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What does your workout routine involve? What activities/workouts are you doing? Have you increased the intensity of your workout since you started or has it more or less remained the same? If your exercise routine hasn't changed from when you started you might need to start working more high intensity exercise and cardio in to your workout. I would still stick to you current plan for another 2 weeks and see if you continue to make progress. You're still a little way off your target weight but it might be better on continuing to build the good habits of eating healthy and exercising in a way that is sustainable in the long term that you'll actually stick to rather than trying to rush to the weight loss goal with heavy amounts of exercise and crash diets that aren't sustainable in the long run. As long as you stay active and eat healthy you'll eventually lose the weight.

@IkeaGnome Congratulations on doing the seggs.

Comfortable sharing your weight and BMI? How recently did the weight loss stop? How active is your life outside of working out? Are you fairly active and moving around throughout the day or are you at a desk for most of the day? I would probably keep on your diet and exercise routine for a few more weeks and see if there's any more progress. If you're still not seeing progress you may need to increase your activity.

The RX 6400 is below the minimum and recommended specs for The FInals. The Finals lists an RX 580/1050Ti as minimum and 5700XT/RTX2070 or above as recommended. The RX 6400 performs worse than the cards listed as the minimum. The i5 7500 will perform basically the same as the i5 6600k which is the minimum requirement listed for CPUs. Your performance issues are likely mostly GPU related. RX 6400 is a bad choice with your system. The RX 6400 graphics card has PCIe 4.0 x4 lanes. Your system only supports PCIe 3.0 which halves the already limited bandwidth available to the card. Depending on the game you'll see a 10-30% reduction in performance due to using it with a PCIe 3.0 system. Find games to play that have lower system requirements, play on lower settings (low resolution too), or buy a different graphics card. Second hand RX 580 8GB or GTX 1060 6GB can usually be bought for less than the cost of an RX 6400.

You kinda just did post a review by posting here about it. The oils and sweat from your skin will wear the paint on the water bottle over time. People with sweaty or oily hands may find the paint wears faster than expected. Which colour bottle do you have? It is a known problem that the gold colour option wears faster, and they have placed a disclaimer on the store page for it (possibly added after you bought your bottle).

It's unclear what you are asking. If you do not speak English please use a language translator to assist.

I'm not too familiar with Apple's developer accounts. How exactly does this hamper Epic's ability to build a rival app marketplace for iOS devices? They can't develop for the iOS operating system at all without a developer account? Or do they just not have access to publish apps on the Apple app store? If they're making a rival app store do they need a developer account?

I have the G703 and I like it. With the RGB disabled the battery lasts for months between charges. My only issue with it so far has been an intermittent problem with the mouse scroll wheel sometimes scrolling in the opposite direction. I'll be scrolling down a page with the scroll wheel and it'll just randomly jump up in the opposite direction. Apparently it's a common problem with the G703.

Just to correct this; it seems that 800 games were delisted from Steam at the same time when Valve removed these scam games from the store. It's not known if all 800 games that were delisted were associated with this scam or if it was just a batch of unrelated removals going through at the same time.

It appears to be an identical name. I have no idea why Steam would allow games to have the same name as another game that is listed within Steam. Seems like a pretty big oversight. Though, one of the games they were impersonating was Escape from Tarkov which isn't even available on Steam. https://steamdb.info/sub/943434/history/ Makes me wonder how the scam would work if the game they're impersonating isn't on Steam. Surely people buying Steam keys for a game that isn't on Steam would know it's a scam? Would the key reseller sites even allow sale of Steam keys for a game that isn't on Steam?

Making data centres isn't free... Just because they're not paying an outside company for the service doesn't mean there isn't a cost involved. Whether Apple is doing it themselves or contracting out for data hosting and bandwidth it still ends up costing Apple money to operate. Don't underestimate the number of people who just type "music" in to the app store to see which apps come up then choose one of the top rated apps and then go on to sign up to Spotify or other such apps. Being on the app store - and being one of the most popular apps shown in search results - is a significant promotion for that app. There's probably a lot of people who have heard of Spotify but if they searched "music" on the app store and Spotify didn't show up as a top result they'd just choose one of the other options that does show up like Youtube Music, Amazon Music, or Apple Music.

Summary Earlier this week Steam has delisted a bunch of games from Steam after scammers began changing the details of a bunch of their small indie games to impersonate popular games such as Helldivers 2, Palworld, Escape from Tarkov, and more. The scam games were put on heavy discount and appeared in the Steam store where they were promoted on the discounts page and shown in search results on Steam for those games, appearing nearly identical to the genuine games they were impersonating tricking people in to purchasing the scam games and only discovering they were scammed when they installed and tried to play the game to find it was actually some crap 2D game instead of the game they thought they were getting. The scam games were originally published on the 4th of November as Indie games under various different publisher names and various game names before their store page details were altered earlier this week. (Image source: Reddit) People who bought these scams are eligible to receive a refund through Steam. Due to the way Steam pays developers it's unlikely the scammers will receive any money from Steam for the sales. Fireb0rn posted a Youtube video which speculates that the goal of this scam was not to make money from Steam sales, but was actually to make money by selling the keys for these games on 3rd party key reseller sites such as G2A. Some people on Reddit noted that they have purchased the keys from G2A as Palworld and were still able to activate the key which displayed in Steam as Palworld. Despite the game being delisted from the Steam store and no longer purchasable, key redemption is still available for the scam games. The scammers likely generated thousands of keys for the scam games which they're selling on key reseller sites advertised as the popular games. Because the keys are still redeemable and show in the library as the popular games the key reseller sites likely won't issue a refund once somebody realises they've been scammed. Quotes Steamdb.info captures logs of changes to Steam store pages and shows where the scammers changed the titles, publishers, description, screenshots, and other details on the store page to impersonate other titles. Here the store page for a 2D platformer originally called "Do Not Smile" was changed to impersonate Helldivers 2. https://steamdb.info/app/2630550/history/ My thoughts If you needed another reason to avoid grey market key reseller websites then this is it. You can't trust the copy of games you are buying from them are actually the real games. It's crazy that these scammers were able to change the publisher and developer details to that of other developers. The developer and publisher pages that the games were changed to were the actual legitimate developer pages - it wasn't just a fake developer page they created with the same name. There should be a system in place where the developer/publisher account has to approve changes that list them as the developer/publisher to prevent this from happening. You can't trust the Steam reviews on these scam games either. Fireb0rn's video talked about how the developer of these scam games are manipulating reviews for the games by setting an inflated high price for the game deterring most people from buying it, but setting an extremely low regional price for their own region (Russia) where the game is discounted down to the equivalent of less than a dollar, where the scammers are buying their own game from various accounts and leaving fake positive reviews allowing them to achieve a Very Positive or Overwhelmingly Positive review on the game before they change the store page to impersonate another game. Since these crappy games were all uploaded back in November it shows this scam has been in the works for quite some time. I doubt it's going to be the last time we see this type of scam until Valve makes changes to prevent games from making these types of changes and changes it so if they remove a scam game they also invalidate all of the keys which have already been generated. Sources https://au.pcmag.com/security/104216/scammers-target-helldivers-2-buyers-with-fake-games-on-steam https://www.pcgamer.com/games/third-person-shooter/several-steam-games-changed-names-to-helldivers-2-and-palworld-to-scam-players/ https://steamdb.info/app/2630550/history/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmIwBIs6FVk https://www.reddit.com/r/Palworld/comments/1b3mhuz/um_i_think_someones_lying/

Heating the pool works because the water in the pool is colder than the water coming from the PC. Any heat in the PC loop is transferred in to the colder pool as the two systems try to equalise their temperature. The water in the hot water tank is hotter than the water coming from the PCs. Hot water systems usually target around 60°C water temperature in the tank. The water in the loop coming from the PC would likely be around 30°C. The temperature between the two systems will want to equalise and the hot water heater thermostat will run the hot water tanks heating elements until it reaches its 60°C. The colder water in the PC loop will draw heat from the water in the hot water system and it would take longer for the hot water heater to heat the water tank as that heat energy is being transferred in to the PC loop. You'd effectively be using the hot water tank heater to heat the PC loop. It is still possible to incorporate the PC loop in to the hot water system. It would require a separate tank that feeds in to the hot water system. Use the heat from the PC loop to pre-heat the incoming tap water before it goes in to the hot water tank to be heated. If the incoming tap water is 20°C then the PC loop that is 30°C can raise the temperature of that cold water before it is then filled in to the hot water tank which would reduce the energy needed for the 2nd tank to heat the water to its target 60°C. Would it be worth it? *shrugs* Also Technology Connections has some good videos on hot water tanks, if that's your thing.

Here's the response from Apple: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/03/the-app-store-spotify-and-europes-thriving-digital-music-market/ It's worth reading the full statement. Basically they say that Spotify is the dominant music streaming platform and that Spotify owes their success to Apple allowing their app on the app store. Apple argues Spotify is ripping off Apple by not selling subscriptions through the app and not giving Apple a cut of the money they make. Some justification provided by Apple for why they deserve to get paid... While Apple's point about providing hosting for downloads/updates is somewhat valid, apps like Spotify wouldn't need to use Apple's App Store if Apple allowed 3rd party app stores on iOS devices. Apple took on that burden of hosting and managing apps when they decided to prevent 3rd party app stores. Once the new EU laws go in effect that allow iOS app installs outside of the App Store I wonder if we will see a split between Spotify and Apple resulting in the Spotify app being removed from the App Store. Spotify is one of those major apps that people expect to be able to use on their device and it is mutually beneficial for Spotify and Apple for the app to be available on the App Store. If popular apps like Spotify weren't available on Apple devices it might drive consumers to buy competing phones (android) that do offer the apps they want. While Apple can argue all they want about how they're not getting anything from Spotify being on the App Store, it would probably hurt them to start losing popular apps like Spotify.

Apple probably doesn't care too much about the fine. While it is substantial, 1.8 billion isn't that much for Apple. Apple is going to be hurt more long term by the requirement to allow app developers to inform consumers about alternative payment methods outside of Apple. Imagine going to subscribe to an app on iOS and seeing two prices listed; "Subscribe with Apple for $18.99/month or subscribe through our website for $13.99/month". How much money would Apple miss out on by people choosing the cheaper payment option cutting Apple out of their 30% tax? That's the money Apple is worried about.

I didn't mention it in my post, but the original fine was only 40 Million Euro. They added 1.8 Billion Euro on top of the original fine as a fuck you deterrent to Apple. https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-hit-with-over-18-bln-euro-eu-antitrust-fine-spotify-case-2024-03-04/

Summary Apple has been ordered by the European Commission to pay a 1.8 Billion Euro fine (approximately 2 Billion USD) after Spotify launched a complaint over Apple's 30% tax on subscriptions purchased through iOS apps and Apple's developer rules preventing app developers from informing customers that subscriptions can be purchased at a cheaper price outside of the app [such as subscribing directly through the website]. Apple takes a 30% cut on subscriptions made through iOS apps and their developer agreement prevents developers from informing customers of alternative purchase methods. Apple has been ordered to stop preventing app developers from informing customers of cheaper subscription options. Apple has announced they intend to appeal the decision. Quotes Statement from the European Commission: [Continued... https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_1161] My thoughts There was recently a post on this forum asking why it was more expensive for them to subscribe to Youtube Premium through an iPhone than it was for them to subscribe on their PC. I don't think many people realise that Apple's takes a 30% cut from subscriptions made through iOS apps which will often make subscribing to those services more expensive as services pass that extra cost on to consumers. I think 30% is excessive but I actually don't mind if Apple takes a cut of purchases made through the Apple App store. Google (Android Play Store) and Steam to name some similar software marketplaces also take a cut from sales made through their store and taking a cut of sales is required for those marketplaces to remain feasible. The restriction Apple places on developers preventing them from informing customers about cheaper subscription methods is purely designed as an anti-competitive measure to prevent people from subscribing outside of the Apple system. I'm glad that the European Commission has recognised it as such and fined Apple over it. I really hope that Apple is forced to allow all app developers to inform customers about alternative subscription methods - not just music streaming services. Apple is a direct competitor to Spotify and other streaming services with their Apple Music service which is likely why they were hit so hard in this complaint from Spotify but I would like other apps like video streaming (Youtube, Twitch, Floatplane?) to be able to inform customers within the app about cheaper subscription methods. Hopefully this is just the first domino to fall in allowing all apps on the Apple App store to inform customers about alternative subscription methods. Sources https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-68467752 https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_1161

Threads merged. According to the motherboard manual the B450M ds3h V2 supports PCIe 3.0 x4 for the M.2 slot. Though - That might depend on the CPU which is being used since the B450 series motherboards support CPUs which only support PCIe 3.0 (Ryzen 1000, Ryzen 2000) as well as CPUs that support PCIe 4.0 (Ryzen 3000, Ryzen 5000). Since it states PCIe 3.0 I'm assuming that the M.2 slot is using PCIe lanes from the chipset which will be PCIe 3.0 regardless of the CPU used. The Samsung 990 Pro is a PCIe 4.0 drive. Since the motherboard only supports PCIe 3.0 on the M.2 slot the drive will run in PCIe 3.0 mode and will only be able to achieve PCIe 3.0 transfer speeds. This may limit the transfer speeds you can obtain. But realistically a PCIe 4.0 drive running in PCIe 3.0 mode is not going to be any slower than a PCIe 3.0 drive. If it's cheaper to get a different PCIe 3.0 drive then you may want to consider that to save money, but if there's no difference in cost it doesn't really matter. PCIe is backwards/forwards compatible, you can use a PCIe 4.0 drive in a PCIe 3.0 slot it just won't be as fast as if it was in a PCIe 4.0 slot.

Thread locked. It seems you've already solved the problem yourself, but this forum won't help you solve problems with pirated content or help getting pirated content working. Aside from any moral concerns over pirating, nobody can properly diagnose issues with pirated content because we don't know what modifications the pirates made to the game (including hiding malware). If you want to pirate games then don't expect people to help you fix it when they're broken. Discussion on how to engage in piracy is not allowed.

The TX850M comes with 2 PCIe cables. Each cable has two connectors which gives a total of 4 connectors. Do you mean the socket on the power supply? On the power supply the sockets labelled "6+2 PCI-E & 4+4 CPU" can be used for either CPU or PCIe cables.

I suspect the price your parents are seeing is likely higher because they're viewing on the app on iPhone. Apple will take a 30% cut of subscriptions. Youtube is just passing that cost on to the consumers. The way around paying the Apple Tax is to just go to the website and subscribe directly instead of doing it through the iOS app. I did check logged in to my account and incognito (both on desktop) and while the price is the same Youtube does not show me family or student plan options when logged in even when viewing the same youtube.com/premium page. Not sure why it doesn't give me the family or student options. (This is Australian pricing) Logged in: Not logged in: