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Cake day: August 8th, 2023

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  • I just bought a steam deck, and bought hogwarts legacy when it was on sale a while back on a friend’s recommendation.

    Decided to give it a try - such a great game! I tend to compare opens world’s to Skyrim, and the detail in the quests is so much better. It’s not just ‘clear this dungeon’. Plus they’ve really thought about what sucks about those other games and really tried to avoid them. Plays great on the steam deck too, I’ve got it capped at 45fps and it never skips a beat.

    I don’t think I’ve had this much enjoyment from a gaming device ever. I’ve done the console and game pass on the phone mounted controller, and that was not very consistent. The instant pause/resume button is a game changer with young kids waking up in the night.

    Not at all bothered by performance - in fact I’ve seeing articles about how ‘this windows handheld beats the steam deck in tflops’ but an constantly thinking - 'yes, but it’s a handheld. Is it good at that? Battery life, pick up and go etc are super relevant, not just performance.

    Bit of a tangent there, but I am having a great gaming time.









  • I should’ve added - I’m a teacher and make regular use of inking, classroom integration in OneNote, teams assignments to word for pen comments, excel macro workbooks, SharePoint syncing etc…

    Unfortunately web wrappers for office lose to many features.

    Plus (on my last look) the cameras on my surface pro would never work, so that’s another bust.





  • So the issue comes when using tables.
    Make a table cell end at the bottom of the page, and you’ll likely have a new blank page appear at the end.

    The reason is because word needs a ‘new paragraph’ marker (the backwards p symbol) after the table. This delineates where the table ends - it’s part of the formatting. You can’t delete it.

    Ways to get around it:

    • Don’t make you’re table go to the end of the page.
    • Reduce the font size of the new paragraph marker to 1 (you need to enable show formatting marks). You can probably fit this at the bottom of the page without losing much space.