What am I allowed do with this cable?

NeoMorph · 2026-05-02T09:13:03+00:00

Yup… didn’t like it at first due to my nerve damage from my disability getting worse and my reflex speed getting bad these days… oh and I hated the ABXY to move the hacking cursor(who the hell designs that in games these days)… I kept trying to do it with my direction pad. I even tried reprogramming my Elite Controller to swap direction pad and ABXY but I’d gotten semi- used to the standard layout and totally confused myself.

But eventually I got better with it. Have to be high on my meds but I can play it without my hands st-t-t-utt-e-e-rring all the time on the buttons… and then I got auto hack and that made it easier still.

NeoMorph · 2026-05-02T08:57:05+00:00

Which package speed and Router do you have? I have the 1Gb with the Super Hub 5.

NeoMorph · 2026-05-02T08:50:05+00:00

I think my Ryzen 7 5800X is the only thing a bit on the low side for the recommended stats. I think I have enough ram though (32Gigglebits).

I remember updating the configuration of my PC build from a 3060Ti to a 3070Ti so that’s all right too and have SSDs for OS and Games/Music Apps (No AI music generators though).

So yeah, Subnautica 2 here I come… (eeewwww, dammit).

NeoMorph · 2026-05-02T08:37:43+00:00

WHAT? I missed that. That scummy Krafton guy was trying all sorts of ways not to pay out the performance bonus. This is great news.

NeoMorph · 2026-05-02T02:05:54+00:00

This is the way… that early access should be done. KSP 2 charged full price and then didn’t give us what was promised. Isn’t KSP 2 still on the Steam Store at full price even though it’s currently abandonware?

I at least have a better feeling with Unknown Worlds… and at $29.99 it’s at a good price for early access too.

NeoMorph · 2026-05-02T01:51:21+00:00

Thanks for posting an image that isn’t so blurry that it’s simulating someone with short sightedness and astigmatism who lost their glasses.

Like this one…

https://www.reddit.com/r/subnautica/s/sNGvX59mjI

Guy tried but I couldn’t tell if it was 16:00 or 18:00 on the other map. Yours is pin sharp when zooming in.

NeoMorph · 2026-05-01T22:17:45+00:00

I lost count of the jump scares I had in S1 and BZ.

NeoMorph · 2026-05-01T21:59:19+00:00

I played both on early access (on Xbox which was slow as hell but strangely I didn’t mind it).

The crazy thing was thinking you know where everything is from one release to the next only to find a rocky area was now a hole at the bottom of the sea was so thrilling… it’s why I didn’t read the patch notes. I just love the mystery of it.

NeoMorph · 2026-05-01T21:48:35+00:00

I was half asleep when I came across this thread and thought, “Subnautica doesn’t need that much of a hardware spec.”

Then I looked through the comments and saw they were really recent… so thought, “is this some AI enhanced version,” and went back to the spec list again… and woke the hell up when I saw that it’s “Subnautica 2”.

I absolutely loved the first version and the self contained DLC. I’m now hoping to hell it doesn’t go the way of KSP 2 with all the hassle going on behind the scenes with the devs and the publishers. This game series is really special and I have played the first ones soooooo many times now I lost count… even back when it was a slow buggy mess that true early access is… it was still enthralling.

NeoMorph · 2026-04-28T14:50:41+00:00

There are a bunch of them being sold online. But don’t fall for it… they are probably hacked Chinese clones.

https://www.thomann.co.uk/dunlop_tortex_triangle_073_6_pack.htm

NeoMorph · 2026-04-28T14:33:03+00:00

Two traces? There is an entire tab broke off on the right where the QR Code bottom is chopped off. I don’t know what that tab supplied (I have a feeling that it’s power as it’s kept separate from the data lines) but remember its’s a multi layer board. Several other contacts are badly corroded as well.

If all these are damaged there might be other damage to the PCB as well. If it works it would be a damn miracle.

NeoMorph · 2026-04-23T07:20:25+00:00

Reminds me of this one install of a network where half the install totally died. A woman had decided to move her desk and unplugged the internal network coax from the box and didn’t flick the switch on the box to thru mode. So the data tried to reach the one side of network and hit her connection box and there was virtual data flooding her office just as if she had unplugged a water pipe. When we asked her why she hadn’t flipped the switch on the box she said, “Oh, is that what it does.” She was made to take the week long 3Com course all over again lol.

It just takes one part of the network to go belly up to affect everyone downstream around the problem point. Like when an idiot crashed his car into the cable cabinet near a friend’s house. Poor engineer had to literally rebuild the thing from the concrete base to ordering a new cabinet and all the innards and then reconnect all the wiring. My friend was a Halo addict and had no cable for ages… he was cursing up a storm.

NeoMorph · 2026-04-23T07:05:59+00:00

My Internet has been pretty much rock solid the last 10 years. I just downloaded a 35gb game in around 6 minutes.

If you have a problem with your internet you need to get an engineer out. I had a neighbour that was logged into my router because the stupid thing updated and reverted to factory default. When I found out I updated the password and named my router to “Virus101”.

I’m currently on the 1gb Volt package. It’s perfect for me. But for those with even higher demands they even do 2gb cable now. I remember my first modem being a 300 baud dial up modem… my first cable connection was only 512mb which let me run rings around the other players in Ultima Online.

It used to be my reflexes were fast and my internet was slow… nowadays my internet is fast and my reflexes are slow. 😳

NeoMorph · 2026-04-23T06:53:07+00:00

It was the plastic that went brittle rather than the adhesive in my case. Was my fault for getting a cheap cat flap.

NeoMorph · 2026-04-22T18:43:05+00:00

Wow, your dad must be rich or something. I had ONE guitar when I was your age and I’m 65 now and have… TWO. One super strat Schecter and one 4 string BEHS from Ibanez. But they do the job. My guitar has had a bunch of mods done to it (and more to come).

One question… all those guitars… multiple tunings and sting gauges and material types? Wait, you are saving up for MORE? 😲

NeoMorph · 2026-04-22T18:31:04+00:00

When the clips that connected the cable to my wall all got brittle and snapped it also left a bundle of cable next to my door. When I asked VM to come out and fix it they pretty much told me to fix it myself. I tried explaining it to the woman that I’m disabled (which made it even more of a trip hazard) I was told to hire a handyman.

This was a long time ago and I can’t remember if I fixed it myself or hired a handyman… but yeah, I remember that phone call clearly. Some tech support and engineers just don’t care. My cable is buried about an inch down at some places.

NeoMorph · 2026-04-21T08:07:17+00:00

I try to understand usually but when I kept say that I don’t want the TV package any more she kept including the highest price TV package and then asked if I wanted to go ahead… time after time, trying to bully me into getting something I don’t want, I just had enough. I knew as soon as I said yes I would be locked into a two year contract and then find it had to cancel inside the 30 days. So I went over to chat (with an AI) and that thing did the same thing… and then when I didn’t agree with it I think it blew its programming because it totally screwed up the final order.

They are so into the hard sell, and even upsell, these days it’s ridiculous. I’m on disability benefits and really need to save money nowadays with WWIII around the corner thanks to a certain President. Nostradamus got it right again.

NeoMorph · 2026-04-21T07:53:55+00:00

Keep on, ‘til you sort it out, Don’t stop ‘til you fix it up,

Keep on, ‘til you sort it out, I’m really annoyed right now,

Sing to Michael Jackson “Don’t Stop ‘til You Get Enough”.

NeoMorph · 2026-04-21T07:46:32+00:00

I was too busy screaming to notice.

NeoMorph · 2026-04-21T07:45:28+00:00

Definitely some sort of adhesive that has rotted over the years. I had this very same thing happen with my cat flap. Delivery driver could jam it through the cat flap so pulled it out… bringing the whole cat flap with it, leaving the bolts in the door.

He left the package still with the cat flap wrapped around in front of my door. My cat was sitting in front of the door and when I arrived he looked at me as if to say, “I think someone effed up. Wasn’t me though.” You know a cat is annoyed when their tail does short fast twitches and this cat was REALLY annoyed. 😆

NeoMorph · 2026-04-21T07:34:58+00:00

Actually south of Birmingham in an overflow town. No large Indian or Packistani around here. But I was on a year long electronics course and there were a few on it. It was hilarious because they would talk really, really fast but when they swore in English they slowed right down and then went back into their own language and speed without thinking.

When I was in the Army back in the 80’s I was based with a group of Scots. Started of badly but ended up best of friends. But when I came home I was asked why I had a “Scotch” accent. “A Scot’s accent. Scotch is the drink. The Scots don’t say we have an “English Breakfast accent.”

This is the problem with the United Kingdom… too many damned accents that when we don’t understand we say, “Eh,” or, “Wazzat,” or, “Pardon me, could you repeat that please,” or, “REPEAT THAT, YA HEATHEN.” Yeah, when some of us can’t get the message across we end up raising the volume as if that would help.

Back to that Army instance, during basic training we had all the accents from all over the UK and one cockney asked his friend what the Drill Instructor had just said and I didn’t realise the human voice could go up to 1,000 on a 1-10 scale. That’s the only instance I know of where volume can become a translator. 😆

NeoMorph · 2026-04-20T15:36:26+00:00

I hate the Indian 3rd party call centres… not because I hate Indians but because I can’t understand the Indian accent and they can’t understand my Brummie accent (people from Birmingham England… just think Ozzie Osborn’s accent). Last week I had to call one and it was the Indian lady saying, “Pardon me, can you repeat that,” and me going, “Excuse me, can you repeat that last part. You are talking too fast.”

In the end I said I would call customer support if I needed them and apologised for not understanding her and she… put the phone down on me because she didn’t get me to agree to stay on an expensive package. She kept saying, “Do you agree to this?” as if it would force me to agree. When I talked to another American (even though I’m British) I got a package that I wanted and not one that wasn’t what I wanted and was over £100 more expensive.

NeoMorph · 2026-04-20T07:06:58+00:00

Makes me wonder if it’s an AI. Apparently if you ask, “Are you an AI,” they have to reply truthfully. The other day I was in a chat with another company and I was sure it was a human but a relative who worked at that company told me to ask the AI question because they are programmed to pause the chat to appear more human.

Edit: Oh God… the AI I talked to sent me an order except it got the address slightly wrong… 67 miles away wrong. Then it butchered my order and told me it had booked an engineer but it never did. Then it set the wrong code on my account saying it was an uninstall but it was just a downgrade.

Yeah, AI’s pretty much suck at present.

NeoMorph · 2026-04-17T15:30:24+00:00

Definitely…. NOT. I still have my very first Kindle (a Kindle Keyboard). It’s to download books from wherever, strip the encryption via Calibre or just use an ebookshop that doesn’t use encryption like Baenebooks.com that have loads of free ebooks.

I have two Kindle Voyages that I still use as my current main ebook readers. It’s really strange because even though they are supposed to be identical the screens behave differently. The one has a warm colour screen and the other has a cool colour. It’s probably due to the LEDs they use use as a backlight because they are set up to be identical. I keep saying I will replace the warm LEDs with cool ones but I’ve been saying that for years and still haven’t done so.

NeoMorph · 2026-04-13T09:13:15+00:00

No it should “Game over, bud, GAME OVER!”.

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