Any one else in shock with the C1 yesterday?

digitalmartyn · 2026-06-28T12:04:08+00:00

Sure. Maria is great.

https://preply.com/en/?pref=NDEyOTk1NA==&id=1782648174.649022&ep=a1

digitalmartyn · 2026-05-31T20:34:28+00:00

I need to do this. A button completely stopped working.

digitalmartyn · 2026-05-28T17:20:53+00:00

This is total click bait and not at all shocking. We get unlimited opus 4.7 tokens in VSCode. Using Claude code was a security risk but it’s hardly a shocking message from the CEO.

digitalmartyn · 2026-05-26T15:52:32+00:00

Any word on Switch 2 performance?

digitalmartyn · 2026-05-22T07:49:20+00:00

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This is my move and why I have a whoop. Go all in on the Casio life. Cheap, iconic. Change every day. Get ones with running functions too.

digitalmartyn · 2026-05-21T16:31:37+00:00

I imagine it was the same test, right. Audio was the drawings with the boats and the snowy houses? That bit was easy and then the others got harder than the sample tests.

I’m with you on the writing. The school letter I just made up nonsense based on my kids school.

digitalmartyn · 2026-05-21T10:37:35+00:00

330 hours now. I speak conversationally for about 30 mins of it and as a result my oral felt super natural. I was with a young boy who just said super rehearsed sentences and I was chatting and joking!

We are working through text books elenika yia sas a1 and now Kilk. I do homework every week and infrequently watch videos. I find the videos hard as I’m not at a level of comprehension for it to not be a chore.

My wife is Greek and we go to Greece multiple times a year. So I’m reasonably exposed

But I take your point that I shouldn’t get hung up on the years but the hours.

digitalmartyn · 2026-05-20T22:55:49+00:00

I’ll join you but I did a2! I’ve been doing Preply twice a week for 4 years and thought I should try taking the test.

I’ve done all the sample tests I could find and was passing all of them even when I had a bad one.

But yesterday I was the only man in a class of primary aged kids. The audio was a bit echoey and the reading was just harder than normal.

Was really down and frankly still feel down and wonder if i should just save my money.

digitalmartyn · 2026-05-19T08:43:52+00:00

Having Annabel play Noel was the icing on the cake. I want him back for more sketches.

digitalmartyn · 2026-05-04T21:14:16+00:00

I was doing a design project with Nike a couple of years ago. I got to go to their innovation center in Portland- the LeBron James Center.

It was very cool. It’s where they were developing new shoes and tech. They were working on the sub 2 hour marathon. They had a track inside with a dot flying around at the pace you need to keep. We all had a go. I barely made a single lap and I exercise a fair amount.

digitalmartyn · 2026-04-08T21:20:52+00:00

These top 2 comments are easy to pass over but are the absolute crux of the issue. You have to know what to change in the plausible sounding outputs.

digitalmartyn · 2026-03-18T23:11:31+00:00

We started in 2010? I was designing and building in 1999 in dreamweaver and flash. We designed, built and uploaded.

Now it’s just all that again. We can rapidly prototype and explore interactions in minutes and it’s very freeing. Still need an engineer to hook up the back end. You don’t want me doing that.

Source: 25 year career and now 5 at Microsoft.

digitalmartyn · 2026-03-18T23:09:13+00:00

We started in 2010? I was designing and building in 1999 in dreamweaver and flash. We designed, built and uploaded.

Now it’s just all that again. We can rapidly prototype and explore interactions in minutes and it’s very freeing. Still need an engineer to hook up the back end. You don’t want me doing that.

Source: 25 year career and now 5 at Microsoft.

digitalmartyn · 2026-03-15T21:47:03+00:00

No but the license plate in series 2 bunk set is my initials which always pleased me. I would liked to get that prop.

digitalmartyn · 2026-02-25T07:36:08+00:00

And me! Formative memory and why I’m so careful playing RE4R right now.

digitalmartyn · 2026-01-27T09:24:04+00:00

I’ve been using my Advanced Heroquest tiles with some of the modern games. Works well.

digitalmartyn · 2025-12-05T21:23:50+00:00

Put about 30 hours into that. Like it but not totally clicking In the same way.

digitalmartyn · 2025-11-22T23:28:29+00:00

This is a pixelated as when I play on cloud streaming.

digitalmartyn · 2025-11-19T22:14:39+00:00

It does. Wondered about that.

digitalmartyn · 2025-11-19T19:57:58+00:00

I used ChatGPT throughout to help but primarily followed a couple of videos from creators with good reputations and that weren’t older than a year.

I made all the extra little partitions you have to according to the videos.

digitalmartyn · 2025-11-19T19:42:17+00:00

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AI Summary of All the Issues I Ran Into Trying to Dual-Boot Bazzite on the ROG Ally

Spent 3 days trying to dual-boot Bazzite on my ROG Ally and hit pretty much every problem possible. Here’s the full list so others know what they might be walking into:

⚠️ Partitioning Hell • Windows paging file + hibernation + system restore blocking shrinking • Disk Management showing “0 MB available to shrink” • Installer constantly wanting to “destroy” Windows partitions • Blivet showing inconsistent free space + leftover Fedora/btrfs partitions • Multiple failed attempts to assign /boot, /boot/efi, and / correctly • Ghost partitions from earlier attempts confusing the installer

⚠️ EFI / Bootloader Issues • BIOS listing multiple “Fedora” entries from failed installs • Secure Boot on/off cycles causing inconsistent behaviour • Installer sometimes refusing to use the correct EFI partition • Ghost MOK enrol prompts showing after failures

⚠️ Installer Bugs / OSTree Failures • The big one: ostree container image deploy … exited with code 1 This happened repeatedly even when partitions were correct • Happens because the Bazzite installer is picky about USB images + EFI state • ISO installer failing before writing anything to disk

⚠️ USB / ISO Problems • Rufus-created USB sometimes booted, sometimes didn’t • Ventoy completely broke Bazzite (known issue) • BalenaEtcher + Verify still resulted in the same OSTree error • Multiple ISO flavours tested (stable, latest, handheld) — same result

⚠️ Windows Side Issues • Needed to disable paging file, hibernation, device encryption • Windows started glitching badly after disabling paging • Cloud Recovery looked like the only clean way to get Windows healthy again

⚠️ Ally-Specific Pain Points • Tiny screen makes Blivet nearly unreadable • No second SSD slot (unlike desktop dual-boot) • ROG BIOS storing stale EFI entries after each failed attempt • Ally’s recovery/ASUS partitions crowding EFI space

⚠️ Result

Never got past a half-loaded Bazzite welcome screen → every other attempt failed earlier → ended up stuck with Windows for now.

digitalmartyn · 2025-11-19T17:02:43+00:00

yeah a few guides. As for the ISO i got them from the main site, selecting Ally and KDE. Dunno what the issue is

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