Your privacy...the last vestiges of it, that is, will cease to exist on February 16, 2025. That's when Google will start (really? I bet it's been going on for decades) fingerprinting every device accessing the net. "Fingerprinting involves the collection of pieces of information about a device’s software or hardware, which, when combined, can uniquely identify a particular device and user." - Stephen Almond, I.C.O. Google maintains that it now has "...
Some people might recall 'back in the day' ...about 10 years ago .... Thermaltake joined forces with BMW Design and came out with the "Thermaltake Level 10" Limited Edition case. It weighed a ton and was a silly price considering it didn't even come with a PSU ... $1299 AUD. I ended up with No.221 of the world-wide 500. Today, I saw on Ebay another for sale second hand [obviously] for $800 AUD - just "up the road" in South Australia .... No.21. ....and it comes with a MoBo and ...
I really hope everyone has a fantastic new year... what are you wishes for 2025? Mine? That the entire planet is at peace and works together as one for the benefit of all mankind. It's a big dream I know, but we all have dreams...
So earlier this year I bought a new desktop. Came with Windows 11. I quickly found out that I don’t really care for Windows 11. So I installed Windows 10/ everything worked great. However I know Microsoft is ending support for Windows 10 next year and I don’t wish to pay for more patches from Microsoft or any third party. So I starting thinking outside the box. I don’t want to learn how to use Linux. No flavor of Linux has ever worked for me. Steep learning curve. So I bought m...
It's really amazing how easy Ara: History Untold is for modding. The first thing to know is that all the source data files can be found (if you're on Steam for instance) in a directory like: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Ara History Untold\assets\SourceMods So say you don't like one of the balance of say...Recipes. Let's go find that. Recipes0.zdata is where all the recipes are. Now I happen to be a bit unhappy that the Feast recipe is defaulting to using money inste...
I went ahead and sprung for the $200 a month for ChatGPT Pro as I do a lot of data analysis on very large and complicated data sets. The first thing I through at it was last month's full Perforce logs with diffs and and all so that I could get a nice friendly report of the various developers, how many CLs they did and an evaluation on the type of work they did and how much work they did. Here are my results: ChatGPT 4o. Basically useless. It didn't even get the...
Hey folks...I've seen many of you wallpaper artists (Az, Sed, tbc, JanOscar, relhom, naroon1, and others) mention (here and there) Midjourney, NightCafe, DALL-E, etc. I'd love for you to post an example of each engine you use and which engine you used to produce it. SimplexDesigns asked me who uses what, and I felt you should speak for yourselves and include what you like/dislike about them. So speak up...
For all my fellow Veterans out there, may your day be great!
MS just released an updated PC Manager widget (PCM) which isn't too shabby and which integrates with other widgets as well. Btw, Windows+W makes your widgets appear. PCM also has a small task bar which can remain on your desktop if you wish ( 2 in my screenie) The task bar has various apps on it like screenshot internet speed, notepad and you can add to it via the three dots, or make it disappear. You can get additional screenies here: https://pcmanager.microsoft.co...
I'm home from having my gallbladder out (laparoscopic surgery). To say I'm in pain understates my position. It's mostly the nerve pain in my (right) shoulder, I guess common with the gasses they use to expand the abdomen? Anyhow. I'm not sleeping well at all, or for long and am feeling more than little under the weather so if you guys want to share a pic, of your pets, of your workspace, of that which inspires you, I'd love to see it. This is Finnley. ♥ Lots of love.
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It's not causing damage, and Windows Updates always leaves a cache, but this time there's no way to delete the contents which is a good deal larger than normal. PCWorld hastens to reassure us that in and of itself, the large cache causes no problems, although with so many bugs, I don't know how they can make that claim, responsibly. Anyway, those who have updated will have to wait for MS to solve this problem. Until then, you're out 9 Gb (8.63 Gb for sticklers) of disk space.
A great singer/song writer, musician & actor has sadly left us. Rest in peace, Kris Kristofferson. He did so many ecellent performances in his life, so it's almost impossible to have favs, but I will always cherish his performance in Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. Love that movie so much - and of course all his excellent music.
So, on Friday morning 09/27/2024 everything was fine. Then about 10:00am Windows 11 updated and all hell happened. What it is doing is blocking things from running at all. Most programs will not load or run at all. I get one session of Edge once I close it nothing will run again not Edge, Explorer, or Start Panel will display. I have to do a hard reboot with the power button to get one session of Edge again. F. U. Microsoft. How they did this is in settings they cha...
The Prime of miss Jean Brodie was the first movie I saw her in. Downtown Abbey Harry Potter My Old Lady The Lady in the Van to name a few. Anyone have a favorite?