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HP are OK if you avoid the plasticy cheap ones. Personally I’d go for the Pavilion.

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I’m afraid both industries are going to have to go through the mill until this lot get it.

Care home fees are high enough without increasing costs and you can’t have cheap food and well paid pickers. The idea that the employers will find a magic money tree is just laughable.

They are also the party that bangs on about a “green” recovery whilst urging people back into cars and poo-pooing home working because they want you spending money in town. They think only Londoners use public transport to get to work. Try driving into an office in Bristol, you’d better have deep pockets.

People who drive to work are not those who work in town centres, but when the only statistics you look at are what Londonders do vs the whole of the rest of the country you’re not going to learn much. New Statesman article “Can you really get to work without using public transport? Commuters in most of England already do“. It’s this sort of lazy skewed bollocks that leads to these ridiculous rules and mixed messaging.

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Reports of hordes of youths in the beach areas around Polzeath (haunt of David Cameron, on the other side of the estuary from Padstow).

The Hooray Henrys have left London, it seems summer normality has returned to this part of North Cornwall.

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I wonder if it’s to do with encryption?

This test from my laptop which according to Ubiquiti is connected at 150Mbps. Both shares are encrypted and both servers are attached via Ethernet to a 1GB switch.

Current model DS218+ with a Celeron J3355 and 10GB of ram. 2 x 3TB 7,200 rpm disks in SHR Raid 1. Pretty much what you’d expect with WiFi limiting the performance.

5 year old RS814 with a MARVELL Armada XP MV78230 and 1GB ram. 2 x drives from the spares box in JBOD.

Still a bit strange though.

[Dave Rice]

Of course, online Doh! Although I have Teams I tend to still use the desktop apps.

Teams file sort order drives me nuts, why can’t it default to alphabetical? That stops me using it, I have the files synchronised to a One Drive for Business folder.

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I guess you can wave goodbye to MS Office on the Mac for a while. I do wonder if this is what’s behind the decision, Mac’s aren’t so unique any more. It’s got to be risky and they need to remember why they went in the opposite direction in the first place.

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We’ll know in 2 weeks or so time.

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Emulation? Does rather defeat the point though and didn’t work for Intel’s foray into tablets.

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So much for clear messaging. I always thought Green means unconditionally go, Amber means go with conditions and Red means no go.

Well it now seems that Green means you can go but not come back and Amber means you can travel freely. Except if another Govt Dept decides that travel isn’t allowed. Or a foreign Govt puts conditions on travel to / from the UK.

Surely it would be easier to just combine it all into one system with a colour for each Country?

Red = forget it i.e. China

Amber = these are conditions under which you can travel i.e. New Zealand, you will be quarantined on arrival but not on return to the UK.

Green you can travel freely.

What will happen if people book in good faith when it’s Green and subsequently changes?

We’ve decided to forget any foreign travel for the foreseeable and hope we can get to the Amsterdam Light Festival in December. Even visiting Cornwall to see the family we’re going to wait and see how it pans out.

[Dave Rice]

I gave up believing these figures ages ago.

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Good luck Bob

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They were backed into a corner really. This isn’t the Ugandan Asians, I suspect only a (relative) handful of the wealthy will make the move.

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Time will certainly help.

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Yes I had 4G connections over 100mbps in Amsterdam, about 3km out from Centraal Station. Makes you realise we are behind over here.

Bob, again you defy the laws of networking 😀

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I did warn you 😉

As usual they are blaming everyone but themselves. People who have no right of reply.

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A mate of mine used to have a record shop and dabbled in old hi-fi too. He got hold of a 60’s Quad valve amp, never heard anything like it, marvellous.

There’s a reason Marshall amps are still beloved of guitarists.

[Dave Rice]

Rules or no, the Mrs and B-I-L went up to Bangor 2 weekends ago to empty the student house. Lease dates are no respecter of rules, but as I understand it the local police made it known it wasn’t going to be an issue.

God knows what’s going on next year, she was supposed to be going to China for the first semester then Austria for 2 and 3, it’s a vital part of a language degree. The way things work in China it’s not possible to swap them around, don’t know exactly why but think it’s to do with the academic year. Unlike Austria or Germany (at the moment) she can’t work there either,  so that’s not an option. If they feck up the leave negotiations who knows about Austria too?

All that debt she’s built up, plus our not insignificant contribution, and the Govt just doesn’t have a plan and indeed seems hell bent on being total winkers about anything EU related.

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LOL reminds me of my first experience of drinking in small Cornish village pubs and being deliberately steered to the “wrong” bar stool. Pubs used to be packed then, shoulder to shoulder, but still made room somehow when the man with the squeezebox arrived. Sadly packed no more, but even in an almost empty pub my Godfather had “his” stool until his recent demise. I doubt any local will sit there though.

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Well the situation at the various (public) marine lakes along the Bristol Channel and inland freshwater ponds is one of the same social distancing chaos. The trustees of these places cannot understand why swimming pools are not open as at least some sort of organisation can be applied.

We can all see the threat to close the beaches is an empty one that could not possibly be enforced. I think everyone is so tired of falsified statistics that they aren’t to going to take any warnings seriously even if the Govt. decided to admit a mistake had been made.

I’ve seen a promo video by the Cornwall Tourist Board that tries to explain that things won’t be as normal and you can’t just rock up to a restaurant and sit down. Plus of course spaces will be limited. B&B, hotels, caravan and camping grounds will sell as many holidays as they cam, and who’s to blame them? Where are all these people going to eat, never mind what are they going to do all day? – attractions will be for advanced ticket holders only with limited admissions. The plea on the video is if you find where you are going to be a bit busy, please go somewhere else. Like that’s going to happen.

It will be chaos, I’m not going anywhere near Wadebridge / Padstow for quite a while, despite wanting to be with the family again.

[Dave Rice]

Your vehicle has been put in self isolation where it will be tested for traces of Covid-19.

If positive you will hear from a member of the Test & Trace team who will need to know the contact details of anyone who came within spitting distance 2 metres  of you, or any members of your bubble, at any time during the day and the registration number of any vehicle that did so too. We will need to see any dash-cam footage you have to make sure you’re not telling porkies you haven’t missed any vital information.

Members of your bubble will also be compelled to fess up contacted and their alibis valuable contributions will be cross referenced to identify the guilty added to the sum of our knowledge to help the fight against Covid-19.

If you have installed the NHSX app, we have already slurped as much of your personal data as we can but nothing else worth a candle please treat the requests from the T & T Team as if you haven’t.

Also please spam Apple and Google as it’s their fault for not altering their operating system for us being intransigent and hampering our World Beating app which we were told wouldn’t work before spending £12 million. They have a track record of not giving in to encryption back doors aiding terrorists.

In the spirit of the Test & Trace initiative we will be putting all the registrations numbers in a hat and the first 30% drawn out will not be subject to any enquiries whatsoever.

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