Posts by Richard Jones 1

Re: I gave up phoning and sent them a letter. I got no reply.

Do not wish for people dealing with you from the government, I have been trying to sort out probate with the pro-bait clowns. They keep asking about basic entries on the return. It appears they have not the slightest idea of what the form requires or why. Still they work for the 'civil service' so dismal quality is their stock-in-trade.

Re: Prigs

Sorry, I can only give you one up vote.

Re: "an on-prem email server"

Not so easy to stop the hardware with an errant keyboard, either.

Re: As a Win11 user myself, don't bother if you don't have to!

I have just moved from 10 to 11. At first, it was a buggy experience, but removal of OEM add-ons cured that and left the PC feeling much more spirited. After several days, I am finding it just like 10, but faster and more responsive. I have not yet explored the new 'features', but teams appears totally pointless and is probably not long for this land.

I should say that everyone's needs, uses and 'mileage' will be different, so their experience will not be the same as mine.

Re: And this is news to just about nobody?

Please try to read page 1 of the fraudster's hand book, "list something for less than anyone else, and hope orders flood in with cash". When it goes pear-shaped, scarper. If some other seller list the item, why should they honour the dodgy dealer's price? What ever happened to Caveat-Emptor, buyer beware?

Re: Stop

Does that make it a'crapple'?

Re: An $800 watch

Or check all those other clocks against your watch, as I and many others do. Mine is a far less than £800 item that has yet to be recharged or have its battery replaced. With a quick to read, correction mentally absorb, analogue display, it is so much faster to read than those slow read digital ones.

Re: Not all black and white

I understand your position; as a 76-year-old, with hearing loss and hearing aids that are often better at picking up some background noises, conversations in noisy places might as well be the sound of heavy rain or other white noise. My immune system may also be suffering age effects, just like my hearing. My wife has metastatic cancer, so has been trying to shield as much as frequent health appointments allow. She went down with Covid-19, and I ended up playing nurse and the treatment gofer. Happily, I did not catch the bug, perhaps my immune system is not so bad after all. As a result of concerns, I have avoided crowded places as far as possible, masked up, and accepted that conversations are now for others to have. Now, I much prefer the written word, over whatever is spoken. (This includes watching video or TV where I find the text option essential, though often hilarious, 'London's mare' anyone?.) Yes, it is socially limiting, but so is bad hearing. However, I neither want to spread, nor catch, what has been a killer illness for too many. I have lived through other viral events unscathed, and seen the impacts of such as measles, whooping cough, polio, cancer, et al., that have cost the lives of some that I knew, and crippled others. I will do what I can to avoid that fate befalling other potential victims and keep my conscience clear.

Re: A traditional problem

So, just advancing the paperless cause, then.

Re: The telcos are upset

I have a handset that is said to be 5G ready, but will EE offer 5G where I live and go? They struggle to provide 4G and reliable voice unless I use Wi-Fi. My handset is about a year old, I became fed up with my marginal Motorola after years of use, any slower, and it would have gone backwards. All I did was rare texts and voice calls with an activity monitor thrown in. Now there are verification codes for doing almost everything, Current mobiles get cluttered up with applications to support this disruption, but once a handset can meet that need, what else is there? Mobile internet is dreadful, while I block most of the stupid advertising dross on my desktop, I have not ventured into the wacky-races field of doing so with the mobile. So, every attempt to use the internet is shut down by adverts for junk no one in their right mind could ever want.

Re: No Problems for My Windows 11 Installation

Perhaps the answer is to use unsupported hardware, so far, I have seen no Windows 11 issues.

I did not have any issues with Windows 10 on any other machine either.

Re: No Smartphone Day

You, rate the chance that high? What would slug-bait (meta) do without all the cashflow?

Re: Once again

Why do they need to know? After all, if you work on X or are involved in the Y department, there are possible generic hooks they can use. Otherwise, they might use the p0rn method, or the possible side interest, they do not care what they send out. Like the telephone scammers or text scammers who pepper the world with a grape shot of pure rubbish, hoping that the right fish will swallow the lure.

Re: Culture change

If they sell, X000000 units and one complaint comes in, a cover culture would probably step in and cover out the incident, 'sorry sir a rogue part was included, please have this totally new upgraded item for free. We will cover all reasonable costs of the downtime.'

Such things have happened in the past and no doubt will again.

Re: Crap article

I have never had an Apple device, unless you count the one I had for a while from my employer. That convinced me I never wanted to buy such a slow, overpriced counter-intuitive device. Having never used one since and having only ever used a mix of Nokia and Android, I have never felt the need to stray. I find the mobile web a total waste of time. Screens filled with advertising dross, terrible presentation, lack of useful information and so on. Every addition to my mobile's capability has been supplied or free, so no one fleeces me from oh so useless 'apps', or should that be craps.

Re: Upgrade!!!!

Where do I buy new fingers with ready to use, reliable fingerprints?

It Used To Be Easy

Drift in with pocket money, plus passbook, deposit both on the counter. Get the updated passbook back. Reverse the process to make a withdrawal.

Now God only knows what it is all about, first find a Post Office if some clown has not arrested everyone! Even now, how many kids run internet access?

Re: This needs legislation

However, little people always get the bill, just because they are little people at the bottom of the pile.