Dealing with optics (SFP\QSFP) across different vendors is annoying sometimes.

Costco has these garlic parmesan dinner rolls and they are addicting.

I can stop eating them whenever I want!!!

Trying to find Lian Li cooling kit in white right now is apparently hard mode. At least in SL variants.

wtf is Nvidia doing with this new generation. Releasing dies to AIBs with a disabled ROP unit... and leaving AIBs to suffer the consumer consequences.

This would have been the year for AMD to try to take it to Nvidia in the high end market, lol.

Yeah, I'm not liking this trend towards AI to generate frames, rather than just... rendering. I was mainly interested so I could move the 4090 to the lab for CUDA-related reasons.

I'm not so interested in it that I want to burn my house down though.

24GB, btw, is more than sufficient for VRC!

Effectively, to store\provide extra extensible information. Blame Akamai.

It's under investigation, supposedly, but it looks like a possible power design issue coupled with almost no headroom in the 12VHPWR\12V-2x6 spec. causing relevant leads\cables to heat up to the point of... melting.

Just in case people follow me, but aren't necessarily keeping up with computer part trends, etc. but are looking to upgrade their GPU:

I currently cannot recommend investing in either an Nvidia RTX 5080 or 5090 GPU... unless you really like potential fires.

Umeboshi in like fruit leather form is SO GOOD.

Twitch, Emo Needs Help. YouTube video by TheEmoHealer

My friends, I call upon you to stand with me and shout.

This video is an explanation of what I know of my situation.
My friends, my lifestyle, and all of my projects are in danger.

Twitch please, we need your help.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W26-...

Yeah, the ability to have global communication, now (well I mean as far back as the late 90s, really) is something great about the modern internet.

There's days I very much miss the more analogue era and earlier computing before the ubiquity of the internet.

I don't know if it's because I was much younger, but that era was so fascinating to live in.

Plus getting caught in low-bitrate 480i gave you plausible deniability over being caught in 4k

I've done it. I finished all 3 Xenosaga games. I am free.

The reason we got Metal Gear Solid 4 is, because Monolith out-Kojima'd PS2 era Kojima in cutscenes and that could not stand.

If you use 7-Zip, I highly recommend updating to 24.07 or later (current is 24.09). There's a code execution vuln prior to 24.07 (CVE-2024-11477).

About a month behind on the heads up, but I just recently stumbled upon the CVE myself.

Me, after finishing Xenosaga I last night: Why did I stop playing at the start of Xenosaga II?
Me, after the first few scenes of Xenosaga II: Oh, right.
Me, several hours into Xenosaga II: Oh... Right...

I'm gonna do it. I'm going to get through all three games this time...

I don't use a lot of the featureset Synology provides with their DiskStation products, but both devices I've had have worked great. I find DSM very easy to use and they haven't really given me any issues yet.

Upgraded from a Synology DS220+ to a DS923+ and the migration was easy and painless. I think the hardest part was fixing the DHCP reservation and doing a bit of cable management.

No idea what's going on in South Korea right now with that martial law declaration, but stay safe if you're there.

Whoever designed the final dungeon of Tales of Berseria, please don't design anything anymore. What a complete lack of intelligent... anything. It's just a big clusterfuck.

The team behind this game failed to execute on most levels. What a waste of what could have been a great story.

We actually pointed them to who they need to contact the first time and made the contact aware.

It's just this team is disorganised.

Audit: We need you to provide evidence on [server]
Me: We don't manage [server].
Audit: Okay

The next day
Audit (same person): We need you to provide evidence on [server]
Me: As stated previously, we do not manage [server].

To be nice: I don't understand the logic here.

But I want to be mean.

There's a lot of really neat ideas in the game, they just failed to really take advantage of that in an enjoyable design.

I'm free! I finished Slitterhead and I think it is my worst game of the year for me. It's a shame, because I was excited for this one, as it comes from the creator of Silent Hill and Gravity Rush.

There's still technically a "true ending" to get, but no. I'm done.

I don't know why near fullscreen vignette is a recurring theme in games, but I think it's a lazy indicator of player condition that orients more towards a fail state, rather than being informative.

Edge of screen is fine, however it seems more and more games are encroaching on the full screenspace.

I mean this satirically when I say it, but I can't wait for this compulsory feature (it's a dependency of File Explorer) to be be one of the things malicious actors start exfiltrating from compromised systems.

If you're a Windows 11 user, be aware that 24H2 >= build 26100 has Windows Recall feature enabled and is hidden. This is agnostic of having an NPU (ex. x86 systems also get it).

It might not be running snapshots currently, but it presents as a feature. Not sure if deliberate or not. Probably is.

I'm generally willing to give couriers benefit of the doubt when they deliver next door; Or just even getting the street right, at least.

How did Fedex manage to deliver a package to my place, when the address on the label is several streets over. It's not even the same number or similar sounding.

I've been here since last year, but: hello world.

Is Microsoft here yet? Can I tell them how infuriating their products are?