Not a replicant

much better than anyone before him within the last few hundred years

John XXIII was pretty progressive, wouldn’t you think?

Looks like Australia will profit. We have a lot of lithium, and some of the others, china’s been undercutting the price for a while.

Panasonic, or some of the European brands are good. Or you buy the largest 4K computer monitor that can afford.

They’re designed and built to run 16/7 or similar. If you have TV on 16 hours a day, a commercial display is worth considering.

No, I’m not joking - I’ve seen folk who turn it on at sunrise, and off at bedtime.

I’ve got a few computers - my daily driver is Win10, there’s a media player still on 8.1 (only accesses music streams and it’s not spotify, it’s URLs like https://das-edge15-live365-dal02.cdnstream.com/a98345), the main pihole machine runs vanilla Debian, the backup pihole on a Raspberry Pi also running Debian, and a couple of older laptops also running Debian.

So no, I don’t plan to upgrade.

That’s all well and good, what happens to your kids when they can’t tick the Windows and MSOffice boxes on job applications?

I’m not having a go at you, I’ll assume you’ve taught your kids how to approach the new and unknown in the IT fields, but if they have limited or zero experience with Microsoft products, they’ll be at a disadvantage.

I’ve still got a windows XP computer that I fire up once in a while for the LOLs. it continues to remind me that support ended in 2014, but it keeps working.

I also have a Windows 8.1 tablet that continues to work, and receive Windows Defender updates.

They won’t disable anything, stop spreading FUD, that’s Microsoft’s job.

Microsoft will sell it as a safety thing - your essential stuff is backed up to your Microsoft account, so in the event that your computer is compromised or damaged, you can wipe and start over with your important stuff restored from your Microsoft account.

Which is not a bad idea in itself, but the rest of the data harvesting and telemetry makes it yuck. I use pihole to block access to Microsoft telemetry servers.

What, as a delimiter? Even some FOSS software uses spaces.

Yes, that works, too.

You know, if you copied those three lines into a text file, then saved it as bypassnro.cmd, you’ll have solved that problem.

I put this in another thread: It’s not a big deal. They’re removing the bypassnro.cmd script, which is just this:

@echo off

reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OOBE /v BypassNRO /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f

shutdown /r /t 0

You can still use shift-F10 at the same point, type those two lines (not the @ECHO OFF), and it will achieve the same result.

It’s not a big deal. They’re removing the bypassnro.cmd script, which is just this:

@echo off

reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OOBE /v BypassNRO /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f

shutdown /r /t 0

You can still use shift-F10 at the same point, type those two lines (not the @ECHO OFF), and it will achieve the same result.

Well, if I’ve got no way to bypass it (when setting up for customers), I’ll create an account specifically for this purpose.

And proceed to poison the hell out of any data it sends.

Does it still let you sign in locally if you disable network interfaces in BIOS?

The Australian Bureau of Meteorology is still up and running

www.bom.gov.au

Ignore the “NOT A HTTPS” website, it’s getting there.

Latest forecast track map for Alfred has it making a sharp turn on Tuesday and landfall on Thursday.

http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDQ65002.shtml http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/wrap_fwo.pl?IDQ20065.txt

Yes, I know it’s not https, they’re working on it.

Aussie Dollar? 😜

Can someone get Lord Sugar drunk and have him express a similar view about the US?

“err, hic the unites, uniting, united states should separism, seapar, separate the head of state role from the, ,uhh, head of government. They can have gonger, er, congress appoint a cereminimum, er ceremonial head of state with reserve powers to dissolve congress… burp”

That’s far too subtle to even register on Trump’s feeble brain cell.

Mac users really struggle to understand the concept of

For me, it was trying to explain to a Mac user that she should have a separate profile on her Mac for work vs. personal

She’d convinced her employer that she could work from home using her own Mac (the office was all Macs except for the video production suite), and he said OK. Didn’t ask me, of course. Despite me saying a long time ago when someone else floated the idea, that it was poor practice from a security viewpoint.

Then three days later the call came - “I can’t access work files”. So I remote in, she’s got links to her personal iCloud Drive directories somehow mixed up with the work Google Drive.

I started to explain about using a different profile for work and just got a blank stare.

“You log off your personal profile and log into the work profile”

“How do I do that?”