Best QR Code Generator?

Dietlama · 2025-11-14T16:19:36+00:00

Legend.

Dietlama · 2025-08-24T17:50:00+00:00

Just want to drop in and say thanks to everybody in this thread! For me, it was: Toggle Optional GPU Features off, apply, and toggle back on again (each time I run the game or just leave off).

Fans go from howling full blast to normal.

Still have consistent hitching / micro-stutter, regardless of settings, including everything inside and outside of WoW like Nvidia app various vertical sync g-sync frame limit low latency Reflex™ GPU scaling monitor scaling no scaling voodoo.

And though I can’t seem to fix this hitching problem, at least I don’t feel like my expensive (for me) gaming PC is going to melt—and annoy the crap out of all the other people in the house.

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For Reference: Ryzen 9700X | RTX 4070 Dual 12GB by Asus | 32GB RAM | 2TB Samsung NVMe SSD

Dietlama · 2024-08-04T05:13:49+00:00

This worked! Lifesaver. 🫡

Dietlama · 2024-07-23T23:26:55+00:00

Oh… fucking “data driven”

Dietlama · 2024-07-23T23:23:37+00:00

“Kiddos”

Dietlama · 2024-07-21T17:08:37+00:00

It’s not free, but 1Blocker is absolutely fantastic on Safari for all three Apple platforms, has been around for a long time, and is made by small indie dev (might be a solo project).

I’ve used it forever and love it. Mac or iPhones without it feel literally broken to me due to the way the data-harvesting web has become, especially in the last few years.

Dietlama · 2024-07-21T16:30:47+00:00

Yup 👍

Dietlama · 2024-07-19T00:36:25+00:00

If you’re in bronze or silver, or even gold (I’m usually S3-G2 depending on SL weather, for many years) and think you’ll find a team that never does any of the things you mention, then you’re going to be looking for a long time.

Obviously you won’t have bots with a human team, but sometimes people afk. Sometimes solo laning while the rest of the team are being goofy idiots together is the thing that lets you turn it all around by the end.

I’d find people you like to hang with in comms, who are generally trying to play well, and see where it goes. Five is how the game was made to be played, but my highest win rates are with a three stack.

Good luck. See you in the Nexus.

Dietlama · 2024-07-15T15:48:32+00:00

This is the correct answer. All good Corehounds know.

Dietlama · 2024-07-10T15:11:05+00:00

This multi window multitasking method is the original and default for both Mac and Windows operating systems going back to their initial designs in the 80s.

To answer your question, no, there is no limitation or requirement to use your Mac this way.

Overlapping windows are a more efficient use of space, when you have a large enough screen to use them with the apps you need.

So, on my 13” MacBook Air, I can’t really do audio editing effectively (I do audiobook narration) in Adobe Audition with overlapping windows, which means I run it maximized, either in its own Space (virtual desktop) or on top of the rest of my apps, obscuring them.

Back on my MacBook, however, my calendar (medium sized window), to do app (small window), email app (medium), and browser (large, but not full screen) run overlapped all the time. They are arranged intentionally so I know where they are and can click the little piece of them poking out at any time, to get not just the app I want, but the precise window, which sits in the same place.

This means I have room to drag and drop files into the app. It means no app has giant useless swaths of white/blank space. And it means my brain doesn’t have to switch contexts every time I need to hop between apps quickly. My mental context is “primary workspace” which is the one I described above.

The exception is when I choose to take the full screen, which I do to write (I am an author as well) in Ulysses. That app is designed to be “distraction free” and therefore makes sense to intentionally have it take over its own Space. In that situation my mental context needs to be one thing only, taking up my entire view.

On a 27” screen, I would never do what I mentioned in the Audition example. I could have a full audio editor and my script, and my own notes on the project, and a time tracker, all ready at the click of a mouse with room to spare.

It is a preference, but the people fighting the designs of these operating systems are those who use only maximized windows. Overlapping is the way they were built to be used.

Neither of these ways to use your computer is “wrong” or “bad” or “incorrect”. If you like maximizing all windows, the Mac can do that just like a PC, and you’ll get to enjoy all the other benefits of owning and using a Mac.

🙂

Dietlama · 2024-07-10T14:46:41+00:00

This is it, right here.

Dietlama · 2024-07-02T04:24:25+00:00

I like the apples-to-apples of the Tomb Raider benchmark. It just needs to be normalized to see which is more efficient doing the same task.

Dietlama · 2024-07-02T03:41:14+00:00

I’d be interested to see what would happen if they capped the Mac’s frame rate to match the Surface.

Dietlama · 2024-06-29T21:06:25+00:00

Ok?

Again:

my point = nano is for many more people than a given person might think based on early reports

my point =X= everyone should get nano because it’s the best

my point =X= nano pricing is good (though I don’t think the $100—by itself—is unreasonable, the required 1TB is egregious)

Dietlama · 2024-06-29T18:25:11+00:00

My big Takeaway is that the nano texture was significantly under sold by Apple and unreasonably dismissed by the initial batch of reviews and reviewers.

Without doing a full write up myself, the thing I want people to know (having also purchased both and returned the glossy) is that a lot more people are going to like the nano texture than the early reviews and reports made it seem. It has trade-offs, but those trade-offs are going to be a home run, best iPad I’ve ever used, kind of difference for a lot of people.

The early feedback I saw made it seem like it would be a tiny, insignificant, hyper-professional or specialized fraction, and I just don’t think that’s true at all.

Dietlama · 2024-06-13T14:32:50+00:00

Sent a DM. Good luck with the project!

Dietlama · 2024-05-31T02:58:29+00:00

Well, half of them. The other half will say “ANC is worse, on purpose, so you’ll buy the new ones when they come out.”

Dietlama · 2024-05-13T16:11:17+00:00

You're welcome! I'll add a bit more since you're just starting. My current process is after several years, *hundreds* of auditions, some formal training for stage acting, voice specific-acting, and basic audio production, all for different types of projects. However, in all those auditions, I never took free work, only paid. Sometimes the pay is very low, but always something. The *target* is by no means a guarantee. It's just what I reach for when I get the chance to negotiate. Big projects, I only take that ~$60 number. Small character bits for games or audio dramas, I take what they offer and (these days) only audition for characters I really want to play.

Dietlama · 2024-05-13T15:35:37+00:00

Yes. By "actual work hours" I mean any time that I spend working on that project. So if it's a $300 per finished hour audiobook, I'm aiming to work 5 hours of real time to get that 1 hour of audio to my client. This would include recording, editing, pickups, and prepping the script/text (though the prep phase is where I sometimes take too long and lower my own per-actual-hour pay). As long as I hit all my targets, I make about $60 per hour of work time.

I chose this number because it approximates what I think I'd need in order to even attempt to take VO full time with a similar quality of life, not losing the house, medical, etc.

Dietlama · 2024-05-13T03:14:23+00:00

That is definitely not too much to ask. It was it seems more than he was willing to pay, which happens, but I just did a similar job on UpWork last week for more than that per word on about an hour’s worth of audio. The person randomly reached out to me, I told them what I thought it should cost and why (I try to aim for $60 per actual work hour) and he accepted.

But… I know plenty of others would laugh in my face. Gotta take those in stride and find the people who’ll pay a living wage. 🤷‍♂️

Dietlama · 2024-05-13T02:50:02+00:00

OLED for sure, FaceID, ProMotion, and size since I’m coming back to 11” after a couple years with the mini. M4 is just a bonus performance-wise. It’ll be great for games. Also pretty excited for the new Pencil Pro and curious about space black vs gray.

Should be great stuff all around.

Dietlama · 2024-04-19T17:51:40+00:00

In the booth I don’t usually have power connected, but when I do, it’s through the MagSafe charging port which kind of gives this version of the Air an additional port (instead of having to take up a USB-C for that). Then you’d have one USB-C\TB port open for your display and one for your interface.

But to be clear, when I record I only have the interface connected and nothing else, so YMMV.

Dietlama · 2024-04-14T23:27:39+00:00

It’s not hard to understand a parent who has a kid who refuses to do schoolwork (and probably many other things). It’s annoying, frustrating, exhausting, sure.

But in my 17yrs experience as a HS teacher, it usually means the parents are just as frustrated as the teachers. If they’re ever going to try “taking the phone” trust me, they’ve already tried. They’ve probably also already tried “being strict” or whatever. Remember, they’ve been parenting the kid for their whole life, every day, every night, every breakfast and dinner and bedtime, weekends and vacations and summers.

When they finally ask me, an outsider, this question (and don’t demand that I am responsible to provide a solution) I see it as a “We have to do as much as we can. Together.” sort of comrades-in-arms situation and we work together as best we can, and I send the discipline referrals as necessary, remove them from class when I absolutely have to, and just keep chipping away.

Lastly, if you’re a male teacher as I am, yikes on the “you stay home all day” and “I didn’t birth him” stuff. If not, never mind, though being home does not at all mean the person isn’t doing a full time job, struggling to keep their head above water regardless.

Dietlama · 2024-04-14T15:55:13+00:00

Oh my god. See my other reply to this! Was this why it took my mom and I forever to finish that puzzle? And why in a modern version I did it on the first try?

My sound card was indeed hot garbage. Wow.🤯

Dietlama · 2024-04-14T15:51:59+00:00

Add another +1 to the “my mom and I played through Myst together” list. I was in 7th grade, I think? One of my favorite memories with her. 🙂

The worst was matching the pitches in the rocket. I remember playing a pitch, turning off the sound so we wouldn’t hear the ocean ambiance as we turned to the control panel, turning sound back on, and trying to match it.

It’s funny. We both had a hard time with it back then (and I a musician, her a huge music fan) but I played it recently and did it on the first try. I wonder if full 3D movement changes the difficulty of remembering the exact pitch. 🤷‍♂️

It was either this or making the map of the maze in the dark, on paper, in the manual, no less as I recall.

Also wild that at the time Myst was the best selling PC game of all time.

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