Recent content by sn00p

looks like they sold out pretty quickly as well, glad I randomly decided to check!

Huzzah, it came back into stock on amazon.

its ok i have plenty of tinfoil. :p Honestly, using my phone , google or debit card would reveal move about my habits than anything that’s on my facebook profile. My parents profile is only used to look at facebook, in about 8 years they haven’t posted once!

My dads 75, Bluetooth is out because I can’t deal with all the problems it will create!

Yes, that and convenience for them. Anything I try to organise has to be simple, otherwise it won't happen. I'll see how we get on with the phone + cable + alexa, but if that doesn't work too well then I guess I will just wait until the portal tv comes back into stock.

Headphones are a no go, he's pretty deaf. I've ordered a 3.5mm cable and a stand so that he can plug it into the Alexa, hopefully he'll have plenty of volume then and be able to hear, it's not entirely ideal. The stress I had getting him to install WhatsApp was crazy, he had a stroke 20 odd...

Obviously these are out of stock everywhere given the situation that's going on, but I hope for not too long, although I figure it's going to be quite a long time. Desperate to get one for my parents, my dad is pretty deaf and trying to video chat him is pretty difficult as he can't hear, I'm...

Always happy for suggestions, by all means send me the code and I’ll have a play and see how I think I can incorporate it. Pingnoo (it’s a play on words ping GNU) is written in C++, I use the Qt framework as I have many years of commercial software development experience using it. I’ve tried...

I’m too tight to pay for pingplotter, so I am writing my own version. It’s open source (GPLv3) and I’m doing some of the housekeeping activities at the moment, part of which is creating installers. I had to release the source code early to get a free license of VMware InstallBuilder (they...

Anybody else get one? I've been using my 10.5 Pro a lot, not just as a tablet, but as an extra display for my Mac. I have the new 12.9 inch pro arriving tomorrow, but annoying that the previous gen pencil doesn’t work with it as I had to buy the new one as well, use the pencil a lot in...

Affinity designer is 50% off at the moment. It's an epically good product.

Yes. when I ran my 2010 MBP I had a SSD in the cd tray which contained the OS and apps, the HD in the original position held the home folders, that kind of setup requires changing settings and special modifications for FileVault to work properly: mad it stands with your setup, you’d just...

It's shite. If you want something that's decent, then get Affinify Designer, won't break the bank and is f**king awesome, as are all their apps. I use Affinity Photo + Designer on both Mac & iPad and also Affinity Publisher on Mac, waiting paitently for a iPad version of that. Use them for...

that’s a good price. I love my slicecharge pro, it is expensive now though, thankfully I was one of the early Kickstarter backers so got it a lot cheaper. charges my phone, watch and AirPod pros without any issues.

ahh, yeah, it was a full tv package with multi room with 2 mini boxes. not broadband or phone though, so obviously that would bump it up. Did you cancel or just accept an offer without cancelling? Theres no harm in cancelling as you can just cancel the cancellation if you don’t get an offer...