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That's what she said. 🙃

holy crap thats huge

I mean.. it's technically no longer an Apple monopoly then..

I forgot to mention that I absolutely love that the title of Google's Blog article announcing this is "Listening to Developer Feedback to Improve Google Play"

Intel Graphs be like:

Oh perfect. It may not be quite as seamless as what I'm used to, but it works. Thanks mate.
 
No. You should consider putting even the slightest amount of effort into reading the post before commenting.

Colton Pupper
 

 
@CPotter
 

I made a thing

 
 

Hello all

As I do on many free Saturday mornings, I’ve just been enjoying the WAN show vod with a cup of coffee.  I’m not often one to comment, but so many of Linus’ remarks about Microsoft’s new Flight Simulator resonated with me so deeply I felt I had to (over)-share!

The reason I started watching LTT (well, NCIX tech tips #19) about 11 years ago was because even 3 years after release, Flight Simulator X was itself a complete performance hog.  Then 13-year-old me wanted to learn how to overclock as I’d heard this would help quite a bit and crucially didn’t cost anything.  

The part of the WAN show discussion which specifically made me want to write this, was about the educational value of flight simulators and how they might facilitate entry into a career in aviation.  When I first flew on an aeroplane aged 5, I immediately decided I wanted to be a pilot, but I’m pretty sure it was my dad’s decision to buy me a copy of Flight Simulator 98 (old, even at the time) when we got home which cemented my obsession with flying.

Growing up, flight sims were all I wanted to do with my free time.  I found the rabbit hole of things to learn to be almost bottomless, from fundamentals like principles of flight, all the way to hunting for questionable English translations of operating procedures for the airliners of the Soviet Union.

Once I got to be a teenager though, the reality of the expense of getting a pilot’s licence started to seem very daunting.  I was able to do a fair bit of flying and gliding for free with the Air Cadets, but even a Private Pilot Licence seemed a long way away.  Amazingly flight sim ended up being of great help with this too, as after appearing as a guest on the then popular FSBreak podcast, I netted a job offer from a co-host.  I should explain here that for flight simulators, third party content plays a far more prominent role than it does for just about any other game.  It’s extremely common for users to spend hundreds of pounds on additional aircraft, scenery and utilities modifying everything down to how the game keeps time.

In my case, I was writing scripts for a company called Angle of Attack, who provided video training for some of the more complex aircraft DLCs of the day.  This had me poring through real world 737 documentation to turn it into something watchable and hopefully enjoyable for the average user.  Crucially for me, it earned me enough money to start taking flying lessons.

Since money was the limiting factor on how much I could fly, I was usually pretty determined to find ways of making more, and having learned to build PCs from watching LTT proved to be a way.  I’d met many people through the flight sim community who wanted something optimised for the game, and it was easy to considerably undercut established builders who made PCs marketed to simmers and still turn a profit.  I thought it might tickle anyone from LMG reading this to know, you essentially paid for one of my most memorable training flights – my first solo cross-country flight from Blackbushe, Surrey to Goodwood, West Sussex back in 2014.

After working on my private licence at the local flying club, I was accepted onto an airline’s cadet programme to earn my commercial licence.  I’ve been flying the Airbus A320 family since late 2017 and earned my Airline Transport Pilot’s Licence at the beginning of this year (for North Americans reading this, you can fly performance class A (equivalent to part 121) aircraft in Europe on a CPL).

The short version of this then, and what I’m really trying to say is that whilst flight simulators can simply be fun in the same way as any other PC game, they can also be a fair bit more than that.  As is so often the case, I think you absolutely nailed it with your hot-take on the WAN show.

As a closing note, I’d just like to say thank you.  I remember in your vlog on your thoughts about retiring, you mentioned that you sometimes question how meaningful your work is.  For what it’s worth, in my case I think it was instrumental in getting to where I’ve always wanted to be in life.

What are you gonna do about it? lol.

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The Biggest of oofs.

Nobody: 
Dr Su: *Laughs in money*
 
*Aggressively eats popcorn while using AMD Ryzen CPU*

Well, this certainly isn't helping the Lawsuit Intel is in now.... 🙄
 
AMD laughs in Zen3

CS:GO is notorious for hating Zen and Zen+ CPUs.
If anything, try using DDU to remove your video drivers, and install the latest or alternatively 446.14 directly from the GeForce website.
Also, use HWiNFO64 to check for CPU and GPU usages. Task Manager's very unreliable overall.

Not a bottleneck, broken Nvidia driver. DDU the VGA driver and do NOT install geforce experience

The GTX was a multimedia card as well as gaming, and it was priced higher across the board due to it.
 
Ryzens don't have restricted functions in the sense you imply.
 
4 years and 3 (almost 4) GPU architectures ago. Polaris was heavily criticized for its lack of multimedia features, which is why later cards had more refined multimedia functionality. AMD learned and changed, don't hate on them just because you got a card from before they learned.

The RX 480 was a gaming focussed card, not a multimedia card. It was also extremely low priced for a good gaming card. (partly due to the lack of hardware decoder/encoder development)

If I'm not mistaken, Polaris (which the RX 480 is based on) doesn't support VP9 decoding which is what YouTube uses, only Vega and Navi GPUs do from AMD's lineup.

Got this from a thrift store a week ago with @pinksnowbirdie, in its original shrink wrap packaging. I'll always thank him for carrying the tapes while I awkwardly hauled a CRT monitor out of that thrift store lmao

Hi! My name is Damjan and I want to show the World what I'm working on!
My current self-isolation situation is an excellent excuse to start a new project: A LEGO Technic built PC case! Because am not a person who could concisely modify a LEGO brick (there is a special place in hell for people who would), I decided to 3D print my own bricks which would serve as an interface between computer components and real LEGO bricks.
I expect two challenges:
Structural integrity: To properly mount and support heavy PC components I decided to build mostly with Technic bricks. I have quite some experience with that (I participate in LEGO Truck Trial races, Google it) so with some careful planning that should not be a problem. Heat: My "production" (not prototypes) 3D printed bricks will be made out of the same material as LEGO bricks - the ABS plastic which starts deforming at around ~80°C. No computer component should reach this temperature, but I will make sure everything is ventilated properly anyway. The heat is the reason I'm starting with PC fan mounts:
 
I also made some hard drive and SSD mounts:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
I welcome you to join me on this adventure! Updates will follow soon. Cheers!

Good riddance, especially after some semi-recent discoveries about that app collecting as much data as possible.