Always been a bloke in the pub or car boot or whatever that can supply hooky dvds or games or hacked satellite, FAST always talks tough about busting them.

Early eights it was disk and tape trading, mostly tape trading in the UK. Was a way more social activity.

Late 80s and early 90s, it was all disk, and you really needed a connected friend who could get the menu disks (custom pirated compilation disks). These were often super hoarded, only traded for a lot of games, like certain private trackers today.

Very early web stuff was all usenet and ftp servers, often hosted at a university. If you knew where to look, anything was accessible.

Early 2000s was a golden period of easy access. It would be slow, and the quality would often be low if it was a video or mp3. It’s gotten harder to find the obscure stuff as time has gone on. I

t’s like the scene only remembers out and out classics or the latest thing outside of some niche places.

I use powershell for work as I need the m365 modules for work and its very flexible with decent module availability to plug in all sorts.

However it absolutely sucks for large data handling, anything over 10k rows is just horrendous, I typically work with a few million rows. You can make it work with using .Net to process it within your script but its something to be aware of. Being able to extend with .Net can be extremely useful.

What should happen is that pension credit boundaries are raised to cover more pensioners as those at the bottom of the state pension pot are still poor, this can be more than funded by dropping triple lock. I still want to see the top 10% of pensioners who qualify for higher rate income tax see their state pension dropped ASAP., another sizable chunk of money.

The good thing about pension credit is that it looks at all aspects of your finances, so it should spot and exclude those who don’t actually need the money who are at the threshold of state pension.

Everything Dies by Spirted Adrift, its a cover of the Type O Negative song

It’s a decent machine for the money but compared to its competitors from gaggia and rancilio what they lose in fancy programming or the pid or the easy steaming (which is still way off mine) they gain in actually having an opv (depending which one you have), build quality and self service.

I’ve seen far too many people have issues with breville stuff and then problems returning it. It’s not that good ones don’t exist it’s just that more reliable does.

To put your seven years into perspective I should be getting 30 to 40 years out of mine with some regular servicing.

They nice machines but I wanted more consistent with its pressure and water flow, better steaming, not made by breville,and made with industry standard components that can last decades.

No, its a smart thing switch as I have the hub, so its z wave. However I have a lot of smart home switches, lights and so on so that makes sense for me. Plenty of options if you do not want a hub now.

The espresso machine has a proper on off button so I just leave it in on position and the switch turns the power on and off

Majority of any e61 espresso machine is like that, pretty much par for the course for anything other than budget non e61 or some of the new high end espresso machines that use some variation of electrically heated groups.

Mine will be “ready” after about 15 minutes but as an e61 group head is a heavy block it takes along time to get good thermal stability. Difference is I can steam and extract shots at the same time with 2bar steam and 9bar espresso, shot after shot.

My espresso machine has a proper on/off switch, so I just leave that set to on and control the power from the smart switch.

A smart switch for my espresso machine so it turns on a timer each morning so it’s ready for when I get up, it takes about 25 minutes to fully warm up. Also I can turn it on or off using voice controls, great when I want another coffee later in the day.

I love mine, if for nothing more than making my porridge on a timer so it’s ready for when I get up in the morning

Servers I run Debian, I do not want flashy I just want stable and tested security fixes.

I could not hack being that far behind for my desktop OS however (which I run on three different devices), so I run Ubuntu, which I remove as much Ubuntu and Gnome baggage as possible such as snaps and by running Sway.

I should really swap to a different distro that also has Debian as its root but without the stuff I don’t want and Sway by default. However I also want stuff to be simple and up to date, as I make my money on my desktop PCs, I cannot afford for it to be a PITA every time I try to install patches.

I do have one PC running arch, but its mostly for the memes (and for PIKVM)

I did used to be Red Hat through and through. I started with Linux back in 98 using Red Hat CD ROMs, but I left for Debian over some previous controversy that I do not remember now, years before the Centos stuff.

Ha, love the audio tell of the resource stealing

One of my favourite wars was to open audio files on other people’s SPARCs, somebody had the loudest bag pipe music that usually ended things.

Access to the SPARCs was normally restricted to third year but if you knew the right person you could get an account created pretty easily. Had the fastest access to the internet at the time within the uni as well.

For me all doubt was removed by her final tweet as HS on the Sunday evening. I think up till that point RIshi was still dithering over sacking her, as he is so weak.

Its possible but in that situation I can see the Torys splitting if they lost that bad into two parties, center right and far right. Its already long over due and they were very lucky that Brexit didn’t result in the split.

Having to rebuild from being the 3rd or even 4th largest party would absolutely decimate their candidate pool of credible candidates and by the next GE they will have lost a significant amount of members due to age. It would be a similar task to the rebuilding of Labour under Smith/Blair but without the union support to build on.

Reform need the legitimacy and credibility that the Torys give them, I am just doubtful that when push comes to shove that they would risk killing that.

Reform will be nothing but a vote spoiler vast majority of places they do stand. A party for disgruntled Torys to vote for who otherwise wouldn’t bother voting next GE as they would never vote Labour or Lib Dem.

If they do stand in Blue Wall seats I will be very surprised as they will cost Torys seats they would have retained, even now, and help counter act the drag on results in those seats when both Labour and Lib Dem stand. Uxbridge was winnable if the Lib Dems or Greens didn’t stand, for example, even though both of them had a pathetic amount of votes. We need less Jo Swinson “I can win the GE to become PM” and more pragmatic about where to focus.

Reform will be looking to be paid off by the Torys, and will only stand in Red Wall seats that they can act as a spoiler against Labour. Their main job is to drag the Torys to the right as much as possible since they caught the dog with Brexit.

With a bit of luck this will split the party, hard right to reform, rest to stay

It used to be able to do it via an experimental feature, then they took that feature away. https://www.dignited.com/114084/how-to-relocate-the-chrome-address-bar-on-your-android-device/

It smacks of some VP of product development hating on the concept, despite it being optional, and wont back down over the decision. Most likely they used the navigation buttons on the bottom and this caused their great big sausage fingers a problem.