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    ThreePinkApples got a reaction from Dracarris in Valve increases suggested prices for Steam Games non USD currencies | Commits to update non USD price suggestions annually   
    I was initially just looking at the percentage increase for NOK, expecting all games to now cost 40-60% more. But then I looked at the actual values and the new suggested price in NOK is more in line with what games have already been priced at for a while. So I guess no real change for most games.
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    ThreePinkApples reacted to nikescar in Christie shows off game changing OLED-like projector at CEDIA 2022. Only costs $400,000!   
    Summary
    The Christie Eclipse 4K HDR laser projector has 2 banks of 3 DLP chips used to create OLED black levels and contrast while maintaining 25,000 lumens.
     
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    My thoughts
    This might be a better solution for Linus' theater room than the Samsung video wall.
     
    Sources
    https://www.soundandvision.com/content/i-just-saw-best-projector-demo-ever-cedia-2022
    https://www.christiedigital.com/products/projectors/all-projectors/christie-eclipse/
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    ThreePinkApples reacted to GoodBytes in (Sorry, but Not SORRY. Microsoft AMA about much wanted features) Tali Roth, Says Moving the taskbar is not worth the effort to implement   
    Windows 11 has a new code base for its taskbar, and introduces touch gestures that would need to be adapted based in the taskbar location. It has more of them under Insider program.
     
    It's not that it is impossible to do, or super time consuming. A few months of work focused on it, can make it all happen. It's just not a priority for Microsoft.
     
    Considering that the taskbar on the right and left, since Windows 7, carries the same bugs and same limitations that don't exist when the taskbar is at the bottom, all the way to today under Windows 10, shows how little people actually move the taskbar.
     
    Microsoft priorities it's work based on telemetry data. This is why Windows 8 introduced many multiscreen improvements, and expanded further with Windows 10, multiscreen setup has grown notably since. Previously, Microsoft didn't care. Taskbar was on one screen only. Wallpaper was the same as on the main.
     
    In this case, Microsoft prefer to focus on its GUI, to be more consistent, dark theme everywhere, tabs in File Explore, move more Control Panel to Settings, continue to improve Windows Terminal, and various IT features for remote work environment, then supporting taskbar location.
     
    As for the icon only, introduced done Win 7 it is widely used. In fact, I never saw, beside myself, anyone using the title next to icons since. Not in classroom, not when I worked as IT, not in the work place as a software developer. Already had discussion with people.. in their view, they don't need titles, they just hover on the icon, then hover on the preview, and it brings in large, in front of them, what they are looking for and click on it. Their arguments is that title is useless, all they nearly all show the program name. The name is so long that to the file/project loaded name is cut off many times. Also got as a response that it takes less space on it, so more is visible.
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    ThreePinkApples reacted to Dietrichw in (Sorry, but Not SORRY. Microsoft AMA about much wanted features) Tali Roth, Says Moving the taskbar is not worth the effort to implement   
    Microsoft has telemetry data for how many people use certain features, they are prioritizing based off of that. I am annoyed that it can't be moved. I prefer to have my taskbar on my left monitor only (bottom) while having my middle monitor be the default display where fullscreen apps open by default.
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    ThreePinkApples reacted to Arika in Whistleblower: Microsoft is tied to hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign bribes   
    As with all ex-employee whistleblowers, take what they say with a grain of salt. Everything said here could be said about pretty much every large multinational corporation.
     
    "Ex-employee sees payments that don't makes sense, concludes they are bribes" just isn't as catchy of a headline.
     
    Things they do may break the law in the USA, but some thing ARE the law in the other countries.
  6. Funny
    ThreePinkApples reacted to Cyber in $2,500 Ethernet Switch Effectively Isolates Audiophiles From Cash   
    Summary
     Synergistic Research developed a wild ethernet switch that is designed to smooth out electric signals inside the switch in order to gain higher audio quality from audio streaming services.
     
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    My thoughts
    I can just see this switch in a few weeks in a new LTT Video $h!t Manufacturers Say
     
    Sources
    https://www.tomshardware.com/news/ethernet-switch-for-audiophiles
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    ThreePinkApples got a reaction from Arika in gaming on PC vs. console   
    I know you asked for why PC gaming is better, but I'd like to add some reason why I (as a long time PC gamer) have started to warm up more and more to consoles.
    The big thing consoles have over PC, is the simplicity and how fast it is just start and stop playing a game (from the couch). I've had a PS4 Pro for 3 years, and now a PS5 and the one thing I love the most is the Suspend/Sleep feature. Being able to just put the console to sleep when I need a break, or ending the game session for the day, and quickly waking up the console again later and be right were I left off, is amazing. To me this makes it way easier to just "plop down" and play for an hour or so. I really hope that Microsoft will add something similar to Windows 11 soon, the ability to "suspend" a game, so closing it down, but keep it in memory, or even write the memory state to disk, so you can jump straight back in where you are.
    There are also other annoying aspects of couch gaming from a PC that crops up if you don't have a PC dedicated to your TV. As soon as the TV is a secondary (or tertiary, or more) monitor connected to your PC, you're going to have annoying issues and need to tinker to get things right. And it gets even worse if you need to use Nvidia Gamestream or similar.
     
    I'm actually at the point now that if the game runs at a stable 60fps on PS5, I might actually prefer to play it there.
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    ThreePinkApples got a reaction from da na in LTT forum "banning" game   
    Banned for reminding us of Duke Nukem Forever
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    ThreePinkApples got a reaction from RockSolid1106 in LTT forum "banning" game   
    Banned for reminding us of Duke Nukem Forever
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    ThreePinkApples got a reaction from RockSolid1106 in LTT forum "banning" game   
    Banned for the awful shade of green in your profile pic
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    ThreePinkApples got a reaction from dalekphalm in gaming on PC vs. console   
    I know you asked for why PC gaming is better, but I'd like to add some reason why I (as a long time PC gamer) have started to warm up more and more to consoles.
    The big thing consoles have over PC, is the simplicity and how fast it is just start and stop playing a game (from the couch). I've had a PS4 Pro for 3 years, and now a PS5 and the one thing I love the most is the Suspend/Sleep feature. Being able to just put the console to sleep when I need a break, or ending the game session for the day, and quickly waking up the console again later and be right were I left off, is amazing. To me this makes it way easier to just "plop down" and play for an hour or so. I really hope that Microsoft will add something similar to Windows 11 soon, the ability to "suspend" a game, so closing it down, but keep it in memory, or even write the memory state to disk, so you can jump straight back in where you are.
    There are also other annoying aspects of couch gaming from a PC that crops up if you don't have a PC dedicated to your TV. As soon as the TV is a secondary (or tertiary, or more) monitor connected to your PC, you're going to have annoying issues and need to tinker to get things right. And it gets even worse if you need to use Nvidia Gamestream or similar.
     
    I'm actually at the point now that if the game runs at a stable 60fps on PS5, I might actually prefer to play it there.
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    ThreePinkApples got a reaction from djneo in LTT forum "banning" game   
    Banned for reminding us of Duke Nukem Forever
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    ThreePinkApples got a reaction from da na in LTT forum "banning" game   
    Banned for the awful shade of green in your profile pic
  14. Funny
    ThreePinkApples reacted to Lightwreather in LTT forum "banning" game   
    Banned for being hypocritical
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    ThreePinkApples got a reaction from soldier_ph in AMD's EPYC CPUs Push Netflix Server Bandwidth To 400 Gbps   
    The slides also mentioned an 800Gbps prototype that they would share more about "next year". Possibly an early sample of Zen 4 Epyc with DDR5?
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    ThreePinkApples reacted to hysel in AMD's EPYC CPUs Push Netflix Server Bandwidth To 400 Gbps   
    And to think my old Dell r720 based NAS is graded for 1.5Mbps and it working fine 🙂
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    ThreePinkApples got a reaction from hysel in AMD's EPYC CPUs Push Netflix Server Bandwidth To 400 Gbps   
    The slides also mentioned an 800Gbps prototype that they would share more about "next year". Possibly an early sample of Zen 4 Epyc with DDR5?
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    ThreePinkApples reacted to Jet_ski in Facebook suspends Signal from it's advertising platform   
    Summary
    The people behind the messaging app Signal decided to have some fun at the expense of Facebook. They created an ad campaign on Instagram that showed users some of their data that Facebook has collected on them and is selling to anyone.
     
    The ads made headlines quickly and Facebook decided to take action by suspending Signal’s advertising account from their platform. Because user data can be sold, but not shared with the users themselves.
     
    The following are a few examples of the ads shown to Instagram users, each user saw their very own extremely personalized ad.
     



     
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    My thoughts
    More negative publicity on Facebook’s data collection. As if anything stops the zuggernaut.
     
    I actually saw mine but I didn’t read it. I can skip ads in my sleep now. I wish I had paid attention.
     
    Sources
     https://signal.org/blog/the-instagram-ads-you-will-never-see/
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    ThreePinkApples reacted to Jet_ski in AT&T fights back against California’s net neutrality law   
    But that’s not really the point here. AT&T structured their offering to unfairly incentivize people to subscribe to [HBO Max], a subsidiary of their parent company, instead of other services. But they are trying to frame it as if they were doing people a favor. They weren’t, it was a self serving thing to boost their own business by breaking net neutrality.
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    ThreePinkApples got a reaction from Ash_Kechummm in MTX is the future - Ubisoft to shift focus away from AAA development   
    This could in be a good thing, in regards to the quality of their AAA games. When a company no longer heavily relies on their AAA releases to make them money, they can actually slow down the development of those games, and give them more care. So fewer but better crafted AAA games. I'm all for that, if that is what this means.
    Also, AAA isn't exactly dying, they still make a ton of money, when made right. Just look at all the PS4 exclusives that have made absolute bank, and Sony says they'll continue to focus on that. Ubisoft them selves earns a lot on their AAA games, so it's not like they're going to abandon that marked.
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    ThreePinkApples reacted to poochyena in MTX is the future - Ubisoft to shift focus away from AAA development   
    well, i'll continue to play games I like and not play games I don't like. Not like video games are some limited source, so I don't see what it matters if a company makes a bad game or whatever.
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    ThreePinkApples reacted to Humbug in DerBauer hardware survey highlights issues with max boost clock on Ryzen 3000 "It's worse than I thought"   
    AMD should have just advertised the clockspeeds as 100Mhz lower. People are happy with the performance which is what matters.
     
    What is the point of this? Do they think that they will lose sales because some people don't unerstand that clockspeed is only one factor in performance.
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    ThreePinkApples reacted to LukeSavenije in Motherboard Tier List (EOL)   
    newer version can be found here:
     
    Credit to: @Jurrunio @GoldenLag
     
    The following list is based on facts, ranked on power delivery and known problems. The list will include modern motherboards for both Intel and AMD chips From Asus, Asrock, Biostar EVGA, Gigabyte, MSI, NZXT and Supermicro (chipsets will be listed). We’ll include the recommended chips we would do with the boards.
     
    For advanced users: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Smj5dh97n32wJqm5dkdDcQt8ID7vH52-lKzaaXUUQx8/edit?usp=sharing
     
    AMD (AM4 Althlon 2xx, Ryzen 3, Ryzen 5, Ryzen 7, Ryzen 9)
    All current draw figures are based on Prime95 small FFT with AVX unless otherwise specified, in other words the worst case scenario. Only the top end SKU of CPUs in the same generation and core/thread count configuration is named, others share the same rating. Zen scales down frequency and voltage according to EDC (current limit) and TDC (thermal limit) settings of the motherboard so in theory you won’t cook the VRM of any board at stock, you just lose frequency.
     
    AM4 (Athlon 2xx, Ryzen 3, Ryzen 5, Ryzen 7, Ryzen 9)
    Tier S 300A current draw on little ambient airflow (i.e below a big air cooler in a well-ventilated case), maxed out 3950X on liquid nitrogen (LN2) overclocking
    Asus: X570 Hero
    Gigabyte: X570 Aorus Xtreme
    MSI: X570 Godlike
     
    Tier S- 250A current draw on little ambient airflow, maxed out 3900X on liquid nitrogen (LN2) overclocking
    Asus: X570 Strix-E, Pro WS Ace, Impact, ITX
    Asrock: X570 Taichi, Phantom Gaming X, Creator
    Gigabyte: X570 Aorus Master
    MSI: X570 Creation, Ace, Unify
     
    Tier A 200A current draw on little ambient airflow, maxed out 3950X on ambient cooling, 2700x on LN2
    Asus: X570 Strix-F, TUF Plus, Prime Pro, Prime-P, X470 Crosshair VII Hero, X370 Crosshair VI Extreme
    Asrock: X570 ITX/TB3, X470 Taichi (Ultimate), X370 Taichi, Professional Gaming
    Gigabyte: X570 Aorus Ultra, Pro (ATX), X470 Gaming 7
    MSI: X470 M7 AC
     
    Tier B 160A current draw on little ambient airflow, maxed out 3900X, 3950x at 1.3V on ambient cooling, maxed out 1800X on LN2
    Asus: X470 Strix-F, X370 Crosshair VI Hero, Strix-F
    Biostar: X570 GT8, X470 GT8, X370 GT7
    Gigabyte: X570 Aorus Elite, ITX
     
    Tier C 125A current draw on little ambient airflow, maxed out 2700X, 3900x at 1.3V on ambient cooling (P95)
    Asus: X470 Strix-I, B450 Strix-I, X370 Prime Pro
    Asrock: X570 Extreme4, Steel Legend, Pro4 (ATX & mATX), Phantom K4
    Gigabyte: X570 UD, Gaming X, X370 Gaming K7, Gaming 5
    MSI: X570 Gaming Pro Carbon, !X470 Gaming Pro Carbon, !B450 Gaming Pro Carbon, Tomahawk (& Max), Gaming Plus ATX (& Max), A Pro (& Max), Mortar (& Max), Gaming Plus mATX, Bazooka Plus, Gaming Plus ITX, X370 M7 ACK, XPower Titanium
     
    Tier D 100A current draw on little ambient airflow, maxed out 1800X and 3700X, a tad more than maxed out 2600X, maxed out 2700X in ambient cooling (Cinebench R15)
    Asus: X470 Prime Pro, B450 TUF Pro, Strix-E, X370 Strix-I, B350 Strix-I
    Asrock: X470 Master SLI, K4, ITX, !B450 K4, Steel Legend, ITX
    Gigabyte: X470 Gaming 5, Ultra Gaming, B450 Aorus Pro (ATX), Aorus Elite
    MSI: X570 A-Pro, Gaming Plus, Edge, !X470 Gaming Plus, Gaming Pro, B450 Pro-VDH (& Max & V2), Bazooka (& V2), X370 Gaming Pro Carbon, Krait Gaming, SLI Plus, Gaming Plus, Gaming Pro, B350 Gaming Pro Carbon, Krait Gaming
     
    Tier E 75A current draw on little ambient airflow, maxed out 1600X and 3600X, a bit more than maxed out 2500X
    Asus: X470 TUF Plus, B450 Strix-F, TUF Plus, Prime Plus, X370 Prime-A, B350 Strix-F, Prime Plus, TUF Plus
    Asrock: X470 Master SLI, K4, B450 K4, Steel Legend, Pro4, M/AC, HDV, X370 Gaming X, Killer SLI, mITX, K4, Pro4, B350 mITX, Pro4, K4, HDV, AB350M
    Biostar: X470 GTA, GTQ, GTN, X370 GT5, GT3, B350 GT5, GT3, GTN
    Gigabyte: B450 Aorus M, Gaming X, DS3H, ITX X370 Gaming K5, K3, 3, Gaming, DS3H, !B350 Gaming 3, Gaming, DASH, DS3H, AB350N Gaming-WiFi
    MSI: B450 Pro-M2 (& Max) B350 Gaming Plus, Tomahawk, PC Mate, Bazooka, Mortar, Pro-VDH, Pro-VH Plus, Pro-VD Plus
     
    Tier F 50A current draw on little ambient airflow, maxed out 1300X
    Asus: B450 Prime-K, Prime-A, B350 Prime-A, Prime-E, Prime-K
    Asrock: B450 HDV R4.0, B350 HDV R3.0, HDV R4.0
    Biostar: X570GT, B350 B45M2, HiFi B350S1, ET2
    Gigabyte: B350 D3H, D3V, HD3, DS2
    MSI: B450 Pro-M2 V2, B350 Gaming Pro
     
    Tier H2O Liquid cooled only VRM, terrible if cooled only with air, tier S if liquid cooled
    Asus: X570 Crosshair VIII Formula
    Asrock: X570 Aqua
     
    Tier W Workstation features, can appear here and above tiers
    Asus: X570 Pro WS Ace (ECC certification)
    Asrock rack: X570 D2I, D4U-2L2T, X470 D4U (ECC cert + KVM switch), D4U2-2T (ECC cert + KVM switch)
     
    AMD (TR4, Threadripper)
     
    Tier LN2 700A current draw under mist of liquid nitrogen and high RPM fan (ambient air? unrealistic), maxed out 2990WX under an awful lot of liquid nitrogen
    Asus: Zenith Extreme Alpha
    MSI: Creation
     
    Tier S 500A current draw on little ambient airflow, maxed out (1.35v) 2990WX on ambient cooling (P95), 2970WX on liquid nitrogen
    Asus: Zenith Extreme Alpha
    MSI: Creation
     
    Tier A 350A current draw on little ambient airflow, maxed out 2970WX on ambient cooling (P95), 2990WX limited to 1.175v (P95)
    Gigabyte: Aorus Xtreme
     
    Tier B 300A current draw on little ambient airflow, maxed out 2970WX on ambient cooling (Cinebench R20)
    Asus: Zenith Extreme with cooling kit
     
    Tier C 250A current draw on little ambient airflow, maxed out 2950X on ambient cooling, 2970WX limited to 1.15v (P95)
    Asus: Zenith Extreme
    MSI: Gaming Pro Carbon AC, SLI Plus
     
    Tier D 200A current draw on little ambient airflow, maxed out 2920X and 1950X on ambient cooling
    Asus: Strix-E, Prime-A
    Asrock: Taichi (mATX & ATX), Professional Gaming
    Gigabyte: Gaming 7, Designare EX, Aorus Pro
     
    Tier E 150A current draw on little ambient airflow, maxed out 1920X on ambient cooling
    Asrock: Phantom 6
     
    Intel (1151 v2, 2066)
     
    Tier S Extreme overclocking (i7oc, i9oc)
    Asus: Maximus XI extreme, Maximus X extreme, Rampage VI Apex, Rampage VI, Maximus XI Gene, Maximus X Apex, Maximus XI Apex
    EVGA: Dark
    Gigabyte: Aorus Xtreme (WaterForce), x299-aorus gaming 9
    MSI: MEG Godlike, MEG creation
     
    Tier A High-end gaming (i5oc, i7oc, i9oc)
    Asrock: Taichi (ultimate) (xe), x299-Extreme4, Phantom Gaming 9, x299-fatal1ty (xe)
    EVGA: FTW, Classified K, Micro
    Gigabyte: Designare, Aorus Master, z390-Aorus Ultra, z390-Aorus Pro, z390-Aorus Elite, Aorus Gaming 7, x299-gaming 7 (pro)
    MSI: M7, MEG ACE
     
    Tier B Mainstream gaming (i5oc, i7oc)
    Asus: zxxx-Strix, x299-strix, Maximus XI Formula/Hero/Code, Maximus X Formula/Hero/Code, zxxx-Prime-A, X299-TUF, X299-Prime Deluxe
    Asrock: Phantom Gaming ITX/6/atx-ac/, zxxx-Fatal1ty, z370/z390-Extreme4
    Biostar: Z370GT6
    Gigabyte: z390-Gaming SLI/plus/m gaming, Gaming 5, x299-aorus gaming 3 (pro), x299-aorus ultra gaming, x299-aorus ultra gaming pro
    MSI: zzxx-Pro Carbon, Edge, MPG, M5, Krait, x299-sli plus
    NZXT: N7
     
    Tier C Value gaming (i3, i5, i7)
    Asus: hxxx-Strix, bxxx-Strix
    Asrock: zxxx-Pro4, Phantom Gaming 4, ATX/ac, Killer/SLI, hxxx-fatal1ty, bxxx-fatal1ty, Bxxx-Pro4
    Gigabyte: Gaming 3, UD4, z390-UD
    MSI: Tomahawk, Mortar, Gaming Pro, bazooka, hxxx-pro carbon, Gaming Pro, Raider, zxxx-SLI plus
     
    Tier D Basic (pentium, celeron, i3, i5)
    Asus: TUF, Prime-P, Prime-Plus, Prime-C
    Asrock: hxxx-Pro4, HDV, DGS, HDVP
    EVGA: Stinger
    Gigabyte: D3, XP, HD3, DS3H, N-wifi, s2p, n, m h, d3, S2, DS2V, HD2
    MSI: A-Pro, PC-pro, Gaming Plus, Pro-VDH, Pro-VD, Pro-VH, Pro-D, Pro-VHL, Pro-VL
     
    Tier W: Workstation (i7, i9)
    Asus: WS Pro, WS Sage
    Supermicro: CGW-O

     
    notes
     
    Sources:
     
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    ThreePinkApples got a reaction from TVwazhere in Looking for a new case, my search has been disappointing   
    Ended up with the Phanteks Enthoo Evolv X Glass. Now just waiting for my 3900X to arrive
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    ThreePinkApples reacted to Spotty in Google has just ruined Google Images.   
    Oh! I was wondering why my google image search was being an ass earlier today.
     
    This is probably one of those things where everyone will hate it when it is new and then in a few months time everyone will love it and just accept it as being the norm, forgetting what the old design even looked like.
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