Romkslrqusz

For those who don’t know about it, my preferred way to play Timesplitters 2 has become the TS2 Redux project in conjunction with the version of the game that was hidden away in Homefront 2

Really? Duckstation is already so easy though.

Maybe you ought to try EmuDeck.

Sex is not owed and, between romantic partners, is usually not transactional. Either partner should be free to turn it down for any reason whatsoever. Pressuring someone isn’t cool, guilting someone into it is manipulative. I can’t even imagine following through on doing it with someone who wasn’t into it from the start, that’s a total turn off for me and I would feel disgusting afterwards.

“marital duties”

Ew. Talk about inciting “the ick”.

[…] asked how I would react if he just stopped paying the mortgage because he was “too tired.”

It was wildly inappropriate to bring this up at all. Personally, I see this as a huge red flag for manipulative behavior. I probably would have answered by saying that everybody gets down and needs help from time to time, and that in that situation I would find a way to be financially supportive through that difficult time. Followed by asking what the fuck that has to do with sex.

Your husband presumably has hands. If he needs something with a different texture, there are plenty of products on the market for that.

Making sex into an obligation/chore/work is a great way to sap the fun out of it and fasttrack to a dead bedroom.

Soldering the connector is very low risk. No need to worry about heat from an iron. In manufacturing, modern PCBs have their lead-free solder flowed in an oven at temperatures in excess of 220 C.

Reconnecting or accessing the files using just office supplies is possible provided there is access to a fine-point soldering iron or the means to DIY one. In this situation, I’m thinking of office supplies as “things you might find in an office” - not just rubber band, paperclip, eraser, pocket lint.

I’ve cut USB cables and soldered the 5V, D+, D-, and GND wires to corresponding pads on the flash drive to recover data plenty of times.

When a connector is torn or snapped off, it is not uncommon for those pads to be lifted and even for some of the traces to get peeled off the board. 5V and GND are usually pretty big, but the traces for the data lines are often hair thin.

In those cases, someone in the scenario you describe would need to attach the wires to another point that those traces origin connected to, or they might need to scrape away some if the mask (green layer) to expose a contact point to solder to.

Worth mentioning that those four contacts make a USB 2.0 (500Mbps) connections. For USB 3 (5Gbps) there are 5 more contacts, for a total of 9.

USB Type C has 20 contacts and will require a microscope to work with.

Since the USB standards are backwards compatible, you could still recover data from a USB-C device by recreating just the four USB 2.0 contacts - albeit slowly.

I’m inclined to suspect your AIO’s pump is intermittently not working.

Consider a high end air cooler to get comparable performance with less complexity, at the expense of cosmetics (depending on personal preference)

They are definitely faster than running in both games.

It is true that, in Oblivion, you could level up Athletics and Acrobatics to become faster than the horses.

They put a rover in Starfield last year

Elder Scrolls has had horses since Oblivion

Unfortunately, Fediverse apps still have a lot of UX issues compared to their mainstream alternatives. Those will need to be smoothed over for mainstream adoption to take root.

They’re attractive to the tech inclined who are comfortable working around what, to them, is minor clunkiness. Mainstream users have shorter attention spans and are more likely to move on when there’s friction.

Far as the meme is concerned, the only Fediverse equivalent is Loops which is still in closed beta.

I’ve always found Group B to be the most fun in sims. Knew it was banned on account of safe issues but I don’t think I realized just how bad things got before then

… second paragraph of the article:

In addition to the basic plans getting Copilot rolled in, there are now additional “Basic,” “Personal Classic,” and “Family Classic” tiers without Copilot and “other advanced features” added for users who do not use AI in their workflows

I’ve had the issue with the plug falling out, actually bonked my Deck’s screen and cracked the protector while I was fishing headphones out of a bag on a flight.

I use a cable with a 90 degree tip and found that, for the outlets that are on the seat, I can attach the cable to the tray arm with a Clove Hitch to help the plug stay put and catch it if it falls.

There’s a little ramp on at least one edge of the socket that lets you lift the CPU so that you can then take it out. It may even be on both sides.

Voyager is giving me an error when I try to attach a photo, but it’s visible in the thumbnail for this video

Whole thing is really quite dumb. The cat just walks towards / stares at the drone, it does not physically prevent it from landing - the operator just gets spooked and flies off.

Not to mention that this is an article about a video that links to another article about the video.

For starters, there’s more to gpu performance than memory speed and quantity.

believe that everybody should skip them

This strikes me as a bit weird. Everyone uses graphics cards for different things, everyone has different priorities, and most people who have a PC have different hardware.

I’ve got clients who edit video for work, and others who do it as a hobby. In the professional sphere, render times can have a pretty direct relationship with cashflow, so having the ‘best’ can mean the hardware pays for itself several times over.

I’ve got clients who only play one game and find it runs great on their current setup, others who are always playing the latest games and want them to perform well, and still others who play a game professionally/competitively and need every frame they can get. Some are happy at 1080p, others prefer 4k, and some may want to drive a high-end VR headset.

For some people, taking advantage of a new GPU might also require a new PSU of even a total platform upgrade.

To one person, a few hundred dollars is disposable income whereas to another it might represent their ability to eat that month.

These are all variables that will influence what is appropriate for one person or another.

If someone were to have ~$600 to spend, be in need of an upgrade to meet the requirements of an upcoming game they want to play at launch, and have a platform that will support it, I’m likely to recommend an RTX5070 to them.

If someone were to be happy enough with their current performance, I’m likely to recommend they wait and see what AMD puts out - or potentially even longer.

Personally, I’ve always waited until a game I’m excited for performs poorly before upgrading.

You can always use the Windows 11 Upgrade assistant to force it

The OEM Steam Deck LCD screen is $65.

The OEM Steam Deck OLED Screen is $95, $145 for the version with the anti-glare etching.

$140 is totally reasonable for an aftermarket product like this.

It might not make sense for most to purchase and install as an upgrade on its own, but it’s the same workflow as a shell swap so the two upgrades can easily go hand in hand. For users with a broken screen, it also provides a repair option that is also an improvement.

Also, just want to point out that flashing a BIOS is a pretty trivial task, strikes me as a bit weird to list the mildest of inconveniences as a deterrent.

I don’t get the impression this is being presented to anyone as “a massive benefit over just buying an OLED model”, but it does cost ~$400 less and reduce waste.

Didn’t they use this in the LEGO LOTR game?

I don’t know that it is. BigscreenVR is not an Apple product, so your comment doesn’t feel particularly relevant.

They probably chose iPhones because they’re the most common device that has the capacity to get a 3D scan of someone’s face. They’re probably able to get semi-consistent results with this approach, whereas opening things up to the wide variety of IR devices in laptops and Android phones would increase the number of variables and make OP’s frustrating experience even more common.

I’ve never seen this be the case.

For the most part, the files still exist in the local filesystem unless one uses the “free up space” function to unload files to the cloud.

Where users have ended a subscription, they have become unable to add content to the cloud storage, which is to be expected. I’ve never been unable to download a file, it effectively goes into read-only mode.

I run a repair shop and work with consumers on a daily basis.

I’ve had dozens of occasions where a client is about to be spending hundreds on advanced data recovery service, but I had them check OneDrive.com only for them to discover everything they cared about is already there.

I’ve also had plenty of occasions where someone hands me their “backup” only for it to be a blank external drive that they plugged in and assumed would “just work”

I would argue that Microsoft’s strategy is actually highly effective for getting tech novices connected to a backup solution that doesn’t add anything new to the to-do list. Windows Users really have to consciously go against the grain to end up paying for advanced data recovery services.