Not a million miles from Walton… not suggesting that it’s a ‘dodgy’ shop, but it does seem a unique combination (although I think it may have closed now).

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I just don't like the optics of being a specialty shop that is selling products ...

Sometimes, you see a vape shop and to make a bit more money they'll sell other items. Spanish Cleaning products, phone cases, maybe even some phone repairs. Last night, travelling through Walton in Liverpool, i saw a shop called 'Vapes and Toys'. Because you want to get them young and then sell them ...

Pres Cafe being on Cloudflare, which has been in the news of late for several high profile online outages in recent months, must be causing all this downtime on the site.

Fair enough. I'm not as anti-apple as my initial comment sounded. I do think the M series macs are really good computers, but i don't want to be in one ecosystem or another, and i can't justify the price.


Though the M4 Mac Mini at £599 is an essentially unbeatable bang for your buck, from ...

Fair enough. I'm not as anti-apple as my initial comment sounded. I do think the M series macs are really good computers, but i don't want to be in one ecosystem or another, and i can't justify the price.

And this is one of several reasons I am switching to Linux Mint.

It must be a pretty big outage. I would imagine the weather has knocked PC off tonight. Looking outside at my window, its really windy out.

Indeed it is. I am sure normal sound and picture will be returned as soon as possible. In the meantime, here's some music...

MacOS is definitely not perfect, but it’s a lot less noisy. I’m still running an M1 16” Macbook pro and it’s still smooth, battery life amazing and no crapware. It’s not for everyone, but it’s considerably more polished than the open source distributions, and a lot less naggy than Windows if all ...

No kidding. Here's a comparison between the last set, and the new ones. I do like the Teams one, I think that's an improvement, but I cannot say that the other ones really represent the application.

TVenthusiasm2 wrote: Thu 06 Nov, 2025 09.56 Yeah I saw the same thing myself yesterday when accessing the site logged out off my account and there's not as much activity as there used to be. Clearly some people are afraid of posting on the site now in fear of getting random warnings.

Or their posts are moderated. *coughs*