I’ve been dreading booting back into Windows recently because I upgraded my motherboard/CPU and know they are going to make me buy another license.

Windows tends to be better at this these days. If this does happen though, go through the activation process and start the troubleshooter. There’s an option there to transfer the licence from another machine. You should be able to transfer it from the same machine if Windows thinks it’s a new one.

This assumes that it’s the same version of Windows, but in your case it shouldn’t be changing 👍

I’ve genuinely seen a post asking for help because DISM wouldn’t run, where the recommended answer was to run DISM 🙈

I mean, if you were feeling particularly bored and mischievous, it wouldn’t be too difficult to make a few fake accounts and post questions asking about why ‘this traitor is ripping off Trump’ 🤷🏻‍♂️

All the test strips I’ve ever used hold the blood at the opposite end to the machine. The blood is intentionally kept away and on something that can easily be disposed of.

As far as I can tell, the bulk of the testing strip is a conductor to take a signal from the end with the blood to the tester, which makes it seem like there’s some sort of reaction on the blood end.

Just to note, this doesn’t apply to the UK. Our trains are generally useless and expensive.

Top Gear was around in the 70s?

;)

This any good for you?

https://www.openhistoricalmap.org/about

That looks really handy, thanks :)

I’ve just downloaded Fedora Kinoite to try with my Ventoy drive (I refer the KDE layout :) )

Does it give you a choice at startup, similar to the Grub menu, or do you have to do something to bring the option up?

If Nancy Wilson was the singer, yes. I was listening to the song recently and thought that Katey Sagal was singing it, especially when they sing the ‘Ooh, barracuda’ part.

Here’s something that might blow your mind - watch a few episodes, then listen to Barracuda by Heart.

It’s not her :o

Emojis evolved from the smileys we had in the late 90s, which were mostly yellow, but could be in various colours, like red for the angry face. Those smileys evolved from the text versions like these :) or :D

They’re supposed to be better at preventing RSI

In my defence it’s late at night here 🙈

While I agree with you, if OP is spending money on a remote, they may as well try to find an original remote. They’re unlikely to be expensive, and will have all the correct buttons :)

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Thanks both, I’ll have a look into it :)

Sorry for the slow reply, I’ve been away :)

That looks interesting, thanks :)

Sorry for the slow reply, I’ve been away :)

That’s a good idea, thanks :)

Sorry for the slow reply, I’ve been away :)

I set up Syncthing on my wife’s computer, and she disabled it because she didn’t recognise it. I don’t know whether to feel annoyed or proud of her :D

I’d forgotten about Tailscale. I’ve been meaning to set it up anyway on my media server, so that could be a great solution. I’m torn between hosting at home or something remote, on the off chance that I leave the festival at some point and have to pass everything on.

(Sorry, I’m just adding this part to remind me later)

If I set up a subdomain to point to the Tailscale domain, the next person could self host and I’d just need to redirect the subdomain to their Tailscale domain. I need to check how the shared app / program would cope with that.