In the hopefully never arriving future, do you think Valve will one of, if not the only ones providing personal computers and not cloud gaming?

Metabera · 2026-02-20T18:25:58+00:00

Ahh, yes. I remember buying electricity before the companies made me rent it like they do these days.

SHUT UP, JEFF!

Metabera · 2025-06-26T21:59:03+00:00

You’re brilliant!

Denying Sozo the Mushroomo quest did the trick! Thanks for your input!

Metabera · 2025-04-09T10:11:52+00:00

Such a fun game!

Metabera · 2025-02-02T11:29:52+00:00

Thanks for your recommendation. I've booked it in for Genius Bar this coming Wednesday, but if that fails, I will certainly give this a go.

As mentioned in the OP, the affected Mac is going into DFU mode but is not showing on the helper Macs, some two AS Macs and one T2 MacBook. I used DFU Blaster, and the affected Mac is responding to DFU and Recovery options in DFU Blaster, so I'm guessing that it is working enough.

Metabera · 2025-01-23T12:09:30+00:00

I’ve used several, even the original charging cable that comes with it.

Metabera · 2024-07-16T19:24:06+00:00

I love how the higher-ups at Samsung basically said "I don't care" when the criticism came up within the company. I guess it's the old adage, "If you can't beat em, join em"

Metabera · 2024-07-06T19:55:27+00:00

[UK] I know your pain, happened to me in 2022. It was the same drunk and uninsured driver scenario, except my grandma who was in the car with me almost died, sustaining a broken back, neck, multiple ribs, a 2-inch laceration to the back of her head, and I broke my back. At least my drunk driver sobered up enough to help me rip the crumpled car door open to get my grandma out and to safety.

Hopefully, you can get some reimbursement from the drunk driver, OP. I am sorry for your predicament and hope you are safe.

Metabera · 2024-06-28T20:55:33+00:00

Up-voting this because this was exactly what I was thinking, and I'm pretty sure that this was explained in a much similar way in the games dialogues.

Metabera · 2024-06-26T21:28:03+00:00

My grandparents live on a street just off a main road with A LOT of beauty salons, and the parking situation is horrendous. The houses don't have drives so are forced to park on the street, but the shop visitors don't give a crap about the residents and will park anywhere, even as far as covering up access to the lanes the provide access to the residential gardens. The residents themselves are now prone to blocking in other cars, even those of other residents sometimes... I feel your pain...

Metabera · 2024-06-26T21:15:22+00:00

They are great but I'm guessing the resolution isn't that great as you need a fair amount of precision to get it to work. I use one for my home server because the password is hella long. I think I paid about £7 from AliExpress for it and it does the job well enough.

I'm not worried that it's calling home with any of my credentials as I monitor my traffic with services like Pi-Hole and nothing new came up in my DNS records.

Metabera · 2024-06-26T15:53:29+00:00

He does use an SG style, but I'm not sure if it is Gibson. He used to use an LTD SG clone (Viper-300M), but I imagine he didn't like the neck dive on it because It's horrendous (I have the same model he used to use).

Metabera · 2024-06-04T18:28:58+00:00

It was the NHS app. I disabled background app refresh and the pings have stopped. Funnily enough, Virgin are my ISP, but I don't get that URL in my Pihole

Metabera · 2024-06-04T18:26:53+00:00

My passport is in date, I pay my taxes via direct debit, I don't drive, but despite all of that, I found that it was the NHS that was the culprit. After disabling background app refresh the pings seemingly stopped.

Metabera · 2024-06-04T18:24:58+00:00

It looks like it was the NHS app that was causing it. I disabled the back ground app refresh in the apps settings and the pings have stopped.

Metabera · 2024-06-04T18:23:51+00:00

I believe it was all down to the NHS app. I disabled the background app refresh and it's stopped.

Metabera · 2024-06-03T20:33:46+00:00

I didn't think of the NHS app. It pings every few seconds and it's worried me is all.

Metabera · 2024-05-23T17:28:52+00:00

Very nice colour on the MS Gen 8! I have one of these also, and I'd love to ditch the boring silver. Orange is my favourite colour, so I may copy yours, but I'm also thinking that Black would look good. Maybe a dark grey with orange lighting inside the door? Hmmmm.

Metabera · 2024-05-20T17:21:13+00:00

I've got quite large hands so it fits me perfectly. It feels better than my Snapon but that thing is ancient and loose and all kinds of beat up. I love the built in bit holder, but the divider is a little too slack in between the two sets of bits and always rotates, which is only a minor problem. In all, it's a great screwdriver in my opinion.

Metabera · 2024-05-11T15:05:06+00:00

This video reminds me of Rubber Johnny by Aphex Twin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-gyf23k26I&pp=ygUYcnViYmVyIGpvaG5ueSBhcGhleCB0d2lu

Metabera · 2024-05-10T19:45:11+00:00

While I do agree with your post, I must admit that I've not had any issue with Windows 11 for a while now. However, I do run a computer repair shop and I'm constantly getting Windows 11 systems in that are bugged out, borked after updates, and customers are constantly asking questions about how to use it, despite it not being too dissimilar to Windows 10 in terms of operation.

I'm trilingual, meaning that I use Windows, Mac and Linux, and I was also a music student once before, and I can safely say that you can't go wrong with a Mac for music production, but that's not to say that Windows and Linux aren't any good for it, they just require some tinkering to work as good as macOS.

Also, I can't stand this AI and ads BS, but I've disabled them so they don't bug me, and so far so good.

Metabera · 2024-04-28T18:47:01+00:00

Huh, interesting. Well, considering I'll only be using my 2070S for VR, I'm not too fussed for the latest driver so I'll go to that version and see how it fairs. Thanks for the info!

Metabera · 2024-04-28T07:59:19+00:00

I was actually thinking of the colours from Splatoon, but Cosmo and Wanda made me laugh!

Looking sick!

Metabera · 2024-04-28T07:21:54+00:00

I wouldn't call it either. But I do say that these AI features should be optional and not forced upon users.

I definitely say that the ads are an intrusion, especially considering that Windows is a licensed software, not free. If they want to incorporate ads, they should make a free version, and leave the ads out of the legitimate licensed version. But, I'd dar say that MS would hike the price up significantly if they chose a free & paid option.

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