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I've had them fitted now, worked out to be about £96 a corner + spare (185/65R15). Not so worried about the wear as only do 4k a year now.

Anyone tried the Pirelli cinturano all season SF3? I had CC2 before and they were good, but the Pirelli's seem better in the wet in the tests and around here it's wet most of the time.

I have a few decrepit PCs, oldest are Sharp pocket PCs 1500 (2) with plotters that work, Sharp 1360, a Casio pocket pc ( with cassette interface), Texas Instruments Ti 84 plus ( bought so I could run BBC Basic on it), a DIP pocket PC (otherwise known as a Atari Portfolio runs MS Dos 2.1, lotus 123), several Win CE devices, Psion 3a , Acorn A7000 (cmos battery modified as originals will leak and eat the motherboard), Amstrad NC100 (also runs BBC basic), Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Pro V2010 laptop ( heavily modified the original 1.6 Celeron M CPU upgraded to a 2.0 Pentium M and a SSD installed running Win XP - used to run a HP scanner that had support dropped in Win 7). I also have a few PCs (5) /laptops (2) from the last ten years mostly running Win 10, apart from the HP microserver and a Dell 1600 workstation that both run Unraid. A bag full of PIs of various types, (1,2,3,4, pico ). Most of the stuff I can copy stuff to and fro (serial ports), the DIP is a bit awkward as it requires a serial port adapter and I have parallel port adapter. There is even a utility for the Casios to convert recorded programmes to Basic and vice versa, although I had to recompile the source code to get it to work on a modern 64bit OS. I also have a Commodore 16 which has been converted into a USB keyboard as the original MB was badly damaged.

Just updated my main PC(Ryzen 5 3600) to Win 11 after having it on my laptop for a couple of months. Doesn't seem any different to Win 10 on the most part. Most of my other PCs with Win 10 can't upgrade as the CPUs aren't supported, which is a bit of pity.

I see 'good old Bernie' has been sticking his oar in (again)! Anyway, it was slightly embarrassing for Max when one of the karting champs, when asked who he looked up to, replied 'Lewis'. ( On another note, how do these sporting bodies (FIA, FiFA FA etc) get away with running monopolies? If it was another type of business (and they are businesses in all but name.) They would be investigated by every government under the sun for anti competitive behaviour.)

Doesn't look that good for either: Test I know they keep changing the goalposts but those results aren't good.

No obvious to the car manufacturers (probably a cost cutting exercise.)

Article here Autocar is suggesting that the use of touch screens is more dangerous than a lot of illegal things (phone, drugs and drink!!) I hate them cars and find them very difficult to use.

Only 2 ( new HP Envy laptop and last year's Ryzen 3600 desktop build) of my many PCs will upgrade as they either don't have 4GB (two Linx 10 Tablet Atom CPU not supported either ) or a supported CPU (Intel 6600, three socket 1155 Intels, a J1900, a AMD APU, a i5 2430 laptop and a VM) - none of these have tpm2.0 either. Admittedly, I didn't think they would after reading the requirements, a bit disappointed really as the Intel and the three 1155 Intels run windows 10 fine and can do some mild gaming, the rest run and are OK for bit of web browsing , word processing or programming. Well they'll be OK to the 14th October 2025 when win 10 support ends! (Unless I change them to Linux) . I can see a load of still functioning PCs being scrapped in favour of new ones. EDIT: Just noticed that Win 11 Supports the really rubbish Celeron N4XXX cpu, I've one of these as well (Ex MIL laptop) it can barely run Win 10 (even with 8GB RAM and SSD) - it takes half a day to do a full windows update - the i5 2430 mentioned above beats it hands down. It's so bad I wouldn't even want to give it away.

Good race only sploit by Lando not winning, Max coming 2nd and Paul Di Resta doing the commentary on Sky

I watched this and couldn't believe how bad it was. It was so boring that I wanted to go and watch this year's Monaco GP again.

Running the battery very low may have the same effect as disconnection. i,e. not enough power!

I was thinking all seasons on one axle and summers on the back! Probably okish in the dry, but on cold wet road or on a bit of ice or snow?

What's on the back? I thought it was dangerous to fit different type of tyres front and back as you would get differing grip levels. i.e. when you brake the front's would grip and the rears wouldn't so you could spin or lose the back end when cornering.

Just changed the wheels on the mini clubman (summer to winter) and went to torque them with a Silverline torque wrench that I've had for some time and it's managed to break it's self in it's case ( more likely when I put it away) and is no longer a wrench and spins. Anyway anyone got any reasonable priced suggestions for a replacement bearing in mind it'll probably only be used twice a year.

A bit pricey, I suppose you've seen the little GPD micro laptops? I7 in this one!. I think this one will be expensive as well as the Win2 was on Amazon.

I was gaming on it yesterday, fallout 4, via steamlink. 5" monitor and Pi powered by a power bank. Which lasted about an hour. It was on WiFi so I did get the occasional lag.

Pimoroni.

Well typing this on the pi 400. Keyboard is much like a laptops. it's not bad. it's heavier than you'd expected (big heat sink?) and it seems well made. It seem strange to be using a bit of computer kit not made in China ;) . I've tried Raspbian and Ubuntu. Raspbian is the faster loading.I initially thought that Ubuntu was extremely slow until I realised that I had installed it to a class4 sd card. I've reinstalled to a 32gb USB3 thumbdrive (it will boot from a USB without any changes, you just don't put the SD card in.) and it's a lot faster. It recognised the DELL displaylink adapter (but not the extra monitor connections) which works as a very good powered USB hub (£15 ebay). I'm going to have a dabble with Risc OS but that isn't working without a bit of manipulation. For £70 it's not that bad, it seems about as fast as the Atom tablets I have running Win 10 in Ubuntu.

Just realized it's a micro HDMI not mini ( as on the zeros) so need an new cable!

Look what the postie has just left. No time to play now.

Although it was posted on Wednesday via First Class post it's still not turned up yet. But I can remember how long you had to wait when the ZX Spectrum was released, so long in my case, that I cancelled it and bought a VIC 20. (In hindsight the spectrum was the better computer, but the VIC's keyboard was better!)

Yes, expecting it shortly.