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i always thought it was more to do with the history of the team, bruins had bears n the helmet, capitals had white house or washington monument.

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Forcing resolution on Lenovo laptop internal monitor

Posted at 11:33 - 23rd, December 2025 by Alex

Tags: levnovo, ideapad, custom resolution utility, computer problems

I've got a lenovo ideapad 5 - i think it's the 15ITL05. Great little laptop with a crappy plastic case, a decent amount of expandabilityram and storage wise and decent cpu. The battery is a bit lacking, but I use it primarily for work on the go so usually have it plugged in regardless.

The main complaint I have is the screen is 1366 x 768 which I thought would be enough realestate but when working on excel sheets and whatnot, is no where near enough. That's the highest the display will go.

That is unless I plug in a monitor that supports a higher resolution. I'm currently hooked up to a 1080p display and when set to duplicate display, it sets the internal monitor to 1080p to match the external one. So, I know the monitor can support the 1080p.

I cannot find anywhere - settings, displays, intel display center to force a resolution. I've downloaded something called CRU or Custom Resolution Utility. Supposedly it can force monitors into specific resolutions, but doesn't work here. At least not with how I've set it up.

Not sure how else to go about this to be honest. If anyone can think of anything, let me know.

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Anime to Watch - Made in Abyss - Trailer

Posted at 17:27 - 4th, November 2025 by Alex

Tags: anime to watch, made in abyss, chibii, cute, dark, disturbing, holes

I started watching this a while ago looking for something that isn't too chibii. The story is promising and from the little I've read online it gets pretty dark pretty quickly despite it's cutsy look to it.

I found an english dub of it if anyone interested in streaming it.

Quick breakdown of the show thusfar without spoilers:

There's a town built around this giant hole in the ground - hole is a lose term for it, chasm or enormous crater might be more suitable.

People go into the hole to gather relics to sell on the open market.

The hole consists of different levels, the deeper you go, the more dangerous it is with the lower levels that have been mapped causing people to go crazy or physically morph into something else

Most people can barely stay in level one without feeling nauscious

Children have decided to enter into the hole to look for a loved one

It's caught my interest so far. Just need time to watch it.

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Robot cleaner using LLM and "AI" - NEO Home Robot

Posted at 13:51 - 29th, October 2025 by Alex

Tags: end of the world, neo, cleanbot, scifi comes real, androids, AI, LLM, murderbots

Christophe showed me this thing this morning and I'm gettting such bad vibes from it.

From NEO's website

We’re an AI and robotics company based in Palo Alto, California, on a mission to build a truly abundant society through general-purpose robots capable of performing any kind of work autonomously.

We believe that to truly understand the world and grow in intelligence, humanoid robots must live and learn alongside us. That’s why we’re focused on developing NEO—our flagship product—a friendly home robot designed to integrate seamlessly into everyday life and handle chores for you.

Here's a keynote of the thing:

Which scifi movie do you want to quote where this thing goes horribly wrong? iRobot, Matrix, Terminator, Alien, Her, Blade Runner?

My favorite scenario is from Alien Isolation, the working joes go rogue and start killing people. I don't think our "AI" (and I use the quoted term very loosely) is anywhere near that level or ever will get to that level, but it's instantly what I thought of when I saw this thing.

People are already having superficial relationships with their "AI" companions on their phones, can you imagine someone going all in with this thing?

Also, what's with the incesant need to make mechincal things look more human?

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Cold Road - A D&D animated story

Posted at 2:20 - 26th, August 2025 by Alex

Tags: zee bashew, animation, dungeons and dragons, D&D

I randomly came across Zee Bashew one day and pretty much instantly subscribed to him. His art style was fantastic and his humor reminded me a lot of the guys. I don't know, maybe it's a D&D personality thing.

Most of his videos are instructional videos for magic, tactics or ideas for D&D settings or campaigns but he went down a rabbit hole with one of his old campaigns called The Cold Road.

This thing is done so well, like John's old epic tales of their old campaigns. Really quite something, but even the animation is really great and became like a really great side project for him.

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