Are they any good?
Couple of people at work have VWs
A6 with weird gearbox
A hatch with climate control which can park itself
The enthusiasts drive interesting cars, eg a sports car, a 4x4, an Alfa
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Volkswagen to put Qualcomm tech under the hood across all brands
Outlook bombards Safari users with endless downloads
BT signs deal with AWS with aim of speeding up digital transformation
Mozilla browser Firefox hits the big 100
Windows 11 usage stats within touching distance of... XP
Why the Linux desktop is the best desktop
Thursday 14th April 2022 09:37 GMT 
Re: Linux "Desktop"
I prefer Libre Office, it follows GUI standards so I can use it easily.
As to latest Word, two feature annoy.
Cursor going left when you type, looks very odd.
Save dialog is broken, so I just copy to name and location I want and empty it.
I do not have time to work through their arcane interface, I have more important things to do.
Windows 11 growth at a standstill amid stringent hardware requirements
Debugging source is even harder when you can't stop laughing at it
1,000-plus AI-generated LinkedIn faces uncovered
How Pfizer used AI and supercomputers to design COVID-19 vaccine, tablet
Ford to sell unfinished Explorers as chip shortage bites
Tuesday 15th March 2022 09:45 GMT
Re: Quite frankly ...
Carb points and stuff compared to EFI?
Umm no thanks.
I remember the pain of swapping and adjusting points for a friend (my similar aged car had a magnetic sensor instead).
Then the pain of carbs compared to EFI.
Not so keen on coil packs though, I think the most reliable era was Motronic.
Deere & Co won't give out software and data needed for repairs, watchdog told
Europe's largest nuclear plant on fire after Russian attack
Proprietary neural tech you had surgically implanted? Parts shortage
Apple seeks patent for 'innovation' resembling the ZX Spectrum, C64 and rPi 400
A tale of two dishwashers: Buy one, buy it again, and again
Friday 25th February 2022 10:20 GMT
Dishwashers. No Engine washers
Unless you do a lot of vehicle rebuilds are they worth it?
I could get my last car cylinder heads in one, but this current car no.*
But if you are rebuilding bike engines useful bits of kit.
But here a washing up bowl and fairy liquid deals with dishes in less time than it takes to load and unload a motor vehicle engine component washer.
* I did know of people chucking a couple of V6 heads in them.
Friday 25th February 2022 10:16 GMT
Twatter - I had similar
I wanted nothing from them, just notice if anyone had replied. Cancelled all contact emails.
"Complete nobodies off some realitiy TV crap you may be interested in"
Delete account, no more emails.
And I was chatting with a well known TV person before about a friend of mine she knew. Did that register with twatter? No.
I had contacted a couple of authors, some games people and one TV person. Absolutely NOTHING to do with reality crap.
Not saying who it is as both my friend and I could be IDed from it. The TV person borrowed his car!
IT technician jailed for wiping school's and pupils' devices
Dido Harding's appointment to English public health body ruled unlawful
Wednesday 16th February 2022 15:19 GMT
Re: Guilty of not doing a equality report
I was puzzled.
Kate Bingham is pretty competent, knows her stuff and proves there are capable people out there with connections (Jesse Norman).
Yet we have incompetents, but with better connections.
There must have been other more suitable spouses available.
UK.gov threatens to make adults give credit card details for access to Facebook or TikTok
This is going well: Meta adds anti-grope buffer zone around metaverse VR avatars
Monday 7th February 2022 11:46 GMT
Re: There goes the business case
I quite often create female characters in games, or play them.
People sometimes get silly with them.
Those people are very very stupid.
I like to mix things up, some games the characters look silly as male, with third person you can stare at a female bum rather than a male bum. Some have slightly different story details.
In recent weeks I have played games as a tall robot, a short soldier woman, an irish middle aged assassin, a woman with magic.
A biker.
An undead human with a lot of guns, a machine with human conciousness who punches stuff, a space magic wielding woman who is a funny colour.
Next game will be a choice, will probably go for the man despite the woman VO work being better.
Oh and I still need to finish the last Uncharted game.
European watchdog: All data collected about users via ad-consent popup system must be deleted
God of War: How do you improve on perfection? You port it to PC, obviously
European silicon output shrinking, metal smelters closing as electricity prices quadruple, trade body warns
Rolls-Royce consortium shopping for factory sites to build mini-nuclear reactors
Microsoft seems intent on buying the gaming industry with $68.7bn purchase of troubled Activision Blizzard
Wednesday 19th January 2022 16:48 GMT
Not sure if I have any Activision games.
I had one which WAS Activision, but looks like none of mine are.
Around half of big games I have are first party, at least they are safe. But of the rest mainly Ubisoft, EA, Gearbox, and Bethesda
I expect future Fallouts will not be available but would they be any good anyway?
As others have said not happy with Sony shutting down a few of their studios (Motorstorm was brilliant).
Support specialist Rimini Street found in contempt of court for continued Oracle copyright infringements
Massive rugby ball-shaped planet emerges from scrum of space 'scope sightings
No defence for outdated defenders as consumer AV nears RIP
Hauliers report problems with post-Brexit customs system but HMRC insists it is 'online and working as planned'
Google fixes bug that stopped some Pixel phones from making 911 calls
Predictive Dirty Dozen: What will and won't happen in 2022 (unless it doesn’t/does)
After deadly 737 Max crashes, damning whistleblower report reveals sidelined engineers, scarcity of expertise, more
Is it decadent that I use four different computers each day, at different times?
Kremlin names the internet giants it will kidnap the Russian staff of if they don't play ball in future
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