Overzeetop

@Overzeetop@kbin.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Normal and OLED side by side.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It took me searching the blacks to notice. Where I play there's usually enough glare I wouldn't get good blacks if you swapped the LC layer for vantablack.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are 144hz screen possible?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that's just a shitty (or out of spec) time base. My Seiko watch gains 1-2 minutes a day, but it's completely mechanical so it depends on temperature and winding/mechanism tension for accuracy. There are electronic timing circuits which are resistance and capacity based, and as the resistance and capacitance of the system drift (time/age and temperature) they also drift. A crystal, made to vibrate at high frequency (piezoelectrically, iirc), will provide a much more stable time base and be accurate to seconds over many days' time.

  Interesting aside - time keeping is how ships at sea used to determine where they were in the ocean. Latitude can be found from the stars, but longitude can't so it needs a time reference standard. The book, Longitude tells the story of the search and the competing methods for determining location prior to the invention of crystal/electronic time bases and modern GPS. I won't say that the storytelling is particularly gripping, but the actual path to discovery is fascinating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are 144hz screen possible?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That's probably just fluctuations in the line frequency and the method for keeping time varying between the two (one might use a crystal that drifts). Being on the "wrong" frequency will have it shift by hours every day. I had a (US/60Hz origin) microwave in my apartment in Bonaire (50Hz) last year that never seemed to have the right time, and when I did the math I realized it was the frequency - it was behind by ~4 extra hours every day (50/60 x 24 hours).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are 144hz screen possible?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Funny effect, though - many cheap electronics (think coffee makers and microwave ovens) use the line frequency as a time base. Taking a 60Hz or 50Hz appliance and plugging it into the other causes the clock to be off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[MEGATHREAD] Starfield - Your experiences!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  100% true - but if people feel the need to create so many mods, then there are probably lots of things people feel aren't good enough about the game. I'll admit my gaming time is limited, so just researching and adding mods could easily take all my time. I mean, fuck, I sold my Warthog HOTAS and went back to a cheap thrusmaster not because I liked the thrustmaster better, but because I was spending more time writing and fixing scripts and updating my bindings than actually playing the game. And every time an update would come out that would break a script I would spend pretty much my entire gaming time budget for a couple weeks just getting it running again. It got to the point where I just didn't play those games because every patch would change something and something (even something small) would break or be incompatible. I'm kind of over that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[MEGATHREAD] Starfield - Your experiences!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I was kind of hoping for fallout and elite; real space flight and exploration, but with an actual story and story line to follow. I'm mostly over real-life gaming that looks like a cartoon, so I'm glad it's not nms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[MEGATHREAD] Starfield - Your experiences!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Mods are the very first thing that turns me off in a game. I want to play a game, not go stack mods on top of mods just to fix the shit the studio didn't feel like working on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Those who are against iOS and Apple in general, have you tried their devices lately?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Not recently; it's bee a year or two since I needed (and I use the term loosely) to find out and map the wireless bands and strengths that are in my house. Wifiman doesn't appear to expose the specific channels each signal is bound, just a strength. By contrast, something like WiFiAnalyzer shows which APs are using which channels, what each signal strength is, and which channel zones are empty. I don't need it often, but for something like setting up an AP for Quest PCVR, knowing where the blank spots are is pretty convenient.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Those who are against iOS and Apple in general, have you tried their devices lately?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If you're not writing your own software for the phone, and you don't need access to the raw sensor data, there's likely an equal app for iPhone now. I was in the same boat for a while - needing things that only android offered. I switched to iPhone in '19 I think, and I've found replacement apps for everything except detailed wifi scanning. Also, the apps I used on android which offered direct GPS tracking would show how many satellites and nominal locations are just binary - you have signal or you don't. That's frustrating when you're at the edge of signal and trying to get a lock.

  I can see how it would be a deal breaker if you need a specific app for work. I can't switch to mac as several of my (multi-thousand dollar) analysis programs are windows only, and if an update breaks something or there's an incompatibility, it costs me $2k/day to troubleshoot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LMG has made a response video to Gamers Nexus' concerns⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  First rule of finding yourself in a hole: Stop Digging.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many calories does a standard whole blood donation burn?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So I can shotgun two pints of beer after a donation (gotta rehydrate!) and still be a couple hundred calories ahead? Win-win!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*Munches on Shit Awkwardly*⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It's no big deal, it's just a Baby Ruth.