I think I can kill two birds with one video with this one.

Paid €1.91 for petrol in Waterford today.

isha wrote: ↑Sat Mar 05, 2022 1:07 pm Remember Freedom Fries?
Maybe the non Russian vodka could be renamed. Vodnyet? Vodnet? Novodka?

Putin Piss?

Frank wrote: ↑Fri Mar 04, 2022 10:58 pm They really need to do something for industry or the country halts.

The only good thing is afaik its affecting all of Europe so no country will be specifically disadvantaged?

I don't think you can prep for inflation unless of course you can afford to go and buy a decent amount of gold. If you stock up all it will do is put off the day you have to pay more for your weekly shop. Far better to change your whole outlook and shop better. Make your food from basic ingredients,...

A new dose of Star Trek SciFi started yesterday Star Trek: Picard, not sure about it yet after just the one episode which did far to much looking back but it still wasn't bad. If anyone wants a good laugh at people with unfortunate taste in fashion may I suggest Love, Lust or Run which is new to Pri...

Over two weeks since my last post and we've hardly gone down below 8k cases a day currently Covid: Ireland logs 8,337 further cases on Friday

So since my last post that's a minimum of another 125k cases of covid.

So going up a screen size and staying on Adverts then https://www.adverts.ie/laptops/lenovo-laptop-thinkpad-t450s-i7-8gb-ram-128ssd/26245156 caught my attention. Essentially its the same standard of build as the X260 but a bit bigger. Ram upgradable to 24GB (one stick is soldered on) and I know that...

Don't forget to check resolution as well as screen size. For example if you compare with one that I believe gets some good recommendation the Lenovo IdeaPad 5i then you will see a massive difference in resolution https://www.lenovo.com/ie/en/laptops/ideapad/500-series/IdeaPad-5i-14IIL05/p/88IPS50139...

That does worry me a bit. I find the screen a little small but fine because I want a netbook size machine for travelling. I've just logged into gubu.ie on my X260 and its perfectly OK and easy to read. But I find the 1366 x 768 resolution a bit limiting occasionally as you need full screen for a bro...

Thats fine so you get the internal battery (windows shows it as battery 1) and the external (battery 2). The picture in the display shows that the battery is fully charged which will be at least 90%. I'd say it was a reasonable deal. I held off on a few of those and eventually found a cheaper one bu...

Thats exactly what mine is. The software has to be pirate so take that out of the equation when adding up the price. Mine was €150 + €70 RAM upgrade (we can exclude the SDD upgrade as ming also came with 256GB SSD) so cost me €220 for the same thing. Personally because I'm a bit cheap I think €260 i...

As a sort of starting point (assuming something like a cheap Lenovo 3 wouldn't do) I be looking at a Huawei MateBook and similar products around that price. https://www.amazon.co.uk/HUAWEI-MateBook-Ultrabook-Multi-screen-Collaboration/dp/B099ZWNZX6/ I'm happy with a secondhand €150 Thinkpad X260 fro...

Some usage info would be good and of course your budget? Assume you mean a Lenovo S400, a lightweight machine with a decent sized screen. Don't take too much notice of me because I'm happy with an ultraportable netbook but if you are using a desktop for intensive tasks you perhaps only need somethin...

My wife will often take a look at my desktop (windows understanding of the word) and complain that I have too many tabs open, because as all non techies know - it slows the machine down :o . I daren't really tell her how much money I spent on this computer making sure it didn't slow down, which remi...

Frank wrote: ↑Thu Mar 03, 2022 6:20 pm I only ever have one tab open. Any more and it just doesn’t sit right with me.

How do you research anything? Its hard work doing that in just one tab?

I assume later on he Boy Scouts?

Ikea will close and no longer do buissness in Russia, pressure now needs to be put on all the fast food head quarters like McDonald's and KFC to leave the Russian market and rip up whatever franchise agreements they have there,which is not many as they own 84% of there stores there, also people tod...

I don't read all instructions but when I saw piece of paper that dropped out from a roll of rope I bought in Lidl I was interested to see what it could possibly tell me. LOL looks like I shouldn't use the rope at all . My rather autistic reading of the "instructions Not Suitable for use as pers...

In other news, I see the fleet and nimble post-Brexit Britain is struggling with doubts about the legality of seizing Tory-donor Russian oligarchs' assets, and thinks it may take "a few weeks" to send solicitors letters to the interested parties before they take action, assuming the oliga...

Nothing that exciting but I've just bought another very cheap Mikrotik router to experiment with. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B017W43M4M/ This one often goes down from around £15 to a tenner. Its preinstalled with the Liberty Shield script so you can't initially use the Router OS, but its quick work...

quodec wrote: ↑Wed Mar 02, 2022 9:42 pm Couldn't possibly divulge that info....

I knew there would be one (probably more )

Well sfa last week in episode 15 and now this week's episode (S09E16) is called "Gold Diggers" think that must be some metaphor for mining money out of TV programmes. However I bet they make "An incredible Discovery" that will lead them to making more money making episodes. https...

Sat here now looking at the computer screen I have my usual tabs open. Gmail Hotmail Gubu - of course Met.ie Breaking news (who'd of guessed) Prime Video Home page Youtube Just Watch set for Prime in Ireland Torrent site with a search for new stuff Another torrent site with a search specifically for...

YOU PROBABLY ALSO NEED TO KEEP OUT OF THE SMOKING ROOM