CrabAndBroom

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[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

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@lemmy.ml 0 points 9 months ago

To clean them, simply attach a big brush to the underside of the trains. 👍

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

If it helps at all, I'm typing this on a Lenovo Ideadpad 5 that has a Ryzen 5 and 8gb that's running up-to-date Arch (btw) and KDE perfectly well with no troubles at all. I haven't owned the Yoga Slim specifically, but I've had a few Lenovos over the years and mine have all run various forms of Linux quite happily.

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 months ago

Eaters of Light is the most Scottish Doctor Who has ever been I think. It was written by a Scottish writer (Rona Munro) under a Scottish showrunner (Steven Moffat) with a Scottish Doctor (Peter Capaldi) and a Scottish Master (Michelle Gomez) and is set almost entirely in ancient Scotland lol.

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

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@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 months ago

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@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

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@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 months ago

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@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm still using my old Pixel 4a because I refuse to get a phone without a headphone jack lol

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 11 points 9 months ago

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@lemmy.ml 14 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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.

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