DarthEoin

Since the update, I've noticed a lot of...roughness to the website. I've been pretty welcoming to most changes that have happened over the years, but this time it seems. Lacking.
 
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So, the new forum rank icons are out. They confuse me. I get what you're trying to do, but the execution doesn't make a whole lot of sense. There's many different icons, but none of them seem to be related to anything.
It would make more sense if you had a more ornate surround to the icon the higher up you are. Currently they're all the same, which adds even more to the pointlessness of it.
I'll use Halo kill streaks as an example, since I'm horrible at explaining things:
 

 
The bottom row of images. The further you progress, the more spikes you get. It'd make more sense if the forum "rankings" (or whatever they're called) are like that.
Also, some kind of sticky showing what they are would probably be useful as well. Right now they just seem like random additions, it'd be nice if they actually had some sort of cohesive meaning (and didn't cover user names 😉).
 
Post Count
Having the full number was, IMO, far better than what it currently is. Or, if you're looking to save space, having it just as 1k, 2k, etc might be better; having 2.1k.
 
 
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It's been brought up by other users that having this displayed really doesn't make much sense. This forum covers a broad range of tech topics, and it instills even more potentially undue trust aside from a simple post count number. I'd wager it's even worse, since they've clearly been of help to someone. However, the entirety of their solved answers could be in a completely unrelated sub forum. I just don't see any usefulness in having this shown outside of the users page.

There were some other issues that seem to have been solved since I started (slowly) writing this, does anyone else have any that they've noticed?

It'd be nice if in the future there was more testing done before something was rolled out on the forum. This seems like it was rushed and a lot more half-assed than I feel we're used to on the forum.

It's too late, I will use this thread to farm and you can't stop me /s
 
But yeah, mixed messages...

I did about 5 minutes of digging about "The Dawn Project". The founder of that company, Dan O'Dowd, is also the CEO of Green Hills Software. 
 
Did some digging on Green Hills Software and they appear to offer a competing product: https://www.ghs.com/products/auto_solutions.html
 
Cool.  

I dont think you should get an unlocked processor for that board as i am not sure if it can handle overclocking  
if you are not planning on overclocking, you can get the i7 9700F with the same money
 
 
also, get 2 x8 gb ram sticks for better performance

His misaligned headphones were driving me crazy for the whole spring of 2020, every week during WAN show. Glad he fixed them.
 

Bezos in reality is "richer" since all of his wealth isn't tied into Amazon stock where as Elon's net worth is like 99% Tesla stock that he can't sell without financially ruining the company. Bezos could also sell off his stock without sending Amazon stock spiraling through the floor since Amazon stock is way more diversified among investors.

One of my Classmates in the changing room after Sports today: Hey guys, I've got Spotify Premium but it doesn't work, I can't listen to my Playlists offline. Me: Well did you download your Playlist ? Them: Wait you have to do that ? 
 
Me: *Inner Facepalm*

I understand tesla charging a subscription based system for the car
 
The system is still developing at quite rapid pace. The system itself requires continuous spending on R&D
 
Look, having subscription system for now means it allows more people being able to use it when they need / want to.
 
Although to be fair, tesla should provide the option of buying this feature outright, even if they are expensive
 
 

So just filming locations have changed, but not content? The office is going through construction for more office space so that's reason #1. The other reason is COVID restrictions they must follow. So TQ set might be too tight for using it. And other sets, like TL and SC, have more space for proper social distancing.

the games showen are the games that have Native Game Integration of sli as after January 1st 2021 nivideas drivers will not support sli profiles meaning it is entirly up to the develper to put in the work to biuld their own support for a fecher little people use. it also means that the games that support sli now not on that list will no longer
yes that is why sli is not so grate as some times it lessens proformance. also would you not be better off geting a better graphics card than buying two
the 3090 is the only 3000 card to support sli so it is an obgetive look (this is a video on sli in the 3000 cards not an overview of sli in genrale)

I applaud Google 🙂
I am against data privacy advocates or anyone else who hinders progress. 

Wow that’s cheap wish it was that cheap in the uk

don't bother, it's been around since 2017, i should know, i tried it back it when it first came out.
it's been dead for a LONG time.
it has worse compatibility then android x86 itself (which is saying something since it's BASED ON IT) and many apps like netflix don't work at all.
i even tried to figure out how to fix that and got nowhere.
don't bother with the project, it's not worth it.

Wow that’s cheap wish it was that cheap in the uk

😏🍆🍑
 

Took me 1h and Reddit hates it :(

When you realize that you haven't yet Dropped the PCs you got from Secret Shopper:

*Would you like to Finance your Computer?!?!?!*
 

Summary
A team of modders has reported a successful jailbreak/root of the Quest 2 and the ability to bypass the Facebook Requirement.
 
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My thoughts
I'm honestly not surprised considering the Quest is a glorified android device. This will definitely increase the price of the original headsets like the switch or any other device that has version specific jailbreaks. If you haven't bought a Quest 2, now is the time, even if it's just to scalp them to people wanting to jailbreak later.
 
Sources
Upload VR
Road to VR

I will never pay for corporate spyware

It's gonna happen across all phones within the next year or so. The phone industry will follow the same 3 step cycle.
 
1) Laugh at Apple removing a necessary feature/item
2) See Apple's sales grow despite lacking the necessary feature/item.
3) Quickly adopt what Apple did and pretend Step 1 never happened
 
By Step 3 it's iPhone Event time again and the cycle repeats itself.

Generally iPhone 12 is an impressive device and I'm not going to nitpick about things. But I don't like two things. Lack of charger and inclusion of pointless USB-C to Lightning cable. Come on, only device in my entire household that even has USB-C port is my PC with USB-C port on the case. Everything else has USB-A. Laptops, PC, all the chargers, USB ports in all the cars. Removing charger under pretense of ecology is really shitty. Second thing that I don't like is this obsession with sticking magnets everywhere. And they are always those super strong ones. God forbid you have steel/iron particles around you coz they'll be grabbing on to your phone. Not to mention all these magnets are a nightmare if you're wearing mechanical watches because it fucks up the heart of the watch. I know it's expected everyone's going to use Apple Watch with it, but come on.

The mag Safe is Nice. The looks are going to carry this version's sales.... I will wait until next year to get the mini iphone 12....
 
They made such a useless big deal out of 5g... Everything else was MEH. 

120Hz would have been far more interesting that Dolby HDR video or whatever TBH.
Video wise? iPhone has always been better. Camera wise, we'll see, a lot of Android manufacturers are focusing much more on their cameras.