I just got a new phone when my old be crapped out on me while in Vietnam, and the local guy I found who deals in cash only had iphones or Samsungs. So, I held my nose and got a Jump2.

I’ve been through, disabled as much as possible, added fdroid stuff for all the daily use things, and put a killswitch VPN on.

Seems to be doing alright … I’m not obsessive about security, and I need Play Store stuff for work, so this is about as good as it gets, lol

Oh yeah, the G3 tower was a thing of beauty - neat design, serviceable, and lovely to use <3

Yup, and it’s on what was a mid-line laptop from 3 years ago. Only just started recently.

At home I use a thinkpad that I got 2nd hand 10 years back, and it feels like warp speed by comparison.

Indeed, I don’t have admin rights for anything outside of IP address changes at work.

I just thought of another bug bear, start menu lag on mouse clicks is a very odd problem, I don’t remember anything like that, even on the first release of Windows 95 which I ran on a laptop with 25MHz and 8 Mb of ram.

Fair enough, I use 10 and 11 at work and hate it … I used to like 7, using the control panel, search, default paths and stuff seemed a lot more intuitive.

That’s why I stick with Linux at home, it feels a lot more like Windows used to, lol

What’s been your favourite version of Windows?

I agree with you over all (however when I’ve spoken with Mossos it’s been much better than with the Guardia Civil, so they are not all bad)

I was thinking of their motivations. Regarding terrorism, they missed one guy who planned an attack, so it’s not surprising they want to chase all Muslims now. I think a lot of it is to do with protecting their backs.

After the big shooting earlier this year I believe they’re more worried about drug dealers than pickpockets … plus there was a bunch of raids just a couple of months back where they found the organised crime was very organised.

I agree about the mossos not tackling pickpockets, but it’s fair to say there’s things they’re doing that are good too.

Take a Bow by Muse works almost too perfectly, too

Star Trek Spoiler

See Picard series 2 for that

I tried to watch it about two weeks ago with my other half since it’s a movie neither of us has seen, we got to about 45 mins in decided to give up. I think it’s one of the worst movies I’ve ever tried to watch