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Brendan Rodgers posted:I've talked to them a few times when I'm in the park at night, and it's fascinating, they care about what is happening, they are very motivated to try to protect the hedgehogs, but their ideological framework renders them incapable of understanding the situation I mean, they probably understand it. They just can't/aren't willing to accept it (or the tradeoffs involved) being the reality, hoping that they are right and things will somehow get better.
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Hello everyone. I'm wondering if anyone can help me. I think it was this thread but I remember a little while back we were talking about a goon who can can get discounted Microsoft Office codes for others. I don't remember the details sadly, but we've recently got a new PC here as my office was selling its surplus and if anyone can point me to the right goon that would be great.
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https://twitter.com/chai_ste/status/1711515560104640983 I love how there is still so much mistrust in the official narrative. The article is actually fairly ok, but the clickbaity headline had be lol'ing fuctifino fucked around with this message at 02:16 on Oct 10, 2023 |
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PriorMarcus posted:Hello everyone. I'm wondering if anyone can help me. I think it was this thread but I remember a little while back we were talking about a goon who can can get discounted Microsoft Office codes for others. I don't remember the details sadly, but we've recently got a new PC here as my office was selling its surplus and if anyone can point me to the right goon that would be great. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3898368&pagenumber=119&perpage=40 Here you go.
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fuctifino posted:https://twitter.com/SaulStaniforth/status/1711450040911143341 So many weird pauses in her answer, is she being fed it through an earpiece?
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sebzilla posted:So many weird pauses in her answer, is she being fed it through an earpiece? “Barack Obama is a good orator, and he pauses a lot, maybe if I just insert random pauses in my speech, people will think I’m good too!”
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Her brain only works so fast and it's a topic fraught with minefields. Doesn't want to say something that will get her turned on or sued. I think I would just not go on the telly.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Her brain only works so fast and it's a topic fraught with minefields. Doesn't want to say something that will get her turned on or sued. I think I would just not go on the telly. You at least have the sense and the moral standards to not be a politician.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Well I've restarted and rebooted several times, switched the Windows Defender notification icon back on, scanned & rescanned with two different antivirus programmes, and it's working fine I strongly recommend grabbing a refurbished Thinkpad off of eBay. Business laptops are far better built than consumer laptops and will be far more durable and reliable as it gets older, and Thinkpads are the best of the lot. I got this machine a few weeks ago for £162 including 48 hour delivery and a 1 year RTB warranty.  It’s got an Intel i5 8350u, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, Windows 11 Pro and the 1080p IPS screen. It’s 5 years old and still has 90% battery health, so with typical use gets about 6-7 hours on the battery. Newer and larger machines are around £200-300 and will be leagues ahead of any consumer laptop for the same price point.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3898368&pagenumber=119&perpage=40 andyf posted:ooh handy, was going to link https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3768345 but nice to see there's more than one option Thank you both!
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Lord Ludikrous posted:I strongly recommend grabbing a refurbished Thinkpad off of eBay. Business laptops are far better built than consumer laptops and will be far more durable and reliable as it gets older, and Thinkpads are the best of the lot. I will die before I use a Thinkpad with Fn where Ctrl should be. and yes I know you can switch that in the bios
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Necrothatcher posted:I will die before I use a Thinkpad with Fn where Ctrl should be. I actually switched my other laptop to do it the ThinkPad way 
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https://twitter.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1711654447376478570 Who's excited for Keith's speech?
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For older folks if they're more a content consumer than creator an iPad (with a little Bluetooth keyboard if needed) is ideal for staving off tech worries, they are very hard to break software-wise - since I junked mothers old laptop and bought her a new iPad I have had to do 99% less home support computer janitoring, absolutely worth the outlay from my pocket. (iPads can be used for writing / spreadsheets / art of course, but I still find them just a little clunky compared to a proper computer)
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Lord Ludikrous posted:I strongly recommend grabbing a refurbished Thinkpad off of eBay. Business laptops are far better built than consumer laptops and will be far more durable and reliable as it gets older, and Thinkpads are the best of the lot. Still rocking a t420 and it's entirely needs suiting. ThinkPads also have the bonus of being somewhat serviceable. You can open em up and swap poo poo out fairly easily. HDD held in with 1 screw, so you don't even have to open the laptop to replace it, and you can swap out the DVD drive for a 2nd drive without any tools (just need the adapter)
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Necrothatcher posted:I will die before I use a Thinkpad with Fn where Ctrl should be. Thinkpad way is much comfier if you are a keyboard shortcut manaic.
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I just bought myself a tasty Thinkbook (I wanted a new machine not a refurb and Thinkpads were a bit too expensive). I hadn't realized that touchscreen laptops are on the way out (being 7-8 years since I last bought a laptop) so that confused me a bit as I got used to the touch screen on my other laptop. For mum, I'll just stick to a basic Windows machine bearing in mind sometimes my sister (no expert at all in IT) will be trying to sort mum's problems out if I'm away or whatever. All she needs to be able to do is get her email, write a few reports for church or whatever for local newsletters (she uses one of the 'open office' softwares for that) and do as little internet buying (mostly coach tickets) /bill paying as possible these days though she does do some. She has some eyesight difficulties and also a problem with her hand which if she tries to get the cursor in the little 'accept the t&cs' boxes she finds it very difficult as her goes into some sort of wobbly spasm and the mouse is shooting all over the place.
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fuctifino posted:https://twitter.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1711654447376478570 The saddest croissant I've ever seen.
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Honestly for this sort of stuff I just install Linux Mint or one of the specifically-designed low power Linux distros intended for use on computers with a Pentium 3 and 512mb of RAM. For the average older home computer user as long as you can teach them where the internet browser lives and optionally the calculator and Office-style apps, that’s all they’ll need, and there’s no chance of them ruining their system by downloading not-a-virus.exe. Of course things like phishing or social engineering still exist, and malware toolbars/search hijackers/etc are a risk. I wonder if you can lock browser customisation down to admin-only or something, and not give her the admin password? Speaking of social engineering, I keep getting sales calls from Virgin Media (who I am already with) and they call me, tell me they’re from Virgin and then ask to go through the security questions. How does a company the size of Virgin Media not realise that this is literally not possible to differentiate from a scam call? It’s just training people to give out memorable words and mother’s maiden names to whoever the gently caress rings you up.
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You could install Siverblue or some other immutable linux, give them user only access, and any time they do gently caress it up just flash it back to a previous snapshot.
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NoneMoreNegative posted:For older folks if they're more a content consumer than creator an iPad (with a little Bluetooth keyboard if needed) is ideal for staving off tech worries, they are very hard to break software-wise - since I junked mothers old laptop and bought her a new iPad I have had to do 99% less home support computer janitoring, absolutely worth the outlay from my pocket. All my mum can do on an ipad is facetime. Everything requiring writing on screen or mousepad throws her hand into the wobbly thing I mentioned in the post above. Personally, I can't imagine doing 'proper' work on an ipad (apart from not allowing iThingies into the house),
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Communist Bear posted:The saddest croissant I've ever seen.
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Surprise T Rex posted:Speaking of social engineering, I keep getting sales calls from Virgin Media (who I am already with) and they call me, tell me they’re from Virgin and then ask to go through the security questions. How does a company the size of Virgin Media not realise that this is literally not possible to differentiate from a scam call? It’s just training people to give out memorable words and mother’s maiden names to whoever the gently caress rings you up. The DWP does this too, calls from a private number and demands my full name, address, and national insurance number. They get upset if you tell them "I'll call you back on the number I have on my paperwork" so it's only a matter of time I fall for a scam this way.
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fuctifino posted:https://twitter.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1711654447376478570 Utah teapot.
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domhal posted:Utah teapot. Is that one of those obscure/fake sex positions?
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Is it that bad when a horrible right wing grifter grifts 10s of thousands off of other horrible right wing idiots? Seems like the impact is neutral at worst.
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I'm fine with idiots being scammed. I find it funny that these grifters do it so blatantly these days and have absolutely no repercussions. My guess is he's going to move back to the US and abandon his fake pope gig In other news, this lol just appeared on my timeline: https://twitter.com/FraserNelson/status/1711654515500314666 The Centre for Social Justice is the right wing think tank founded by Iain Duncan Smith among others https://twitter.com/stuwyatt/status/1711687211337331066 fuctifino fucked around with this message at 11:17 on Oct 10, 2023 |
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https://twitter.com/charlesbamford/status/1711402081582563693?s=20 Reporting everyone in this thread to Prevent for being extremists with grievance based politics
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:All my mum can do on an ipad is facetime. Everything requiring writing on screen or mousepad throws her hand into the wobbly thing I mentioned in the post above. I wonder if ur mum's wobbly hand* would be helped by one of the ergonomic meece like the Microsoft sculpt? Feels much more natural/stable for me. *(good username there)
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My racist state brutality is based on legitimate concerns, your struggle for housing and food is based on a grievance narrative
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