GreedFall

— Posted ingames, Gaming — 1 min read

GreedFall is a nice little game and that’s about it. It has some consistency problems, like in a mission when talking to a sailors by the port then also a woman in green dress is also a sailor and at some point sleeping pills are mentioned, that’s a no no, they didn’t have those back than. Nice graphics and lighting but running around like a madman is not my thing, it’s a running simulator. In the next game i would like to have a horse and sword by the belt with some pistols that would be nice, to make this a proper game. I have reached level 30 of user progression and started to finish the game, with side missions also. Gold edition was 10€ on Xbox store, i was expecting a little bit more but it can be played like a casual game, which is nice.

How to save money?

— Posted inideas — 1 min read

No need for expensive desktop anymore, better to split up to 4 parts. Like console, laptop, smart phone and smart TV. If graphics card can be up to 4 figures or more, than to the math. Console 500, laptop 500, phone 250 and 350 for smart 4k TV, well yeah it’s a budget for total 1600. It’s bargain that’s for sure. If you want tablet for Angry Birds and toilet purpose with some news articles, you can do that too, that’s another 130, nobody use Windows tablet for 500 it’s just nuts, better have a device that do one thing good, than 10 things bad.


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How not to use Bookmarks bar?

— Posted inBrowser, Software, Technology, Vivaldi — 1 min read

That’s a tricky question, some browsers use speed dial like Vivaldi and Opera. Others like Chrome and Firefox do not, at least not in a big way for bookmarks hoarders. Some extensions may solve this but they are usually crap. Bookmarks bar is a relic so it needs to be replaced with something more modern, like with bigger icons or even better with thumbnails of web pages. I also like having the same wallpaper for desktop and background of web browser home page and pretend that is transparent to desktop. Firefox don’t won’t to copy Vivaldi, that’s fine but still there is room to innovate.

What’s out there?

— Posted inPersonal, Privacy, Travel — 1 min read

I think that everything has been explored, in the old days you wonder what’s there at the end but now we know, about nothing. No Man’s Sky game has continuous development and travel all the time for exploration. We don’t need AI, well maybe an assistant and that’s about it. Maybe faster software development with AI, if can be done. I guess Skynet is the next level, that AI will get something to do. If the truth is out there, i’m not sure just more lies and deceptions. We must be aware of false gifts and broken promises, if a neighbour gives you salami with expired date than you know where you at.


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Past Cure

— Posted ingames, Gaming — 1 min read

This is not the worst game ever and the name is perfect for this game, so let’s just go with it. Well it’s obvious that the main character has some memory problems with bad presentation, like a unfinished demo. It’s Unreal Engine, but maybe they rather go with Unity for non-open world would be better in this case. Graphics is a bit blurry and not very sharp. No i haven’t finish the game but i did get it for 5€ new in box for Xbox. It’s a 4+ hour game and i respect every developer whatever it is. Some levels must be repeated if there is a bug in it, like missing papers on table in arena. I have sold 11 Xbox games to on-line store and this one also. The last level was End Game and i stop playing at circles puzzle, so that’s that and good luck if you try this one.

My ultimate browser

— Posted inBrowser, Technology, Vivaldi — 1 min read

Vivaldi is very close to that, you can have basically everything and setup everything. I want the quality of render like Firefox has it and the speed of Chrome but this days you can’t have both. Try a very long site with scrolling and then compare it with Firefox and Chrome. With my Lots of text HTML5 demo, Firefox actually uses GPU up to 30% to render better and faster, so looks like Chrome don’t use GPU for basic render of web sites but just for 3D elements i guess. Chrome GPU usage was 15% in this case.

Lubuntu on Vbox

— Posted inSoftware, Technology — 1 min read

This is the fastest Linux so i have install it on Virtual Box. I have selected 4 cores, 4GB RAM and 3D acceleration, so that’s fine to run this distro, fast as possible. There is not much to test on, well you can install your favorit browser and that’s about it. The rest of the apps are also available for Windows. With Wine you can install and run something from Windows that’s possible, i use Terminal for that. Sadly Wine still isn’t part of user interface, at least i don’t know how to use it without Terminal. I think that supremacy of Windows 11 just checked all the check boxes, including security.

From 66MHz to 4GHz

— Posted inSoftware, Technology — 1 min read

Back than there were clone CPUs or x86 compatible, like AMD 486 DX2 66MHz, that what we had in first family PC. System had 8MB of RAM, 1MB graphics card and 420MB hard drive. Later on there was multimedia upgrade with CD-ROM, sound card and Juster speakers. We had Philips 14″ inch monitor VGA 640×480, good for everything. Okay, fast forward to 2023, i was just wondering why we need this much power this days with quad core at 4GHz and in laptop that has AMD APU with plenty of power for editing whatever content might be and some light gaming on the side. Basically i’m talking about user interface, is all that power needed for that or is it just evolution of hardware. Yes, thanks for good speakers, display, quiet fan and fast file system. This days RAM minimum is 4GB just for web browsing, sure but a web browser this days can do almost everything. So my question is, are we getting anywhere or this is it?


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What is an ad blocker?

— Posted inBrowser, Vivaldi — 1 min read

Ad blocker will block ads on web site that you visit and maybe don’t want. Well, i’m not against ads but they should be put in background of web site or in head of web page, but not in content of web site and if they are than they should be part of the content of web site itself. In the old days they were Flash ads with Flash plug-in and that made things very slow. Vivaldi uses internal blocker, it’s good, i rarely see any ads anywhere. The rest of browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Edge is required an add-on, like uBlock Origin is good enough. I’m on the web like from the ’90 so i think i know what i’m talking about. Some sites will try to block the blocker, you can still disable ad blocker for specific site, it’s not that hard. Ads should be always part of the content that are relate of content itself, so that’s my point on that matter and of course we need good ads not spam that’s for sure.


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