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  • in reply to: Films & TV Shows #2870

    Saw Happy Birthday To Me and it can probably be skipped. Well made in terms of crew but in terms of quality of plot and all? Nope. Little coherent plot and the flashback sequences just happen out of the blue, confusing things further. It also brought nothing new to the table.

    in reply to: Films & TV Shows #2868

    Switchblade Sisters was pretty fun. Good bits of humor scattered throughout to lighten up the tone but the fight scenes weren’t well choreographed. Lots of unskilled flailing of fists 😛

    Didn’t realize Jeffery Dean Morgan did a whole lot outside of TV shows.

    Got Sleeper on the list. Pretty sure I’ve seen bits and pieces of it but that’s okay! Need to see the whole thing at some point 🙂

    in reply to: Samsung Tablets #2866

    I’ve never had much luck with QR codes myself. Often, the autofocus craps out right as the camera is trying to snap the code. Haven’t tried with other applications, though. And these devices are supposed to make our lives a little less frustrating! 😛

    in reply to: Computer Setup #2863

    Great! Hopefully the testing notes mean you won’t need to return it any time soon 🙂

    At some point, I’ll probably wind up with an NAS. Still need to do a lot of tidying up before one can go on the wish-list. Also need to find a place to stash the Thelio box until the warranty is up. The box is huge! 😛

    in reply to: Software: On & Off the Web #2862

    Rigs of Rods looks like an interesting driving simulator. Depending on how accurate its physics are, it could be a useful training tool. Will need to download it at some point to find out.

    in reply to: The TCG Thread #2860

    Added the main sites for some of the games to the first post. Tried to get the global URLs but the one for the Pokemon card game is region based. Will need to do some digging to see if I can track down the global URL.

    in reply to: The TCG Thread #2857

    Started adding Lorcana to the first post. 🙂

    in reply to: Software: On & Off the Web #2853

    😀

    Back on my old Mac from the 90’s, we had to perform a system restore at least once a year or it’d crap out. Never did figure out why 😛

    Use Bash myself though I know a lot of people these days love C Shell or even Zsh. Probably need to give C shell a whirl one day. 🙂

    I remember years ago when I was first learning about how computers work I was having trouble on Windows 95 getting the disc drive to work properly with some games. Support had me use XCOPY to copy the disc to the local drive to help diagnose the issue. Can’t remember any details other than that 😛

    And Google is moving Chrome to Manifest V3 so uBlock Origin will no longer function properly. They have a pared down Lite version that will work but it leaves big open spaces in the content where the main version didn’t 🙁

    in reply to: Computer Setup #2850

    Yeah, tracking down manuals for older products can be hard! It’d be nice if the manufacturers kept an archive for them but not all of them do, sadly. For my turntable, I had to grab it from a third-party site even though Thorens is still going strong.

    Looks pretty straightforward: just a matter of popping open the compartment and slotting it in. 🙂 Sometimes, things can get a bit more complicated than that 😛

    in reply to: Random #2843

    Sad news: https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/30/24232171/anandtech-tech-journalism-hardware

    🙁

    Fortunately, we still have Ars Technica. Hopefully, for a while more.

    in reply to: Computer Setup #2840

    Been a while so I had to reacquaint myself with how Windows works…

    Looks like that’s a limitation in Windows. The Windows tools only have the ability to create a 32 GB volume but the OS has no problem recognizing and working with it up to its maximum size of 16 TB. In order to go above 32 GB, you’ll need to use a different tool or file system. Why these inconsistencies exist is beyond me but they’re very annoying! Part of why I prefer *nix. 😛

    Another item to add to our potential knowledge base. 🙂

    Just make sure your life jacket is handy and you’re sitting next to the lifeboats!

    Great! Have you installed them yet?

    in reply to: Random #2837

    Awesome! On farms, they’re using flying bots equipped with lasers to blast weeds. Or at least they’re in development.

    Here are the old ones if you want to catch up! Lots of interesting stuff on Textfiles!

    The Register is fun. They put a slightly humorous spin on their stories. It definitely keeps things interesting 😛

    Did some poking around and here are their newsletters and feeds:

    https://account.theregister.com/edit/newsletter/
    https://www.theregister.com/Design/page/feeds.html

    Haven’t read the recent articles yet on dark matter but they’re starting to believe that it doesn’t exist and something else is afoot with dark energy instead.

    Looks fun! Will give it a whirl sometime 🙂

    Still haven’t played through any of the DnD games, even though I have them all on the wishlist and picked up the Neverwinter collection in a giveaway. Really need to change that at some point 🙁

    in reply to: The TCG Thread #2836

    While Lorcana doesn’t have an official database, there’s a pretty good fan site that helps to fill in the blanks: https://dreamborn.ink/

    in reply to: Films & TV Shows #2835

    Finally got around to watching the Lawnmower Man (director’s cut) yesterday. Highly recommended even if the reviews have it at 37%. 🙂

    in reply to: Films & TV Shows #2829

    Saw this one yesterday. It was fun but the plot made zero sense. They kept forgetting various things that made it nonsensical, such as when the heroines top got cut by a scythe at a warehouse leaving her topless. They just left it at that without a change of clothes and a few dead bodies. We’re supposed to assume she made it back in that state without trouble in a clearly dangerous town where everyone knows how to kick everyone and wants to kick everyone. Yeah, the film was pretty silly when you get down to it 😛

    in reply to: The TCG Thread #2822

    Tried out Lorcana yesterday and it’s pretty fun. The game is pretty chill and is pretty straightforward, unlike modern YGO. As far as gameplay goes, it’s similar to a boardgame but without the board aspect. I’ll probably try it for a bit and see how it goes 🙂

    in reply to: Computer Setup #2821

    What filesystem did you format it as? It may have been a filesystem limitation.

    Weird that original run didn’t properly set up the system files. Of course, I’ve never tried to set up a Windows recovery drive (I’ve always just used the installation media). Are things well on the way to recovery now, then?

    in reply to: Random #2819

    Here’s an interesting blurb on wormholes: https://futurism.com/the-byte/small-wormholes-fabric-space-time

    Got more articles buried in my list somewhere. Wormhole research has really been getting popular over the last several months!

    in reply to: Random #2817

    https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/23/bofh_2024_episode_16/

    *looks at timestamp*

    Yay! New story! Always did love the series! 😀 Been reading it for twenty years 😛

    in reply to: Random #2815

    My base in NMS is coming along rather nicely. Got a roamer bay assembled so that will help with exploring the planet I’m on and I may toss a few more bases on it later. Not sure as it’s nothing special, just the first base the game had me make to get used to base building. 🙂

    Still want to build a base on that desert planet but I’ll get there! I should probably start naming the bases something witty but I’m terrible at coming up with names. 😛

    Eventually, I’ll need to go to the Anomaly to unlock more base parts but I’m still working on the initial unlocks. The game is about to have me unlock a freighter, which will be nice

    Haven’t yet figured out the purpose of the terminals other than for roleplaying so I may need to look them up. Will get there

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