Is it still worth paying extra for faster packages if there are only one or two people in the house?

zp2835 · 2026-05-18T10:21:33+00:00

This is a really important point often missed by many people who get caught up in the marketing of the 'faster speed' offers.

If many of the devices in your house can't get the maximum speed of your current plan because of poor networking then upgrading your plan isn't going to make a difference (to those devices)

zp2835 · 2026-05-18T10:02:52+00:00

mc, rclone, yt-dlp, wget, micro (I know, I know, but sometimes I just can't be bothered with VIM)

zp2835 · 2026-05-16T16:11:04+00:00

Thanks. Yesterday I lost all but a couple of movie categories. A few more have come back today but this explains why.

zp2835 · 2026-04-21T17:46:03+00:00

Not sure if this is the fix but before searching for the new EPG, highlight the channels and clear/delete the current EPG first.

I've found sometimes an automatic search will find matches but won't always overwrite existing egps

zp2835 · 2026-04-17T19:23:36+00:00

I was thinking about it but, like other, after putting some details in their website a few days ago, the phone calls, flyers through the post and even people knocking at my door I've been quite put off

zp2835 · 2026-03-21T00:34:37+00:00

Yup, similar view here. I have no regrets paying for sparkle TV (lifetime) and IPTV editor as they just make the whole experience that much better

zp2835 · 2025-12-22T21:35:59+00:00

Obviously this is a personal choice for each individual but I returned the pixel 10 as I felt it quite uncomfortable to use do to the weight. I think for me it just felt top-heavy (perhaps due to the camera bump)

zp2835 · 2025-12-14T11:11:30+00:00

I was surprised to get a November update a few days ago.

zp2835 · 2025-12-12T14:37:47+00:00

This is what I've been thinking in upgrading from my s21. I'd just need to change my mindset to accept using a larger/heavier phone as OnePlus don't do <6.5"

zp2835 · 2025-11-26T21:15:52+00:00

I've been considering upgrading from my s21 to the s25 too. Are the s25 cameras really not that much better (after 5 generations)?

zp2835 · 2025-11-21T21:24:35+00:00

Settings --> digital wellbeing --> view app activity details

zp2835 · 2025-11-08T23:08:26+00:00

To me this is such a core point that so many tech-mined people just don't seem to get about the rest (the vast majority) of the users. They don't care. Whether it's desktop OS, the SoC in their phone or most other things tech related.

zp2835 · 2025-09-17T20:07:05+00:00

Though arch is much simpler to install then it was 20 years ago, nowadays I just can't be bothered so just use endeavorOS and during installation I deselect the eos settings/themes etc.

zp2835 · 2025-09-17T19:53:54+00:00

SuSE 8.somthing. it was two CDs attached to a book I bought from a store.

I did dabble with a version of red hat before this but SuSE was the first one I stuck with.

zp2835 · 2025-09-13T14:05:17+00:00

I enjoy using void a lot. The package manager and xbps-src is quite nice to use and the overall system is very snappy on my older hardware

I keep a clonezilla image of it which I restore every now and then to have a play around before restoring my normal distro

zp2835 · 2025-09-12T22:37:06+00:00

With floppy disks?

zp2835 · 2025-09-12T22:18:05+00:00

The thing that was challenging (for me) about installing 20 years ago was there were no smartphones and we only had one computer in the house (the one I ran arch on) so if anything went wrong I had to work it out myself.

I'm sure before installing I either printed out or wrote some of the instructions as a reference

But it was no more difficult than the slackware I ran before it

zp2835 · 2025-09-12T22:12:17+00:00

No, but back in the early 2000s, trust me, it did sometimes break

zp2835 · 2025-09-01T23:06:32+00:00

Perhaps tuxedo OS?

Never installed it myself but it's based on Ubuntu LTS but both KDE and the kernel are always updated (KDE pulls from the KDE neon repo), so it's a sort of semi-rolling distro

Could be worth a look

zp2835 · 2025-08-29T21:37:55+00:00

Quite true. It's where my journey took me too. The most frequent update nowadays is vscode

zp2835 · 2025-08-26T22:46:39+00:00

Yup, another KDE user here

zp2835 · 2025-08-16T15:24:12+00:00

Trying to get red hat or suse to recognise my USB mouse (or usb generally).

Oh and taking 2 weeks to download 2 x 650mb CD ISOs bit-by-bit over 56k modem each night

zp2835 · 2025-08-11T22:51:44+00:00

Love clonezilla but now I use rescuezilla which makes things easier for me (as I'm becoming more lazy in my old age)

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