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Not been here for a while, here's some, from a couple of weekends ago on a photography workshop I attended in Northumberland.

Thanks Paul

Which one do I go for? Chrome Enterprise/Education Upgrade Standalone, perpetual Chrome Enterprise upgrade Standalone, fixed-term renewable plan

Thanks Primus

Thanks saw them in the list.

Thanks I will look into that now, most of our Chromebooks came as part of gov covid supply but we did buy the odd one or two from a supplier, I will have to dig out who supplied it.

Looking at Chrome OS Flex for our Windows devices that will take Chrome OS Flex, can anyone on here recommend a licence provider? TIA

Chromeflex will more than likely be the next option, but I will keep your offer in mind😉

Well that's a shame, another lot for landfill.

Hi All, We have about 8 machines that are using i3-6100 processors not all the same manufacturer and motherboard, when trying to upgrade from Win 10 22H2 to Win 11 Edu 24H2 it fails because of the processors not meeting the minimum Windows 11 requirements. However when doing a clean install provided I have installed the latest bios and ensured that TPM is cleared before the install it installs no problems and all I have to do is obtain the drivers for the chipset which windows update provided. Any idea why it installs Windows 11 Edu 24H2 (build 26100.4351) and completes all updates with no issues? or am I tempting fate by keeping them and using them, seems a waste to scrap them? As always any advice much appreciated. TIA

All sorted now, carried out windows update troubleshooting section and it repaired the installation allowing the update to install took a few reboots. All sorted now just waiting to see if any of the staff laptops that are all Win 11 machines have the same issue, none as yet.

Yes it's looking that way.. Thanks

So I am constantly getting a failed install on the above update error code 0x800f0993, tried the windows update troubleshooter along with sfc /scannow. Anyone have a solution for this other than a clean install? TIA

I know nothing about birders or ringers if it moves I may just point my camera and as this is one of maybe 4 that are hunting in the field next to our house its an opportunity to practice on especially in low light. These were shot with a Canon R5 RF100-500+1.4x converter at about 700mm, iso 10000 and 6400, ran them through DXO to remove the noise and sharpened a bit in Lightroom and cropped about 60%.

I sent him this and he sent it to some birding ringers on a forum they use.

I have been watching 3 maybe 4 Barn Owls hunting in the field next to us. These are from last night. Only the one visitor last night, it's ringed and according to my nextdoor neighbour (a keen birder) It was ringed in Skipton some 72 miles away from us. I have seen this Owl 2 or 3 times now.

We just bought some Very-PC Flexbooks seem to be pretty robust, They replaced our Dell Latitude E5450's that we bought used and lasted us nearly 6 years.

By the state of it looks like a gamers keyboard as well, they never leave their games units or chairs not even for food they just order it;)

She went to bed I stayed up. Slow burner but stick with it.

We watched it and quite enjoyed it, it reminded of the sort of thing you get from Quentin Tarantino type movies a story that is witty, violent and a lack of realism in some areas.

Thanks @eddyc, its all sorted now, were up and running again, Smart Support sent me a recovery file late yesterday, took a couple of goes with different USB drives but found one that worked eventually which is now locked in my safe.

One of our Smart Board MX065's seems to be stuck in an endless update process, even after they turned it off (which they shouldn't have done) it just loops back into the update cycle so they are unable to use the board. Is it just a case of waiting now? or does anyone know how to hard reset one of these? They have already tried the power off reboot trick.

No way, not on a school night, need my Zzzzz's, I will wait for the full lunar eclipse next year.

A couple of Moonshots from the last couple of nights. Grassholme Reservoir and last night's shot of the full moon from my front door, cropped in at 90%.

Might just go round and confiscate them, saying they have been superseded by a more cheaper, economical and energy efficient model more fitting for the environment.