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Do I get the impression you don't like the Green party?

To be honest, I don't care much for them myself anymore.

I went out in the sunshine yesterday and it was quite nice. I wouldn't have...

It was very hot here in Rotherham today. I went into town on the bike and the breeze was like sitting in front of a fan heater. I was lugging a video camera around all afternoon and, whilst it was...

I've never used a VPN.

The closest thing I do is use Andrews & Arnold's L2TP service, which works kind-of like a VPN, but is unencrypted, so does not give you any added privacy. I use this to...

Sounds good. We don't have fibre here yet, but it should be coming in the next couple of years.

Openreach recently had a big price cut on wholesale fibre which means, if you have the choice...

I'm not planning any upgrades. I did ponder getting a different graphics card at some point, but I think I'll stick with the one I have.

I don't think I'd bother getting any kind of floppy...

The old Lian Li case is quite big so should suit the A1's full size motherboard quite nicely. I originally for a small case for it and it was way too cramped.

I also need a better heatsink/fan for...

Glad its still going well. I still have the surplus iMac G5. I should try installing MorphOS on there sometime. I recently did a fresh install of MacOSX Tiger on it, but it will be good to have...

I actually haven't used it for a couple of years. I wanted to swap cases with my old PC. I put my old PC in the A1's former case with the intention of putting the A1 in the old PC's big Lian Li case,...

The jokes don't work very well when you edit the posts to correct the typos :D

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I use a bicycle so no issue for me :).

I'm not sure how it would work. Would your machine do a 'netboot' (like PXE)? Or would it run some other OS like Linux and have the Windows run in a VM or similar?

I'm not familiar with Office...

That sucks. Please let us know how you get on with the second one.

I gather some amount of illness is normal with vaccines. However, it can be enough to put you off. Last time I had a vaccine...

I gather a lot of those Kingston Data Travellers are pathetically slow. I didn't realise that when I bought it. I actually just got one of the cheapest the supplier had. I'll keep it around for use...

I bought a Rode Lavalier Go microphone from Amazon. It arrived earlier, and I got an email saying:

Hi Stephen,
Your parcel has been posted through your letterbox.

How was your delivery?
It...

I installed the new Samsung NVMe SSD. Here's a quick benchmark I ran in Gnome Disks:

1200

Not bad.

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In contrast, here is a ridiculously slow Kingston USB3 flash drive...

Probably. Of course, locked down hardware is nothing new. One of the old ThinkPads I got for free a couple of years ago does it. I changed the mini-PCI wireless network card out for another one and...

Bargain!

What's the deal with the Apple monitor stands? I heard a while back that they introduced a ridiculously expensive one.

I wonder if they'll sell many what with the supposed move away...

I've ordered a 4TB Seagate Ironwolf drive and a 500GB Samsung 970 Evo Plus.

I was going to get a 2TB drive but its not substantially more money to get 4TB. That should last me a while. The SSD is...

I thought you'd like it. What is interesting, is that I actually have a DisplayPort cable. I have never used DisplayPort. I think the cable came with my monitor, but I never used the cable because I...

Yes, I just duplicate the drive onto another drive every so often. So any backups may not be 'up to date', but if there were to be a catastrophic failure, it will only be recent stuff that gets lost.

I haven't considered that. I think it would be a bit overkill for my needs. I'd rather just have a decent sized HDD/SSD in my main PC. Said PC is accessible over the network anyway.

I need some new storage.

I've been doing a lot of video recently which has been eating up my HDD space. Any recommendations?

I might see about swapping my SATA HDD for an M.2 one, then I can...

My first impressions are that its not going to be much better.

As usual I got plenty of chocolate. We just had chicken for dinner.

How's the Pi 4? I haven't got anything newer than the B+. I keep thinking I should get a newer one.

Mark Steele seems to be the main proponent of the 5G thing. He is a self proclaimed "weapons expert" who served time in prison for shooting a young girl, and has a degree in psychology. Maybe the...