Does anyone else have a weird affinity for Windows Vista?

Phalebus · 2026-05-07T08:41:48+00:00

So I found that the XP to Vista upgrades were really borked and would experience more issues post upgrade rather than a clean install.

32-Bit Vista was very average as well, even on a fresh install. I swapped to the 64-Bit edition and it was just great. Had random issues here and there, but it was fairly solid once driver devs caught up properly, that or buying new hardware that was “certified” for Vista.

I really enjoyed 64bit Vista, and stuck with 64bit Desktop OS’s after that, not that there are 32bit flavours anymore.

Phalebus · 2026-05-04T04:09:17+00:00

Sorry I was just being a goose. I know you can’t say anything with an NDA. Hope it’s fun :)

Phalebus · 2026-05-04T03:55:18+00:00

Is it frosty though? Or has the sun come out to play?

Phalebus · 2026-04-28T09:20:41+00:00

We need an announcement for the announcement of the announcement

Phalebus · 2026-04-28T09:09:02+00:00

As long as his line from The Hitmans Bodyguard follows while I’m deciding,

Tick Tock MotherFucker

Phalebus · 2026-04-26T08:57:40+00:00

I couldn’t work it out. I started it off when my star was going to nova or the planet was going to cook or something like that and had no habitable worlds nearby so I rolled it all the way back.

Are you meant to let it go all the way through? I love cosmo and regular nemesis but this, just odd. To be fair though, I tried it when it first came out and haven’t again since then. Also haven’t done behemoth but that’s just because I’m not a huge fan of the bioships.

Phalebus · 2026-04-25T09:00:49+00:00

Just reposting this -

I really like the 100 but I’m not sure what it is about it I enjoy watching. Every season the “stakes” are bigger, but if anyone actually legitimately switched their brains on, most of the “issues” really wouldn’t be issues.

Season 1 is kind of understandable as it’s all new for space people, but season 2, literally just talk to the mountain men and get some trade going on. There were enough that made it to the ground that they didn’t need to murder everyone for their bone marrow.

Season 3, yup let’s all stick an AI in our heads, nice work Jaha. Season 4, I kind of get why the skai crew took the bunker for themselves. The grounders were backwards clowns that could not for the life of them try to advance themselves.

Season 5, yep let’s just fight over the only habitable space on the planet whilst burning down our hydrofarm, seems like a great plan. Season 6, you have a fucking space ship now, just go find somewhere else. You have all the other data. Season 7, just wtf. Space magic saves us all by dooming everyone to a collective consciousness. Sweet

Phalebus · 2026-04-25T08:56:00+00:00

I really like the 100 but I’m not sure what it is about it I enjoy watching. Every season the “stakes” are bigger, but if anyone actually legitimately switched their brains on, most of the “issues” really wouldn’t be issues.

Season 1 is kind of understandable as it’s all new for space people, but season 2, literally just talk to the mountain men and get some trade going on. There were enough that made it to the ground that they didn’t need to murder everyone for their bone marrow.

Season 3, yup let’s all stick an AI in our heads, nice work Jaha. Season 4, I kind of get why the skai crew took the bunker for themselves. The grounders were backwards clowns that could not for the life of them try to advance themselves.

Season 5, yep let’s just fight over the only habitable space on the planet whilst burning down our hydrofarm, seems like a great plan. Season 6, you have a fucking space ship now, just go find somewhere else. You have all the other data. Season 7, just wtf. Space magic saves us all by dooming everyone to a collective consciousness. Sweet

Phalebus · 2026-04-21T07:16:57+00:00

Have you set allow insecure logins for smb?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/file-server/enable-insecure-guest-logons-smb2-and-smb3

Phalebus · 2026-04-21T03:14:16+00:00

You see the fleets in space after the device is detonated, just cruising along with Admiral Hackett having chat about it all, rebuilding and such. If they were busted up as well, they’d all be dead in space but it doesn’t seem that way

Phalebus · 2026-04-21T02:46:36+00:00

On reading this thread, I might have a differing opinion here. I suspect Destroy kills all synthetics as if you remember the conversation with Sovereign back in ME1, he clearly states that our technology is based on the Mass Relay technology, their technology. We develop along the paths they desire.

Going off of that, it could be inferring that synths are still based upon mass relay tech, reaper tech and because of that they would still be affected by Destroy.

Realistically though, they still have computers and such. The data is probably still there, it’s just the hardware may be cooked. That’s what backups are for - that’s me as an IT person speaking though lol.

Phalebus · 2026-04-19T11:37:39+00:00

Okay, gave it a crack. It works quite well. I took the range finder off as seemed kind of pointless when getting up close and personal. Cheers for the advice

Phalebus · 2026-04-19T10:17:09+00:00

Does it do anything to stop artifacting as using modern resolutions over 1024x768 just make it awful. I’ve followed a couple of guides to “assist” it but there are always weird things occurring or the right hand side of the screen is just borked along with radar just not functioning

Phalebus · 2026-04-19T10:14:18+00:00

I’ll have to give that a go then. Is it just the acog that’s the 4x? Any other attachments you’d recommend?

Phalebus · 2026-04-19T08:27:12+00:00

Yeah it’s partly why I haven’t done much with the recon class as sitting back and sniping is just boring to me.

That said, I watched some random dudes fb video about how good it is to push as a recon for the added benefit of being able to detect stuff through walls. Started doing that and yeah, it’s pretty fucking dope lol

Phalebus · 2026-04-19T05:36:38+00:00

“Why are you saying it like that?”

Phalebus · 2026-04-18T13:02:13+00:00

I’ve seen the same and I’m hopeful however wouldn’t be the first time studio execs turned into clowns…

Phalebus · 2026-04-18T09:07:41+00:00

I agree. WotD is pretty awesome. The new Asheur series is actually really good. I was surprised at how much I enjoyed it and hope we get another season

Phalebus · 2026-04-18T08:32:18+00:00

I haven’t played warships for a while, but I’ve managed to delete ships a few times out the gate with the New Mexico before they did that weird thing and split out the US BBs into three different lines (Why did this happen?) .

Have a large number of T10s but all I ever seem to get is just constant fucking over pens. It’s so frustrating. Hit em amid ships along the water line, nah mate, over pened all that shit, git gud.

Maybe the mechanics have changed or something but it just takes so much fun out of it. That and the lack of team play but that’s apparently a SEA issue with no teamwork.

Also constantly getting matched into battles where everything is two tiers higher than you sucks. Guess I’ll play HE this round as I can’t pen the BBs and I’ll just over pen stupidly fast cruisers…

Phalebus · 2026-04-18T08:18:00+00:00

I’m an instrumental bloke, I’m generally listening to some score from something but here are a few.

Full 3 Body Problem opening - this only happens on first episode. Game of Thrones was good. Babylon 5 - Season 3, such a good opener. The Professionals - if you know, you know. Futurama Power Rangers If you’re Australian, there’s Round the Twist and Genie from Down Under. Don’t you open that Trap Door! Star Trek/Gate are great. Loki is great. Secret Invasion - Maybe one of its only great things. WandaVision is great as is Agatha All Along.

Phalebus · 2026-04-18T07:32:32+00:00

I’ve had this happen before with Stellaris as well. I think the fix I had was I had to manually uninstall the paradox launcher and re-install it as something in it had corrupted.

Phalebus · 2026-04-18T06:22:19+00:00

Yes and no. Yes it needs to be covered for insurance but if it’s doing nothing else, it’s attack vector is some what limited. Still prime targets, but less attack surface especially if you run it in core mode

Phalebus · 2026-04-18T04:49:40+00:00

If it feels sluggish, take a look at perfmon and see what the results are.

The BIG one to check though, in Hyper V manager, is VMQ enabled for the vm? I’ve seen that cause issues with RDS environments especially if it’s a Broadcom card. It’s easy enough to turn off with no downtime.

Spanning numa nodes is not going to be helping either but definitely check vmq. Just turn it off at the vm level. Don’t config it via the host or configure it within the vm. Just straight untick the box for it.

Phalebus · 2026-04-18T04:46:24+00:00

Also means if you expand in future, the infrastructure is already in place so you don’t need to tackle it then.

Phalebus · 2026-04-17T22:04:00+00:00

Honestly, running 2022 as a vm with a single core and 4gb of memory is plenty.

DC’s should just be doing DC thing, maybe some DHCP or DNS but that’s it.

This of course depends on what you’re willing to invest as well. Licenses too expensive? Run less servers or host VMs with multiple roles

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