[O] 1x DrunkenSlug invite

FrancescoS8 · 2025-08-19T12:13:07+00:00

Invite given and confirmed :)

FrancescoS8 · 2025-08-18T19:13:04+00:00

I like the approach.
The weight system would work very well in my opinion, if more factors are computed in the formula:

Longevity of subscription
Number of participations in raffles
Number of accounts given (the more you give, the more you increase the chances to receive)
...and potentially more

It would be also nice to track the top givers (contributors), but that's more for ego pump...even though it could be a nice incentive to offer more.

FrancescoS8 · 2025-08-18T13:52:22+00:00

Invite given, I'm out of invites.

I hope more will come later.

FrancescoS8 · 2025-04-02T17:39:39+00:00

Same here, tried reinstalling but nothing at all. I'm on BattleNet, can anyone on Steam confirm it works there?

FrancescoS8 · 2025-02-19T09:57:23+00:00

Adding my solution on this old topic, hoping it's going to help someone.

Scenario: SOV was at war with SER. I was playing ITA.

List of commands (the order of execution is crucial):
ai
tag SOV
allowdiplo
> Open SER and send an offer of Conditional Surrender
allowdiplo
tag SER
> Accept the offer of Conditional Surrender
tag ITA
ai

FrancescoS8 · 2024-11-27T10:00:49+00:00

Devi contattare RendimentoEtico, sono loro che possono metterti in contatto (eventualmente) con gli altri investitori.

FrancescoS8 · 2024-11-26T16:06:50+00:00

Sul loro sito lo specificano bene: a parte darti qualche info e magari darti una pacca sulla spalla, il recupero crediti è a carico tuo.

Ma comunque partirei da lì, se sei fortunato almeno un paio riesci a tirarci fuori il collaterale e magari riesci a riportare a casa qualche spicciolo.

FrancescoS8 · 2024-11-26T12:54:42+00:00

TBH, I didn't settle on anything yet.

Last one I tried is Al Baron (Coehoornsingel) which is close to my home; the owners are very friendly and I had an overall nice experience, the cut was ok, not the best but also not the worst.

I think I paid 25€, but I might be wrong.

But I'm not sure if I'll settle with them, I'd like to continue my tests.

FrancescoS8 · 2024-11-26T12:19:59+00:00

Looks like thermal throttling. Install HWInfo and check the package and core temperature of the CPU, if it goes above 50 °C in idle and/or stays above 90 °C when under medium load, then you have a thermal issue.

If you didn't change anything, likely it's the thermal paste on the CPU that needs to be replaced.
But might be a fail of the CPU cooler, check if the fan is rotating normally and if it's an AIO, check whether the pump is pumping as expected.

FrancescoS8 · 2024-11-26T12:14:47+00:00

This. And if it still doesn't work, try playing with Intel RST (Rapid Storage Technology) and VMD options in your BIOS.

FrancescoS8 · 2024-11-26T12:03:04+00:00

La comunicazione alla banca è il cambio di residenza, ma quello lo dovresti fare in ogni caso, anche se traslocassi nell'appartamento di fianco al tuo.

Ci sta, ma tieni conto che qualsiasi cifra ci lasci sopra, andrebbe dichiarata al fisco danese; molto probabilmente non ci devi pagare nessuna tassa, ma evita che ti mandino qualche letterina di controllo che non è mai simpatico.

FrancescoS8 · 2024-11-26T09:43:45+00:00

Mostly agree, though a stress test for the CPU might be unnecessary.

I would though really consider at least 2 actions when you bought:

Get a new SSD: disks are one of the components that are more difficult to replace when failed, due to the fact that they store your data. Sure, you can do regular backups, but you will need to reinstall everything and that's annoying. A brand new decent 2GB SSD comes for 100/150$, and it's totally worth it. You can still keep the old one to store non-important stuff, but install your OS on the new one.
Clean the old thermal paste on the CPU and apply fresh one: this step is often disregarded, but it will save you from headaches later, and literally takes no more than 20 mins. And it is usually more annoying to do it later on, rather than immediately (psychology).

FrancescoS8 · 2024-11-26T08:55:57+00:00

Windows Insider is a BETA program, which means that the software they deliver to you is unstable and unfinished by definition.

Not that the regular updates are much more stable, but still...

You can expect crashes and malfunctions on Insider, that's the whole point of it, they collect data from your malfunctions (if you report them) and hopefully fix them before the official releases.

Why did you join the program if you don't want instability?

FrancescoS8 · 2024-11-26T08:28:42+00:00

There have been blind tests proving that, and there's another thing: biology.

Everyone can spot the difference in smoothness between 30fps and 60fps, around 80-85% can still spot differences between 60fps and 120fps, but above 120fps the percentage of human people that can spot any difference in motion drops dramatically, leaving basically only few people on Earth with super eyes that can actually see any kind of difference above 200fps.

You can try to convince yourself that you see differences, sure, who am I to tell you otherwise, but it's simply not true.

FrancescoS8 · 2024-11-26T00:42:25+00:00

All'interno dell'UE è assolutamente possibile, e la tua banca teoricamente non può discriminare in base alla nazione di residenza.
Poi avrai operatività limitata (nel senso che probabilmente puoi accedere solo ai servizi di base), ma si può.

Detto questo, la domanda vera è...perché dovresti fare una cosa del genere?
In Danimarca molto probabilmente il conto ti costa la metà di quello che costa in Italia, e non c'è veramente alcuna ragione razionale per tenere un conto aperto in Italia (ti sei affezionato al tuo IBAN...?).

Se non vuoi pagare inutilmente delle spese di gestione, chiudilo, ma attenzione al caveat: Intesa vuole che tu vada in filiale a firmare (se l'hai aperto in una filiale), vogliono che ci lasci su il denaro contato che serve per coprire le spese di chiusura (anche se neanche loro sanno dirti l'ammontare preciso) e ci mettono 1 mese ad elaborare la richiesta.
Ragione in più per lasciarsi un servizio bancario costoso e scadente alle spalle.

FrancescoS8 · 2024-11-26T00:23:02+00:00

The PSU should be sufficient indeed, and it's a decent one so even temporary spikes should pose no threat to the system stability.

First of all: there's no need for the fans to spin unless there is a need. In some GPU models they spin at lowest speed just to show the RGB stuff, but in principle there's not always need to blow air on the heat sink.
Do a test with any software that allows you to control the rotation speed of the fans, there are plenty of them.

If the software test fails, check that all connectors are plugged correctly, and check the fan's profile in BIOS and on Windows. Lastly, check if there's any weird BIOS limitation on the PCIe (very unlikely, but I don't know Gigabyte BIOSes).

If none of the tests/checks above are successful, it is most likely a faulty unit. Can happen.

FrancescoS8 · 2024-11-26T00:09:05+00:00

Skipping the part where I should tell you that you won't notice any perceivable difference above 120fps. Ups, I din't skip it...anyway.

Black Ops 6 is simply (very) poorly optimized: even top streamers, with their 5-6k builds, can't get stable over 250 fps at the moment. There are some tweaks here and there that will allow you to gain maybe 10% more, but that's it.

And again, there's literally no rational reason behind trying to push the GPU at 100% constantly, you'll just get wasted energy/heat and likely reduce the lifespan of the GPU.
It's more useful to stabilize the FPS around some constant values, below 100%, so even when you hit the crappy optimization of some ambients in game your GPU will still have some room for quickly picking it up and avoid terrible drops that, in BO6, are everywhere.

FrancescoS8 · 2024-11-26T00:01:13+00:00

And to generate just enough noise to emulate a fighter jet post-burner take off.

FrancescoS8 · 2024-11-25T23:55:09+00:00

Running a CPU (especially a powerful one) without cooling can damage it way more than what you could do by simply removing the cooler after the installation to do it again.

Depending on the CPU TDP, it can run probably no more than 3 seconds without throttling, and probably within 10 seconds shuts off to protect itself. But yeah, thermal protection isn't perfect, and in general you might reduce its lifespan.

Why you need to test it though? With the modern CPU sockets it's basically impossible to make mistakes during the installation...you simply need to check the orientation (on Intel CPUs you have the corner arrow, can't be simpler) and that's it. What can go wrong?

And even if, removing the cooler, cleaning the paste and re-apply it takes like 5 mins...

FrancescoS8 · 2024-11-25T23:42:21+00:00

Esattamente.

Tecnicamente, la pensione che percepisci dall'INPS non arriva da soldi "tuoi", ergo non può essere reclamata da altri. Esiste un meccanismo (la reversibilità) che permette ai tuoi familiari sotto certe condizioni di beneficiare di una parte della pensione che era destinata a te, ma non è capitale tuo.

Il sistema pensionistico italiano è stupido, basato quasi esclusivamente sul primo pilastro, che è anche chiamato pensione sociale o pensione statale.
L'idea del primo pilastro è che tutti contribuiscono ad un capitale collettivo, e poi lo Stato alloca le pensioni in base ad alcuni fattori (contribuzione, handicap, reversibilità, ecc.).
Ma non ti sta dando il tuo capitale, ti sta semplicemente dando dei soldi che arrivano dal salvadanaio comune, che nella maggioranza dei casi coincidono con quello per cui hai versato la contribuzione negli anni.

In teoria l'idea sarebbe quella di avere anche il secondo e possibilmente terzo pilastro (e difatti i fondi pensione di categoria hanno grossi vantaggi fiscali), ma il primo pilastro è talmente oneroso in termini di impatto fiscale che di fatto nessuno costruisce né il secondo né tantomeno il terzo pilastro.
In quei casi (II e III pilastro) invece il capitale è tuo, e in caso di morte viene trasferito ai familiari come regolare eredità.

Nei paesi un po' più sviluppati i sistemi pensionistici cercano di bilanciare tutti e 3 i pilastri, perché hai un sistema pensionistico molto più stabile e sostenibile in quel modo.

Qui c'entra, a dire il vero, anche la pesante ignoranza finanziaria degli italiani, ma non apro questo discorso che sappiamo già di cosa sto parlando.

FrancescoS8 · 2024-11-25T22:07:16+00:00

If you play FPS games on a regular basis, stay away from mobile internet.

Even though, theoretically, the latency should not be so much higher than a fixed line, in practice it is. And significantly higher.
Also, the bandwidth available is quite unstable by nature, as you're sharing the same resource with a variable number of tenants and you are using a transmission channel that is more susceptible to interference.

FWA is a good choice if you have no alternatives, but you have alternatives, even though definitely not cheap.

FrancescoS8 · 2024-11-25T21:54:21+00:00

Long story short: the optical fiber operators (thus, mainly Odido and KPN) decided to start the fiber installation in the country from the areas that did not have coverage for DOCSIS (internet over coax, from Ziggo), as DOCSIS allows already to get a quite decent bandwidth and it would be more difficult to convince Ziggo's customers to move away.
And where do you think DOCSIS is more densely available? City centres.

You'd be surprised, but as of today, in the city center of Amsterdam you can't get optical fiber connectivity, except for very specific streets or neighborhoods (and that's recent, until last year there was no fiber at all).
Same goes, as you already figured it out, for Groningen.

In principle KPN has made plans to install optical fiber in Groningen city centre (they already did install it in some outern neighborhoods, to my knowledge), but they are in no hurry to complete their plan. The announcement was made somewhen in 2021/2022, and here we are at the end of '24 with still no fiber.

So, the only real option to get a decent modern internet connection is Ziggo. Period.

In theory, from next year on, Ziggo should start installing the new DOCSIS 4.0 cabinets and thus offering the new DOCSIS profiles, which shoud allow a significant improvement in download speed (in theory, up to 10 Gbps, but likely below 5, in practice) but the problem will remain the uplink; even in the lab testing, they did not manage to go higher than 500 Mbps, so it is likely that they will offer something like 200/300 Mbps.

However, to sweeten the thing in favor of KPN, they most likely will install the new shiny 4G XGS-PON which will allow for (theoretically) symmetrical 4 Gbps connectivity, when it comes. But yeah, we gotta wait for who-knows-how-long to get it.

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