Posts by David 132

Sounds ghastly, doesn’t it?

Computers now with Genuine People Personalities.

Icon, because I need to drink several of these, the world’s clearly ending.

Re: we opted to run Linpack in Vultr

That’s why we all read Th Regstr.

Re: Nailed it

@Ian J

Hmm. That’s puzzling. In my experience Firefox, when I give in and close it to finish its update, automatically saves the state of however many tabs I have open, and invariably restores them when the new version launches.

So I only lose a few seconds of time (which is why I said “irrational” in my original comment :) …) but fortunately no work.

I wonder if I’m just missing something? Or if you had some extension(s) installed that were interfering with the auto-tab-save mechanism?

Re: You think it was just another isolated incident....?

For bigger printers I recommend a 5 pound lump hammer and a bit of menacing. Sorts them right out.

"'PC Load Letter'? What the **** does that mean??"

How have we got to the point where 8GB is "usable for basic browsing / word-processing etc."?

(Not having a go at you BTW... just the lazy, bloated state of the industry today.)

Re: What a missed opportunity

Coo. I did not know any of that.

(I'd love to know what the rationale of your downvoter was.

An NFT investor perhaps, upset that he can't clearly see his ugly Jpegs of monkeys any more and that we're all mocking THE NEXT BIG THING IN GETTING SUPER RICH FAST™?)

Just set up a PiHole on your LAN and configure your router to point to it as the local DNS server when handing out DHCP leases. Job done, your wife will see fewer ads and you won’t have to touch her machine - well, unless her browser has DNS-over-HTTPS enabled (AKA Cloudflare’s end-run around PiHole) :)

Yep, and I see there's a docker container for Jellyfin too, so all needed bases are covered!

Re: Raspberry Pi Foundation has lost its way

@snowpages

Why have you been downvoted for a perfectly factual and un-opinionated comment?

Sigh. I'll never understand the mindset of some people.

Cylinder? From space, you say? Can’t believe I’m the only one to think of this…

“Suddenly the top of the cylinder began moving, rotating, unscrewing. Ogilvy feared there was a man inside trying to escape. He rushed to the cylinder but the intense heat stopped him before he could burn himself on the metal…”

Re: Threads

I believe the current zeitgeist would be something like "Threadr".

Re: The Register feels no need to elucidate Australian drinking habits.

Neil, eh?

We'll call you "Bruce". It'll be less confusing.

Re: Dreams are free

>a washing machine processor sounds pretty adequate.

The first space vessel ever that orbits the Earth thirty times in one direction, then stops abruptly and orbits three times in the other direction, then sits motionless in LEO for ten minutes whirring, and then finally plays a jaunty little tune and unlocks the capsule door.

Re: I've always been curious...

Beat me to the obvious joke. Have one of these.

Re: We should all thank Musk.

I had tried to, but thank you for undoing months of expensive therapy!

Re: MS Word 1.0 for DOS

Do you perhaps mean 512KB of RAM? Or did you have the world's beefiest XT? :)

Re: Pardon my lack of trust

As 2 people at time of writing this have downvoted you but no-one's bothered to explain... no, this isn't HTTPS, which is entirely different.

HTTPS is encryption of the traffic between your endpoint and the website you're viewing.

DoH, by contrast, is sending all your DNS requests over HTTPS to a "trusted" DNS provider, instead of in plaintext to your ISP's own DNS servers.

The touted advantage is that a) your ISP doesn't get to see which site addresses you're looking up, and b) your DNS queries can't be MITM'ed.

The entirely accidental advantage - albeit not for you, the end-user - is that whoever you've chosen as your "trusted" DNS provider now gets all your DNS lookup traffic instead. Cloudflare (and Google, I believe but I might be wrong - see disclaimer below) have, out of the goodness of their hearts, been early movers for providing DoH services.

In many markets, Firefox auto-enables DoH out of the box and routes everything to Cloudflare - a choice I don't agree with, but YMMV.

(If there are gaps in the above explanation, full disclosure - I have never enabled DoH or indeed checked out alternative providers, and my preferred browser is Firefox.)

Re: 2G is perfect for this

Do they think phones have a “4G/5G” button along the same lines as the Turbo button on old PCs?

Re: Great. We're getting there

Stardates or GTFO.

Re: But...

Getting a bit shouty there. Have a dried frog pill - I have plenty.