I can't get a new GOOD battery for my 2016 Sony tablet. Only counterfeit Chinese knockoffs/fake refurbs. You can get them for MAJOR products like iPhones or Samsung flagships, but not for smaller/niche products.

If you are going to do this, go ALL IN. Make all batteries standardized. This means if my phone's battery breaks down in 3 years, it's a standard type battery and I can go literally anywhere and buy a new one, like an AA cell or a CR2032 cell, etc.

In many countries, it's really easy to buy them over the counter with no prescription. I know people who will take them when the have the common cold or when they have flu-like symptoms. This must stop as soon as possible.

Confirmed everything works fine in Control. DLSS + raytracing and the frame rate is really good. So the issue seems to be in Doom Eternal and the latest experimental Proton.

Correction: DLSS seems to work fine, however I can't really tell. I have a 4K/60Hz monitor, and even without DLSS, the frame rate in Doom is always 60, so with DLSS enabled I can't really tell if it is doing anything. However, when I enabled Raytracing, the fps drops drastically, from 60 solid to 5-10fps, and DLSS doesn't seem to do anything there to help. Running Proton 6.21-GE-1 Maybe I need to try with other games.

It works for me but performance is horrible/unplayable with it enabled. Tried it with Doom Eternal on a 5950x and a 3080. Will wait until they gave worked out most of the bugs.

WiFi disabled (bluetooth only), GPS disabled (the watch picks up the location from the phone anyway). No additional apps installed, just a handful of watch faces. I recall that a previous update made it terrible, like less than 2 days of battery, then another update fixed it (and the update did say so) and it was back to normal.

Sounds like marketing talk. My Gear S3 currently lasts 3-3.5 days with typical usage, so that's "several days" already. It consumes between 25-30% of the battery per day, on average. I would not bother with upgrading if the 3-3.5 days figure didn't upgrade to 5-6 days.

Oh James Sharman, heed to our cries for help.

Vodafone here in Europe is also blocking TLS when sending emails through their broadband services. They do so only when port 25 is used; they don't in other cases. My theory is that they want to be able to scan the emails for viruses and/or spam, and block the connection/notify the customer to avoid unpleasant bill suprises. At least that's what my optimistic POV wants to see.

Yes, inside a military bunker. Writing a program to interconnect 4 different batteries of a antiaircraft battalion, through RL-431 antennas. Part of it was being written during an actual full-scale military exercise; re-writting parts of it as the exercise went on for 5 days.

I've been using nVidia cards on my Linux workstations for many years. Well, I recently found out the hard way that Xinerama is broken on any driver version after 319. Ouch. And has been for the last 9 months and with no response from nVdia. Double ouch. Thumbs down.

Disclaimer: I am a Greek citizen.

Feel free to take cameras with you and take pictures of the beautiful scenery, monuments and people. When however, you go outside military facilities that have big "NO PHOTOGRAPHY ALLOWED" signs (in english and actual no camera icons in case you don't know english) and start taking detailed photographs with your DSLR and 70-300 lens, expect to be arrested if caught. The devs should absolutely have requested a license to do it, they didn't care to do it or got caught in the bureaucracy that is to be expected with these affairs, they got arrested for breaking the law. If they were caught doing that in the US (say, outside Nellis AFB), I wonder what would have happened to them.

Would prefer one.

Both great games from Introversion. There is also Darwinia (which I didn't like so much), but the other two, highly recommended.