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GrimOfDoom

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  1. I am just trying to reinstall Windows 11 (leaving dev channel, for stable normal win11). And I get these annoying popup screens upselling my 365 and games pass, and idiot me fell for it twice just hitting the blue continue button (goes right to a screen asking for credit card info, before even getting to desktop) This is trash design, but too many softwares I have to use can only work on windows. (I installed windows 11 from scratch when it first dropped, and I don’t remember these screens)
  2. I actually have had no bugs. And as I said before, it is not a bug- but a design feature because the new focus modes.
  3. Here’s a recording, as to why you are now able to put multiple’s of the same app on your home screen. This is my earlier testing with it- before going as far as to make a shortcut to leave it when I want. IMG_9195.MOV
  4. it’s all a clone of Safari, pulled right out from the app library. It is actually by design, as the Focus feature lets you build different screens for home, depending on your need. For example, I setup a single screen dedicated to when I wake up (when I turn off or wake up from timer), that only has the apps and widgets I need to start my day- catching up on news, messages, twitter. I also made a widget using a shortcut, to one button press leave the now Wake Up screen (and only shows that screen/apps) to normal day screen.
  5. Something, just does not look right since I got my hands on iOS 15.
  6. Now why would I devalue such a thing so easily like that? The less who know and can understand, the more value it retains. (And there are many ways to do so, the core concept is older than electric computers)
  7. So, this is a mix of stuff here. I created an image/NFT, hid an entire home made a simple and safe software inside the image, and slapped the image up. It was not only for experimenting (which is successful, the software can be pulled out following instructions automatically given upon NFT acquisition), but also to be the first to publicly do so and to hopefully make a couple bucks in these trying times. The pros: People can produce and sell software as NFTs in a completely secure way where no one can track you and no credit/debit can be so easily stolen. Maybe this concept can be spread out into way to fight against force app stores with security and privacy (Minus having to hide the software inside the image itself). The cons: People can produce malicious software inside the content of NFTs and all heck can break from there. Whether it is auto-launching software where it starts when you open the image, or it is black market software sold in broad daylight; it is a day of age where digital protection is vastly more important. The End Goal: I would rather like to see what people can safely do and come up with using this concept. Remember back in the day when a few select records actually hid Basic software on them for DOS? Now imagine that but when you bought a Mono Lisa for example, it held a unique one of a kind mini-game that you are the only one in the world has access to (provided you unlock the content, whether told or not). Note: Programs injected into an image can be password locked in a prior step or in the software itself, with the key given to buyer(Along with method to remove software/program/game from image)- so that even distributing the original image will produce no results without a lot of cracking. And sadly, OpenSea does grab only image data, but the original raw can be put into Unlockable Content, like many already do, because anyone can download the original image/video anyways.
  8. BAT coin, a crypto you cannot mine but instead get for viewing ads from Brave Browser for viewing their ads. Anyways, does anyone know why this crypto is hitting the fan like Bitcoin? in the past month, it has been spiking up from as low as $0.44/e to upwards of $1.37/e in the past day. The past day, it’s been spiking up and down like crazy. Did I miss some kind of event? Has this coin suddenly become popular? Is this another Gamestop?
  9. I am sorry for the late replies. I guess I never clicked to follow the topic? Anyways, thank you for the input and help. I still have yet to find a working method including the previous said potential method. So, decided to just try and sell it- with no luck so far in the past week. If anyone sees this and is by chance interested in one, hmu in private messages.
  10. I have an Aerohive AP250 POE wireless Access Point (Office was moving, old renders left it in new place sitting on top of an oversized server rack). We would like to be able to use this if possible, it was left plugged into POE ethernet line, so it was working. But, the Hivemanager software for it (Which as far as I can find, it is the only way to use it), is $2,000 - which is far too much to spend to get a single wireless access point to work. I do not know if there is alternative firmware I can run into it, or if it can be used generally by any modem/router without hivemanager software ($60 for a POE switch, wouldn't be hard to sell to boss to get device working)? Or am I just better off selling it for $350-400 on eBay and getting another solution that would be easier to run (We only have the device). PoE devices are outside of my experience, so I do not know much on what can be done, so any help if possible would be nice, thank you.
  11. Released 5 days ago, a game ive been waiting well over a year ago since I saw its earlier prototypes, Teardown is what I think is a technological marvel, and I am surprised about how many still don't know about it. It is a voxel world, yes- but it's is hands down no minecraft clone or relatively close (albeit, you can make your own worlds). Its 2 biggest and main features is that it is A, full homemade ray traced without hardware support (No RTX specific usage, AMD's upcoming hardware ray tracing, nor even DirectX Ultimate Raytracing). Second, it that nearly the entire world (excluding the ground, which still offers 2-5 voxels) is destructible. But not any destructibility, but physically procedural destructive. It is still early tech, so objects don't become physically active until they are removed from anything holding it to the ground (But any chunks blown off, those chunks become fully physically active). Mutual collisions are even active- so if you say, drop a tower on a house- when the two collide, both will become damaged and have bits or chunks breaking off where it takes damage (procedurally generated damage again, so there is absolutely zero model's predesignated to break just "here and here"). It contains a campaign mode, which a majority of the content is pretty much just a speedrunner's paradise, but sparse and few between several missions dedicated to actually taking down things (Personally, I stopped the campaign. I am annoyed of speedrunning type missions as I personally do not find them fun, and the lack of saving current state of mission to continue back in later is an annoying thing). But playing in sandbox is exceptionally fun time, and with added maps, vehicles, scripting from the community- it gets a ton of added content for free. This game, I do not think will be the next big viral game- but if you have a computer of a performance level of a GTX 1060 or better- it is hands down worth it to try for the small $20 price. I still enjoy this game, and wanted to share, becuase the voxel technology is something that I can see games adopting in the far future as the hardware starts to outpace the software again- allowing truely destructive games instead of just "I punched here, place an alpha circle here and do a quick modify of the collision layer" (As seen in R6), as in this game- you can literally turn a floor into your new set of stairs. If you are interested in getting the game or more information, here is a quick link to the steam page Steam page
  12. I have 2 different monitors. 27” for gaming and 28” for extra productive area. Right now they take all of my desk space, and is annoying to use my left 28” monitor. I am looking for options for monitor mounts to mount them vertically with the 28” above- to gain back desk space and a better monitor->monitor experience. This is one thing I found, but I want to know my other options- specially if someone has personal experience. (they will not fit horizontally landscape with arms. The 27” is curved and needs to be upfront while the 28” has no room due to computer to right and shelves to the left) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08CXQDS8M/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_htOwFb09XPRBV If someone has any other suggestion that I may be missing, here is my current setup attached. Thank you all for your time
  13. CPU: Ryzen 2700 Motherboard: ROG Strix B450-F Gaming, BIOS version 3003 (latest) Memory: Corsair LPX 2x8GB 3600Mhz GPU: Zotac RTX 2060 I am having annoying issues with BIOS. Any changes I do to CPU or Memory, results in a failure to boot and forcing me to go back to default. Even the AI Tuner, which pumps up my performance by it's guesstimated 4% total, just fails boot. My RAM is stuck at running in the speed of 2100Mhz, and it did the same before I upgraded from Corsair LPX 4x4GB 3200Mhz RAM. It is clearly a noticeable loss in potential performance. What can i do to fix this?
  14. I guess I will just go with the Thermaltake Core P3. It is a bit larger on the height and depth, but it is an easy to work in case, and gives me an excuse to water cool when new RTX and Ryzen come out (Currently on 2700x). I am ever surprised there isn't more in the effort of compact & minimum when more and more people are going drive-less and just m.2
  15. Getting an L bracket would definitely be easy, Home Depot is stock full of them (originally grabbed some for a 2.5" SSD I was using, but I didn't like the test fit look at was not easy to drill holes for screws). The harder part is supporting the GPU, as the Zotac RTX 2060 seams to do too much sag- it scares me to think of leaving it by itself. That case does seam nice on the lower volume - though the air flow does seam like it will be trash, specially since I am using air cooling. It is in my pile to consider, as I read some reviews say they just cut holes in the metal to let more air through; but a case of the same size and better cooling would overtake it easily if found.
  16. Does anyone have any suggestions for a compact computer case? I currently have a b450 atx motherboard and atx power supply, on a custom never finished (and 80% likely to never be finished) open air shell. It works, but because it’s unfinished, it takes a ton of room due to being flat on table, and psu has nothing holding it on and the GPU has nothing to brave itself with. using only m.2 for storage, and a slot open that will be filled soon + pci room; so I don’t really need any 5.25/3.5/2.5” bays now or future (old large computer may eventually be turned into intranet storage, so even less need for those). And yes it is properly on risers and screwed in properly.
  17. As an update, the device definitely takes up more power than originally calculated (using guesstimations based on what's inside). Probably instead have to make a mobile desktop/laptop with screen (Can't connect to sidecar without going through macOS, so only iPad display is impossible).
  18. The Mac Mini should use the same amount of power as a laptop, if not less or slightly more. It’s a mobile processor (i7-8700B), and doesn’t have any big/major components like an iMac or MacBook Pro- both of witch are not mobile & tablet capable (tablet mode on a MacBook Pro is, sitting somewhere with both macbook open and ipad plugged in or wirelessly connected, not mobile ergonomic like in a car for example). MacBook Pro is also extremely expensive for an i7 model.
  19. This is just a semi-idea that could be a future plan. I am getting a 2018 mac mini (i7, 128GB storage, 8GB ram; $100 off at B&H) for not yet started business (laser engraving/cutting), and I was curios if I could take apart my mac mini and convert it into a laptop so I don't have to use my older windows laptop. The general idea is plausible- however, the only questions are: 1) Is there a battery bank that can power both some monitor and also the mac mini for a fair amount of time 2) Is there a good low power monitor that would work well? 3) How should I do the keyboard? On the monitor portion, one idea I had was to make it so I could slot in my iPad Pro (2017) and use that as the screen with Carplay (Or second screen on back of flipped up screen) to make a tablet. On the thought that some of you may be thinking, I cannot afford an external graphics card (though I have an RX470 that I own and not in use- but not found a cheap doable external GPU adapter). One of the nice advantages this would make for me is that I can easily access the ram slots of Mac Mini with minimal effort, I don't need the second laptop- just like the Nintendo Switch, just pull off the custom base (usb/video out connections). There would also be space to easily put more storage inside without a bunch of cables running everywhere. And the fact of owning a very rare Mac Tablet with Apple Pencil (1) support would be cool. Any thoughts, suggestions or ideas to the questions or idea of the project; please share (Yes I know windows laptops act like this already- but Mac is just the personally desired platform for the work, no if's, and's or butts)
  20. Thank you for the positive rapport. Ebay is always a sticky place in trying to weed out any good products, specially when my experience with these Chinese laser engravers.
  21. K40's are way too small (Albeit most the stuff about K40's applies to other chinese laser engravers. I have already been yelled at in another forum that wasn't very friendly to newbs, for not saying that). I did find this one on Ebay, but not 100% sure on it yet.
  22. Anyone have any suggestions for a laser engraver for under $1,500. It would be nice to customize my PC and desktop area with laser engraved parts, and other projects. "it would be nice" needs would be a large enough surface area and can engrave some stone (like concrete or marble). I have little experience in laser engravers, beyond spending a school year unsuccessfully getting an old and not working laser engraver working and random online research. I would assume I would need some laser engraver with CO2, water cooling and air compressor to keep lens clear of debris.
  23. I finished this course from udemy on beginner full stack web development, it used node.js and Mongodb for api control. I do not like MongoDB with how it handles the database- as one programmer's bad usage or manual insert means the database table itself could just die. I am not looking specifically for sql, but I would like to be able to use C# for API, as I have a large personal preference for that language (and I am much better at it than Javascript. I have personal gripes with how it handles stuff, blah blah more complaining. I want to pretty much reduce Javascript as much as I can, only for client side usage). Now, when I try to search around with c# API, I get a lot of articles and posts with cross origin resource sharing, and how it can cause problems and possibly security risks? I lack knowledge in this part. But what I am also confused a bit with, is how I can send post/get/put/etc requests through a normal website (say serviced through nginx, the only thing I know because the course I did), but send the request to the second running C# program/service that wait's for API calls. What I am understanding is the user gets webpage, and then it has buttons to perform actions. How does the actions work in getting api responses since the api is hosted in the cloud, but there is no direct link. (This course i fully did, had way too little instructing on the need to knows with the language- but not exactly how things play together. I did not know react was a one page webapp library until I finished the course and went to the website to look around more)
  24. I am planning to do an exploded PC wall piece- but i see my PS4 Pro just sitting there turning into a jet engine, no matter how clean it is. So, I want to mount it up with my PC, but cheapen the costs with an AIO (Not much difference from normal loop beside cheap and prebuilt). Anyways, once I mount an AIO (probably 240mm, only a couple bucks extra for extra assurance of quicker equilibrium), how can I power it in a way that I do not need my computer powered 24//7 as the power source. I do not want to hand solder any adapters, as I do not want to break anything or cause any fires.
  25. It was only $15 (+ shipping. why is there shipping cost in this day of age on amazon? ?), here is a link: https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Lovers-CPU-Reference-Guide/dp/1075611113/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?keywords=computer+lover+cpu+guide&qid=1562743235&s=gateway&sr=8-1
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