Posts by jason 7 3181 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Jun 2009
I buy a phone.
I run it for three years or so then I get a new one.
The old one? Well cos I look after my batteries (current 3 year old Mate 10 Pro still at 93% battery life) I hand it down to my Dad who uses it for another 3 years.
A Nexus 4 was pushed to 7 years use. An LG G4 is now in its 6th year I think.
Yeah it adds noise and still remains hooked up in many many telephone master sockets.
I have done the removal for people and seen a decent boost from it. Those stuck out in the sticks going from 2Mbps to a more stable 3Mbps is nothing to sniff at for free. The alternative is fix a ADSL/VDSL faceplate but this takes all of 5 minutes.
Yeah...but I'm still right though. It's Obama 2.0. Got all branches but still can't/won't pass anything substantial. Most of that $1.9 trillion will just waft upwards.
It's cheaper to just bomb Syria than issue out those promised $2000 cheques 'immediately'.
Plus all the other stuff... Now is 'not the time' etc. etc. Platitudes...
Dems will lose both houses in 2022. Worth £50 on.
Plus...where is Joe these days?
About three months ago I predicted that Biden would deliver next to none of his campaign promises and got severely moaned at.
Well looks like I was 98% right in my prediction. The Dems are going to get obliterated in 2022.
If you can't deliver anything promised, substantial or popular with control of all three branches of Govt. then you deserve to lose. The Progressives/Squad have proven to be mostly useless and all Twitter talk. Bernie always folds at the last moment.
By the way I'm a Brit and no fan of either side in US politics. They all just work for the same elites.
I abandoned it as soon as I felt CD players reached a decent level of maturity and never looked back.
Whether its a Tandy or a fully setup Thorens, all I hear by the end of track two is massive distortion. I just cannot unhear it with vinyl. Like nails down a blackboard for me.
The only thing that really affects speaker cable is the basic physics of 'shorter and thicker' IMO. That covers 99% of any real changes.
I've often said that that £100 a meter cable was probablty originally specced to be used in aircraft or a CAT scanner and cost 0.05p a meter. The Hi-Fi companies do not have their own undustrial smelting works to make cable. It's massive industrial scale work that only is viable in runs of many kilometers a go. That £1000 a meter cable Russ wants to sell you, did NOT cost 99% of that to make. They just buy in a huge consignment from China or Eastern Europe where they still make the stuff and relabel it. The Mk2 version is just the old stuff running out and having to order in something else.
People still want to believe Hi-Fi companies have Cable factories and in-house metallurgists...
Just get some VanDamme or similar for £3-£4 a meter and be done with it.
The 'Loudness War' was mostly the reason why I stopped buying CDs soon after the turn of the century. I kept locked into releases recorded or issued on CD before 2000.
I also blame the easy availability of PC based audio recording for the drop in all round quality of pop & rock. Before, you had to go into a studio and hire a producer/engineer and that presented a fabulous barrier to entry/filter to those with more ambition than talent.
Well just you wont get much of the later part of your post. Especially education.
You wont get much of anything. Minimum wage is still MINIMUM wage. It's not a living wage, folks will still be working three jobs and 18 hours a day to get by...if they can.
Pelosi is still not on board with helping folks during the pandemic, yet gladly signed off trillions for the corporations.
Green new deal...that will get watered down and down as the lobby cheques from the fossil fuel industry come wafting across Biden's desk.
Nothing is going to change. The average American is still going to get screwed while still having to pay for it all.
I don't even live in the US but can see it. But then all I have to do is sit back, watch it all come to pass and say "told you so!"
Yep it's a great grift.
I saw all this coming back in 2015 when Newt Gingrich was challenged on some false crime BS he was spewing. He just smiled and said -
"It's not what's true that is important! It's what I believe is true that is!"
I knew we were all f*cked when I heard that.
Ahhh so even after seeing Biden's corporate lobbyist status quo cabinet picks, some Dem folks are still in denial that they will get nothing over over the next 4 years.
Just look at AOC's current back peddling and gas lighting on why she won't support a vote on M4A as a taste of things to come.
Yeah asking for healthcare during a pandemic is 'not the right time'. Jeez.
They all get bought.
The news agencies and MSM will go into decline most likely. Trump has been news gold for them.
As one American comedian said "Trump is like a scared horse loose in a children's hospital!"
Ratings and advertising revenue is going to plummet. Lot of people going to lose jobs and the talent have to make do with lower contracts.
It's their own fault really. It's a lot of people's fault.
Yeah can you imagine Trump's mental and physical health at nearly 80 after 4 years of brooding and comfort eating?
It won't be good. He'll most likely have another stroke well before then.
In the meantime my post from a couple of months ago saying that Biden etc. will do f*ck all for the average American will have also come true.
Jimmy Dore for Pushing AOC for a vote on M4A!!!!! Go Jimmy!!!
My other half worked for the Govt for a month. Her job was to monitor projects and their progress. She would visit the managers of said projects and they would be sat at their desk doing sudoku or reading the golfing times whatever.
They were genuinely surprised to see her asking about the projects. Over and over she was told "look it's a govt project, no one cares, we will just file a report right at the end, nothing will happen...and after all, it's only taxpayers money!"
That's why she quit after a month. It wasn't going to get any better. That and her boss was a creep who was up on three HR disputes with other female staff.
This was both Android and Apple. I even checked all the usual suspects like battery/sleep but nope. Just really bad performance. Sometimes it was instant, the next message a few seconds later would vanish for several minutes or hours. Not just my phone but also on the Apple ones too. Just not what you want from a instant message app. Other apps we tried...worked fine.
This was 18 months ago over a few months.
I and a few friends that tried it never got on with Signal. Messages would arrive hours or even days late for some reason. Did all the usual attempts to fix it to no avail. Just really unreliable. Carrier pigeon would have been more effective.
Shame cos otherwise is was a cool app but instant messaging it was not. Moved over to Whatsapp and that just works. I also use RCS/SMS for customers and just direct messages.
I think for some reason reviewers feel that all phones are also supposed to be games consoles and therefore review them solely from that angle. Due to them also getting all the new phones to review their perception is skewed as they are then trying to make out the version from 6 months previously is seriously obsolete.
For those of us that never game (or even watch movies) on their phones this seems most odd.
You know...a phone is well...kinda a phone.
I live just off of one of the most 'notorious' streets in the UK (thankfully Covid is killing off the Nightclubs and cheap bars too so that's one upside) and it's covered in CCTV cameras from every angle.
However, assaults still happen (I have told them drunks don't think about CCTV) and when they do the Police come knocking on our doors asking us if we have any CCTV in our block that might help them. I reply "No! However, haven't you enough cameras out there as it is?" The copper then looks crestfallen and walks off.
Yeah essentially you get the usual Word/Excel/Outlook to use on 5 machines with 5 different email accounts whatever, but the cloud stuff (Onedrive/teams) is just the one user account.
I had 2 or 3 years ago, a small business that wanted to just buy two subscriptions and share that between 10 users as they really just wanted the Word/Excel/Outlook but somehow I convinced them to get ten subscriptions (no kick back for me) which paid off big time when it came to March as they all had access to the cloud/collaborative stuff on an individual level. There was a bit of push back at the time but as I said "If you cant afford £1200 a year for the software that essentially your £X million turnover business runs off...."
I see a few Dems in denial there. You need to stop that.
But just remember my words as Biden (then Harris in two years after she takes over) and the senior Dems -
Won't increase the minimum wage to a living wage.
Wont increase taxes for the 1% and Corporations, just you.
Won't improve college tuition fees.
Won't get behind Medicare for All.
Keep lessening Wall St regulations.
Keep increasing the military budget.
Keep taking big pharma and fossil fuel lobby money.
Keep on fracking.
Start a couple more illegal wars and up a few existing ones.
Etc. Etc.
You'll maybe think..."Hmmm what's the difference here? Who are these people trying to appeal to?"
Give it another 12 years and most likely the Dems will be as fascistic as the GOP is now.
They always feel they have to appeal to 'wavering' Republican voters with Republican policies rather than give their own party voters anything at all but platitudes. That means they will continue to move to the right.
Just want to point out I'm from the UK and can plainly see this so...
...if I visit a new customer and they say "Oh I have crappy internet!" I always ask if it's TalkTalk. Lo and behold 9 times out of 10 it is.
I tell the customer that their connection should give more than 1.5Mbps. "Oh but TalkTalk say that's as good as it gets!"
I convince them to move to ANY other ISP in the country and that 1.5Mbps connection jumps straight to at least 10Mbps+. Not great but...
doing small business and domestic, Windows 10 is a lot better than all before it.
Before hand if I had to rebuild a machine I had to use specific makers versions of windows to get it to match up with the worn out licence key on the back.
I don't have to go hunting for a dozen drivers any more.
It installs super fast. I tried using a Windows 7 DVD a few weeks ago...waste of life.
I don't have to wait for 348 updates to download and install like I did with a new Windows 7 install.
USB sticks and devices just connect and work within a couple of seconds.
Connecting to wi-fi networks is much faster.
The big updates are getting much faster and with a NVMe drive take just a few minutes.
Pre Windows 10 I was getting 2-3 machines in a week for virus clean ups. Now I get maybe 1 every couple of months and they are mainly scammers with Teamviewer but you have to check just in case.
If I get a machine in that just doesn't want to work in most cases it's the old HDD failing, not the OS. Thanks to Windows 10 that's an easy rebuild to a SSD.
So for me its 90% improvement. The only real issues I have are the annoying setup routine when building a Home version (just f*ck off). And not being able to just press F8 whatever to get into safe mode. Most of the fail-safe/recovery/repair features in 10 just don't work. It's quicker to just copy off the data and rebuild it.
I'm happy overall and the customers are too.
Google says - "Delete or recover deleted Gmail messages. When you delete a message, it stays in your Trash for 30 days. After that time, it will be permanently deleted from your account and can't be recovered."
As I mentioned before, my other half had deleted masses of gmails over years and years. Yes properly deleted from the bin etc. The best you can do.
A couple of years back, woke up one morning to find all those emails back in her Inbox. About 6+ years worth.
Not a happy bunny.
Yes back in 1993 on the way back from San Francisco the BA check in lady asked my brother, Dad and I if we had ever sat upstairs on a 747? Nope!
So we got put upstairs. Nothing fancy but it was cool to be able to watch the pilots if you leaned into the aisle. Also as it was only 30 or so people it was a bit more relaxed and you got a toilet just for upstairs.
Was something to remember. The in flight film was King Ralph, not so memorable.
I also remember on the flight over I walked up to the front of the 747 (club class I guess, it was empty) so I could stand for a few seconds right behind the nose cone right at the front of the plane. I got out before anyone saw me. Though back then people were a bit more relaxed about stuff.
Yes optical media is a nightmare! Has anyone used it recently? I ended up having to rebuild a PC using the Windows DVD a few weeks ago. It took forever. So used to plugging a USB3 stick into a SSD equipped laptop and having it all down in 5 mins or so.
Optical is a waste of time in most cases. Hello to the 21st Century.
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