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You see, the funny thing about words is, they can mean things other than the dictionary definition. If dictionaries are the authority on words, then words didn't mean anything at all before writing, before somebody composed the first dictionary. Words are also funny because I can say my computer is shit which means it's bad, but I can call it the shit which means it's awesome, while the definition for shit is: Which doesn't cover the usage of "the shit". And when googling "the shit", nothing came up. So maybe in the future try to recognize that sometimes people have casual conversations and can use words casually. The conversation hadn't turned into a technical conversation requiring specific, precise, unambiguous words with decided-upon definitions to use in order to prevent miscommunications. Besides, what words mean changes, and then AFTER they change, dictionaries eventually update. If this wasn't the case, we'd still be speaking, not Old English, not Old German, but whatever was first. But we don't. Words are tools, their meanings change based on how we use them.Dictionaries/definitions are tools too. They help us understand what somebody means by a word, not what a word means. Also what he said wasn't nonsensical. All of us, including you, could make sense out of it. So you should probably look up the definition of nonsense before you use it.

Np and good point on the guilt from mutilating a gift lol I forgot that part. I'm sure somebody will be by with a better answer, but I'd go with an intake fan and outtake, but I think intake would be more important. I think you'll have better cooling blowing cool air directly at the laptop than you would trying to suck the heat away from it as the blowing effect is more exact. It blows where you point it. An outtake only solution would be pulling hot air from everywhere, but you really only want to focus on the air directly at the hot components. If you just want simple, working, cheap, I'd go for desk fans. Just make sure not to get some that are too weak. I noticed the USB hub in the picture, I'd avoid using USB powered fans unless they're some of those better ones with a battery. Battery ones were about $8 from walmart around here, and they will still cool your laptop for a few hours before the battery dies. Also that USB hub looks very similar to one I have. Even with the external power supply feeding the hub power, it really doesn't provide much power to the USBs. All the data speeds seem fine on it (usb 2.0 for mine), so I wouldn't count on it being able to provide much power to fans if that was part of the plan. The rechargeable fans I got from Walmart are more powerful than the wall powered fans I got from there with only about a $2 difference in cost. Test the fans, get a good one, don't be afraid to test them in the store or take them back lol. The rechargeable fans were about $8 around here.

Ahh I meant to also add, if you go the arduino route, you could hook up temp sensors to that and attach them to places on your laptop and the arduino could control the speeds based off those temps. Ardunos are like USD$2, with the temp sensors and wires and stuff assuredly costing less than $10 total. (From aliexpress at least, I can't justify paying the middlemen on amazon and ebay and stuff so idk the prices from there)

You probably already have, but try it again lol. Maybe something with the win11 upgrade wasn't quite done and interfered with the gpu install, just a guess lol. And this is going to sound as stupid as "is it plugged in?" but I had a friend with this exact same problem.. he forgot he just got a "new" used gpu when upgrading windows and was trying to install amd drivers instead of nvidia ones since his old card was amd lol

This looks neat. Did you consider saying screw it and modifying the bottom cover of the laptop to add some fan holes? It would still be clunky, and sounds pretty memey too, but it would still be "portable" that way lol. If you use PC fans you can control their speed, aka their noise, for when you want them on but are only watching videos, or maybe if you let it update or downloading overnight. I'm guessing you could find more powerful nonpc fans, but you really only need enough power to get the job done right? So personally I'd go with a PC fan solution, and use something like an arduino to control the fans since you probably can't attach more fans to the motherboard (without doing more meme level stuff lol). You could have a nob sticking out of the plastic cupboard allowing you to control the fans manually. I intend to try it someday but haven't yet, but you might even be able to get temperature readings from your pc using software and then having the arduino control the pc fans based off the data. I know getting data to and from an arduino is trivial, just haven't tried reading temps from a pc yet.

Actually Chase Bank's HQ isn't too far from New Albany. It's just to the west outside Worthington, which is a suburb northwest of New Albany. About 15-20min drive depending on your start and end locations and traffic. Basically the whole north side of Columbus is the rich side. From Dublin in the NW, Worthington in the North, and Westerville and New Albany in the NE. There's actually a backup data center Chase has in Worthington that they're about to move up to Michigan, I wonder if the other data centers moving in would bring in any benefits worth them reconsidering. It's not some massive data center or anything, it's just in some secure part of one of their call centers.

New Albany is one of the richer parts of Columbus. Their property values will probably still skyrocket though I can't wait to become a janitor for Intel in 3 years!!!

I didn't say the company certifies it, I said they get it certified, meaning they get it certified by the USB Forum. Like getting your car fixed doesn't mean you're fixing your car, it means it's getting fixed by someone else. I said this quote before I said the naming them after the year thing. I would much rather see that^ "USB 3 @ 5 Gbps" than the year thing. After posting I realized I'd probably be just as fine or more fine with "USB @ 5Gbps". I don't want to see the year thing. The "Heck" in "Heck, maybe even just: " was supposed to signify that I didn't think it was a good idea, but that I thought it was still better than what the current naming scheme is. I coulda been more clear on that one. Playstation's naming scheme is on point, I would most rather see something as simple and effective as their names are. Consumers only care if it will do what they need it to. Linus definitely seemed like he knew what he was talking about. Why do you think he doesn't? It's not that hard to understand once you look it up. It's a lot of annoying crap to remember, and maybe it is hard to remember, idk, I haven't tried. It's not easy to remember though. We don't care about that POV. We care about the POV of the consumer. Maybe you don't care about the POV of the consumer, but the argument is being made from the POV of the consumer. It's stupid for consumers to have to deal with. Like how in school they simplify and dumb down some things so students can grasp the important parts of whatever they're being taught. Like how they show electrons orbiting atoms. That model has since been found to be incorrect, but that's irrelevant for getting the students to understand how it works. Like consumers don't care how LCD or OLED technology works, they just care about how good the image looks, and price, and how long it should last. They'll weigh their decision based on other factors too, like burn in for example, but they don't care how that stuff operates, just the end result. I don't care how anesthesia works as long as it's safe and stops me from feeling the doctor cutting into my body. The naming scheme does make sense from a technical and compliance perspective as OP said, but Linus and the rest of us are saying it doesn't make sense from a consumer perspective. So talking as if we're saying it doesn't make sense from any perspective or from a technical perspective is misrepresenting the argument. I think the bottom line is the USB Forum does have the power to make names that make sense to consumers, and they have the power to force manufacturers to use the names they dictate, but they choose not to. Manufacturers have to agree to a licensing agreement to use the USB logos etc, and the USB Forum could sue to force compliance. And they choose not to. And I'm sure engineers hate the technical names too. Lest not forget the turbo or retro encabulators.

I think the problem is still that the USB people did a horrible job with the naming. For one, if something is usb 3.0, and the company goes to get it certified as usb 3.1, well the usb people won't certify it, and then if the company uses the usb name, or logo, then the usb people can sue them right? Is that right? So if that's right, then they shouldn't certify anything that is using the technical name instead of the consumer name, since they said not to use the technical name (as op said). Why can't they do that? Yeah, then they'd "have to certify the packaging" I guess, or they could not do that and treat it like they would if their logo was being used without their permission, they could sue. I'm assuming some sorta contract or agreement is made and probably signed? So they could sue them for breach of contract. Am I right? And for two, I don't think anybody is saying specifically that the names don't make sense, I think we're all just saying the naming scheme sucks for consumers. That if you are a consumer, you don't understand it. And finally, personally I find using the "SuperSpeed" thing to be dumb. That's from usb2, or maybe even usb 1.1, I don't remember for sure. (I was thinking of Hi Speed USB 2.0) I think it'd be better to replace "SuperSpeed" with "USB 3" like so: USB 3 @ 5Gbps, USB 3 @ 10Gbps, USB 3 @ 20Gbps. or something like that. Simple numbers are fine. AOL 7.0. Playstation 5. Windows 10. As examples. Heck, maybe even just: USB 2020, USB 2021, USB 2022. Maybe add the 3, but if you're going by year, then you can scrap it prolly.

Ih-is that lego pirate ship the one from the '90s? It's nice either way!! It's definitely the same flag, and iirc the sails look right too from what I remember. I can't remember if my brother and I had that ship or if it was our cousin, or if we both did lol. You should consider getting one of these maybe? Guess it wouldn't help much with the power supply management, but it will save on wear and tear. Especially for anything plugging into a wall outlet, loose hanging, half plugged in plugs are annoying (and dangerous)!! lol

In Windows you can use Disk Management. I can right click the start button on Windows 8.1 and then click Disk Management to get there. There's a top half and bottom half of the screen. You might see drives without letters, meaning you can't access them, ignore them, they are important, if they exist. They should have recovery stuff on them so you can restore your computer to how it was when you bought it. Again, these unlettered drives might not exist for you. Just ignore them. So before you do anything, again, make sure you have any files you don't want deleted copied somewhere. You will not be able to erase Windows 10 this way if you are trying to do it from the Windows 10 that you are trying to delete. I'm sure that's probably pretty obvious to you. So on the top half of the screen, find the drive letter you want to erase. MAKE SURE IT'S THE RIGHT ONE. Right click on the drive, and click format. And then you can just click Ok. You shouldn't need to change the filesystem, but if you know what that means, then feel free to. But you want to leave it as NTFS otherwise. You don't want to change Allocation Unit Size, you just want it to be Default. You probably want to keep Perform a Quick Format checked. If you have files you want to make sure can't be unerased, then you can uncheck quick format, but of course this will take longer, maybe a very lot longer, idk, it depends whatchu got. You don't wanna click Enable File and Folder Compression, 'cause you probably won't use that stuff, and I assume it will take up some space on the drive. There ya go. Be careful. If you fuck somethin' up, that's on you. And if it doesn't let you format the drive, then my first guess as to why is because you're trying to do something wrongly and don't know it.

How do you store your consoles and controllers? I know some people put old controllers in ziplock bags. And that people try to not wrap the cords around the controller, or if they do wrap them they don't tighten it and they leave plenty of slack where the cord goes into the controller. What do you think are some best practices for storage? Are there any awesome or unique things you've seen in any setups? (feel free to just post pics/vids of cool setups if that's all you got for this thread) I 3d printed some controller boxes to store ps2 controllers safely, so the wires won't kink, and the buttons and joysticks can rest without being pressed. I will improve the design in the future. I was planning on storing all my excess wired controllers in boxes like this. I'm asking because I want to setup at least 5 consoles (ps2, ps3, xbox, 360, wii), if I can add more than that's a bonus. I want a setup that looks nice and is convenient to use. Part of my brain is thinking since I can 3d print whatever I want, that I can print things that will have the optimal space for airflow, have space for the controllers, space to insert games, etc. But another part of my brain thinks the first part is trying to over do it lol. I have some power strips that have a power switch for each outlet, rather than one switch for all 6 outlets so I can have everything I need plugged in, and can just flick the switch(es) for whatever I'm about to use. I also have a switch box for the RCA connections, and in the future might need to get an hdmi one if I add another hdmi device. I was also thinking in the future about using arduinos/raspberry pis with some motors to press the buttons on the power switch & rca switch so i can have one button do both. Edit: I also have controller extension cables, which are really nice.

Gotcha, thank you!

Have you used linux before? I haven't messed with a desktop version in YEARS but I absolutely hate using it on my router and raspberry pi lol. If you wanna give it a shot, well, why not? I'd say if you do, keep in mind you might not like it and if you have to trog through a bunch of frustrating things then it might not be worth it. Setting up my raspberry pi was very frustrating, and ended up not being worth it because only after setting it up did I find out the USB functionality is absolute shit on the pi4. It works, but it's like using dial up if you are trying to copy something to it over the network. Half of the reason for setting it up was for being able to copy things to it, the other half was being able to copy things from it lol. It not working as intended is the fault of the hardware. Getting the software on it and configured being annoying af is a fault of linux (or the app developers I guess).

I understand it was the only option. I was just telling you how you sounded. Since you don't seem like you understand how that sounded to some people. Kinda like if I said "I don't like guys". I didn't say "I like girls", but yet I did say I like girls. lol Oh, I thought the breadboard part was talking about the Apple II. That makes sense. So was the expansion capability not "charitable" though? Or is there something I'm missing?

I agree that the socket stuff was probably because they were off the shelf parts, but, not having seen the insides of one, I still have to wonder about the breadboard area. If the breadboard area was designed as a feature rather than a byproduct, then it would totally point to the machine having tinkerability as part of the design. The "because that had absolutely nothing to do with it." is totally an assumption on your part. When you say it had absolutely nothing to do with it, at least with the way you said it, you are saying they didn't care about it being modifiable. You are saying they had zero care for it being fixable, modifiable, etc. Maybe that's not what you meant to say, but that's how it reads, so that's what you said.

Ha, I guess I didn't even consider not using the 2nd pc in the stream setup. I'll definitely have him try with 1 and 2 pcs and let him decide. It would save him some money on his electric bill that way. Also good point about audio quality being more important than video quality. Very good advice about the virtual audio cable thing as well, I never thought about that existing. I've already started looking into it lol. Which one do you use? I was thinking about using a usb numpad for transitions with lua macros, but I didn't realize there were so many unique keys for the numpad, so I'll just have him use that. Again, I didn't think about there being virtual audio cable programs, which is exactly why I made this topic. Thank you!!

Hey guys! I am not looking for specific help, just generally want to see what wisdom, insights, etc the LTT forums may have for me. What are your experiences with streaming? Do you have any tips or stories you'd like to share? Any thoughts or comments? I am helping my brother setup game streaming, of course using OBS. Since his monitor supports 240hz I was going to try OBS with that NDI plugin before having him plunk down cash for a solution that will let him play at 240hz while streaming (not streaming 240 of course lol). He bought an Alienware Aurora R8 like 3 years ago, used it for a few months, then went back to his Xbox. I was gonna sell it for him, but by time that happened it was out of warranty and his 2080 somehow became defective by that point. So he bought a new computer like 2 weeks ago with a 3070 in it iirc, so now we're going to use the Alienware as an overpowered streaming pc. Yes brethren, he converted himself from a console peasant to the PCMR I am still going to look into finding a solution that will let him play at 240 while he streams, since he didn't drop a few grand to still play like he's limited by a console. I haven't yet found a capture card that will pass through 240hz, but I've only done some initial searching, so I expect there are some. If not, then I was thinking I'd find an HDMI splitter that works with 240hz and use that to split to his monitor and to a capture card. In case he doesn't like the OBS NDI setup. (HDMI or DP, no preferences here) I was also gonna try to figure out hotkeys and such for OBS transitions/etc. I might employ LUA Macros, or AutoHotkey, or maybe even code something up from scratch if need be. Is there any software you wish existed that could make the streaming experience better? (So I can consider making that for him (and you)). Again, I'm really just trying to start a general discussion about this. Maybe if this takes off I could write up some tutorial/guide/recap for others in the future. Feel free to send me links or whatever else.

Ty!

If I link my forum account to my discord account, will I still have to give discord my phone number to join the ltt discord?

If you want to code quickly, personally I stopped using arrays I started using Lists and Lists of Lists. I'm not saying it runs quicker, but it's easier to code. And then later I plan on converting the lists to arrays, when I feel like it or something. I just find them faster to code around than arrays. Maybe I'm doing arrays wrong though. lool. *though I do still start off with arrays, but I usually convert them to lists later

If you want to do the output one line at a time, this should work (I didn't test it, sorry if it doesn't work, I will fix it) Dim lineNumber As Integer Sub AddToTextBox(ByVal _inputText As String) lineNumber += 1 OutputTextBox.Text = lineNumber & ". " & _inputText & vbNewLine End Sub So to get the same output as in your post, it would work like: AddToTextBox("Line 1") AddToTextBox("Line 2") AddToTextBox("Line 3") AddToTextBox("Line 4") AddToTextBox("Line 5") AddToTextBox("Line 6") AddToTextBox("Line 7") AddToTextBox("Line 8")

bindy, ty for posting! I just want to encourage you to make these posts in the future. Posts like this are absolute gold to find on google. There's been a handful of posts I've found like this over the years and they have been really flippin' helpful. So for the future coders out there, please keep this mentality!

Here you go friend ? Edit: Guess I didn't notice I could upload the file before. So I attached it. There's a link to the code in case you wanna do it yourself or something. Timed Shutdown.bat Just save it's name as "Timed Shutdown.bat" So paste it into notepad, click File -> Save As -> put "Timed Shutdown.bat" in the file name field -> Save Type As: All Files (*.*) -> Save And Voila! https://textuploader.com/15eau

If you know how long you want your computer on for, you can hit the windows key + r key to open the Run prompt, and then put in "shutdown /s /t 300" but replace 300 with the time, in seconds, that you want your computer to shut down from now. And then if you want to cancel that, do the windows key + r key, and put in "shutdown /a" and it will abort the shutdown. If you try that method out and like it, I can help you make a shortcut to it so you can start it like you would anything else on your computer.