Happy 2023 to all!
A bit more info on Twitter shows how a combination of Lastpass/user issues make the contents of the vaults far more vulnerable. For info the original encryption rounds were only 5000 compared with 100100 in recent times, so old customers are especially vulnerable. The Twitter link also shows how someone could zoom in on things like Bitcoin stashes just by reading the unencrypted url data.
There are a LOT of downsides in growing old, but the biggest upside is that you no longer give a flying fig for what people think about you, and it is a lot easier to laugh at yourself. Unfortunately a few wrinklies never learn not to take themselves seriously so cannot profit from this change in attitude.
Enjoy the next 12-20 years Keith, with luck you really will not feel your age, but gain a new independence.
I sent you a small Christmas present. Ed
Nurses, teachers, police etc , all these people are dedicated to serving the public and most do it not just for the money but mainly for the ‘reward’ of being valued members of society. This unfortunately makes them easy targets for Government’s of all ilks, but especially so for the corrupt scumbags who would rather shovel money to friends than pay their way in society.
I’m sorry to take a different view from David, but I would rather pay politicians a lot more, but seize ALL their assets if they take just one step along the path towards corruption. Obfuscating the corruption trail with ‘company loans, ‘dividends’ or family members should make such financial entities equally liable. I’ve witnessed a lot of corruption in high places around the world, but I’m sorry to say that there is now a distinct smell of it in the UK Government.
+1 to all the sentiments. Have a great Christmas, and I hope that the New Year brings you everything you desire.
Following the advice in this thread, I bought the 64Gb Steam Deck for the grandchildren.
The support I received from Steam on potential problems with ‘giving’ the Deck was good. (Their business model seems to be that Steam users will buy for themselves, and is a bit funky when it comes to giving a Deck to someone else.). The main thing seems to be to do all the set ups on the Deck and to avoid using a PC or other Steam access.
However, no real problems, the Deck came quickly, so I gave it to the kid’s father to set up. As an Apple user he can be quite sniffy over PC quality, but he was very impressed – he even said that the deck was almost up to Apple quality. High praise indeed. He quickly started to fiddle with it and put in a 256Gb SD card that he had – worked like a dream, which made him even happier and thinking about a SSD for next year. He has now setup all the age restrictions and loaded all the kid’s games, and I suspect played a few himself.
Bottom line it was a win-win. The father has had an early Christmas present to play with, and everything is set up in time for Father Christmas to do his delivery rounds.
I think I may even be tempted to set up SteamLink on a Pi as I think I could probably at least equal the Deck’s performance if not its portability.
Simplistically the propellor scoops up the fluid from one side, holds it in place then uses the centrifugal force of the rotating prop to fling it out of the other side. The neat part of the design imo is the way the prop actually scoops up the fluid and holds it in place ready to eject.
Apparently it is the NIF laser smashing route rather than the Iter/Tokamak technology. As a side comment apparently the single capsule used in the experiment costs an absolute fortune so a huge amount of engineering work is required before this can be viewed as a commercial route.
This could be a good year for nuclear fusion if the forthcoming US press release holds good.
“Washington — The U.S. Department of Energy said Sunday it would announce a “major scientific breakthrough” this week, after media reported a federal laboratory had recently achieved a major milestone in nuclear fusion research. The Financial Times reported Sunday that scientists in the California-based Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) had achieved a “net energy gain” from an experimental fusion reactor.”
I agree – Chrome is a total horrible car-wreck both from privacy and memory management issues. Unfortunately Raspberry Pi did a deal with the devil and it is the default engine on a new Pi, and it makes initial setup a real pain due to its grabbing all the very limited resources.
Chrome is a really nasty bit of spyware, but if you must use it apparently Google have just issued a memory management kludge.
Hope you have not ditched Turmeric as that is apparently really good as an anti-inflammatory. The wife does a really tasty large prawns, turmeric, coconut and rice dish. Its one of those dishes you can spice up (if you can take it) by adding lemon grass and a few chilli flakes.
Back on the indoor gardening theme apparently you can grow lemon grass indoors (BUT it can grow to 1 metre in height!)
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/herbs/lemongrass/growing-lemongrass-indoors.htm
This is one I should encourage the wife to try, as fresh lemongrass is much better than the dried up carp that is often on sale.
Nice little tool kit Dave. I’m not too sure from the photo, but I would guess that the triangular shape or the long white shapes can be used as spodgers.
It is frustrating the way the You-Tube how-to’s show things just lifting apart. I must be unlucky, but every bit of kit I have purchased needs a little bit of brute force to get it open!
Sorry, I’m too accostomed to taking electronic bits apart that I forget how daunting it can be at first!
I have a wide selection of Spodgers, but the ones are find most handy for opening cases are ‘Plastic Razor Blades‘. While I guess you could use a thin knife blade a plastic spodger does not scratch the case.
You basically find a suitable place on the ‘seam’, ram in a spodger then continue around the case ramming in more spodgers and eventually it will open. Normally these things just press fit back together when you have finished.
It is certainly easier to do a fresh install, but I think you can probably set up the TPM and Secure Boot requirements while still on Win10.
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-activate-tpm-2-0-and-secure-boot-in-windows-10/
Doing this first enables you to check if your hardware is completely AOK, and then gets you to the point where Win11 can either be freshly installed or go the upgrade path.
While your hardware is almost certainly OK, M$’s requirements do not always seem completely logical in terms of CPU Stepping number, so it is worth a check.
Make a folder on your Boot Drive and put a text file in it with your password. Unless you are doing something really naughty no one is going to access your Boot Drive!
+1 for Dave’s comment. Just by way of explanation, TPM+secure boot means that you need a an authorised way in if things go pear-shaped. A boot disk at the very least gets you started. If you don’t have this then you have to perform what could be called a factory reset i.e. wipe your drive and start all over again – any and all personal files and installed programs will be lost.
That said, and touching wood like crazy, I have never had to use a boot drive so ‘going pear-shaped’ is probably a fairly rare happening
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