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not going to run 120fps with all the trimmings

Requires a separate gaming PC, but with Steam Link / Sunshine / Moonlight it can!

Don’t really see a reason to run games like Cyberpunk on low settings at 30FPS when I can pipe it in from the other room at 60FPS+ high / ultra settings

Came in clutch with the poor optimization of MH:Wilds. It was a struggle to run at my monitor’a resolution, but running at 1080P to send to my deck made for a decent experience.

Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data

Whoa holy shit what

[…] the update triggered storage failures that cause drives to disappear, making them and their corresponding SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) unreadable by the OS, according to a new report. The issue purportedly surfaces during heavy write operations to certain NVMe SSDs as well as HDDs, especially when continuous sustained writes approach 50 GB on drives and exceed 60 per cent controller usage. This could potentially lead to a “high likelihood of file corruption when symptoms occurs” adds the report (Translated from Japanese by Grok AI).

… oh

Why always with the clickbaity headlines?

Funny seeing this here today, just had to dispose of the same bird bath earlier today. Bottom cracked so it always leaked, it was a freebie but came without the stakes. Always found it weird that it was so tippy and stabilized it with rocks.

who needed only 1 USB-A and two lightning cable ports?

That MacBook has an additional USB-A port and an HDMI port on the other side

When was Mini-DVI relevant?

In the mid 2000s. DVI offered the advantage of digital signal and support for higher resolutions at a time when most other laptops still had a VGA port. Part of Apple’s option of “premium” technologies. HDMI didn’t really start to take hold until the late 2000s, and Apple eventually switched.

Apple have generally been willing to adopt the more novel / premium connections in their products. Consider the 2016 MacBook Pro - Apple went all-in on Thunderbolt / USB Type C at a time where that was a rather uncommon connection, but in the years that followed we got an awesome array of aftermarket hubs and adapters that also benefited ultrabook users as the rest of tech started to follow suit.

Don’t get me started on the iPhone USB-C port being limited to 500Mbps though.

gui driven interface

I navigate Windows almost entirely through keyboard shortcuts, ‘run’ commands, and the search box

Familiarity with any OS takes time

Also, a willingness / knowledge to ‘work around’ the problem

I don’t know about “absolute favorite”, but the Spanish Waltz / Shop theme from Castle Crashers routinely loops in my head

https://youtu.be/dLchXp8FCbI

I was so disappointed by it. It’s not really an HD remake of the original, it’s a separate game that felt kind if bland by comparison

And you can use that PC to stream games to the Steam Deck, getting pretty crazy battery life and making the Deck’s performance capabilities entirely irrelevant.

I mean, this is fine. Secure Boot is on everything motherboard from the last 12 years, there are very few reasons not to have it enabled and those reasons are usually edge case scenarios.

Would absolutely take this over a kernel level driver.

Were they supposed to use their crystal ball to predict the 2008 grift and subsequent rebound?

In your list, nearly everything that comes after that is a symptom of trying to navigate financial hardship.l and being old enough to face age discrimination in the job market.

Your framerate is capped at 60fps, which means that the average can only be lower than that.

Based on the 58fps average, I would expect this to be totally playable.

The occasional dip as low as 48fps probably isn’t great, but could be a heck of a lot worse.

If you’re CPU bound, consider increasing the resolution scaling to shift more work to the GPU.

While your CPU is probably a bottleneck for that GPU, as long as you get a playable experience that’s not really as big of an issue as the internet would make you think. You’re leaving performance on the table. Reframe: you’re saving some performance headroom so that when you do inevitably upgrade to a newer CPU, that upgrade will feel even more impactful.

Bummer, these cards still perform reasonably well for non-AAA / 1080p gaming.

Don’t forget to run Memtest ti make sure it actually works rather than just “works”

Creeping corruption is a bad time

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The battery needs to be able to deliver 100+ amps in an instant.

A battery can fail in a manner where it’s not longer jumpable, cannot deliver the necessary amperage to start the motor, but still run accessory systems.

I would check the battery’s voltage with a multimeter.

I doubt this is a loose terminal connection. If the click you’ve described is coming from the engine compartment, that’s the starter relay switching. Wouldn’t be able to do that if there weren’t a complete battery circuit.

Five nights at Kazuki-kun’s and Touko-chan playtime

Around 8:40 he makes a point to take measurements at rest and at the wall before including measurements that are somewhere between the two with the screw in place. I recall there being mention of the trigger only being “barely pressed”, not at the wall.

It’s definitely not very scientific, he is measuring the distance between two contoured objects with the firearm “floating” up in the air, so there’s a ton of potential for variance in those measurements.

I would have preferred to see the firearm laying flat during measurement so that we know both the tines of the caliper are against a flat surface.

I’m not able to replicate this on a P320 X Compact. In the comments on the video, I only came across one person claiming their firearm did the same thing, the other who said that it didn’t also had an X Compact.

It certainly shouldn’t be possible to make this release the striker when the trigger has not been pulled to / past the break, so I’m very interested to see where this goes.

With that being said, I don’t have absolute confidence in the “sub-millimeter” claim. Just by looking at it with the screw in place, you can tell that trigger is nowhere near “at rest”. Mine doesn’t look like that until I’m at the wall, but it also uses the flat trigger design.

I don’t have a direct answer to your question, but expensive premixes aren’t really necessary outside of achieving a certain aesthetic.

Distilled water, biocide and corrosion inhibitors. Make sure your metals are all compatible.