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Derek27
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Burger King used to do double Whoppers and XL double cheeseburgers for £3 in their Appy hour. Now they've sneakily reduced it to single Whopper and standard cheeseburger for the same price.
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Derek27
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I backed up my OS with IDrive and the backup file is almost twice the size of the data! Not only is there no compression but it seems to do a start to finish backup, with all the freespace in between!
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Derek27
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What dirty bastard blows his nose and dumps his tissue in the trolley? He'll be wiping his arse next!
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Derek27 wrote:
Sat Sep 16, 2023 6:24 pm
What dirty bastard blows his nose and dumps his tissue in the trolley? He'll be wiping his arse next!
It's a constant mystery to my generation how younger generations dispose of litter. Scenario : Go to a park or beauty spot etc, consume stuff. Tie the detritus in the carrier bag you used to bring it to the venue and then - leave it there. "Not my problem pal". True enough, until a critter rips the bag apart for the remaining morsels and the contents are spread on the wind, and then it's everyone's problem.
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greenmark wrote:
Sat Sep 16, 2023 9:12 pm
Derek27 wrote:
Sat Sep 16, 2023 6:24 pm
What dirty bastard blows his nose and dumps his tissue in the trolley? He'll be wiping his arse next!
It's a constant mystery to my generation how younger generations dispose of litter. Scenario : Go to a park or beauty spot etc, consume stuff. Tie the detritus in the carrier bag you used to bring it to the venue and then - leave it there. "Not my problem pal". True enough, until a critter rips the bag apart for the remaining morsels and the contents are spread on the wind, and then it's everyone's problem.
The distinction isn't generations but ages. When I was young I would gob everywhere and drop litter anywhere without a care in the world. :lol:
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Just got my clothes out of the washing machine. I realise now when I was painting my shed, it would have just taken five minutes to change into old clothes and move my mini greenhouse away from the shed. Obviously couldn't be arsed, decided to make the squeezed between the shed and greenhouse and now I've ruined my best tee-shirt and only pair of shorts, as well as splattering my greenhouse plastic covering with paint.
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FFS, Betfair changed its mind 3 times over the goal at Sevilla!
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I've just reset my Android phone and now it's waiting for me to sign into WiFi so it can download 239Mb of fuck knows what! No control over a flipping smartphone!
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I will not eat a Pizza with pepperoni on it, I'm not buying a Pizza with pineapple on it either. I like Ham and Mushroom. I just keep seeing Derek's Pepperoni Pizza avatar :cry:
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Trial by media is a scary concept. What ever happened to Due Process ?
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Archangel wrote:
Mon Sep 18, 2023 8:38 pm
Trial by media is a scary concept. What ever happened to Due Process ?
Sophie Ridge is a self-proclaimed feminist and she could hardly hide her belief that Brand is guilty. But Nick Farrari went even further and was talking about Brand taking young girls back to the toilets. They shouldn't really be talking about it while a police investigation is imminent.
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Good to know that the component store is repairable but you stopped short of saying whether or not it's broken!

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Derek27 wrote:
Mon Sep 18, 2023 4:56 pm
I've just reset my Android phone and now it's waiting for me to sign into WiFi so it can download 239Mb of fuck knows what! No control over a flipping smartphone!
Indeed. I run low on storage and a big cuplrit is Google Play Services.
I clear the data (usually 250Mb). 5 minutes later it's back up to 250Mb.
I can't uninstall or disable it. Gits!
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greenmark wrote:
Tue Sep 19, 2023 12:20 pm
Derek27 wrote:
Mon Sep 18, 2023 4:56 pm
I've just reset my Android phone and now it's waiting for me to sign into WiFi so it can download 239Mb of fuck knows what! No control over a flipping smartphone!
Indeed. I run low on storage and a big cuplrit is Google Play Services.
I clear the data (usually 250Mb). 5 minutes later it's back up to 250Mb.
I can't uninstall or disable it. Gits!
Don't do that, it's a core software component linked to device security
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Derek27 wrote:
Mon Sep 18, 2023 4:56 pm
! No control over a flipping smartphone!
There is, you need to Root it.
Users can install and run applications on rooted Android phones and tablets that require special privileges, bypass carrier-installed software, and even remove bloatware applications (as opposed to simply disabling them). Root access is even needed if you want to install trivial things like certain custom fonts, and rooting Android can also unlock new features in certain apps and launchers.

Bit of a faff but you don't want people who don't understand the tech messing about with their OS. It's easier to just let them rant about not being able to do it. ;)
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