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Steam, it seems, stays running even after you close a game (and the Steam window). There is a Steam icon in the system tray for example. It would appear that Steam running in this way is stopping my monitor from tuning off due to inactivity. If I manually exit Steam from the system try icon...

I hope this doesn't get deleted because I don't want to get into the details of whose fault this ATC foul-up was, but I am interested in a particular technical detail, and I would like to keep this thread focussed ONLY on this one technical detail please. There is one aspect that keeps being...

Well, after decades of thinking that gamers should get out more, I've become a gamer myself. I've just bought the F1 Manager 2023 game, which means I've had to learn the vagaries of Steam too. Is there a secret handshake I should know? How about a hat or tee-shirt I should get? A badge perhaps...

Samsung Gakxy S21 and above do use AI to detect a zoomed photo of the Moon, but they use this to enhance the picture being taken. They DO NOT substitute a stock photo of the Moon. Briefly, the camera lowers the brightness, captures multiple frames (to produce a bright, low-noise picture) and...

Living in Greece, but not bring fully proficient in the language, we use Google Translate a lot for reading online news and such. Sometimes the translations it comes up with are priceless. Greece is about to be hit by a heat dome, they're forecasting 40C plus for us for the next few days...

We're watching Royal Ascot (on TV naturally), and yes I am wearing a morning suit and top hat (which looks very much like a tee shirt and shorts with a straw hat), my wife is wearing something obscenely expensive from a well known designer (called Primark apparently). Anyway, we were discussing...

I took this whilst having a coffee by the lake (its a seawater lake). It's not a bad photo I think?

At the start of this Gala Bingo TV ad you hear someone say they're going to have mushy peas. But when they get in the chip shop nobody orders mushy peas. This is really bothering me, who is the mushy peas liar?

I have a Corsair K70, which has served me well for over a year. In the last few days one of the keys has become intermittently unresponsive. It's the full stop/period key so it's kind of important. If I hit it fairly hard it works every time, but if I use a normal touch it fails to input about...

I rather like this slightly atmospheric picture of my cat Trixie. Critical comments welcome...

The linked NYT article is worth a read. Bitcoin mining is unnecessary, expensive, and out of control. Thoughts? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/09/business/bitcoin-mining-electricity-pollution.html

I've just watched a cracking documentary about Gilles Villeneuve and Didier Pironi. For anyone else my age who remembers watching Formula 1 in the late 70's and 80's those two names will be very familiar - especially to Ferrari fans. This is a thoughful, sometimes painful, and honest...

They're renovating the large hotel opposite us, it's been stripped back to concrete columns and floors. The concreting contractor, who has been strengthening columns and adding floors, finishes up this week. I spotted this guy whilst on our (flat) roof yesterday and rather liked it. It's called...

An American visiting Ireland drops into a bar in Dublin. He's heard that the Irish are big drinkers. He announces to the crowded bar that he'll give $500 to anyone who can down 10 pints of Guinness, one after the other. Nobody comes forward. One guy even gets up and leaves. The American...

Einstein once found himself sitting next to a young man on a flight. Einstein said "how about a competition to pass the time?". "Ok", says the young man, "what do you have in mind?". Einstein says, "well, I'll ask you a question and if you can't answer you give me $5". "Then you can ask me a...

I'm living in a particularly dusty environment at the moment; they're renovating the large hotel opposite us. Consequently I've been cleaning my PC more often than usual - and usual is at least once a year. I'd not done it for a few months now and yesterday I noticed that the colour of my...

This is worth a read, it tells you a little about the man and contains some useful advice for anyone interviewing for a job (or conducting the interview for that matter).... https://greekreporter.com/2021/11/05/jeff-bezos-applicant/ I asked prospective candidates for a system support position...

Anyone else having a problem with this forum and Tapatalk? I've been getting the 'Network error try later' issue when trying to login to this forum. I've uninstalled and reinstalled the Tapatalk app and cleared the device cache but to no avail. There are no network issues at my end and I can...

A Turkish man drinking with friends got so drunk that he wandered away from his friends into a forest and was later reported missing. Whilst walking through the forest he came across a search team looking for a missing person. He of course immediately volunteered to join in the search. It was...