Since it's that time of year again, we're looking at presents and Beloved, very kindly, wants to upgrade my tablet.

The thing is, I'm not convinced that a newer tablet is especially necessary given my current - so I need people more technically minded than I to counter Beloved's shiny addiction.

My tablet  is

Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1

One of these ( Read more... )

 Looks like we need another refresher on Freedom of Speech and what that means

Brendan Eich, the now-former CEO of Mozilla has donated a considerable sum of money to a campaign to deny LGBT people equality. He is a homophobic bigot. Mozilla decided being a homophobic bigot is the perfect person to head their company when they appointed him CEO - it ( Read more... )

So I'm resigned to switching from Firefox to Chrome, but today I noticed an Issue.

My Lj who isn't working (obviously since it's a greasemonkey thing).

LJ Who is kind of like a member notes feature. It was original designed so you could attach real names to your friends so Hotsexychipmunk69696969 would have a note by him saying "Bob Jones".

I used it ( Read more... )

 Firefox has been giving me all kinds of grief lately, fighting with Flashplayer, eating computer performance and generally being a nuisance.

I applied my usual tech support methods. I swore at it. I frenziedly clicked the mouse. I swore at it some more. I restarted the computer. I swore at it some more. I turned off the computer and went and read ( Read more... )

Judging by the emails I've been getting, I understand there has been some kind of drama llama on tumblr about fanboys losing their shit because people have been "slashing" the male Avengers characters

It would appear I am expected to roar in, sword raised and slap down their objections

What?

Seriously?

Have you come to the right place?I've had ( Read more... )

I know that in various areas of the net there are debates going on about the "dogpiles" you see out there, where all and sundry leapm one someoen for saying the wrong thing. And there are certainly problems with it ( Read more... )

So the utter icy frigidness of the house is explained by the hall/stairs/landing heater being broken ( Read more... )

Ah, that moment after you get a new computer when you finally have all the settings right. Installed your skype and talkshoe and got all your passwords remembered again and your favourites lists and installed skyrim and we're allll back to how it should be ( Read more... )

So, and to follow up on the comments from my last post, I informed Beloved that the Abacus could no longer be tolerated. It was no longer fit for purpose. I had to restart it 4 or 5 times just to make it work, half the links and menus were borked - it was giving me grey hairs every time I touched it. I use the computer far too much - for work, for ( Read more... )

This computer is dead. It's old, it's inefficient, it's broken. A Greek guy with an abacus has more computing power ( Read more... )