Romkslrqusz
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- Comment on Why do video game leaks (such as the huge GTA VI videos leak) cause "low morale" for the staff working on it? 5 days ago:
Ever had someone looking over your shoulder providing feedback to something that you’re in the middle of writing the first draft of?
- Comment on Cry Havoc for this open world cyberpunk dog-fighter inspired by G-Police 6 days ago:
Article doesn’t make this clear, but there’s a next fest demo you can check out right now if you want
- Comment on Battlefield 6 hits EA’s highest ever concurrent player count on Steam, beating Apex Legends | VGC 1 week ago:
The game is really quite fun, this is one of the first Battlefield launches to be devoid of any major technical issues or controversies
- Comment on Masters of timing, Microsoft: Just one day from Windows 10 EOL and apparently the official Media Creation Tool isn't working 1 week ago:
There’s plenty wrong with Microsoft and their messaging around this transition, but IMO Windows 11 really is more of the same, it just has some cosmetic changes and under the hood security features (related to TPM 2.0) that bring it up to speed with MacOS.
ads being introduced to the OS
“Ads” for first party Microsoft products (365, Game Pass) were present in 10 as well. Not aware of any ads for third party stuff, other than maybe the placeholder app icons for stuff like TikTok and Facebook on a fresh install - in both 10 and 11.
shedloads of telemetry
Also in 10
constant UI changes (Start menu, Settings app)
Not sure what you mean here, these things have remained pretty consistent since Windows 11’s launch in 2021
nags for OneDrive
Trivial to disable, and I’ll never be against reminding users to have some kind of backup. Ultimately, Windows 10 was also like this.
I do wish the article mentioned Linux as an alternative to upgrading / buying new hardware. Equally irresponsible is the omission of Windows 10’s ESU enrollment option, which currently delays this whole ordeal by another year.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Out of the loop and don’t really care about strangers’ internet drama, just thought I would point out that used correctly / as intended, E-Collars are not shock collars.
Dogs have different levels of focus / fixation. Physical stimuli can be necessary to break through fixation when dogs are unresponsive to verbal commands.
As an escalation from the vibration function, the intention of the electric stimulation is that it triggers a muscle spasm.
The Educator e-collars can be configured for 100 levels of stimulation and the manual outlines a very clear calibration process to ensure you’re not actually shocking your dog.
- Comment on Steam Autumn Sale 2025 Has Begun 3 weeks ago:
I don’t feel like it’s fair to compare the newer DOOM games to one another. They’re more like different games than sequels.
DOOM 2016 is an excellent reboot, fairly grounded.
DOOM Eternal is a movement shooter / platformer with a ton of verticality in the areas.
I haven’t played it yet, but I get the impression Dark Ages is even more grounded and geared towards wide open arenas. Almost gives me Serious Sam vibes.
I’ve had a ton of fun with Eternal and I’m sure you’ll get more than your $4 worth!
- Comment on Microsoft doing shady Microsoft stuff again 3 weeks ago:
I agree, that would be my preference too.
But Windows isn’t built for advanced users, it’s a mainstream OS built for the average consumer. What you and I might see as “taking control away from the user”, the general population might see as “one less confusing choice” if only they had a clue.
I’m glad you’ve finally found your home with Linux :) There are still too many frustrated Windows power users who still don’t know how much better they could have it. I use a bit of everything, btw. Platform agnostic with more Windows/MacOS experience only because the nature of my job demands it.
- Comment on Microsoft doing shady Microsoft stuff again 3 weeks ago:
I manage a ton of consumer Windows devices and have seldom seen this message. It also hasn’t ever appeared on any of the multitude my own Windows devices that I’m using for hours every week.
I have also seen this message with regard to other file associations like .PDF, certain image formats, and archive formats.
Microsoft has plenty of dark patterns to try and loop users back into Microsoft Edge, but I don’t think this is one of them.
Edge just happens to be the “constant” in an ocean of variables because it ships with the OS and is integrated into so many other facets. The broken .PDF association also defaults back Edge, Image formats to Photos, Archive formats to the Explorer archive utility. I’m sure .txt would scale back to Notepad.
- Comment on I fixed Borderlands 4's stuttering issue by upping my shader cache size to 100 GB, which feels like something I shouldn't have to do in a well-optimised game 5 weeks ago:
The game is running at less than 40fps, they’re using the 3X Frame Gen mode
Granted, that’s at 4K and seems to alse be with most of the settings cranked to “Badass”
- Comment on Nintendo Wins $2 Million Lawsuit Against 'MiG Switch' Distributor 1 month ago:
At launch, the original Switch was incredibly difficult to get. I had to use BrickSeek and out in a fair amount of effort to get one, calling in late to work and going out if my way to pick one up.
In the first two weeks after Switch 2 launched, I had multiple opportunities to buy one off the shelf and I wasn’t even looking for them.
The strong launch supply is the key contributing factor to the sales figures here, I’ll be curious to see how the sales compared after a longer period like one year.
- Comment on Good news. :) 1 month ago:
Quite a few of the folks I know consider BC just as big / important a part of the PNW as Bellingham, Seattle, Olympia, Portland, Salem, Eugene, etc.
- Comment on Battlefield 6 dev apologizes for requiring Secure Boot to power anti-cheat tools 1 month ago:
Why not enroll a key for your second OS?
- Comment on Battlefield 6 dev apologizes for requiring Secure Boot to power anti-cheat tools 1 month ago:
There a particular reason you wanted Legacy / BIOS mode?
MBR2GPT makes the conversion easy and can even be run from the OS while it’s running. We get an image backup first, but we’ve never had to use it. There are occasionally complications getting it to actually run, but those are usually when the disk is full when folks have a really weird nonstandard partition arrangement.
- Comment on Battlefield 6 dev apologizes for requiring Secure Boot to power anti-cheat tools 1 month ago:
I really don’t understand the aversion to Secure Boot, can somebody share some perspective?
It’s a setting that you toggle in BIOS and is found on virtually every motherboard from the last 12 years. Some platforms are slightly counterintuitive, requiring you the manually switch to custom keys and then back to factory key in order for it to install/activate. For booting alternative OSes, enrolling a custom key takes 5 seconds.
It hardens security of the boot process, and It’s already a requirement for Windows 11, the primary OS that most PC Gamers are already going to be choosing.
I feel like there’s a ton of bitching going on over the most minor of inconveniences that will actually prove to be a net benefit overall.
- Comment on [Gamers Nexus] How Razer Screws Customers | Hardware, Software, & Support Failures 1 month ago:
Been using a Blackwidow keyboard since 2017
Had a Mamba mouse purchased in 2019 start to have issues registering clicks in 2023, but I see that as a failure of the ALPS micro switch. Bought the same mouse because nothing else fills out my hand quite the same way.
Partner’s using a Deathadder mouse I originally bought in 2015.
I still have an Orochi laptop mouse I bought way back in 2008, heavily used for a decade without issue.
One of their headsets has made it as a hand-me-down through two friends.
Their laptops are another story. Challenging to find parts for, and they’ve tried to copy Apple down to the flaws - “flexgate” is just as much an issue on Razer laptops as it is on MacBooks, except that the screens are harder to come by so they cost way more.
Finding and downloading drivers is an awkward and confusing process, and the they’re all years out of date anyways.
- Comment on Parallel Empires 2 months ago:
who needed only 1 USB-A and two lightning cable ports?
That MacBook has an additional USB-A port and an HDMI port on the other side
When was Mini-DVI relevant?
In the mid 2000s. DVI offered the advantage of digital signal and support for higher resolutions at a time when most other laptops still had a VGA port. Part of Apple’s option of “premium” technologies. HDMI didn’t really start to take hold until the late 2000s, and Apple eventually switched.
Apple have generally been willing to adopt the more novel / premium connections in their products. Consider the 2016 MacBook Pro - Apple went all-in on Thunderbolt / USB Type C at a time where that was a rather uncommon connection, but in the years that followed we got an awesome array of aftermarket hubs and adapters that also benefited ultrabook users as the rest of tech started to follow suit.
Don’t get me started on the iPhone USB-C port being limited to 500Mbps though.
- Comment on Everyone says that Ryzen 7 2700x supports up to 64GB of ram but thats actualy not true, it supports more! 2 months ago:
Don’t forget to run Memtest ti make sure it actually works rather than just “works”
Creeping corruption is a bad time
- Comment on ifixit was NOT fucking around with that repairability score of...1 LMAO 2 months ago:
Phones, Tablets: Exist with glued-in but ultimately removable / reinstallable screens
Microsoft: What if we mix crushed up eggshells into the glass?
- Comment on Windows 11 user has 30 years of 'irreplaceable photos and work' locked away in OneDrive - and Microsoft's silence is deafening 4 months ago:
a USB stick is enough
No, it’s really not. In addition to failing abruptly and often unpredictably, flash based media will suffer from bit rot when left unpowered for extended periods of time.
- Comment on Why is my GPU's "3D" usage spiking so wildly when I'm not even playing a game? It keeps throttling up and throttling down and the noise is extremely annoying 4 months ago:
The “3D” graph is really just GPU utilization. There are other aspects of the system that will utilize the GPU, like the Desktop Window Manager or Hardware Acceleration in your web browsers.
You’re going to want to make sure the noise is indeed coming from the graphics card. CPU will also fluctuate in load / frequency and most fans’ speed logic is bound to that.
I’ve found that, a lot of the time, this repeated “revving” is the result of something crossing a threshold in the fan curve. Adjusting the fan curve can help avoid that crossing that “cusp” back and forth.
- Comment on BattleBit - Operation Overhaul: Teaser Trailer 4 months ago:
Very excited for this! Honestly, I don’t understand all the negativity surrounding the devs going dark. I thought the game was fine the way it was shortly after launch. I don’t really get the need for an unending flow of content and updates.
- Comment on Luv Me Chips, 'ate Seagulls... 4 months ago:
Gets attacked by an organism
Exacts revenge on an entirely different organism that had nothing to do with the first situation
Just stay away from their nests dude