Oh cool, I'll pick it up in a year for a few quid.
April 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Oh cool, I'll pick it up in a year for a few quid.
While I'm sure Dipper would love a friend, it's probably not fair to surprise your housemate lol. We keep considering getting Gracie a friend.
March 28, 2025 at 1:38 PM
While I'm sure Dipper would love a friend, it's probably not fair to surprise your housemate lol. We keep considering getting Gracie a friend.
I think that's my biggest obstacle. I have no way of charging at home, and local charging stations all have limited duration stays allowed (no parking for more than 2 hours) - I'd love an EV but I simply can't see a way to make it work without public infrastructure to back it up :(
March 25, 2025 at 11:10 AM
I think that's my biggest obstacle. I have no way of charging at home, and local charging stations all have limited duration stays allowed (no parking for more than 2 hours) - I'd love an EV but I simply can't see a way to make it work without public infrastructure to back it up :(
Yeah, to be fair, it's also the game I have the most hours on ever, it's like 2000 hours ahead of my next most played game. So I have definitely got my money's worth!
March 22, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Yeah, to be fair, it's also the game I have the most hours on ever, it's like 2000 hours ahead of my next most played game. So I have definitely got my money's worth!
It's an interesting tradeoff, isn't it. I have never purchased a game at full price except one, because the developers have sworn from the start they would never ever put it on sale, so the cheapest time to buy it was always now. But then I wouldn't have half the games I do if they weren't on sale.
March 21, 2025 at 9:09 PM
It's an interesting tradeoff, isn't it. I have never purchased a game at full price except one, because the developers have sworn from the start they would never ever put it on sale, so the cheapest time to buy it was always now. But then I wouldn't have half the games I do if they weren't on sale.
The problem with rejoining is that we will never get back the position we had before. All of those vetoes and opt outs we enjoyed over various parts of legislation, the retention of the pound. If we rejoined we would lose all of that, making rejoining a far bigger proposition than remaining was.
March 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
The problem with rejoining is that we will never get back the position we had before. All of those vetoes and opt outs we enjoyed over various parts of legislation, the retention of the pound. If we rejoined we would lose all of that, making rejoining a far bigger proposition than remaining was.
Most modern TV remotes are Bluetooth devices not IR. Chances are that's why you can't turn it off.
March 14, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Most modern TV remotes are Bluetooth devices not IR. Chances are that's why you can't turn it off.
And the bios? The microcode version matters with those dodgy as hell intel chips. There's a reason intel replaced them twice over a single year between the overvolt issues and the CPU straight up oxidising.
March 9, 2025 at 9:45 AM
And the bios? The microcode version matters with those dodgy as hell intel chips. There's a reason intel replaced them twice over a single year between the overvolt issues and the CPU straight up oxidising.
I hear it paves the way to further research.
March 8, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I hear it paves the way to further research.
schneegans.de/windows/unat... is the site I use for it.
Generate autounattend.xml files for Windows 10/11
Only check this option if your computer really does not have internet access. If you just want to create local (“offline”) user accounts in Windows 11, you can always do so in the User accounts section of this form.
schneegans.de
March 7, 2025 at 10:10 AM
schneegans.de/windows/unat... is the site I use for it.
Always create an answer file for your windows install so that crap is not even installed to start with. There are sites that let you build an answer file with a tick box interface and you just dump the resulting XML into your install media.
March 7, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Always create an answer file for your windows install so that crap is not even installed to start with. There are sites that let you build an answer file with a tick box interface and you just dump the resulting XML into your install media.
I always grab the pdf of a manual from the manufacturers site and store them in my document management system (paperless ngx) in their own category. Not ever needed to reference the manual for my TV but for things like my oven it's been invaluable.
March 2, 2025 at 8:40 AM
I always grab the pdf of a manual from the manufacturers site and store them in my document management system (paperless ngx) in their own category. Not ever needed to reference the manual for my TV but for things like my oven it's been invaluable.
Until actual benchmarks are out AND people know what the real prices are once the RRP jumps 20+% (assuming there's any stock at all) - working out if it has any value is impossible.
March 1, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Until actual benchmarks are out AND people know what the real prices are once the RRP jumps 20+% (assuming there's any stock at all) - working out if it has any value is impossible.
Yeah I am a software engineer and for the longest time the last thing I wanted to do when I was finished at work was use a computer. The result was my desktop was 13 years old, and mid-range when I bought it (core i5 4670k / 780GTX) - now on a 9800x3d and 4080 super.
February 28, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Yeah I am a software engineer and for the longest time the last thing I wanted to do when I was finished at work was use a computer. The result was my desktop was 13 years old, and mid-range when I bought it (core i5 4670k / 780GTX) - now on a 9800x3d and 4080 super.
As someone who in December jumped from a 780GTX to a 4080 super, it's quite remarkable just how much you don't realise even older games you thought were performing well simply weren't.
February 28, 2025 at 11:36 AM
As someone who in December jumped from a 780GTX to a 4080 super, it's quite remarkable just how much you don't realise even older games you thought were performing well simply weren't.
But they store what you tell them to, not what you intended them to.
February 28, 2025 at 9:54 AM
But they store what you tell them to, not what you intended them to.
It just never struck me as something I'd enjoy. It sounds like gamified frustration and that doesn't sound fun. But then that's coming from someone who uninstalls a game if it has an unskippable intro sequence because I find them frustrating too.
February 25, 2025 at 6:28 PM
It just never struck me as something I'd enjoy. It sounds like gamified frustration and that doesn't sound fun. But then that's coming from someone who uninstalls a game if it has an unskippable intro sequence because I find them frustrating too.
Have a look at a self-hosted / open source app called Paperless. it will organise and let you tag your documents etc. It's been game changing for my personal document organisation and I too have many many PDFs!
February 24, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Have a look at a self-hosted / open source app called Paperless. it will organise and let you tag your documents etc. It's been game changing for my personal document organisation and I too have many many PDFs!
So the go-to recommendation (and what I run on my home PC) is mint. Out of the box I had to spend ages configuring apparmor profiles just to get firefox to work properly with my password manager, this is not an unusual use case, password managers are now common, and it works ootb on macos and win.
February 23, 2025 at 12:52 AM
So the go-to recommendation (and what I run on my home PC) is mint. Out of the box I had to spend ages configuring apparmor profiles just to get firefox to work properly with my password manager, this is not an unusual use case, password managers are now common, and it works ootb on macos and win.
I use Linux daily on both my personal and work machines, and I've been using Linux commercially since 2005 and freebsd before that since the 90s. I still don't think it's usable to most home users without way more configuration or understanding than the typical user is prepared or able to do.
February 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I use Linux daily on both my personal and work machines, and I've been using Linux commercially since 2005 and freebsd before that since the 90s. I still don't think it's usable to most home users without way more configuration or understanding than the typical user is prepared or able to do.
I simply don't use sound in games. Subtitles on, silence. Anything else is unbearable.
February 21, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I simply don't use sound in games. Subtitles on, silence. Anything else is unbearable.
Ah, careful, you're revealing Activision trade secrets
February 18, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Ah, careful, you're revealing Activision trade secrets
:( This is the weirdest thing, what's their reasoning? Shock collars are lazy and cruel and there's just no need for them when positive reinforcement works so well as a training tool!
January 23, 2025 at 10:05 PM
:( This is the weirdest thing, what's their reasoning? Shock collars are lazy and cruel and there's just no need for them when positive reinforcement works so well as a training tool!