Recent content by Albuquerque

Today I hit "leet" status! :D Thought I'd share the goofy screencap...

Yeah man, what the hell? I'd love to know why they thought this was a good idea. I mean, I could understand if it was a list of known malware, however that wouldn't be blocked by name -- it would be blocked by some sort of hash signature. The dumbest thing possbiile is to block an unwanted app...

Ugh. Already time to upgrade the folding rig?!? :(

Elucidate on this further, I'm not sure if I follow but I'm curious...

Yeah, it'll be more interesting when we have the entire gamut of STRX parts to review and analyze. Until then, one data point is not a pattern, even if it does possibly hint at a direction.

Let's also talk anti-competition, which often shows up in conversations around "storefronts" like the recent Apple lawsuits from the EU. Steam is the reason my little boy can play Space Engineers with me, a game which was only ever made for Windows, and he plays it from an Ubuntu 23 machine...

Oof, woke up this morning to the Fedora rig still running at ~20MPPD. The 3080 is cranking out around 8M, the cooler of the two 4070's is only rolling out about 7M, and the hotter of the 4070's is crawling at 4M. Ugh. Just the two 4070's with normal temps can crank out more than 25MPPD by...

Good news: the extra 9-pin (PSU) to 8-pin (PCIe) cables arrived today, as expected. I was able to get my 3080Ti plugged in and powered up, and after only fighting Fedora for a handful of minutes, got Coolbits working on all three cards. Bad news: so it turns out having 520 watts of video card...

Yeah, more important than the scaling factors is whether the image quality holds up with the "extra upscaling." Hence why I'd like to give it a shot :)

Would like to try XeSS 1.3 on my old 1070MQ laptop; I was pretty happy with XeSS 1.2 in Cyberpunk on that rig. I guess I shouldn't hold my breath for the patch tho :/

Temperature vs fan curves are something you probably won't find in the stock driver profiles, even the cool newer stuff that NVIDIA has been replacing GeForce Experience with. For anyone who wants to get really fine-grained control over their system fans (including GPUs), I wholeheartedly...

Just use the latest, they're all the same across (currently relevant) operating systems. :)

Mod mode: it's probably best if we don't focus on trying to define political land mines like "woke" in this thread. There's never been a proper definition of the word provided anywhere that I've found, and even if one were to surface, I suspect it's going to be strongly aligned to political...

Honestly, we don't even know if this ephemeral "licensing server" method uses APIs, or some get / post SOAP method, or something far jankier like pure protocol / port calls (I've written some of that in my prior life.) A standard API spec would be great, however I wager there's no current...

Mod mode: Keep it civil. Back to regular posting mode: I'm in the Shifty Geezer camp on this topic. Just because "it's only a few bucks" doesn't make it right. There shouldn't be an imaginary minimal threshold on taking someone's money for thing, and then taking the thing away. This really...