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an issue.

Actually, more like this issue. 🙂
Surprise, surprise, no change with PipDisqus, and the “Moderate Disqus Comments” is still up on the main page.
Disqus itself has been updated to 3.1, there are ads, and free subscriptions, and so forth, with user feedback coming across as negative still. Installation might be worth a shot, although getting everything else right with the site beforehand is priority, as it will be until the twelfth of never. 😛

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There’s … still a few imps dancing round and round, as firing up the old W10 Ob machine got a blank screen, rinse and repeat, nothing, couldn’t hear any obvious signs of disk activity either. No sign of activity on the TV (primary monitor connected through HDMI.) The repair shop might have used a DVI connection for the monitor, however the dual monitor info was lost, from recent experience W11 handles monitor behaviour (from history?) a little differently.
Then remembered the connection of the previous replacement rig back here was with HDMI through to the old Samsung S24B350 monitor, because that (secondary) monitor has no DVI out, a minor inconvenience. So connected the GTX 650 out to the monitor through HDMI, nothing on the secondary (but primarily used monitor). Switched on the TV, and there it was, a Windows desktop! Reconnected the VGA cable to the secondary monitor, reconnected HDMI to the TV as before, switched display in Settings, pressed something on the monitor itself to re-affirm VGA, pulled the HDMI, and wow, it all came back as before! 🙂

And – er – they may have go the repair info round the wrong way as the Ob machine had the SW issue and the Skyrim rig was a reseat. Possible, although unlikely, as the Skyrim rig is still not fixed, and the Ob PC still has the wake from Hibernate freeze. The repair guy also made a note that as these machines are beyond obsolescence, backup the data! Relics of an era indeed!

Yeah, reminiscent of an old Win 3.X bug where showing a popup or system menu did the same thing.

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Funnily enough, activating the last HW relics link worked:

The first SW link did not work the first time activated, or so I thought, went and later refreshed the page so there were 2 (two) identical notifications, clicked one, and it worked, so there you go.
Note that repeating the activation of the same link from the unrefreshed source page (or the second dup. link) won’t work, presumably as the noonce value is invalid, or something.
With the same code in two places, expect weird random stuff, like working in public fora, or not, depending on whatever. 😛

• This reply was modified 8 months ago by DeVaultSetter.

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Quite a few commercial sites do that now, rather than set the spam in the settings, find and use the unsubscribe link in the spam. Wonder if that’s the same in Woocommerce and the rest?
Dostips have been down a couple of weeks at least, the comments at the end of this page are somewhat off-piste as they actually refer to other downed sites. 😛

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The Ob desktop is back from the repairer. He’s pretty good, and looks like he might have identified the issue with the drives configuration referenced by software using certain core libraries, like Oblivion.
Did ask him if I could have solved it with a recovery disk (DVD probably, the old BIOS/UEFI doesn’t handle USB sticks all that well), he said probably, at the expense of wiping the disks, so yeah.
The Skyrim desktop was a mobo check and reseat, funny that as I thought it was fine. (And so it was. if looking at a blank screen was the desired outcome. 😛 )

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Yerk, firmware upgrades are such that there is limited support for rollback, good luck if S76 can organize a quick fix. Can you get into Windows without issue?

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Agree, definitely a clash between the two – should we file a bug over at trac? Nothing much in there for bubble, and a new ticket won’t look pretty as the general user interaction and repro of the bug is at best confusing.
Adding the code both to wp-content/plugins/bp-classic/themes/bp-default/functions.php and the BuddyPress wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php gets two sets of the same notifications in the list which did work for a private topic on one occasion. No other combo seemed to work. 🙁

• This reply was modified 8 months ago by DeVaultSetter.

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🙂 Great for doggie, didn’t catch her name – think you mentioned it on Teams somewhere. Are they dissolvable sutures?

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Not quite unfortunately, it worked for the Private group, not for the public. 🙁

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The notifications linkage works when the following coded goes in wp-content/plugins/bp-classic/themes/bp-default/functions.php:

/**
* Format the BuddyBar/Toolbar notifications
* Fixed: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/new-reply-notification-link-to-the-reply/
*/
function bbp_format_buddypress_notifications_custom( $action, $item_id, $secondary_item_id, $total_items, $format = ‘string’ ) {

// New reply notifications
if ( ‘bbp_new_reply’ === $action ) {
$topic_id = bbp_get_reply_topic_id( $item_id );
$topic_title = bbp_get_topic_title( $topic_id );
$topic_link = wp_nonce_url( add_query_arg( array( ‘action’ => ‘bbp_mark_read’, ‘topic_id’ => $item_id ), bbp_get_reply_url( $item_id ) ), ‘bbp_mark_topic_’ . $item_id );
$title_attr = __( ‘Topic Replies’, ‘bbpress’ );

if ( (int) $total_items > 1 ) {
$text = sprintf( __( ‘You have %d new replies’, ‘bbpress’ ), (int) $total_items );
$filter = ‘bbp_multiple_new_subscription_notification’;
} else {
if ( !empty( $secondary_item_id ) ) {
$text = sprintf( __( ‘You have %d new reply to %2$s from %3$s’, ‘bbpress’ ), (int) $total_items, $topic_title, bp_core_get_user_displayname( $secondary_item_id ) );
} else {
$text = sprintf( __( ‘You have %d new reply to %s’, ‘bbpress’ ), (int) $total_items, $topic_title );
}
$filter = ‘bbp_single_new_subscription_notification’;
}

// WordPress Toolbar
if ( ‘string’ === $format ) {
$return = apply_filters( $filter, ‘‘ . esc_html( $text ) . ‘‘, (int) $total_items, $text, $topic_link );

// Deprecated BuddyBar
} else {
$return = apply_filters( $filter, array(
‘text’ => $text,
‘link’ => $topic_link
), $topic_link, (int) $total_items, $text, $topic_title );
}

do_action( ‘bbp_format_buddypress_notifications’, $action, $item_id, $secondary_item_id, $total_items );

return $return;
}
}
remove_filter( ‘bp_notifications_get_notifications_for_user’, ‘bbp_format_buddypress_notifications’, 10 );
add_filter( ‘bp_notifications_get_notifications_for_user’, ‘bbp_format_buddypress_notifications_custom’, 10, 5 );

/**
* Hooked into the new reply function, this notification action is responsible
* for notifying topic and hierarchical reply authors of topic replies.
* Fixed: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/new-reply-notification-link-to-the-reply/
*/
function bbp_buddypress_add_notification_custom( $reply_id = 0, $topic_id = 0, $forum_id = 0, $anonymous_data = false, $author_id = 0, $is_edit = false, $reply_to = 0 ) {

// Bail if somehow this is hooked to an edit action
if ( !empty( $is_edit ) ) {
return;
}

// Get autohr information
$topic_author_id = bbp_get_topic_author_id( $topic_id );
$secondary_item_id = $author_id;

// Hierarchical replies
if ( !empty( $reply_to ) ) {
$reply_to_item_id = bbp_get_topic_author_id( $reply_to );
}

// Get some reply information
$args = array(
‘user_id’ => $topic_author_id,
‘item_id’ => $reply_id,
‘component_name’ => bbp_get_component_name(),
‘component_action’ => ‘bbp_new_reply’,
‘date_notified’ => get_post( $reply_id )->post_date,
);

// Notify the topic author if not the current reply author
if ( $author_id !== $topic_author_id ) {
$args[‘secondary_item_id’] = $secondary_item_id ;

bp_notifications_add_notification( $args );
}

// Notify the immediate reply author if not the current reply author
if ( !empty( $reply_to ) && ( $author_id !== $reply_to_item_id ) ) {
$args[‘secondary_item_id’] = $reply_to_item_id ;

bp_notifications_add_notification( $args );
}
}
remove_action( ‘bbp_new_reply’, ‘bbp_buddypress_add_notification’, 10 );
add_action( ‘bbp_new_reply’, ‘bbp_buddypress_add_notification_custom’, 10, 7 );

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Best hopes for a successful excision of that nasty growth and a speedy recovery. 🙂

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This thread has a workaround for the widget error if it is ever required:

require_once ABSPATH.’wp-includes/class-wp-widget.php’;

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You mean the Fix Threaded Replies Jump bug fix? Could work, feel free to try if you like. In the meantime, updated the above link to include this bbPress thread which has it as a core bug/feature. 🙂
Edit: Contemplate’s fix at that thread doesn’t work anymore. 🙁
Will retry tomorrow. 🙂

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Ah, sounds more like belladonna, many forms of colocasia (including antiquorum), alocasia and even unrelated Xanthosoma are staple in many parts of the world, all requiring boiling/steaming to remove the effects of the crystallized calcium oxalate. Neurotoxins are nuked at 80°C. 🙂
The sunflower is still alive, very bowed over now, the petals are long gone since, and the leaves are beginning to pale. Youth fleeting, age defeating. Would you recommend harvesting the flowerhead for the pot?

• This reply was modified 8 months, 1 week ago by DeVaultSetter.

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Sounds like it’s a known issue. A factory reset helped one, but not another.
Someone suggested:

Go into settings > Device care > Performance profile and set the profile to light.

Is that setting on yours, it’s not found here, unfortunately, just auto-optimization under Performance.
On the tablet here there is a Battery section in Settings where there is:

Battery Protect (Limit Charge to 85%)

They explain it here, is there a reason why the limit can’t be 99% instead for the same effect?
Also in Batteries setting there is a Power saving switch, doesn’t promise to be much of an impact though. 🙁

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Do appreciate the work gone into the Anandtech and 3dMark sites, the functionality is no doubt a bit more clunky if you don’t sign up.
This is planned to be a winter PC, thus a slightly unhinged reliance on cool ambient temperatures at least as far as pre global warming conditions go. 😛
Have to agree as far as performance goes, here are topcpu’s UHD 770 comparison assessments, hd 7700, gtx 650, and rx 550. Interestingly, the 4gb rx 550 does not quite match the similarly priced 1gb hd 7770. One naturally assumes that as “things improve with time”, the rx would exceed the hd doubly or so, silly, silly. 😛
Good thing is the igc uses much less power than any gpu really, including the low powered 50W rx, a card purchased for low footprint and high performance, we wish.
Yeah, 4 16gb slots and only one stick – sounds like an idea to beef it up sometime. 🙂

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Going with pretty basic, the igc has potential for some newer games on a tower with an i7 and possibly faster memory as demonstrated here:

No-one mentioned overheating in the comments there, fortunately this is only an i5, the docs tabulate heat dissipation to make us all feel safe. 🙂
And, news flush, there will be no upgrading or modding the innards of this beast- other than of course, to – ahem – relieve potential overheating issues. 😛
Regarding Linux, the major drawback is just the one physical drive, so the challenge is to partition it correctly in W11.
As a matter of interest, comparing the graphics power of the UHD 770 and the RX550 in the “new PC” mentioned here here and back at MS Teams, there is much to be said in favour of the RX550, for which the “heavier” gameplays here will be reserved. Technical city is less enthusiastic.
Looking at a side by side comparison to the 2012 HD 7700 on the old Skyrim PC, believe it or not, the HD 7700 wins, mostly. Technical city prefers the UHD 770.
A similar diff to the 2012 GTX 650 on the Oblivion PC has it roughly the same, yet Technical city continues to lean toward the UHD 770.
Funny that, wonder if certain rival companies have a hand in those test results. 😛

Yes, a magnificent system indeed for a bit of extra coin, the said extra coin in the pocket will be put to good use in other (hopefully) non-bill paying enterprises. 🙂

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You mean no updates after the OneUI 6 update? None here either, no doubt there will be a few installed on the A8 after Android 14, might be even lucky enough to get Android 18 when it comes out.
Remember back in the early days of browsing you could hit Esc to stop images loading, there’s mention of Ublock Origin at the end of this thread – would that help?
Ah, the A7 lite is fairly new, 2021, in fact, what was the model of the older phone – is that still being used?

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The Oblivion desktop is kaput after being powered on after some months in storage. The lights and fans turn on, the DVD door works if operated, no BIOS beep or light on keyboard, nothing on screen either.
The old Skyrim PC has turned out even worse, the last windows session on it gone into permanent frost. On reboot there was a service exception BSOD, so rebooted. The Windows logo would show for a few seconds, then came the spinning dots animation followed by blank screen with no activity in the device at all. The machine would then power off/reboot with the same behaviour. Did check the UEFI settings, nothing out of order there.
Later power on would get rapid beeps from the box, right now, there is no response to the power button at all. The cause of the error is PSU, memory, CPU, or the whole kit and caboodle, who knows?
Thus it’s very much like the aftershocks of the disintegrating relics causing one to be propelled into the invidious situation of acquiring new hardware. 🙁
Done! 😛

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After the above inclusion, this is a sure fire eyeroller. 😛
The purchase of an HP Elite SFF 600 G9 from here could be correctly construed as being diametrically opposed to any religion not espousing branded products.
The rationale for the switch goes like:

• Cheap, free delivery, and good support.
• Low power consumption.
• Quiet operation.
• On board graphics, so don’t have to worry about OEM graphic drivers.
• Fine for older games like Oblivion and even Skyrim, not for things like CSGO 2 which will never be played in any case.
• Lightweight, compact, and a wee bit upgradeable. 😛
• Comes with obsolete DVD so convenient to play the TES5 and BG from the time-worn disks here./li>
• Ubuntu certified, so an option of Linux later.

Divining a good custom built rig these days is fraught with a myriad of true, quasi-true and totally false leads, and a good evaluation is hard to find. Similar hurdles in the research required to land such a beauty as the above thelio mira r3 (404 now – that was quick).

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