Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 2nd August 2025.

2nd August, 2025.

Right … it’s officially Saturday … 

And … ?

My next Star Trek review will be up, tonight.

Once it’s finished!

Oh, and my nephew, Jude, has done another mix.

Feel free to hit whatever ‘Like’ button grabs your attention!

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I’m something of a technology fan: at least, I try and pay attention to technology news.

So I saw the news that Microsoft’s introduced what it calls a Migration App*, with a certain amount of interest.

The app allows people who’ve bough a new, Windows 11, PC to import over their passwords, settings and apps from a Windows 10 machine, into their new Windows 11 machine.

Something they’ve not made available since the migration from Windows Vista to Windows 7, many years ago.

Apple introduced its own Migration Assistant, many years ago: around 2011

And even before then, this sort of transfer was easy enough to do, through what was called Target Disk Mode.

I’ve used both.

I also helped my nephew sync his Chromebook to his phone, at Christmas.   It had a similar set of apps in place.

So … ?

I’m vaguely surprised at Microsoft: for introducing this technology for Windows Vista and Windows 7, then removing it, then re-introducing it now.

When, maybe, they should have kept the technology in place.

If you want to encourage people to stick with your product, making it easy to transfer data and settings makes sense!

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Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 1-8-2025 — Benin.

1st August, 2025: Benin.

Right, I’m up and about.

Obviously!

And … ?

I’m very aware that it’s Friday, so I’ll be having a phone appointment with my surgery’s nurse practitioner.

To talk about how I’m doing with the blood sugar monitor: and the larger lancets I’ve been given.

To be honest with you … ?

I’ve managed to successfully do three tests over the past week: tests that showed results of 6·3, 8·6 and 5·8, for an average of 6·9: just inside the safe range.

That’s more, and better, results than I had with the original lancets: they did diddly squat!

Quote where we go from here, I don’t know!

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Here in the UK … ?

Here in the UK, the government has introduced new regulations: designed to make sure adult websites do age-verification checks on users.

That seems to have worked!

For starters, many iPhone users have installed VPNs, virtual private networks software, that lets them get around the UK restrictions by routing traffic through other countries.

For another?

You can reach these sites on the desktop by using the Tor browser*: which routes things through various layers.

There’s a version on the Google Play store, if you’re on an Android phone.

And finally … ?

It seems Ofcom, the UK’s communications regulators, are investigating thirty-four sites that haven’t introduced the checks.

That makes me conclude a few things.

Restrictions can be avoided.

And regulations can be ignored.

That’s assuming we can work out how.

Working out how is easier than it looks.

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