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    Africa Weather App on IOS FAIL

    After this update I was was having a bunch of API type errors with it on my iPhone. Uninstalled and reinstalled the app and it started behaving. The widget was no longer available after that but there are some other good ones.
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    The F-35 thread

    The exposes a range of problems with the F35 logistics. The US military has has moved the warehousing and supply chain over to private contractors. This means that they decline delivery of parts to an active war zone. Commercial shipping also lacks the chain-of-custody rigor of military...
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    Apple iPhone 18 Pro for R3,799 in South Africa

    The problem with this figure is that it requires the iPhone to be in perfect condition. The iStore will go on an epic quest to find that one tiny scratch in order to downgrade the condition of the phone. Having tried to trade stuff in with them before made we wonder if a device straight out of...
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    Windows 11 Support Thread

    Except that Arch normally fixes new packaging bugs within a couple of hours and upstream bugs within 48 hours (even if it has to be a temporary patch backport). Microsoft can sometimes take longer.
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    System to stop millions of spam calls launching in South Africa

    I also had this. During the three years that my opt-out was active I missed a lot of notification messages. The new system does not seem to address it, instead relying on the bulk SMS providers to make the effort to apply a granular filter to their messages to individuals (which will probably...
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    MyBroadband OS poll

    Tried comparing these figures for MyBB against the worldwide desktop market share from Statcounter. Compared to the world as a whole, we on par with Windows, behind the curve with Apple but ahead on Linux adoption. The naming is a bit different to the survey to make the two sets of data...
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    SA Post Office issues new stamp

    We need news articles like this, otherwise most of us would never have known about it.
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    Good news about social media bans in South Africa

    According to UCT there are about 30 000 children in this country living in child-only households. Guess we have bigger issues to deal with before we get down to the finer details.
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    South African woman fired from high-paying job after forwarding work emails to her Gmail

    Have seen that there can also be trouble putting company information on a personal cloud drive.
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    3d Printers South Africa

    It is not necessary to get too technical, just to specify the dimensions rationally. Those bumps by the screw holes were described as cylinders, rather than the technical term of bosses. In it's reply to me Claude however referred to them as bosses, so it understands the word. Here is an...
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    Eiffel Tower shut by staff protest after female workers moved for religious visit

    Since they are pandering to religious groups, they should enforce Timothy 2:11-12 for the women when there are Christians present. Let's see how that works out.
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    3d Printers South Africa

    I have done that previously, but it was not necessary for this model. It was described in terms of two orthogonal views - the top and the side. The side view was described in terms of the inside mould line - the face contacting the battery and chassis and then the thickness simply went up and...
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    Amazon-owned Boeing 767 cargo plane crashes after overshooting runway in Miami

    Had a look at the csv data for this flight. It hardly slowed down on the runway.
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    3d Printers South Africa

    Only one. Just specify it in standard terminology for engineering / CAD work.
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