Latest Moan From You and Me 2025

My Lansaprazole ones are similar but at least they have 7 tablets on each strip. It's daft only having 5 or 6. Being a female, I use my fingernail to slice and peel off the back - less chance of stabbing myself.

 

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Yeah, think I'll carry on using a spoon.

 

OH always takes the electric drill to old hard drives that we're discarding. If the whole device is going, we open them up and take out the disk drive to destroy it. It's not hard if you have no intention of putting it back together again!

 

It seems brutal. When I take an item of clothing to the charity shop, I wash it first. Obviously this does not remove all my DNA, but it makes it fit for another person to use. That’s what I want to do with my tech - a power wash rather than breaking its atoms to destruction. That’s what I was able to do with a no longer supported Chromebook. Easy peasy.

I have resigned myself to keeping it. When I am gone it can be recycled “unwashed” as my details getting into the wrong hands won’t matter anymore. I’m a very light tech user, so am not creating a great deal of tech waste.

 

Ah I see. Different if you want to give the device to someone else for them to use. Ours only generally go when something major has failed (like my last laptop - the heat sink failed without warning and the processor got fried) or they're so out of date that they're unsupported and won't run current versions of anything. OH has a bad habit of stashing old IT stuff "just in case" then deciding 10 years later that it's no use after all (surprise!) and then he'll destroy the disks etc and take what's left to the recycling.
I agree, easier with Android devices that have a factory reset option.

 

There's a massive difference between giving clothes to charity and passing on a computer with a workable hard drive. There is no chance of all your personal and/or business information being retrieved from a jacket. There is a very real possibility of information being retrieved even from a damaged hard drive.

 

I realise this. I was just using it as an analogy. The persistence of DNA and hard drives.

 

While I can understand the analogy to an extent, why do you think someone would want your DNA and for what purpose. Also how would they link fragments of anonymous DNA on an anonymous piece of clothing back to you.

 

Say I had committed a crime. Say the charity shop staff described me and the police thought “Ah ha, that matches the description of the person we are looking for”. Then, they take one of my donations and get it forensically tested. They search their database but can find no match (my relatives being law-abiding sorts). Then, they wonder if I might have used one of the ancestry DNA sites and they get a court order for the company to release the data. Lo, my sister has used them. A match is made. I can be arrested.

There’s a whole TV series in there somewhere.

Now, just in case it is not clear from ^^^, I am joking!

I wasn’t saying in my post that anyone would want to get my DNA from a piece of donated clothing. I was saying that when I donate something, I accept it is not forensically clean and carries my DNA with it. Same with a computer hard drive. A trace of me will still be there, unless I smash it to bits. Similarly I could cut up the piece of clothing and bin it. I just prefer to recycle where possible.

 

Interestingly there's been a series on Radio 4 called "The Gift" where people have been given a DNA test kit as a present and when the results come back thet are not always what was expected.
It would be cheaper and easier to use image recognition software, as the shop will have a picture of you and the cameras in the street.

 

It would indeed be cheaper to use face recognition, but that wouldn’t make for a very suspense-filled 6-part TV series. AI is going to kill the detective genre off!

 

As Captain Mainwaring would say, I think we are into the realms of fantasy here. Pike.

 

I remember the days when a series was 24 parts…