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Mirko Schnellbach @schnellbach.de · 11/09/2026

Whatever helps. Hoping that crossing my fingers and wishing you well does so, too! 🩹

Mirko Schnellbach @schnellbach.de · 07/09/2026

Yeah, Q episodes tend to have great humor, too. It’s great when they have fun with oh so somber and dignified Picard. ☺️

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Mirko Schnellbach @schnellbach.de · 07/09/2026

Do you have favorites? I will always remember crying tears of laughter watching “Data’s Day” with my nephew. At least thrice. ☺️

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Mirko Schnellbach @schnellbach.de · 05/09/2026

FWIW, Steam GUI is amazingly bad on MacOS, too, Proton not even needed. Maybe the latter is why I keep having issues on Steam Deck, though.

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Mirko Schnellbach @schnellbach.de · 27/08/2026

Only one of each, otherwise they might get suspicious. 😉 All the best to you, fingers are crossed.

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Mirko Schnellbach @schnellbach.de · 26/08/2026

Can I just add that those are some awesome boots? Because they are awesome. And I would like to add that. 👌

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Mirko Schnellbach @schnellbach.de · 21/08/2026

Yes. Same is true if you ARE a parent. Get things in order for your children. Also get things in order for your partner while at it. All the best to you.

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Mirko Schnellbach @schnellbach.de · 20/08/2026

There seems to be no problem with music, painting, sculpting, movies, theater, sports, cooking, literature, generally.

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Mirko Schnellbach @schnellbach.de · 01/08/2026

Hm. I've never had anything but a Japanese MD, and have never had a cause to mod it. I thought the region locking was purely physical with the notch on the cartridge (which was easily bypassed by using enough force on the power switch). I'm just using an Analog now, but what have I missed w/o mod?

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Mirko Schnellbach @schnellbach.de · 30/07/2026

Yup. I also remember a few Atari 2600 game manuals (Arcade style games of course) telling you to take a picture of the ending screen and send it in to receive a price. I guess they wouldn’t have done that, if they expected a majority of players finishing their game. ☺️

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Mirko Schnellbach @schnellbach.de · 26/07/2026

Lost a few as well and am leaving any remote MewTwo lobbies with less than 12 Mega at at least 20 seconds before start. It's just to risky otherwise.

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Mirko Schnellbach @schnellbach.de · 26/07/2026

I was wondering about that a lot. I guess there are people who are just daft, but there are probably more who just do not get to use a charged attack before their Mega is wiped out. If that is you, dear reader: Go to the lobby, heal and revive Mega, rejoin and try again. Please.

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Mirko Schnellbach @schnellbach.de · 25/07/2026

I don’t know anything about this particular monitor, but I have a great different LG ultrawide monitor (40u990a-w and no ads), and if that is a good deal to you, it’s probably still worth looking into despite the current shitstorm. Andcyou’re welcome ☺️

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Mirko Schnellbach @schnellbach.de · 25/07/2026

Well there is this windowsreport.com/microsoft-ge... And also a probably relevant Windows setting, see screenshot

Windows settings dialog with option to disable drivers to download companion apps

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Mirko Schnellbach @schnellbach.de · 19/07/2026

It’s simply amazing to have lived through the early home computer era, and still get to feel the magic today through all the layers of abstraction, which are artist miraculous in their own right. Computers can be so great. ☺️

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Mirko Schnellbach @schnellbach.de · 19/07/2026

Really?! That is indeed damn cool. ☺️

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Mirko Schnellbach @schnellbach.de · 19/07/2026

I actually enjoyed the proper fail state! I sometimes got confused by the static graphics. When characters enter or leave the scene but the change is not reflected visually. Or when a dog seems to stay angry when he is really distracted. I guess that would maybe be helpful for beginners, too?

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Mirko Schnellbach @schnellbach.de · 19/07/2026

I got 23 points in Wishbringer before falling off a cliff. Literally. ☺️ That was fun and you I can already tell that it's a charming and fairy tale like story. I enjoyed it a lot, even though it seems not quite finished yet, from a technical POV. I'll be sure to return when I have time again.

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Brianna Townsend @brianna.town · 19/07/2026

I'm running a playtest for the current development milestone of Chronicles! If you've been following the project and would like to help bang on it you can email me for a link or drop into the game's discord: chrongame.com

chrongame.com

Chronicles IV: Ebonheim

A classic dungeon-crawling CRPG with nuanced character building and brutal, turn-based tactical combat. Explore a fully non-procedural world that changes when you die. Progress on the backs of your pa...

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Mirko Schnellbach @schnellbach.de · 19/07/2026

Haha, that shouldn't be so hard, but I love the triple SQL / DQ / Infocom nerdcrossing of streams. ☺️ I will make sure to check your game project out! Going to use dbatools to migrate a cluster estate away from SQL 2016 soon, too. Thanks for that gem, too.

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Mirko Schnellbach @schnellbach.de · 19/07/2026

DQ Slime spotted, day made. ☺️

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Mirko Schnellbach @schnellbach.de · 18/07/2026

Wenn ich nie wieder etwas von ihm höre, ist’s trotzdem noch zu früh. Aber heute ist ein guter Tag.

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Mirko Schnellbach @schnellbach.de · 07/07/2026

Aspect ratio, mostly. Start button to the side on a 21:9 or just bad.

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Mirko Schnellbach @schnellbach.de · 01/07/2026

Do you know about www.codeweavers.com/crossover#mac ? Install Steam / Gog / whatever in there and go. I've been happily using it for the past two years, since I bought my first Mac, that is.

codeweavers.com

CrossOver runs the Windows software you need on Mac and Linux.

Don't buy a Windows license, don't reboot and don't use a Virtual Machine. Try a free trial of CrossOver to run your Windows software on Mac and Linux.

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Mirko Schnellbach @schnellbach.de · 01/07/2026

Because the Russians would like to attack us tomorrow, and factories unfortunately take years to get built and be operational. Otherwise: Absolutely.

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Mirko Schnellbach @schnellbach.de · 28/06/2026

CRT is quite good at some things, like color and contrast, and sucks at others, like energy consumption and weight. Especially vs. LCD. Having said that, many CRT look(ed) wildly different, so it’s not really clear cut and mainly a matter of personal preference. You are bang on on this. ☺️

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Mirko Schnellbach @schnellbach.de · 06/06/2026

Real time with pause is just the worst of both worlds to me. You neither enjoy a deep tactical experience nor an action filled spectacle, both experiences diminish each other. YMMV, but if there is an option, I always go turn-based.

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Mirko Schnellbach @schnellbach.de · 01/06/2026

She sounds amazing. And she is some kind of award winning Bridge player now? I missed the Magnetic Scrolls output back in the day (or it was drowned out by Infocom for me). Are the remasters (like strandgames.com/magnetic-scr...) any good?

strandgames.com

The Pawn

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Mark Simos @markasimos.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I keep hearing people are "Automating Tier 1 with AI" (or some other job) and I think words really matter here. ◾ Are you trying to replace a human person with AI? Assigning a human role to AI? ◾ Are you automating the tasks currently being done by people? a short 🧵

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Mirko Schnellbach @schnellbach.de · 29/05/2026

Just leaving a quick “you told me so”. 😉 It’s indeed great. 😁

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Mirko Schnellbach @schnellbach.de · 27/05/2026

That would have sold me the game, but I was decided since it was announced. Can’t wait to dive in.

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Mirko Schnellbach @schnellbach.de · 27/05/2026

Nothing wrong with that, in itself. There is danger listening to shouty internet men peddling fear, though. Always best to keep calm and check. Take care! ☺️

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Mirko Schnellbach @schnellbach.de · 27/05/2026

So, whatever you decide to do, it’s probably not urgent. 😉 I’m not sure it is even used for regular keyboards? Like you said, it sounds like the usual predictive text feature, like on phones, but I haven’t looked deeper.

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Mirko Schnellbach @schnellbach.de · 27/05/2026

There is an article about it from 2019, that says it’s a feature from 2018, and the descriptive text is the same. The only thing added is a “data is not sent to MS”. windows.tips.net/T007883_Typi...

windows.tips.net

Typing Insights (Tips.Net)

Gaining insights into how you type can improve your typing skills and allow you to see how you're doing. The Windows 10 October 2018 update provides a way to view your Typing Insights. (Tips.Net)

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Mirko Schnellbach @schnellbach.de · 26/05/2026

Yes, I think you are right as well. I guess what might have changed is the amount of people, the amount of “new” people that would need to be parented at any given time. It’s that most of us are consumers now, and just a few are creators and the annoying people flock to them.

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Mirko Schnellbach @schnellbach.de · 26/05/2026

And I DO get what you are saying and I wholeheartedly agree in any IRL context. In this space, I'd just like to keep reading my favourite people, that's all. ☺️

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Mirko Schnellbach @schnellbach.de · 26/05/2026

It was in the olden days (think USENET), too. It's a problem of scale, and it is the problem of creators and influencers (no ofense meant) like Sasha. They will have to deal with and have the energy for stuff like this every day. Until they are fed up and quit. I'd rather they'd block liberally.

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Mirko Schnellbach @schnellbach.de · 25/05/2026

Can I ask why you combined ublock origin and ghostery (I've never heard of it before, it looks great and I'm curious), instead of UO and EFF's Privacy Badger? I use the latter combination because there is almost no functional overlap and the EFF seems pretty trustworthy to me.

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Mirko Schnellbach @schnellbach.de · 25/05/2026

Sure. Blocking is part of that, too, it signals the blocked person that they did something unacceptable. For them this is one transaction, and if they are serious and well meaning, they will get the point without much explanation. If they are new, they just try again with another account.

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Mirko Schnellbach @schnellbach.de · 25/05/2026

Don't let them do this to you. Just block. You either waste your time explaining what would be the proper way to ask, or you feel bad for answering anyway. It's funny because in real life, where people pay to ask my opinion, so I arguably would even owe them, this never happens to me.

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Mirko Schnellbach @schnellbach.de · 24/05/2026

Yes. It’s also not just general learning, it’s learning about your computer, its OS, stuff you will not have to know or care about with MacOS or Windows for example. Stuff that is otherwise just not relevant or interesting to most. They want to drive, not become mechanics, so to speak.

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Mirko Schnellbach @schnellbach.de · 23/05/2026

There are other options. It’s not just Windows and Linux out there. Linux is not a single thing either, but many, many, many moving parts that sometimes get combined in distributions that might share a vision but are wildly different. Like the countries of EU, knowing one is not knowing all.

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Mirko Schnellbach @schnellbach.de · 16/05/2026

And then there will be the FPGA clones. And to be honest that is great, as the DS form factor makes it cumbersome to emulate.

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Mirko Schnellbach @schnellbach.de · 14/05/2026

A tool to migrate SCCM apps to Intune. It will soon allow repacking winget and custom apps via recipe files describing customizations. Basically what you could buy from PatchMyPC and the like, but our own, running either on prem or in Azure Automation.

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Mirko Schnellbach @schnellbach.de · 13/05/2026

Sure. Personally I have no desire to use installer GUIs. PowerShell, SSH, is where I find value and productivity. A TUI I could see myself using on a remote system, to install / update something adhoc.

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