I would just like to say

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I generally like to spend Christmas underneath the Land Rover, but I haven't really got any jobs to do on it just now. I took the transfer box apart for a gear and bearing check and new seals a few weeks ago, prior to its MOT, so that should be OK for a while now. I have bought a new bush kit and set of bolts for the suspension, but I shan't do that just yet. There'll be a period in February when I won't be able to travel so I'll pick away at it corner by corner. But nothing that's exactly pressing over Christmas . . .
 
...that I just checked on the DVLA website and the details of "GWEN" the mini have been updated and a new V5 sent out on the 19th. The DVLA site now has the correct colour, and the correct engine cc. :)
Next step, get a valuation for the British Mini Club when I have the V5 and can submit a copy and the photos of the car. :)
Then with the approved valuation I can insure it on an "agreed value" basis. Estimates put it at anywhere from 8 to 12 grand which might be good when I come to sell it at some point.
 
DanClarke said:
Morning All. :D
PC is FUBAR, graphics are all blocky so cannot see what I am typing.
T-7 to 70. :)
I hope this says Have a lovely day! :D
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I've just renewed a lot of my stuff over the last few days. It started with a desire for a new monitor. I had been using a cheap flat screen TV for the last couple of years, because I got it to replace a broken one and I needed something that was big, cheap and available via next day delivery. Pictures look nice but text is a bit pixellated. So I bought a nice new monitor the other day. Lovely. But it's a 21:9 aspect ratio which my old computer wouldn't support - everything was stretched out to fit the screen. So I ordered a new graphics card. This turned out to be far too big; it had a standard male PCI connector, but wouldn't go in because of where the hard drive caddies go, and these are spot welded to the inside of the case, plus it would foul the places where all the SATA connectors go on the motherboard. Oh well, time for a new case and motherboard. So I've ended up replacing almost everything. The last of the bits I needed arrived yesterday and I spent the afternoon putting it together, adding software and transferring my work files. One thing that's slightly disturbing is how much of my personal data Google has - most of my autocomplete usernames and passwords were there automatically on my new machine, including the supposedly hard to crack ones that are random strings of special characters. I'm sure Sergey Brin, Jeff Bezos et al are really nice guys, but I'm not entirely comfortable with them being able to use my bank account.

It's all zipping along nicely. I've never had so much RAM before in my life.
 
Brown said:
I've just renewed a lot of my stuff over the last few days. It started with a desire for a new monitor. I had been using a cheap flat screen TV for the last couple of years, because I got it to replace a broken one and I needed something that was big, cheap and available via next day delivery. Pictures look nice but text is a bit pixellated. So I bought a nice new monitor the other day. Lovely. But it's a 21:9 aspect ratio which my old computer wouldn't support - everything was stretched out to fit the screen. So I ordered a new graphics card. This turned out to be far too big; it had a standard male PCI connector, but wouldn't go in because of where the hard drive caddies go, and these are spot welded to the inside of the case, plus it would foul the places where all the SATA connectors go on the motherboard. Oh well, time for a new case and motherboard. So I've ended up replacing almost everything. The last of the bits I needed arrived yesterday and I spent the afternoon putting it together, adding software and transferring my work files. One thing that's slightly disturbing is how much of my personal data Google has - most of my autocomplete usernames and passwords were there automatically on my new machine, including the supposedly hard to crack ones that are random strings of special characters. I'm sure Sergey Brin, Jeff Bezos et al are really nice guys, but I'm not entirely comfortable with them being able to use my bank account.

It's all zipping along nicely. I've never had so much RAM before in my life.
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Disable the 'remember password' setting in yer web browsers. And tellit to delete the passwords its saved so far.
 
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This crispmus be different. Each year eye finks to meself eye hassa lot of jobs to do. Un dun't do them. This year be different. Eye be wukking most days on me fings to do list. Some repairs to me castle. Alarm magnets need lifted to make em closer to the switches. Need to link up me new water butts. Clean the windows ootside. Service ma hippo. Not gottid all the bits eye need but will make a list to order thems. Few fings need doing fer wuk to make the new year easier. Need to finish me wardrobe buildering. Kitchen needs a big clean. Need to reorganise fings and havva chuck oot. Wuk oot where to get the pocket bits eye need for me nooker table. Wuk oot how to purrit on wheels.
 
Brown said:
I've just renewed a lot of my stuff over the last few days. It started with a desire for a new monitor. I had been using a cheap flat screen TV for the last couple of years, because I got it to replace a broken one and I needed something that was big, cheap and available via next day delivery. Pictures look nice but text is a bit pixellated. So I bought a nice new monitor the other day. Lovely. But it's a 21:9 aspect ratio which my old computer wouldn't support - everything was stretched out to fit the screen. So I ordered a new graphics card. This turned out to be far too big; it had a standard male PCI connector, but wouldn't go in because of where the hard drive caddies go, and these are spot welded to the inside of the case, plus it would foul the places where all the SATA connectors go on the motherboard. Oh well, time for a new case and motherboard. So I've ended up replacing almost everything. The last of the bits I needed arrived yesterday and I spent the afternoon putting it together, adding software and transferring my work files. One thing that's slightly disturbing is how much of my personal data Google has - most of my autocomplete usernames and passwords were there automatically on my new machine, including the supposedly hard to crack ones that are random strings of special characters. I'm sure Sergey Brin, Jeff Bezos et al are really nice guys, but I'm not entirely comfortable with them being able to use my bank account.

It's all zipping along nicely. I've never had so much RAM before in my life.
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Got my eye on an upgrade for my iMac after Christmas… the Mac mini M4 pro is looking likely
 
Freddie17 said:
Got my eye on an upgrade for my iMac after Christmas… the Mac mini M4 pro is looking likely
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Xylia's the Apple enthusiast in our household. Her little workstation in the front room is decorated with iPads, iPhones and a massive all-in-one affair with retina screen. I've never got on well with Apple devices myself. I'm incapable of intuiting the intuitive interface and making them do anything much. I like being able to slot components into PCs and easily see all my files!
Hippo said:
Disable the 'remember password' setting in yer web browsers. And tellit to delete the passwords its saved so far.
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Yes, there's ways round it. I'd just naively assumed that the auto-fill passwords were being stored on the local machine. Last time I got a new computer was around four years ago and I had to re-enter everything. My goodness me how times have changed.

As someone who's only an occasional Apple user, I also find myself a little disturbed by the kind of person it wants me to be. Someone middle class and Californian, sufficiently well off to afford all their gear, with endless vistas of leisure time. Someone with a dilettante interest in creative pursuits, yet who definitely isn't geeky or an obsessive gamer. Someone who's parents are still alive (and you still speak to them!), so you can give them Apple products for Christmas and birthdays so they can get locked into the Apple ecosystem too, with relentless Facetime bonhomie. I find myself instinctively recoiling from this world that's offered via Apple products, yet many people find it strangely inviting.
 
Brown said:
Xylia's the Apple enthusiast in our household. Her little workstation in the front room is decorated with iPads, iPhones and a massive all-in-one affair with retina screen. I've never got on well with Apple devices myself. I'm incapable of intuiting the intuitive interface and making them do anything much. I like being able to slot components into PCs and easily see all my files!

Yes, there's ways round it. I'd just naively assumed that the auto-fill passwords were being stored on the local machine. Last time I got a new computer was around four years ago and I had to re-enter everything. My goodness me how times have changed.

As someone who's only an occasional Apple user, I also find myself a little disturbed by the kind of person it wants me to be. Someone middle class and Californian, sufficiently well off to afford all their gear, with endless vistas of leisure time. Someone with a dilettante interest in creative pursuits, yet who definitely isn't geeky or an obsessive gamer. Someone who's parents are still alive (and you still speak to them!), so you can give them Apple products for Christmas and birthdays so they can get locked into the Apple ecosystem too, with relentless Facetime bonhomie. I find myself instinctively recoiling from this world that's offered via Apple products, yet many people find it strangely inviting.
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I know Apple gear gets some volks like that. I went to a MacBook about 4 years ago having got fed up with all the faff of using Microsoft and the ecosystem doesn't bother me as my major use is for editing photos. My basic 13" MacBook easily handles the DXO editing suite with only 8gb of RAM (and Apple Silicon). Like most things, it's horses for courses.
 
DevonGuy said:
I know Apple gear gets some volks like that. I went to a MacBook about 4 years ago having got fed up with all the faff of using Microsoft and the ecosystem doesn't bother me as my major use is for editing photos. My basic 13" MacBook easily handles the DXO editing suite with only 8gb of RAM (and Apple Silicon). Like most things, it's horses for courses.
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Yes, that's always been an attractive feature of Apple products. The straight-out-of-the-box facilities for playing with pictures, music and online communications have always been ahead of what you get with PCs. They've also put a lot of effort into their screens and even their packaging.
 
Brown said:
I generally like to spend Christmas underneath the Land Rover, but I haven't really got any jobs to do on it just now. I took the transfer box apart for a gear and bearing check and new seals a few weeks ago, prior to its MOT, so that should be OK for a while now. I have bought a new bush kit and set of bolts for the suspension, but I shan't do that just yet. There'll be a period in February when I won't be able to travel so I'll pick away at it corner by corner. But nothing that's exactly pressing over Christmas . . .
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You can always come and lay under my Defender nice and soft on 50mm of snow 😃😃❄❄
 
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