Aug 10, 2025
Gareth and Ted reunite for another show. This week more on the Uk Online Safety act Gareth lost his shit about last week. Ted looks at the Nothing Phone 3 debacle, iKKO's new device, Google finish fiddling with Steam on Chromebooks, stolen load of Galaxy Z Fold 7s and PixelSnap be's a thing. Plus loads more.
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Phil Wells on Gareth’s Rant
I've just listened to the latest episode and am concerned about
Gareth's rant. First off...the legislation came into force recently
but was enacted some time ago (26 October 2023) under the
Conservative Government but time was given for tech companies to
react and for the body charged with enforcing it (Ofcom) to get its
act together.
As such it should be Michelle Donelan who is the target for the ire
as Peter Kyle can only deal with what has been legislated. I would
contend that Gareth is guilty of shooting the messenger here.
Turning to age verification and the bit about a Government ID
system...off the top of my head I can think of at least 5
Government Departments where I am already uniquely identified....by
NI Number, Driver's Licence Number, Passport Number, UTR (Unique
Taxpayer Reference), National Health Number.
None of the departments/systems seem to talk to each other (except
that there is a link between Passport and Driving Licence systems
for the sharing of pictures) and each stores the same information
about me.
Given that everyone is given a NI number around the time of their
16th birthday this would seem to be the logical place for any age
verification call to be made. But then again when has logic applied
to anything that gets done in this country.
Ian Barton on Rclone
A kind of super powerful version of rsync. A command-line
programme to manage files on cloud storage. It is a feature-rich
alternative to cloud vendors' web storage interfaces. Over 70 cloud
storage products support rclone including S3 object stores,
business and consumer file storage services - as well as standard
transfer protocols. Rclone has powerful cloud equivalents to the
unix commands rsync, cp, mv, mount, ls, ncdu, tree, rm, and
cat.
Rclone's familiar syntax includes shell pipeline support, and
--dry-run protection. It is used at the command line, in scripts or
via its API. Users call rclone "The Swiss army knife of cloud
storage" and "Technology indistinguishable from magic". I use it to
download all my documents and photos to a server at home, which
makes sure there are at least two backups of every document (there
are two computers that each have a backup). Because rclone has so
many options it can be difficult at the start. However, some
Googling will usually find a script that does what you want.
AJ Santos on YouTube now second only to BBC as media destination
YouTube has become the UK's second most-watched media service, behind only the BBC, according to Ofcom's annual report. 20% of Generation Alpha - aged four to 15 - turn to YouTube first when switching on their SmartTV. People aged over 55 are watching nearly twice as much YouTube as they did two years ago.
New-look PSC Show with me and Joe Hickey starts 1st September
now Steve has retired.
PSC Website - phonesshowchat.uk - RSS Feed
News
Google officially ends support for Steam on Chromebooks
Samsung's new foldable display tech
Google loses US appeal over app store reforms in Epic Games
case
iKKO Card-Sized AI Smartphone with Free Global Internet -
Ben’s
Gadget Reviews
A truck carrying thousands of Galaxy Z Fold 7, Flip 7 units just
got stolen
Nothing just snubbed its biggest market (India) while defending
Phone 3 price
Looks
like PixelSnap confirms magnetic Qi2 25W charging on the Pixel 10
Series -
Nothing left to announce
Bargain Basement: Best UK deals and tech on sale we have spotted
Lenovo Flex 3 Chromebook 15
inch Full HD Touchscreen Intel Celeron N4500 4GB RAM 128GB -
£189.99
Anker HDMI Switch £9.99 from
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Magnetic Light Strips-84 LED, 2
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Samsung Galaxy S10FE £599
from £749
spqment Solar Outdoor Security
Sensor Lights: 288 LED Outdoor Garden Light - £9.98
Logitech MX Keys S Plus
£82.99 from £120 (Oh dear - do we need to
upgrade?)
UGREEN 2.5Gbps Network Switch
(5 x 2.5Gbps Base-T& 1 x 10Gbps SFP+ Slot Ethernet Splitter)
£39.98
Anker Prime 27,650mAh Power Bank
(250W) with 100W Charging Base - back down to £169 again (from
£229)
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