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Mark Kaine

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    Mark Kaine reacted to Kid.Lazer in Why would stationary PC need ram reseated?   
    Stationary within your room does not mean no physical interactions whatsoever. The hurricane of fans needed to cool your high-end hardware will cause vibration, just as one example.
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    Mark Kaine reacted to SharmanDoom in Why would stationary PC need ram reseated?   
    PC Gremlins ( it can sometimes just be the mild oxidation/dust or 100 other reasons, no obvious answer)
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    Mark Kaine reacted to tkitch in What motherboard should I get   
    for the fans:
    https://www.amazon.com/Cable-Matters-2-Pack-Way-Splitter/dp/B07PXLHNZ6
     
    fan splitters.  you can usually run 3-6 fans on one header (depeninding on their power draw)
     
    For the argb:

    it's basically the same:
    https://www.amazon.com/Jstincal-Splitter-Addressable-Extension-Computer/dp/B0C59BF1T3
     
    argb can run up to like 125-150 LEDs on one header.  (The number of LEDs varies per device, so do math.)
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    Mark Kaine reacted to Purryom in Bad graphics in every game...   
    I have the same problem!✋
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    Mark Kaine reacted to CatHerder in Bad graphics in every game...   
    Might sound super basic, but have you updated your drivers, or did you just slap the GPU in and start gaming?
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    Mark Kaine reacted to Andy that has problems in Bad graphics in every game...   
    Hello! I have had everything on ultra, some games don't have LOD if i know that right. However, when i say all games look bad i really mean it. The further it gets, the blurrier it get. How do the pictures look on your screen, if you dont mind me asking? Stuff are rendering normally, but as i said, it just gets blurrier.
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    Mark Kaine reacted to Motifator in EK Waterblocks: Liquidity shortage and mismanagement   
    The best in the business? This brand has been garbage for a complete two decades. The oxidating GPU blocks, the CSQ fiasco, nickel plating tearing out... remember older days? And they don't do their own stuff usually it's just stuff they take from Asetek in AIOs, and pumps from some company down Slovakia.

    The country they're from aren't even great for producing high tech stuff. If you look at who makes these things, you'll see a lot of hippies that worked for this company. Not people like uh... name me a tech giant? Igor Rosanov, who built Dr. Web anti-virus in 1992... after working on MIG planes. Nobody out of EK, as a person, holds any redeeming value to watercooling. Their stuff is overpriced and garbage. They're the Fiat of watercooling, everybody knows Fiat, entry-level.

    People who are better at watercooling would buy Aquacomputer, Heatkiller and similar brands... actual gear is out there, let EK rebadge unreliable, cheap DDC's.

    Why do you think EK's DDCs pass out in couple years while the old school Swiftech ones have been going for so long?

    Yeah, EK sucks, just like EVGA. They deserved this themselves long ago. I will not miss them.
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    Mark Kaine reacted to StDragon in EK Waterblocks: Liquidity shortage and mismanagement   
    From fire to water. During bankruptcy, liquidation can be part of that process.
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    Mark Kaine reacted to Agall in BattleNet   
    Have you tried uninstall and reinstalling Warzone through Battle.net? Sometimes the download cache can get corrupted and I imagine it doesn't let you validate the files if its not installed. Otherwise, uninstall and reinstall Battle.net afterwards as well, and it'll redetect any games you're playing on the client automatically.
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    Mark Kaine reacted to StDragon in Under 14? No social media for you!   
    Just to make my position on this more clear. In a **perfect world, I'm not opposed to an official ID. However, there's three outstanding problems I take issue with.
    When the SSN was debated in Congress, it was forewarned it would be used carelessly and abused. This turned out to be correct. SSN are being exposed with regards to how Personal Identifiable Information (PII) gets secured; or the lack thereof. It rewards false intentions, if not outright lies when being legislated by our elected officials. This is a moral hazard where the ends don't justify the means. If there's going to be a national ID, there needs to be stricter regulations with how this is applied, accessed, and stored. Though it's a bit late when over 143 MILLION records have been exposed from one of the three largest CRAs (in this case, Equifax).

    **We don't live in a perfect world, so I'm exceedingly skeptical that this wouldn't be abused; either willfully or through negligence. Identity theft is a big deal.

    I quote SSA.gov in bold per the PDF linked above from page 1.

    "We don’t give your number to anyone, except when authorized by law. You should be careful about sharing your number, even when you’re asked for it."

    Uh huh, about that...
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    Mark Kaine reacted to StDragon in Under 14? No social media for you!   
    ^ LOL, you just described the US Gov. The SSN is one giant moving goalpost in terms of scope-creep.

    How We Got Social Security Numbers | HISTORY
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    Mark Kaine reacted to EdoTensei in Fallout 4 Steam no sound and stuttering at 60fps locked...   
    As in title.
     
    Ryzen 9 5900X with RX 7800XT so not really a weak PC, and at 1440p Ultra getting 144+ FPS, but playing at my 60hz TV, so locked 60fps. 
     
    But still getting stuttering even tho 60fps stays at 60 all the time.. 
     
    Another thing is I have no sound after intro.. 
     
    I tried to set audio at 4800hz but nothing change.
    Also set 0 to iPresentInterval in Fallout 4 config, but still stutter. I even disabled VRR, any FPS limiters. 
     
    Wanna play but I getting more frustrating with searching for issue fixes than enjoying the game. 
  13. Funny
    Mark Kaine reacted to BoomerDutch in NOTHING lets me boot into Windows, and it can't be "fixed"?   
    Exciting. 😆 will it win or fail.
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    Mark Kaine reacted to RagePoweredGamer in NOTHING lets me boot into Windows, and it can't be "fixed"?   
    Alright. Got it booted. Didn't get portable, but it booted. Now to click random things looking for whatever it is that I need...
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    Mark Kaine reacted to MadAnt250 in TikTok, misinformation and Censorship   
    TikTok is owned and ran by the commies, that should clear things up. Really if they get banned, I don't care if people get upset. 
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    Mark Kaine reacted to soldier_ph in European Computer part store with lowest shipping rates to europe ?   
    Digitec Galaxus which is Switzerlands biggest Online Shop has also expanded to Italy among other European Countries:
    https://www.galaxus.it/en/s1/sector/it-multimedia-1
     
    As long as your total is at least 50 Bucks in value shipping will be free.
     
    They're great, I buy all of my Tech and other things there.
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    Mark Kaine reacted to Nexxus in Apr 14 2024. The day I killed the "Can it run Crysis?" meme   
    Each game is running at maximum settings at 1920x1080. I initially tried to get crysis 1, 2 and 3 running but sadly cryengine has an arbitrary limitation that will not allow you to run more than one instance of it at a time. I could only circumvent it by launching crysis 2 first, followed by 1 and warhead in developer mode which seems to be removed in the newer titles.

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    Mark Kaine reacted to itchie in Apr 14 2024. The day I killed the "Can it run Crysis?" meme   
    but its still a meme so who are you and how did you kill it? maybe you arent as big of a deal as you think....
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    Mark Kaine reacted to Thaldor in Video game maintenance and preservation. How do we feel?   
    On one hand it sucks that games die and you cannot play them after that.
     
    On the other hand, does even all the games (all, meaning every single one, not just the ones you love and like but also those you completely hate are bad and all that) deserve preservation? Remember, saying "all the games need preservation" does include asset flips, the ripoffs and other absolute garbage that is surprising someone managed to even release.
     
    Third one is the ability to preserve them. I can give you and example of a "game" that is basicly impossible to be preserved by anyone else than me. It wasn't as much a game but experiment on how to use google maps to create VR game and the server part was basicly scraping Google Maps/Earth for satellite, 3D-city data and streetview for each player and streaming that to the headsets. To preserve that you would have either needed my server that was loaned from Google and directly connected to the Maps network for that data scraping or you would also need to duplicate the around 20 petabytes of Google Maps data. And then I would need to find a way to deliver all that to you, probably as always with these, for free because you didn't take into account that there might be something else than just a database and some calculations on positions and outcomes on the servers, not 20 petabytes worth of data (that HDD/SSD amount you must handle by yourself, good luck).
    Would you be willing to invest your money to build custom server infrastructure to preserve one game that you love?
     
    This brings us to the point I made when someone was collecting money to sue Ubishit for closing The Crew, why didn't he collect the money to buy the servers from Ubishit and host the game himself with that money if it is that important? Like, it's probably just few thousands per month (probably just ten times that on global scale, wouldn't like to leave out those three people loving it in the Bogo bogo island, would you?) that the servers cost. If the game is that loved collecting that much shouldn't be a problem especially for a youtuber.
     
    I am playing a bit devil's advocate here, but that's also just the truth. There is costs to run online games, it is bad design to require online for single players and all that, I actually despise that so much I refuse to even consider getting those kinds of games from Humble Choice or anywhere else, I won't even talk about them because they're not worth even that much of my time. But when in the future it comes to preserving something like EVE:Online or Star Citizens or any other extremely massive projects, who is going to be even able to do that financially? Not every games uses servers that you can host from your PC, a lot of them do, but not all and when they don't we get the problem "who is going to preserve this when it's only a black hole of money and no one is willing to pay the bills?"
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    Mark Kaine reacted to dogwitch in Video game maintenance and preservation. How do we feel?   
    1 agree. i seen them to.
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    Mark Kaine got a reaction from dogwitch in Video game maintenance and preservation. How do we feel?   
    wouldn't surprise me if this resulted in the opposite tbh lol, seems very ill thought out to "demand" something from an government that can already be done in a somewhat greyzone, its likely any officials asked about this will gladly nope out...
     
    tldr: dumb 
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    Mark Kaine got a reaction from dogwitch in Video game maintenance and preservation. How do we feel?   
    i also seen more accurate videos about this showing "unplayable" games that of course still can be played just fine... truth is in many cases, even when its up they have a playerbase of 10 or so... totally irrelevant outside of the preservation aspect, which yes can be done by everyone inclined to do it.
     
     
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    Mark Kaine reacted to dogwitch in Video game maintenance and preservation. How do we feel?   
    yeah and that  my issue. it  has every feel of clickbait in said OG video and tt one.
    both are small channels. that cater to niche type of views.
    then with the people comment overall about the topic.
    are the dumbest i ever seen. like just let some one else run it...
    not how any of  it works .
    you try to explain that to them. many have tried it vielded threats on the matter.
    i dont like how the extreme side is using this issue and are the one pushing it.
    i was able to track 3 reddit accounts pushing the OG  person video  and the alt accounts they used.
    it was getting spam to convention subs etc. not it target people.
    in  my mod list on a sub i run. . they keep using the same typo and that how i figure it out.
     
    also you notice overall online its barely talk about .
     
     
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    Mark Kaine got a reaction from dogwitch in Video game maintenance and preservation. How do we feel?   
    hmm i dunno most games can still be played one way or another so while I'm at heart for "game preservation" this current trend seems very clickbaity and not very accurate to me.
     
    And if *your* game cant be played anymore,  umm A name it, and B just make your own server? 
     
    And yes i know that's not always possible,  but again,  in almost all cases, probably close to 99% it is.
     
    don't complain,  learn programming or something is my suggestion therefore. 🙂
     
     
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    Mark Kaine reacted to dogwitch in Video game maintenance and preservation. How do we feel?   
    he straight up said fable was no playable. pretty much almost ever game(none live service ones)
    has exe. and dll  mess with(due to forum rules)to play the game with out the drm.
    if you dig into comments. other people pointing out he was stretching the  the point.
    even people on reddit and other sites chime in and pointed that out.
     
     
     
     
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