Recent content by Justanotherguybythesea

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    R891 million taxpayer guarantee for important South African company

    1 million to do operations, 890 million to embezzle. Fixed it for you.
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    Openview cheaper than DStv after 3 years

    Buying the decoder the price is the same, within r50, and installation is also a cost, with openview you pay the charge, or reuse your old DSTV dish, and start saving immediately. Not 3 years, 1 month for the savings to show.
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    Government websites in South Africa hit by downtime

    finally figured out that you have to click "apply" to have the patches actually installed, though the restart will probably take another year before it is clicked.
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    The SABC has not paid its full TV and radio signal bill since 2020

    Sentech can save money by just shutting off SABC1,2 and leave SABC3 running, saving on the power bill, and making sure SABC will pay the outstanding within a week, even if the delay is because they have to take money from the pension fund, which they already do, not pay tax to SARS, which they...
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    Makro removes banned light bulbs from its online shop

    Which is why I got a lot on clearance at PNP, as R10 for a lamp i know will last a year or three in use 12 hours a day is well worth keeping a half dozen around, and they do run cool as well. As well lots of both screw in and bayonet ones, for around R12 to R18 each, means i am sorted for a good...
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    Makro removes banned light bulbs from its online shop

    No, but they can cover those frequencies, so SAPS is one of the biggest users, and Icasa will never tell them to stop either.
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    New Checkers smart trolleys that let you skip the cashiers tested

    You forget that RFID tags are now cheap enough that they can print the coil antenna, and the thinned down silicon chip, into a standard packaging run, and thus there is no need to put on an extra tag for a hysteresis triggered scan device to detect. 128 bit serial numbers, and another 64 bits...
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    Makro removes banned light bulbs from its online shop

    Osram had good lamps when they made them in the EU, I still have some that I bought in bulk, along with Phillips, and they do last for around a decade in use all night, for both the flourescent and CFL ones. LED most fail, i have had good life from Osram, but those also were the most expensive...
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    Makro removes banned light bulbs from its online shop

    Just that SAPS will actually arrest you if they see one in your vehicle, and will confiscate it as well, and you will need a lawyer to get them to give it back, if they have not already started using it as a mobile radio, as they do not have police radios that work any more, so confiscate from...
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    Big ATM change proposed in South Africa

    Order groceries, pay online and request cash back to be delivered with it as well.
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    R5.5 billion to tackle people who do not pay for water and electricity in South Africa

    Not a worry if you have no meter anyway, and the illegal connection is never going to be removed either.
  12. J

    Good news about petrol prices in South Africa

    Well, to use the reserves, it would first need SA to have actually had working refineries.
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    ChatGPT ads launched in South Africa

    There are ads online?
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    Patch released to prevent mass attacks on the Internet, and iconic game studio shut down

    You do not have to worry about government doing any PHP fixed on their websites, as that needs a contract with a comrade for eleventy million rand per komputah to implement it, and the money will be paid, but the upgrade will not be done ever, because there is no money left for the comrade to...
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    Big ATM change proposed in South Africa

    Free cash withdrawals are what you go to any supermarket to do, i can bet if they could do it securely Checkers 60 60 would offer it on the app as well.
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