Posts by britishtechguru@techhub.social
(DIR) Post #ASwTG1QDy1OrbioEb2 by britishtechguru@techhub.social
2023-02-22T15:42:14Z
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@EU_Commission Maybe we should all tread very carefully. If Russia begins to lose the war badly they could nuke Ukraine. If NATO responded since Ukraine is non NATO then it's an open WW3 as opposed to the current WW3 by proxy. If Russia takes over Ukraine then we have the problem faced in 1939 when we appeased Germany and that didn't end well. I don't see a good outcome at all to this conflict. I see a full global nuclear war as a near certainty.
(DIR) Post #AT2ckCv1qr3YUIRhJo by britishtechguru@techhub.social
2023-02-25T14:57:09Z
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@brewster And yet Dilbert captured the racist, sexist, ablist, elitist attitudes of IT deparrtments which is EXACTLY why after having graduated in computing in 1990 I never ever entered the IT industry.
(DIR) Post #AT4pArOPa3FnJJaJ5E by britishtechguru@techhub.social
2023-02-26T01:59:23Z
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Somebody was trying to interest me in learning to fly. That would be interesting but at 55 I think it's probably not something I need to take on.
(DIR) Post #ATNNryVkYwPFLxHbVY by britishtechguru@techhub.social
2023-03-07T15:19:30Z
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@khoji @jdpoc I have never encountered a bright leader or politician.
(DIR) Post #ATO1Q2R0NUzJa0ITtA by britishtechguru@techhub.social
2023-03-07T22:41:42Z
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@seldo I very much agree. I've found interesting stuff to comment on. Sadly the lack of interaction from the OPs indicates that a lot of it is bots posting.I'm getting way more reaction on my posts which are mostly about my adventures with Arduino and Raspberry Pi. My posts are few and far between because I literally only get a few hours each week to work on projects due to work etc
(DIR) Post #AUI1vO1qKxbGqNAsXA by britishtechguru@techhub.social
2023-04-03T23:12:05Z
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@CliffWade I predicted how I would catch it. I predicted I would catch it at home. That's how it happened.
(DIR) Post #AUVobj2ulXLs8TK7qS by britishtechguru@techhub.social
2023-04-10T14:45:50Z
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@EU_Commission but what about planned obsolescence? All the updates these phones get do absolutely nothing apart from make the phone slower and more worthless every year.
(DIR) Post #AUp60NQSoAcWUoP8ka by britishtechguru@techhub.social
2023-04-19T22:03:05Z
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@stux Pickup trucks are good but once they added crewcabs, the point of them was lost.
(DIR) Post #AUsqDqpPyqQoogJs3c by britishtechguru@techhub.social
2023-04-21T17:25:21Z
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@realcaseyrollins @futureisfoss @internetarchive Twitter needs to start paying its posters to post! Nobody wants Twitter any more.
(DIR) Post #AVt7qJcjTTbAxmYwMq by britishtechguru@techhub.social
2023-05-21T14:49:25Z
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A puzzle for all the #electronics gurus out there.... What am I doing with these and what are they?
(DIR) Post #AXBYrsmtdBW8JdcH3Y by britishtechguru@techhub.social
2023-06-29T13:54:11Z
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@EU_Commission How about standard, interchangeable batteries for mobile phones so a good battery from a broken phone will be able to power your new phone, reducing battery waste.
(DIR) Post #AZmPg5ujPx9DlsiGWW by britishtechguru@techhub.social
2023-09-08T16:46:34Z
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Now Google is going to block me from watching YouTube videos because of my heinous use of adblockers so I don't have to watch adverts for tampons, cigarettes, dodgy-dating sites and heroin.So, what can I do on #Linux or more specifically #linuxmint to block these adverts when they're clearly employing an ad-blocker detector?Would a Pi-Hole do it or would it somehow detect that too? Is there something like #Windows had with its Hosts file into which I could just drop the URLS of scurvy adsites?
(DIR) Post #AZreg6og5qbQqWoTRI by britishtechguru@techhub.social
2023-09-17T14:12:29Z
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@matthew I had a go at the Hosts file. At the moment Linux Mint is not being very cooperative. I tried to log in as Admin and had a load of error messages scrolling down the screen for several minutes before I rebooted. I'm unable to edit the hosts file so I'm going to have to try a different approach. I'm trying the freetube app. Downloading it as I post this. I suppose the worst case scenario I will end up putting up a Pi Hole. edit....Realized when I was about to start the download that it needed several gigs of disk space. My little laptop is already slow and overloaded so I didn't press install. I'll see about getting a Pi Zero W to put a Pi Hole in place. That'll be untraceable.
(DIR) Post #AaJ7Wmei6RRnl3nW88 by britishtechguru@techhub.social
2023-09-30T23:02:07Z
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@stux I like it. I wonder whether that might be overpressure for the filter though.
(DIR) Post #AaKHNCWEHaQBm7rNTM by britishtechguru@techhub.social
2023-10-01T12:26:49Z
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@EU_Commission BUT does this protect men who are victims of female violence?
(DIR) Post #Ac9JpT7gBttfwLH8ls by britishtechguru@techhub.social
2023-11-25T01:17:09Z
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@freemo @DenisCOVIDinfoguy @auscovid19 I disagree that it's here to stay. These things often burn themselves out after a few years. They don't always - Aids for example - but they can - Black Death for example.
(DIR) Post #AcANUGdC29ES5i7alc by britishtechguru@techhub.social
2023-11-25T13:32:52Z
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@freemo @auscandoc @auscovid19 @DenisCOVIDinfoguy Perhaps these diseases are all appearing suddenly - SARS, MERS, AIDS, Covid-19 etc as a response to overpopulation?
(DIR) Post #AcAijj8eQMPVt1356W by britishtechguru@techhub.social
2023-11-25T17:30:58Z
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@freemo @auscandoc @auscovid19 @DenisCOVIDinfoguy From what I heard, Aids is a variant of Green Monkey Virus and Aids itself can be traced back to samples from the 50s. It's just that it was only in the 80s that it took off and only in about 84 that it was identified.But... if it originated with Green Monkey Virus then it's as stated due to encroachment on animal habitats and overpopulation by humans. We are heading for a mass extinction whether we like it or not.
(DIR) Post #AcEEfwFRWNOPOULJ0y by britishtechguru@techhub.social
2023-11-27T10:12:30Z
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@EU_Commission 20-30 years ago I was regularly travelling from Swansea in Britain to Riga, Tallinn and Vilnius.Back then I would catch the bus from Swansea to London because the train was too expensive. Then I would get the train (expensive) to Dover and the ferry to Calais (or preferably Bolohgne)Then I'd hit trains. Calais to Berlin. Once in Berlin, train all the way to Eastern Europe. Whenever I got the train, I'd get a sleeper berth. That way I could get some sleep.It was cost driven. One time I even took the ferry from Kiel to Klaipeda and vice-versa.
(DIR) Post #AcLe85KNDOPecet11s by britishtechguru@techhub.social
2023-11-30T23:58:02Z
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@DaveFernig @auscandoc @auscovid19 @freemo @DenisCOVIDinfoguy People just behave like idiots aorund Covid. I have no idea why. My workmate is down with RSV right now. I'm OK because I always wear a mask. She never wears one.