Kid did NOT want to log onto school this morning. He eventually did, but he …

Kid did NOT want to log onto school this morning. He eventually did, but he was really mad about it. I just walked by his room and he’s taken the cardboard stand-up of Spark that he & his mom made for Pokemon Go fest and set it up to block the door like he’s guarding the entrance.

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Fortunately, Spark is considerate enough to wear a face mask per pandemic recommendations.

Head and shoulders of a cardboard cutout of Spark (Pokemon Go) with a pennant covering his mouth and nose like a bandana.

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%&^% Microsoft app store

As if I didn’t already have enough reason to distrust the MS app store, it spontaneously uninstalled the kid’s copy of Minecraft. Which also deleted all of his local worlds.

Fortunately most of the persistent worlds he plays are either on Java Edition or on a realm, and we had a backup of the local Win10 worlds from a couple weeks ago, but WTF, MS – you don’t fucking DO that!

Best guess is it downloaded the latest update overnight, failed to install, and messed up the rollback.

When we were trying out the Minecraft beta a few weeks ago, we noticed there’s this weird thing where the MS store thinks he doesn’t own a copy of MC until you click on “Buy” at which point it realizes he does and starts downloading it. It could be a problem with that.

Or it could be a mismatch with Xbox Game Pass, which we just got.

Either way, though…

WTF…. apparently an interrupted update from the MS store translates to an uninstall

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/xbox/forum/all/game-just-uninstalled-itself/536072e1-b735-4af0-a8fe-e80815032597

WHAT IDIOT CAME UP WITH THAT DESIGN

wait, that’s in the xbox forum…not clear whether that applies to microsoft store apps on windows 10 too, but given the ridiculous folder structures, I’d guess it’s probably the same thing under the hood.

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Video card shuffle complete!

After getting the nice new card for the gaming PC, I was hoping to just shift everything downward, but its old card made my main desktop really unstable, and my desktop’s old card physically wouldn’t fit in the ancient box we have hooked up to the TV for media.

Old card is now doing Folding@home in the gaming PC. Medium card in my desktop has been replaced with a compatible one & I plan to sell it since it worked fine in the other box. Left the media box alone.

It’s weird, the Radeon card that was in the Windows 10 gaming PC worked great – no problems at all. I only took it out to get a more powerful one.

But when I moved it to my dual-boot system, it worked immediately on Linux, but it kept freezing Windows whenever I tried to update the driver or tools. And I’d get random crashes during games that had been totally stable on my old, less-powerful Nvidia.

Indications pointed to chipset compatibility problems with the mobo.

Between all the crashes and knowing that I couldn’t update the drivers, ever, it became clear I’d need to either replace the motherboard & hope that fixed it, or just replace the card. Back to the old one? Not after a month of awesome graphics performance! So I looked for a comparable Nvidia. Not as good (or expensive) as the shiny new one, but a lot better than the old one.

Once it arrived, I think I had everything working on both operating systems within 30 minutes.

WHO says corticosteroids really do save lives of people critically ill with COVID-19

Reply to a post about The evidence is in. WHO says corticosteroids really do save lives of people critically ill with COVID-19, finding that they help treat severe cases.

I’m surprised that the article doesn’t say more about the immunosuppressant effect that corticosteroids have.

Some of the articles I was looking at last week (when I was prescribed a course of prednisone for an unrelated condition) were looking at whether steroids might make mild cases worse by allowing the virus to make more progress.

If that holds up, then it’s *definitely* important to save them for severe cases where the anti-inflammatory effect makes a bigger difference!

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