The new lot apparently changing cost from £2 to £1 to reduce barrier to purchase further still.
Brexit, for once some facts.
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That's my experience with AVG too, threw it out years ago.
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I'll wait to see what their prize policy is and whether it is still being controlled by the government. I'm betting it will be with defrauding the public continuing.
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I always disable Microsoft "Defender". I certainly don't trust Microsoft to keep my computer free from viruses, given that it provides the world's biggest viruses masquerading as (increasingly/intermittently incompetent) operating systems - between defender and the OS, Microsoft get the best of both worlds in the data slurpingstakes: detailed telemetry about what you use your computer for and absolutely every detail about what software you run on it, all in one swoop, with no need to aggregate and data mine like advertisers do.
When Macs were a tiny proportion of the market, both they and Linux (desktops) were not major targets for miscreants, now they are. In any case, I can't bring myself to buy computers without total upgradability - with the M1s, one is reducing scope of the future: RAM is set. I still regularly use computers 15 years old and older for some things, depite building brand new ones for heavy tasks. That being said, I'm curious about Macs to tinker with for music creation (Logic, ProTools), but it won't be an M1x, if ever I actually buy a Mac.
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GOOD NEWS!!!
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori on way to airport to leave Iran after release, lawyer says – live
Now we can watch Johnson et al. claiming credit for achieving this. And shout liar and other suitable words at our radios, TVs and computer screens. Or just randomly, Tourette's-style, as we go about our business.
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori on way to airport to leave Iran after release, lawyer says – live
Now we can watch Johnson et al. claiming credit for achieving this. And shout liar and other suitable words at our radios, TVs and computer screens. Or just randomly, Tourette's-style, as we go about our business.
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Somebody asked which trials bike I, d hired. One of these, a 2022 version... Almost identical tho. About 10kg heavier than my last trials bike (Gasgas txt) but suspect I, d already be better on ebike.. Its strange, crazy amount of power but in soft setting it just never lost traction.. Anywhere?? (and its anything but soft, lad renting them out called it soft)
I, d confirm reviewers only down side... I really missed engine braking.. Perhaps not so much going down hill, the obvious one, where you simply used brakes a bit, I missed engine after completing a climb, seems natural way I ride to over do climb a bit but then shut off at summit, engine brings you back into control. Once or twice I did that and overshot summit, you shut off when there and it just keeps going.. But that's only more practice needed.
I do suspect after talking to much better riders than me that they will be looking into building "engine braking" into the bikes. When it's not there its surprising how much you use it. I, m sure it could be incorporated...
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It was Johnson's ill judged words some while ago which threatened to prolongue Nazanin's detention.
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I'm not convinced Microsoft find out anything extra by allowing Defender to run.
We have always had limits on upgradability. Number of slots for RAM and spec. it will take. (I have been in the position of seemingly having the option to increase RAM but no suitable DIMMs being available for purchase.) Socket design for processor. Etc.
If there were one or two processor slots and we could switch Intel to AMD, or whatever, I'd be far more likely to agree.
I was considering upgrading my desktop PC, but realised that the graphics card options just do not exist. There is nothing that is both compatible and significantly higher spec.
My M1 MacBook Pro has sufficient memory, processor speed, and storage for everything I'd ever choose to do on a laptop. Runs nice and cool. Decent battery life. Nice screen. It is close to the point at which any increase in performance would make little to no difference - instant is fast enough. (That's how it feels - even if a stopwatch would reveal otherwise.)
Impressive. Where I used to live, we'd hear motor bikes being used a few times a year - never did find out where! But the reduction in noise will be most welcome to those in the area.
There was also some closed biking facility near the motorway. Amazingly, at times you could smell the place from inside a car driving up the motorway. And a pall of exhaust was often visible.
I'm surprised that you couldn't find a suitable graphics card upgrade: ebay? Unless you already had the highest spec possible for the time, there's always a better graphics card out there somewhere.
Although I celebrate happy new purchases... wait till Apple starts filling up your new Mac with new OSs in the coming years, or otherwise progressively make it slow and redudant to force expensive repeat business, as they do for iphones.
It wasn't a matter of locating a specific card, but the limitations of the machine/mobo. I might have been able to get a slightly faster setup, but not enough to warrant cost and effort.
Partner has just updated Monterey on her old MacBook Pro (I think it is from 2015). Still works fine.
The phones issue has been argued at length. I'd certainly rather they implemented their controlled degradation than sudden failure. But they should have made it clear and explained to all.
Server tech makes for more future-proof PCs (apart from real-time graphics). Supermicro make/made some amazing boards - a couple of years ago, Hans Zimmer's music PC had 384TB of RAM, probably increased since. It was a sad day when my dual socket PIII 866 Supermicro motherboard died... for the time, that setup never skipped a beat no matter what I threw at it.
Yep, can be unpleasant, but think I, ll miss the smell, noise and clatter of bike engines at a meeting. I know it's not PC anymore but the old smell of castrol R, the blue haze and breakdowns are all part of the spectacle. It's a bit sterile and unemotional with ebikes. Different. Another kind of experience really.
Yep, I think e-power could kill motor racing eventually. About as exciting as watching an airliner passing at 4000 ft in a stack waiting to land.
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I'm an irrational Apple hater, but I'm restraining myself from launcing into a tirade, because you're obviously happy with your new Mac -Steve Jobs ruined the internet.
I'd offer to search for upgrades if you PM me details of your motherboard etc. but you're right, it's probably not worth the money and effort, and you're best off giving it to a charity. Old machines are still useful for education somewhere, just not for whizzbang multimedia.
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That's just the job for managing stairs at railway stations! Wish my Bafang bbs01b could do that.
I did run a number of caravans for a decade.... But getting ahead of ourselves here. If one is using a cigarette lighter connected invertor , one is llimited to 120 watts .. just enough for a TV . Anything larger and that includes the 1 Kw jobs needs cross battery clips . Now it would be foolish to even run them for anywhile without the motor running, car batteries have very little endurance. If I were serious about the business, I also would be running a 2 or 3 Kw inverter, and very conscious that the efficiency loss would probably around 100 watts. ..To get anywhere above 90% peak power efficiency is unusual
That's commendably humanitarian of you!
I'm interested in this as well but don't really know anything about it, how it works etc.
What is it that happens? I imagine you might have done this type of thing in the past??