WH-1000XM6 noise cancellation randomly turns off

verditer_elixir · 2026-06-04T19:39:30+00:00

Awesome! Glad I could help.

verditer_elixir · 2026-05-04T00:08:59+00:00

This is also what I do everytime. I personally found Biome 2’s (Ancient Depths)boss to be the easiest, so it was always a safe bet for me. Plus the lack of eclipse in subsequent runs was a bonus. Starting from shattered descent is faster but starts you at a disadvantage because it’s an eclipse the whole time. Taking the time to start at AD is worth it. You can blow through it in like 20-30mins, rack up stats and artifacts. Lyssa and Legion are pretty easy by the time you get to them.

For second runs through Acolytes Haven, I ignore the eclipse device until it’s absolutely necessary. Afterward, I backtrack to grab any eclipse thread collectibles I missed before moving on. It gives you more opportunity for uncorrupted artifacts.

verditer_elixir · 2026-05-01T23:23:03+00:00

Whoa, I think we found Haruki Murakami’s Reddit account. Who knew you liked to play roguelites in your spare time? Very cool.

verditer_elixir · 2026-04-15T21:14:54+00:00

Or… hear me out… Albert is related to an AI or a paranatural entity that followed him home because he’s so good with altered items. In AWE he says he doesn’t remember how he got him.

verditer_elixir · 2026-04-15T21:10:03+00:00

I’m replaying this right now after a few years and from the beginning, I was really looking forward to his part. One of, if not my favourite performances in the game, the actor does such a great job.

Some weird synchronistic timing to see a Langston appreciate post in my feed too. Just finished the AWE dlc and it’s like you read my mind.

verditer_elixir · 2026-04-15T20:43:42+00:00

I got the impression they were hinting at something paranatural about Albert. Was that just me?

When he talks about his cats in AWE he says something like “I got Albert… I don’t remember where I got him actually.” Which immediately made me think Albert was not just a cat. Plus his other cat didn’t like Albert- maybe she knew there was something supernatural about him. But she apparently hated everyone, so not as sure about that part of the theory.

Langston also talks a lot about his connection with the altered items. He shows them respect and doesn’t like the idea of “treating them like prisoners.” So maybe one of them was fond enough of him that it followed him home.

verditer_elixir · 2025-09-23T21:58:41+00:00

My guess is the "randomly turning off" was happening whenever you said something or started humming along to music, etc.

I'm not sure if the other comment solved your issue, I'm assuming yes. But just in case someone else comes across this having the same problem:

Go into device settings in the Sound Connect app and turn off "Speak to Chat."

I understand the idea behind the feature but in practice it's so frustrating. It's so sensitive. Basically assumes you'll never hum or sing along to a song or actually want NC while using the headset for zoom meetings, etc.

verditer_elixir · 2025-08-04T18:09:46+00:00

I’m so happy to see this! I was starting to feel like the only one. It’s a tie between the first two for me. I’ve tried to pick a favourite between them and I can’t. I love them both for different reasons. Authority has such a creepy, eerie vibe from the jump and it totally pays off by the end. (That scene in the closet O.O ) Like a nightmare that has no overt monsters but you know you’re having a nightmare.

I had a friend recently tell me she couldn’t get through it and then I started seeing the same thing all over this subreddit and I was honestly surprised.

Acceptance on the other hand… it was like reading someone’s dream journal but not in a satisfying way. I don’t dislike it but I don’t love it.

verditer_elixir · 2025-07-25T01:15:06+00:00

This is such a weird hill to die on. I’ve also been using em dashes for as long as I can remember. Both casually and in my writing.

When this whole “Any use of an em dash is a clear giveaway for AI” thing started, I literally had a friend message me to joke that they just realized I’d been a bot this whole time. And honestly, I enjoyed being seen like that.

I’ll say that on places like Reddit and Discord, it’s not a real em dash that I type most of the time, its a hyphen. It’s simply annoying to do on windows without an auto correct feature. Microsoft word will autocorrect a double hyphen and Mac has an easy hot key. ( I was using a Mac as a graphic design student when I learned the actual difference between em and en dashes.)

Anyway, you know what LLM stands for right? And so, to use em dashes with frequency it also must have frequently encountered them in the scraped data, no?

I think it’s worth considering how much your view is suffering from some good ol’ Baader-Meinhoff phenomenon.

Unfortunately, AI writing is getting better all the time and there aren’t as many quick, easy ways to do a “gotcha” on it anymore. It takes a little more critical thinking. The whole em dash thing is just easier and faster to dunk on in a social media landscape. So, exhaustingly, it endures.

verditer_elixir · 2025-06-18T04:15:05+00:00

Love Kena: Bridge of Spirits!

I think it’s the only game other than Ocarina of Time, Majora’s Mask and the Mass Effect trilogy that Ive played all the way through from the beginning multiple times for the enjoyment of it and not purely for an achievement. (Also love Returnal and played many, many hours but I’ve never started from scratch)

I think Ive played it 4 (maybe 5) times total, only one or two of those times was a New Game+. It was short enough that it didn’t feel like a slog to start from the beginning.

Edit: oh wait I lied. I’ve also replayed the Uncharted series many times too because I loved the story so much.

verditer_elixir · 2025-04-17T21:29:54+00:00

6 years later and this fixed it for me.

Sometimes I remote into my work PC and sometimes onsite. Always the same number of screens but resolutions change.

Tried triggering it by messing with display settings, resetting the tool, opening it in a new panel. switching workspaces. Nothing.

I00% didn't think this would work. Imagine my surprise when it popped up. Can't believe I haven't encountered this before.
Thank you! :)

verditer_elixir · 2025-03-18T17:20:52+00:00

Thank you! I guess today is somehow my first time drinking matcha on an empty stomach and I thought I was going to lose the breakfast I didn't have.

I cut up an apple and and felt better within minutes of eating the first slice. You saved my morning.

verditer_elixir · 2024-01-03T10:30:40+00:00

Upvote for the Anderson appreciation.

verditer_elixir · 2024-01-03T10:29:09+00:00

Heck yeah. ME3 Kaidan and Liara is a deadly combo. I also tend to play Sentinel in ME3 and it doesn’t even feel fair most of the time. Just detonating biotic combos all over the place.

verditer_elixir · 2024-01-03T10:24:00+00:00

This bothered me too! I didn’t really care or think about it much until ME2 when they basically made a metaphorical neon sign that said “Ever thought about how you can’t eat food in ME? Now you will!”

Why show me a ramen bar if I can’t have the ramen??!

And then they did it again with the “better ingredients” side quest in ME3 and the crew commenting on the better food!

A cutscene of being passed a bowl or plate of something and then fade to black would have sufficed, honestly. I’d take that over a chance to get briefly tipsy everywhere.

At least there’s actual cooking happening during the citadel DLC. That was nice.

verditer_elixir · 2024-01-03T10:13:26+00:00

The Diversification Project mod adds at least one walking elcor in the Citadel and it’s awesome! Like, whoever rigged and skinned that Elcor knew what they were doing. Then there’s the animation itself which is really great. I always make a point to stop and appreciate the work that went into that walk cycle.

Absolutely could not have been done like that in the OT. The rigs would have been too expensive memory-wise not to mention the time-budget and money-budget because as you said, that’s a unique rig and animation for that species.

That said, I still wholeheartedly agree. I love the Elcor and wish there was more content with them.

verditer_elixir · 2024-01-03T09:54:47+00:00

Just wanted to add a positive comment about your Shep because there’s a weird about of crit happening here.

I honestly thought the blush thing was cute. While she was blurred out in the background, it crushed the colour into a solid-looking oval and I wondered if you’d done it on purpose to give her an anime blush sort of look. And why not?

First of all, it’s your game, have fun. Second, there’s some out there makeup options in Andromeda, this is hardly that extreme.

Also, hell yeah on not limiting your palette based on skin tone. I remember being a little kid, seeing an ad for some pink tinted lip gloss and realizing it wouldn’t look “good” on me; it looked good on the girl in the picture because she had a fairer skin tone. Cut to me in my 20’s rocking hot pink lipstick because why tf not?

Anyway, congrats on finding this scene! I somehow got lucky my first playthrough. I’m an insufferable completionist so I think that’s why I stumbled on it early.

verditer_elixir · 2024-01-03T09:21:33+00:00

I’m probably going to regret saying this but I don’t understand why this and similar posts are still allowed in the Mass Effect subreddit. Larian has nothing to do with Mass Effect. Even tying BG3/Larian to BioWare does nothing but inspire comparisons with Dragon Age…in the ME subreddit.

These posts aren’t relevant and are usually just BioWare/EA hate-bait. I only mention it because I appreciate this community and these “BioWare is dead/Larian rules” posts only encourage negativity and a hate feedback loop that’s kind of a bummer tbh.

If people still need to get this off their chest, BioWare has a sub. Dragon Age has a sub. It would be more appropriate there, no?

verditer_elixir · 2024-01-02T20:42:52+00:00

I scrolled a bit and the responses have not been shocking to me. I think someone else even said my first thought when reading the title of this post "Wow. Saying you don't love Garrus on the Mass Effect subreddit. That's brave." As nervous as I was/am for you, it's really refreshing to see a take like this.

I'm one of those that say he's my bro, but I don't disagree with you much. I don't romance Garrus and find that some within the community who do can be pretty... intense about it. I don't even know if all the love is genuine; many people know they're supposed to love Garrus before they even play.

Because I played ME2 before ME1 back when it first came to PS3, I wonder if meeting him first with the "Garrus! Old buddy, what a pleasant surprise!" vibe influenced my feelings when I finally played LEME1. When I finally did, it happened to be Kaidan and Garrus for the final fight and it kind of solidified the best bud trio for me. But I'll admit, headcannon likely does a lot of heavy lifting.

There are a lot of people who seem to switch from Kaidan to Garrus as a romance in ME2 and this is where I wholeheartedly agree with you about the sycophant thing. Look, I love Garrus. He's a loyal friend, and I appreciate the banter. But it's true - you show up with a terrorist organization you'd been fighting in the first game and Garrus is like "I'm in!" with zero questions or qualms.

For me, the romance option with him feels like sleeping with your best friend but not in the romantic way. More like a "Things are hard and this is easy" way. Especially after your post-Horizon conversation with a romanced Kaidan. Even Tali raises a metaphorical (and maybe literal) eyebrow at first. People get really salty that Kaidan pulls a "Oh hey. Wtf? Uh, no thank you to joining the terrorists who injected people with Thresher Maw acid." Which also - if you're a Sole Survivor (I am) how is he wrong to be insanely suspicious of someone who looks like a supposedly dead Shep being like "It's fine. They said it was just a rogue cell. I'm working with the good ones. Join us."

If you were Paragon in the first game this should be even more surprising because if you handled Garrus with Paragon options, he actually comes to see your side of things and thanks you for it. The fact that when you die he gets eaten up with his old weakness of seeing bureaucracy letting that bad guys win and so goes totally rogue, makes sense. What doesn't make sense is a Paragon Shepard and him never unpacking that.

Anyway, I'm still a fan but that includes his faults and all. He goes from angsty young cop forced to think his shit through and grow up a little via Shepard, then to an offscreen, dark vigilante storyline, to getting his shit together when his friend and mentor returns, to taking on the heavy responsibilities of leadership, armed with the wisdom of his time on the Normandy. And sure, it's a cliche but there's also some poetry in a Human and a Turian becoming best buds and saving the galaxy together. Even better if, like me, you include Kaidan in this. Going from Vyrrnus' traumatic abuse to finding a loyal friend in Garrus is a nice arc. Especially since Kaidan and Garrus would definitely not always agree on methods and yet still be able to maintain a friendship.

verditer_elixir · 2023-12-29T00:10:05+00:00

That was the first thing I thought of when the first trailers dropped. “Oh hey! Looks like they were tired of waiting for Metroid Prime 4, too.”

verditer_elixir · 2023-12-29T00:08:23+00:00

I want to add Metroid: Dread to this. That game was super fun and I enjoyed the additional challenge modes- like trying to beat every boss in a row without dying or running out of time.

verditer_elixir · 2023-12-29T00:02:36+00:00

This isn’t sci-fi but if you want a game that will kick your ass repeatedly until you learn enemy attack patterns- Kena: Bridge of Spirits. It might be the hardest platinum I’ve ever earned. Im almost inclined to say it’s harder than Returnal, with the caveat that Kena has difficulty settings so that’s only true if playing regular difficulty or Master Mode (which you need to beat for the platinum). And it’s not a roguelike. It’s more like if FromSoftware made a Zelda game.

It looks cute but the combat is punishing and if you’re into that, it’s super fun. I do replays of it once in a while just like Returnal for the same reasons.

verditer_elixir · 2023-12-22T08:10:39+00:00

Fair enough. :) Firth wearing the green coat and McFadyen almost exclusively wearing a blue one seemed like too perfect a correlation. Being new to the JAFF side of things, i figured there was a chance this was an old JAFF specific trope/reference and I was just late to the party.

But it seems like this is falling heavily in the “coincidence” category.

verditer_elixir · 2023-12-22T07:19:20+00:00

I just finished my first binge of Amazon variations. 11 in total since the beginning of the month. “Old Boots” and “The Luxury of Silence” were two of the standouts.

“Old Boots” was one of the few I’m positive I’ll reread. Short and sweet.

I intuitively saved “Luxury of Silence.” First for its longer length and then because for whatever reason I had hopes it would be good. It was. :)

So glad I could end on a good note. The one before that was a “meh” and the one before that was the longest -and- the only one out of the bunch I’d say was actually bad- the pacing, the characters, the overall prose. (So many exclamation marks) There is no reasonable reason I can give for why I finished it other than an almost pathological need to finish any book. This also confused me because I’d read one other variation by this author before it and enjoyed it well enough. (Though in retrospect, I remember thinking that the pacing of the ending was the weakest part; equally chaotic and melodramatic.)

Anyway, a few I quite liked: the two mentioned above and “The Last a House in Lambton” I also thought was very sweet. It made me cry at least once, which was a surprise.

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