netweirdo
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- Comment on The half-assed implementations of battery charge limits... 2 days ago:
I don’t believe that because this isn’t about capacity calibration, but more so that the battery voltage is almost constant between about 20% and 90%, though varies by battery type, and no matter what, the controller can’t exactly know how much the battery is actually charging and discharging so it has to guess the current state. I’ve seen this happen on a Dell XPS laptop I have from work, I manually set it to limit charging to 80% since the built in “Primarily AC Use” mode cycles it around 95%, and it doesn’t do the occasional recharge to 100% by itself, so about once a month it would jump from whatever percentage it was at to 7%, even from 80%.
- Comment on My quest to get a steam controller has failed 1 week ago:
I’m not sure if I’m weird or what but for me it only complained about me having a non-standard name and address and that I didn’t have enough funds in the Steam wallet it kept trying to use.
I guess I just got super lucky that I got the transaction to go through after only a minute of trying, a literal minute before the announced 10 am Pacific time opening.
- Comment on What actually happens in a DDOS attack? 3 months ago:
The Reddit hug of death is when someone posts a link in a big community and thousands of people visit it, generating so much traffic at once that, while legitimate, ends up having the same effect as an actual attack does of overloading a website and causing it to become unavailable. Has nothing to do with the Reddit app being hot garbage.
- Comment on wisdom 4 months ago:
I bought a new laptop with 16 GB of DDR5 (8 GB soldered and 8 GB socketed) as it was super cheap for an 8840HS, and was planning to buy a 48 GB SODIMM for 120€ but held off on it for multiple reasons, thinking “it can wait and I can make do with less memory for now”
Yeah that 48 GB stick now costs 500€ which is just 50€ short of the entire laptop…