CrabAndBroom 16h ago • 100%
Yeah I'm similar, I'm in for about $45 or so from the Kickstarter. I wrote it off and stopped paying attention about 6-7 years ago (it was already pretty far behind then!) but I figure, I've wasted more money on dumber stuff before, and if an actual game ever does happen to materialise then I'll give it a look.
CrabAndBroom 16h ago • 100%
It was originally supposed to come out in about 2016 I think.
CrabAndBroom 16h ago • 100%
My first car was an ancient Renault that was plagued with electrical issues, to the point that it was actually pretty funny. I was also a penniless student at the time and I don't know how to fix cars, so I just sort of put up with it.
It used to drain the battery when it was parked, so I kept a spare battery in the boot and some jumper cables and used to have to jump-start it every time I switched the engine off.
One time I was driving at night and the headlights started dimming until they were nearly off, I turned the radio off and they came back on again.
Eventually I finally took it to the scrap yard, they said it was worthless but they gave me £10 for the tape deck lol.
Technically the worst car I ever had, but also one of my favourites.
CrabAndBroom 16h ago • 50%
To clean them, simply attach a big brush to the underside of the trains. 👍
CrabAndBroom 2d ago • 100%
The Steam Deck sort-of has it on some games already, but it's a bit hacky. I did get 60fps Cyberpunk going though, which was a nice surprise. It'll be great to get a proper unified way of doing frame-gen though.
CrabAndBroom 3d ago • 100%
I assume this is the same reason why they want to ban TikTok but not Facebook - it's not so much that they object to the data harvesting, they just object to non-American data harvesting that they can't readily influence.
CrabAndBroom 3d ago • 100%
When they announced Steam Machines the first time, I thought it was a great idea because it would give PC devs a sort of baseline system to aim for, and then I was surprised when they launched and they were all sorts of different system specs. I'm still convinced that's at least partly why they failed - if you buy a console like a Playstation or XBOX, part of the appeal is that you know exactly what you're getting and what will run on it. If it says 'PS5', it'll run on your PS5.
So hopefully if they try again it'll be something along those lines, kind of like the Steam Deck.
CrabAndBroom 4d ago • 66%
Yeah same here, I thought it was one of the few cases where the adaptation was better than the book. It cuts out a lot of the waffle from the books and patches up lots of holes, especially with characters like you said.
CrabAndBroom 6d ago • 100%
Our local library is really cool, it has a recording studio, a makerspace with 3D printers, and a service where you can borrow tools. You can even borrow a radon detector!
CrabAndBroom 6d ago • 100%
I'm still using my old Pixel 4a because I refuse to get a phone without a headphone jack lol
CrabAndBroom 6d ago • 100%
It's harder to measure of course, but I wonder how that compares to the amount of sales they lose from people who just don't bother buying the game when they find out it has Denuvo? I know I recently lost all interest in two games (Civ VII and Kingdom Come: Deliverance II) when I found out they were launching with Denuvo and I assume I'm not the only person who does that.
CrabAndBroom 6d ago • 100%
I like Ventoy, it's handy but I don't think it's indispensable so probably what I'll do is go back to using Etcher (which is open source AFAIK) until this resolves itself one way or another. I assume either the dev will respond properly with an explanation and everything will be fine, or someone will get fed up enough to fork it. I feel like it's probably nothing nefarious, but it doesn't really hurt to be overly cautious in this case IMO.
CrabAndBroom 6d ago • 100%
Currently I use Borg Backup with Vorta as a GUI. I don't really do anything automated/scheduled, I just back it up manually to an external SSD every few days or so. I pretty much do my whole /home
folder, except for a couple of subfolders that aren't really necessary (and Videos
, which I back up separately.)
I do eventually want to upgrade to a NAS, but I'm waiting until we move to start setting that up. Also I don't really have an off-site plan yet which I know is bad, but I need to figure that out.
CrabAndBroom 7d ago • 100%
Yeah that's my main issue with them too. I like the idea in theory, but in practice I find it tends to create this weird environment where something's always broken because everything updates on a different schedule and nobody cares if their update breaks anything else.
CrabAndBroom 1w ago • 100%
Yeah that's my interpretation of it too, they had quite a bit of political capital stored up after the election win, and they're spending it on making unpopular choices now, presumably with the intent that by the next election the painful bit will be over and we'll be seeing improvements across the board that they can then campaign on.
I think maybe this also feels weird to a lot of people because they're actually doing stuff and not just using the post-win honeymoon period to fuck about like the Tories usually do.
CrabAndBroom 1w ago • 100%
We went Aldous Huxley when we should have gone Iain M. Banks lol
CrabAndBroom 1w ago • 100%
I think we've still made amazing progress, just in different areas. For example, communication. In the 40s, if you were in the US and needed to contact someone in, say, Australia, the options would either be to send a letter and wait maybe weeks or months for a response, or possibly a prohibitively expensive phone call.
Nowadays you could click two buttons and have a six-hour HD video conversation if you wanted to, essentially for free. And you could send them documents, videos, money, whatever you want basically instantly. Heck, if you really wanted to you could both create realistic 3D avatars and hang out in VR if that's your thing lol
CrabAndBroom 1w ago • 100%
Yeah same here! I had no idea it was that much now.
CrabAndBroom 1w ago • 100%
Especially since
::: spoiler spoiler Lance Henriksen is still alive. :::
This is [swiped from reddit](https://reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1ep1ff0/psa_if_you_have_an_intel_wifi_card_with_antennas/) but I thought it was really helpful so please don't judge me too harshly lol. So it turns out that some Linux distros don't enable this by default for whatever reason but if you have an Intel wifi card that uses the iwlwifi driver (you can check this with `lspci -k` and look for a section that says `Network controller: Intel Corporation` and `Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi` under it), you can add a simple line to a config file that might make a huge difference to your wifi speeds. Just edit `/etc/modprobe.d/iwlwifi.conf` (if it doesn't exist just create it) and add the line: `options iwlwifi 11n_disable=8` then reboot. I ran Speedtest before and after trying this on my laptop and it seems to have increased it by about 20% or so. Your mileage may vary of course, but hopefully this helps someone!
Altered the title to avoid spoilers - hopefully that's okay! But for those who don't want to click - Miriam Margolyes is voicing Beep The Meep. > On joining Doctor Who, Miriam Margolyes says: “I’m relieved I got to work on Doctor Who before I died." lol
Lost episodes of the BBC sci-fi series exist in the collections of private owners, says archivist.