Random thoughts on life
With the release of WordPress 6.9, I’m finally returning to the contributing to core. The last time was WordPress 6.5 (I’m genuinely not sure what I did for that one – it certainly wasn’t code related!) and, previous to that, 5.8, which was over 4 years ago.
And this contribution has been quite the journey.
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Every year I like to share the contents of my backpack. I travel a lot at WordPress VIP, so it often changes to reflect updated products as well as differences in my own thinking.
So, here I present what I’m carrying around in 2024 (albeit some of these will be dependant on the type of journey I’m making).
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Right now, the internet is alive with tips from local and some major news outlets with the “amazing” advice to rub washing up liquid on your car windscreen, so as to avoid condensation.
But, please don’t – it’s a badly thought out solution, and here’s why…
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I spend a lot of time on this blog writing about poor customer service, but it’s important for me to highlight where it’s blindingly good.
The whole thing about any kind of customer support is that the base level expectation is for it to be good. You’ll only really get complemented if it’s truly exceptional. On the other hand, anything even slightly less than good will garner complaints (and rightly so).
And, Elgato (part of Corsair) deserve praise.
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I’m told The Sims 4 is a great game. I don’t play it myself, but my daughter has more hours on it than she’s probably spent doing homework. No, not probably. Definitely. And I’ve probably spent nearly as much time fixing the damn thing.
You see, if you play The Sims 4 on PC or Mac, you can add third party content, known as “mods”, “scripts” or “custom content” (CC). This is (or rather should be – long story, but let’s just say it’s a heated debate in the Sims community) free and, let’s say, my daughter has a few of them (15,000 at the last count, each of them being a separate file. Urgh).
EA doesn’t guarantee that their updates won’t break due to someone else’s mod, so often that’s exactly what happens. And you’re then left hunting the thing down.
This week, though, no update occurred but, none-the-less, her game stopped working. Rather than something in the game break, the game itself just refused to load. I fixed it after about 2 hours of work and I have no idea even now what the cause was or, in fact, how I did fix it. None-the-less, I thought I’d share some useful resources and ideas on what others can do. Particularly stressed parents in the same situation.
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