![]() Another option is using a third party utility that can try to help identify the bloat and junk and remove it for you, cutting down on the manual work. ![]() If reinstalling Windows isn’t an option, you can manually go through the operating system and remove the software if you know what is not needed and safe to uninstall. It’s not unusual for a new computer to have 20 or 30 unnecessary items installed which all really need to be removed so you can get the computer performing like a new computer should.Īdvanced users might perform a clean install of Windows which wipes all the bloat and junk away, but not everyone is willing or experienced enough to do that. Some of this stuff is even classed as malicious as the recent cases involving Lenovo and Superfish show.Īll these things added to your brand new Windows install wouldn’t be quite so bad if they didn’t affect its performance quite so much causing the computer to boot slowly and be sluggish out of the box. ![]() Major names like Dell, HP, Asus and Lenovo all do the same and while some things they add are innocuous like a desktop shortcut to a shopping site, others are more serious like installed trials for security software, browser toolbars or OEM provided support utilities. One of the most infuriating things when you buy a new PC or laptop is the sheer amount of useless software and unnecessary extras which are installed by the manufacturer.
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If you’d like more tips for working with VS Code, check out my FREE VS Code Cheat Sheet.Use Find my Font to identify the fonts in any digital image in seconds! Take a photo or load a gallery image and let the app find any free or commercial fonts in the picture. I’m curious what your favorite VS Code font is? Let me know in this tweet ![]() Hope your VS Code is looking a lot more fun now. I figured I’d give you two additional font options if you’re interested.įira Code is another great FREE font that also supports font ligatures.ĭank Mono is a PAID font (about $40 USD I think), and is one of the coolest fonts I’ve ever seen. Note that I think these a really neat, but keep in mind that you’ll be sacrificing a bit of readability by using them since many people aren’t used to seeing them. ![]() Then, assign that property in JSON to true. In your settings, search for “Font Ligatures”, and click “Edit in settings.json”. One of my favorite features of this font is the ability to use Font Ligatures which create custom characters for things like triple equals, arrows, etc. ![]() Interested in learning more about VS Code, check out my FREE VS Code Cheatsheet. You may have to close a code file and open it back up. Now, if you look at your code, it should look much better! Note that you may see a bit of a delay here. Then, search for “Font Family” and type in “Cascadia Code”. Open your VS Code settings by clicking the gear icon in the lower left corner. Now that you have the font installed, you need to configure VS Code to use it. Here’s a link for more details, How to Download and Install Cascadia Code Font for Windows. On Windows, I believe you can right-click on the font files and choose “Install”. On a Mac, you can double click each one of these files, and choose install. Then look for the different font files inside of the ttf folder. 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I went to Northland College in Ashland, Wisconsin, where I graduated with a Naturalist Degree while I discovered new fishing opportunities for pike, muskellunge, walleyes and various salmonids found in Lake Superior and its tributaries.įrom there I headed west to work a few years in the Yellowstone region to simply work as much as most people fish and fish as much as most people work. I started fly fishing at age 7 in the lakes and ponds of New England cutting my teeth on various sunfish, bass, crappie and stocked trout. We absolutely need to get up this big hill and canyon before the rains start. After yet another delicious Granny dinner, we’ll hit the sack early so we can get on the road early. Bad weather has been the theme since we left WI. The weather is forecasted to deteriorate fast overnight. My first fishing day of the year was without doubt, my best day of 2023 so far. Granny and I enjoyed the rest of our 57° day with more small hikes, a big lunch, sunbathing, reading, napping and even a workout. No doubt the 2023 schedule has worn me out. Honestly, the river was very high and murky. After releasing this one I continued on and caught three more. After one fly losing mishap, I got my groove on and hooked and landed a hot jumping rainbow. I rigged my Alpha + with two nymphs and went to work. I was hoping for a 5-weight but it appears I brought two 6-weights instead. I wasn’t sure what rods I hurriedly packed during our five-day early February visit home in WI. Despite the fact that it was roaring and off color, I had to give it a try. That glimpse of the river was all it took. I knew it was in shambles because today would be my first fishing day of they year. I didn’t rush to break out my fishing stuff. I French pressed the coffee and when its rich aroma lingered Granny climbed from her cold bed. ![]() This morning was brisk but the sky was a rich turquoise blue and I knew the sun would warm us fast. Granny made one of her amazing camp dinners and we sipped a top shelf bottle of red wine our friends Jason and Jo Randall gave us a few weeks ago at the Denver Show. I’m telling you this private location is remarkable. The road was longer than expected so when we found the first beautiful overlook of river and canyon, we took it. Granny was nervous about the offroad drive, I just went for it. It was steep decent for the Ruby Van into a canyon on a rutted gravel road. This trip, I promised Granny that I would slow it down and smell the roses after the final Fly Fishing Show. He’d offered this last year too but with my overfilled speaking schedule I had no time to stop. We were invited by a good friend to camp and fish his private property. ![]() Granny and I got sidetracked on our drive for Oregon yesterday. ![]() Jeff Currier Global Fly Fishing ☰ Navigation If Seagate suddenly changes their RMA procedures, then I would worry. With as many drives as Seagate sells, there is no easy/feasible way for them to check every drive upon receipt, and approve/deny the warranty according to power on hours. ![]() If we were talking about a drive manufacturer that sells 1000 drives a month, and get's 10 RMA's a month, then I would worry about this. My somewhat abused Seagate Exos 16TB is at: 12674 power on hours 29631 load cycle count 68 power cycle count 156 start/stop count So at 18 months old, my Exos 16TB is at 5 of its load cycle life, and 0.3 of its start/stop cycle life. I'm sure I could read the fine print on my things I buy on a daily basis that would make me ponder this. The Start/stop cycle count is recorded as 50,000 lifetime, but your drives are likely well under that. Heck I'm spending the first 100 hours (4.2%) of the drive's life just running a 2-cycle preclear. I agree, I had bought the first drive on the basis of their "Best-fit applications" list and that it had a 2 year warranty, it was when I was considering buying a second that I looked further (I wanted to check the power requirements) and saw the odd 2400 hour issue and this has made me stop to consider what to do. I would generally prefer to buy drives and other parts where I know for sure what I am getting. Yes, there's a two year warranty, but the fact is that they specify a two year warranty constrained by a ridiculously low power on hours figure, bearing in mind that they also promote (in the first document quoted) the drives as suitable for home servers and NAS devices, which are typically powered 24/7. The point is that I, and probably others, would worry about it. The Raw value shows the actual powered-on time, usually in. The normalized value decreases over time, typically from 100 to 0. 9: Power-On Hours Count: Estimated remaining lifetime, based on the time a device was powered on. The Power Settings window confirms that the power setting for your drive has been changed. Click Save to save the Drive Sleep Interval setting. Select an interval from the dropdown menu (e.g. Some of the Power On hours were very high, in the 20,000-28,000 hour area and not once did they balk at this. Seek Time Performance: Characterizes performance of mechanical seeks of a disk head. Click Drive Settings in the Drives panel. ![]() Operating at higher temperatures will reduce useful life of the product. Seagate does not recommend operating at sustained case temperatures above 60☌. 97 12 - Drive Power Cycle Count Attribute Type(s): Online Data Collection. specification, which may increase acoustic and power to operational levels. Seagate and Western Digital, as the world leaders in HDD manufacturing, b. Can you share where you purchased these drives so Seagate can continue to. For each of these I requested an RMA, and received a replacement drive. The power cycle count is the number of times the thing has been turned off. Of these drives 6 of them in total had high re-allocated sectors near or above 100. In the last 6 months I had 6 1.5TB Seagate 7200 RPM drives, and a couple 2 TB Seagate drives which were nearing their warranty expiration. To me, all this is moot, the drive has a 2 year warranty. You can use a Surface stylus while in tablet mode. 7 Best Apps for Photo Editing on a Tablet. Switching your laptop to tablet mode doesn't switch the software that your tablet is running. The 14-inch IPS touchscreen display is large enough to make editing easy, and the Lenovo Active Pen is included so no extra cost there. 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The workload of the production designer lessens as the shooting wraps up, and they often begin pre-production work on their next project then. They will communicate with the art director to ensure the day-to-day logistics such as monitoring shots, set construction and dressing run smoothly. They’re typically on location to work out any problems, but part of their thorough pre-production work is to prevent any of these issues. The job of the production designer during principal photography and general production is to oversee the art department. The art department is often the largest department of a film production, as it comprises many production jobs and crew members around visual elements and visual effects:Īrt department management: The production designer will then hire the art department film crew, often making use of industry connections to secure talent and professionals in line with the director’s vision to achieve the desired overall look. 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In collaboration with the other visual departments, such as costume design, lighting, visual effects and special effects, and graphic design, they define the visual storytelling.įor Hollywood feature films, for example, a production designer’s work spans the phases of pre-production, principal photography, and post-production. 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Binoculars play an essential role in making the traveling and exploring experience easier. ![]() Binoculars are daily essential essentials for people who love tracking, traveling, and love gazing surreal beauty of nature be it wildlife or serene natural landscape. ![]() While a lot of mods are created and are still being created for this masterpiece, we decided that these 14 best mods for Rimworld will help you the most when you are just starting to mod. Unlike some of the more simplistic aesthetic mods, this one adds a new dimension to the game and is great if you’re getting bored with the vanilla game. The modder has put in a lot of thought and detail to this heavy mod: the parents can take birth control, and have artificial pregnancy through medical operation (ideal for single parents or even two female parents or two male ones) There are also schools where your adult characters can teach, provided they have the necessary experience and skills. This mod allows that to happen quite easily, children are born resembling their parents, at the ripe old age of 15. If you want to take your society to the next level, a good way to do it is make your colonists have children. We’ve come a long way from those three survivors on the shipwreck. Now if only this mod worked on people in real life too. Gray is a neutral mood, while light blue is content and green signify happiness. Red signifies an extreme mental break threshold, orange a major mental break, yellow a minor mental break. This mod does exactly that, color coding their emotional state to make it easier for you. At the best, you can try to predict their moods so that a quick glance tells you all you need to know to be able to manage them. ![]() The colonists get out of hand pretty quickly and we’re far from being able to control them. ![]() In the world of Rimworld, the player (you) is at an exalted God-like position of being able to control everything. Users are waiting for a version 1.2 of this mod that will allow circle construction, but until then, we’re happy to wait with this handy mod installed. This mod makes the world of a difference, giving you draggable corners that lets you design both walls and impassable buildings with the use of hollow rectangles, as well as L-shaped conduits and sandbags. Speaking of minor annoyances, Rimworld only allows the player to build walls with straight lines, which takes forever when you’re trying to construct a building. Online Games That Help Develop Cognitive Skills This blight mechanic is a minor change to the vanilla game but is a much appreciated improvement that lets you focus on other aspects of the game. This makes it easier to ‘nip it in the bud’ and tend to it before it becomes disastrous. It alerts you when a single plant is blighted, and how much it has spread by letting you know on the map. There’s also no way of finding out when a plant is blighted, and this mod solves that for you. One of the frustrating things about Rimworld is the spreading blighting of plants. And if you thought this modder forgot about event speeds, don’t worry! There’s also an event speed multiplier, all the way to x2 the normal speed, even when you’re in combat mode (which is generally speed-locked when playing the vanilla game). It’s easy to do this as well, with an ultra-speed icon. This mod enables an ultra fast speed even without a developer mode. Not being able to speed up anytime the game isn’t going as fast as you like, especially during events can make the entire gameplay less exciting. This is one of the first mods that players seek out after playing Rimworld. With this mod, you can grow the tangle weed around your colony to slow down the enemies that try to approach your colony and also prevent them from getting very close and destroying your assets. You can plant the tangle weed around your colony and use it as a defense parameter. The Tangleweed vine is one of the most difficult plants to grow but once grown fully it has a lot of potentials. From the quality of life improvements to complete overhauls, there are a lot of mods. Given the love for the game and how simple it is to mod it, there are already tons of mods for the game for different desired outcomes. Ludeon Studios’ sci-fi colony simulator has been a huge hit, with detailed, funny, unique gameplay that changes every time you play it, random events, crazy AI storytellers and much more. Today, we will list some of the best rimworld mods. It currently sits on the 2nd place amongst all early access titles, with 20,000 reviews with %97 of them being positive, just below Factorio. Rimworld is on the list too, and it is really high up there. Darkwood, Streets of Rogue, Slay the Spire, so on and so forth. But luckily, there are a couple of developers that truly give their best to communicate with their community and develop the game based on the players’ response, creating a unique masterpiece on the way. Majority of the early access titles died down during the development or developers stopped working on them completely. Early access games on Steam have been a topic of debate. When you log in and look at the selection screen holding the characters you previously created, they normally appear as they do in-game, complete with their clothing and weapons. While I don't know if this has also happened on other servers, it's a situation I hope will improve soon on mine.Īnother example, one that's pretty visible is that players on various realms have experienced a bug that's actually kind of amusing and doesn't affect the gameplay at all, but nonetheless, shouldn't be happening. In addition, during a little less than 20 hours of playing time, I have also been online for two other shutdowns that lasted about an hour apiece. However, an hour a day - indeed, any maintenance at all on a daily basis - is definitely more than one would expect from an online world of the current generation. This takes place during the early morning hours, when usage is low. At the moment, each one is scheduled for an hour of maintenance every day. Perhaps the most significant involves the amount of server down time. That said, some question marks do remain. I have experienced occasional instances of lag, but one occurrence aside, they've been neither long nor severe. For instance, the number of realms had been approximately doubled from the initial 41, and registration went smoothly with no problems or delays. By then, the situation had improved considerably. ![]() ![]() I can't tell you what the situation was like first-hand because I didn't begin play until Friday. Not surprisingly, this veritable tidal wave led to issues in areas like registration delays, server capacity and bandwidth. This led to estimated first-day sales of 250,000 units, with the company reporting that over 200,000 players actually created accounts within the initial 24 hours. The level of anticipation was likewise elevated. As part of the so-called price of success, when World of Warcraft launched commercial service last Tuesday, both the game and Blizzard faced extremely high expectations. |
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