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Same here

Music wise or due to outside factors?

It does indeed suck. Trying to get those ultra low price points in something worth selling is tough. 

Even if you just did like a Renault twizy level cockpit on an Ice bear trike: you'd still probably be pushing $10k, and wouldn't get much market share outside of metro areas and non-US markets (see: kid crushers), just would be a deathtrap on US streets given the homicidal rage people drive around their Panzers with. 

$300 all in with bike, lock, helmet, and more comfortable seat. 

Now to make sure I haven't forgotten how to ride a bike in the last 8-10 years

Edit:

I still got it 

1 hour ago, Hinjima said:

Just crashing to desktop without any error message?
I have 50 hours in and only had 1 error crash.

No it's the famous F error code, for video card.

15 minutes ago, podkall said:

No it's the famous F error code, for video card.

Did you check Horizon Portal?

Don't worry. With a bit of practice you will stop crashing and driving will become a breeze

ZZZ for me is one of those games where I don't really care enough to use it.

The visual appeal to me isn't realistic lighting but animation and design with better fluidity which RT can actively hurt depending on your hardware

11 hours ago, Millios said:

The visual appeal to me isn't realistic lighting but animation and design with better fluidity which RT can actively hurt depending on your hardware

It's a very light game generally speaking, and I doubt the RT implementation is going to be a heavy one, especially if they already have it working on PS5's weak AMD GPU.

8 hours ago, porina said:

It's a very light game generally speaking, and I doubt the RT implementation is going to be a heavy one, especially if they already have it working on PS5's weak AMD GPU.

I can see both sides (as in it working fine and it not doing that) but regardless I personally do not care for it.

If they do something like "It is on only in the environments you roam and not playable stages with enemies" then IMO that is ideal but we'll have to wait and see.

At least I picked the game back up, and I have to say they REALLY cleaned up since the last time I played which is something.

8 hours ago, danalog said:

first-gen Core i- laptop sees the timings and clockspeed of DDR3L

you also cannot run 8gb dimms with those.

2 hours ago, Levent said:

you also cannot run 8gb dimms with those.

One of my first gen mobile workstations will take four 8GB sticks, same on-die memory controller as the cheapest consumer grade plastic junk laptop

8 hours ago, danalog said:

One of my first gen mobile workstations will take four 8GB sticks, same on-die memory controller as the cheapest consumer grade plastic junk laptop

X58 can also take 8GB sticks, even though Intel says otherwise.

Yeah, that happened, instead of protections that simply block IP if it's too frequently using the website, or captcha or something, instead they opted for paywall.

7 hours ago, porina said:

I had that shock at some point too. I really like the site for their testing, but my usage is infrequent enough it isn't something I'd pay for routinely. Maybe if I wanted a major purchase I might do it as a once-off.

It's weird how you rarely go there for detailed reviews and stuff, yet they somehow had too much traffic? Must have been AI.

51 minutes ago, podkall said:

It's weird how you rarely go there for detailed reviews and stuff, yet they somehow had too much traffic? Must have been AI.

It's AI in part.

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RTINGS.com has historically relied heavily on organic search traffic from Google and affiliate links. That model is becoming less reliable. Fewer people click through from Google organic results than they used to. At the same time, AI actively scrapes and reuses our test results, often without attribution and without the context needed to interpret them correctly.

https://www.rtings.com/company/revamping-our-membership-program

59 minutes ago, porina said:

It's AI in part.

 

https://www.rtings.com/company/revamping-our-membership-program

It's AI as whole culprit in it's context.

Scraping + no credit + less Google search.

11 minutes ago, apoyusiken said:

yea but still does it not make sense to turn off the de? also imma allocate 8 gigs of ram to gpu and i have zram at 100 percent, will run fsr and stuff too, im aiming for 2k and hopefully 75 hertz with framegen

I'd set my sights on 1080p 60 for running it smoothly first. You can always tweak as you go. Desktop environment in Linux is barely measurable, we're talking MB of VRAM, and idle process CPU usage that it even has trouble visualizing.

In Windows: absolutely matters, bloated AF and the "well, if it worked in 1995: it probably should still work today, right? *Middle management Chortle*" try it without gamescope, and see how you do. 

(I speak from experience) You likely have worked yourself into an anxiety stress pretzel trying to account for every last variable. 

On a screen that size: 1080p medium-high detail should be totally fine, and you may even enjoy the game. 

1 minute ago, BiotechBen said:

On a screen that size: 1080p medium-high detail should be totally fine, and you may even enjoy the game. 

i wanna connect it to a monitor if i can get the desired performance 

also some games dont work right without gamescope but its not a hassle to manually launch gamescope in that case

9 minutes ago, apoyusiken said:

i wanna connect it to a monitor if i can get the desired performance 

also some games dont work right without gamescope but its not a hassle to manually launch gamescope in that case

Then I think you have found your solution. 

I saw killer offer for DDR4, so I asked, "is it still available?", it was.

Makes sense, I've never seen a USB controller chip be shielded and a USB cable functions as an antenna 

1 hour ago, danalog said:

Makes sense, I've never seen a USB controller chip be shielded and a USB cable functions as an antenna 

I've added a bunch of ferrites, maybe it'll help, time will tell.

I always thought that the idea of twitter-like social media is fundamentally a piece of toxic crap. If the whole shtick of the network is to publicly blurt out whatever you think in a short-ish text form to gather engagement-driven internet points then no wonder it eventually ends up being a cesspit. Making a "twitter but not twitter" and slapping a butterfly logo on it won't change a thing, the obscurity of it will just bring in more weirdos (and not the cool ones like we have here in LTTwitter).

9 hours ago, Caroline said:

I only followed Alec from Technology Connections and a bunch of other tubers but they weren't too active or straight up quit posting, so I slowly lost interest.

 

I tried the public homepage idk what it was called now, basically like the Explore in Twitter, but it was literally *ALL* hardcore porn, dick pics, e-prostitutes, and furry/hentai drawings... there's a filter for that but apparently it's never worked, pretty much the same as Twitter.

6 hours ago, spacepickle said:

my problem was that about 70% of my feed was classic “echo chamber” political content.

I usually ignore what is on the home page and try to follow only interest-based accounts. Currently, I'm following several technical organizations (Linus Tech Tips, The Computer Clan, GSMArena), gamers (Steam, Kit and Krysta, GOG.com), as well as some individuals (Rittzler, Norman Caruso, Amy Shira Teitel). Some of them don't respond to any of my posts, some don't post that often (LTT hasn't posted stuff since February of last year), and I've already been blocked by several people for sounding too controversial, too based, or even just because my posts don't fit a certain criteria (can you believe I've been added to a block list where I've taken Overwatch out of context?!?).

IMHO, that would likely be true of any platform. I know of several x-rated X accounts (no pun intended), and likely if I started using X, I'd encounter the same issues I have with Bluesky. It's not the platform at fault, necessarily - it's the people. True, platforms can attract people of a certain mindset if they cater to that, but I honestly don't see that as the case with Bluesky; it seems to want to invite people from multiple avenues on the service. Right-wingers, left-wingers, Christians, Jews, Muslims, straights, gays, feminists, misogynists, NSFW artists, porn stars - I wouldn't be surprised if even known criminals use Bluesky!

So, yeah, Bluesky as a whole isn't a problem for me. What is a problem is Spark apparently not fixing my media uploads, or if they are, not giving me any info that they're working on it. I'm still on a workaround until either Spark fixes my issue, or I ditch it and go to another PDS as my main.

19 hours ago, spacepickle said:

I never had that issue, my problem was that about 70% of my feed was classic “echo chamber” political content. I switched to Twitter for a while (imagine switching from vaping to cigarettes). 
 

Long story short the idea behind Bluesky is cool but the people are more insufferable than an r/comics commenter. 

Oh yeah there's the politics echo chamber too, but that's pretty much every social media page since 2014. 

And that, is why I don't use mainstream sites and only lurk the depths, there's less people but better content.

About a month ago, I had a problem with full C drive. Well, after some digging, I found out that a fucking Acrobat Reader took like 80gb, because it kept old update filles?

Wasn't there a game not long ago that removed duplicated data which drastically reduced the footprint? I do think we should be past the point where people should be assumed to have a SSD when playing large modern games. Or at the least, make the no duplicate version standard and offer a "hard disk performance" as optional configuration.

2 hours ago, porina said:

Wasn't there a game not long ago that removed duplicated data which drastically reduced the footprint? I do think we should be past the point where people should be assumed to have a SSD when playing large modern games. Or at the least, make the no duplicate version standard and offer a "hard disk performance" as optional configuration.

Helldivers 2 drastically reduced its install size on PC, shrinking from approximately 154 GB down to just 23 GB. This 85% size reduction was achieved by de-duplicating game data, which freed up 131 GB of storage without affecting the game's graphics or performance. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

$15....so jealous. 

Also nice TI

It needs some work but is in really good condition so hopefully should be able to fix it...

1 minute ago, danalog said:

Also nice TI

Got a lot with the 51 and a 58 for 45ish bucks, and stole the keypad of the 58 to put it in the 59 that I've had for a year or so but on which the keypad was corroded beyond repair. Still need to fix the magnetic card reader, printed a TPU roller but the dimensions I found online are wrong, it's a tad too small. Annoying as each try means taking the whole thing apart.

Set came with the chargers for both, booklet of labels for the ROM and a few magnetic cards too

Recelled the packs for both 

Oh my bidoof that's so cute! 

1 hour ago, Lightwreather said:

Oh my bidoof that's so cute! 

it issss! soo comfy too

3 hours ago, Levent said:

I whip chatgpt into making me shit that I am too lazy to do myself. I made myself a msi afterburner plugin to feed data into a 1602 display with esp8266 just today. It would have easily taken me a week to do so myself and it took less than hour to get it right with codex.
 

 

Codex, claude code, antigravity... (and their models), or open code (& something local like qwen3-coder-next q8),
they can all be pretty good for this sort of application:
- Low complexity
- No team
- No maintenance
I use them myself for stuff I don't really care about, and I'm starting from a blank slate.
Because, they rarely produce quality... unless I spend a considerable amount of time describing (or writing plan/docs) on how to achieve the goal, and correcting them along the way.
At which point, like @AbydosOne pointed out, I start questioning am I actually saving any time.

Anyhow, a couple suggestions for your 1602:
1)
It can store up to 8 custom characters in CGRAM.
So essentially you could make 8 icons, or 4 icons (if you want them bigger, by combining 2).
Would look nicer IMO, also would leave more space on the screen for additional metrics.

2)
Backlight is just an LED, you could PWM it for brightness control.
Bonus points if you add a light sensor, so it auto changes brightness. 

PS I find it odd that frequency of whatever is at 200 MHz, while usage of whatever (else?) is close to 50%.

7 hours ago, Biohazard777 said:

It can store up to 8 custom characters in CGRAM.

wouldnt make sense as resolution is too low to make any legible custom characters, it makes sense to me as is

7 hours ago, Biohazard777 said:

Backlight is just an LED, you could PWM it for brightness control.

if it doesnt receive any data, I just turn off the backlight automatically so i dont really need it.

7 hours ago, Biohazard777 said:

open code (& something local like qwen3-coder-next q8),

I tried a whole lot of those, none can do as complex or hands-off programming as closed source ones.

7 hours ago, Biohazard777 said:

PS I find it odd that frequency of whatever is at 200 MHz, while usage of whatever (else?) is close to 50%.

4070TiS paired with a 3440x1440p185hz display while watching video. Its not as demanding to trigger the next power stage

18 hours ago, Levent said:

wouldnt make sense as resolution is too low to make any legible custom characters, it makes sense to me as is

Sure, 5x8 and even 10x8 isn't much to work with...
But I like pixel art heh, would change this from:

to something like:

After all, beauty will always be in the eye of the beholder.
 

18 hours ago, Levent said:

if it doesnt receive any data, I just turn off the backlight automatically so i dont really need it.

Just that I dislike their glow, especially in dimly lit enviorements.
But that is a personal preference, and yours isn't as dark.
Makes sense.
 

18 hours ago, Levent said:

I tried a whole lot of those, none can do as complex or hands-off programming as closed source ones.

I don't find any of them (closed or open) to be hands-off,
unless we are talking about some simple refactoring, boilerplate, and stuff like that.. then maybe, but not that big of a difference IMO.
Then again, I am not in DevOps.
 

For legal reasons I must disclose that this is a parody 

fun sidenote, there's a brand of E-bike whose batteries have a built in counter so precise that after one charge, you *will* be down to 99.98% health, and you *will* have lost 0.02% capacity. (not because your batteries have worn out, but because the counter said so...)

it better have socks and sandals on the back

23 hours ago, Murasaki said:

it better have socks and sandals on the back

No, but it says "Do not drop" on it. 

Damn that sucks

I really need to get back to trying to fix my nixie calc...

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worse than nearly drowning a few days ago

I feel personally invested in this story (I work as a lifeguard)

I remember I guess going on a decade ago now, we were employed to help clean out a hoarder rowhome to sell.

Now you might be thinking, "I wonder where he's going with this?" "That sounds like hell" "did you need a tyvek suit?" 

This place was frozen in what we could best estimate to be 1992. He effectively sealed the house shut like a tomb, and then never returned, a time capsule of things he found interesting. 

In a beautiful hard leather case slightly larger than a briefcase, we find a vintage Magnetic Wire Recorder. God this thing was beautiful, it was in such beautiful condition that it could have gone into a WW2 museum. The beautiful brushed metal faceplate, narrow wood veneer inlay along the bottom, a full spool of unused wire, this pristine contraption weighed at least 60lbs. God I wish I still had pictures of it. 

(I will attempt to find a picture of one similar)