Dave Rice

+1 to the aerial. It may be worth looking at Freesat if you need a new aerial anyway. I have Freesat and the channels are pretty much the same, but like Steve I’m find we’re streaming more and more. If I stream Seven Worlds One Planet from iPlayer I get it in 4K and it’s stunning.

Dan, with my daughter being in Bangor I know those trips down the borders well. The Manchester to Cardiff train is positively luxurious compared to the direct ones that run up through Hereford, Shrewsbury and Chester. You get a massive discount from Transport for Wales traveling via Hereford on their cattle trucks – £56 compared to £107 on a s…[Read more]

Why the Europeans can make it work and we can’t is always beyond me.

It needs sorting, Boris has seen the need to get it sorted too but in a different way (and I don’t mean HS2).

Due to my particular disability I use public transport a lot and it’s atrocious in this country. If you’re in London it’s a totally different world but why the rest of us are not allowed to use that model is beyond me. Mind you it keeps…[Read more]

Just checked my Humax remote and there is no Netflix (it may be available on the GUI however) and it’s not that old. Must be a recent addition.

I have the answer to fidelity issues, too many Motorhead concerts in your youth.

Saved me a fortune on posh kit.

You’re quite right Bob, Netflix is on there. I never noticed, probably because the kitchen TV is smart in itself and has Netflix in it’s own right.

I see on Richer Sounds Panasonic are doing STBs at the same price points. If the GUI is the same as my Panasonic Freesat TV then I find it easier to use than the Humax.

Yep, no Netflix etc., the STB is a dying product. I certainly appreciate having no boxes under the TV apart from the sound bar and only 1 remote to deal with. Recording is to a…[Read more]

That just gets in the way of a good story these days.

Apart from the national Three outage I’ve not had any issues. Speeds are up and down, that’s the nature of it, but mid to late 30’s is the usual which is fine for me.

I’m holding on to that last gaming PC I built for a while as it’s now turned into a Christmas present.

Off on my travels tomorrow for a week though so it may be a while until I get around to it.

Wow. But a 2080Ti costs as much as the rest of the PC around it!

Still, give it 3 years and this will be mainstream.

Sorry Nolan, been distracted. What I remembered as laptop ram was desktop.

With regards amazon I have tried the qomox and timetec ram and its fine, indeed that’s what my T420 is using.

Studies show it doesn’t make a material difference. It’s all guess work.

Most of us here are in the same boat, it’s the great British public who don’t do backups 😀 and it’s them that expect I can rescue those precious photos and get pissy when I can’t!

Classic was a laptop from the sister of a friend of my wife, “it just stopped working”. Hard drive was OK, got the data off but a red sticky residue was the give away.…[Read more]

I’ll have a look in the morning, there’s a good chance.

I am now of the opinion that for your average Joe the plus points of having a Microsoft account outweigh the negative. Lets be honest, the negatives are all really privacy concerns and in this day and age they are out of the window (no pun intended) anyway. There are few things you can get that is effectively free that isn’t using you as the…[Read more]

No it won’t keep rolling over just like that, there are end dates. The first was the article 50 timeout which we got an extension for, then another extension recently. Temporary emergency provisions had been put in place by the EU to keep things like planes flying if there were no deal. Note by the EU because as a 3rd party country we don’t get to…[Read more]

No we won’t continue as we are until we get some new deals, there is a transition period and that expires. After that it’s No Deal and all the pain that goes with it if nothing has been sorted.