That's essentially what Edge is, bundled with some extra features that integrate things into your windows ecosystem.

I just have to crack up with the way they nag users to switch over.

"Same technology as Chrome, with the added trust of Microsoft"

Are they trying to say that they are mone trustworthy than Google?

Personally, I treat them both as bad as each other.
The fact that Microsoft resorted to using an open source browser, says alot. This direction is not something that would have happened 20 years ago.
I'm surprised they are not worried about another Netscape style lawsuit the way they are going  nagging people to switch, they also do alot of underhanded methods to switch people over when updating windows and displaying a message that imply your default app settings has a "problem" and click here to fix to the "recommended" defaults.
They are not "fixing" anything, and just giving me more work, so I guess I shouldn't complain too much when someone says to me their "google" has gone lol


https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/lifestyle/s...ng-it-now/

I've long enjoyed a posting game that I contribute to on another forum and thought the concept might interest a few here.

The idea is to post an image that relates in some way to the previous posted image. It can be a connection as direct as an actor who starred in a movie still or as obscure as a product referred to in an advertising hoarding in the background of a picture. The association isn't always obvious and some degree of lateral thinking may be required to work out the association or to put up a clever 'reply'. No explanation should be required. Keep it seemly, this is a family show!

Enjoy but do be aware that this can become somewhat addictive.

Right, a starter for 10  

I nick cuttings from wild plants and roadsides. I know, it's thieving, and I am a criminal who should be locked up.

But, I claim insanity as a defence, I just cannot resist that swaying branch of something lovely bashing me in the head as I travel the roads and byways. This past month it has been the star jasmine and the honeysuckle that tempt me with their seductive perfume, and there are sprays in jars of water here and there in the flat, scenting the ages for surprisingly long times. And there are the odd sprig of plumbago in among them. No flowers at this time of year, but the colour is one I have to add to the garden, so, I pinched a few heeled twigs of that too.

And this morning, I checked the oldest jar, and sure enough, tiny root buds are showing. My wickedness is being rewarded...

This could be from Ripleys "Believe it ot not"

UK bomb squad called to Gloucester hospital after man gets WWII anti-tank shell stuck up 'in his rectum'

It's understood the explosive was a shell measuring 57mm in diameter, according to Gloucestershire Live. The artillery shells were used in World War II as anti-tank rounds and later used by British tanks in North Africa.
The patient is a military enthusiast who reportedly "slipped" and landed on the piece of army ordnance, The Sun reports.
"The guy said he found the shell when he was having a clear-out of his stuff," a source told The Sun.
"He said he put it on the floor then he slipped and fell on it - and it went up his a***."
The patient has been released from hospital and is expected to make a full recovery.

It's the oddest thing for me. A plastic comb. It was my Dads, and he had it for goodness only knows how long. I always remember it. I use it every day. It's a bit of a treasure.

Ever seen one boot into the BIOS and not boot into windows?
SSD appears OK, but won't boot up.
Reinstalled windows and just boots back into BIOS again.

Really weird. A quick Google search suggests it's hardware related.

The protesters, who earlier today gathered at Auckland Domain, have reached Newmarket's biggest mall 277 - chanting "Jacinda must go".
This is the first time people have congregated to object to the vaccine mandate since Aucklanders got their freedom yesterday.
A teacher spoke over the PA about how the situation "really hit home" this week with unvaccinated people being unable to buy a coffee in a cafe and purchase other items.


I dont care if people are unvaccinated its their choice but in the same instance as long as they dont affect me or mine thats ok.
As for the teacher speaking about not being able to get a coffee or other items, well the choice is clear isnt it? 

This has barely made a ripple here, perhaps because US school shootings happen so often now. But the parents of this boy are to be charged with involuntary manslaughter.
He seems to be quite disturbed but his parents weren't in any rush to get him counselling or help of some sort. 



https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/par...y-rcna7479


During Friday's news conference, the top prosecutor in Oakland County said that a teacher had observed Ethan Crumbley searching ammunition on his cellphone and alerted school officials. The school tried to contact his mother but could not reach her.

McDonald told reporters that Jennifer Crumbley did not contact the school but instead texted her son: "Lol. I’m not mad at you. You have to learn not to get caught."
On Tuesday, prior to the shooting, another teacher alerted school officials to a drawing found on Ethan Crumbley's desk. It contained a drawing of a gun pointing at the words “the thoughts won’t stop, help me," the prosecutor said.

There was also a drawing of a bullet with the words “blood everywhere” above it and a drawing of a person who appeared to have been shot twice and was bleeding. McDonald said the drawing of the person included a laughing emoji and the phrases “my life is useless” and “the world is dead."

...winds up a story with an ending that doesn't really fit. One that seems to  suggest they simply boxed themself into a corner they could see no way out of. It happens a lot with works of high imagination, the series of what ifs just spiral in upon themselves until they are lost in the darkness. 

But perhaps that is better than the formulaic creation of a book where every part of it is so carefully mapped out we readers can spy the inevitable conclusion long before it takes place. The kind of story where we start yelling advice and warnings at the characters in a vain attempt to save them from the wicked machinations of the puppetmaster behind the pen.

That said, I did enjoy Alistair Reynold's return to Revelation Space, I am just a little frustrated it didn't resolve in the end. But then Revelation Space never did...

'Inhibitor Phase'  Gollanz 2021

https://books.google.co.nz/books/about/I...edir_esc=y