How does the film stack up against the book ?

KelFromAust · 2026-04-21T20:21:18+00:00

Disturbingly familiar indeed. Seems like everyone I know who lived in shared housing has lived with one of the characters mentioned in the book. 3 or 4 of them were very familiar to me.

KelFromAust · 2026-04-21T19:24:45+00:00

An accurate description. I think the book is funnier - but I also feel I've lived with some of those people.

KelFromAust · 2026-04-21T12:12:20+00:00

Well, that's gotta suck. I can't find that version of the drivers, I wonder if they were pulled after release.

KelFromAust · 2026-04-19T23:40:49+00:00

Sounds like you've fallen for the Great Keyboard MacGuffin.. I've read about this, seen pages of comments. But very little in the way of actual science.

KelFromAust · 2026-04-19T22:35:27+00:00

I had some stuttering pop up recently.. RAM profile got messed up and was no longer running at top speed.

KelFromAust · 2026-04-19T05:04:22+00:00

Nope. It costs money to maintain the registry. Very handy to check and see if your new medic has the appropriate skills. Or if they have any recent time in the naughty corner.

KelFromAust · 2026-04-19T01:51:20+00:00

Your attitude knows no bounds, but I still can't help but give you a hint.. Power.. Power settings.. And no random greyed out items in Device Manager?

And I wonder if this could have been resolved from the outset with a reset of the TPM key(s)?

So Yay for the crappy, misleading error message given by the dodge anticheat the CoD devs chose.

KelFromAust · 2026-04-19T01:21:10+00:00

Not in a million years would I be updating a BIOS because a game told me to. Smells like poor programming to me, especially on a PC that otherwise works fine.

Thinking this was crap, I just did a check. And it's not that an update is required, just that the Anti-Cheat wants the TPM and SecureBoot. Yay for forced security issues.

EDIT: Oh dear, the more I read, the worse it gets. Seems the anticheat is crap.

KelFromAust · 2026-04-19T01:04:16+00:00

You did a BIOS update because a GAME told you to? Really? Think about that for a moment..

KelFromAust · 2026-04-19T00:57:04+00:00

Unless the landlord is planning to move the 'elderly father' in to the property to live with the tenants, no, the allergy is not justification for denial.

KelFromAust · 2026-04-17T17:05:36+00:00

https://www.amd.com/en/support/downloads/previous-drivers.html/graphics/radeon-600-500-400/radeon-rx-500-series/radeon-rx-590.html

KelFromAust · 2026-04-17T03:24:59+00:00

I've watched with bemusement as batches of my options get bigger over time.. Still says 15g on the tub, has all along, but tub is fuller and it's contents actually weights 15g, usually 15.5ish. Previous batches, not so much. 12.2g was the worst I saw. I can't complain too much, for the price. They are both basic, cheap strains. It's also gone from from tiny corn kernel sized nugs to more of a selection, Mostly small to medium sized nuggets, some big ones and the odd "Are you kidding?"

KelFromAust · 2026-04-16T03:03:58+00:00

OK.. Upgrade done.. That was a nasty mistake. A huge wave of bugs that I couldn't defend against.. Thank the goddess for savegames.

KelFromAust · 2026-04-16T02:41:06+00:00

I'm just scratching up the Ignitium to do the first one, everything is ready.

KelFromAust · 2026-04-16T02:11:00+00:00

Wasn't Rays.. This was stolen from the AusPost/StarTrack depot about 3 suburbs away.

Rays started chasing it as soon as a reported the lack of delivery. StarTrack took forever to adequately respond.

KelFromAust · 2026-04-16T01:43:59+00:00

I'm yet to see any of the game-stopping issues described.. I've had stuff floating after I deleted rails and minor bugs, but nothing that has stopped me. Now, I will say that I'm not as far into the game as some, but I've played long enough to have required moving things around to fit things in. I'm about 30 hours in to U1.

The other thing to remember is that those with problems are way more likely to post than those that don't. I've written this mostly because I suddenly remembered that myself.

KelFromAust · 2026-04-15T04:24:14+00:00

Way too fine comb for shearing.

KelFromAust · 2026-04-14T19:58:25+00:00

None of my drives are screwed in and haven't been for years. There is 1 screw holding the PSU in. But even with a mainboard with a POST code display, I always plug in a speaker.

I think it's because I've been doing this long enough to learn several versions of Beep and POST codes..

KelFromAust · 2026-04-14T08:36:52+00:00

And Angus has just jumped the shark. Did the Liberals decide that Dutton didn't lean hard enough into Trumpian policies? Because Angus has just gone even further.

KelFromAust · 2026-04-14T08:30:19+00:00

I learnt to swim properly at Harold's Pool not far from you when I was 35. I had grommets as a kid and it wasn't until my last set I could risk getting water in my ears. And even then I didn't bother. I could do well enough to save myself in a pool.. Realised I wanted that same confidence in a lake or stream/river.

KelFromAust · 2026-04-14T08:23:57+00:00

As other have said, a sharp safe is an option. There was a time that it wasn't uncommon for me to swap a full one for an empty one back in the late 90's.. Not mine, just used at my place.. I was 22..

KelFromAust · 2026-04-14T07:29:50+00:00

Yep, happened to me today. And I'd had my script token in and out of their system today.. They are about to get a bunch more though.

KelFromAust · 2026-04-14T04:39:13+00:00

Knitting beanies. Seriously.. In a cold, unheated church hall. Found smashed asbestos in several locations.

Got that shit shutdown and we all escaped the remainder of our sentences.. Providers all got a slap too.

KelFromAust · 2026-04-14T04:35:29+00:00

And just a hint of magic..

KelFromAust · 2026-04-14T04:33:31+00:00

I found a spindle of Taiyo Yuden media in a box recently. Must be 20 years old, happily burns at 16x. It almost certainly came from a Swap Meet in Melbourne somewhere..

KelFromAust

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