Pro14 lots of firmware updates
▲ 68 r/Dell

Pro14 lots of firmware updates

First time dell in a long time.
It works fine.
But almost every week there seems to be a required firmware update.
Is this thing that half baked? I only use typical office apps so I rarely if ever stress it

u/fractal324 — 3 days ago

can someone tell me what this game was(pretty sure NOT famicom wars)

I can never seem to find images of it so here's my text explanation.

NES game released in JPN(not sure of ROW), sometime in the mid to late 80s.
top down grid and turn based war, similar to famicom wars.
blue vs red, similar to famicom wars. I think your characters default to blue, enemy red.

you are all generic robots, similar to super robot wars, but none are characters from any TV series.

at some time during the progression tree, your commander unit gets the ability of flight and a gatling gun, becoming completely OP and ruining the game balance

I'm sure if I actually find the title it's one of those memories better left in the past, but would love to give it another playthrough.

Thanks in advance!

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u/fractal324 — 4 days ago

can someone tell me what this game was(pretty sure NOT famicom wars)

I can never seem to find images of it so here's my text explanation.

NES game released in JPN(not sure of ROW), sometime in the mid to late 80s.
top down grid and turn based war, similar to famicom wars.
blue vs red, similar to famicom wars. I think your characters default to blue, enemy red.

you are all generic robots, similar to super robot wars, but none are characters from any TV series.

at some time during the progression tree, your commander unit gets the ability of flight and a gatling gun, becoming completely OP and ruining the game balance

I'm sure if I actually find the title it's one of those memories better left in the past, but would love to give it another playthrough.

Thanks in advance!

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u/fractal324 — 4 days ago
▲ 10 r/Soda

Foamy cola

One of the first ingredients is hops. Tastes more like a non alcoholic pilsner with sweetener.
I guess it’s for teetotalers who want to hang out with drinkers and not feel left out?

u/fractal324 — 24 days ago
▲ 7 r/Soda

Alien energy

Wow this is bad. Reminds me of some bitter medicine that is being barely masked by sugar.
What makes this “alien” is a gnarly looking eel called warasubo. It contains its extracts(usually viscera and discarded stuff). Not fishy, but lingering bitterness

u/fractal324 — 1 month ago
▲ 84 r/tea

Is masala tea supposed to be so “muddy”?

Bought this at an international market. It’s just loose powder. Poured some hot water and there was a silt of spices on the bottom, and some floating throughout. Decided to strain it and it clogs up the mesh in seconds.

Are you supposed to strain it, or leave it in and don’t go near the bottom of the cup?

Tastes extremely peppery without milk and sugar, but in a good way

u/fractal324 — 2 months ago
▲ 9 r/Soda

Fanta Mello Yello ambasa

So they fail to mention what fruit Fanta it is but it’s probably citrus. Fragrance similar to those fruity Sanrio character erasers.
Ambasa is Coca-Cola’s answer to calpis, Mello Yello is their response to mtn dew.
But combined this isn’t some voltron or wondertwin powers, nope this doesn’t work.

Something tells me they looked at what was left in the tanks of all three and decided there wasn’t enough for a full shipment. Kind of like mezzo(50/50 coke and fanta orange)

u/fractal324 — 2 months ago
▲ 1 r/ssd

Getting data off “bios encrypted” ssd?

So my company’s former IT head had all PCs require a bios password. There is a master password? And an end user password. And in their infinite wisdom, no one in the current IT department knows the master password.

My PC recently went kaput. The other day I got a very DOS looking error screen stating my hard drive has an issue, it force quit windows, then from that point on it only does loops of “trying to repair”, “couldn’t repair”, reboot.

IT is willing to give me a new device. But I want to get the data off the ssd.

I pulled the drive out, put it in an external usb ssd case. Standard windows operation doesn’t recognize or mount the drive in file explorer. When going through disk mgmt.msc, it recognizes the drive but says I need to initialize it to recognize, which sound like I need to wipe it.

Help appreciated, or am I SOL?

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u/fractal324 — 2 months ago

Is this popular

A client brought this to the office as a gift.
Smells like fresh tilled soil.

Tastes mildly sweet, but medicinal. Not quite anise black licorice bad, but I can’t see kids clamoring for it.

Looks a lot like the protein bars in the movie snow piercer…

u/fractal324 — 2 months ago

PTMers, what did you do with the barrier foam?

I’m watching a YT of some guy replacing his LM with PTM, but after cleaning, he kept the LM soaked foam pad on the heat sink side on.

Did you leave it on or remove the foam barrier from the heat sink?

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u/fractal324 — 2 months ago

So so performance. Is that the spec?

On my pc it’s smooth. Shot over to my iPad mini6, it’s laggy which I understand, but it’s choppy. Is that what it’s like by spec or is it the limit of my wifi6e connection? So close to amazing

u/fractal324 — 3 months ago

Or is this some mutation?

I have zoysia. Very thin blade zoysia. This, and a handful of others is roughly double the typical blade width.

u/fractal324 — 4 months ago
▲ 60 r/newsokunomoral+1 crossposts

It’s like they were planning a batch of Pepsi cherry when the egg realized they didn’t have enough flavoring in stock. Faint cherry taste with strong vanilla like aftertaste. Not bad at all

u/Thinking_in_Circles — 4 months ago