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bd139:

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--- Quote from: tggzzz on July 05, 2022, 05:12:52 pm ---The rest, not so much: a major benefit of going out is to inhabit somewhere completely different, not to stay in cyberspace.

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The trick is to do Augmented Reality -- experience the Real World enhanced with information from Other Places. It makes the Real World a more multifaceted place. And it takes less time to immerse yourself into something when you can apply the aggregate previous knowledge of the world on top of the actual experience.  The most obvious example to me is GPS and electronic maps.

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This.

Also handy for things you see but don’t know…

mansaxel:

--- Quote from: Cerebus on July 05, 2022, 05:51:58 pm ---I won't be properly entertained until I see Jacob Rees-Mogg scurrying along the embankment.

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As my wife told me that there were some resignations, I immediately asked whether Über-Twit R-M was among them. Pitchforks or not, I was disappointed.

Robert763:

--- Quote from: bd139 on July 05, 2022, 06:43:21 pm ---
--- Quote from: tggzzz on July 05, 2022, 06:38:43 pm ---
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--- Quote from: bd139 on July 05, 2022, 02:59:57 pm ---Try Santander. They have actually had the most clue I've experienced so far.

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On a quick skim, Santander's login security is solely pin/password, without the possibility of a "what you have" number generator.

While I regard that as sufficient in the past (e.g. my account that I've had since 1975), and it might be OK for the intended use, for the future I'd like something better.

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Nope, if you have a more modern smartphone, you have the option of fingerprint scanning as well, which works really well.

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... until you need to revoke all 10 certificates. Or can toes be used too?

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It says nothing about using your fingers. There's a good supply of them out there if you have to get another one.



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I did a self-revocation of a fingerprint 26 years ago  :palm:

Vince:
TEAMS sorted... friend paid me a visit this evening, passed me his old work laptop.

We connected to the interweb via the Wifi of my ADSL box. First time I use that, works fine, was not terribly difficult to get working, it's auto-detected by the laptop then you click on it and it asks you for a password, that's indicated on the ADSL box (well, you press a button and it displays it on its tiny crappy built-in LCD ).

Opened my Gmail account from there so I could click on the link  / invite I was given.

Opens up the web browser and it works, I can see my ugly mug in the frame, sadly.

Same friend also brought me a fucking TV to repair... for a friend of his. Said friend has a bucket truck which I could use to do a massive hair cut to my biggest tree at the back of my garden. 10 meters high by the looks of it, too big for my tiny back yard...  an ash tree, if Google served me correctly. It grows fast...

Anyway, I will trade this TV repair for a bucket truck job. Seems fair to me.

It's a gigantic 55" Samsung (model UE55NU7026K ) LED 4K "smart" TV. Got Ethernet and USB, and a couple HDMI ports for inputs, which means I have no way to send a signal to this shit.
But that's OK, TV works fine, it's just a backlight problem.

The right half of the screen is in the dark. left half works just fine and shows life.

Have already fixed one LED backlight problem a year or so ago, on here (TEA helped), so I am not a virgin in this matter, which is good (increases the chances of fixing it, and not destroy it when taking it apart, if need be).

Previous TV I remember had a LED driver chip on the SMPS board, that had 4 independent current controlled outputs, but the TV used only one output, all the LEDs were in series in one giant string. One LED was open circuit, and 4 others failed short-circuit.

OK so this other TV I guess has two strings one for each half of the screen, and one of them is down. So is it the driver chip that's got only one of its outputs failed, unlikely I guess, or more likely, since they always fail... one or more failed LEDs in that string.

I don't have the high voltage low power adjustable power supply I dream of in my lab... to test this string. But luckily since we have two strings and one is working... I guess I can just swap the two strings on the power board, and see if the fault changes side... if so, I need to take the screen apart and remove the LCD... which means high likelihood of damaging it when handling it. So hopes are low for a successful repair.

Wish me luck.


You shall now resume your normal banking / iphone / climate / gas / oil activities, sorry for the interruption.  ;D

mansaxel:

--- Quote from: Vince on July 05, 2022, 08:16:38 pm ---TEAMS sorted... friend paid me a visit this evening, passed me his old work laptop.

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While I think another poor soul in Teams is not a thing to celebrate per se, this is excellent news for you as it's a potential stepping stone.

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