Yes, I know - first-world problems and all that - but keen to avoid wasting a fiver only to get to Waitrose and find out they've no fresh meat, dairy, etc. like this Saturday. Anyone know if they've fixed their fridges and and freezers and have restocked now?
Impressed that this year for once the co-op in Odd Down did slightly better than the posh shop :-)
I've a FW16 Ryzen AI 300 laptop whose high-power power adaptor blew a couple of weeks ago - since waiting for a replacement I've been running it from an lower power Dell XPS supply instead. This was enough to charge it doing light desktop work, not enough tgo keep it charged playing some games. That was fine though.
This yesterday when I tried starting a demanding game while tghe battery was at about 30%. The game crashed, I rebooted and my laptop appeared to have turned into a 486 - absolutely everything took about 5-10 times longer to do than previously.
I'm suspecting it's a firmware issue since updating the firmware (after reading this note:
"Fixed an issue that unexpected 35W CPU power limit when AMD dGPU is in BOCO mode") fixed the issue. However reading the forums it appears this is still a recurring issue for some.
I generally use my laptop as a desktop replacement and don't usually put it into hibernation or sleep modes - this perhaps explains why I've not seen this before.. Thinking the combination of running a somewhat depleted baterry with an underpowered temporary charger and starting a demanding games caused whatever condition triggers this. New charger from Framework has arrived - but I can't afford to have it do this again as I work from this machine.
Is there a known workround for this issue other than updating the firmware (which I've now done) if it occurs again?
I've genuinely enjoyed my time (about 3 years) with the Aerox 3 - but the flakiness of the mouse wheel is driving me insane. I seems to send the inverse of whichever way I'm rolling it about 30% of the time. It got so bad I nearly threw it across the room the other day. Occasionally banging on the table seems to help, as does scrolling backwards seems to fix it scrolling forwards momentarially. Anyone got a fix? Can I replace the sensors/wheel assembly? Or should I just buy a new mouse.
My fw16 (six months old, no external gpu) yesterday just stopped charging from its adaptor for no obvious reason. Eventually discovered the 5 amp fuse on the mains plug (I'm in the UK, our mains plugs have fuses in them) of the adaptor had blown. Put a new one in - it blew as soon as it was connected to the mains. Clearly the adaptor has gone bad in some way, and I'm not going to waste any more money on fuses -or- connect it again to my laptop, which I'm currently keeping going on a 120W dell PSU.
I've raised a support call with FW yesterday, and got an auto-generated acknowledgement email with a case number via an email back - but nothing else. Is this normal?
Is there a portal in which the case number can be used or checked for status? Or do I just wait for an email from a human at FW?
Cheers.
Wish we could also have hopper ticketing like London has too...
Had a breakfast there their morning - which was fine - food-wise. What wasn't fine was the pot of tea.
WTF? How can anyone running a cafe manage to completely ruin a pot of tea this badly is somewhat beyond me. Never been served anything like it in my life before. I can only imagine it was someone who never actually drinks tea and has no idea how to make tea using loose leaf tea and not teabags. It's a real shame as it appeared to be really good quality loose leaf tea - that is to say, not very finely chopped - but big pieces of tea leaves which would have needed at least a couple of mins to infuse properly. As such, you'd probably want maybe three teaspoons in a pot designed for maybe two cups.
Instead they used over a dozen*. In the few seconds between being brewed and being brought to my table it was already over-strong. By the time I'd finished the first cup, the tea left for the second cup was utterly ruined - completely stewed and totally undrinkable.
I can understand that relatively few people use loose-leaf tea and teapots these days, but if you're serving it in a cafe, you've got to know the basics... Perhaps they thought loose leaf tea should be more or less 'instant' like tea-bags are - so they added a lead more to try and make it brew faster. Doesn't work that way. Just really glad I didn't try the esspresso.
Glad to say, they took it off the bill without a fuss, but still astonished.
* It was so bad, when I stirred the dregs and realised quite how much tea was in the pot, I decided to spoon it out to see - got over 12 teaspoons of wet tea leaves out of a two cup pot. Insane.
Was looking for a specific cooking gadget. Not anything high end, or complicated - just something cheap and simple and the sort of thing you can pick up from the market - but today was a Sunday. Lakeland didn't have what I wanted, so I thought about Rossiters, but it appears they're not open on Sunday or even Monday's anymore - that can't be a good sign.
So, though I doubted they'd have it, I thought I'd pop in to ProCook since I've not been in there in a few years. Oh dear. What a shadow of what this place was even a few years ago, let alone when it was 'Kitchens' - back then you could buy practically everything you could possibly need for a kitchen from the cheapest oddments such as salt and pepper pots right up the expensive stuff like Le Creuset and Kitchen Aid mixers. Now the downstairs appears to have closed, and they don't seem to sell anything for baking - it just looks like expensive knives and saucepans... I'm not normally one for wallowing in nostalgia - but Kitchens was one of the best shops in Bath back in the day. What a shame.
The various food establishments around the harbour-side are an absolute gem. I've loved Maraki for ages - and am hugely happy they have an outlet in a more trad. venue in Bath now - but last night I tried Box-E and was blown away. I don't think I've had such good food at that price-point before. It's basically medium-high end and low-medium prices. Plus superb service, free sparkling water and bread and - amazingly - no automatic service charge (so I left a decent tip). Absolutely definitely visiting again. Probably next week. Superb.
.. and it raises the exactly same question as watching play-throughs of Subnautica (1) - why does no-one ever make the air-bladder? I mean, never - I always found it massively useful till you unlock the seamoth or tadpole. But everyone I've watched play it completely ignores it...
Currently watching horizontal rain and recycling bins fly past my kitchen window. Wasn't expecting this!.
Thanks for deciding to close on Sunday's starting, err, today and not bothering to update your website. What's even the point of having a website if you only tell people on Facebook and Instagram your hours are changing.
Hello Bristol. Recently my go-to stop for a (relatively) early breakfast near my work has changed it's opening hours from 0800 to 0830 which means I don't really have time to get a decent and relaxing breakfast in when I have to commute to the office.
Anyone got any recommendations for a decent sit-down breakfast stop somewhere on the way between Temple Meads and Park Street that is open at ~0730-0800 on Wednesdays? I visited Santiago's last week and while it was good value and a nice cafe, I'm wondering what other options are out there. Especially if they do a decent eggs benedict. Thanks!
Anyone been? It's not been open that long, yet is no.1 on Tripadvisor and stunning reviews. Reviews so good, I'd be suspicious of them, yet they don't read like fake ones to me. Their sister restaurant in Bury is similarly well reviews - any one here actually tried it?
I've not been to the Bristolian Cafe in Stokes Croft since it caught fire and was closed for a while.
I'm glad to see that it appears to be as good as I remember it. I'm not at all veggie, but the great stuff they do with the mushrooms and spinach made me order the veggie breakfast this morning and it was superb.
The only minor criticism was that the it was such a large portion (justifiably so, it cost £15), I left nearly half of it uneaten as it was just too much and I couldn't spend too long in there. Maybe I'll get an benny of some sort next time. But still one of the best breakfast's in Bristol since Rosemarino's 'One Pan' breakfast disappeared.
Hey - I'm trying to work out why this short 30s loop of music from the cracked intro to a copy of Thing on a Spring is so familiar (and, no, I'm not talking about Hubbard's iconic music from the game itself, but the music added to the loader by 'Jack Alien' I presume).
It sounds so familiar so am convinced it must have come from a game or similar. I thought for a while it was a snippet from the intro to the game 'Dan Dare' - but while it has some similarities, it's not. Can anyone place it? Thanks!