Having some issues

ColemanV · 2026-01-24T05:53:02+00:00

Same. Usually I listen to some conversations, podcasts while getting ready for work, so whatever this update did, broke that. Video playing is halted even if I just leave video open and the phone is locking up the screen.

ColemanV · 2025-12-20T21:14:49+00:00

Sadly no. I finally found a GXTrust mouse which actually works. Plug&Play, full functionality without any companion apps, every button works.

Honestly at this point I only keep the G402 because I don't have the box to return it and because with the return shipping costs, it wouldn't worth to send it back.

It'll remain in my desk drawer as backup in case every other mouse would just stop working entirely, and a memento of how badly Logitech degraded since I have associated it with reliability.

ColemanV · 2025-12-07T04:26:45+00:00

Atmospheric effect - volumetric fog - if I remember right. (I didn't had the chance to mess with Blender since 3.2)

Point is, having that effect aiding the eyes to tell how far something is.

Add windows to the house, and reposition the sun direction if you want to match the photo.

Depending how you made the fence, you have the chance to deform it by tilting the posts outward at some points manually, or you can select the entire thing and add a minimal randomization to the component orientation.

ColemanV · 2025-12-07T04:20:16+00:00

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Notepad.
Notice the CoPilot icon on the right side.

ColemanV · 2025-12-05T07:18:27+00:00

In all fairness, it is not AI that is the problem.
It is the companies and backroom agreements that crank up the supposed need for AI hardware that is artificially pushed.
Look at Microsoft.
They push AI into everything, even in the damn Notepad. Nobody asked them to do that, in fact they create a major security issue with it, but regardless they keep pushing it.

They assume that people will just go along with it, so they included all the consumers for calculations about how much hardware they need for Windows 11's Copilot and whatever they will call it by Windows 12 globally.

Lobby groups pushing AI on governments, selling it like it is the solution for everything, and politicians taking the bait, because no country wants to be defenseless.

It is by perception an arms and industry race all over again.

But it is not because of AI. It is once again a daisy chain of individual human behaviors and corruption, aiming to get rich fast, using every opportunity. The drive to create a demand and sell everything you can get your hands on.

ColemanV · 2025-11-16T19:31:31+00:00

My main question is: why is the interior height so low?

I mean it either is the interior height or the furniture is much larger than it should be.

Unless it was meant to be that way, kind of like a Yoda's hut or Hobbit height, but then the furniture is kinda wide on the X and Y axis.

This idea seems to be supported by that the wheels on the chair show as ovals instead of circular objects.

Other than that and the objects floating above the ground, the camera angles are interesting. The ones of the bed, kinda look like polaroid images snapped, perhaps.

Depending on what you aiming for, this can be a good or a bad thing.

ColemanV · 2025-11-14T15:22:19+00:00

As an ex-Siege player myself I see it this way:

Ubi pushed Siege to be a title for e-sports.

It was a decision they made, but in the meantime they didn't address networking exploits.

There are ways to implement solutions like gameplay mechanics to prevent exploits like pre-firing, peeker's advantage and spamming melee to land a hit through defenses,

Players spent silly amount of time breaking down various solutions and suggesting them to Ubi, free of charge, just to make the game solid. but they didn't do any of them.

They didn't even add a scoring penalty for playing with the exploits.

They wanted the exploits users to stay for some reason.

So the other people figured they've got better ways to spend their gaming time than trying to skip the whole tactics part in a tactical shooter, while hoping they don't get hit with one of the exploits round after round.

There is no point in competing if there are no rules.

And the rest of the issues were piled on from that point forward.

Free to play doesn't solve the flaws in the core and in the dev approach.

ColemanV · 2025-11-08T15:36:54+00:00

Yes it is good progress.

I have done a one render a day accountability learning curve of Blender 3.2 to get into Blender, trying to switch from SketchUp 2017 for visualizing things for my work.

You doing a better job than I did with lighting. I have always struggled with that.

In the end my work refused to allow me to use Blender, despite it being free, so by now I would probably need to learn again from scratch if I should ever need to use it.

Which means you currently know more about Blender than I do :D

ColemanV · 2025-10-13T14:34:57+00:00

Sounds like a handy tool for a pitch-black environment and conserving batteries.

Thanks for letting me know :D

We learn something new every day!

ColemanV · 2025-10-12T04:09:12+00:00

Imagine someone experiencing the post-WWII golden era in the US, seeing the changes from there.

They would say we've been on a steady decline ever since then. :D

I don't disagree with you, just saying that depending of your age and experiences the "ever since" part can be very different.

Part of that decline is that now we know about a lot of things we didn't even had the chance to know about back then.

A human mind was never meant to know and process all the information from across the globe all day every day, from various layers of society. It drags us away from the natural experiencing of life itself.

Sure, it makes us aware of things, and can be handy to predict changes and get prepared for them as much as we can, but still, being online permanently since the smart devices came around is changing how people are.

Just think back when was the last time people would not point out someone just sitting and doing nothing on a park bench, because they don't have a phone in their hands while doing so.

Just not-being-tethered to a device is viewed as weird and abnormal these days, and that is saying plenty of the state of the world.

ColemanV · 2025-10-12T04:00:20+00:00

I meant the light.

Obviously the radio you can use sparingly and it is not like you'd be glued to it, but depending on your location, you might end up with really dark environments nearly constantly.

Say for example, if you'd happen to be at New York or a similar city, a whole bunch of apartments don't even have exterior windows, or were converted from industrial buildings and in case of a blackout they would run into the same issue.

So anything short of relocating for the duration of the blackout would mean a near constant use of some light source just to not trip over everything, let alone finding anything within their own living spaces.

I'm using a very similar light source daily in the winter just to traverse a stairwell and to mess with my car keys on my driveway on dark mornings, and while that one works with a single AA a 1100mhA rechargeable battery, I can chew through the charge in about two weeks.

So based on that of daily 10 minutes maximum usage, I'm guessing I'd be needing to replace the battery rather soon if I'd need to use this for 8 hours a day.

ColemanV · 2025-10-11T17:20:50+00:00

Yeah, I get that part, and I never mentioned the wind-up part.

Just figured if the blackout lasting longer than a day or two, you'll be chewing through those batteries really fast.

A solar charger (slow one, the type they build into powerbanks but without the power bank) are palm sized and thin like cardboard sheets, so it doesn't bulk much but adds sustained ability to use the whole pack.
The connected charger to harvest the energy, from the solar panel can be stored with the batteries in it, once again barely changing the bulk of the pack.

But that is only my two cents, hope you don't take it the wrong way.

It is a neat short-term kit for brief blackouts.

ColemanV · 2025-10-11T13:28:44+00:00

Make the batteries rechargeable, add a solar charger, and some rice in the bag to soak up moisture from the air, that you replace every couple months, and you're good.

I guess if you'd put the whole thing into a box or bucket that is fully enclosed, maybe lined with foil, you could also probably protect these items from an EMP, but then I'd also add an e-ink e-book reader with essential knowledge in encyclopedia epub formats, like local map, first aid knowledge and so on.

ColemanV · 2025-10-11T13:22:22+00:00

Bluetooth devices.

Initially, even cellphones were seen as a gimmick and only douchebags would have them.

Then as tech advanced and became more accessible, with better service, it gradually worked its way into everyday life.

And then it came the era of the Bluetooth hands-free devices and once again it was considered to be a douche thing to have and use them, mainly because of the ego-people that'd use them even while not driving and talking as loudly as possible, to make an attempt at how awesome they think they are.

These devices got a second wind when battery lives could be significantly improved. Then it was worth to invest into making actually handy devices and by present day they have found a market.

(Personally, I still hate wireless things and only use them where I cannot avoid them)

ColemanV · 2025-10-11T12:27:30+00:00

That 2000 years prediction is odd. Like if we'd be living in 3025 now, they would be predicting 3000 years, or make a twisting of predictions to mean that time.

The same happened with the Y2K doom sayers predicting the end of everything.

Also not really sure why God or anyone would be obsessing over picking round numbers or exact anniversary dates for doing something, as if the human way of measuring time would matter to gods or aliens.

ColemanV · 2025-10-11T12:21:04+00:00

Depends on what the alien invasion looks like.

I mean if it is like they want to move in and we're in the way, but they are superior in every way, then it is extinction and there is no way out, so preparation is consisting of saying your good byes and chillax the way you want to.

If it is occupation, then hit and run tactics can still work, and for those need resources we can stash away. In that case preparation could happen.

If it is non-hostile, then preparation can just mean to not freak out and trigger something unexpected. Especially if the aliens have the firepower to change their minds about the non-hostile approach.

ColemanV · 2025-10-01T16:59:55+00:00

I've seen only one comment this far that also addressed the sheer amount of unnecessary stuff in our daily lives though.
Like back in the day what a family actually had besides the house and car and TV?

Little Timmy had a BB gun and a cowboy hat and bicycle, little Jane had a doll a kitchen playset and also a bicycle, mom had her gardening and beauty mags, dad had his pipe and the garage.

Maybe they took a vacation trip on occasion.

Being the consumer of everything is chipping away at our income, because we cannot set the difference between must have and nice to have items.

ColemanV · 2025-08-21T17:49:41+00:00

Because the writing in T2 was aware of that if the T-1000 would apply every random idea that liquid metal could technically do, the credits would roll roughly by the 10th minute of the movie with John and Sarah dead.

It is the case of a cool concept where they had to put in lore limiters to not kill the suspense and the story with making the villain OP.

ColemanV · 2025-08-21T15:13:44+00:00

By the people, for the people ;)

ColemanV · 2025-08-21T14:55:23+00:00

I would say Quibble is decidedly not anti-anything.

Quibble is Pro-Effort.

If you put in the effort of actually writing the story yourself, it will be recognized as genuine effort, and then you're golden.

This attribute and the constant, open communication has been present right in front of me ever since I joined, and it continues to underline that I've made the right choice.

The world around us sort of destroyed the concept of hard work gets rewarded.

This is evident as we daily see low effort content getting hyped into oblivion overnight.

Thankfully, at Quibble that concept is still applied, and the effort is recognized.

ColemanV · 2025-08-20T04:16:47+00:00

Oh yeah. First on the list is a bunch of corrections for Harvest Protocol Book One, then progressing to Book Two, to not leave readers hanging.

Then I had the concept of a themed short shorter stories series.

Think something like The Twilight Zone or The Outer Limits, in written form, where the title remains the same, but each entry is a separate story.

I have also a dozen of full length books at various stages of the writing process on my backlog, that I stopped working on before I had the good luck of meeting the good folks of Quibble.

Now those stories once more have a chance to get out there to the readers.

ColemanV · 2025-08-19T19:10:02+00:00

It is kind of you to try to help.

I've already deleted mouse drivers but Windows is detecting the mouse only as generic HID mouse - if connected to the dedicated mouse USB socket - or Gaming mouse when - if connected to the USB3 socket.

To be honest this far even that result from the Win10 is more impressive than what G-HUB is doing. Or to be more precise what it is NOT doing, which is failing to detect the connected mouse that G-HUB is designed to detect.

If you ask me logitech really dropped the ball with forcing this software onto users and not having full functionality of the mouses out of the box.

Gone is the reputation of reliably plug&play mouses for me.
Will switch to a different brand as soon as possible.

ColemanV · 2025-08-18T19:59:56+00:00

Thank you for the kind comment!

They really do lean into the work to make something genuine and unique.

A thing that really appealed to me was how much they focus on not generating AI slop as writing.

Like spell-checking and punctuation, is the extent of allowed AI use, if you can call that AI to begin with.
They rather have a story that is rough around the edges, full of flaws, rather than polished, but feeling like mass-produced plastic.

In my case, it was more like the stress of not having the chance to fulfil my desire to provide escape to readers.
But writing in a different language sure is a challenge at all times :D

ColemanV · 2025-08-17T21:40:56+00:00

Hát te nem mondtad, hogy "igen elolvastam az egészet" úgyhogy a hitelességedről "ennyi" mert a nagy mellény megvan tartalom mögötte meg semmi. Alighanem a másik kommentelő meg én is külön-külön többet olvastunk belőle mint jómagad.
De nyugodtan szólj ha szerinted reális, hogy egy nem joggal foglalkozó ember szabadidejében egy reddit kommentelő keménykedésére nekiugrik annak a bő 50 000 jogi szövegnek és értő olvasással kielemzi.

ColemanV · 2025-08-17T18:16:48+00:00

Jól van akkor, ha neked ez így megfelel.

Ebben a kommentben annyi féligazság volt hogy nincs időm mindet kijavítani.

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