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I see on Richer Sounds Panasonic are doing STBs at the same price points. If the GUI is the same as my Panasonic Freesat TV then I find it easier to use than the Humax.

Yep, no Netflix etc., the STB is a dying product. I certainly appreciate having no boxes under the TV apart from the sound bar and only 1 remote to deal with. Recording is to a standard 2.5″ external HDD which I suppose could be considered another “box” but it’s small enough to hide away and of course has no interface.

I’ll be moving the DVD collection into hidden storage soon, they’re all ripped to the Synology but TBH half the time it’s just easier to stream them from the internet.

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That just gets in the way of a good story these days.

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Apart from the national Three outage I’ve not had any issues. Speeds are up and down, that’s the nature of it, but mid to late 30’s is the usual which is fine for me.

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I’m holding on to that last gaming PC I built for a while as it’s now turned into a Christmas present.

Off on my travels tomorrow for a week though so it may be a while until I get around to it.

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Wow. But a 2080Ti costs as much as the rest of the PC around it!

Still, give it 3 years and this will be mainstream.

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Sorry Nolan, been distracted. What I remembered as laptop ram was desktop.

With regards amazon I have tried the qomox and timetec ram and its fine, indeed that’s what my T420 is using.

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Studies show it doesn’t make a material difference. It’s all guess work.

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Most of us here are in the same boat, it’s the great British public who don’t do backups 😀 and it’s them that expect I can rescue those precious photos and get pissy when I can’t!

Classic was a laptop from the sister of a friend of my wife, “it just stopped working”. Hard drive was OK, got the data off but a red sticky residue was the give away. She finally admitted a glass of red was involved in the sudden stoppage.

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I’ll have a look in the morning, there’s a good chance.

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I am now of the opinion that for your average Joe the plus points of having a Microsoft account outweigh the negative. Lets be honest, the negatives are all really privacy concerns and in this day and age they are out of the window (no pun intended) anyway. There are few things you can get that is effectively free that isn’t using you as the product and increasingly things you pay for too.

The biggest advantage is having a data backup via One Drive. So many people just do not backup anything even after having a data loss at some time. The online versions of Office are more than up to the job for the needs of most people – I use them myself as part of O365 – as is the Windows mail app.

If you want anything more than a “consumer” experience you need Pro, which is easy enough and cheap enough to get hold of these days.

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No it won’t keep rolling over just like that, there are end dates. The first was the article 50 timeout which we got an extension for, then another extension recently. Temporary emergency provisions had been put in place by the EU to keep things like planes flying if there were no deal. Note by the EU because as a 3rd party country we don’t get to decide if our planes can use their airspace, they do.

IF the latest deal gets through Parliament the transition period agreed was 12 months. If Boris hasn’t got his all encompassing Free Trade deal by then it’s No Deal time, again. We will still be paying our dues in the transition period which Boris knows very well, that’s why the £1 billion for every month we delay is another lie (as is the sum mentioned). We will be paying it anyway, just like we will have to settle what we owe no matter what bluster you hear. If we don’t pay our debts and deliberately throw spanners in the works who is going to want to deal with us on decent terms?

Only if the Lib Dems get in will Brexit be settled quickly as it will be revoked. We have years and years of this in front of us, which again Boris knows very well. The further we move away from Europe the longer it will take and the worse the deal will be.

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No we won’t continue as we are until we get some new deals, there is a transition period and that expires. After that it’s No Deal and all the pain that goes with it if nothing has been sorted.

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Like “the North” I seriously doubt they will be voting Conservative. They have seen what years of Tory rule has brought and none of it has been in their favour. I don’t think they share your view of Labour’s proposals either. Whether you are right or wrong is neither here nor there, they have been promised reforms in things like the rental market and affordable housing and bugger all happens. They see the state of education and the NHS, I had a begging letter from Bristol Eye Hospital just today, and they want that sorted.

The young have a strong sense of “fairness” and they don’t see any of that in Tory policies. Above all they are extremely resentful of the generation that had it all and are now denying them a chance to have it too, the same generation that dismisses them as snowflakes. There’s a certain type of person they see as cheerleaders; Pale, Male and Stale and they see benches of them in Parliament and many “reasonable” people on the right packing it in. High profile women giving it up doubly so. The inflammatory language and dog whistling doesn’t go down well either.

We’ll see.

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You have a very old fashioned view of students. Rag week now is quite a serious fund raising activity not a piss up.

Students have massive debts to think of and are ripped off at every opportunity, especially accommodation. They are becoming very aware of what’s coming their way when their studies are over. They have seen what inaction brings.

Dismiss them at your peril.

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BIOSes tend to do that to be on the safe side. It’s still the BIOS that controls things on a temp vs rpm basis unless you load some software to take over.

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100% load on all cores, CPU and VRM get up to 68c and stay there. Just the Wraith and a 120mm exhaust.

100% load on GPU too and they creep up to 74c, the same as the GPU, but they all just stay there again. The two 120mm intakes, exhaust, CPU and GPU fans will all be at about 70% by then. It’s not silent but it’s not noisy and that’s on the bench. Under a desk you’ll never hear it.

The MSI Armor fans don’t seem to worry about gently letting the GPU temps rise, they cut in with a bang to keep the temps from getting too high but are quite happy not to cool further even though they have enough in reserve. The case and CPU fans are controlled by the motherboard on a fixed rpm vs temp curve.

It seems to work, but if they ever want to consider overclocking I’m going to say get an AIO liquid cooler.

 

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I didn’t see the debate last night, thankfully I was enjoying myself at Hawkwind 50th Anniversary Tour (where did that time go)?

Why did Boris ask Corbyn 9 times about his Brexit views? We all know he won’t answer so what’s the point in 9 times? Surely 3 would have been enough to play to his gallery? Seems like at least 6 missed opportunities to ask something else.

As for them masquerading to be Fact Check I think that smacks of desperation and Tory Boys thinking they’re such clever fellows. Like getting one past Nanny or some wizard wheeze at Prep. All the dirty tricks seem to be coming from the right.

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JCD, the age at which people start switching votes from Labour to Conservative increases all the time. Just look at the average age of a Conservative Party member – 57. By far the biggest age group is 66+

What do my kids have to lose? Not the house we did at their age. Very few of their friends have what we would have called a decent job despite being well educated.

They are sick of being dismissed as “millenials” and what happened in the Referendum has really stirred things up. They are registering in their hundreds of thousands and they are organising.

Class loyalties are going out of the window in the face of Brexit but if anyone thinks the Labour Brexiteers will be changing en masse, I can’t see it. Post Office IT was based in Chesterfield and I have a lot of friends in that area and see the chatter on their Facebook feeds. They still hate what the Conservatives did to the area with a passion, they may vote for the Brexit Party but not Boris. The Tories would do better standing down there but it seems their arrogance won’t allow it.

Boris’s antics may go down well with his core voters but they aren’t with the people he needs to win over to get a majority.

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Android is at the mercy of the OEMs, you’ll only get one major update out of them – if that.

Have to say Apple are much better in that respect, but you pay for it.

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My daughters Huawei has been in many a bumper case – fashion items – and seems to cope with the magnetic stub. The cases have to have a recces to cope with the plug head and the short length of the connection end.

I’ve just realised her phone is nearing it’s first birthday so something of a record. She either wrecks the screen or the USB socket. It’s also the first phone she hasn’t found something to complain about!

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