OK, it was supposed to be about Panasonic but, I have three Samsung products, a TV that I'm watching a movie on, I like that it has a couple of HDMI sockets, SCART, and both RCA and optical audio outputs, and two monitors, the 20 years old one is a lovely 1600x1200 screen, the 17 years old one is the wide screen format.

The TV has never had any attention and is working perfectly, no sound bar, sounds great connected to the optical input of my Marantz amp.

Both monitors failed recently, but they each only needed around £10 worth of new (Panasonic this time!) electrolytic caps to get the power supplies working again and they're both perfect once more.

After all of this time and thousands of hours none of the three screens has any faulty pixels. I'm a happy Samsung customer but my phone is a Moto G8 and my other kitchen appliances are Bosch and Neff.

I've got a domestic Panasonic microwave oven. Bought it because we had a cheaper one with enamel paint that peeled off the plain mild steel that then went rusty where the door closes, not good at all I thought.

Therefore we bought the Panasonic because it's all decent looking stainless steel. It's got to be over 20 years old and still all works perfectly with no corrosion of course. The only problem has been that the adhesive strip that attaches the door bezel gave up with age. It was a bugger of a job getting all of the old adhesive off each surface, then with some new super sticky 3M VHB double sided (get it perfectly placed first time!) it's put back good as new and continues to work perfectly.

So yes, maybe they made their stuff too well for those happy to pay a higher price while the majority buy cheap crap and toss and replace it every three or four years.

I'm using a Framework 13, base level AMD processor, running Mint 22.1 Mate and I'm pretty darned pleased with it. Ridiculously fast compared to the other rather old computers that I own.

I bought a 16GB RAM module from Framework but got a 2TB storage module from Crucial which was about half the price of the WD ones being offered by Framework at the time.

These are not cheap laptops but it's great that I can just open it up by loosening five little screws with a T5 driver and have access to everything. I've spent hours getting an old Toshiba apart to do a couple of minor repairs and making it work again.

I want to speak up for the Showcase Cinema in Reading.
Beautifully clean throughout especially the toilets.
VERY comfortable seating - something like four feet of leg room, buttons in the armrests to control the recline and extending footrests.
Loud but not too loud, excellent quality sound.

Aim to arrive 15 minutes after programme start?

Personally I thoroughly enjoyed Juror #2 and the new Gladiator. Don't have to go to everything!

Agreed

Actually I'd love to see the original Star Wars on the big screen again.
A couple of months ago Showcase put on the original "The Italian Job" which pulled in a pretty goo audience. More of the classics please!

....underwhelmed by my apathy

....as having too much electricity.

Use it in electrolysis plants to make pollution free hydrogen. Hydrogen has any number of uses - steel making, powering vehicles, I'm not a chemist but possibly making synthetic petrol and other liquid fuels that are far easier to store than hydrogen.

This was more like 1986. There was a two workstation Xerox document preparation system in the office which was the new thing at the time. I recall that the company jungle telegraph reckoned that the engineer who did the steam loco art had received a strongly worded dressing down from management for wasting company time. Trouble was, when photos of the chip got out to customers they absolutely loved the artwork and it became a marketing tool so management then had to go back to the engineer and say Pretty Please, take more time and do a nicer artwork for the next chip!

from Plessey had a steam loco on it because the chain of cells resembled a railway track.

from only having one child. I cannot think of any better way to make life easier and more luxurious for the child after the parents have reached end of life.

Whatever estate remains, isn't split amongst siblings, it all goes to the one child. Minus, of course, whatever taxes or duties the state decides to take. It might not be very much but in the case of parents who, like me, have been fortunate enough to be the outright owner of a nice house, that is a massive gift to leave behind assuming that I don't become ill and lose everything in care home fees.

Even if there isn't much of a remaining estate, it's surely obvious that a reduced population is going to reduce pressure on the housing stock, which should reduce the currently ridiculously high price of this lifetime essential. That's what I, as the parent of one child, am hoping will happen.

RSPB (for 40 years)
Wildlife trust (for 40 years)
Ukrainian refugees
Wikipedia
Mint
Hospice
The list goes on...

The reason your breath stinks is that you are talking out of your ass.

Exactly the question to which I would also like an answer:-
My email:-
To: info@sightsavers.org
Subject: India
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2023
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What I would like to know is, why are you trying to get donations from British people for giving medical treatment to citizens of, for example, India, when our own NHS is more than half dead through lack of funding?

If India can afford a space programme, nuclear weapons etc etc then it can damn well afford to treat cataracts etc for itself.
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As you can all see this was sent several days ago. I received the usual automated response from their mail server but so far no actual answer to my enquiry. Makes me wonder if this "charity" might actually be there to mainly serve itself.

I've used other solutions but Revelation is definitely my favourite so far. As far as I know it only works on Linux but as I only ever use Linux on my desktop/laptop computers that's fine.

It stores everything in a single encrypted file, has a nice GUI interface that has options for different record types, has a field for URLs that can be clicked on to open the relevant web site, copy-paste works fine from the user ID and password fields and it has a nice free format text field for keeping note of any other information.

There was a hiccup a couple of years ago when, Python I think it was, went through a version upgrade that no longer supported Revelation as it was so Revelation vanished from the repos for Mint 20, which I'm using now. The developers continued working to fix this and when I contacted them, provided updated source and advice on installation, which is what I am still using.

For Mint 22, Revelation is back in the repos so definitely has my seal of approval. I've transferred my file from my Mint 20 desktop to a Mint 22 desktop and it all works fine.

For Linux only users I recommend Revelation. It doesn't seem to be in the Android store but I never ever access bank accounts etc from my smartphone which I consider to be a huge security risk and the screen is too small anyway.

I went out into my back garden, ran a magnet (from a broken HDD) along the aluminium rainwater gutter on the edge of my greenhouse roof and, sure enough, found a couple of tiny pieces of magnetic material.

I cannot think of any reason for tiny magnetic particles falling onto my greenhouse roof other than that they are micro meteorites. Nothing to see here, nothing special, this stuff continually falls from the sky onto all regions of the planet.