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Yep, have had a couple of forums I visited do that. Always sad when they fade away 🙁 Even sadder when it happens during a lively discussion 🙁
Looks like vBulletin has its own spam protection now. No idea how long its had it, though.
Never had that issue. I have had issues where they keep spamming me even though I keep telling them I want to be removed from the mailing list as I haven’t bought anything from them in well over a decade. They seem to put me back on the spam list every year or two for whatever reason. Pretty annoying 😛
So there’s a huge plot hole in the Futurama episode “The Devil’s Hands Are Idle Playthings”. At the end, Robot Devil reveals that his contract says he gets to marry Leela. However, in Season 6 Episode 4 “Proposition Infinity”, it becomes apparent that robosexual marriage isn’t legal until the end of that episode. With that in mind, it makes his contract illegal and can’t be enforced. If known at the time, Fry would have been able to ignore Robot Devil’s grandstanding and continue the opera and we would have had a whole different ending.
Don’t see the DisplayPort specs in Adrenaline but we do have a display specs section under Settings -> Display -> Display Specs at the bottom. Doesn’t say anything at all about the interface, though. Nothing wrong with DisplayPort. In fact, it has some good benefits over HDMI. They mostly reached feature parity several years ago so the 10-bit color is no longer DP exclusive but the cable itself locks in to the ports so there’s less chance of it getting loose. Also, you can daisy-chain DP cables so that you can use several monitors with only a single port. Wonderful feature as it keeps the cables neat and tidy. That’s how I had things set up. Only issue is that TVs don’t support DP cables.
Does hardware HDR cause issues, then? I know Windows has had it in the settings menu for years but I never had a screen that supported it
Great! Another fork….? Not sure of some of the changes from the diffs, such as changing some of the types from ints to shorts and long to long long. Would need to look at the surrounding code or even ask them about it. Other than those things, the changes look minimal so we may be able to just use Nimrod’s fork and go from there. Definitely worth asking rfuzzo about things first before we make a decision. 🙂
Not a huge fan of GitHub but I’ll use it if I absolutely have to. I’m going to look at some stuff regarding the licensing. If we could possibly add a license, that could help streamline things in the future if things take off. Only took that brief look a few weeks ago but it’s probably time for a deeper dive now that we’ve got the permissions coming in. Brushed up on virtual functions this morning and I think I understand them now. Always had a hard time wrapping my head around objects so it’ll mostly be trial by fire. Hopefully not a literal fire. 😛
We can probably forgo 32-bit support as 32-bit systems have mostly gone the way of the dodo. Morrowind was written for 32-bit systems but few of those are likely to still be alive and the program was designed to work with plugins instead of the executable. That’s not to say we don’t need to support the data types, just the compiled objects. I forget if that changes the data type limits and sizes, though. It’s been a while. Will look, though
Only 38 comments on that post? Blogs are definitely becoming less popular, I see 🙁
Thanks! Now if we can figure out how to disable it for Bing. May be a toggle, haven’t looked yet 🙂
Someone needs to license the character as their betel nut mascot 😛
Yeah, I still need to get an air purifier for the living room. That will surely help. We’re really dry right now save for the fog. Last good rain we had was over a week ago and none is predicted for a while yet. Fortunately, the wet season is just around the corner but it’ll be pretty dusty until then.
Started on the Dalton films yesterday with The Living Daylights. Really enjoyed the more serious tone. Some of the critics complain about the lack of humor but there was plenty! Bit of a shame that Dalton only did two films.
Never had a C++ course (learned on my own) or used virtual functions before so I’ll need to brush up on them before they go on the list
I suspect most of the macro issues will vanish once the code is changed so that it’s no longer being generated. I don’t even know what the generated commands tell it to make
This could be a useful utility to run on the source tree: https://include-what-you-use.org/
Not a big fan of bloating the system with several compilers so manual investigation may still be done. Will need to think on it
No worries! Maybe they’ll join us on this. 🙂
Any luck with reaching Nimrod?
In the meantime, I went ahead and ran the repository through cppcheck using the following options:
cppcheck --enable=all --platform=win64 common Windows esm IL File project
As expected, there are lots of messages about the use of the virtual bits. The log is surprisingly sparse otherwise. Here’s the full log.Other items of note are unfinished features, which are unused functions, and the code generated by VS that’s already been noted. Most of the other lines are nit picky things that will still want to be investigated.
According to this post, you can! You need to activate it in the settings on the old Reddit site, though. Weird 😛
The new update is gorgeous! Sure, we have giant planets all next door and smaller ones that haven’t been captured as moons. Not exactly accurate in terms of astrophysics but that’s okay!
In related news, X4: Foundations is currently 70% off. Never played the series but it’s been on my wish-list for a long time. May need to give it a whirl at some point.
I understand how it’s useful to have discussion elsewhere but having a list of issues and feature requests with the repositories is incredibly useful to help keep track of everything. It also helps tell users what to expect in terms of the present and future.
Sadly, it’s all opt-out if they even let you. Really getting tired of forced AI content on the web 🙁
It’s not really the browser, it’s on Google’s search results. Bing has similar issues. When I typed in Beetlejuice just now on Bing, one of the suggested search results called it an “American Actor” instead of a film. Ugh. To be fair, him popping up in other films would be a riot.
I smelled and saw a lot of smoke so it was probably controlled burns. Air quality has greatly improved now and I’m no longer having lung spasms so that’s good. 🙂
I think part of it is that people are beginning to realize how far AI has to go. I have a lot of issues with it myself. Since Google added AI summaries to the search results page, I’ve been having more issues finding what I need. I find that the summaries are worded in strange ways that I find difficult to understand, or even inaccurate, and find it much easier to just find a link to an original article. Their old knowledge graph was much more useful to me. I even have to ask my smart speaker a question five different ways before it can understand what I mean.
In some eras, leeches were available at your local pharmacy. In fact, it looks like they’re using leech chemicals in actual medication. We’ve come a long way from bloodletting 😛
Bad air pollution down here for the last week or so. As a result, my lungs have been spasming a bit. It’s been worse outside. 🙁
Ugh. Have you tested just the Kogan? I see you tested the Philips on its own
Somewhat related but I still haven’t flipped the setting for HDR in my monitor’s setting menu (not the Windows one but the one built in to the monitor). Honestly not sure if I’ll ever get around to it
NMS update just landed! It looks incredible!
Yep, we get those too! Most of them are shown on the Hallmark Channel. The ones on streaming are a bit…worse 😛
Finished up Fallout yesterday. It was pretty fun at the end but still left me wanting for more. They did a good job of showing more of the varying vault personalities and the strife between factions. Fortunately, we’re getting another season at some point 🙂
Yeah, Windows is hit or miss with regards to obeying the driver update settings. Though, the policy setting is almost always obeyed. It’d be less annoying if WU would actually update intelligently instead of “updating” a user installed driver to an older version in the WU Update Catalogue 😛
On Linux, you can downgrade any package (kernel, drivers, and more) as long as a previous version is available. It doesn’t even need to be in the repo or the cache. Linux allows you to install packages from RPMs, DEBs, etc that you download yourself and register it to the package manager. Not always recommended as it can cause conflicts but you can still do it. For the occasions where you want to override the version requirements, some package managers have an option to force the install. The downgrade feature is quite handy. I’ve used it on Fedora fifteen years ago when an update to the HAL package kept breaking my keyboard. The bug was fixed in a distro update so it was probably an ABI change as the version number was still the same.
Good to know that nothing is seriously broken 🙂
I still haven’t played Eternal Darkness. It really needs to be released again 🙁
Hogwarts Legacy is getting a huge update on January 30th that also includes modding tools. Why they mostly do annual updates is beyond me but at least we’re getting continual support!
The only one I’ve really avoided is On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. Not sure why I keep skipping it but I should really watch it at some point. For Your Eyes Only was pretty fun. It has the best anti-theft system you’ll find:
And let’s not forget the legendary Andre!
Ooh, good cast. Not available in the US, sadly, but will keep an eye out for it. It’s bound to make it here eventually!
The last time I used AI Suite, it was pretty slow. Granted, this was about a decade ago or so. Fortunately, Microsoft is working on a package manager for Windows so that should help streamline everything. The unified interface for managing everything else, though, is definitely a good idea. In that regard, Windows really lags behind Linux.
On the note of drivers, an “optional” video driver update appeared in Windows Update the other day so I should probably do it the proper way before WU breaks things again by force installing 😛
About to finish Service Model. It’s a hilarious take on the robot apocalypse with tons of pop culture references. Highly recommended! My biggest issue is that I can read a book in a day or two so it’s hard for me to keep up with finding new stuff. Kobo’s algorithm has started breaking down and giving me the same stuff, most of which isn’t available from the library or I’ve already read. Going to need to come up with a better way to find reading material
Yeah. Some of them take a few days to display damage, most are immediate. Fortunately, it looks like the only ones that got hit are the ones that’ll come back in a few months. 🙂
Interesting idea. It can get complicated if there are conflicting concerns, though. For instance, you have a group of five deer and a group of five coyotes. The coyotes are going after the deer. Do you let the coyotes eat or do you save the deer?
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