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Apple’s 15-Inch M2 MacBook Air Teardown Is ‘A Miserable Experience,’ Claims iFixit, Requiring Tons Of Screw Removals – Wccftech
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Disney dropping $1 billion Florida campus may screw over other developers – Business Insider
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Did Luis Ruelas ‘Screw’ Joe Gorga in Failed $250K Business Deal? Inside the Family Drama – Yahoo Entertainment
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Here’s Why (and How) You Should Hang Your TV From the Ceiling
I’m here today to make the case for a unique space-saving technique I have employed in my apartment for two years: Mount your TV to the ceiling. Do it. You don’t need a bulky entertainment center taking up valuable wall space; your TV can simply float above your head, and look cool doing it. (But don’t tell Reddit, which will lambast you for placing your set above eye level. Live for yourself, not for the approval of mean people online.)
What you need to mount your TV from the ceiling
To get that “doctor’s office waiting room” look at home, you will need:
- A ceiling mount (here’s the one I have, which cost about $28)
- An under-shelf wire basket like this one
- A drill
- Four to six hefty toggle bolts
- About 10 hole straps
- A bunch of screws (I’m very technical)
The key to success
Follow the mounting instructions that come with your mount, and make sure you secure it well into a joist. I hired a pro for this step because I wasn’t sure of my ability to nail into a joist as well as I can a wall beam, but if you think you can do it, just make sure you follow the instructions carefully so you don’t end up tearing through your ceiling (and breaking your flatscreen).
“Buy a ceiling mount for your TV and install it” isn’t a hack, though. The hack comes in my storage solution, which is what the wire basket is for. Get the kind that can slide under a shelf, with one open side, and be sure it’s wide enough to hold whatever you need near the TV, like a video game console, streaming box, or DVD player. Remove the wires that would otherwise hold the basket under a shelf with a wire cutter and you’ll be left with a box that is open on one side and at the top.
Position the basket near the television and mark out four to six spots at the corners and in between where you will support it once it is hanging. Hold the hole straps up to the ceiling so they go around the top wires of the basket at your chosen support points and mark on the ceiling where the screws will go. For each hole strap, use one toggle bolt and one regular screw. I recommend putting the toggle bolts on the interior of the basket so it’s held up securely while you screw in the other sides. Your extra hole straps can be used to secure your wires along the ceiling and down the wall. (Here’s a handy guide for hiding wires.) Stuff your gaming console or whatever else you need in the basket and you’re good to go.
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The benefit of this setup is, to me, clear as day: You get your walls back and don’t need a bunch of shelving to hold your TV. The only thing to be wary of is if you have a low ceiling or someone in your household is super tall, but it’s not much more cumbersome than a ceiling fan or hanging light fixture you have to step around.
A League of Their Own on Prime Video is the best new show on TV — screw the review bombers
Reboots can be hard-sells. That said, Prime Video’s A League of Their Own is a show I need you all to be watching. It’s not perfect — I’ll get to its one main issue, storyline juggling, later — but this past weekend I experienced the best kind of modern streaming experience with the new series.
I went into the weekend intent to make more headway in For All Mankind. But, after seeing a positive tweet or two about A League of Their Own (and being familiar enough with the original film), I thought I should give it a chance.
Then, watching the pilot turned into an accidental binge-watch. In less than 24 hours, I’d gone from being annoyed about the lack of presence for A League of Their Own on the home screen to having watched all eight hours of the show’s first season.
So, why is A League of Their Own a title you need in your own queue? Allow me to explain — and I’ll start by declaring that anyone who liked Netflix’s GLOW will likely love A League of Their Own.
It’s a story about women working as a team, and facing obstacles in a male-driven society, where the cast is full of energy and the script is smart. I might still be annoyed that Netflix canceled GLOW, but maybe that show hit a single so A League of Their Own could blast a few dingers out of the proverbial ballpark.
A League of Their Own episode 1 is the smoothest pilot ever
You feel that excitement, like your first day at a summer camp.
Nearly instantly, the first episode of A League of Their own won me over. Abbi Jacobson (who stars as Carson Shaw, and co-created this series) leads with her strong suit: being flustered and awkward. Her character is hurriedly running to a train, and completely unkempt.
Before she can make it, she runs into some old friends who are confused by her behavior, and soon talk behind her back about how her bra was exposed. If the period costumes weren’t enough emphasis, that last part is the big nod that we’re not in 2022 anymore. 1943 is plenty different.
Once she gets to the big city, A League of Their Own starts to build its roster of other women who are trying out for the teams as the war effort’s demand for men drains the major leagues dry.
Instantly, Carson finds two charismatic aspiring ballplayers: Greta (D’Arcy Carden) and Jo (Melanie Field), who start making fun of her at every chance. These aren’t the A League of Their Own stars you may remember from the classic film, but since I don’t have strong ties to that piece of cinema? I wasn’t even bothered.
And with each new member of the cast I met, I continued to think “yeah, I’m gonna have fun getting to know these folks.” They all bounce off of each other so perfectly, like Maybelle (Molly Ephraim) the smiling blonde and Lupe (Roberta Colindrez), the gruff pitcher. And just a small dose of the no-B.S. Kelly (Jess McCready) and the hypochondriac Shirley (Kate Berlant) teases that these women won’t always get along. And when Esti (Priscilla Delgado) is exuberant that she’s not the only Spanish-speaking tryout? You feel that excitement, like your first day at a summer camp.
Most importantly, though, we meet a heat-throwing pitcher named Max (Chanté Adams) and her best friend Clance (Gbemisola Ikumelo). Max just wants to play baseball with these new teams that are forming, but she’s Black and that’s still a problem for some — despite how society was supposed to have changed.
And that’s just one of the ways that Abbi Jacobson’s A League of Their Own evolves from the movie that preceded it. Because by the end of the first episode, you learn that the Rockford Peaches have closeted queer women on their team, and that makes A League of Their Own all the more interesting.
Yes, A League of Their Own had to evolve
So, I’ll get this out of the way now. A League of Their Own, as you might have heard, is fighting a battle off the field, with the ultra-modern convention of review-bombing. As Decider (opens in new tab) explains, the reviews section of the show’s page on Prime Video has a bunch of folks dissatisfied by the fact that “The baseball takes a back seat to all the other ‘messages’ this show is trying to shove at you” while another wrote “I really don’t care who you love I just wanted to see women represented playing sports. It’s now turned into who’s gay and who is straight.”
Not to go full polemical, but the latter comment has an obvious contradiction: some people only want to see the forms of representation that matter to them.
But, to be factual, let’s all admit that queer people, and persons of color, aren’t some modern day invention. That their presence and their stories aren’t some modern Ponzi scheme to make more money with token acts of diversity. To properly tell the history of women in sports, you have to tell the history of all women, and not hide the women of color in small roles (which the original film did, with one Black woman who threw a ball past Dottie, Geena Davis’ character).
A League of Their Own tells not just the story of women of color on the field, but it also explains how queer women lived off the field. How society’s views in this era turned their lives into criminal behavior. And the show is all the better for it. The emotional power of the scenes at the secret speakeasy gay bar is so strong that I couldn’t help but tear up (and later ugly-cry).
Let’s all admit that queer people, and persons of color, aren’t some modern day invention.
Yes, watching this show could open many minds to an experience they have no idea existed. But since the scenes and A League of Their Own writ-large actually works, it’s not hard to see that Max’s story — as well as those of the closeted players — are wholly worthwhile.
A League of Their Own’s sole problem
As much as I love Max’s storyline, A League of Their Own can sometimes feel like it’s zigging and zagging too much between her tale and what’s going on with Carson, Greta, Jo and the rest of the Peaches.
The quest for the Peaches to actually win games runs parallel to Max’s work to be taken seriously as a pitcher. And there’s something about how the show jumps back and forth between them that just feels almost jarring at times. It’s never bad enough to annoy, but it’s a first-season bug to be worked out.
Root, root, root for A League of Their Own
Throughout the seven chapters after that lovable first inning, I could not put A League of Their Own down. I was supposed to watch Prey, but I left that for another time. I also wanted to give that new Ninja Turtle video game a spin. But A League of Their Own kept me hooked.
And, so I write this to try and make sure everyone gives it a chance. In a sea of lifeless reboots and prequels of questionable nature, Abbi Jacobson and her team have made one that stands a chance of going strong for multiple seasons. I just hope the boo-birds in the reviews section get drowned out by the viewership. And so far — A League of Their Own ended The Terminal List’s 42-day reign at the top of Prime Video’s TV charts — it looks like the Peaches have a chance.
“Screw This Game” – Sonic Origins Modder Halts Development On Massive Patch
Update [Wed 13th Jul, 2022 09:30 BST]: Modder Xanman has taken to Twitter saying that his original comments — specifically “It’s become way clearer that this game is absolute s***” — was “a huge exaggeration on my part”.
Linking to VGC’s coverage of his comments, he goes on to say “Origins is fine imo. It does what it set out to do, has some issues, but nothing that really affects the game”.
Original Story [Tue 12th Jul, 2022 10:45 BST]: While Sonic Origins offers a convenient way to play the hedgehog’s most celebrated 16-bit outings on modern consoles, many veterans fans haven’t been satisfied with the quality of the versions included in the collection. The game boasts various enhancements such as widescreen support and new gameplay modes, but also introduces errors, inconsistencies, inaccuracies, and behaviours that some die-hard Sonic fans aren’t happy about.
The latest dissatisfied voice from the Sonic fan community is that of Xanman, creator of BetterOrigins, a mod for the PC version of the game which aimed to fix various errors and improve the overall quality (thanks, TheGamer).
However, having gone through the game’s files, Xanman has decided to halt work on the mod entirely. “Hey, so we decided to stop the development of this project,” Xanman wrote on the mod’s GameBanana page:
“After really digging into the files for this game, it’s become way clearer that this game is absolute s***. We’ve fixed enough where the game is a bit more serviceable but really, especially without scripts, there’s not a whole lot we can ‘fix’ without just redoing sprites.”
“MAYBE I’ll come back to this in the future, when script editing becomes a thing. But for now, screw this game.”
It’s not just the fan community that has voiced its dissatisfaction with the final product. Headcannon’s Simon Thornley, who worked on the Sonic 3 & Knuckles part of the collection, took to Twitter recently to voice his frustrations, and also provide partial explanations as to how these issues arose.
For a better idea of the types of issues the BetterOrigins mod fixed, here’s a list of patch notes from Update 1.5 as per the mod’s GameBanana Updates page:
Adjustment – Sonic 1 Palette issues have been fixed
Improvement – CD’s title screen has been cleaned up and use the full resolution beta assets as a base
Bugfix – Sonic 2 bosses actually flash properly
Adjustment – Sonic 2 – Life icons are accurate
Adjustment – Sonic 2 – Elemental Shields use correct sprites
Bugfix – Sonic 2 – Fixes a color error in some of Tails’ sprites having incorrect transparent pixels
Bugfix – Sonic 2 – Fixes a color error in some of Knuckles’ sprites making the black a dark green
Adjustment – Sonic 2 – Sprites from S3 use S1 blacks
Improvement – Sonic 2 – Eggman’s sprites have been corrected
Bugfix – Sonic 2 – Monitors don’t have 2 grey pixels on their screens anymore
Improvement – Casino Night flippers are corrected
Improvement – Casino Night star blocks have been corrected
Improvement – Casino Night visuals are fixed (it was very broken)
Bugfix – Metropolis has proper palette cycle
Improvement – Wing Fortress has proper transparency
Bugfix – All Wing Fortress tiles use their proper palette
Improvement – The Wing Fortress threadmill use its original palette
Improvement – Oil Ocean’s palette cycle is correct
Adjustment – Sonic 2 – Life text & HUD was touched up
Improvement – Sonic 2 – Spinning signpost frames now all use full color range
Adjustment – Sonic 2 – Spinning signpost frames properly use S2 signposts as a base
Adjustment – Sonic 2 – Monitors’ bottom part is the same on both sides
Adjustment – Casino Night’s colored bumpers don’t flash anymore
Addition – Oil Ocean now use purple instead of green
Improvement – Oil Ocean oil is properly affected by gravity (it doesn’t go up anymore smh)
Improvement – Metropolis has more logical palette on some tiles
Improvement – Death Egg Robot looks slightly more like the original
Addition – Ending now has a limited palette
Bugfix – The Carnival Night barrel’s green pixels has been fixed
We called the game “a fine collection for new fans, less so for the hardcore Sonic crowd” in our 7/10 review of the Switch version. While it functions well enough for more casual fans just dipping their toe into Sonic’s original 16-bit catalogue, it’s clear that many believe these vintage platformers deserved more care and attention — especially with these being the nominal ‘ultimate’ versions of the games, according to Sonic Team boss Takashi Iizuka.
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What Is a Pocket Hole Jig (and Why Do You Need One)?
The challenge of hiding hardware when attaching two pieces of wood can be daunting if you’re new to carpentry. If you’re not practiced in making dovetail joints and you don’t own a dado blade—or even know what those things are—making sturdy wood joints that also look nice is difficult. Enter, the pocket hole jig—a tool made for drilling screws at an angle. It is a simpler and cheaper solution for projects that have a “back” side that doesn’t get seen as much, like the wall side of a frame or the underside of a bench. Better yet, even beginners can use it.
A pocket hole jig works by keeping your drill bit at a shallow angle to the surface you’re drilling into without allowing the bit to slip or move. This lets you drill holes to drive a screw from one piece of wood into an adjoining piece without showing on the opposite surface—and without the head of the screw sticking out on the side you’re driving it into. You can use them to hide screws on the back and under sides of furniture and as a quick way to make a corner that’s stronger than one secured by nails or staples.
(The downside to pocket holes is that they’re not as strong as other types of joints that involve trimming the board to overlap, like a lap joint or a mortise and tenon.)
What you need to operate a pocket hole jig
The tools you’ll need to operate a pocket hole jig are:
- A drill
- An extra-long drill bit (with a stopper the right size for the screws you’ll be using)
- Some clamps
- Your jig
- Optional: dowels, a flush cut saw, tape measure, and wood glue
You can also get an adapter kit for regular drill bits if you’ve already got a bit that works. Some jigs come with their own stopper bit, so that’s not always required. There are different types of jigs. Some have clamps built in, and some can be clamped in place on your project. If you want to fill your holes after driving your screws, you will also need some dowels. You can get pre-cut pocket hole dowels, but you can also insert a regular dowel peg and use a flush cut saw to strim them to fit.
Depending on what you’re building, you will also need a tape measure and some wood glue to strengthen your joint.
How to use a pocket hole jig
To use the jig, choose where you would like to join your two pieces and mark where the screws will go on the board. Then, position your jig on the board, setting the depth of the jig so your screw will be long enough to capture both of your pieces of wood without breaking the opposite surface. If you’re not sure of the depth, do a test on a piece of scrap wood.
Once you’ve measured where your screws will go, line up the holes in the jig with your marks, clamp the jig firmly in place, and drill your hole. Then, you can line up your joint, clamp your pieces together, and drive your screws. Using clamps to keep your joint square and flush is important because driving a screw at an angle will cause the wood to shift. You can prevent this by clamping your two boards together to a flat surface. Using an angle clamp is the best way to get a square, secure joint.
PC Cases Catch Fire, Company Responsible Eventually Apologises
There have been complaints for a few months now that one of PC case company NZXT’s products has been catching fire. This week, the company has finally apologised and removed the case from its store.
The issues concerned their H1 case, which is basically a very big, Xbox Series X-like box. As OC3D report, “it looks like the screws on the H1’s PCIe Riser Card are causing a short circuit, causing sparks to fly, smoke to generate and burns on the H1’s PCIe riser card.”
One owner managed to film the short circuit taking place, complete with ensuing flames.
After initially failing to address the issue when it was first reported last year, then putting forward a half-assed fix that involved swapping out some metal screws for some nylon ones, NZXT has finally—mostly thanks to increasing pressure from PC hardware sites—issued a statement on their company site and taken more concrete steps to make this right.
That statement reads (emphasis mine):
To our community,
We’re sorry.
The nylon screws were not the complete solution for the H1 fire hazard; they didn’t address the root cause of the issue. We didn’t account for scenarios where someone could replace the nylon screws with metal ones unknowingly. Our execution did not live up to the quality that our community has come to expect from us.
We will be removing the H1 from the NZXT Store and NZXT BLD. We’re going to send out redesigned PCIe Gen3 Riser Assemblies for current H1s and we’re going to help with installation for those who need it.
Going forward, we’re instituting more robust and thorough design processes. From the initial designs, QA, to additional testing, we’re committed to quality in both our products and our response to your concerns.
We want to thank Steve from Gamers Nexus. He and his team brought the issue of someone replacing the nylon screws with metal screws to our attention and raised the urgency surrounding it.