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Ah, yes. Rootki... I mean... Anti cheat software is so good!
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April Fools isn't for another 2 weeks.
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@da na boredom led to me creating a website that lets me send a request to it from anywhere to update my pronouns because currently they be funky
plain text string because i hate having to parse html
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Scored an ATI FireGL V7200, which was incorrectly listed as a V3300, for $10. Great find - the V7200 uses a full-fledged Radeon X1800 die, and an X1800 for $10 is a damn good deal.
For comparison, the V3300 the card was incorrectly listed as is a cut-down version of the Radeon X1300. Massive difference.
Bought it because I'd like to see what an X1800 is capable of without pushing the card in my XPS m2010 (which is on the verge of death) beyond the realm of the living. Seems logical that a slightly lower-clocked version of the desktop X1800 card might perform similarly to a mobile version, and I'd like to get benchmark figures from the XPS without risking damage.
In general, though, ATI FireGL cards are incredible deals for old Radeon cards. People have no damn clue what they are. At this point, ebay sellers have realized what Quadros are equivalent to GeForce 6800 Ultras and et cetera, but the same hasn't happened for FireGL yet. You can regularly get mid to high end Radeon cards for like $20-40 by finding the FireGL counterpart and buying those instead.
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@Caroline It's the tesla robot this time without a morph suit.
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It got too boring in the woods. Since I was I gone I have shunt modded my RTX3070 Noctua with 3mR shunts as @DildorTheDecent recommended.
It is now able to pull upto 430ws. Changes in game: Absolutely none lol, i am voltage limited. Furmark is 250mhz higher though lol. I changed the calculation of power limit since I know what I put in there, I just multiply the value card reports with 1.66 and get the reporting (which also seem to correlate with the UPS too).
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D'oh, how could I have been so stupid?
So I no longer have broadband at home meaning I had to hotspot with my iPhone. However, the 4G is unusable so I have to leave my phone in a specific place so it gets 5G.
iPad mini or old phone, works perfectly, connects via Wifi 6 and there's minimal speed/ping penalties. However, my desktop would get stuck at 2.4GHz and I would struggle to get more than 10Mbps with horrible ping (connection is between 40-80Mbps depending on time of day). However, I did figure out that if my old android phone is connected to the iPhone hotspot, I can just hotspot my Android (one great thing about Android, hotspotting a wifi or ethernet connection) to my desktop and it works fine enough (caps out at 30Mbps and adds about 20ms of ping however).
After going at it with the janky setup for 1.5 months, I realised something...why don't I just USB tether my old android phone...phone happily stays Wifi 6 and desktop is now happy...The solution has been there all along
Mind you, I still haven't worked out why the intel 9260 is okay with my iPad's hotspot (150Mbps on iPad's 5G no problem) but hates my iPhone's 15 hotspot (it won't connect to anything other than 802.11n).
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5 hours ago, Lightwreather said:
Looks like London
I don't see a round around roundabout consisting of roundabouts.
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1 minute ago, WereCat said:
I don't see a round around roundabout consisting of roundabouts.
Nothing beats roundabouts in China.
The balcony of the hotel I stayed at in Xi'an overlooked an eight-lane roundabout. Watching traffic and thinking "How has no one died yet?" was a good 30 minutes of every morning.
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Holy shit, Nvidia is killing it right now at their GTC.
Blackwell looks to be a monster in terms of AI performance. If these numbers are correct, then it is insane.
It will probably become Nvidia's most successful product launch ever.
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16 minutes ago, Agall said:
I have a feeling the Geforce side of things are going to get sidelined, especially in rasterization.
I too feel like that is a risk. Hopefully it doesn't, and I suspect that Nvidia will still bring out some major gaming improvements for the 50 series.
On the bright side, in a worst case scenario they mostly ignore the gaming market (IMO unlikely) and it leaves a big opportunity for AMD to take back some market share. Although AMD seems to be mostly focused on trying to take AI customers from Nvidia so the absolute worst case scenario for gamers is that nether company makes big gaming improvements next gen.
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WiFi providers HATE her! Get free signal with this one clever trick!
No more crappy signal on the LifeBook T-series.
These are the antennas I had lying around; they almost TRIPLE the WiFI throughput when paired with an Intel 5300AGN card - antenna 1&2 are using these antennas while antenna 3 of the card is connected inside the laptop so I can still get signal when these are screwed off.
These are just the antennas I had lying around; I have some larger ones that are like 40% bigger on the way. I'll add a third SMAA plug in the center so I can fully use the Intel 5300's triaxial antenna capability.
I'm not sure how they actually perform with a decent access point but I get 80mbps with this. Used to get in the 30s range with this laptop, and big expensive laptops with good cards and big antennas only hit the 50s range. I'm sure these would easily max out the 802.11n link speed on a decent router.
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PC is about to get its 4TB spinning rust back.
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Every PC needs some spinning rust.
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Pavilion DV6985 Special Edition is hands down the most gorgeous in my collection.
I've nominated several laptops as the most beautiful I own at this point, but I have a feeling that this extremely limited DV6000 will hold that crown for quite a while.
The back, a dark purplish-reddish-orange which changes shade depending on the angle from which it is viewed, features an inscribed pattern of vertical lines seamlessly melding into vines and leaves.
The lid's bright colors are offset by a silver body made of three different shades - extremely bright and reflective on the speaker grille and to the keyboard's sides, reflective and slightly translucent on the touch bar, and duller on the palmrests to bring out the pattern.
The palmrests feature the same pattern of vertical lines which begin to curve into blades of grass, then morph into thin tendrils of stems.
The pattern, and Special Edition branding, carry over onto the touchpad itself. The patterning does not affect the feel of the touchpad in any way; it is beneath a flat clearcoat so you cannot feel the lines.
I am always amazed by how intricate the etching and printing on these Pavilion laptops are. No detail is overlooked. For example, each side of the touch bar features a printed dot matrix to "ease into" the touch bar itself, to help disguise the fact that the surface of the capacitive touch panel looks slightly different from the paint around it.
Due to its extreme reflectiveness, it looks a little different from every angle. The bright silver presents as a darker grey when viewed from the side.
Hardware-wise, mine featured pretty high end parts (Core 2 Duo T5750 2000mhz/2m/667, 2x2GB RAM), as well as a wireless card I'd never seen before: The Intel 4965AGN. This card is the high-end counterpart to the Intel 3945ABG, the most common card on the first-gen Centrino platform. The 4965 features three antennas and 802.11N capability, two things which were utterly unseen at this time. The 4965AGN would pave the way for Intel's following generations of high-performance Centrino cards - the 5300 and 6300.
I am not sure I even want to use this laptop - it is far too pretty to risk damaging.
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Looking at the housing market really has me considering leaving Canada.
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Yup, in before bill C-63
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11 hours ago, da na said:
well don't come to the US, it's no better here
Haha it's better than here for sure. I've looked at the listings. I likely wouldn't move there for other reasons though.
10 hours ago, Lurick said:Wait, there is a housing market?!?!
I thought it was all corporations, glory to them, which leased us poors houses at wonderful prices!!
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Forgot to add serious talking points.
Housing market sucks completely across the board which is really rough. Sure there are some places but usually it's miles from anywhere out in the middle of empty land or in super small towns with little to offer in some circumstances.
Haha, I'm a firm believer of banning foreign nationals from buying property. There's no reason for it. I wouldn't even mind living out of town, there's just very little available. I'll probably wait another year and see what's happening then.
10 hours ago, IkeaGnome said:Come to Alaska. It's that happy middle of Canada upsides with less than normal US downsides.
Haha one of my coworkers just came back from a posting there. She said she loved and hated it. I'd avoid it for the bears. One of my irrational fears
10 hours ago, wONKEyeYEs said:Haha, I don't think there's really a good party though. They're all fucked in one way or another.
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2 hours ago, Dillpickle23422 said:
It excites me because I only ever get it when I get a big purchase outside and take it home...
And yes, there are some things that it's cheaper to buy in the lower 48 and then drive home through Canada.
Buying a truck? Buy a trailer while you're down there, and sell it up here and your gas is more than paid for.
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