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by Pete
Sat 14 Jun, 2025 18.12
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Windows 9 is now Windows 10
Replies: 256
Views: 194371

Re: Windows 9 is now Windows 10

Sway...

The death of that product can not come soon enough.
by Pete
Mon 05 May, 2025 10.45
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Windows 9 is now Windows 10
Replies: 256
Views: 194371

Re: Windows 9 is now Windows 10

Work is currently implementing a switchover to Windows 11. It's the first time we've had self service OS upgrades for Windows, previously its always been either a device swap or IT take it away for a day and re-image.

It's meant that there has been a need to buy new devices. Most laptops had ...
by Pete
Sun 27 Apr, 2025 22.53
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: The Tesco & other non-Morrisons supermarket thread
Replies: 2168
Views: 1418525

Re: The Tesco & other non-Morrisons supermarket thread

If I’m going somewhere local I’ll nearly always just take my phone. I pay for practically everything on Apple Pay so the wallet is just clutter. In the event a shop had a fault I could always nip home and get my card.

If I’m heading to another town I’d take my wallet though as a just in case.
by Pete
Wed 23 Apr, 2025 08.30
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: What's going on with all this gender stuff?
Replies: 56
Views: 19838

Re: What's going on with all this gender stuff?

This thread does seem to be going round in circles, which is apt given the subject matter.

Loathe as I am to close a topic I think we probs are best to leave this until something else interesting happens?
by Pete
Mon 21 Apr, 2025 13.00
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: High Street chain collapse sweepstake
Replies: 2257
Views: 1260921

Re: High Street chain collapse sweepstake

Martin Phillp wrote: Sat 29 Mar, 2025 22.11My local Smiths even sells vapes!
to be fair they always sold fags so its a natural evolution of that.
by Pete
Wed 19 Mar, 2025 15.20
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: The Tesco & other non-Morrisons supermarket thread
Replies: 2168
Views: 1418525

Re: The Tesco & other non-Morrisons supermarket thread



The holsters for the scanner guns in M&S are infuriating. Why are they on the wrong way? They're such a clart to take the gun out and use it compared to the Tesco equivalent.


Aren't they the kind that work in a hands-free mode when they're mounted on the trolley holster? I presume that's the ...
by Pete
Sat 15 Mar, 2025 11.44
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: The Tesco & other non-Morrisons supermarket thread
Replies: 2168
Views: 1418525

Re: The Tesco & other non-Morrisons supermarket thread

The holsters for the scanner guns in M&S are infuriating. Why are they on the wrong way? They're such a clart to take the gun out and use it compared to the Tesco equivalent.
by Pete
Mon 10 Mar, 2025 19.59
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: The Tesco & other non-Morrisons supermarket thread
Replies: 2168
Views: 1418525

Re: The Tesco & other non-Morrisons supermarket thread

Charlie Wells wrote: Mon 10 Mar, 2025 09.54They've also recently announced that the 'payment wallet' in the app is being removed later this month.
Is that Tesco Pay+ formerly PayQuik? I wonder if that's because the Apple Pay / Google Pay limits (or lack thereof) have eroded the need for this.
by Pete
Thu 13 Feb, 2025 20.00
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: High Street chain collapse sweepstake
Replies: 2257
Views: 1260921

Re: High Street chain collapse sweepstake


I really loathe The Range. The tat makes Dunelm seem like high class yet the prices are somewhere between ordinary and garden centre level. Staff always seem totally miserable and the owner is an arse hole. I don't get how it's seemingly so successful.


It's oddly good for storage and ...
by Pete
Fri 24 Jan, 2025 12.58
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: The Tesco & other non-Morrisons supermarket thread
Replies: 2168
Views: 1418525

Re: The Tesco & other non-Morrisons supermarket thread

also didn't realise there were any cafes left. It's odd how they've done nothing with the space though.

Pizza counters were traditionally quite busy were they not?
by Pete
Mon 06 Jan, 2025 09.37
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: The Barclays and other non-Lloyds/TSB Bank thread
Replies: 279
Views: 395440

Re: The Barclays and other non-Lloyds/TSB Bank thread


Branch refurbishments tend to hollow out the floor, remove old-fashioned lines of cashier windows and siderooms and replace them with a huge hollow space with some desks and machines. I can imagine the latter is easier to find an alternative tenant for


unless it was outright owned by the bank ...