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Mythwinder - Tales of the Eternal Veil

About Samsung, among the myriad of apps\options\tweaks available (called bloat or choices, depending of one's standpoint), many am not using\disbaled\unistalled but a big fan of some of the most important ones. And always impressed by the manufacturing quality. Photo Gallery, Editor, Notes, Calendar, Messages, Phone app, Modes\Routines, Good Lock add-ons, Edge Panel and more, all nicely tweaked and refined over many years to provide 1st class services and interface (imo). The above weighs quite a lot so want to stay with Samsung, still using one as my main daily driver. If only the Sam's did manage someday to keep up with evolution > improve the photo results in it's S-line, would be a no-brainer here. That said, after the Pixel testing (satisfied with reliability and performance, great photos (not doing much videos, not gaming so soc speed\heat is fine, AI of less importance), am wanting to investigate Xiaomi (14\15 Ultra) and Honor (Magic 6\7 Pro), to get more insight into the 'philosophy' differences between brands. Will be looking for some great deal on black friday or other sale. Some very interesting China-only models out there, but not taking the risk with import (warranty, china-special OS etc) so sticking to brands that are sold locally in regions I dwell in.

Poets of the Fall - Lift

Happy with the p8pro, nothing broke in 9 months and good photo dept. Am liking 'minimalistic everything' when it comes to looks, still using this launcher, really light and good ! https://f-droid.org/packages/com.vincent_falzon.discreetlauncher/ And on all and every phone in my posession, Netguard to have full control of background net activity (see the lock key next to level bars). Bloat ? Pixel got a good dose as welll, my debloat list: reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/1hno705/comment/m43rc3f/

Pretty nice landscapes :O) And a dose of energy. Wolfheart - Ancient Cold

1809 latest updates done, all perfect as always.

Cold Insight

Superb work making this video, long but really worth watching it all ! "36 cars - 216 crashes"

Was browsing newspapers + streaming some music, the main use for this old laptop, then suddenly out of the blue, blue screen ! Never ever happened before, the Dell E7440 with it's original w8.1 install has been in daily use for only 10,5 years. Totally inacceptable to endure such a problem so soon after purchase and with such a modern OS! Initially looked like some windows corruption, it rebooted into some kind of recovery, and asked for the full bitlocker key (which I could dig up from somewhere from some backup) but I chose to power down and try a restart. Nothing, no display, no bios access, not even beeps or blinking lights. The end I believed, motherboard failure. Anyway, opened up just to have a last view of it's inside, save whatever component etc, then thought maybe do the very basic last chance thing: had a look for anything obvious, removed one memory board, removed \ reseated other memory and drives. Pushed the on button. Miracle occured 27.07.2025 at 02:14:29: out of coma like nothing ever happened. Corrupt ram ? Bad connection ram or drive ? Or can just as well be the sign of some lingering, future serious fault. Needless to say, external hd + macrium reflect immediately in action. Still not the end ! Hoping my trusted old w8.1 + 7440 friend will do service for a while longer.

July update done, see post above :O) And still 3.5 years of security updates left.

Devil blues - Come fly with me

Anyone tried the Duck browser ? Been very happy with it on phones. Also using Duck search \ Duck AI with windows\firefox, all pretty good. https://duckduckgo.com/windows?

Interesting to see rise \ subsistance \ decline over a long period.

Psychedelic Desert Rock | Downtempo Mix

KAL-EL "Code Of The Ancient"

Mississippi Bones - Hell or Ohio

...and another 'nothing to write about' update done, 10 ltsc still perfectly perfect :O) 4 years and 4 months now since original install, no slightest sign of any glitch.

Still enjoying Finnish "heavy-doom-melodic-black-symphonic-metal", specially those drummers :O) Wolfheart - Ancient Cold Ghost Of Karelia

---in memory of all those who are not among us anymore Trees of Eternity - Sinking Ships (demo version)

10 1809 may update done some time ago, everything still solid as a rock (as always).

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A brand new powerfull stone crusher ! Still cleaning up the river along my mountain property, after a major rainfall\storm years ago, amassed tons of big rocks that needs to go to avoid the river changing it's bed and turning towards the house. Nice little hobby :O) Great to have such force in one's hands. And the price! Only 140 usd for 18 kilos of superb, solid, powerful metal & machinery. Really the most satisfying price vs useability\quality\results of anything ever paid for. Also good for building some muscles :O)

Windhand - Eternal Return "Eternal Return is an infectious display of songcraft cloaked in alluring atmosphere, molten fuzz, eerie psychedelia and ethereal vocals. Equally informed by heavy, fuzzed-out psych along with the iconic grunge / alternative groups of the 90s, WINDHAND have crafted a record brilliant in scope, powerful in execution, and perfect for an era of increasingly blurry yet still heavy borders" ...is that all ? lol

Aurora Borealis - The path to Atlas Atmospheric Post Rock (one man band, Belgium), some pretty great "highs" :O)

April 10 ltsc update done, all perfect as always.