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#31

Tactile / Re: That 'big project' I've be...

Last post by James Harrison - August 27, 2024, 04:29:13 PM

Welp, this whole 'I want the Edwardian style, but I don't want to live in a museum' thing is going well. 





Because that's now another genuine piece of Edwardian furniture I've laid my hands on.

#32

Photography / Re: Rusted relics

Last post by chironex - August 27, 2024, 11:21:34 AM

#33

Off Topic / Re: GAAAAAHHHHHH Mk.VI: The Re...

Last post by LukeHogbin - August 27, 2024, 08:22:41 AM

Submitted my welfare application form with all the paperwork in the beginning of the month. Had to poke the people at the department of social services why it hasn't been processed yet. Received a return e-mail that it has been processed today. (And I submitted it on Aug 2nd)

Guess who's entirely without money. And at this rate, I'll only get welfare near the end of SEPTEMBER.

#34

Off Topic / Re: GAAAAAHHHHHH Mk.VI: The Re...

Last post by von Corax - August 26, 2024, 06:27:24 PM

New PSU arrived and was installed last night. Nightly backups are once again happening.

#35

Tactile / Re: That 'big project' I've be...

Last post by James Harrison - August 26, 2024, 11:26:38 AM

And to all intents and purposes that's the end of the 2024 Programme. 







The last items on the to-do list were to clean up and stain the door and the doorframe, which was the work of maybe an hour this morning. 

So, now I have the fun task of deciding what will be on the 2025 Programme.  Watch this space, I guess.

#36

Off Topic / Re: GAAAAAHHHHHH Mk.VI: The Re...

Last post by von Corax - August 24, 2024, 11:48:54 PM

My primary desktop computer croaked last night. This is the one I use to surf and code, and the one that does the automatic backup for Brass Goggles.

I have ordered a new PSU which should arrive tomorrow.

#37

Metaphysical / Re: Instagram

Last post by J. Wilhelm - August 22, 2024, 12:53:11 PM

I got nieces in NY CA and my brother lives around the corner from you so it's not a country thing.

I don't know.  But I have no other source for the app.  It comes from the official Google Play Store and I've installed it twice with the same results.  There's no magic going on with my phone. There's nothing special about it and all the questionable messages come exclusively through WhatsApp, not Skype nor my cellular service.

Anyhow, all the spam comes from Asia or Africa anyway, and it's advertising from some manufacturing outfit, with product pictures, company descriptions and phone contacts, etc. I don't get any messages or calls from Europe at all. You can block and report the numbers but new ones keep popping up every single week.

Other than that, every once in a blue moon I'll get a wrong voice call on Skype, and mostly random wrong calls on cellular coming from the US, but that's not advertising. It's just wrong calls or physhing attempts/ robocalls which I always got without WhatsApp installed.

I'm going to dump it, because the only purpose of having it was to talk to my uncle when he went to Costa Rica.

#38

Metaphysical / Re: Instagram

Last post by SeVeNeVeS - August 21, 2024, 09:50:46 AM

I got nieces in NY CA and my brother lives around the corner from you so it's not a country thing.

#39

Metaphysical / Re: Instagram

Last post by J. Wilhelm - August 20, 2024, 09:23:34 PM

Are you sure it's a legit version?

I've asked my family and no one has issues with it.

Maybe uninstall it then install a version from google apps...... dunno to honest.

As legit as the Google Play Store can give me...  The only thing I can think of is that somehow EU regulations do affect operations in the UK.  You have to remember that I live in the Americas.

#40

Metaphysical / Re: Instagram

Last post by SeVeNeVeS - August 20, 2024, 04:57:56 PM

Are you sure it's a legit version?

I've asked my family and no one has issues with it.

Maybe uninstall it then install a version from google apps...... dunno to honest.