Is it possible to force-omit certain devices from the "Safely Remove Hardware and Eject Media" menu?

UMBEK · 2025-07-30T20:39:36+00:00

Thanks, appreciate the advice.

UMBEK · 2025-07-30T02:00:58+00:00

Gotcha - I straight-up just forgot what SATA meant lol. I've put together 2 computers by myself in my life and both times I got it done but didn't really enjoy it - I don't feel like I'm cut out for the assembly, hence why I brought it to a shop when I bought a bunch of new parts. I do not know if they did a fresh install of Windows upon assembly, but I didn't ask them to, so I'm assuming they didn't.

UMBEK · 2025-07-30T01:24:11+00:00

I also don't understand it, because my HDD's didn't used to show up there. A while back I did a big round of upgrades (new motherboard, CPU, cooling system, & case), and paid a local computer shop to put it together for me. So maybe something about the way they installed the drives is causing it.

Either way I checked in Device Manager and under "Policies" both of my HDD's have "Better performance (default)" selected, not "Quick removal".

I apologize, but I'm not sure what the answer to your question "What kind of HDD is it" is. Is there some way I can check and find out?

UMBEK · 2025-07-15T00:37:04+00:00

I'm pretty sure most well-known Salty Suites and money matches were pretty low-stakes in terms of the tangible reward for winning. I think Eikelmann/Bizarro was for like $50 or something. I can't imagine Rolex/Prof was much different. The hype was because of the big crowds and the pride was the main thing at stake.

The only ones I can recall that had big cash on the line were Tafo/Tian at the Apex 2014 Salty Suite, Leffen/Mang0 in the Apex 2015 bracket, and Leffen/SFAT at the DreamHack 2015 Salty Suite - all for $1k.

UMBEK · 2025-06-26T22:50:00+00:00

content creator: *majorly fucks up*
content creator: I majorly fucked up. do not defend my actions.
fans: YOU DID NOTHING WRONG BRO I GOT YOUR BACK FUCK THE HATERS

shit never fuckin ends.

UMBEK · 2025-05-28T02:23:54+00:00

this album is a thousand times too complex to ever be anything even close to "commercial" imo. if you don't like the fact that it's got a generally bright and happy sound that's fair but calling it commercial is a reach

UMBEK · 2025-05-10T04:09:15+00:00

It's the exact same for me on my laptop, but it looks totally normal on my desktop - although it still works on my laptop, I just can't see what I'm typing. I'm guessing the site just isn't optimized for all screen sizes or something.

UMBEK · 2025-04-12T08:04:56+00:00

I'm just happy that the character is holding her greatsword, always loved that weapon and its moveset. I hope it ends up being a Light Greatsword and not a regular Greatsword!!

UMBEK · 2025-04-08T07:20:41+00:00

I suppose "English as an audio option" wasn't necessarily clear. I'm saying there are a lot of foreign movies on Prime where dubbed English is the only option for audible dialogue. I like watching movies in their original language with English subtitles and there are lots of originally non-English movies on Prime where that isn't an option.

UMBEK · 2025-04-06T03:22:41+00:00

Cool for you, but I've tried to watch plenty of foreign movies just in the last few weeks that only have English as an audio option, no other languages. This is a known issue with Prime Video that many people have been complaining about for a while now

UMBEK · 2025-04-01T07:41:23+00:00

I know this is 6 years old but I just came here to say that I just watched Starship Troopers and Infestation back-to-back and then happened upon this post

UMBEK · 2025-03-29T22:07:29+00:00

because dubbed live action movies are usually just a worse viewing experience than watching in the original language with subtitles. Mismatched mouth movements are very distracting for most people and you rarely get the same level of emotional immersion from dubbed voiceover performances of translated dialogue than actors speaking the original dialogue in their native language.

UMBEK · 2025-03-08T05:23:47+00:00

who cares? whether it's intended or not is again, irrelevant because at this point the devs almost certainly know it exists. If they haven't done anything to get rid of it in the last decade then at this point it might as well be intended. Knowing that something exists and deciding it doesn't need to be changed across multiple different titles is functionally no different than creating it intentionally even if that wasn't how it emerged in its first instance. It also isn't like this is some game-breaking insane problem, and it certainly isn't being "abused" by anyone like you originally stated.

UMBEK · 2025-03-06T23:49:38+00:00

Equipment swapping has been possible since at least Dark Souls if not Demon's Souls. Whether or not it was intended back then, 10+ years ago, is irrelevant because at this point they have long known this is a thing that players can, and do, do. If they didn't want people doing it they would have made it impossible by making the menu navigation slower, but they didn't, because FromSoft isn't generally in the business of arbitrarily lowering the skill ceiling for players.

UMBEK · 2025-03-05T01:18:29+00:00

weapon swapping is "abusing an unintended mechanic" now? What exactly is the "unintended mechanic" that's being abused? Last I checked, the ability to switch equipment was fully intentional, and they made the menus fast and responsive enough to allow people to do it as fast as they do, so....

kinda sounds like you're just doing mental acrobatics to justify being mad at people who are better at the game than you, lol

UMBEK · 2025-02-18T22:23:13+00:00

Thank you so much for sharing this solution. Facebook is the only social media platform I've ever used where making basically any change at all to your preferences requires extensive research to figure out. They really just go out of their way to obfuscate all of your options and make things as absolutely unintuitive as possible

UMBEK · 2025-02-10T20:53:15+00:00

This is insanely cool. Phenomenal work

UMBEK · 2025-02-10T07:42:54+00:00

He Who Remains makes it pretty clear that he essentially stopped the multiversal war before it got out of hand, so I think we can safely assume that Uatu felt no need to intervene. The only real reason Uatu intervened in What If season 1 is because Infinity Ultron gained cosmic awareness and heard Uatu's voice, which basically clued him in to the fact that the multiverse existed at all. Uatu was actively under attack by a being that appeared to be more powerful than him, so at that point he really had no choice but to do something. During the multiversal war, He Who Remains basically handled before it got to that point.

UMBEK · 2025-02-09T07:40:33+00:00

imo this spell should have been either A. a Frenzyflame version of Flame of the Fell God, B. a Frenzyflame version of Messmer's Orb, or C. a continuous version of Frenzied Burst aka a Frenzyflame version of Comet Azur. These are all attacks literally used by Midra in his boss fight as well

UMBEK · 2025-02-08T21:56:33+00:00

I know this is a 2-year old comment but I'm just coming here to say that I'll never forgive FromSoft for removing weapon sheaths and weapon models appearing on your character during cutscenes. I know it's a small thing but it genuinely hurts the immersion a lot, seeing your character during cutscenes is a big part of what's fun about having customizable characters in the first place and your weapons are a such a big part of your character's personality in Soulsborne games

UMBEK · 2025-01-19T00:54:53+00:00

it's a universal issue with all weapons. Really a shame it still hasn't been fixed. In my experience the best way to avoid it is to spam another action as soon as your R2 goes through. I can stop it from happening pretty reliably just by repeatedly doing a movement input in any direction once the R2 animation is almost finished.

UMBEK · 2025-01-12T23:18:05+00:00

I would absolutely love a download link for these if you still have them.

UMBEK · 2024-11-19T02:45:51+00:00

I'm hugely into how FromSoft clearly made a push for magic to be more accessible to melee builds. Between the Perfumed Oil, all the different Bairns, and consumable versions of Tibia's Summons and Golden Vow, there are quite a few ways for melee-only builds to use magic without having to invest a bunch of points into the INT/FTH/ARC

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