kiltedgreen

Hank2.0 said:

MACBETH is one of my favorite Shakespearian dramas. I'll watch this new version but I'll be measuring it against my favorite version, Kenneth Branagh's 2013 filming of the Manchester International Festival's stage production.

Have a watch of the Patrick Stewart version. I saw it live in London and the ghost scene was terrifying and so cleverly done.

I find the animosity to the EU’s proposals quite extraordinary.

At home we have two very similar electric shavers with rounded three prong sockets. Their chargers have built in leads and neither fits the other shaver. I also have a Braun electric shaver which has a two prong socket. Wow! We’ve landed man on the moon but need three separate chargers for three essentially identical products.

True of my wind-up torch too which has a single pin socket … only it’s not the same sized single pin socket used by my hair clippers - so hey, another two chargers on top of the the three for the shavers.

I know the article is referring to phone/tablet/whatever chargers, but the principle is the same. I have been ranting for years that I don’t want ANY product to have a battery charger in the box. I want a standard connector and a single charger you buy which has controls to vary the charging rate, current, etc. How anyone could be against legislation to harmonise device charging and eliminate this kind of duplicated waste generation machine idiocy is beyond me.

Yes, obviously phones, tablets and the like have requirements other than simply the need for a cable to charge their battery, it must provide a data connection too but the principle is the same and cannot be beyond the collective minds of the world’s electronic engineers.

Bring it on.

I’ve had an iPad Pro 11” from day of release. It’s my main computer and I love it to bits.

But, how many versions of iOS/iPadOS have been released where, on this top of the line, world’s best, Pro tablet, the Files app would not tell me the size of a folder’s contents? Where it provided the people, places, search, and most cropping and filter options from the Mac version of Photos, but inexplicably would not let me alter the location or date of a photo? Luckily I had a Mac to let me Mac those adjustments…

People have been mentioning the gap between the iPad Pro’s potential and reality for some time and iPadOS 15 doesn’t look to shrink that gap by very much. I don’t want to run Logic Pro on here, I just want some practical and sensible improvements to the OS to let it fly higher.

Using Big Sur (or any version of macOS) it’s consistent top to bottom in its interface, wherever you go.

On Windows 10 it looks like one thing, then you go somewhere else, Windows 10, then click on a button and look, Windows Vista aesthetic and then click a few more and look, suddenly you’re looking at XP. It’s a cruddy mishmash. Not surprised that they don’t want to attempt untangling it.

And there’s always Facebook of course. Here we are at … we’re going to xxx tomorrow. My friend xxx and. Are off to yyy tonight …