I had an idea once too.

Okay whatever.

I think there are good writers at Bethesda but their design process seems bureaucratic so whatever comes out the tail end will always be over-polished and devoid of life.

Musk and Bezos and all the people like him are the waste products of capitalism.

I used to dream of Bethesda getting the Star Trek license and making a game but now I don't.

After I saw the same base layout and generic pirates for the 500th time I quit playing.

I'm just glad I didn't pay full price. Maybe some DLC will help. I dunno, maybe I'm not the target audience.

I see it's time for Will Smith to go through the process and win a Forgivee.

I feel like I'll play Starfield a lot more once modders really dig into it.

I thought Skyrim was pretty bland when it launched too. Now I'm actually thinking about playing it again with all the mods that have come out.

To reach the Paris Agreement we would have to reduce emissions by half in less than 7 years. This itself would be a modern wonder (we're not on track). Then we would need to reach net zero sometime after that.

Without the Haber Bosch process, which uses fossil fuel to create synthetic fertilizers, we can't feed the world population. Half of the US would have to become organic farms to maintain output.

What we are on track for right now is below "worst case scenario" and above "Paris Agreement". At that level we will see significant, ongoing damage that everyone will be directly affected by - probably well within our lifetimes since it is already affecting us _right now_.

The correct response to this is governmental action on industry. What we're doing instead is piling everything on consumers and telling them its their fault - just like they did with all the paltry plastics recycling that turned out to just dump plastic on some 3rd world country and leave it there.

I guess we deserve our fate but our leaders have roundly failed us and the adults in the room in the 50s and 60s could have prevented this outcome if they had not embraced consumerism instead.

To discuss the future of AI we'd have to have an AI first.

Right now we have what is basically a next generation predictive text algorithm. It can make the shape of sentences but it has no idea what it's saying. It doesn't think.

A long time ago a researcher said that before we ever got a real AI we'd get something that would fool people into thinking we had one and stable diffusion is that charlatan.

Hard to say. I wouldn't call it great on the AMD side either.

I'm still on a 1080TI and will upgrade to whatever Starfield needs to play well (after real testing comes out).

I keep hearing rumors New Egg went downhill and is now sort of sketchy to order from.

I know they got bought out a long time ago and things changed but are they so bad they should just be skipped now?

OneDrive is a legitimate cloud backup service that a lot of people should actually use.

I see users lose data all the time. They never backup and they never will. OneDrive solves that.

For an extra $2 a month OneDrive will even do at rest encryption. If you are broke you can use Boxcryptor for free (to do at rest encryption) if you are a non-commercial entity.

https://www.boxcryptor.com/en/onedrive

IMO at rest encryption should have been there by default, but I still recommend users take advantage of OneDrive whether they bother to go the extra step or not.

I tell users not to use an MS account too, though some may prefer it - and that's okay.

I liked TRON but I can also see where a lot of people wouldn't get it or like it on their own.

Seems like a good feature for many, but not all. Here's how to turn it off.

How to turn it off

I set mine to only get updates from MS and my local network.

Everybody had drivers ready to go except creative Labs (of course - when do they ever update anything on time). The sound still works with the built-in drivers though so whatever.

I ran Edge once, saw that it had no adblock available and dumped it.

The new calculator app sucks.

So far no problems running anything. It took about an hour to set up the new start menu the way I wanted it. I unpinned all the crap they give you and then pinned all the thing I use in nice categories. This setup lets me have a clean desktop.

The new virtual desktops are nice. Flat interface is growing on me.

MS still has a dumb UI consistency in that they want the preferences setup menu to not just be part of the regular control panel.

I turned all the questionable privacy invading stuff off, including Cortana (which I'll never use). I think 99% of the stuff I turned off is for people who like tablets and/or have only ever used tablets. I guess there will be a lot of those people going forward.

Damn that stunt man got run over twice and still walked away.

If anyone has a blurry device manager in Windows 10 set your screen back to 100% instead of 125%.

There's a visual glitch that makes a few windows like device manager look weird if you use 125% scaling for your desktop.

The option is under "customize your display". Make sure it's 100 for now. I'm sure there'll be a fix later.

Other than that I haven't noticed any trouble with Windows 10 (and yeah it does try to make Edge the default if you do "express install").

I never do express install for anything. My mouse automatically migrates to custom.

MoreLuckThanSkill wrote on Jul 30, 2015, 20:09:

Silicon Avatar wrote on Jul 30, 2015, 19:39:
Bummer. I thought it'd be here sooner. That's cutting it kind of close to Fallout's release date.

I'm not complaining really. It's a free update for me.

Between the Director's Cut of Wasteland 2 and Fallout 4, I'm much more interested in W2DC. That game was great in spite of being a buggy mess on release day, it'll be amazing(hopefully!) with the added content and other patches.

I like the idea of quirks. I'm looking forward to that.

The story is something that's not totally grabbing me for some reason.

I still like the game though. I think I'm just mad that I encountered a bug and couldn't get a big quest to resolve right. I decided to wait for the biggest patch, which turned out to be the Director's Cut.

I'll start over when it comes out and give it another go.

Is there a way to ignore users? Down-vote? Something? If not, it would be a huge improvement.

Seriously, shut up, AMD. You can talk smack when you can back up your words with performance.