You could have told me that was a photo and I’d have believed it!

Why is his head wet?

I still wanted them to see how much dynamite it would take to remove a dead whale.

https://youtu.be/V6CLumsir34

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“Many fungi are microscopic, even unicellular, and a tiny sample of biological material may contain hundreds that are hard to isolate.”

Yup, there you go…

Nah.

First, it was on the Xbox 360 but looked like an Xbox game.

Second, the plot was so hackneyed. Literally every event was telegraphed by miles.

Do people still care about Dragon Age?

I played 1, was underwhelmed. People made lame excuses for it like “Oh, but it wasn’t developed by Bioware’s a-list team…”

Then 2 stunk up the joint.

I don’t even REMEMBER 3.

Looks more like a Monsieur Moustache to me…

“Alo!”

Windows doesn’t even see the Steam drive, it entirely runs from the SSD.

I used one of these:

https://shop.kingston.com/products/xs2000-external-ssd?variant=40686324875456

Install process:

Following the instructions here:

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/how-to-install-windows-steam-deck/

I downloaded a Windows 11 .iso image from Microsoft:

https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows11

A disk imaging tool called “Rufus”:

https://rufus.ie/en/

And the Windows Steam Deck Drivers:

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/6121-ECCD-D643-BAA8

I did this all on a PC to prep the Kingston drive, installing to it instead of a MicroSD card.

Booting on the Steam Deck then works flawlessly. Hold down volume, tap power, wait for the beep, the boot menu appears, boot from the Kingston drive.

Windows boots in portrait mode, which is fine, that’s to be expected. You can corect it when finished.

Like any good Windows installation, it requires a few re-boots. Booting from USB though and re-starting is NOT a hard shutdown though and holding the Volume Down key through the re-boot will NOT bring you back to the boot menu. :(

So each re-start you go back to Steam OS, shut down, hold Volume Down and tap power until you hear the beep. Re-pick your Kingston drive and go back to windows.

Side note - Bumping the triggers in the boot menu will automatically boot Steam. I may have done that a few times. :)

Once your setup is done, you have a desktop and can re-set it to Landscape mode.

The one problem I had is pressing the Steam Deck button + X does NOT bring up the virtual keyboard in Windows, nor would I expect it to. Windows doesn’t know what a Steam button is.

Using the touch screen, tap and hold the task bar until you see the “Taskbar Options”, go into there and turn on the slider for “Always Show Virtual Keyboard”.

That puts a keyboard icon on the task bar so you can always access it.

I had to go into the Windows store and buy a Windows 11 license, it required me to authenticate and I couldn’t do it without a keyboard.

Sorry, 2TB.

I bought a 2TB USB-C SSD and did a full Windows install so I can boot whatever and run whatever.

She’s doing much better this morning:

That’s Lorelei, the two year old… She’s getting the groomer treatment tomorrow!

I tip the carrier on end, open the door, and let gravity do the work. :)

She actually did not go for the treats, I think they’re still in the carrier…

She has all the love and is much happier not being contained. ;)

She was OK going in the carrier, but man, after the vet she wanted OOOOWWWWWTTTTTT!

Calico boys are a rarity! Honor him!

I’m on my second, it got dropped and one of the rivets on the strap buckle popped beyond my ability to repair.

But I liked it enough and it was cheap enough, to just buy another one and a slightly bigger one for the Steam Deck. LOL.