manikyath

pure sine is always better than approximation. but that said, are other devices also affected? (do your displays also flake out, etc) because if it's just the pc, it might be the power supply that's struggling for some reason.

that's not recent, some of the 8 bit era systems were literally "a home computer to put in the living room", pretty clear by the point some of them even had a keyboard. besides that, the PS1 was a glorified CD player, the PS2 was a glorified DVD player, and the PS3 was a glorified bluray player. you're selling a computer, any feature you can shoe-horn into that computer without significantly increasing the BOM cost is a leg up you have compared to your competition. it just so happens that these days smart tv alike functionality is "the" thing to shoehorn into boxes that are sitting next to your TV anyways.

none of which i particularly care about. PS3 was the point where a lot of the more quirky games really just vanished.. crash bandicoot (which was *the* game i bought for PS1 and PS2) gone, all ratchet &clank got was a remake of the PS2 games. yes, it had a lot of "big serious titles", but that's also the only games that it got. i did know a few people who were into PS3, and what was quite obvious at the time was the severe lack of split-screen multiplayer games.. which is quite key when you have to share with a sibling. i was actually *in the store* for a PS3 when i had to notice that none of the games on she shelf even came close to appealing to me.. also, from the viewpoint at the time where i was deciding between PS3 and wii: - uncharted "series": only one was released, and at the time 13 year old me wasnt exactly looking for an action RPG. - the last of us: despite "not being my jam" once again - this released when my wii was already 7 years old. - metal gear solid.. somehow the third action RPG on this list of 3 games so far. - to explain to you how 'late' GTA V was to my consideration of what console to buy.. there have been 4 computer purchases between the before mentioned wii, and me buying GTA V on the pc. the only reason this is on your list is because this was available for just about anything they could shoehorn a port onto.. they'd haev stuck it on the 3DS if they could. - god of war.. we're on 4/5 for action RPG's here, only exception being an action adventure for GTA V... - dark souls.. 5/6 on the action RPG... yes.. truly vast and huge selection of games to pick from, if you're into action RPG's at all. meanwhile, my selection of wii games: - wii sports, that was included with the thing. i'd say i wish i had an hour tracker to see how much of this we played, but the highscores say it all.. some of the profiles on my wii have rankings so high it breaks UI elements. - mario kart wii.. because PS3 didnt have crash team racing. yes.. this game being on the right shelf at the right time was the deciding factor. - wii play was a quick addition for living room fun. - super mario bros wii because it is obligatory to own a mario bros game for every nintendo platform owned. - tiger woods PGA tour 08.. because my dad is into golf, he bought it for himself.. but it was actually plenty fun for the whole family. - i dont exactly recall the occasion for wii fit being added to the library, but it quickly became the most played game, despite being a glorified fitness tracker with some balance minigames. - a few more things like a sims spinoff, a duck hunting game, and a few more bits and pieces.. but the above are the key ones. also.. nothing your PS3 cell processor can do beats spending the entire afternoon laughing at PS1 hagrid.

i have to say it's really an "easy content, but actually did some serious effort" type of feel on this one. aside from the tier list i like the quick "history lesson" that this turns out to be. on that note.. the PS3's rather disappointing game library made me go from PS1 to PS2, to nintendo wii. the wii is also the last console i've bought, despite returning to the game store SEVERAL more years i always ended coming home with a pc game to play on holiday, rather than a new console. on that note, i am slightly disappointed that the switch made it to S tier, but the wii didnt. i still own the wii i bought in 2007, and the balance board i bought in 2008. of ALL the gadgets we have piled up in the attic, the only thing that regularly descends from the heavens for family events is the crusty old wii.. because nothing before it, and nothing after it will capture that "quirky party game" vibe like the wii did. yes the games are incredibly simple, but the simplicity is what makes it so "timelessly fun". i can load up wii fit's ski jump minigame, and no matter the audience, everyone will have a blast. the only huge downside.. is that the "great" wii games are very rare.. with my "top 10" including "achtung wii kurve" - a hacky homebrew port of "achtung die kurve / curve fever", a silly snake-alike flash game, that apparently sorely needed tilt controls to be even more unplayable.

stolen phones might be scrapped for parts in the same way that cash may be used to buy drugs. should we then also ban cash?

because selling harvested iphone displays is SIGNIFICANTLY less profitable than the hundreds of parts that can be sold on the second hand car market with little to no oversight or customer expectations. besides, as far as i'm aware the "meta" for profitable car theft these days is still VIN swapping. besides, parting out a stolen car requires an idiot with an impact driver in a back alley, parting out an iphone requires a cleanroom. also - you're arguing that this is a requirement to reduce phone theft, why isnt your car's door bound to the computer by serial number? do you also lock your bike with a lock on the back wheel *and* a lock on the front wheel? is your TV chained down so that it cant be stolen? should your laptop's parts be tied on serial number to make sure you wont get robbed each time you are in public with a backpack? fact of the matter is that apple is unique with this implementation, and yet we're not living in the theft armageddon you imagine. maybe you live there, but in that case i suggest either moving or advocating for better policing. on top of that.. this entire debate assumes that the majority of those thefts are at least somewhat organized crime, not some methhead taking something that looks valuable hoping to trade it for a good time not even understanding what "activation lock" even is. or.. let me spin this argument the other way; - apple stops binding the display and battery by serial number. - apple makes replacement parts readily available for a fair price, essentially destroying any market for stolen parts. excluding the motherboard ofcourse, because that's what's locked on a stolen device. - when you trade in an iphone tied to your apple ID (that way a stolen device cant be traded in) you get a $100 voucher towards a new phone. this both covers the "no motherboards available" catch, and provides apple with a supply of old parts to make available. just maybe, perhaps a very big part of this apple mentality comes from their desire for old iphones to *not* keep working to the extent permittable by law? as for addressing "where do these parts come from if not theft?": well.. people who "recycle" their phone because they bought a new one? as for addressing "what else do they steal the phone for?" well.. - meth heads who have no idea. - perhaps this factoid i randomly bumped into: now.. i'm not saying that half of the people at large are idiots.. but statisticly speaking half of the people out there are not as attentative as your average human. --- let me share you a few examples from the E-bike battery industry, where i've felt quite at home for the past year. there's 3 examples i want to share... - one brand i see a lot has their battery controllers tied to the bike trough some sort of handshake, this means that the bike wont work with a battery it wasnt paired with. this is BS, but at least affiliated retailers will pair them for you. (independant retailers cant, because they dont get the software) - another brand we luckily dont see all that much (presumably because of the following story..) has rather troublesome batteries, basicly the moment a drop of mositure gets in the wrong place on the BMS a connector gets fucked, and the BMS is functionally broken... and because the batteries are tied by serial number there is no fix, so the entire bike is now trash. - a third brand we see A LOT has an actual counter in their batteries (we've been able to reverse engineer the entire thing, so we dont guess, we KNOW.) that counts down the lifespan, essentially programming in an exact 2 year lifespan, at the exact legal minimum they have to provide warranty for. oh - and if you even think of replacing the cells; their latest revision has a feature for that too: the BMS selfdestructs if any of the cells go out of spec. - oh, and this brand's BMS is perfectly capable of counting the actual capacity of the cells, it has 3 things it keeps track of: the current charge level, the remaining total capacity, and how much capacity it should tell the user it has based on it's internal warranty clock. now.. how is this relevant? - the first brand claims this is for theft prevention. - the second brand actually makes the bike say "theft protection" when you slot a different battery in it. - the third brand claims it's "for customer safety" in their public facing channels.. but even their salespeople cant keep a straight face about that when pushed about the details. - i know A LOT of e-bike owners, i dont personally know any e-bike owners who have had their e-bike stolen. i do know several people who've had to replace their bike because some brands make it impossible to find replacement batteries. or to make a very long post very short: you're advocating for something that impacts the majority of users, because a very small portion of users could have the theft of their phone prevented by this. now - i totally think locking should be a thing, because this is a MASSIVE hurdle, even if there are ways to gain profit from a locked phone, it just reduces the profitability to the point it's probably below something else on the list of illicit gains. locking should just never get in the way of repairability.

off the top of my head the CX is acceptable enough, and defenately better than the "unknown value of a power supply known to have been a bait&switch and potentially lying about their 80+ cert as a result".

steam has classifications on the catalog: - verified to work out the box - requires tweaking - untested on that note, there's a very big difference between "mainly for gaming", and "only for gaming". the steamdeck isnt exactly a very usable productivity device.

because read and seek error rate.

yes.

can - theoretically yes.. on that note, you appear to be facing an issue i see a lot with seagate barracuda's.. it's starting to have issues seeking. just about every test you'll do on this drive will return fine, other than it'll appear slow.. but that's a doomed drive.

well.. there's this "rule of thumb" to not have more than 7 lines ona slide, and not more than 7 words per slide. i'd assume it goes the same way with numbers. also, if you're having a presentation about what is in a spreadsheet, you may as well show the spreadsheet. the point of powerpoint (bahdumtish..) is that instead of just taking the source documents, you compress that information down to something that's easy to digest. you'd want to distill the data on the spreadsheet down to bulletpoints, perhaps with simple graphs.

storing frames actually isnt *that* memory intensive, so as long as the game does nothing else under the hood when you change resolution (like, if bumping up to 1440p also loads up higher res textures) it's pretty much entirely core load. for example: a frame of 1080p with 8 bits per color is 49MB a frame of 1440p with 8 bits per color is 88MB a frame of 2160p with 8 bits per color is 199MB so while this number rises significantly... it's a very small number compared to the VRAM available these days. case in point.. i've been doing both 1440p and 2160p gaming on my GTX970, and while the vram limits how high i can put texture settings, this problem is fairly universal across resolution choices. on the flip side, core load scales pretty linearly with pixel count.

i'm gonna say an asshole thing here.. - ask your manager to define it more clearly before you sign it. - if they will not, or force you to sign away your rights on the spot, find a different job. maybe that's coming from a very european viewpoint, where companies literally cannot find enough staff..