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    vanished got a reaction from Krzeszny in Watch this BEFORE buying an AMD CPU! - Every RAM Speed Tested   
    Your own link claims the opposite of what you just said, furthermore this is a completely different CPU and architecture so it's not out of the question to imagine what works for one doesn't work for another.  Example: Early Ryzen did prefer speed over anything else, but it appears that's changed.
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    vanished got a reaction from LinusIsAMillionare in Can a CPU be a bottleneck without hitting 100% on ANY of the cores?   
    Yes this is a better way to check.  If GPU is 100% used, (assuming you're not limiting it with vsync or something) you know your'e good.  If it's not 100%, you are probably CPU bottlenecked.  Checking CPU usage however can be misleading since you can never assume that the game is even capable of using all cores, and if it isn't, you'll never hit 100%, even if it is holding you back.
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    vanished got a reaction from WhitetailAni in Experiences with non-techies   
    This just gave me a great idea... they should sell addin cards that are nothing but VRAM.  Like, 32 GB of VRAM, but all they do is reroute the iGPU to ports on the card  
    It'll sell like hotcakes!  
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    vanished got a reaction from WhitetailAni in Experiences with non-techies   
    If you read the stuff from this site, they claim to review the reviews, which is why it can take a couple weeks for yours to show up.  Apparently they're not reading very carefully.
     
    Review for the Titan X (maxwell):

     
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    vanished got a reaction from WhitetailAni in Experiences with non-techies   
    But is it as bad as the HDMI to H2O adapter cable/hose?  
     

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    vanished got a reaction from WhitetailAni in Experiences with non-techies   
    Im sorry i just have to leave a other comment on this.  It didnt even happen to me and im mad about it .  Seriously, it's one thing to do it once by accident, but if they are going to repeatedly and intentionally ignore your requests, they're not your friends.  Quite frankly, they're assholes.
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    vanished got a reaction from da na in Engineering sample CPUs? Should I buy one?   
    You're not allowed to own or sell them, there's a link on the Intel site (probably AMD too) where you can report them when found
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    vanished got a reaction from da na in Experiences with non-techies   
    that seems to be a common problem... to the point where they even teach it like that in some places apparently... *facepalm*
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    vanished got a reaction from da na in Experiences with non-techies   
    Well, to be fair, I don't remember the education system going into computer hardware at all.  Like, not even slightly.  So you can't blame them for that...
     
    ...or can you?  Maybe they should have a dedicated mandatory computer class where they go over the basics of hardware and software usage.  That actually makes a lot of sense - think how important computers are in today's society, and yet most people don't have a clue about it.  They really should be educating people on it in school.
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    vanished got a reaction from Xevo in Worst Tech mistake you have ever made?   
    File organization continues to be a difficult challenge for me.  Not that I just dump everything on my desktop and am too lazy to sort it, rather I have plenty of will to sort but can never quite decide on the best method.  I've massively redone my whole system several times and every time I think certain parts get better but others definitely do not.
     
    On this subject, I find it to be a very bad thing that so many systems, including Windows, Mac OS, and at least several disros of Linux all provide the same familiar default folders in your home directory (Photos, Music, Videos, etc.).  This encourages a very bad practice of separating things by type, rather than what they are or are for.  Consider the following scenario:
    You have 4 files on your computer: a PDF of a tax document a JPG scan of some bank statements a JPG photo from your vacation a short MP4 video clip from that same vacation Most people would instantly realize the best way to sort this is something roughly like the following:
    Tax forms 2018 the pdf the jpg Vacation July 2018 in France the jpg the video But that's not how many people sort their things, and you can't even blame them.  The presence of the default folders tricks and misleads people into the bad habit of doing something roughly like this:
    Documents 2018 the pdf the jpg Pictures July 2018 in France the jpg Videos July 2018 in France the video Or worse yet,
    Documents the pdf Pictures the bank jpg the photo jpg Videos the video And the problem is at first, when you have only a few files you might not see the issue, but this quickly gets out of control, and once you've started like this it's hard to go back and change it.  Granted, that's not my problem.  Even understanding the types of content I have and how I should break it up, it's hard to find a good system, but I digress.
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    vanished reacted to RollinLower in Full version of the wallpaper in this thumbnail?   
    most of the time it's more efficient for an editor to just go into an existing graphics library and grab a file rather than go online to search for a good image.
     
    since they already have access to shutterstock, it's easier to just grab a quick image from there rather than google search for a nice one.
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    vanished got a reaction from IAmAndre in [Guide] What is sleep?   
    This will be a short post as there isn't much to this topic unless you want to get into really technical details, which is why I've avoided doing it all these years, but I decided finally it is probably worth having.  Speaking of those technical details, if you feel like adding them below, go ahead
     
    Sleep
    This is also sometimes called "Standby", "Suspend to RAM" or just "Suspend".  In this state, your computer basically "pauses" all execution, and then cuts or significantly reduces power to most of the hardware (drives, CPU, etc.).  RAM continues to receive power because without it, the data would slowly fade, become corrupt, and be lost.  Because of this, on battery, you will still draw power until the battery eventually dies and power is lost, but power draw is very small so this could take days or even weeks.  Because everything is still stored in RAM, resuming or "waking up" from this state is very quick, taking usually only a few seconds at most, but if power is lost completely while sleeping, it's no different than if power had been lost while running normally - ie, it counts as an improper shutdown.  In sleep mode, the computer is capable of "listening" for things that can wake it up (laptop lid being opened, keyboard press, etc.) but, as mentioned, no execution happens.  You cannot download files or host a shared folder while sleeping for example.
     
    If you are going to be away from your system for long enough that it doesn't make sense to keep it on, but short enough that it doesn't make sense to shut down (say, between 10 minutes and an hour, but this is subjective), sleep is the recommended state to put your system into.
     
    Hibernation
    This is sometimes called "suspend to disk".  In this state, your computer takes everything in RAM and writes it to the hiberfil.sys (in windows) or the swap partition (in Linux), then physically turns off, no different than if you had shut down.  When turning your computer back on, you will go through POST, have access to the BIOS, and (if you dual boot) have access to GRUB or your bootloader of choice.  Once an operating system is selected though, rather than booting normally, it will simply reload everything from that file to RAM, and then continue running as if nothing had happened.  In this way (from the software's perspective) it is the same as sleep, but from the hardware's perspective, it's the same as being shut down.
     
    There are several reasons why you should or should not use hibernation.  If you dual boot and need to switch OSes routinely without stopping what you were in the middle of, it's a fantastic option.  If you still have a HDD as a boot drive (please don't do this), hibernating whenever possible instead of shutting down will likely improve your off-to-ready times considerably.  Not only do you skip the login phase, but booting itself is faster too in my experience.  I theorize this is because loading one large sequential file is faster than many small files, even if the total amount of data is actually larger, but that's just a guess.  If you have an SSD, you're probably better off shutting down and booting normally though.  In my experience it's faster, and it'll put less wear on your drive.  If you need to pause what you're doing for an extended period of time, or through a period where you will likely lose power, hibernation should be used.
     
    As I mentioned earlier, in Windows, the file used for hibernation is not the page file, and so if you don't intend to ever hibernate, you can disable it with the command powercfg.exe /hibernate off.  Doing so may save you several GB on your C drive, as it seems to hold data even when not in use for some reason... perhaps to make sure there's room when needed?  I actually don't know.
     
    Hybrid Sleep
    This is a feature added in Windows Vista that basically combines the two methods mentioned above.  If my understanding is correct it's also available in MacOS under the name "safe sleep".  If you have this enabled, putting your computer to sleep will cause it to write the hiberfil as if you were going into hibernation, but it will then sleep normally.  If you are able to, you can then resume quickly from sleep as if you'd just slept normally, but if power was lost, the hiberfil is there to resume from as if you had just hibernated normally.  Personally I am not a fan since I am capable of choosing the appropriate method to use manually and this combines both the good, and the bad of both, but to each their own.  It's worth noting that this might be enabled by default, so if you've always found going to sleep takes a long time and has a lot of disk activity associated with it (something that in pure sleep will not happen), you might want to check that in Power Options.
     
    Fast Startup
    Unlike everything else in this list, this isn't a method of suspending execution, but it uses some of the same mechanisms so I thought I'd explain it here.  Basically, if you shut down when this is enabled, parts of the system are saved using a technique similar to hibernation, but the "user stuff" is not, so you effectively get a clean boot*, but perhaps a little faster than it would otherwise be doing it in the traditional way.  I have not experimented with this myself enough to know when if ever it should be used, or the various up and down sides, but it's something you should be aware of.
     
    * It will not save what you were doing but it's possible that things which would be fixed by a traditional reboot would not be fixed when doing this, so keep that in mind.
     
     
    As usual, I hope this has been useful, and if you have any corrections you'd like to suggest please let me know below!
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    vanished got a reaction from Arika in A Microsoft Defender update can allow an attacker to download malware to a victim PC   
    Either I'm missing something big here or this has been blown totally out of proportion.  If an attacker is able to run commands on your PC like this to make your PC download something they want you do have, you're already infected/compromised, so that feels like a catch 22.  Moreover, the ability to download a file with the command line doesn't seem unusual to me... have they not heard of wget?
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    vanished reacted to leadeater in A Microsoft Defender update can allow an attacker to download malware to a victim PC   
    Well like, you can download files using your browser, cmd, PowerShell etc etc so I'm not really seeing a security risk here? Not sure on the purpose of the DownloadFile switch on the program but I doubt it's used for any definition updates or the AV engine, that's already covered a different way. Wouldn't be surprised if the purpose is to be used for downloading files so that Defender scans them and rates them on the spot. Sadly the documentation doesn't currently have DownloadFile in there so we don't have the description of what Microsoft intends for that switch.
    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-protection/microsoft-defender-antivirus/command-line-arguments-microsoft-defender-antivirus
     
    Either way this seems a little bit blown out of proportion, it's not adding any risk and multiple other programs and system tools allow you to do the exact same thing. Here's a good idea, don't download viruses, don't run random scripts, if something asks for administrative permissions that you did not expect close the dialogue (don't even click no unless you have to).
     
    The reason there is no CVE, and likely never will be is because it's not a vulnerability, people doing dumb things with given tools don't get given CVE's.
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    vanished got a reaction from Quinnell in YouTube Ads getting seriously aggressive   
    That video is 10:55 on floatplane and 11:31 on YouTube, meaning there's 36 seconds of ads baked in already.  If we add the 4x 5 seconds of YouTube ads on top of that, it comes to 56 seconds on 11:51 of video content, or in other words ~7.9% ads.  Cable TV last I checked was around 33% (an hour would have about 40 mins of show and 20 mins of ads), and don't forget that on top of that you pay for the privilege of watching.  That's also to say nothing of the fact you can watch this on demand and skip those 36 seconds baked in with very little effort, where as to do that with cable TV you'd have to have recorded the program ahead of time and own a PVR to have that option.  I know this is a slight tangent, and I also don't want this to be taken as downplaying the issue, but I want to remind people how horrible cable TV actually is in case they've forgotten
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    vanished reacted to WereCat in Whenever i launch overwatch it makes all of my monitors change color slightly   
    Long time ago when I was playing OW on my 1060 I had an issue where the game would randomly and suddenly go into a yellow or a purple tint mode. 
     
    I found out that it is very sensitive to VRAM OC on my graphics card, no other game would have an issue but OW would always screw my colours because of the OC. It wasn't doing that if I removed the OC from the VRAM. 
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    vanished got a reaction from NinJake in Mixer replacement   
    Nice, glad to hear it
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    vanished got a reaction from sub68 in Spotify links do not embed   
    Just noticed this with myself and another user.  When pasting in a link, rather than converting to an embed, I get this banner at the bottom of the editor:

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    vanished got a reaction from Rune in [USA/CAN] 9900KF $169 || 9700KF $129   
    Now if they'd just make this the normal price for everyone AMD would be back in some seriously hot water
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    vanished reacted to Anka in Mixer replacement   
    I ended up buying the Scarlett 8i6. I have just set it up and it works very well.
    The audio quality is also a lot better now when I can avoid routing it through my monitors HDMI-port.
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    vanished got a reaction from RageTester in Windows XP emulator with working networking on ARM CPU, is there any?   
    The rule of thumb I often hear quoted is that emulation requires the underlying hardware to be 10 to 100x more powerful than the system it's emulating.  Of course this is a broad generalization but it is true that there is quite a significant loss of efficiency.  Couple that with the fact that the Raspberry Pi CPU is, although a quad core, probably somewhat similar in raw performance to what a lot of machines would have actually ran on back in XP's hay day, and I don't think it would be capable of providing a good experience even if such an emulator did exist.
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    vanished got a reaction from starry in Prompt user to load edited comments, just like reply   
    I guess I should clarify, I don't mean an old-school sledgehammer full page reload like hitting the browser button, I mean like how it dynamically adds new replies with you click "show reply", just instead of showing new ones, it would update the existing ones (but as I said, with the added convenience of it just happening rather than prompting you with a link at all).
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    vanished reacted to Moonzy in Prompt user to load edited comments, just like reply   
    this but for edited comments
     
    "1 reply has been edited Show Edited Reply"
     
    because I'm dumb and always needs to edit my posts
    and people im replying to might see the wrong info and that's not good
    and posting more than one post is sorta spammy
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    vanished got a reaction from M.R_KING in external hdd   
    They can also be 5900 RPM.  Traditionally this was never a speed that you'd see but over the last many years it has become common
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    vanished got a reaction from sub68 in [Guide] What is sleep?   
    This will be a short post as there isn't much to this topic unless you want to get into really technical details, which is why I've avoided doing it all these years, but I decided finally it is probably worth having.  Speaking of those technical details, if you feel like adding them below, go ahead
     
    Sleep
    This is also sometimes called "Standby", "Suspend to RAM" or just "Suspend".  In this state, your computer basically "pauses" all execution, and then cuts or significantly reduces power to most of the hardware (drives, CPU, etc.).  RAM continues to receive power because without it, the data would slowly fade, become corrupt, and be lost.  Because of this, on battery, you will still draw power until the battery eventually dies and power is lost, but power draw is very small so this could take days or even weeks.  Because everything is still stored in RAM, resuming or "waking up" from this state is very quick, taking usually only a few seconds at most, but if power is lost completely while sleeping, it's no different than if power had been lost while running normally - ie, it counts as an improper shutdown.  In sleep mode, the computer is capable of "listening" for things that can wake it up (laptop lid being opened, keyboard press, etc.) but, as mentioned, no execution happens.  You cannot download files or host a shared folder while sleeping for example.
     
    If you are going to be away from your system for long enough that it doesn't make sense to keep it on, but short enough that it doesn't make sense to shut down (say, between 10 minutes and an hour, but this is subjective), sleep is the recommended state to put your system into.
     
    Hibernation
    This is sometimes called "suspend to disk".  In this state, your computer takes everything in RAM and writes it to the hiberfil.sys (in windows) or the swap partition (in Linux), then physically turns off, no different than if you had shut down.  When turning your computer back on, you will go through POST, have access to the BIOS, and (if you dual boot) have access to GRUB or your bootloader of choice.  Once an operating system is selected though, rather than booting normally, it will simply reload everything from that file to RAM, and then continue running as if nothing had happened.  In this way (from the software's perspective) it is the same as sleep, but from the hardware's perspective, it's the same as being shut down.
     
    There are several reasons why you should or should not use hibernation.  If you dual boot and need to switch OSes routinely without stopping what you were in the middle of, it's a fantastic option.  If you still have a HDD as a boot drive (please don't do this), hibernating whenever possible instead of shutting down will likely improve your off-to-ready times considerably.  Not only do you skip the login phase, but booting itself is faster too in my experience.  I theorize this is because loading one large sequential file is faster than many small files, even if the total amount of data is actually larger, but that's just a guess.  If you have an SSD, you're probably better off shutting down and booting normally though.  In my experience it's faster, and it'll put less wear on your drive.  If you need to pause what you're doing for an extended period of time, or through a period where you will likely lose power, hibernation should be used.
     
    As I mentioned earlier, in Windows, the file used for hibernation is not the page file, and so if you don't intend to ever hibernate, you can disable it with the command powercfg.exe /hibernate off.  Doing so may save you several GB on your C drive, as it seems to hold data even when not in use for some reason... perhaps to make sure there's room when needed?  I actually don't know.
     
    Hybrid Sleep
    This is a feature added in Windows Vista that basically combines the two methods mentioned above.  If my understanding is correct it's also available in MacOS under the name "safe sleep".  If you have this enabled, putting your computer to sleep will cause it to write the hiberfil as if you were going into hibernation, but it will then sleep normally.  If you are able to, you can then resume quickly from sleep as if you'd just slept normally, but if power was lost, the hiberfil is there to resume from as if you had just hibernated normally.  Personally I am not a fan since I am capable of choosing the appropriate method to use manually and this combines both the good, and the bad of both, but to each their own.  It's worth noting that this might be enabled by default, so if you've always found going to sleep takes a long time and has a lot of disk activity associated with it (something that in pure sleep will not happen), you might want to check that in Power Options.
     
    Fast Startup
    Unlike everything else in this list, this isn't a method of suspending execution, but it uses some of the same mechanisms so I thought I'd explain it here.  Basically, if you shut down when this is enabled, parts of the system are saved using a technique similar to hibernation, but the "user stuff" is not, so you effectively get a clean boot*, but perhaps a little faster than it would otherwise be doing it in the traditional way.  I have not experimented with this myself enough to know when if ever it should be used, or the various up and down sides, but it's something you should be aware of.
     
    * It will not save what you were doing but it's possible that things which would be fixed by a traditional reboot would not be fixed when doing this, so keep that in mind.
     
     
    As usual, I hope this has been useful, and if you have any corrections you'd like to suggest please let me know below!
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