Posts by spudmasterflex

‘We will continue to invest in mixed reality opportunities with first-party software solutions and services”

What a fucking joke, they have a short memory considering they have dropped support for all windows mixed reality devices in the latest windows update, including my reverb g2 WMR, which is now useless. I know it’s a different product to the holocrap but Microsoft sure has form for doing this far too many times.

April fools already....

I am luck enough to have a Gigabit leased line at home, but last week I received my Starlink Beta kit in the UK, the future looks very promising for this tech, I can consistently get 250/300Mbps down and 60up with 25-30ms latency. There is downtime as to be expected but for user who lives in the middle of nowhere this will be a game changer.

Green mining

I run 4x3090s to mine eth, each one gets around 110MH/s and draw 330 watts each plus 100 wats for the cpu etc. This generates around £55 a day profit and as I run mine all of PV and battery storage I’m not contributing to the crypto energy crisis, and the cards were essentially free which was nice.

lovely Linux games

I remember first dipping my toe in Linux 3D gaming with Tuxracer bundled with Suse Linux distro all those years ago. Then Loki games if I remember correctly released a Linux binary of Unreal Tournament and that was me sorted for years amongst many other games until they went bust :-(

Then came Return to Castle Wolfenstein amongst many other Unreal engine games, those were my halcyon days for Linux gaming.

“Nintendo’s sites outside Japan offer no evidence that the device will be offered to global customers.”

Do what, it’s been for sale in the UK at exactly the same time as Japan.

Smyths, Game and the Nintendo store all have them for sale since last Thursday in the UK

BT, I hope you’re reading this.

Happy April everybody

Tannoy....

Is a brand name like hoover, I would expect the Reg to get this correct ffs, public address is the term.

Boils my piss

You can guarantee the Twitter moaners are on a residential service but are using it for business, expect tier one SLA’s but on the cheap service.

Typical with this kind of event, somebody has no internet, lost three clients but magically happens to have “enough internet” to rant on twitter. Wankers.

Bollocks, my Android phone starts off where I left it playing in spotify and google music, Ive never seen it go back to the first track ever.

Loving the way the text subtlety changes from grey to black on the article, thought I was still drunk.

Plenty of sites down in the UK

Any UK site with Paypal integration is down, I have tried to purchase from Steam, Qnap license site and lastly Argos, all not working.

Additionally PlayStation network, Netflix and fleabay

I have the 512GB version in my desktop alongside 4x traditional samsung SATA SSD's of varying sizes.

Its boots so quickly from post to usable desktop ~6 seconds and opens any application in the blink of the eye, totally immense and the world away from traditional spinning rust.

I just wonder if a bottleneck exists, is it's elsewhere in the system now.

I can easily achieve a sustained 1500MBps + file transfers totally bonkers.

Bit late to the scene

During my course of business I have acquired 30 of the HTC Vive units which we ship to test/review and games conventions etc.

I was slightly dubious to this tech being I've been there and seen the 80s/90s effort plus the original oculus which made me sick.

However with the Vive I was blown away at just how good it is at tracking and giving you the sense of 3D dimensions and room scale movement. It's a need to try to realised kind of thing.

Yep it's early days, 60% the games/apps are like poor demos, but there are some real promising games, applications like the human body and solar system environments and has real potential for education.

Negatives It's expensive, needs a decent pc to work with, needs Windows :-( but I love mine.

Still a smaller gas bag than my wife.

Foiled again

Every cloud has a silver lining.

Sadness on another level

I remember watching this a kid on the TV when it exploded, just recently I caught a documentary of unseen footage, even now it fills me with horror watching it explode.

Too late

Could have had my money a long time ago, the stupid idea of invited and the long wait finally put me off.

I get the reasons above about production runs and limited credit, but the marketing they put in suggest otherwise.

Smashed the doors in made me spit my drink out.

That time again

Already booked in, fifth year in a row for, wife thinks its real work.

Oh Samsung

With my recent experiences of Samsung, my brand loyalty is over with them.

Having had several Samsung phones since switching from apple, from the first note series on to the s4,s5 and most recently note edge.

The glass broke through my own fault on my note edge, I called the repair centre and was greeted with a cost of £200 for the glass only plus labour charge depending on how long it took to fix, this is the walk In service in Wembley btw. I asked on lead time and was greeted with well however long it takes to get the parts in I guess, at which point I hung up and flogged it on eBay.

Along with the crap firmware rollout on most of their gear, I'm done.

I'm not an apple hater or a lover but at least the fixed cost they offer is reasonable at £70 all in for a screen repair.

I hope they have sorted the wifi issues out, I have the original unit bundled with Windows 8, and while good,the wifi suffers from horrific 3-4 Kbps transfer speeds when the Bluetooth is on and a snails pace 1-1.5 MBps when Bluetooth is disabled. Forums are plagued by people with the same issue. Does the same on Linux as on Windows with multiple wifi routers.

Using a usb Ethernet adapter makes the whole thing clunky for using with kodi.

Best thing I've read all week, cheered me right up

Shall I tell the wife that we might be able to afford that new car after all?

If anyone wants to watch it, feel free to come view on our 38m2 smd 1.5mm pitch LED video wall.

I currently use and supply the Phillips 65" capacitive multitouch units with 20 point touch for £2200 no lag or IR, bang on a decent spec PC with windows 8 for a £1000 job done.

Appreciate this is 80 odd inches but still.