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Intel XMP is just a proprietary overclocking/memory timing thing. It doesn’t mean the RAM is intel only or won’t work without XMP.

I prefer using Xbox controllers too, most PC games know what it is and map everything nicely. Dualshock also works though. Not that I often use a controller but some games (e.g. Stray) pretty much need one.

Piece of piss 👍 https://www.playstation.com/en-us/support/hardware/pair-dualsense-controller-bluetooth/

I totally get the concern, but it’ll be fine. These days Amazon put sod all packaging around stuff anyway so it would just have been a box in another box, next to zero extra shock protection.

It’ll be fine, as long as the box wasn’t crushed etc. Very common these days for things to be shipped like that.

Yeah they do, but it’s live only with no catchup etc and the price is carefully pitched that if you’re not a very occasional user you’re better off getting a proper subscription.

Think I’m going to bin it off and get an F1 TV pro subscription again. I would genuinely quite happily pay them a tenner a month, even twenty a month, to just have Sky F1 and nothing else but nope you have to have the TV package and all the sports on top, and it’s a 24 month contract now where...

Sky Q box needs a dish which can need installation, it’s a bigger bit of kit with a hard drive in it so higher shipping and warranty costs. Much cheaper for them to just send out a little streaming box. Mine’s going up by £15 at the start of September but thankfully I’m out of contract pretty...

We used to use Keepass at work, it was…. “OK”. Bitwarden now and it’s decent, no complaints. At the end of the day, just want something transparent which keeps out of the way.

Can't remember, when we booked the track time did we have to specify a car? If we're bringing a different one than originally intended, does anyone need to be notified?

That is absolutely the right way to use it. Problem is, not enough people do and it makes it so easy for blaggers.

I’m genuinely concerned by the impact. Googling everything was one thing, but at least you had to be able to read and summarise it. Now it seems like way too many people can’t even write an email without AI.

Oh, and we binned off all six candidates that we interviewed. Depressing. I have now added to the job advert “Candidates who primarily use pre-existing solutions, web searches or generative AI to support industry standard products are unlikely to succeed in this role” You just can’t Google...

I mean, it’s not impossible. The office is in Bristol and I’ve no idea who you are IRL…….

Such a good feeling!

Some of the best people I’ve ever worked with had no degrees. We always say degree or relevant experience in industry. As others said, really all you used to be able to say about a degree was that it showed you were somebody who could knuckle down for three years and come out of it with a...

From the lights on it, looks like it’s in economy mode, so the car probably drives like s**t with it on anyway. Needs to be notified to insurance too, it’s not subtle so will jump out at anyone who lifts the bonnet. I’d bin it unless he wants the extra powwwwwer.

I think it’s a lot of things to be honest, the rise of the helicopter parent, everybody knowing their rights but don’t understand that responsibilities come alongside those rights, the Covid generation, people outsourcing their ability to think to Google and now AI, and just a general culture of...

I feel personally attacked.

Do NOT get me started. We have an offshore unit in Bangalore and they are totally incapable of stopping the candidates gen-AI-ing their way through the assessments. It makes it impossible. We’ve had to deploy a tool now, hackerrank I think it is, which monitors for everything like that. Tests...

Totally agree, we have really good staff retention. We’re just coming out of the other side of a messy takeover and merger, but a merger which was actually sensible in that it wasn’t just merging with a direct competitor and then cutting everything. In our case they merged us with a...

Circa £40k depending on experience. Pension contributions matched up to 5%, private healthcare, usual ”bolt on” salary sacrifice benefits if you want them (dental, various other insurances, cycle to work, car through Tusker)

What the hell is going on with trying to recruit high-quality staff these days? We’re following our usual tried and tested method. We get CVs submitted, we screen the CVs, we then do an introductory phone screening assessment, people who pass that come in for a full face-to-face interview and...

You’re going to have a fault claim against you anyway, so I’d just let insurance handle the lot, minimal hassle. the value of the claim is pretty much irrelevant at renewal time unless it’s a biggie.

“Low end” PCs are so capable these days. I just picked up a NUC sized one with a six core twelve thread ryzen CPU, 16Gb of memory, a 512Gb SSD and Windows 11 pro. It’s brilliant. £200 from AliExpress so not something a business would want but there is so much performance available for general...

I’d break it for parts. Sell the mobo, CPU, memory and cooler as a one-stop upgrade package that someone can just bolt straight in. The 4090 is still a killer card so should sell very well. My experience is that selling whole PCs is less hassle, but also surprisingly difficult and you get less...

Kinda 😂 What can you tell me about the cliosport.net user mace? ” On ClioSport.net, the user known as "mace" is a well-known and active member, recognized for his distinctive and often humorous approach to welcoming new users. His introductions are characterized by playful and sometimes cheeky...

It’s not like I have an expectation of privacy here or anything, it’s a public forum after all, but stuff which is in the members area should be hidden from Google bots etc so giving it to ChatGPT may not be in the spirit of the thing? I doubt they’re going to get much value out of using that...

Photorealistic on-demand video generation for next to no cost is here. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/ai-video-just-took-a-startling-leap-in-realism-are-we-doomed/ The future possibilities for p**n are simply endless. Er…. I mean…. No. No, I do mean p**n.

Down to £999 “or best offer”. Please someone buy it. @Sheila’s’ Wheels’ surely this is better than a van, just strap tall stuff to the roof, what could go wrong 😂