recycling old laptop/pc's

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1 x £1.36p SATA data cable duly delivered.
5 mins to fit, and......... 1Tb drive duly installed.

feck Dell 'support'. - mainframe sysprogs RULE! OK??

<SKB in humble mode>

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I don't know whats up with the forum, unless the squeaking buttocks of the tax dodgers threads are upsetting it somehow.
not much traffic anywhere else.

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I was using win11/Chrome

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got a 403 error for <>4 hours yesterday, anyone else?

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morning

CBS and a wee bit blawy this morning.
Dell tech support wanted me to dismantle my PC to take pictures of both ends of the duff cable, send them the pics, give the type and serial no of the drive i wanted to fit, and some other nonsense, all before they'd send me a...

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INKSPE ...

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john pickles

jive bunny
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj9xe2rvpkvo

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Morning all

overcast and a wee bit blawy here.
tried to fit a new <extra> SSD in my 10 month old dell, only to find the power lead to the drive has an unfinished connector*, and no other spare power leads are in evidence.
Bugger.
Now i'll find what...

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i'll give up then, or become a tax dodger.

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anyone know where to recycle computers? 3laptops, 1 desktop.
apart from binning them i mean.
i've tried three co's, but they want win11 compatible or £500 collection fee. FFS.
these wont run anything newer than win7.
i'm in east yorks, for my sins....

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anything else?, another 2g 'phone? or another mobile co?

i had to retire a perfectly fine LG 3G which was thin, light and petite.
all the bloody 5G phones are monstrosities now.
i settled for a secondhand galaxy s22 which was the smallest i could find*.

*i won't...

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KRAKEN by China Mieville.

suitably strange & unusual.
very entertaining.

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afternoon all

CBS to start, then persisting it down for 30mins, then CBS etc etc.
PAYDAY!! - yay.
Invoice duly sent.
now for a well deserved two weeks off....

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not any more.
done that.

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AYSYCOTBAC???
+£60 per annum <av>
peanuts ffs.

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and is there some purpose to your constant polemic?
what do you hope to achieve from all your time posting?

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call them out and you get threatened with a ban.
or is it just me?

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'could', 'can', - what WILL you do??

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listening to 'hot rats'.

pied piper/death of rats booked for tomorrow..........

gonna FIX them rat, that's what i'm gonna do.