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| Bassman59:
--- Quote from: themadhippy on June 25, 2020, 08:50:28 pm --- --- Quote ---I've never had a cap on my internet connection. --- End quote --- last one i had was about 18 years ago --- End quote --- On the page detailing Internet service from Cox Cable (the incumbent here, and I have no real choice), there's an entry for "Data plan." That it's placed so prominently here is new -- only in the last couple of months. Previously, the cap was buried in the service details. It is not on the bill. So, check your service details. If you don't have a cap, consider yourself lucky. And expect it to change. |
| themadhippy:
my provider state --- Quote ---unlimited is truly unlimited,we do not limit your data or use any traffic management --- End quote --- and a quick check shows --- Quote ---You’ve consumed 1,229GB of your unlimited broadband data since 01/01/2020 --- End quote --- not bad for 20 quid a month |
| edy:
I have found the Edge browser to be fairly good. For example at the office we need clients to fill in PDF forms. When Google Chrome loads a PDF it doesn't allow you to save the form filled in. It only lets you download and it saves the blank. Edge let's you load the PDF, fill it, save the contents and reload the PDF again and display the saved data in the fields/checkboxes no problem. Much better than installing a bloated Adobe Reader. At home I use Ubuntu Studio, which uses the Xfce desktop. Very smooth and slick. I've experimented with Unity but couldn't stand it. At some point I updated from Xenial Xerus to Artful Aardvark and I think they pushed the Gnome desktop on us. I liked it at first, added some cool extensions (see video below) but then soon had a total meltdown of my desktop environment (very glitchy). So I did a complete reinstall to the latest Ubuntu Studio with Xfce and never looked back. As far as leaving little to no footprints, use Tails on a bootable USB with persistence. I made myself a key and boot up with it on any machine. It will retain your files and work, everything configured through Tor and uses DuckDuckGo search engine. Good for watching and seeing news and shows restricted to other countries. When you are done, shutdown, remove key and the host computer you used has no idea. Apparently Snowden used this distro on various library and public machines. |
| SilverSolder:
Will the new Edge browser start on Windows 7? |
| mc172:
I had this happen on my W10 machines about a week ago but what I really didn't expect is for this to happen on one of my W7 machines just a few minutes ago. It effectively took over my computer and was running 3 as separate instances in task manager so that even if you try to use the end task button, the other two are left running. You can't escape it until you go through with it as it wants you to. Absolute bellends, pretty annoyed by this. The update schedule on this particular machine are set to manual and the update it prompted me to install earlier today (about 4PM GMT) looked like a normal security update, apart from being a little bit larger than usual (80 MB) but looked fine. Unfortunately not. |
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