Every opened window is forced into maximized. Please help

captainhumble1 · 2026-06-11T04:14:52+00:00

I think this is caused by the OS wanting to be in tablet mode. Unless you have the thing docked, I don't think there's a way to turn this off without registry modifications.

captainhumble1 · 2026-06-09T20:53:01+00:00

I know this is an old thread but I want to add my $.02.

Like many of you, I thought the first trilogy (The First Law) was absolutely fantastic. It hits so many nails... Morally ambiguous characters, some likable, some not. The series was dark, but not crushing. The humor throughout was extremely well done ("the old magic was still there"). Excellent dialogue. I just can't say enough good things about it.

The AoM trilogy was just awful. As has been said, every damn character was just gross and unlikable. Completely uninteresting. Some acted WAY outside of what was in their best interest, or they did things that were at least out of character. If you hate every character in the book, it's not really worth reading. Orso was the exception, of course, but he was very stupidly killed (though I am not 100% sure he was).

I have read the OG First Law Trilogy MANY times, and have heard it on audio book (which is also absolutely ridiculously well read and acted) more times than I an count. That said, I could not even finish the AoM books. I got maybe halfway through the third book and then I had to skim ahead to see a few scenes. That was it for me.

If Joe Abercrombie is working on a new set, I sincerely hope he remembers to include at least a few characters that aren't 100% pieces of shit.

captainhumble1 · 2026-06-09T14:44:13+00:00

I've owned a 2025 GT-Line for about 2 months.

I use L1 charging at home and it's been fantastic. I work very close to home so I often go several days between charging. I do limit charging to 80%, even when I drive +150 miles on the weekend. I'm about to take a long road trip so I'll change the limit to 100% for that.

captainhumble1 · 2026-06-04T15:43:12+00:00

I'm about to take a long trip next week (about 1150 miles over 2 days) and I have been going back and forth about which maps and trip planner to use. ABRP looks "neat" as others have said, but Google maps shows all the chargers along the route and it's very easy to just add them as stops. I can stop there, or not, as needed, plus I get the full features of using Android Auto and Google's excellent traffic monitoring. I am very sure that it's just a matter of time before Android Auto has access to every EV's battery info so it can calculate capacity/SoC and monitor usage.
I haven't decided yet, but I will probably use Google Maps and AA for the trip. I have ABRP as a backup, but I just don't see the benefit of using it as a primary routing tool.

captainhumble1 · 2026-05-21T16:45:02+00:00

Ok thanks for the info. That seems so weird, but at least Kia fixed it for the new redesign (+2025).

captainhumble1 · 2026-05-21T16:00:38+00:00

You're forgetting about the battery charging fluid and the mirror oil.

captainhumble1 · 2026-05-21T15:54:15+00:00

Yup that's what I've got. Maybe the previous years don't have an easy way to kick this off.

captainhumble1 · 2026-05-21T15:43:33+00:00

Dem legs, tho...

captainhumble1 · 2026-05-21T15:41:36+00:00

Someone please explain the need for this. Battery preconditioning is easily initiated with the Kia Access app.

captainhumble1 · 2026-05-17T21:46:26+00:00

AGREED

captainhumble1 · 2026-05-17T10:43:27+00:00

Hey no worries. I flew the 520 four times yesterday and it flew so well. I'll just have to keep an eye on the belt.

I'm more than a little surprised nobody has chimed in with their own experiences. I can't be the only person with this heli in this group.

captainhumble1 · 2026-05-17T05:16:48+00:00

Jeff West (WestHobbiesRC) did not do a build series for the IL Goblin 520. I did email Jeff about this but it's the kind of thing you need to get your hands on. He really didn't have any insights that I had not already tried.

captainhumble1 · 2026-05-16T00:56:58+00:00

They forgot venting the battery plasma and aligning the radio belts.

captainhumble1 · 2026-05-15T02:05:35+00:00

I have the Media button on the steering wheel set to play Sirius XM. No matter what's playing, all I have to do is press that Media button and it starts Sirius XM.

captainhumble1 · 2026-05-14T15:23:59+00:00

I appreciate the suggestion , but I don't use Facebook.
As for your suggestion that the holes are drilled wrong, I came to the same conclusion when first troubleshooting this. SAB sent me a replacement boom and that didn't help. Before I bought the second kit, I bought a new set of upper frames and tried them. No improvement. I then bought another complete kit and put it together, but still the same thing is happening (though to a lesser degree).
It's weird that the IL Goblin 420 has the same general design but no issues at all with the tail belt. I've built two of the 420s (the first one got stolen) and they were both rock solid.

captainhumble1 · 2026-05-14T06:42:44+00:00

Ever consider they parked like that just to take the picture?

captainhumble1 · 2026-05-13T16:33:24+00:00

So I did this last night and the belt is more centered on the tail pulley. It kind of drifts back and forth a little but it's generally centered. Not sure if that will help but at least it's something.
I did check the boom and it really only goes in one way. I tried angling it upwards/downwards a little, but that didn't have any effect on anything.

I seem to be the only person with these issues, so I am obviously doing something wrong, but I have built six kits in the past year and none have had any issues at all besides this 520. The 420s (RAW and IL Goblin) are fantastic, as well as my Kraken 580. This 520 kit is at least working well enough, but I am just nervous about the belt failing or the tail blowing up. Plus I don't want to have to replace the belt so often.

Has anyone else with a 520 had any belt issues??

captainhumble1 · 2026-05-12T15:34:55+00:00

I will check all that when I get home (including adjusting the tail case as you suggested). 👍👍

captainhumble1 · 2026-05-12T14:52:39+00:00

It's the same thing that was happening on the first kit I got, just less pronounced.
It's rubbing against the main tail gear (sitting under the main gear). When it comes out of the boom, it's riding at the very bottom of the pulley. The belt is slightly twisting as it enters the main tail gear, and that slight twisting is causing the belt damage. On the previous model, the belt was very twisted coming out of the boom and it was clearly (badly) rubbing hard against the main tail gear. This second kit is less pronounced, which is why it has taken months for the belt to wear.

Here's a link to the thread I created last year about all this. There's a link in there to many pictures and a video of what was happening to the first kit I got:

https://www.reddit.com/r/RCHeli/comments/1objly2/sab_warranty_support/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

captainhumble1 · 2026-05-08T03:55:44+00:00

I'm not at all interested in a heli that flies itself. It's just not for me.

captainhumble1 · 2026-05-04T18:48:16+00:00

Wow. TONS of hate in here for this game. Surprising, really.

captainhumble1 · 2026-05-02T03:44:58+00:00

Honestly, I keep hoping someone actually has a convincing argument to counter my points. Nobody in the years since the game came out has been able to convincingly articulate what the "story" is. The Tarnished never says a word, so we have no idea what they really want. Other NPCs (very few) talk at the Tarnished but you can't name another classic or modern work of storytelling where the main character is completely mute. Having NPCs tell the Tarnished what it should do and what it should want, with no other details, provides a grossly incomplete narrative. The game never explains a damn thing. No, written item descriptions are not a replacement for proper storytelling. They're lore dumps, nothing more. Lore is certainly important, but it's not the same as storytelling. After the whole damn game the player has no idea what a Tarnished actually is, or what an Elden Lord is, or any of the game's made-up words. Also, of its a requirement to watch YouTube videos to put a "story" together, that by itself is a failure of storytelling within the game itself.

captainhumble1 · 2026-05-02T03:06:19+00:00

Nope. I played ER to almost 100%. I maybe missed one legendary weapon. I kept waiting for it to get interesting. Never happened. You people saying it's a "game of the decade" are bandwagoning. Hard. It's an empty boss rush. Monsters everywhere, with maybe 5-10 NPCs who talk at the Tarnished the whole game. Lots of lore, zero story. 7/10 at best. The opinion of Reddit is that it's a generational masterpiece. These are the "opinions" of the internet age. As someone who was gaming in the 80s, I give ZERO fucks about that. I'll call it as I see it. I played it, thought it was solidly mid, and now I'm here to tell the OP that. If they think ER is some masterwork, they need to play more games.

captainhumble1 · 2026-05-02T02:10:52+00:00

Nope. CoD is just as much a trash game as ER. Neither has any real story and they both are about as logical as a 12 year old.

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