FerretFred

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by FerretFred 11mo ago
Does Windows Backup still exist? I was never really aware of (m)any people using it, and it's definitely not a revenue generator. Someone please emlughten me?
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by FerretFred 11mo ago
I can only speak for the UK but for quite a while now, McD's has become an uninviting experience, with miserable staff, menu screens that visibly tell you to hurry the f*k up and choose the product. Not to mention customers vying with
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by FerretFred 11mo ago
Yeah, maybe not cure them as such, maybe just get them to a healthy-enough state to go back to functioning but still needing The Medication.
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by FerretFred 11mo ago
Interesting .. I shall try this out as a VM in my Mac Airbook before I plunge headlong into making a purpose-built device.
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by FerretFred 1y ago
Having watched rather a lot of disaster movies recently, I can't help wondering if, with so many data centers in one area, whether there's been any extra spending on defense? Imagine the chaos if a hostile element decided to take
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by FerretFred 1y ago
> Are these hacks unavoidable, or are they indicative of shoddy IT on the victim's side? That's a really good question and one that I've asked (myself) many times. What I can't understand is that on one side you have
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by FerretFred 1y ago
F-Droid apps have enabled me to more-or-less DeGoogle my tablet and populate the device with some truly exceptional software, much of which just isn't available on Google's Play Store. I've also made sure to pay/donate
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by FerretFred 1y ago
Yeah! He didn't want to appear rude by just walking out, so he stayed it's been all over the local TV News - he looks a tall guy so yes, he'd definitely be noticed making a sneaky exit!
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by FerretFred 1y ago
Gods forbid that these four men might have been best qualified for the job, or are we reducing suitability to box-ticking again?
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by FerretFred 1y ago
I went through a phase a couple of years ago where I was setting up my Linux Thinkpad T480 with every accessory I could find. My heart leapt with joy when I found an affordable USB-modem dongle and was excited to try it out. TBH the only se
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by FerretFred 1y ago
Great evaluation by the (UK) BBC Evening News: basically, "it's faster, gives better answers (no detail), has a better query input (text) box, and hallucinates less". Jeez...
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by FerretFred 1y ago
Yes, and this is one reason why we (Brits) have resisted Government ID cards for so long.
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by FerretFred 1y ago
I'm not! I know how easy it is to "discover" porn, but if sites adopted the RTA labelling system ( https://rtalabel.net/?content=howto ) and browsers obeyed that would go a long way to preventing those "ac
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by FerretFred 1y ago
For me personally, I agree that wanting non-adults to be able get at online porn is commendable, and the fact that the tech industry is scrambling over itself to comply is evidence that this Act has teeth. However, what bugs me personally i
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by FerretFred 1y ago
Bl*dy autocorrect! Ironically, my commandline skills may yet save me :)
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by FerretFred 1y ago
I'm sure this is what they said about the UK Inline Safety Act (2023) but guess what, it's here, and live.
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by FerretFred 1y ago
Same here. I got so tired of fighting "the system" that wanted to manage everything, and post-updates meant mire wasted time switching off bloat/features I didn't need.
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by FerretFred 1y ago
It is an incredible breakthrough and if it prevents disease then all well and good, but are our Administrative Systems set up to handle such an arrangement?
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by FerretFred 1y ago
>So yeah. They’re off by 50%. Ah, that'll be the allowance for inflation/devaluation.
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by FerretFred 1y ago
> fake buffering is 80% of the length of the ads I run Brave on multiple devices and there's now a "glitch" a few seconds after what wouod be the ads, starts. I put up with this because the alternative is to put up with ad
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by FerretFred 1y ago
Very nice! I compiled this from source on my Lenovo M8 4h gen running termux: I only had to install nim. It even installed nicely despite there being no "root" user.
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by FerretFred 1y ago
It is, but if you're in a hurry and not bothered about the consequences just nip down to your local store and get one off the shelf.
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by FerretFred 1y ago
Maybe this is one reason why in the US and latterly in the UK, the authorities are scrambling to introduce remote ID for drones with 249gm flying weight upwards: this includes operator/pilot ID. No doubt there'll eventually be som
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by FerretFred 1y ago
Ah! I recognise that case - did you buy up the latter remaining iPod Shuffles? I'll have look!
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by FerretFred 1y ago
Maybe AI could do that ?
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by FerretFred 1y ago
I was going to ask what (a) Gnossienne is, but "a completely new and made up word, in this case, "gnossienne."
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by FerretFred 1y ago
Satie's my favourite composer so I was pleased to read this article. If I had to compare him with another composer (and if it was possible), I'd say Basil Kirchin ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Kirchin
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by FerretFred 1y ago
Based on pure guesswork I'd say that you higher up the person, the less the rules apply.
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by FerretFred 1y ago
I've set up IIAB and tried Kiwix as well. I used a Pi Zero 2 and as it's only me using it, I found the user experience was good, although given the Zero's power, not high-speed. I managed to gain enough knowledge to create my
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by FerretFred 1y ago
That's already an option on IIAB.

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