Search found 213 matches
- Fri May 17, 2024 7:16 am
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: Trackballs
- Replies: 4
- Views: 64
Re: Trackballs
We had a couple of trackball fans where I worked. The only problems came (regularly) when they started to get jumpy due to a build of of crud on the rollers underneath the ball. Basically human skin, grease and dust. Such fun to clean out.....
- Fri May 17, 2024 7:12 am
- Forum: Distros
- Topic: Asmi linux
- Replies: 4
- Views: 54
Re: Asmi linux
Ubuntu without snap - looks like a possibility. https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/05/15/asmi_2404_ubuntu_without_snap/ https://blog.teejeetech.com/2024/04/27/asmi-24-04-release-notes/ https://blog.teejeetech.com/2024/04/27/asmi-24-04-final/ I normally read The Reg every day, ...
- Wed May 01, 2024 6:33 am
- Forum: Distros
- Topic: Ubuntu 24.04 released
- Replies: 3
- Views: 323
Re: Ubuntu 24.04 released
This was not exactly unexpected, I've been banging on about exactly this since 2022 when it became obvious that Canonical intends to drag linux into a snap walled garden one way or another. By 26.04 they will have made it impossible to install deb files at all because of changes they have made to &q...
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 6:31 am
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Microsoft intends to record everything you do on your PC for “AI” processing
- Replies: 5
- Views: 122
Microsoft intends to record everything you do on your PC for “AI” processing
https://www.osnews.com/story/139462/mic ... rocessing/
Sort of inevitable really.
Disguised with a load of microsoft feature doublespeak, but it is only going one way.
Sort of inevitable really.
Disguised with a load of microsoft feature doublespeak, but it is only going one way.
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 6:26 am
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: The weather has been crazy
- Replies: 1267
- Views: 168256
Re: The weather has been crazy
We are just entering the first spell of dry weather (more than 2 days without rain) since October last year. It does seem very strange, the lawn is not waterlogged, the lakes that have formed in fields starting to dry up, soon they'll stop overflowing onto the roads - so they'll be dry. Potholes wil...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 6:08 am
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: German state migrating 30000 workers to Linux
- Replies: 3
- Views: 163
Re: German state migrating 30000 workers to Linux
Given that Softmaker is a German company and that Softmaker Office is far less alien (to an MS Office user) than LibreOffice - and is better with MS Office files - I am puzzled that they didn't go down that route. OK there's a cost but it is a well supported product and I reckon a good deal was to b...
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 7:34 am
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Beware of Phone Scams
- Replies: 5
- Views: 149
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 7:18 am
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Beware of Phone Scams
- Replies: 5
- Views: 149
Re: Beware of Phone Scams
Cue Bob Marley!
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 6:55 am
- Forum: Distros
- Topic: Kubuntu powered by Trinity
- Replies: 3
- Views: 213
Re: Kubuntu powered by Trinity
There's Q4OS version of 22.04 Quark + Trinity https://sourceforge.net/projects/quark- ... o/download
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 6:18 am
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: When did the UK go metric?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 160
Re: When did the UK go metric?
It's not so much a process of conversion as gradual slide. For example our road distances are in miles, but the BBC have decided that for broadcast purposes we use metres/kilometres as well. We buy fuel in litres but still use mpg (miles per gallon) as a measure of fuel efficiency - well lets face i...