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"When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called 'the People's Stick'"

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  • Here we go again, equating correlation to causation.

    If you’ve been following recent news regarding a Windows update that was released for the month of August there were claims that it ‘bricked’ their SSD (even though it doesn’t fit the definition of ‘bricked’ given that simply turning it off and back on again addresses it) or their computer crashed. Here is the problem,…

  • A quiet and uneventful day.

    Today was a quiet and uneventful day at work – nothing out of the usual, just the same customer queries along with the odd laugh. It appears that things have calmed down after having an initial flurry of action that have come about due to some changes. It’ll be interesting to see everything works out…

  • Feeling good, getting back into the groove of things.

    I had a good day to day, finished work at 10pm and went for my nightly walk. Last week I was a bit lazy and didn’t go for my walk each night because…well..lets me honest, I didn’t feel like it but I decided that this week I needed to get back into my routine of…

  • Back to work Wednesday.

    The weekend went fast but I’m back to work on Wednesday for all the fun and excitement that it entails. There is a new Chrome release on Wednesday, version 140 (link), which includes a decent number of problems along with uBlock Origin Lite 2025.831.1814 now available in the Chrome and Edge extension stores and on…

  • A lot of catching up to do.

    Yesterday I went down to my local computer outlet to help mum purchase a few much needed items and while I was down there I had a look at what was on offer in the way of customer built computer. I was having a look at the Dell desktop as outlined in a previous post…

  • A productive day.

    I started the day off with an early start with the courier coming to pick up the computer I had just sold – so much easier to get a courier to pick it up rather than trying to find some way to get down to the place where the courier company operates. After it being…

  • Concentration of capital leads to political capture.

    For a long time I’ve considered myself centre left primarily because I would consider my position on social matters being that of a civil libertarian but my economic position was a mixture of moderate to centre left – basically a social democrat. Long story short, there is the old saying that you become more conservative…

  • Setting up a server, getting ready to ship tomorrow.

    I’ve finally got myself motivated to install Fedora Server 42 onto my mum’s old Intel NUC and I was quite surprised how well it is running. When it is setup it doesn’t have a GUI so the amount of resources, both memory as well as storage space, is kept to a minimum. I’ve transferred some…

  • Raining, not raining then raining again.

    Last night I went for a small walk but tonight it was raining, then it would stop then it would suddenly start raining again – I’ve learnt my lesson from last time and that is to not go out and risk getting stuck in a downpour given that I got absolutely drenched and it took…

  • You cannot beat the reliability of a cable.

    There appears to be one constant in life and that is the lousy reliability of synchronising over wifi – it never worked when I had a Mac and it appears with the Phone Link that has continued. On a good side, hooking up the phone via a USB-C cable to my laptop and then dragging/dropping…