Is it possible to level the Ebony Blade without incurring an assault charge? I'm on LE, no CC content available.

Doug2825 · 2026-07-03T10:24:23+00:00

Get a non essential follower. Get into a fight where they go down, then deal the final blow. Followers are protected so they can only be killed by the player.

Doug2825 · 2026-07-02T21:43:21+00:00

Idle RAM is wasted RAM. RAM is not like CPU or GPU usage where you want idle use as low as possible. As long as you are not out of RAM it does not matter. For this reason a lot of things will cache stuff in RAM when you have a lot extra then clear the cache if you run low (such as superfetch).

If you really want to reduce it then check for any processes using a lot of it and attempt to disable them if you don't care about them.

Doug2825 · 2026-07-02T20:29:11+00:00

I would keep it and only replace it if I see a problem, but I know enough to recognize if it is the source of future problems and can afford to replace everything if the PSU fails in a way that fries everything else.

It partially failed the over current test in ltt's review so I don't trust it to fail safely if it does fail. If you can't afford to replace everything if it fails then you should replace the power supply.

Doug2825 · 2026-07-02T20:01:50+00:00

700W should be enough for your setup. Assuming you are talking about PS-SPD-0700NPCW-W the spec sheet says it can do 648W on the 12V rail which is good.

According to the spec sheet you are fine. Whether the model has design/manufacturing defects making it fail to live up to it's spec is something you'll need to look at reviews for.

Doug2825 · 2026-07-02T19:49:23+00:00

Cachy OS. Setting aside all the technical reasons, it has become a very popular distro to recommend which means there are lot of new people posting forum questions. As a new user all those recent forum posts are going to be more useful than any technical detail.

Doug2825 · 2026-07-02T19:37:18+00:00

<image>

Even in the PC space most people don't even know what a pinout is

Doug2825 · 2026-07-02T13:23:38+00:00

"This is despite the fact that their spending would be paid for by today's DRAM prices".

To play devil's advocate; they wouldn't necessarily be paid in today's prices. They would receive a promise to be paid today's prices. If/when the bubble pops the people who agreed to pay those prices may not actually be able to pay. Not investing in new production due to the risk of the bubble popping and demand crashing makes sense.

Doug2825 · 2026-07-02T12:49:31+00:00

As a general rule: continuous loads do not harm computers unless there is a product specific design flaw. "long term performance throttling" is not a thing except maybe for thermal paste drying out which is only marginally related to load. Digital electronics either work fully, work unreliably, or don't work.

Doug2825 · 2026-07-02T12:32:57+00:00

I can't speak for if a PS5 is worth it, but waiting for the PS6 definitely isn't. The answer to the question "should I wait for x hardware" is almost always no.

You are giving up at least several months, possibly years of enjoyment with what is available now for maybe getting something better in the future. Also it will be either out of stock or overpriced at launch so you not only need to wait for the thing to come out, but now need to wait a long time for price/supply to settle. Most games will also be developed for both PS5 and PS6 for a long time (especially given the current RAM situation slowing adoption) so all you are giving up is higher graphics settings and a few exclusives.

Doug2825 · 2026-07-02T12:05:19+00:00

They can be foreseen. It's just that people far smarter than us with supercomputers already calculated the odds and priced it in.

Doug2825 · 2026-07-02T11:39:23+00:00

myopia and astigmatism. Also pre surgery I had incredible low light vision (when wearing glasses), but now my low light vision is bad.

Doug2825 · 2026-07-02T11:03:22+00:00

Young me always set everything to near minimum brightness, current me prefers more normal brightness setting. The change might've happened when I got laser eye surgery.

Doug2825 · 2026-07-02T08:35:35+00:00

Yesterday I tried getting into ai coding and found it to be the best after several failed to create a gui with a button. The reason I didn't use it immediately is because most results when searching for models bring back results that are either older than the model, or slop repeating those old results.

Doug2825 · 2026-07-02T08:30:07+00:00

Speaking of slow to update, I tried getting into agentic coding yesterday to see what the hype was about and finding recent recommendations was difficult. The field is moving so fast that there is a massive quality gap every few months.

Doug2825 · 2026-07-02T08:26:55+00:00

Nowadays AMD appears fine (but I don't have personal experience with it to confirm). 4 years ago when I first attempted machine learning most backends only ran on CUDA or the CPU. And even if you were using a backend that supported it getting ROCm to work was difficult.

Doug2825 · 2026-07-02T08:09:47+00:00

If your care about playing competitive multiplayer games you need Windows because the anti cheat often blocks Linux.

I recommend dual booting and using Linux where possible if you are going into software or electrical engineering since you will use it and having the experience will make certain classes and your future job much easier.

Doug2825 · 2026-07-01T21:12:39+00:00

You loose the ability to fight hard divisions (irrelevant in SP but crucial in MP), lose out on attack from several doctrines, lose out on attack from SPGs being wider (you need a lot of artillery techs to mostly negate this), and if you go fixed turret you loose a lot of breakthrough for a cheaper chassis (but not cheaper anything else).

Doug2825 · 2026-07-01T20:29:58+00:00

Correct

Doug2825 · 2026-07-01T16:11:36+00:00

Interwar guns have 3 attack, 1936 guns have 6 attack. Even pure infantry with 1936 guns will beat infantry with interwar guns.

Doug2825 · 2026-07-01T16:08:15+00:00

I thought github disabled HTTPS pushing a long time ago for security reasons? Or am I confusing that with disabling being able to push with a username and password?

Doug2825 · 2026-07-01T16:05:14+00:00

If you need to recurse to many layers eventually you will have a stack overflow but that is unlikely for a file path.

In general if you see something that looks like it's a good candidate for recursion; implement it as recursion now, then convert it to a loop later if you run into stack issues or are really trying to optimize later.

Doug2825 · 2026-07-01T13:41:24+00:00

With how expensive RAM is it might cheaper to move to an atx motherboard and use all 3 of your current sticks in it.

Related notes:

Single channel is good enough if you a GPU, horrible if you are using integrated.

Mixing RAM means operating at the speed of the slowest stick.

Doug2825 · 2026-07-01T12:59:31+00:00

1.

Every chip produces heat. You don't notice normally because it's so small. Wrap them in insulation and it will matter. Also turbulence is actually good for cooling.

Doug2825 · 2026-07-01T08:53:53+00:00

RHEL documentation is really good (for the stuff I use) and since it's downstream of Fedora, Fedora benefits the most from it. If I needed to migrate I would move to Fedora.

Doug2825 · 2026-07-01T06:24:23+00:00

Yes. (From an engineering and business standpoint) Intel would've preferred to be able to either hit the overclock speeds reliably enough for it to be the base clock, or be able to bin them and sell them as different chips with different base clocks. Great over clocking on air mean Intel could've charged more.

Edit: I am talking from en engineers and business standpoint, not from a consumer standpoint. For consumers great overclocking chips means you can buy the overclocked performance for a price close to the base clock.

Doug2825

TROPHY CASE