existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Sometimes, I do. But mostly I just click "Accept All" like the lazy bastard that I truly am.
The lonely tech post thread.
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Throbbing Angel
this is no longer a place of honour
Yes. But I let my browser do it for me automagically and just switch 'on' those I want/need, like Urban, my email etc, blah
Brave and DuckDuckGo for the win.
Which brings me to a question (see below).
Throbbing Angel
this is no longer a place of honour
Blocking ads with DNS (via DNS)
How does that work? Will it defeat fucking YouTube adverts?
eg: AdGuard DNS — ad-blocking DNS server
Brave does a great job on my macbook but I use the YTube app on my iPad and it is full of fucking adverts every 2 minutes, innit.
How does that work? Will it defeat fucking YouTube adverts?
eg: AdGuard DNS — ad-blocking DNS server
Brave does a great job on my macbook but I use the YTube app on my iPad and it is full of fucking adverts every 2 minutes, innit.
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
I do it on every website, every time. The law is supposed to be changing, so you only have to do it one time, but I'm not holding my breath.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
You have to accept them on every visit too though
Nivag
Well-Known Member
I just click the nearest button
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
No or at least I've not found one that does.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
On the desktop the software rejects them automatically but happily do it manually on the phone. They can sod off with their cookies.
Throbbing Angel
this is no longer a place of honour
Is there a simple/cheap way to just buy Microsft Word? (or Office with it bundled, I know you can't buy Word alone really)
For an older friend who can't be fucked with and has no interest in subscription models.
It doesn't have to be the most up to date version.
I can see Office 2019 on Amazon for £29.99 which doesn't feel legit somehow.
He doesn't need Microsoft 365, cloud storage, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook etc.
He doesn't want to use the free, web version of Word only (in case he needs to write somewhere without web access).
Nor does he want to pay £120 for MICROSOFT Office Home & Student 2021 - Lifetime for 1 user from Currys/similar.
No he can't cope with Libre Office or similar, because:change.
So - cheap versions? Bent versions? How? Where? What?
For an older friend who can't be fucked with and has no interest in subscription models.
It doesn't have to be the most up to date version.
I can see Office 2019 on Amazon for £29.99 which doesn't feel legit somehow.
He doesn't need Microsoft 365, cloud storage, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook etc.
He doesn't want to use the free, web version of Word only (in case he needs to write somewhere without web access).
Nor does he want to pay £120 for MICROSOFT Office Home & Student 2021 - Lifetime for 1 user from Currys/similar.
No he can't cope with Libre Office or similar, because:change.
So - cheap versions? Bent versions? How? Where? What?
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
Those less then legit versions. You don't even need to pay that much. Microsoft price the perpetual licenses in such a way you get a subscription.
Throbbing Angel
this is no longer a place of honour
Wut?
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
do we even need Word? 
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
Looks like home users can buy another 12 months support for Win 10 for $30 if they don't want to buy new hardware just yet or can't be arswd with running 11 with work rounds that might stop working.
www.bleepingcomputer.com
Microsoft wants $30 if you want to delay Windows 11 switch
Microsoft announced today that Windows 10 home users can delay the switch to Windows 11 for one more year if they're willing to pay $30 for Extended Security Updates (ESU).
Throbbing Angel
this is no longer a place of honour
'we'? 'need'?do we even need Word?
I know I don't care any longer. Use it at work. Use it at home. Also use Google Docs. Also use Pages. And Notepad. Etc...
Him? Yes. Well, wants, dunno about need.
He's 70+ and can't be fucked learning anything else or with things changing.
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
This is me.'we'? 'need'?
I know I don't care any longer. Use it at work. Use it at home. Also use Google Docs. Also use Pages. And Notepad. Etc...
Him? Yes. Well, wants, dunno about need.
He's 70+ and can't be fucked learning anything else or with things changing.
I've had dodgy copies of Office for the guts of 30 years. I'm not learning how to hack something new at this stage
Elpenor
a clown’s heart and a mandolin
It was around July when Openreach did the work to put fibre into the road
Ordered my fibre from EE late August. A lot of waiting.
A month later someone came along to survey and sprayed the grass to mark where to dig. Presumably took some pictures as it rained the next day.
We then waited an age for the caaaaancil (I think) to approve digging up the pavement
Yesterday 3 chaps from Openreach came to dig a trench in my garden for the cable; this involved a digger, lots of noisy drills, holes in the pavement etc. so now there is a pipe which runs from the street exchange to just outside my house. There’s a bit of rope coming out of the pipe which I assume is something to do with the next step… they did a very good job, you can’t tell there was a 45cm trench in the garden, soil excavated and put onto boards, the turf was reinstated, the only evidence is a slight track from the digger which will go in time
The next step is that it will be installed finally in early January when someone else will come along and connect the pipe into the house. I reckon around 130 days in total.
It’s struck me that this is a lot of work for one connection to a single property, and of course none of this has cost me anything so I’m not really bothered about the length of time.
There are about 100 houses in the street. Plenty of people won’t even know it’s happening, perhaps some aren’t even online at all, some won’t want to do it as it’s new and uncertain, or will have ignored the letters from BT / EE etc about fibre, some won’t be able to afford it at present. I also reckon a lot of people think you have to pay for the connection work.
So potentially this pattern will be repeated many times in the same street. Maybe they’ll be back to do another house in the street next month, maybe not. They can’t force people onto fibre I suppose but equally it feels very wasteful!
Surely it would have been more efficient to just do it one job lot when the road was upgraded to fibre, and connect every house whether you like it or not. I assume that happens for new build estates?
Edit - today they have put tarmac on the mot type 1, and the pavement has been reinstated
And they are now doing the digging up for someone over the road so maybe it’s more joined up than I first thought
Ordered my fibre from EE late August. A lot of waiting.
A month later someone came along to survey and sprayed the grass to mark where to dig. Presumably took some pictures as it rained the next day.
We then waited an age for the caaaaancil (I think) to approve digging up the pavement
Yesterday 3 chaps from Openreach came to dig a trench in my garden for the cable; this involved a digger, lots of noisy drills, holes in the pavement etc. so now there is a pipe which runs from the street exchange to just outside my house. There’s a bit of rope coming out of the pipe which I assume is something to do with the next step… they did a very good job, you can’t tell there was a 45cm trench in the garden, soil excavated and put onto boards, the turf was reinstated, the only evidence is a slight track from the digger which will go in time
The next step is that it will be installed finally in early January when someone else will come along and connect the pipe into the house. I reckon around 130 days in total.
It’s struck me that this is a lot of work for one connection to a single property, and of course none of this has cost me anything so I’m not really bothered about the length of time.
There are about 100 houses in the street. Plenty of people won’t even know it’s happening, perhaps some aren’t even online at all, some won’t want to do it as it’s new and uncertain, or will have ignored the letters from BT / EE etc about fibre, some won’t be able to afford it at present. I also reckon a lot of people think you have to pay for the connection work.
So potentially this pattern will be repeated many times in the same street. Maybe they’ll be back to do another house in the street next month, maybe not. They can’t force people onto fibre I suppose but equally it feels very wasteful!
Surely it would have been more efficient to just do it one job lot when the road was upgraded to fibre, and connect every house whether you like it or not. I assume that happens for new build estates?
Edit - today they have put tarmac on the mot type 1, and the pavement has been reinstated
And they are now doing the digging up for someone over the road so maybe it’s more joined up than I first thought
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RoyReed
Must fly!
I'm still using a copy of Office 2007 a client gave me when they wanted me to design some page templates for them.'we'? 'need'?
I know I don't care any longer. Use it at work. Use it at home. Also use Google Docs. Also use Pages. And Notepad. Etc...
Him? Yes. Well, wants, dunno about need.
He's 70+ and can't be fucked learning anything else or with things changing.
When we did our book on London Ghost Signs we used Goolge Docs as it was the easiest way the share the document and add notes.
If I could get it to run on Win11 I'd still be using my old copy of WordPerfect from (I think) 1998.
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
Open Source always works so well until it doesn't.
Signed into work to find internal server emails weren't going out. The mail exchange couldn't virus scan the emails, so rejected them by default.
Turns out clamav was updated this morning. Interesting. More interesting that it's not answering on port 3310 like it should.
So disable AV for the moment to let email get going out. This MX is used only by internal servers, so AV is a last defense against a compromised server sending out bogus bullshit. No big deal to turn it off for a few hours while I work; it doesn't affect user emails.
Find when I manually feed my config file to clamd, it works. That gives me something to research, at least. I finally find a note from the Debian 12 (we're running 11) mailing list that clamav now has two configuration files where it used to have one. Apparently this was backported last night without warning. The new configuration file is, of course, the default because there wasn't anything there before. It's clobbering my settings in the clamd.conf file because clam takes the first instance of a setting as gospel.
I edit the new config file in systemd - apparently we hate local config files now, let systemd do everything (I fucking hate that approach). Works temporarily, but fails a rollback and re-updating by overwriting it. Finally find there's a way to override what's in that file. Again doing the "take the first setting as gospel" and using it to my advantage.
Turn AV back on and set a HOLD on any further clamav updates for the weekend. I can just see someone deciding to "fix" it and breaking everything I've hacked into place. I have to tell people waiting for email retries - "It's OSS, what can I do?". Not that you can do anything with paid software, but at least you can level the blame at someone and feel better for it.
Signed into work to find internal server emails weren't going out. The mail exchange couldn't virus scan the emails, so rejected them by default.
Turns out clamav was updated this morning. Interesting. More interesting that it's not answering on port 3310 like it should.
So disable AV for the moment to let email get going out. This MX is used only by internal servers, so AV is a last defense against a compromised server sending out bogus bullshit. No big deal to turn it off for a few hours while I work; it doesn't affect user emails.
Find when I manually feed my config file to clamd, it works. That gives me something to research, at least. I finally find a note from the Debian 12 (we're running 11) mailing list that clamav now has two configuration files where it used to have one. Apparently this was backported last night without warning. The new configuration file is, of course, the default because there wasn't anything there before. It's clobbering my settings in the clamd.conf file because clam takes the first instance of a setting as gospel.
I edit the new config file in systemd - apparently we hate local config files now, let systemd do everything (I fucking hate that approach). Works temporarily, but fails a rollback and re-updating by overwriting it. Finally find there's a way to override what's in that file. Again doing the "take the first setting as gospel" and using it to my advantage.
Turn AV back on and set a HOLD on any further clamav updates for the weekend. I can just see someone deciding to "fix" it and breaking everything I've hacked into place. I have to tell people waiting for email retries - "It's OSS, what can I do?". Not that you can do anything with paid software, but at least you can level the blame at someone and feel better for it.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
We're not allowed anything without a support contract...I'm starting to see why.
That doesn't mean we don't end up having to step in with other bits and lines of responsibility about who has to deal with become blurred. It actually scares me after 6 months how little I know about the stuff that is out there.
That doesn't mean we don't end up having to step in with other bits and lines of responsibility about who has to deal with become blurred. It actually scares me after 6 months how little I know about the stuff that is out there.
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
Strange goings on in Cornwall since the power cut on Saturday, looks like happening over towards Camborne, too. I keep getting miniature power cuts, had four or five over the last couple of hours. It feels like only a half cycle dropping out but the computer and router have to reset. Strange thing is though that I've got a UPS so I'd have thought that should absorb any dropouts.
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
It would, if it was working correctly.
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
The batteries generally need changing about every 3 years.I did read that the batteries age and I've had it for a good 15 years
but it did keep beeping when the power went off in that power cut so I was assuming it was keeping its charge.
Perhaps I should get another.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
I did read that the batteries age and I've had it for a good 15 years
but it did keep beeping when the power went off in that power cut so I was assuming it was keeping its charge.
Perhaps I should get another.
In my limited dealings the beeping means it's fucked.
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
Ah - I'd assumed it meant that the power was off so I'd better close the computer down smartish.
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
If you're going to buy a used one, factor in the price of new batteries, because they usually need them.
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
A bit strange, the power went out for a second - light went out this time and one monitor closed down but the other monitor didn't, nor did the computer or the router. The UPS beeped for a couple of seconds but recovered.
So I'm now wondering whether it was a spike before.
I also see that the UPS I've got from 15 years ago is still being made by APC (or they're doing an upgraded version) with this as replacement battery costing £17 including delivery
. All the other replacements look like £24 without delivery, but Tayna's reputable as far as I know.
www.tayna.co.uk
So I'm now wondering whether it was a spike before.
I also see that the UPS I've got from 15 years ago is still being made by APC (or they're doing an upgraded version) with this as replacement battery costing £17 including delivery
. All the other replacements look like £24 without delivery, but Tayna's reputable as far as I know.
APC Back UPS ES 700 Battery - RBC17 - BE700G-UK
PU7 Powerline AGM UPS Battery The Powerline battery brand name is fast becoming one of the best budget batteries on the market. With the highest power and performance at an affordable competitive price. Powerline Batteries are designed to cope with modern day power demands. Powerline provide to...
www.tayna.co.uk
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