The edge virus keeps striking
Had another occasion, it hijacked email links, not the usual one, but a new one.
Is it time to delete edge again?
Posts by MJI
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Mozilla slams Microsoft for using dark patterns to drive Windows users toward Edge
Brit watchdog thinks Google's tweaked Privacy Sandbox still isn't cricket
We put salt in our tea so you don't have to
Tesla Cybertruck gets cyberstuck during off-roading expedition
Wednesday 24th January 2024 11:20 GMT 
Re: Land Rover owners rejoicing
Don't worry we take the pee out of most other off roaders, managed to deflate a Mitsubishi owner mentioning his bigger engine (of less power), and mines permanent 4WD.
What if there is no handy Land Rover to rescue the Jap offroader?
None of that off road course would trouble any of the proper LRs. And if you want to off road in total luxury buy a Range Rover.
One was going down a slope with a wheel in the air, Ireckon on that I would have 4 in contact with the ground.
United Airlines’ patience with Boeing is maxed out after repeated safety issues
Perfect timing... US Navy throws Boeing $103M to update its sub recon jets
Researchers confirm what we already knew: Google results really are getting worse
YouTube video lag wrongly blamed on its ad-blocking animus
Microsoft touts migration to Windows 11 as painless, though wallets may disagree
Microsoft braces for automatic AI takeover with Copilot at Windows startup
Wednesday 17th January 2024 10:00 GMT
Filled with dread
As I need a new PC, starting to get the odd component failure, one of the HDDs is failing despite being second newest.
Tempted to get really overblown PC and run Windows in a VM for the few bits of software requiring them.
Needs
Firefox
Thunderbird
Something video edity
Something 3D CAD
chitubox
The Register's 2023 in gaming had one final boss: Baldur's Gate 3
Boss fight between Donkey Kong champ and leaderboard org ends with settlement
Nearly 200 Boeing 737 MAX 9 airplanes grounded after door plug flies off mid-flight
Windows boss takes on taskbar turmoil, pledges to 'make Start menu great again'
Thursday 4th January 2024 11:01 GMT
Try it with vision issues
Just unusable, totally unusable, luckily that PC is locked back to 10 now, and that is bad enough.
I can just read this text I am typing on a 1920x1080 monitor.
7 is easy to use, 10 hard, 11 almost impossible.
Yet I am legal to drive. So not that bad vision, imagine if it was worse, or their issue was more retina than lens.
Bricking it: Do you actually own anything digital?
Friday 22nd December 2023 14:39 GMT
I charity shopped 2/3rds of my books, used the shelf space for other books to be easier to get to.
I was not going to read them again, so free the space.
Of course hobby based text books started to fill the space.
Got some really nice photo books I just like to pick up and browse.
Will be culling more in future.
But like you TP stays, as do more modern SF authors I like, such as Alastair Reynold or Richard Morgan.
DVDs are well culled, 50% gone, BDs only 10% dumped, games about 25% gone.
Friday 22nd December 2023 14:28 GMT
Donr it with films and TV for good reasons
A film, some bribes went out and the BluRay was cancelled and only a HD-DVD was done.
Yes I did email them and told them I got the HD-DVD rip off TPB, cpnverted it and played it off the hard drive of my PS3, mentioning I was going to buy the film but could not play it.
TV, FTA channels start the series, then the scum buy the rights and stop me watching, TPB to the rescue.
One series I loved I had pre ordered the DVD before the TPB release was out.
Never seen those episodes on broadcast due to that..
I have really culled my book collection as I was not not going to read them again, but keep the books I reallly want to keep.
Windows 12: Savior of PC makers, or just an apology for Windows 11?
Sunday 24th December 2023 15:02 GMT
Logged onto work PC
WTF is this?
Phone hardware support roll back
Follwing Monday
A new button for start menu is not start menu, roll back again.
Following week, trying again, this time I stop it and say leave at 10.
I can't handle the UI changes. too confusing.
Not everyone is a 12 year old excited for useless changes.
I would be happy with 7 or Mint.
BOFH: The Christmas party was so good, an independent inquiry is required
Korean peninsula space race sees South and North launch tit for tat spy sats
Google Groups ditches links to Usenet, the OG social network
'Return to Office' declared dead
Microsoft issues deadline for end of Windows 10 support – it's pay to play for security
Wednesday 6th December 2023 15:05 GMT
I am hating windows more and more
Anything post 7 is a UI disaster and horrific for anyone with aging eyes.
My work PC has twice forced a 11 downgrade and then restore to 10 on me.
I do not have admin rights since the first one, I used to have local admin.
Why is the start button in a stupid place?
I have heard about the musical taskbar icons, that is just not usable for me as i KNOW
File manager 1, Firefox 2, my Dev env 3, and so on up to command prompt.
They cannot move as it would be horrible.
My home PC is really locked down but 7 as it was last rebuilt in 2016, used to be XP prior to that.
Can't be arsed to keep changing it, woud need all new hardware which was good with 7 and over spec for XP.
Only issue is RAM, I want more
Tech renders iconic rockers Kiss genuinely immortal
Share your 2024 tech forecasts (wrong answers only) to win a terrible sweater
Nostalgia for XP sells out Microsoft's 2023 'Windows Ugly Sweater'
UK's cookie crumble: Data watchdog serves up tougher recipe for consent banners
Windows users can soon ditch Bing, Edge, other bundleware – but only in the EU
Wanted: Driver for rocket-powered Bloodhound Land Speed Record car
Thursday 9th November 2023 09:23 GMT
Turned to shit
Was going OK a few years ago, since the new team took over has basically stalled, key people left, I think there is little chance of it going ahead now.
I would like to be proven right.
But not had that much feedback from someone who left the project around that time, except they needed to get out.
CompSci academic thought tech support was useless – until he needed it
Friday 3rd November 2023 14:33 GMT
Support
I am happy to leave PC support to the support people, they gave me local admin, that is fine for me, so if anything goes wrong, I can't be blamed.
Last problem was something called edge opening up my email links despite using firefox, even if I deleted edge.
So let them sort it while I had some tea.
Their job to fight windows, mine to write code.
Window Maker Live: When less is more, but more is also ... more?
Millions of smart meters will brick it when 2G and 3G turns off
British boffins say aircraft could fly on trash, cutting pollution debt by 80%
Take Windows 11... please. Leaks confirm low numbers for Microsoft's latest OS
Boris Johnson's mad hydrogen for homes bubble bursts
Brit watchdog slams Microsoft as it clears $69B Activision Blizzard buy
Car industry pleads for delay to post-Brexit tariffs on EVs
Monday 2nd October 2023 10:37 GMT
No
Actually Johnson is an idiot.
Left of centre?, more like centre, would have been centre right a few years ago, changes in British politics have moved me to centre. put it this way I trusted John Major a lot more than Tony Blair. I also think the last chancellor of any note was Ken Clarke. Still not happy with the New Labour grab on pension funds, or their ID card madness.
Johnson does not have a clue, he makes stuff up, he is dangerously useless.
I hold out little hope on any of the major parties, all going after the same imaginary group.
Would like a coalition.with some ouliers involved.
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