On Win 10 PCs I've often done this in the past and clicked the restart to update button.
Today 2 PCs successfully updated from v 123.0.1 to v 124.0.1
A third one just resulted in the error message 124.0.1’ is not compatible with miniVersion > = 124.0 maxVersion < = 124.0, and Firefox won't open at all.
Looks like I'll have to reinstall and copy over all the profile files from a backup, when all I wanted was a quick update.
Lesson learned - Close Firefox and reopen rather than try to restart - just in case. If that had been the prompt, at least I'd have known.
On googling the error message, I found someone complained about a similar thing with v120. Wouldn't ya think Mozilla would do something better by now.
Am I being unreasonable?

NZ is quite highly priced but America even more so:

   

Right, I'm going to be in a Microsoft teams call in which they are going to share their screen and I don't have a laptop or webcam. Usually I use my phone for video calls but it's too small to see the screen they are sharing.
So basically I want to use my phone as webcam and mic and mirror the screen to my PC. On Endless OS preferably. I have miracast on the phone and the PC has a wirless internet adapter (although I haven't used it).

Another option is I use my old Win 10 pc but it doesn't have wireless. USB cable connection?

Endless OS is linux. IS there an app for this? What would it be called?

Well done her, a really interesting series & a well deserved award.

Quote:"Robyn Malcolm has won a best actress award at a film festival in France.

Malcolm won the award, in the International Panorama section, at the Séries Mania Film Festival in Lille

She was recognised for her performance in After the Party, a series she co-created with writer Dianne Taylor.

It was the first time an entry from New Zealand had been considered for an award at the festival.

Malcolm said it was a proud moment after she decided 10 years ago to stay in Aotearoa because she was committed to telling New Zealand stories.

"We're a long way away and you really feel that when you're in a festival in the middle of France. You feel a long way away.

"But the fact that that story connected - and it really connected to predominantly French people who were watching it - just made New Zealand feel really close. So it was wonderful, wonderful."

After the Party follows Penny, played by Malcolm, who accuses her husband Phil of a sex crime against a teenager - but no one believes her.

The festival described Malcolm and her co-star Peter Mullan as an "incredible pair" who "deliver a remarkable story about the weight of accusation and truth".

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/entertain...vdigoPSYkA

Looks like some good deals on at the moment eg Samsung SSD 500GB SATA for $69

https://www.pbtech.co.nz/promotions/eofy-it-deals

This should hopefully put alot of the rumors to bed.
Just wish people would respect their privacy. 
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho...17228.html

It has long been known that there is an association between viruses and autoimmune disease onset (eg glandular fever and MS) so I check the literature from time to time out of personal interest because I have two albeit mild conditions already diagnosed, and a strong family history of others. I've been stable for very many years, but fear Covid greatly because of the risk of it setting off something new.

I have just seen this article "New-onset autoimmune disease after COVID-19" https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/imm...37406/full.

It's a formal medical article so pretty hard to read in depth, but the last paragraph says:
" In summary, several autoimmune diseases were more likely to be diagnosed within the first year after COVID-19 than in age- and sex-matched controls. The risk of new-onset autoimmune diseases after COVID-19 appears to be attenuated with the more recent Omicron strains. Positive ANA test is more common after COVID-19 and is predictive of incident autoimmune diseases. This suggests that SARS-CoV-2 may be a trigger for certain autoimmune diseases. Future work must focus on longer-term observational cohorts and should assess the persistence and predictive value of different measured autoantibodies. "

So it seems that the risk is reducing with the Omicron variants that now dominate. Which is great news. Although of course it's still better to avoid catching Covid if possible (and yes, I have had it and luckily it was mild, although it did leave me with some digestive issues that are slowly resolving. The vaccine did its job in ensuring that it wasn't worse).

for landlords and the rich

https://thekaka.substack.com/p/paying-fo...ot-funding

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/m...7IBOBLXPE/

"Minister for Children Karen Chhour is defending the decision to pilot boot camps for young offenders at youth justice residences, despite calls for the detention facilities to be abolished.
Chhour admits issues have arisen at the Oranga Tamariki-run facilities in the past, which included staff-facilitated fights, rooftop standoffs and allegations of inappropriate sexual behaviour, but she maintains improvements will occur on her watch.

“I’m not denying that there have been issues in the past that have been brought up about these youth justice facilities because I’ve been one of the firm advocates of the issues that have happened in them in the past when I was in Opposition,” she said.
“I can’t control what’s happened in the past. All I can do is set my expectations of what I want to see within these programmes and within these facilities going forward.”
Different Children’s Commissioners have regularly called for the five youth justice residences across the country to be phased out. Last year, a review found they were significantly under-resourced, some staff lacked necessary skills and there was a sense of “review fatigue” that compromised Oranga Tamariki’s ability to improve its services.

Despite this, one of the facilities will house the first pilot of the Government’s “Young Offender Military Academies”, commonly referred to as boot camps, which was a policy National announced in 2022 as a way to target 15- to 17-year-old recidivist offenders and reduce crime.

The Herald recently assessed the efficacy of past iterations of the boot camp proposal alongside commentary from experts in social psychology and criminology.
It detailed how the Military-style Activity Camp (MAC) programme, introduced in 2010 and run by the NZ Defence Force, showed some initial promise but eventually led to more than 80 per cent of graduates reoffending within a year.
Victoria University criminology lecturer Dr Sarah Monod de Froideville said research indicated boot camps could be effective in the short term but did not address drivers of crime. Otago University social psychologist Professor Joe Boden described such programmes as a “finishing school for criminals”.


America
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/v...ticefacpub

"Research on the recidivism of releasees from correctional boot camps has not been particularly helpful in settling the controversy over the camps. Neither adult nor juvenile boot camps appear to be effective in reducing recidivism. In general, no differences are found in re-cidivism when boot camp releasees are compared to comparison samples who served other sentences or who had been confined in another type of juve-nile facility (MacKenzie 1997; MacKenzie et al. 1995)."


https://www.martybeyer.com/content/juven...make-sense

"Although juvenile crime is not on the rise, the public, misinformed by politicians and the press, insists on increasingly cruel methods to punish young offenders.1  Since 1980, younger and younger teenagers have been treated as adult criminals. Boot camps for juveniles are the latest in this dangerous trend and will be as ineffective as wholesale locking youth in adult facilities. Yet the message has not gotten out to state legislatures and corrections departments that juvenile boot camps will neither reduce crime nor save on prison costs.

    There have been surprisingly few voices against juvenile boot camps. Paul DeMuro has drawn attention to deaths in boot camps, the use of military discipline to disguise staff mistreatment particularly of minority youth, and the absence of follow-up supports when youth return to their communities.2  He has predicted an increase in adult court referrals as youth who fail to complete boot camps or are re-arrested after their release are no longer viewed as eligible for juvenile court".

Transplanted into living human. It'll be interesting to see how this goes & whether or not it could be the way of the future.




https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/35022...ving-human



"A kidney from a genetically modified pig has been transplanted into a living human being for the first time.
The organ had 69 genetic alterations to make it less porcine in appearance and safer for a human recipient.
The four-hour procedure took place in the US on March 16 and was a success, with the patient said to be recovering well.
Richard “Rick” Slayman has diabetes, high blood pressure and end-stage kidney failure. The 62-year-old had previously received a human kidney transplant from a deceased donor, but that organ started to fail last year.


Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital, in Boston, recommended the xenotransplantation option to Slayman as a possible route to avoid more dialysis and further deterioration.
Modified pig kidneys have been given to people before as part of pioneering experiments, but all previous attempts were to brain-dead individuals being kept alive by machines, with the procedures purely experimental to test out the viability of the procedure.
Slayman is in hospital and recovering well. He is on a pioneering cocktail of drugs – tegoprubart, from Eledon Pharmaceuticals, and ravulizumab-cwvz, from Alexion Pharmaceuticals – which are designed to prevent his immune system from attacking and rejecting the foreign organ."