The Retirement Thread

[Mo1959]

Just put the telly on in time. Another gold for GB in the women’s snowboarding.

 

[Tenkaykev]

I have never used a Chromebook, although, I have toyed with buying one just to "play with it".

I have become a convert to Apple Macbook, although, I have also dabbled with Ubuntu and I have Linux Mint on an 18 yearold macbook (I am typing this on that particular machine).

I have no desire to re-enter the world of Windows.

I have a 2012 MacBook that has been " flashed " with the Home Assistant OS. It consumes very little power, just sits on a shelf with the lid closed and the Apple logo glowing faintly.

 

[Drago]

I just want a computer to work when I switch it on, couldnt care less who made it or what OS it runs so long as I can surf the itnerweb and type a letter. I've better things to worry about than computer ideology!

 

[PeteXXX]

Pleasant 40 winks has been completed 💤 👌

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Yep, it was the "bonkers" bit I wondered about. 😃

Ah!

Bonkers: in one hand and out the other. They may as well pay it net of tax.

Instead of lopping it off of my company pension.

 

[Ianonabike]

Somebody please invent a computer screen which doesn't attract dust and bits, so I don't end up leaving fingerprints by wiping them away from the face of whoever I'm watching in whatever film I'm watching, else they appear to be suffering from the pox.

My impossibly sleek MacBook has the worst screen of all the computers I've known for this.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

I just want a computer to work when I switch it on, couldnt care less who made it or what OS it runs so long as I can surf the itnerweb and type a letter. I've better things to worry about than computer ideology!

Ours (SSD) doesn't do anything like that.

Switch on, enter password and the world of computers, networking and social euphoria awaits you without any vainglorious technical announcements.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Somebody please invent a computer screen which doesn't attract dust and bits, so I don't end up leaving fingerprints by wiping them away from the face of whoever I'm watching in whatever film I'm watching, else they appear to be suffering from the pox.

My impossibly sleek MacBook has the worst screen of all the computers I've known for this.

Even worse when you sneeze all over the screen before you get your hand to your nose. 😁

 

[BoldonLad]

Can I ask why? You must, like me, have enrolled in SERPS or whatever it was later called. That pays an additional state pension, mine is £1647, which takes me over the tax threshold. Tax is payable.

The SP is paid by the DWP. Imagine the chaos if the DWP deducted tax and paid it to HMRC.

Yes, a bit of "joined up thinking" would make sense, but, this is Government we are talking about 😂

 

[BoldonLad]

I just want a computer to work when I switch it on, couldnt care less who made it or what OS it runs so long as I can surf the itnerweb and type a letter. I've better things to worry about than computer ideology!

Same here for the Computer I use to "do stuff".

I do have a passing interest and a little knowledge (rapidly becoming outdated), and, I enjoy "playing", as my wife calls it, (I prefer the term "evaluating", with different Computer stuff, including the various flavours of Linux and Raspberry-pi (I try, but fail, to keep ahead of the grandchildren).

 

[Ianonabike]

Even worse when you sneeze all over the screen before you get your hand to your nose. 😁

Fortunately I'm pretty good at remembering to sneeze into my arm.

When I bought the computer last year I told myself First rule of new computer: don't eat in front of new computer. Well, that lasted about a week. So in addition to the dust and bits, the screen is also occasionally targeted by a pierced cherry tomato, or whatever's in my mouth at the time when something funny enough scrolls by.


View: https://x.com/PlanetOfMemes/status/2022790236342763570

 

[Exlaser2]

Afternoon all . No sailing report today. I was on safety duty today so I was expecting to sit in the race hut for a hour and half before lunch and a glass of wine . But no, every one decided they didn’t want to race in the rain today . So we had a coffee and came home 😀. This normally only happens when it’s blowing dogs off chains or the reservoir is frozen.
On the plus side we were home in time to watch GB get their second gold medal at the winder Olympics.

 

[Dave7]

Lamb for us today. I do like lamb. It's my favourite.

The weather is awful here. It'd dark, it's heaving down with rain and the wind has picked up.

I realise that you probably nick the odd leg of lamb from the next field but it's so expensive now. I keep threatening to do a slow cooked lamb casserole or curry but.....

 

[Tenkaykev]

Even worse when you sneeze all over the screen before you get your hand to your nose. 😁

I have a 1 litre spray bottle of isopropyl alcohol and a microfibre cloth that is excellent at cleaning the keyboard and screen. When the light from the window shines obliquely you can easily see the most used keys.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I haven't heard this before. The basic has never, as far as I know, passed the tax threshold. However as the SP is currently only £22 below the threshold, which is frozen till April 2031, it's a certain part of the SP will be taxed next year.

I feel sure the government will have a plan to address this. There will be uproar when the "poor pensioners face tax hike" headlines start.

Then the practical difficulty of collecting the tax. There are 13 million recipients of the SP. I reckon at least half would never have done a self-assessment return plus it has to be done online!!

That was the point - some journalists realised that the SP would rise to a point where the last couple of quid of it would be above the base point for tax if everything was included
and gave the impression that the poor pensioners living on a pittance would have to pay huge amount of tax on top of "everything else"
in reality it would be a few pence - but it does show how the baseline has effectively dropped