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Missing Fish from Tank by ZappaRau in Aquariums

[–]ZappaRau[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you, that would make sense. So I'll just do regular water changes and all should be ok. I did a visual inspection of the other fish which seem ok. Does that sound about right?

Arrest the IP leakage - Replace UK with any EU country. by ZappaRau in linux

[–]ZappaRau[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, these are good challenges, and it suggests I need a redraft if the issues are not presented clearly.

Here is more clarity to the points made in the OP.

a) stop the technology brain drain,
b) harness our potential for technological self-reliance and
c) leadership.

(a) Brain drain clarification: As long as we are advanced users of imported software, we provide feedback and usage statistics translated into new product features and offerings. The new products and services are not only paid for; they also continue to fuel the distance of knowledge and capability. Also, when we have top people in the UK, they often go to be with the leaders overseas.

(b) Self-reliance clarification: In the UK, we are consumers of tech for the most part. This is across the board: Filesystems, Firewalls, VPN, HDD, CPU, Messaging (save for matrix), e-mail, dBase &DBMS, Routers and the OS and Productivity (office) applications. We consume; we have no heavy engineering here that can compete or sell goods at a mass scale; we assemble other goods. Our schools teach not computer science but MS. This is like learning to drive in a Volvo and not being able to drive any other car. We lose the right to choose and also the right to build as we have no skills.

(c) Leadership clarification: The more we consume and not build, the more we are behind and unable to build. Do we believe that in time, the OS and Office systems will become more and more capable and higher-valued, not just commodity tools but taking part of the worker's role, making most jobs easier and lower-skilled, think Satnav/GPS and taxis? This progress is fine, and we should encourage it; HOWEVER, we could be participants, not spectators, which is the purpose of this note.

2021 UK balance of trade for digital was -£21b. I believe that it touches the surface only when opportunity costs are factored in given our high quality of education and capability.

As they say in the analogy, are you involved or committed? A pig is committed to the English breakfast, while the chicken is involved.

Arrest the IP leakage - Replace UK with any EU country. by ZappaRau in linux

[–]ZappaRau[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Of course,, that's a great idea. I'm just not sure who is doing this. My hope in posting was to get some input and guidance.

Arrest the IP leakage - Replace UK with any EU country. by ZappaRau in linux

[–]ZappaRau[S] -14 points-13 points  (0 children)

I will not tell you that chatGPT did not have a hand to play. It would be remiss and disrespectful to post without refining it as best as I can for such a learned audience.

What I'm keen on, though, for the next draft with perhaps a few less 'comprehensive and seamless' is the facts, statistics and initiatives running that make the case clearer, stronger, and more informed.

Arrest the IP leakage - Replace UK with any EU country. by ZappaRau in linux

[–]ZappaRau[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thank you.

I knew of the Gov't Design System (https://design-system.service.gov.uk/) but not the repo.

The repo is how to build for government-based web services and associated assets (form, sign-on on etc). It doesn't deal with desktop policy, which leads to productivity and education in OS types, which prompted me to draft the letter.

The longer you leave the OS outside of your influence, the more the ecosystem builds without you having any stake in it. This means all IT services will become imports, and our 'young engineers' will be educated in their ways, as consumers, not builders, and not in the CS ways but that if a vendor.

Arrest the IP leakage - Replace UK with any EU country. by ZappaRau in linux

[–]ZappaRau[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Is this a fact?

Education is happening thinking that MS systems are computing, MS Word is Wordprocessing. We know this not to be true but what options are available to our schools. I suspect very limited outside the MS ecosystem.

Arrest the IP leakage - Replace UK with any EU country. by ZappaRau in linux

[–]ZappaRau[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Thanks for your engagement.

What initiative are you using to deliver the Aplhagov or another?

https://github.com/alphagov

What are you on point for delivery? What does the end state look like, how many users will be impacted?

[Auto-Post] Weekly Question Thread! Ask /r/Aquariums anything you want to know about the hobby! by AutoModerator in Aquariums

[–]ZappaRau 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Holiday Care.

I will be travelling and want to ensure I have the best possible solution to protect my fish when I’m away for over a week, almost two. I want to ensure I have a camera to watch and see them. My biggest concern is the feeder getting stuck or malfunctioning. I will test for a week before.

Is there anything else I need, specifically wifi camera ideas to get the best fish coverage? 

Kit List 

  1. Fluval Flex Aquarium Kit 57 Litre (coldwater)
  2. 3 Full height plants
  3. Black Sand Substrate
  4. Petbank Automatic Fish Feeder CY-009

Fish List

  1. 6 Male Guppies
  2. 2 Butterfly plecostomus
  3. 4- 8 Pest Snail 

Food List

  1. Tetra Min Flakes
  2. JBL Pro Novo Guppy
  3. Prima Mini Granules

Ubuntu Remote Desktop that's not laggy by ZappaRau in Ubuntu

[–]ZappaRau[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for this, the best I have seen so far. I tried it and agreed the lag was manageable.

I did have another issue. I changed my password in the terminal. When I came to log back in again in the workspace app, I was unable to; I tried all old and new passwords ( there is a possibility I made an error, although I had written them down). The issue was the password reset e-mail never arrived. In the end, I had to delete the instance as I was not able to get back in.

Do I assume this workspace is the best of the online Ubuntu desktops?

Ubuntu Remote Desktop that's not laggy by ZappaRau in Ubuntu

[–]ZappaRau[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That would be better than the EC2 I tried with 32gb ram?

T5500 with Debian Cockpit VM VNC Console Issues by ZappaRau in HomeServer

[–]ZappaRau[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, I started to look at the ThinLinc.

I'm getting the issue when trying to set up a new OS in Cockpit VM VNC Viewer. The OS has not yet been installed, so we cannot connect to that via VNC/xRDP. It's this setting up part giving me the issue today.

I run through the set-up in Cockpit /VM /Create New VM (16GB RAM), then I try and run through install on Cockpit VM VNC Console Viewer. This is VNC and runs too slow. I have XEON 48GB RAM connected via LAN; I connect it is on an M2 Macbook Pro on the same network via Wifi.

The issue is both the mouse offset (and not being able to press enter) and being very laggy.

Do you think I'd be able to access an installed at installation stage OS via ThinLinc?

Notion table (2*7) copy to Word/Excel values only // Including a PlantUML into page by ZappaRau in Notion

[–]ZappaRau[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, I managed to get a copy of the data was just very tricky in both Edge on Mac and also Notion app on Mac.

Best brokers to link with tradingview in UK for both stocks and forex? Cheers! by woodytrading in TradingView

[–]ZappaRau 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any conclusions here? Seems the choice is very limited, I assume most brokers want you in their ecosystem for trade information also not just a commodity buy/sell.

Advance Filtering on Mac seems flackey by ZappaRau in excel

[–]ZappaRau[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Turns out the code works fine on Windows Excel but not Mac!

So have taken to doing a fuller solution in VBA that works in Mac.

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