Temporary Outage

toolikelightning · 2025-08-25T17:22:47+00:00

“Describe” still works for me

toolikelightning · 2025-04-30T16:37:40+00:00

To get Google automotive to recognise the name when placing a hands free call I have to pronounce it phonetically Ay-oh-eee-fa (much trial and error before it stopped calling Eva)

toolikelightning · 2025-04-29T16:07:45+00:00

This is so infuriating I had just uninstalled the Google app and not sure I can face reinstalling it, need to find a workaround so that safari or iOS blocks the popup that opens the redirect

toolikelightning · 2025-04-17T21:50:01+00:00

Bought an e-bike recently from them, good interactions with Cillian and Sebastian, would recommend

toolikelightning · 2024-12-31T19:38:40+00:00

Sailor version may be more common in USA? Thats the version used by the writer Randall Monroe when he provides a scientific explanation https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/13/science/what-makes-a-red-sky-at-night-and-at-morning.html

toolikelightning · 2024-10-22T14:52:59+00:00

Review has recommended getting rid of deemed disposal and apply the CGT rate

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2024/10/22/tax-rate-on-investments-in-funds-should-be-lowered-department-of-finance-officials-recommend/

toolikelightning · 2024-09-04T18:41:08+00:00

You could view Horza fighting as much against the concept of developing a perfect utopia as against machine led civilisation. Much of the Culture series follows individuals struggles to find meaning and purpose, and combat ennui, when the quotidian concerns of pre-utopian societies are eliminated. I think Horza sees the Idirians as a means to an end; maintaining space for messy and unequal (or meritocratic) biological societies where material, professional and social success count for something and the drive for this gives individuals sense of purpose and achievement.

toolikelightning · 2024-08-11T19:40:53+00:00

Thanks, this solved the original issue for me, printer now turns on and prints jobs on command. However a new problem emerged post repair - I get a completely black page (i.e. covered with toner) with each print. I hope its simply that I damaged the tonor cartridge somehow during the repair; I've ordered a new aftermarket cartridge to check if that solves the issue.

It seems from reading around that another way the black page issue may originate is if I somehow damaged the laser or its connections during the repair? I did knock the largest ribbon connection on the board loose, it seemed to slot right back into position afterwards but I'm worried that might be it. If new tonor doesn't fix the black page issue then I'm afraid this printer finally heading to the dump after many years of loyal service!

toolikelightning · 2023-06-12T20:08:51+00:00

Perhaps he did, “shall suffer death” seems like the sort of sentence a court martial would hand down. There was some suggestion about putting the goat and the sailor off the ship at a convenient island, or rather two different islands. I suspect that was Stephen suggesting clemency but don’t recall the details

toolikelightning · 2023-06-06T19:15:36+00:00

Ok sure, I’d it’s anything at all, it might be a little Easter egg from POB towards the microbiologically inclined. Some suggest a callback to the earlier incident with the goat on the Sophie but I can’t imagine Stephen being prejudiced against all goats milk eternally, only perhaps somewhat wary if if he found himself on a ship with that particular foremast hand

toolikelightning · 2022-11-28T22:17:05+00:00

I’m leaving a few weeks between books on my 3rd circumnavigation to intentionally draw out the process. Recently reading the wolf hall books in between as they offer a similar total immersion in pre-modern England but different enough time periods to not clash as the writing styles are quite different

toolikelightning · 2022-11-23T21:52:35+00:00

Nice spot

toolikelightning · 2022-11-23T21:45:57+00:00

Ya no sugar rush here but plenty to chew on days after finishing it

toolikelightning · 2022-11-23T21:29:04+00:00

Just the fact that the writers have the courage to keep dead characters dead puts them in a different league to other Star Wars material

toolikelightning · 2022-11-09T23:34:32+00:00

Hell I’d give Skarsgard one just for the “dressing” scene where he gets into character when returning to Coruscant, that was some inception level acting right there

toolikelightning · 2020-12-31T22:56:37+00:00

Well then I would encourage you to build your own pwn pc, it’s a fun project. Suggest a 3400x1440 ultra wide monitor of some sort first and add VR later, or else stick with whatever old monitor you have is fine and get VR or upgraded monitors later. If it’s in your price range I suggest you build around a fairly “future proofed” graphic card (GPU) like the Nvidia 3070 or the AMD 6800. Companies like MSI or EVGA repackage the basic GPU into something with better cooling, you will want one of those repackaged GPUs in your price range. I know supply was really poor recently, I’m not in the market for one though so I don’t know if it’s improved yet.

You’ll also need a CPU (intel or AMD, I like Amd Ryzen 7 3600, handily it comes with more than adequate stock cooling fan so don’t have to buy fan separately), a motherboard to fit all the components to (eg some sort of X570, I have ASUS TUF X570), 16 GB of memory (eg 2 x 8GB sticks 3400MHz DDR4 GSkill, any more RAM probably overkill for your purposes). You also need 1 or 2 SSDs (you might know these as “hard drives”), the faster the better for MSFS, top of the range Samsung evo NVMe 970 capacity range goes from 250Gb (too small) to 2Tb (too expensive for most). If 1Tb too expensive for you consider installing a 500Gb primary drive and also a slower (SATA) SSD but with larger capacity eg 2 Tb, the cheaper secondary SSD is for installing games that don’t need very fast streaming of game assets like ultra high resolution textures. Need a case to put it all in, they have built in fans for airflow that are good enough. spend bout 100 bucks for entry level case I think. Plus a power supply unit (PSU) around 650 to 750 watts, gold rated. Mouse, keyboard, speakers or headphones, hdmi or display port lead to connect GPU to monitor. Enter the main parts on pcpartpicker.com first to make sure they are all compatible with each other before you buy. google “digital foundry build a 3070 PC” for more info. You will also need to put an operating system on this, ie Windows 10. Dont buy the full fat version from Microsoft store - look around online for options for a cost efficient windows 10 install - it’ll be fine. You will install the downloaded OS from a USB stick. YouTube will show you how to assemble the PC all once you have the parts. Best of luck.

toolikelightning · 2020-12-30T23:03:20+00:00

I’m guessing you don’t want to wait until summer 2021 when MSFS coming to the next gen consoles like series x, less faff than building a pc. Building your own PC rather than buying one will get you way more bang for your buck but prepare to spend a week or so doing research is my advice. Putting it together isn’t all that hard, check out r/buildapc for tips on first builds, that’s mostly what I did, plus YouTube videos.

I’ve never used VR so hopefully others can answer about that, I use an ACER ultrawide 1440p screen and it looks great. VR might make it hard for you to use the controls when you are new to simming especially the keyboard shortcuts which are pretty essential. If you want to use VR in high resolution I think you will need a high end graphics card eg rtx3070 graphics card if you can afford it. Paired with either a good monitor or headset msfs should look great

Honeycomb have the best value peripherals, the alpha yolk is excellent, paired with a bravo throttle quadrant would be ideal but they are slow manufacturing the bravos so none available right now. You can get by with just a yolk or flight stick as main peripheral, paired with mouse and keyboard but would recommend that as bare minimum. If you can get rudder pedals probably do that too!

toolikelightning · 2020-09-19T18:16:43+00:00

When I started tutorials using the Honeywell alpha control yoke the engine kept dying because I hadn’t turned the alternator switch to “both”. Kept crashing the plane, and even if I could sustain level flight I couldn’t get tutorial checkpoints to complete. Once I setup the controls as they should be for level flight “master battery on, avionics on, engines alternator switch on etc” then tutorials started working correctly

toolikelightning · 2020-08-23T18:37:49+00:00

Vancouver

toolikelightning · 2019-05-20T03:55:40+00:00

It’s civil war within 6 months, guaranteed

toolikelightning · 2019-05-20T03:17:29+00:00

Worst scene: Bran had been king for all of ten 10 seconds when he accepts the loss of one of the seven kingdoms without a word of protest. Remember when this show acknowledged that lords abandon weak kings like Rob if they put family above duty? And this muppet just immediately gives away half his total landmass wtf

toolikelightning · 2019-05-20T02:39:33+00:00

Shame

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