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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...

Just for reference, I was paying nearly 100 quid for sky, cancelled it. They've been sending me begging letters, emails and phone calls desperate to get me to come back for 37 quid a month (full package). I'm getting rid anyway, but they'll go pretty low if you just hang out and don't accept...

iOS13 is pretty buggy, i moaned to apple about issues with safari rendering problems and got a reply from Craig Federaghi earlier this evening. Safari is absolutely doing my nut in, i’m literally force quitting it every few minutes, i’m not the only one reporting this issue.

Yeah, I paid about $60 which was a bargain, it's absolutely brilliant and quality - and something that Apple couldn't get to work properly! Actually kicking myself that I didn't buy more at the time.

this is something I backed on kickstarter, I got mine for considerably less than what they retail for, but its an awesome charger. https://hardciderlabs.com/collections/featured-products/products/slicecharge-pro

My wife bought me a S5 for my birthday (was back in June, but I was happy to wait till the refresh). I love the new one with the screen on all the time, haven't noticed any difference really in battery life between my old S2 and this one. Wife has now inherited my old one. For me, I was...

You're not alone mate. With me being a software dev I should love android, I think its ok but it just feels clumsy for some reason. I like many of the customisations of it, replacement of system apps and stuff (apple allow you to remove the mail app, but won't let third party apps handle...

I've got the innr filament bulbs because they were out before the Philips ones, really impressed with them and they're hue compatible. Would't hesitate to buy them again and as a bonus they're cheaper. My hue system is out of control....

Yeah its not cheap, occasional offers on amazon though. Ivd tried quite a few different android boxes (including Firetv models and the shield is way out in the lead. We have 3 of them in the house.

Nvidia shield is hands down the best Android TV box out there.

I found a video of the system I developed using a Raspberry Pi (Think it was a Pi 2), this is quite a few years old. The application is written using Qt and the GUI is a Qml frontend with C++ backend. It's a controller system that was used in our building, we developed all the hardware...

Cheers..... ....I assume you’ve had a username change, can’t work out who you are! Sorry! (If I had to hazard a guess, Sharky?) Anyway, yeah, real life got in the way, so busy with work I forgot to login here, before I knew it months had passed! Just designed a small project to read/write SFP...

Yep, pretty much. My brain is fuzzed now (my liver is failing so I have issues with my brain as I get tired) but that’s the gist of it, have a play and remember the stackoverflow website is your friend! If you get really stuck, then give me a holla and I’ll take a look for you, I only briefly...

Infact it’s even easier, it’s python. The code there is reading *any* joystick, all you need to do is check the event.joy parameter to see which joystick caused the event and then do what you want depending on which one it was.

Yeah, you’d add the program to rc.local or create a systemd unit (assuming you’re using something like raspbian). It’s very easy. I’ve used yocto in the past to create custom distributions which boot to a Qt program, that’s considerably harder to do, but results in a small distribution which...

Safari on iOS13 is awful, I find myself having to force quit it way to too many times in the day because the rendering goes wrong. Although they have fixed a bug bear of mine with passwords, in the previous versions you couldn’t turn off iCloud Keychain as a password manager source but you can...