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If you just mean a link directly to the cart then
https://shop.westerndigital.com/en-gb/store/cart

If you mean a link to a cart that has your items in it then you won’t be able to do that

Yes! Cheers.

@salad-cunt thanks for trying.

What's a good free or single purchase PDF reader/editor? Acrobat DC is basically the only thing I regularly use for a 50 quid a month creative cloud subscription. I very very occasionally use After Effects and Illustrator but usually just to make amendments to a project that someone else has created. Adobe are offering creative cloud for 25 quid a month if I stay but can I be bothered tying myself into another year?

Does anyone know how wills work across countries?

My wife and I live in Spain (and are tax residents here) but are from the UK, and expecting a baby, hence the sudden urge to be adults and make a will. We have a house in the UK, and cash assets in Spain. Where should we make the will, or does it not matter?

An Austrian business contact I've met briefly on a conference call addresses me in email as Mr Smith rather than using my first name which I'm more used to. Are the Austrians more formal about these things? Should I do likewise and call him Mr Gruber and not Hans?

Where should we make the will, or does it not matter?

It matters quite a bit, and there are some specific wrinkles in respect of Spain and certain other savage nations. You really need to take advice from your English lawyer.

call him Herr Gruber

FTFY, but if has some other title (e.g. Dr.) make sure you use it, German-speaking people seem to like to be correct about such things.

Herr Gruber

I wondered about that we are using English for everything else so it seems a bit random to use German titles?

Thanks though. Can't find evidence of a title but I'll stick to his surname for now.

Yes, from my experience of working with people in Germany and Austria a lot (particularly senior staff) go by surnames. As Tester says, lots of Drs there too. I think about 50% of those I was dealing with were doctors (of business, not medicine).

German native speakers would never use the first name for a contact like that unless you'd known them for years (or you'd become friends on holiday or something like that, or you were closely related) and 'drunk to brotherhood' ("Brüderschaft trinken") with them, which means that you address each other in the familiar form ("du") rather than the polite/formal form ("Sie"). It's like tu/vous in French. Obviously, that English doesn't have grammatically-enabled polite forms doesn't mean that you can't be polite in it, it's just done in other ways. It means that there's a barrier to calling people over the age of 18 by their first names or using "du". At school, teachers used "Sie" for us from when we started sixth form, from about 16.

In the decades that I haven't lived in Germany, this seems to have become loosened somewhat in that people in trendy shops sometimes seem to want to address you as "du" even if you're clearly older, but I spend too little time there to know what the rules or indicators are for how that works.

You should address him as 'Mr Gruber' (or Dr, as the case may be) and never as Hans, and certainly not as "Herr Gruber" unless you speak German to him. I'm sure many native German-speaking businesspeople are by now very used to doing business with native English speakers and many have been addressed by first names, but it would usually jar and would certainly come across as unprofessional.

duzen that mfer

I have an HP laptop, it can run upto 4ghz but sits at 1.8ghz
it is an i7 quad core with 8gb of RAM

I downloaded intels turbo boost monitor thinking I could crank up the basic processor speed, I used to understand how to use throttlestop but it doesnt seem to affect this laptop.
Being HP I cant get to advanced settings in the BIOS... can I?

Please halp, I just want it to run at 2.5ghz all the time with the capacity to run a little higher (it only does this when opening/closing programs) all the time. I can cool it with a fan stand tray thing. For games. Well, one game.
I use it for a bit of music stuff too so im sure that would benefit as well.

Cheers my dudes.

certainly not as "Herr Gruber"

Is it a faux pas? It's common in English to use the native form of the honorific for forrins, e.g. Tsar Nikolai and Kaiser Wilhelm, not King, Herr Hitler and Monsieur de Gaulle, not Mister.

Please halp

PC Tech thread might help, you'd need to specify exact CPU model number to get an answer on whether you can run all cores at 2.5GHz for long, or even at all.

Yes, it's a faux pas in the sort of personal conversation we're talking about (especially as most English native speakers would mispronounce "Herr"). I know that using foreign titles like that is common in English, but I haven't heard it except for the sort of prominent personalities you cite, or indeed fictional characters like the Rowan Atkinson character Mr Bean, who is usually referred to as Mr Bean, or the Jacques Tati character M. Hulot in the same way. I'd say it's much less common than in English.

In a sense, it's academic, as most Germans speak English nowadays and would generally try to switch to English when speaking to a native English speaker, so the question of how to address one in German would come up less.

certainly not as "Herr Gruber" unless you speak German to him

Interesting to know. I'd probably use Herr Gruber as that's what the German people I dealt with called him, even though the rest of the conversation is in English.

No, call him 'Mr Gruber' if you speak English to him. He might not mind, but he'd certainly find it odd if you used "Herr", which just means "Mister", so there's absolutely no reason to use it in another language that has a perfectly good word for it.

What should I do in this case.
I work for a German company that trades around the world, the boss of our division is Austrian and uses the title Magister (indicating he has a Masters degree). My German colleagues ignore it and refer to him as Herr X.
I do use the titles Dr and Professor for other colleagues but Magister has no English equivalent and sounds weird when I use it so I use Herr which seems rude.

I've never heard of anyone in the German-speaking world using "Magister" as how they want to be addressed. It's extremely old-fashioned in that way. There used to be quite a few job titles that used it when Latin was still used to make such titles, but it's not a form of address in German that I've ever heard. Maybe it's an Austrian thing, or there's something I've missed completely, or he's miffed that he didn't manage to do a PhD? I'd say that if your German colleagues ignore it, you can safely ignore it, too.

Magister has no English equivalent

Of course it does, it's equivalent to 'master' for academic degrees. In fact, in the course of educational reform, quite a few German degrees have been re-christened 'master' from the older "Magister".

Edit: Or is it just something in his e-mail signature? Then it's not meant as a title, just to tell people about his education.

Of course it does

While master's degrees are a thing, I don't think anybody has ever used the honorific Master in English to indicate that somebody has one, except in the rare cases of persons with the surname Bates. In some trades, it is used to address or designate an instructor of apprentices.

I just want it to run at 2.5ghz all the time

Even when idle? That means it will get hot and be less able to Turbo boost.

If it’s not upping the clock rate when under load, that’s a separate problem.

Of course it does, it's equivalent to 'master' for academic degrees.

I don't think we have anything for that as a prefix. People who want to indicate that they have a Masters degree tend to put MEng, MSc or MA after their name. Calling yourself Master Xyz is the old fashioned way of saying you're a male under 18, you become Mister Xyz when you hit 18. I think that's correct.

In the decades that I haven't lived in Germany, this seems to have become loosened somewhat in that people in trendy shops sometimes seem to want to address you as "du" even if you're clearly older

It's like in the UK (or maybe SE specific?) where shop staff and people who are privately selling to you / buying from you can think it's OK to address you as 'mate' in person despite knowing nothing of you.

when you hit 18. I think that's correct.

Well, 21 at least if we're being old fashioned.

But when people call me Sir I sometimes respond that I haven't been knighted yet.