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Cake day: October 17th, 2023

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  • I know PCs usually are a few years behind technology wise.

    I am an IT technician, and it takes a lot of confidence and ignorance to be this wrong.

    I’m kind of surprised they still don’t have bluetooth as standard.

    This explains so much about your earlier statement, you seem to think that there is a a standard PC, there isn’t.

    There are hundreds of manufacturers making PCs and PC parts.

    I have never seen a laptop in decades that lack Bluetooth, however there are still desktop motherboards you can buy without wifi or bluetooth, but this is not my reason for making this post…

    I am pissed because I don’t get why you wouldn’t just put the required Bluetooth into the PSVR2 PC adapter unit.



  • If you don’t like it, feel free to block it

    I will do so shortly, but wanted to raise the issue before since it might be spreading missinformation.

    also, it’s been 9 days, not “a few weeks”-- although the past 9 days sure as hell feels like a few weeks…

    Fair point, I’ll assume you are the person running the bot, so you probably knows more about it than me. I am and was tired when I wrote that, and didn’t doublecheck.

    I have raised the issue I wanted to, and I’ll block the bot in a few minutes, one word of advice would be to reword the comment to say something like “The current reputation of Generic_News seems to lean toward it being generic”, so the bot makes less absolute statements.

    Anyway, I am off to bed to sleep and possibly dream about terminating speaker wires.








  • It was fantastic and a bit terrifying.

    I am soo happy I went, but unless there is a lovely woman asking me to accompany her, I won’t do it again.

    95% of the path is amazing, with some thrilling but not scary views, the last 5% was terrifying, however I never felt unsafe.

    Ok, lets start from the beginning.

    As you probably know, El Caminito Del Rey is a stunningly beautiful path in a crevase of a mountain side, it leads between two hydro electric powerplants, and was originally built as a maintenance path.

    It got famous on the internet as the worlds most dangerous path, when I first saw videos of it, the path was crumbling concrete hanging on the mountain side.

    This is no longer the case, since adventurers kept bypassing anything the local government did to prevetn access, they decided on another way forward, rebuilding the path.

    The new path is built just above the old one, preventing access to the old path, while granting safe and easy access for unfit tourists (like me) to see the amazing landscape.

    The path is modern, made out of tick peices of wood, securely anchored to the mountain side, there is a secure railing with netting along the entiire path.

    There is minimal need for planning on walking the path, you need to get a ticket, and I do recommend getting a ticket for the return bus as well, you will be tired after walking the path.

    You only really need four things to walk the path.

    1. A ticket
    2. A bottle of water
    3. Decent shoes, I walked in my Brooks Ghost 23, you don’t need hiking boots, but avoid sandals or flipflops.
    4. A good camera with a solid strap, if you drop your phone or camera over the edge of the railing, it is gone/destroyed.

    Do not bring a big backpack, this is noted on the rules you get when buying a ticket, this is due to the path being very narrow.

    You buy tickets for the walk online: https://www.caminitodelrey.info/en/tickets/buy

    We got a guided tour, we had an english guide, but the guy we had was not really worth it.

    So you go to the restaurant marked on the map you get when buying the tickets, that is not the entrence to the path, it is the entrence to the entrence to the path, unless your instructions say otherwise, do not wait there, there are big signs, you need to walk about 2km to get to the entrence of El Caminito Del Rey.

    So you get to the entrence, this was a bit chaotic when I was there, depspite being there in low season. Speak with the staff, they will help you, scan your ticket and get into your group.

    If you have picked a guided tour, you will be issued a small radio reciever and and headphones, the headphones are terrible, if you can, get some better 3.5mm earbuds that fit better.

    Regarless of what ticket you have bought, you will be issued a helmet and a disposable hairnet.

    Finally, you are entering El Caminito Del Rey!

    The path is for the most part located inside the cleft, this is very nice as if you start feeling dizzy of vertigo, you can just not look down, and the feeling goes away.

    This is untill the end…

    I must again stress, that while it was terrifying, I never felt unsafe.

    You will have to walk across a metal grid catwalk suspention bridge, it is supported by thick metal cables, but it does wobble and sway a bit, then you get to a an anchored path hainging on the open side of the mountain, there is nothing to help your vertigo there as the path hangs over a sheer drop of 100+ meters.

    I don’t like hights, I get some vertigo, I was clearly uncomfortable and scared, but at that point you can’t really go back, so I just focused on continuing on.

    The path is completely safe, highly thrilling and even terrifying, and so so worth it.

    I had my Lumix S5 camera with my 24-105mm lens, a great combo, and I just 1150+ photots from my walk, some of the most beutiful nature photos I have taken.


  • When Chrome came out it was heavily promoted by everyone I knew (apart from my best friend) I tried it, didn’t like the UI (still don’t) and didn’t see the point of it.

    People talked abour how fast it was, and I felt that Firefox was fast enough, and Firefox just worked as I wanted it to, why change?

    I kept stedfast with Firefox, apart from when the horrible Australis UI was launched, then I switched to a fork called Pale Moon, which I used for several years untill the current UI was launched.


    Doing ok I guess, main issue is being alone constantly, but since I have had almost a decade of living alone since I moved out from my parents and was quite lonely before that as well (my parents are lovely and caring, I have just never found anyone special, and have drifted apart from most of my friends).

    Planning on getting into VR in september after the PS2VR PC adapter has been out for a month, and I have reviews to look at

    My car needs it’s bumper replaced after a badger ran into me while I was driving. I can still drive it, no warning lights nor leaks what I can see…

    This spring I had a holiday in Spain, got to walk El Caminito Del Rey and it was gorgeous, I will get back to Spain soon with work this time.

    I need to replace my computer desk and remodel my living room, but first I need to move my computer, record player and more from the computer desk.

    Need new monitors for my computer, my current monitor has terrible image retention issues.