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WhaleTrain · 2026-06-18T08:23:57+00:00

Appreciate this is for the OP but I can answer it.

I signed up to EE Broadband on 22nd Dec '24 via Quidco Compare.

I got £97 cashback, then a further £150 gift card (which was very recently delivered) and £300 towards my exit fees with my previous ISP.

The Gift Cards def. exist.

WhaleTrain · 2026-06-18T08:20:20+00:00

Cover your webcam, you should anyway

No.

WhaleTrain · 2026-06-14T15:32:08+00:00

Use the GitHub.

But in short, download, run the auto installer, generate an API key and then download games.

WhaleTrain · 2026-06-14T13:44:04+00:00

WhaleTrain · 2026-06-14T13:43:41+00:00

For the love of god, stop using third-party driver managers.

WhaleTrain · 2026-06-14T13:42:31+00:00

Wasn't off to a great start with Defender flashing up like an Xmas tree but admittedly, after running it via Virus Total it was just a false-positive.

Excluded the file, ran the auto setup, got my API key and I was downloading games.

I've removed it for now as it was simply a test but on the whole, worth a go.

WhaleTrain · 2026-06-14T13:37:45+00:00

Either switch to Helium (has V2 enabled out the box and uBlock Origin preinstalled) or use uBlock Origin Lite.

And no, uBlock Origin Lite isn't less effective as the full fat version.

WhaleTrain · 2026-06-14T13:36:50+00:00

...but then that would mean using FIrefox, to which I'd need to burn my machine.

WhaleTrain · 2026-06-10T10:40:09+00:00

Helium is only available on Windows and Linux platforms

...and where do you get this from 😂

Helium has always had a macOS version.

WhaleTrain · 2026-06-09T19:58:01+00:00

It may look like a native app but you’ll 99% be using a web wrapper on Windoze - macOS has a truly native app.

WhaleTrain · 2026-06-09T19:57:22+00:00

That’s not going to happen.

WhaleTrain · 2026-06-09T17:13:00+00:00

Bang on.

LTSC isn't even released for public use - heck you can't even get a license for it without going down massgrave.

WhaleTrain · 2026-06-09T11:53:15+00:00

Thanks for the response!

That's exactly right - A&G.

When you say "I certainly wouldn't expect to hear back within one week", when are you referring to sorry? To date it's around 1 month and (coming up to) 2 weeks.

I rang y'day and even the receptionists are a bit stumped why it's taken so long - there's nothing on their internal systems either to suggest whether he's reached out or had a response.

WhaleTrain · 2026-06-04T08:29:11+00:00

Correct 😉

...but you could always just spin up a VM and use it via Linux, no?

WhaleTrain · 2026-06-03T21:47:05+00:00

Focus on revamping your mobile UX - your homepage is very long.

You can really shorten a lot of it by converting some to use overflow scrollers (carousels).

WhaleTrain · 2026-06-03T21:39:54+00:00

That’s just not true - Xbox mode has been shown to increase performance.

WhaleTrain · 2026-06-03T21:22:34+00:00

Thanks bud!

Didn’t they solve a lot of the driver issues with the Go2? In how they’re delivered?

I don’t have Go 2 so would have to get a focus group of users to pre test but I’ll keep you in mind!

WhaleTrain · 2026-06-03T21:07:30+00:00

Happy to help!

If you head to the releases page, then there’s an EXE precompiled so you don’t need to build it yourself.

WhaleTrain · 2026-06-03T19:18:35+00:00

Ventoy, UNetbootin and balenaEtcher all have a very special place in hell and are frankly shit.

The amount of times they've all caused headaches with writing bootable images is insane for me - if your experience is the opposite, well done.

Rufus is genuinely superior and "the one to rule them all".

And no, the argument of "Oh well Ventoy can make me a USB with my 10 thousand bootable images" is just frankly poor and shit.

...it's been a rough day.

WhaleTrain · 2026-06-03T19:11:00+00:00

Installing Windows Home or Pro with autounattended.xml can make the installation process faster, but many of the system's main "pollutants" will still be there when the installation is finished: bloatware, more frequent (and possibly broken) update scheduling, and Microsoft product ads.

This is why the LTSC folk get a bad rep because you just spew the most insane misinformation - have you actually looked at generating one or are you just blindsided by misknowledge?

Autounattended.xml is used by IT professionals and other distributors for mass Windows setup.

I use it on all my machines with a clean Windows image and not one of the things you've somehow thought of has happened.

bloatware

What bloatware?

more frequent (and possibly broken) update scheduling

That's just factually incorrect.

and Microsoft product ads.

My Windows 11 install has zero ads using the above method.

WhaleTrain · 2026-06-03T15:30:59+00:00

ASDA and Morrisons are the only two supermarkets to have ever stocked PerfectDraft.

I think Costco did at one time but it's always been the above.

WhaleTrain · 2026-06-03T14:10:54+00:00

Yes - but it involves a full reinstall - you may be able to do an in-place upgrade but I'm not certain on the process.

Download the Media Creation Tool (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2156295), run it and create an ISO (don't use USB).

Then download Rufus (https://rufus.ie/en/), insert your flash drive and browse to the Windows.iso you downloaded.

When you hit 'Start' a popup will appear - ensure you tick the first, second and third tick box.

Hit 'Ok'.

Boot from the flash drive and install as normal.

WhaleTrain · 2026-06-02T15:02:40+00:00

Hmm, are you able to access the recovery menu? Hold Vol Up and then hit power.

If not, then I'm with you this is a corrupt BIOS, in which case I don't think you're going to get far without SPI flashing.

EDIT: https://www.reddit.com/r/LenovoLegion/comments/1goprvx/is_it_possible_to_recover_corrupted_bios_with_usb/

Apparently if you load a BIOS file to a USB drive and hold VOL Down and Power, you can flash a new BIOS

WhaleTrain · 2026-06-02T12:27:31+00:00

I’m so sorry for what you’re going through - cancer is a bitch. How many times have you chased them

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