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Can't you just run the script with -ExecutionPolicy Bypass? Or just sign it? I can't imagine a scenario where you could run the script via cmd as a standard user that wouldn't work by just firing up the script? I'm curious as to your process/what the batch file actually does?

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Should've gone with 'trampede', since they're comparing it to elephants. I'm just going to cross my fingers that it's a typo

Undoubtedly. Plug it in and it works, boom. A lot of it will probably be that a lot of PC games have native XBox support though. And also that 360 controllers are cheaper than XB1 controllers. Although Steam Link's "Plug in a controller and we'll sort out the mapping button-by-button" is pretty good. Used a third-party PS4 controller with the Steam Link and it took 30s to set up the button mappings and done. I don't know if 'full-fat' Steam has that or if it's just part of Big Picture mode. No mess, no fuss, worked flawlessly. (Less however could be said for our culinary teamwork, since we were playing Overcooked...)

Random titbit whilst we're discussing controllers. Steam kicked out a peripheral survey recently and I think XBox 360 controller was the most popular controller on PC, with a whopping 45%! https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/09/valve-reveals-just-how-many-pc-gamers-plug-in-gamepads-and-which-kinds/

This is how I did my O365-fixing scripts, since Microsoft is (was?) terrible at doing things.. One script sorts out their email addresses to not be onmicrosoft, one sets their location to UK, one applies the right license depending on if they're staff or student, one assigns roles, one grants admin access to their email inbox, etc, then I just have one script that calls them all in sequence. The added bonus here is that if I just need to fix email addresses or just need to fix licensing, I can run the one or two scripts I need and not waste time on the rest. 'course now we have Salamander doing it all for us now so those scripts are redundant.

There's probably some NSFW language/swears, been a while since I watched it

From what I hear, the formula was re-used too much and there weren't really any differences from one telltale game to the next, even across different franchises. Everyone I know that's played multiple of them has indicated it felt pretty repetitive. I know I posted it on Discord but I don't think I posted it here.. @failnator and I have started playing Modded Starbound (Frackin' Universe + some racial mods), anyone is welcome to join us, all you need is Discord Edit: Er, and Starbound, obviously..

Whilst you're not wrong, those are things that would definitely not happen here. Part of it I think is student culture. Maybe in a grammar school or an affluent area, sure, but we're pretty deprived over here and our kids are from low-income (and not always working) families, single parents, etc and whilst none of this functionally prevents being able to dictate an essay, there's something to be said for a lack of aspiration having an effect on creativity when it comes to a pupil trying to learn. Plus, should we really be expecting our kids to come up with creative solutions to sub-par tools? Shouldn't we just give them decent tools instead? Not that I'm shooting that idea down, that's the point of these threads after all, different perspectives one might not have encountered. But in a classroom environment, dictating speech-to-text would never work. I'm not so much using it as an argument against tablets, more as an argument "Pick the right tool for the right job." It's one of those things where, yeah, tablets do have their uses, but they're a jack of few trades. Photography course needs to take photos, or Drama need to record a video? You can get a DSLR for the same price, which'll do the job a lot better and be less likely to get damaged. Music need to record someone's performance, or Languages need to record spoken conversation? Cardioid mics run from a 10th to a 100th of the price. That being said it's interesting to see perspectives where tablets have been working really well, like @steveg's school. We have a modest SEN department here, I think we're at around 30 kids, and the iPads seem better received there, though maybe they're just playing 'educational' games on them, I don't really know.

We're a reasonable size secondary school, ≈950 pupils, and I can't say I'm terribly enthused by them. From a technical standpoint, they're a pain in the proverbial to manage. You get 2 options, either you use Configurator and craft profiles, app lists, etc into blueprints and apply those blueprints to the iPads via a local connection.. By using a powered USB hub I've managed to do 16 at a time, but I don't know how much higher, if at all, that number goes. I personally find that the most convenient way of doing it, because the other option is an MDM solution. MDM solutions for Apple are very limited and all pretty much identical save for a few QOL features. But it's the way they work that's a hassle. You change the settings in your MDM, they fire those settings up to Apple, Apple fires the settings back down to the device. Which also means you're only allowed to play with the settings Apple lets you play with (which could be said for AD/GPO to be fair but you get considerably more control with the latter). With Configurator, you also can't remove access to some of the settings (invert colours, floating dock, zoom, etc) the most annoying ones being date-time and alarm. From a teaching and learning standpoint, iPads (as are all tablets) are devices of data consumption, not of data creation. The only potential time this isn't true is with expressive arts (you can kinda draw, you can record video/audio, you can photograph). You can't write an assignment on an iPad unless you buy a bluetooth keyboard, which is just another thing to break/lose and by this point you might as well have just bought a laptop. Staff responses to iPads have ranged from "They're rubbish" to "I'm not really sure how to use them" but I've never had a definite positive response to them beyond "The kids like them". They seem to be firmly entrenched as 'research'/web browsing devices and not all that much else, which I'll admit in part is due to us not having a magic triangle set up, but we do have Office365 and G Suite, so not being AD-aware isn't as big a set back as it used to be. Now the apps... I actually expected this to be where iPads would shine. I figured there would be issues with no keyboard/the keyboard taking up 50% of the screen, but I expected the staff to just ask me to load apps on to them that had UI's built for that style of device, but that hasn't been how it's ended up. Each department has only asked for a handful of apps each, and how often they're used is anyone's guess. Maybe the staff just haven't taken the time to look for apps, but given we've issued most members of staff with their own personal iPad I can't imagine researching apps would be difficult.. So, in conclusion, what we're left with is a bunch over-priced and under-utilised web browsers where we can't pinpoint specific activity to specific pupils (no RADIUS) and where kids can alter the settings enough to render them effectively unusable (date-time manipulation kills web browsing, zoom/invert kills other usage) and make them sporadically annoying (setting alarms). Now I'm willing to concede that some of our issues could be solved with changes to the network and to the domain but that's a lot of money we just don't have. My recommendation? Save your money, buy laptops. The above is obviously all my opinion but it gets repetitive typing "I think", "In my experience", etc repeatedly. Some of my knowledge of MDM's may be out of date, I only really properly looked at them a few years ago at BETT and haven't looked into them since, because money.

I do recall hearing something like that.. I heard that the re-release on Steam was pretty much the original PC port with a few tweaks because of it. I know 100% they lost a lot of files like backgrounds and stuff which is why they couldn't upscale them. Mate you need to try MediEvil if you can. Whilst the graphics don't stack up so great today, the games, especially the first, are still very fun. And you play as a skeleton who, if reduced to having no weapons, rips off one of his arms and hits things with that. What's not to love?! Yeah tbh I agree with that. I doubt many, if any, of the games I listed will make it onto the mini.. Especially not the ones that have been remastered. They were just games off the top of my head I'd be up for revisiting.

Eh, there's several franchises I could think of that I could go for.. MediEvil, FF81, FF91, Metal Gear Solid, Soul Reaver, Oddworld, wipEout, Crash Team Racing, Resident Evil, Spyro, Silent Hill, Tomb Raider, Rayman, 1: Did not care for FF7. It just wasn't enjoyable.

Huh, neat. I only own Hollow Knight and Crash so far so nothing MP.

Completely, but local would be many-people-one-console so no need for networking software. I very much suspect the homebrew community will be building some kind of response to this though. I haven't homebrewed my switch yet, but I probably will at some point.

All this condiment talk is making me want to go and visit my horse, Mayo. Mayo Neighs.

Would be cool, but I suspect that won't work. Hamachi-etc (iirc..) is pseudo-lan. All they need to do is make the games online MP only and you're buggered. No LAN/offline MP. And if you're doing online MP it'll have to authenticate against Nintendo's servers to ensure you're paying your racket like a good little stooge monthly subs.

Should've posted it here.. oops! As of last night, A Hat in Time was on sale for <£14, and the new DLC for it is free for 24 hours. Not sure when that 24 hour period ends, but if you activate the DLC before the time's up you've got it permanently. I bought it, haven't tried it yet, but I've heard many good things.

So that's why we haven't heard from you!

Overcooked 2 is definitely on my 'to buy' list, just haven't decided if I'm going for Steam or Switch yet.

Yeah I figured as much That was the plan! But by that point I think it was around 2am and I wanted to go to bed lol.

3-Star'd the first hospital, up to 2 stars on the second. I think I might have derped myself on that one though, I bought all of the wings and then it turns out I have to get 65% attractiveness.. And I'm only using 2 of the buildings so there's just 2 empty ones (presumably) bringing my attractiveness % down! Oops! It's everything I expected from a Theme Hospital redo, from the dad-joke-diseases like Mock Star (which makes you think you're Freddie Mercury), Lightheadedness (which makes your head a lightbulb) and Jest Infection (which turns you into a clown), to the cynical and sarcastic tannoy announcements. Loving it so far!

Presumably they just check your wallet whilst the coroner is on the way

It did look significantly more ooh-err from the concept art, but in-the-hand it doesn't look as bad. Still not a prop I'd like to leave out when Granny comes to visit, though! I feel like the idea was to go more towards the idea that the TARDIS and by extension, screwdriver, are grown, and they wanted to give this a bit more of a 'biological' look, a union of machine and nature, whereas the previous screwdrivers have all been overwhelmingly mechanical.

PayPal does similar, too. I bought something off eBay from the US and it calculated the import charge and gave me the option of paying it whilst I was checking out. Item showed up at my door about a week later, no fuss.

Huh, weird. At a guess, I'd suggest it might not be available if you're using an SSO solution without any kind of writeback capability. But that's just a guess.