Posts by lybad

Re: The bulge

Both machines being the 2 Atari machines - the 400 and 800.

Re: How many fraud and theft cases in the 80s?

Magistrates and crown courts don't apply across the whole UK - different system in Scotland.

Re: Languages as fonts

While comic sans might look awful iirc it's designed to be easy to read by dyslexics.

Our Android Auto has only had to be repaired once - for wireless AA. It's just buggy as anything for deciding if it's going to connect today.

And why does it insist on disconnecting my daughter's iPhone when I'm connecting my phone. She lives 50 miles away.

Re: Can't wait...

Not quite all staff. Membership is only open above a certain pay grade. And if you were part of an institution that got absorbed by another you could still be in an alternate pension scheme.

Re: Don't get me started...

No - a bugler plays music with a bugle.

A horn can be a post horn type thing, or something like a tenor horn, which looks like a tuba that shrank (a lot) in the wash.

Re: I think you'll find...

English? I'm subject to HMRC rules, but I'm not English or even live in Engerland. :D

Re: Annoying

Although the same company (or subsidiary) Three and Smarty are not the same - for example, Three customers probably get priority on the mast. And higher data speed for example.

The flip side of this is when people come in and tell you that you don't speak your native language properly.

Happened to a friend and me, when a Polish postgrad student came to the University I worked at. And promptly told us we didn't speak proper English. But then my friend comes from Blantyre... :-)

(I've a weird Scottish dialect - because my parents moved round the country a lot with their jobs when I was a kid)

Re: Mars Bar

When I worked in Glasgow I used to get deep fried pizza from the chippy on Buchanan Street next to the south entrance to the underground/subway/clockwork Orange. Used to find them really tasty, but you could feel your heart working overtime.

My daughter used to get deep fried Freddo's after swimming on a Friday. Another part of Scotland though. Look disgusting though.

Re: Turings?

Exactly. That was my point.

Goodness knows what an English based person would say to a Scottish £100 or £1 note.

I think you misunderstood the question. Where is Campbell Town? Not Campbeltown.

I think they do some phones with Snapdragons - just want to know why just them? Aren't Nokia/HMD, Xiaomi, Huawei (I know some don't use the Kirin) and Google amongst others using the same chips? Or is it a scale of sale thing?

Re: SteamOS

In other distros it's even easier. Manjaro bundles it out of the box.

Re: Ȝule yogh

That depends. I always called it Menzees, as did everyone I knew until I went to Dundee. My wife says the same. I grew up in the west of Scotland and my wife was in the proper north east.

Re: The RedHat corporate spinners won't fix this

It depends - the powers that be moved us to RHEL, as they allegedly wanted a support package in place. But suppliers of support need to be on an approved list before they can used.

Re: Always expect th unexpected from users

Many modern laptops do it as well - my Huawei Matebook D from last year does it, as do the Asus laptops in the house. All Ryzen 2k or 3k series.

They're not closing all the stores. Just the majority.

I'm intrigued what they are going to do in areas like where I live where my nearest Sainsbury's is 15 miles one way, and 45 the other, but still have more places to collect items ordered remotely. On the other hand I have 3 Argos branches about 15 miles away and one about 30.

Re: A 600£ or 700£ price is now considered not hard to swallow? For a phone?

Of course it can. Xiaomi are available direct from themselves but also through Amazon amongst others. And they are not part of Huawei, so don't have the US issues (yet).

I got a 5g handset for £220 a few weeks ago, from their own site.

Re: At least

Both Crysis and Witcher 3 are reported as working fine on linux - check out ProtonDB for a list of real people's experience of running (Windows) games on linux.

Re: How about...a Linux Phone?

There have been - there was (is?) a Ubuntu Touch OS that was used on a couple of phones.

The biggest problem for most of these is the performance and/or interface, along with apps or programmes. Though a lot of that is solved if you get things like HTML5 apps.

Re: American English is English

Had something similar at work in Glasgow. A Polish student told my Scottish friend from Blantyre that he couldn't speak English properly. Now Scotland's west coast might not be queen's English, but really?

MIUI is like every skin - personal preference. I use EMUI and MIUI every day (one tablet, one phone) and can't say I care wither way. But I probably prefer MIUI. Xiaomi tend not to be as aggressive in terms of forcing their own skin on the device owner.

As I mentioned, Poco is now a separate company from the main Xiaomi line, so they are competing now - and as for the launcher, the Poco launcher is a different beast from the main MIUI one.

https://9to5google.com/2020/01/17/poco-splits-from-xiaomi-to-become-completely-independent-brand/

Re: Is there a point to eReaders that I'm missing?

You used to be able to argue that they were cheaper than a tablet, but with the Fire tablets, that's not true anymore.

I used a paperwhite for years as it was convenient for on the bus - especially as some of the books I read are more coffee table books in print. However, since I've been working from home, I've been reading more graphic novels and less books, and the 10" Fire tablets are great for those. If I ever start commuting again, I suspect I'll go back to the Paperwhite again.

Going back to the Kobo/Kindle thing - in the early days Kobo used to emphasise they felt if someone bought a book from them, they "bought" a book from them - so they were free to make backups, copy them to other devices, etc, whereas Amazon only licence the book to you - so if Amazon decide they don't like your face/money and close your account, you basically have the licence (to kill), revoked.

Same here.

Re: Wonder if the quoted excellent battery life

The issue here is that for quite a while, Huawei have not released codes for unlocking the bootloader. Plus they also use their own chip designs, so it's generally not easy to get something like LineageOS on to them.

Re: To be fair

They had a shop. It's now closed I believe. But 3 amongst others have sold Xiaomi devices, and I'm sure places like Argos and Amazon sell them.

Re: This is more than a little disturbing...

You're missing the point - this isn't about the ROM as such. The global ROM is what is on the phone if you buy a genuine UK market Xiaomi handset.

Given that most people will do some customising of their settings, even if it's just their ringtone and wallpaper, it's not that difficult to search for and turn off a setting for displaying adverts (or as Xiaomi put it - suggested apps).