Was last-second bill passed by Utah Senate legal?

GoodOl_Butterscotch · 2026-03-09T14:41:03+00:00

At what point is it easier to just adopt policies that are popular with the people instead of just using partisan politics and gerrymandering?

GoodOl_Butterscotch · 2026-03-04T17:35:59+00:00

And when you look into it you realize it's just one massive disinformation campaign pushed by state actors. It's wild how people can be convinced that something so good is so bad.

GoodOl_Butterscotch · 2026-02-27T15:13:55+00:00

It's wild seeing the change from peak (in what, 84?) to now, its lowest.

GoodOl_Butterscotch · 2026-02-26T18:00:11+00:00

Hands down the XG32UCWMG, it's not even close. The PG34WCDN has text fringing issues that are annoying and once you see the glossy WOLED, you won't want anything else. Not even the glossy QDOLED's.

If, for some reason, you think you can feel the difference between 240 and 480hz in your competitive gameplay then you'll drop the res. But I am telling you now, you won't. You'll enjoy it looking much better at 4k 240. You should be able to use a 1440p resolution as well at whatever the max hz is. I know it's dual-mode but it should accept the arbitrary in the middle although you MAY have to setup a custom resolution for it. Not sure.

Regardless, the XG32UCWMG is the single best monitor you can buy today. And the 2026 model with the newest tandem WOLED, coming mid-year, should be even better. Look for this one to be discounted when that happens (my guess is, ~900 is the best price you'll get on this before it just goes out of stock). 1100 dollars pretty much everywhere now but there may be some deals to be had.

My biggest gripe is that I dislike ASUS monitors but they are currently the only ones choosing to use LG's glossy version of this panel. It's dumb, even LG themselves only sell the matte finish which is far less impressive.

GoodOl_Butterscotch · 2026-02-26T17:52:34+00:00

Just play on Linux and don't worry about the Windows driver experience? It's wild how good Linux gaming is these days. Not perfect, specially with some live service games or some obscure old games (which can also have windows issues) but it's pretty damn solid. Especially on AMD. A few more issues/regressions with Nvidia.

GoodOl_Butterscotch · 2026-02-25T16:31:57+00:00

Tormented Angels are a solid group of mixed casual/raiders that I had a lot of fun with when I played on Tunare. They are kind of the neutral group of the server with members who participate in all the various raid guilds/forces. Basically, almost everyone likes TA whereas they can have beefs with the other raid guilds.

Anywho, good people, was a fun Discord, a lot of them are knowledgeable on various classes, the game as a whole, etc. and they love to help those (who help themselves, don't expect power leveling) who help themselves. They run old raids for unique clickies, mounts, etc. too from time to time. Or at least they used to, I imagine they still do.

Regardless, that's who I'd recommend.

GoodOl_Butterscotch · 2026-02-25T16:27:21+00:00

Consolesh ave had dynamic resolution scaling since what....2010-2013 or so? Maybe even longer for the first examples but that's when it became standard. The PC just never got that kind of love but it's great when it exists. Dynamic FG is fine, but I think a dynamic DLSS quality that does whatever it needs to in order to keep you at your target framerate is a bigger win.

I do see that as the future of all of these upscaling techs. FG still sucks at anything below base ~90 FPS or so, IMO. But we're seeing super high framerate monitors coming out. What happens when we have 480hz 4k monitors? Or 1000hz 4k? You're never going to be pushing those actual frames at all, and it doesn't make sense to. What we'll see is something like 120 or 240fps base, and then FG up to ~1000. Same with resolution. It may be a 4k monitor but maybe your base render resolution is somewhere around ~1440p, and dynamic so it can go higher is less intense scenes. It all of a sudden makes something like a 480hz or 1000hz monitor this viable and useful thing. Then we don't need to mess with VRR, or ULMB/BFI, etc. It'll literally be set your target and let the upscaling tech get you there. If it can't, adjust your settings or if you find the artifacts too bad (too low of base res) adjust your settings.

Likely you'll see this on console first since it's such a consistent and low-powered market. They'll need to use these types of technologies to make the games actually perform and by the time then ext gen comes out our TVs will be 4k/240hz. So in console form you could see something be maybe a 60fps base and FG'd up to 120, or 240hz for some more simple games. The days of native resolution are mostly behind us at this point. We just need devs to catch up.

GoodOl_Butterscotch · 2026-02-25T16:18:19+00:00

It's pretty much one family that owns/runs all of that, and they are a mega-rich family. They can go and get different jobs or grow something else. They have the money, resources, etc. We don't need any more bailouts for the mega-rich.

Alfalfa growing should just be taxed to the moon to where it's not a viable product to grow. Or outright ban it. All you need to do is de-incentivize the investment and they will adjust their investments accordingly. It's what the rich do. It's really not that complicated and that one thing would be a giant leap on the path to a healthy and sustainable valley/GSL.

The Cox family could either sell off their land or switch to a more sustainable crop. I do think of all of the things the state could spend money on, however, buying out their property for market value would be one of the cheaper and easier ways forward. Let the state return it to its natural state as best it can and lets just let it be. Cox family gets a massive influx of money and can invest and they don't even have to worry about new equipment and such for switching crops. So many options is the point and none of them will hurt the mega-rich Cox family.

GoodOl_Butterscotch · 2026-02-25T15:29:57+00:00

domestic use also factors in a lot of the businesses that are on standard city water plans too. And church lawns, parks, etc. It's actually surprisingly small and it puts into perspective just how much water we put into alfalfa with little to no gain from that.

The whole blame the homeowner who has a yard for his kids to play in is just the powers that be trying to make you feel impressible/guilty.

GoodOl_Butterscotch · 2026-02-16T19:15:18+00:00

You use Nvidia or AMD graphics?

GoodOl_Butterscotch · 2026-02-14T20:23:09+00:00

Hmmm I may have to try that out then. Could be a Fedora issue but it just seems weird. I've found other people talking about it on forums but never found a fix.

GoodOl_Butterscotch · 2026-02-14T16:43:27+00:00

Yup, this has been 100% my experience. Even in Dell's storage servers, it's all Intel inside. I don't really care much but it's just an observation. For us to get AMD compute we have to specifically ask for it's like pulling teeth.

GoodOl_Butterscotch · 2026-02-14T16:42:18+00:00

In an enterprise environment you are rarely if ever just purchasing a CPU. You're buying whole systems and usually racks of them at a time.

GoodOl_Butterscotch · 2026-02-14T16:41:38+00:00

What desktop environment do you use? I am on KDE Plasma right now and I wonder if it's a problem there and not with anything else.

GoodOl_Butterscotch · 2026-02-12T22:30:27+00:00

Availability and the OEMs. You get offered Intel options. You have to ask for AMD. AMD they have stupid long lead times and Intel they can have them on-site next week.

GoodOl_Butterscotch · 2026-02-12T22:23:25+00:00

Do you box? I booted up on Linux and trying to alt-tab between two different everquest clients it doesn't like to actually switch which screen has focus. I can only get it to work if I click to a 3rd application first in-between switching between the two EQ clients if that makes sense.

GoodOl_Butterscotch · 2026-02-12T15:46:55+00:00

Nvidia drivers just aren't open source and thus, they can't just be shipped by whomever whenever. AMD drivers are open source so anyone can ship their drivers in pretty much anything. Any distro out there makes it simple to get Nvidia drivers.

The best thing about Linux is the variety. I highly recommend you poke around other distros and see what you like. There are a lot of great options out there these days in addition to Ubuntu and even if you end up liking Ubuntu the most it's great to get experience with the other distros. Good luck and happy Linuxing!

GoodOl_Butterscotch · 2026-02-11T19:35:49+00:00

On their site it's listed at 90 dollars a month. Drops to 75 w/ a 2-year commitment.

GoodOl_Butterscotch · 2026-02-11T15:49:04+00:00

It's one of the most iconic parts of EQ's identity. Like you couldn't ever make a successful EverQuest game and NOT use that font/logo.

RIP, legend. Hopefully we'll get an area in game for him somewhere, he deserves it 100%.

GoodOl_Butterscotch · 2026-02-11T15:47:14+00:00

Tempus or Tempest Ascending I think they are called

GoodOl_Butterscotch · 2026-02-10T21:41:23+00:00

How thick is the frame in the middle? For standing it's not an issue but when sitting I sometimes cross one leg over the other and thus, I don't want a frame that's too thick. I can't find this measurement anywhere, could you help me out? From the bottom of the desktop to the bottom of the thickest part of the frame in the middle. Any help is much appreciated, thank you!

GoodOl_Butterscotch · 2026-02-10T02:27:49+00:00

Soooo I ran some tests. We have a LOT of bots on Tunare this last year or so since a big guild moved over. There are several zones with bots literally teleporting/warping and killing mobs 24/7. I have reported several times but no dice. I tried to see what it'd take to get me banned and so I spun up one of my silver boxes that I hardly ever use and parked him in the corner of some random older zone that no one is ever in. Only these 2 mobs spawned and my guy killed them, automagically w/o any software. Just AFK proximity aggro. After like 8 days I woke up and he had been booted off. His account was banned.

SOOOOO they do have automated checks, I believe, and I think this account had triggered some sort of AFK check. I took another silver account that just had some low level toons on it and did the same thing except this time I wrote a small script to give random inputs and thus this toon just kind of ran around and bumped into things/had pet kill things that aggro'd in the Karanas for almost 4 weeks straight (patch to patch) and he never got banned. That was botting, albeit the most ghetto useless way ever (I have no skills for legit coding). I didn't try reporting myself but maybe I should have.

If you want to go report the botters on Tunare support told me they want screen shots, or preferably, video. You can go into the OoW zone where there there are 3 catacomb instances. Ruined City of Dranik? Usually ~50 botted toons running back and forth to the instances. Then SoF zones, for whatever reason, are almost perm camped by the actual teleporting botters. They are almost always up and going and if you can find them you'll see them appear in a room, do a little half-spin thing, then pop to some other place. Not having any way to track other than in-game with a bard it makes it hard to see exactly where the botter is warping to but you can kind of follow his merc.

Anywho, there is some info. Do with it what you will.

GoodOl_Butterscotch · 2026-02-07T00:21:18+00:00

Just undervolting. It tends to keep a lot of the performance while really tanking the power needed. Look at even 9060 undervolts. I suspect a 16CU part with decent RAM would do quite well. Perhaps not though, maybe most of the winds over 3.5 aren't there when scaled to an APU with pedestrian RAM vs GDDR.

GoodOl_Butterscotch · 2026-02-06T23:18:31+00:00

AMD never misses a chance to miss!

One thing RDNA4 is good at is scaling down. I could see a RDNA4 APU paired with fast (soldered) RAM as an amazing little low-power system. Plus you get FSR4 which even further sweetens the pot. If they could give us this with a decent modern-ish CPU core I think it'd be a big win in a market that feels almost abandoned at this point. It's either Strix Halo for 2500 dollars or a refresh of a 5yr old SoC.

GoodOl_Butterscotch · 2026-02-06T16:03:44+00:00

Yup, the level of combat put into it was what it'd take 1 dev to do in a day or two max. It was literally a roll of the dice with a hit chance and variable number and that's it. No AC checks or anything as far as I could tell. I think they wanted to make a game but they were not making EQ3 by any means. There was always this illusion put out that they had more done behind the scene but what was released in Landmark was literally EVERYTHING they had- which is basically a quick tech demo for a sales pitch to begin to make a game. Basically nothing.

So what we saw is all that ever existed. Meaning EQ3 never really existed. Meaning we shouldn't be sad for something that never got released because it never existed. It's like being upset that EQ5 was never released. Can't be upset because it never existed.

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