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I play it on my gamepad, same as with Forza Horizon 4 and 5. I runs excellently, since the Forza series came from the Xbox originally. I have tried it with my racing wheel and pedals and it works, too, but, I prefer the controller for casual racing.

This week's homework: DeAgostini Blue Note Best Jazz Collection Japan #6 Sonny Clark and #7 Lee Morgan Ex. I'm not sure it's terribly exciting for others to follow along as I digest these over the next few months so here's a list of all (that I have). The original series was extended to 80 discs if one wants to really complete. And then there was a second, different De Agostini Blue Note round on SHM-CD. And another Jazz collection across labels. eBay (and ChatGPT) can occasoinally be your friend. No. Artist 1 Miles Davis 2 Herbie Hancock 3 Sonny Rollins 4 Art Blakey 5 John Coltrane 6 Sonny Clark 7 Lee Morgan 8 Horace Silver 9 Bud Powell 10 Hank Mobley 11 Wayne Shorter 12 Thelonious Monk 13 Kenny Burrell 14 Lou Donaldson 15 Dexter Gordon 16 Grant Green 17 Kenny Dorham 18 Jackie McLean 19 Jimmy Smith 20 Freddie Hubbard 21 Miles Davis 2 22 Bobby Hutcherson 23 Clifford Brown 24 The Three Sounds 25 Curtis Fuller 26 Live at Jazz Clubs 27 Joe Henderson 28 Stanley Turrentine 29 Donald Byrd 30 McCoy Tyner 31 Herbie Hancock 2 32 Ornette Coleman 33 Horace Parlan 34 Paul Chambers 35 Art Blakey 2

Belated Happy Birthday, Andrew. Have a great year.

Belated Happy Birthday!

Hey, @HiWire. Re: Forza, should I try it with a gamepad or my wheel/sim setup? Seems like it lends itself more to game pad?

Short answer: The Pihole dev team are still hosting it and not updating it. I only ended up having Pi OS desktop running for an afternoon. I've now got a fresh install of Debian 13 on the Beelink, connected to a monitor that it actually likes. Also, last night, on a whim, I installed Unbuntu on a mid 2010 Mac Mini I bought from ...some Head-Caser or another years ago. It's got a sputtering Core 2 Duo, but it does have 16GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD. I think I'm going to use it to sing sea shanties.

Toyota's new GR GT and GT3 race car are coming next year - I've been "driving" it in Forza Horizon 6 already:

Interesting choice to double the diaphragm size...only 0.4um left to reach HE-1 thickness :D Is that one of the reasons you disliked the HE90? Too thin in body due to this thinness? Btw what are your thoughts on the impact of bias on sound? Like the ES-Labs using 580V instead of 500V but increasing stator distance to stop membrane sticking? The Lambda NB gets so much praise regularly and always wondered if 580V might have been wrong direction afterall for e-stats but changing would be too hard due to all amps having the pro bias etc?

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You should still be able to update to bookworm and then Trixie. But how did you even get such an old ISO? That being said, if you have an amd64 computer, just use Debian.

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So as hardware is wont to do, a magic gremlin appeared between the Beelink and my gee whiz main display. It's a dual mode monitor that does 1080p @ WTF Hz (480 or something) and 4K at 180Hz. I run it in 1080p mode almost all the time. I began to get suspicious that the problem was hardware related, so I spent an hour integrating the Beelink into the shelf that hots the M4 mini and a bunch of other hardware. That meant dusting off and wiring up my trusty KVM switch. "KVM" is a misnomer in this day and age, but the function is the same. It has been my experience that newer (Silicon based) Mac are ...fussy about KVM switches. Fortunately, this one works with every device I have plugged into it. The downside is that KVM triples the number of wires. 😫 The Beelink is now getting along fine with the 2013 vintage 1200p Lenovo panel I use for system administration. Debian comes with FFX installed (yay!) I am too tired to pursue setting up Pihole tonight. Also, a friend of mine who has been high up in the IT food chain for 25 years now (he is the DNS guy @ ADBE) also said, and I quote "Repeat after me. Net. BSD. Less gui bullshit." I will ignore him ...for the time being.

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Happy birthday Andrew, O tall one! Hope it is an awesome one

Happy birthday! (party favour noise)

Happy Birthday, Andrew!! I wish you have a great one

Happy (AI) Birthday, Stretch!

Happy birthday, Stretch! Here's a comic from 15 years ago.

Cheers Andrew.

Happy Birthday!!

Happy Birthday!