Recent content by Chewy509

Amusing, but for classic 90's comedy, search for "The comedy company" on YT. Here is a sample: Characters such as Con the Fruiter, Uncle Arthur and Colin Carpenter were all classics at the time. However some of it is quite racist and sexist, but that was largely a reflection of Australia at...

Fun fact, on Windows 11 Home, if you disable location services in settings (during the initial setup), you cannot manually set the timezone of the system via the Settings UI. (It's greyed out). Setting the timezone is now tied to enablement of location services. There are two workarounds: User...

As a side note, it appears that MS servers are struggling due to so many users cancelling the service: https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/xbox-game-pass-users-are-canceling-subscriptions-so-fast-that-microsofts-website-is-struggling-to-keep-up-and-i-dont-blame-them

On a more positive note, Project 2025 is nearing 50% completion... https://www.project2025.observer/en (The word 'positive' is used with a bigly amount of sarcasm).

IIRC, The colour grading in the Matrix series was intentional, with scenes inside the matrix being green tinted, and those based outside (in real life) were meant to have a different tint. This was done to hint to the viewer which environment they were in. IIRC, this was discussed in either...

Thanks, sorry forgot to mention it’s mostly for gaming until next year when he is off to university, then it’ll be gaming, some more gaming and then maybe some word, excel stuff for his studies. Was looking at the Crucial T500, as its only a few dollars more than the Crucial P3 plus and Crucial...

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Hi all, Just wondering what the current recommendations are for 1-2TB nvme ssds are these days. Need to replace the boot drive in my sons system due the current one starting to exhibit IO errors. Currently has a Kingston KC2500 1TB which has been fine until a month ago, where the recoverable...

It's not that they're brainwashed, but the USMCJ (US military code of justice) is rather problematic in its procedures/ruling around illegal orders. Soldiers are also generally trained to assume that any order they are given is lawful and must be followed. In most other NATO/Western countries...

Some mini-its stuff from Computex 2025

Yeah, I agree, the fish bowl design is uninspired. At least we still have companies like Chenbro making modernised 20 year old designs... https://www.chenbro.com/en-global/products/PC_Chassis/Micro_ATX_Tower/PC314...

What's wrong with the Silverstone FLP02? https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/05/return-of-the-turbo-button-silverstone-is-making-another-80s-style-beige-pc-case/

Yep, absolutely brilliant story telling.

Just finished Bioshock and Bioshock 2 remastered editions (got them on 90% off sale when 2K games had a sale on Steam a few months ago). Never played them when they came out, so was in for a new experience. Throughly enjoyed both.