If they knowingly sell to EU customers, then EU law applies. 2 year warranty, and burden of proof on the seller for defects, not the buyer.

My kids play fortnite and I sometimes join them. Was watching some tournament on a stream and the “meta” at a high level of this game is just completely bonkers.

It’s solved, they just refuse to enable it

They don’t test all the windows varieties either. 10, 11, 23h2, 25h2, home, pro, N, …

I use an RCA switch. 4 input and 1 output. Also easier to change an input on this box than on the TV.

Has a very satisfying tactile click to the buttons.

I wanted an hdmi switch with the same dimensions, so it would stack nicely, but feels like chasing a unicorn.

If you want I can take a picture of the thing, but there’s plenty out there. Rectangular, 4 round buttons on the front.

Me grinding 2003 games 👋

On Linux there is “onedriver”, a 3rd party onedrive client. Works great, but iirc not with sharepoint shares linked in your onedrive folder.

https://github.com/jstaf/onedriver

Could be, my kids have identical pc’s, but the disks are different. One has a slower ssd and its symptoms are exactly how you described, I knew it was slower but it’s all I had around. Both pc’s have SATA ssds. We’re saving for new disks, which I’m sure will alleviate the symptoms.

At work a similar problem with Windows server. The hosting company changed the IO tier and like snow these issues disappeared. Clicking start and waiting for it to open would take a minute, completely unacceptable, but ultimately fixed by having faster storage.

I’m not saying Microsoft is doing good work, I’m suggesting a workaround until they do, which we both know is very probably never.

They already pushed out older hardware with Windows 11, they won’t care about slower storage options.

I have that problem on my son’s pc. It’s definitely an io issue. A faster disk would solve the problem.

Of course he’s cool with AI taking his job, he’s got a golden parachute for early retirement

Nobody sees it that way, nobody notices what we notice. They don’t know any alternatives, it has new features so it’s innovating, it does what they want/need. I hear no complaints, only from tech people who are invested in privacy and digital sovereignty. That’s the reality.

They stopped?

I didn’t know those existed. I read they just stay at 1.5 until they run out. Now I’m not sure what mine are, if they exhibit this behavior 🤔

I’ve been running Linux for many years now and for those games that need it I reboot to Windows. It doesn’t happen a lot. So many games just work on Linux, I just play those.

“Linux and Mac are toxic this year”

Wat. Toxic how? Why this year?

They went straight from Left 2 Dead to Left 4 Dead

Do you happen to remember any of the brands/types?

You can find YouTube videos of people doing this for the GG TV Tuner. Usually involves a VCR iirc.

The biggest culprit is probably the CCFL tube backlight.

Fwiw, should you need it, there are AA lithium batteries with a usbc slot for charging and they deliver 1.5v. I bought a pack out of curiosity and was very pleasantly surprised.