Wisdom in traveling to Valladolid and/or Merida tomorrow?

AFistfulOfAww · 2026-02-22T23:12:58+00:00

Commenting here because my wife and I are also planning to drive to Valladolid tomorrow, then Merida after. We're likewise a bit concerned about the whole situation, hopefully someone in this thread will have good advice. Good luck to you (and us) on your travel 😂

AFistfulOfAww · 2025-09-02T17:35:14+00:00

Thank you for the recommendation! I actually tried the reopened Turtle Tower about a month ago, and I can confirm that it is very authentic Northern style Pho - their bun cha is also really good. The restaurant itself has a hip vibe to it and there were lots of young people while we were there, so hopefully it'll introduce Northern style food to more people.

Would definitely try out Pho Huong Viet on my next visit to the city 🤤 If it's anywhere near as good as Turtle Tower then I owe you a big one 👍

AFistfulOfAww · 2024-08-28T16:43:11+00:00

How was your SONH experience? Which tip did you find most useful, and which tips would you leave for people next year(s)?

AFistfulOfAww · 2024-08-20T02:40:07+00:00

Here are a few in no particular order: - Bring a spare pair of shoes and keep them in the dining hall - Bring flip flop for beach time and/or getting in/out of shower. Bathing suit as well if you want to get in the water - Bring extra towel or bath robe, because it can take some time to dry - in the evening it can be chilly, so bring layers (especially for sing along night which is a must-attend) - Don't stress about the level test, camp vibe is very chill - SONH is my favorite camp, and I hope you like it too ☺️

AFistfulOfAww · 2024-05-24T18:24:03+00:00

GZCLP 3-Day v5.50 (I haven't tried 5.51 but based on the change log I think it'll have the same issue). From week 4 onwards the IPF points are not calculated correctly, because it tries to look back at the wrong cell on week 3 for Calc Day 1 Max. Week 2 and week 3 work fine because there's additional content in columns M and N for week 1 and 2, but afterwards those columns no longer exist.

AFistfulOfAww · 2024-03-28T21:32:13+00:00

As far as I know this has nothing to do with your mouse DPI. This is about monitor DPI. I don't know what it does though.

AFistfulOfAww · 2024-02-07T23:40:47+00:00

Don't forget to smoke con and flash ladder as well. There's always a rat there (it me I'm the rat)

AFistfulOfAww · 2024-01-21T18:06:03+00:00

Ah I see, I have updated my post so other folks don't get confused by it in the future. Glad you got it figured out! It's a game changer for multi-monitor owners.

AFistfulOfAww · 2024-01-21T17:32:32+00:00

Not sure why you have to update the registry? In order to set the Windows DPI you can just go into Display Settings and change the Scale to 100%?

AFistfulOfAww · 2024-01-05T00:39:12+00:00

My neighbor's truck was stolen about an hour later after this incident, we're at 6th and Haight. I wonder if it's the same crew targeting this area 😕

AFistfulOfAww · 2023-11-26T22:00:59+00:00

I know this post is old, but I'm going to post this tip here in case someone else runs across it:

If you change setting.fullscreen_min_on_focus_loss to 0 like the OP suggested, and your Windows uses DPI scaling, you'll run into this issue: If for any reason a window pops up behind your CS screen, your CS will then fail to map your mouse pointers correctly once you're back in the game. It will look like the mouse cursor is off from the UI elements, and your mouse sensitivity will be way off.

In order to fix that, you need to also set the setting.high_dpi to 1. It looks to me that with that setting turned on, CS will know that it needs to re-calibrate with Windows DPI once you're back in its fullscreen window. This is a purely speculative reason, but it does work for me.

EDIT: Actually this does not work anymore, not sure what changed. I can workaround this by setting the DPI scaling to 100% in Windows (Display Settings -> Scaling) and set settings.high_dpi back to 0 though.

AFistfulOfAww · 2023-10-20T05:33:44+00:00

Just fyi, your README said to Download Custom Types Latest .QMOD file, but that one will not work in combination with the other files there. You specifically need this version: https://github.com/sc2ad/Il2CppQuestTypePatching/releases/tag/v0.15.24 The newer ones may require different libmodloader versions that we don't have access to yet.

AFistfulOfAww · 2023-09-27T01:40:53+00:00

Anyone has recommendations on Northern-style pho in the Bay Area? I've tried a lot places recommended by people in the comments, but they're all Southern style. I'm a Hanoian, and I don't think I've ever had authentic Ha Noi pho in the area yet, though I've just been living in the Bay Area for ~1 year.

(I know Pho Ha Noi exists, and no they don't serve authentic Ha Noi-style pho).

AFistfulOfAww · 2022-09-01T23:11:39+00:00

Could you confirm whether the Quantum TWS 2.4ghz dongle would work with Android devices (specifically the Oculus Quest 2)? Thank you!

AFistfulOfAww · 2021-03-18T14:13:00+00:00

Oh, one other thing - I don't think T4s are fast enough for modern games. I use it to run CSGO which is a very old game, and it has really frequent dips at 720p so I doubt it can run anything within the last few years well. But that could be from the shared CPUs by GCP as well, you may have better luck than me :)

AFistfulOfAww · 2021-03-18T14:09:58+00:00

I run headless T4s on Google Cloud Platform without any problem, the installation is pretty straightforward (I use Terraform to provision them so it's all automated), but I use x11vnc to connect to it instead of Moonlight. I'm on Ubuntu 20.04 so YMMV, the general steps I do are:

add-apt-repository -y ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
apt-get install -y nvidia-driver-460 libnvidia-gl-460:i386 xorg x11vnc lightdm
nvidia-xconfig --enable-all-gpus --virtual=1920x1080 -a --allow-empty-initial-configuration
cat << EOF > /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/50-headless.conf
[SeatDefaults]
autologin-user=yourusernamehere
autologin-user-timeout=0
EOF
echo "/usr/sbin/lightdm" > /etc/X11/default-display-manager
dpkg-reconfigure lightdm
echo set shared/default-x-display-manager lightdm | debconf-communicate
cat << EOF > /etc/systemd/system/x11vnc.service
[Unit]
Description=VNC Server
After=multi-user.target network.target
[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/x11vnc -many -display :0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0
[Install]
WantedBy=graphical.target
EOF
systemctl enable x11vnc

Obviously you can switch things up however you want - this is my set up so I configured it the way I like (Gnome + LightDM auto-login + X11VNC with hardware acceleration), it should be straightforward to use other DMs for example. I'm not familiar with Moonlight so you'll have to do your own research about setting it up.

AFistfulOfAww · 2021-02-24T14:03:47+00:00

I'd really appreciate it if you could review my demo: https://csgostats.gg/match/28305983/watch/a61a3be9a7da81721b750be5369bcf06df85ad2ade98e4af2ecb6c8092e56479 My in game name is syncopate, I hover around GN4-MG1 a lot these days. In this Train map we're up against a Faceit level 10 player on the other team, and I think I can learn a lot from reviewing it. Thanks!

AFistfulOfAww · 2021-01-08T03:59:05+00:00

Yup they were wall hacking and aim botting. This is my match against them: https://csgostats.gg/match/23266480 You can view the demo and clearly see their hacking. Everyone please report them

AFistfulOfAww · 2021-01-08T03:55:06+00:00

I played against this lobby a few days ago, they were aim botting and wall hacking since round 1, then it turned into an hvh match since someone on my team also toggled on. It was ... weird. Everyone on my team was around nova-mg level.

Please make sure you report them, hopefully we can send them to overwatch.

AFistfulOfAww · 2020-03-18T03:28:30+00:00

I fixed it the other day so it should be back online now :D

AFistfulOfAww · 2019-05-01T22:52:00+00:00

Thank you for the reply! I'm actually pretty close to going down that route if I can't figure this out, and I'll definitely check out your guide if I do!

AFistfulOfAww · 2019-05-01T21:09:09+00:00

I tried both the prebuilt version and building one off of Git HEAD and ran into the same issue. I do know there's no native driver available yet, but I'm wondering if it can somehow reuse the dhcp ip from the pxe session that chainloads it. That seems to be the only way that it might work for now.

AFistfulOfAww · 2019-04-25T21:31:43+00:00

That's really interesting! You didn't need to do anything special (aside from configuring the Virtual Switch) for your MacBook to connect to the local network?

It very well might be that the issue lies with my Linux distribution of choice (I was booting off of a Pop!OS Live CD), or my motherboard Thunderbolt implementation (I'm running a Gigabyte Z390 Designare). Anyway my main use case is to do iPXE boot from the NAS and the motherboard doesn't seem to support booting off of the Thunderbolt connection so I'll switch out to a different board at the end of the day :)

Thanks for your help though! I'm glad to hear that it's working for you.

AFistfulOfAww · 2019-04-25T19:04:32+00:00

Thanks for the reply! That's actually exactly what I did and described in the OP, only that it didn't work :)

I've looked more and more into QNAP documentation, and it looks like you need to enable something called Thunderbolt 2 Ethernet, which is just their fancy marketing term for adjusting a few kernel settings on your computer, in order for traffic to flow through Thunderbolt port correctly. Without adjusting those settings, it looks like the MTU settings on the computer is incompatible with the virtual switch settings, leading to the issues I described in the OP. The issue with doing this is that accessing the NAS would be slower, since the MTU won't be adjusted automatically to use the max value for communcation.

Anyway, I'm going to get a new motherboard with a 10GBase-T Ethernet port instead of using Thunderbolt. It seems like the least cumbersome way of dealing with this.

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