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    Chris Nolan's - The Odyssey.

    Don't take the Odyssey too seriously, this thread will be coming to an end soon. People will have a new Blade Runner one to loose their minds in.
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    The Odyssey broke attendance records at Ster-Kinekor in an "already phenomenal season" for cinema

    I have been reading her translation before going to watch the movie. The stuff said about it on the internet is outrage baiting that does not correspond with the content.
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    Zilog Z80 8-Bit CPU Turns 50

    Have fond memories (PTSD?) of doing assembly for the Z80 using edlin with CP/M.
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    Mass mid-air brawl forces easyJet plane to return to Tenerife

    A bunch of Scousers on an easyJet flight. Why were the cabin crew not equipped with tasers?
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    Menno Parsons, the stunt pilot who built over 150 data centres in South Africa

    That Mustang has been a favorite of airshows for some time. Here is a photo of it flying at the SAAF Museum in Pretoria back in 2012.
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    Your Favourite Open Source Software?

    If you are looking for bit-perfect playback on Linux then you are going to have to sidestep the system mixer (PulseAudio or PipeWire). These resample everything to a common rate, so you need to access ALSA directly on the hardware layer. Strawberry is a good option. Under the backend settings...
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    Huawei unveils the MatePad Air

    Looks like a tablet well specified for creative work. Unfortunately with HarmonyOS this will be limited to using CapCut and Snapseed.
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    Chris Nolan's - The Odyssey.

    Things were simpler back in less politically correct times. When Galyn Gorg played Helen of Troy in Xena Warrior Princess nobody cared.
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    Ubuntu 26.04

    It looks like most of these items are attributable to the Gnome Xorg to Wayland transition. The exception may be the Video app scanning the whole system, where Totem was replaced by the new Rust based app which is still maturing.
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    Employee who trained dog to bite black people loses Labour Court battle after dismissal for racism

    From the article it looks like the dog thing was only one example of his general behavior. He was also sexist. Maybe it would have been better if the court had reinstated him on the condition that he reported to a black female manager.
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    Ways South Africans can find the best petrol and diesel prices online

    They are, but you need to enter your personal details before they let people in on that secret.
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    Business leaders and labour unions say the UIF's systems are collapsing

    When people retire they can automatically apply for one year of UIF payments, even if they are also getting a pension. Everyone I know who has done this has been successful. The big difference between them and the people you described who had to do it as an emergency was that they had time to...
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    A Checkers Sixty60 customer used the platform's AI assistant to build a grocery basket worth over R36,000

    Don't Sixty60 have a limit of 35 items per basket? In that case the 36k purchase must have had high value items.
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    Remove Old Windows

    Use a command to copy all jpeg files from this drive to another drive. Do a bit of weeding if desired. Then format the old drive. An example would be: robocopy "Source_Drive:\" "Destination_Drive:\Backup_JPGs" *.jpg /S /Z /XA:H /MT:16 (depending on how many processor threads you want)
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    Ubuntu 26.04

    It gives the feeling of being largely ready. Even the Onedrive integration is good, which was not the case with 24.04. One stumbling block may be the lack of a local Office installation for those who do not want to use the online version or the free alternatives.
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