captain_aggravated

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

That would be a cabin that dates to the mid-1800s now preserved as a museum.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

I'm playing Satisfactory at High or Ultra settings 1440p ultrawide Lumen on with a Ryzen 7700x and a Radeon 7900GRE, and maintaining frame rates in the 80's. What is out now, or is in the works, that my machine can't run well?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago

Go grab you something later in the AM4 line, like a 5600 or so, and an RX6700, as long as your power supply is up to it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago

I just built a computer, and honestly I didn't need much more CPU than the Ryzen 3600 from my old one. CPUs don't go obsolete the way they used to.

I went with a 7000 series pretty much entirely because my new motherboard said "Compatible with 7000 series. Compatible with 9000 series with a BIOS update." And I didn't want to bother with having to get a loaner 7000 series to do a BIOS update, then swap CPUs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I'm hoping to have bought my last x86 portable device. Hell it wouldn't hurt my feelings if my Ryzen 7700x was the last x86 processor I ever buy.

[–] [email protected] 78 points 4 days ago (2 children)

So this has bothered me since I was a teenager.

In Empire Strikes Back, Yoda talked like this: "Put the cart before the horse, I have." And he mostly did it while he was pretending to be a dingus early on to test Luke's patience. Some actual movie quotes: "I cannot teach him. The boy has not patience." "No. Do, or do not. There is no try." "Judge me by my size, do you?"

In the prequel trilogy, it's like Lucas bought into the meme that Yoda talks funny, so all of a sudden Yoda talks like this "Before the horse, the cart, I have put." "Around the survivors, a perimeter, create!"

Anyway.

[–] [email protected] 75 points 5 days ago (4 children)

I honestly can't be mad at this point because what they SHOULD do is sell cables in bulk packaging to the Apple store, and then when they sell a phone they say "Do you need a USB cable? Free with the phone." If they say "No we're okay I've got hundreds of them by now" no problem, if they say "Yeah in fact can I get two?" Sure. Same with chargers. Of course this is Apple we're talking about, so they're probably $69.99 each.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A surprising amount of Fractal Design's cases do.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

under my brutal dictatorship, laptop power buttons may not be a key on the keyboard. It must be a separate button elsewhere on the chassis.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

You copied that floppy?!?!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

The motherboard header should be a standard pinout to make it possible to make a solid connector. That should be part of the ATX standard.

The cable from the case...the PC I just built has no reset switch, the power button light is controlled by the case's built-in RGB controller, there's no hard drive access light because it's the distant space year 2024...turns out the only thing plugged into that header on my machine is the power switch itself.

Having an electronics hobby, having played with Raspberry Pis and Arduinos and such, building things like 3D printers, I'm used to dealing with those little 0.1 inch DuPont connectors, everyone else has a fit about them but they're not that bad.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

I've noticed this on zip top food packaging; it's as if the zipper is a separate piece of plastic that is very weakly glued to the bag itself and it doesn't extend to the outer lips where you pull it open, so you end up separating one side of the bag from the zipper.

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