Posts by Jamie Jones

Re: @DontFeedTheTrolls

Leave just means leave, eh? You keep forgetting (you've been reminded before):

This is what the leave campaign said at the time, straight from the horses mouths:

Boris Johnson said we'd stay in the single-market: https://www.businessinsider.com/boris-johnson-single-market-brexit-campaign-customs-union-2018-1?r=US&IR=T

As did Farage, and MANY others: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xGt3QmRSZY

As did MEP Dan Hannan: "Nobody is talking about threatening our place in the single market": https://www.voteleavewatch.org.uk/leaving_the_single_market_is_not_an_option

Andrea Leadsom said we will have the same access to the single market http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noK4OJOjmVk

Gerard Batten (UKIP leader) "A trade deal with the EU could be sorted out in an afternoon over a cup of coffee"

Boris Johnson: "There is no plan for no deal because we are going to get a great deal"

And Liam Fox promised that the 40 trade deals we'd lose access to after leaving the EU will all be replicated or improved on immediately after Britain leaves. How many of the 40 has he improved on..... **ZERO** Well, OK, how many has he replicated? **A BIG FAT ZERO** (Update: 22nd July 2019: 12 deals have been made - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47213842)

Liam Fox: "The free trade agreement that we will have to do with the European Union should be one of the easiest in human history"

John Redwood and Rees-Mogg said a second referendum would be a good idea once a deal has been finalised: https://infacts.org/rees-mogg-history-backing-second-eu-referendums/

Dominic Raab: I hadn't quite understood the full extent of this but... we are particularly reliant on the Dover-Calais crossing"

Re: Linux for the win

Mouse events are handled and interpreted by the X11 client that currently has pointer focus - that can be the window manager or an application

Yes, I realise that, which is why I asked earlier in the thread if anyone knew of an environment for x11 that gives that functionality.

When he suggested "android-x86" my reply "ideally I want the mouse interface native to the unix os." was somewhat clumsy. I meant that I want to have this functionailty on a desktop on my unix os of choice (FreeBSD), not install something else (android-x86) to achieve it - that solution would be "accessing remote ssh and X sessions on FreeBSD over a desktop android", which is what I do already (albeit android-arm64)

You could write a window manager that intercepts all mouse events, translates them as you prefer, and then forwards them to the window with pointer focus

No, *I* couldn't! :-)

As for X, I've been using it since about 1992ish. I've used the "default behaviors" from CDE and openwindows on HP and Sun systems, to all sorts of window managers on FreeBSD, but if I find something that works *better* (which I did), then I'm going to want to use that! The default method works ok with a scroll-wheel, but for other reasons, I can't currently use one of them.

I too have no knowledge of Wayland, but would be willing to use it if I could get it to do what I want, and it still has the X functionality I find useful!

Cheers for the reply.. I upvoted. I guess your downvote was from a wayland fan :-)

Re: I wonder if Google

To "unlock" it, you select the relevent "developer" option on boot-up. The system is then yours to do what you want with.

If you cock up, or want support, you simply select the rebuild option which will automatically factory reset the device, and install the latest chromeOS software, making it all like new again. Of course, at this point you can again choose the "developer" option.

A shame, then, that you are too stupid to be able to chose a menu option if you want google to do it for you.... I expect they'd laugh at you, but if you know any 5 year olds, they'll be able to help you out.

Re: Dont save credit cards on site

I think they cal you an alien due to your thumbnail pic ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^--------------->>>>>>>>>

Re: I'm starting to go off Amazon

I totally agree about Amazon becoming a third party scammers site. Disgusting. They should be fined heavily for all the shite they allow to be adverised through them.

Also, the number of times I've had to tell people who are being fobbed off: "You bought from Amazon. You paid Amazon. Your contract is with Amazon. It's Amazons problem, and they do have to abide by EU consumer law."

Re: Paypal are the ones that p!ss me off at the moment

I gave up yesterday trying to find a simple statement on paypal (Remember when the site used to actually have useful functionality? Every time I go on there these days, it seems to be getting dumber and dumber, with functionality replaced by big round buttons and lots of white space)

Anyone know how? It showed me my current balance, it showed me my recent transaction. I wanted to know my balance at a certain point a few days ago (I had a few combinations of payments in and payments out around the same time, and wanted to see whether any crossed)

You'd expect the statement to show "balance" after every transaction. It did at one time. I guess they thought there were too many confusing numbers.

I tried the android app. It's even less functional than the brain dead website... And don't get me started on the general trend of sites getting dumber and dumber and removing functionality, or changing things to make them crappier (Looking at you, Google) - Youtube on android has recently changed the way of having the video running in a small thumbnail to taking up a quarter of the damn screen.. No option to revert to previous behaviour of course... Fortunately I archive all old apps automatically, but how long an older version will continue to work, I don't know...) Damn... you got me started!

Re: minority interest apps

Despite being a FreeBSD guy, "doing unix" professionally for over 25 years, and having used x11 since the days of CDE on Sun and HP hardware, I now tend to use android for my desktop!

I've "unixified" the command line, have added lots more native disk space, and NFS, can use vnc to my freebsd boxes if required, and usually have lots of terminals open to freebsd boxes.

But, until someone can tell me about another system that does left-mouse-button drag to scroll (rather than copy) I'm likely to keep it this way... Long press of left-mouse-button to enable copy mode is fine. Otherwise it should be scroll.

Side-bar scolling is annoying.

http://www.welshgit.net/photos/computers/desktop/android/

Re: TL; DR

The ironic thing is that the "Muslims" they are referring to are generally from non-EU countries, who are already restricted by UK law (If a brexitter disagrees, ask them why so many try to sneak in via the chunnel or in the backs of lorries).

Post Brexit, the French won't have a duty to help is with this, so we are likely to get more coming in.

Coupled that with the EU- rules already mentioned above by "MuscleGuy" that we could remove EU nationals not pulling their weight, and the whole net effect of brexit on immigration will be to increase it.

That and the general mayhem that will effect brexitters first means the poor dears will not have a good time... They'll still blame the EU though.

I even had that stupid "lisbon treaty" bullshit sent to me on the weekend with the message "Did you know this?" - How can anyone for one second believe some of this shit is true? https://fullfact.org/europe/viral-list-about-lisbon-treaty-wrong/

TL; DR "Aladdin Sane" is right

Re: BBC != Netflix

Ahhh, shout out to our Northern cousins, the prehistoric cavemen Gogs :-)