The premise sounds awesome. I know no French at all. Would the fact that all of the signage is in French break immersion if I played the game in English? I guess this is something that varies from person to person, but it would be nice to hear from someone that has played the game.

So why use this over something like meshstatic?

You want a chair that makes it look like you’re about to lay off the bottom 10% performers.

That model seems to be around $250-$300

Edit, it is $200

https://aoostar.com/products/aoostar-r1-2bay-nas-intel-n100-mini-pc-with-w11-pro-lpddr4-16gb-ram-512gb-ssd

There is a demo, so you can see if it will run well enough for you before you buy it.

I was seriously tempted multiple times. Does gently closing and opening it many times count?

This actually makes a tremendous amount of sense! I’ve heard one fan struggle for some time but never saw the temps get serious. Maybe they did and I didn’t notice it! I’m going to do as suggested with essentially banging it around once I get brave enough. Thanks a lot for the suggestions.

Thanks a lot for the link! I was browsing Amazon and they all had questionable specs.

Just used it =/

No problems on external monitor. Only the built-in has issues. I would like to be able to take it places. The issue is so intermittent that I can’t chase it down to one cause. I haven’t tried a live usb yet - I will do so as soon as I can.

Yeah. I have an external. I was just hoping that this community might be able to find something I couldn’t. Best I have is that screenshot with the model number.

I’d prefer a large series of interlacing lines at a specific refresh rate. I posted here because I thought there would be a high percentage of people that could maybe diagnose the issue. I don’t think there is something like /c/laptopgore here.

This is a weird problem. I’m going to open it up this weekend. For about a year it has seemingly randomly done this. Opening and closing the lid doesn’t seem to be the problem because I left it open for a couple of years with no issue. I posted here in hopes that there might have been a driver issue along the way. I’ll poke around and see if I can see a hardware issue.

Thanks. In this instance, though, I would find a GUI very helpful to quickly spot the offending directories.

Thanks. I’ll check this out when I get back to my PC. Also, I likely already had this installed. I’m an idiot.

Also, valves don’t make steak.

Nope, but Valve sure did release Steam. It still works.

I mean sure, that would be great, but I don’t have that.

It is an issue for me because the only machine I have is my daily driver laptop, and I’d really rather not take up even that 35GB if it can be helped.

OK, this bot is very useful. Thanks to … whoever.

You are quite right in that it is not a cheap VMS. Since I don’t know 100% how to set thing up, though, the cost might be worth my time.

I may just pay for it and report back as a service to the community.