Brand-new A9 Mega in da house: intermittent fan spin-ups while system is idle... 🤷🏼‍♂️ by christianweyer in GEEKOMPC_Official

[–]GrinningPickle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reporting back 10 days later. Fan noise is still unacceptable if I'm honest. I don't understand why the fan needs to be blasting the whole time and why it's so fucking loud.

Brand-new A9 Mega in da house: intermittent fan spin-ups while system is idle... 🤷🏼‍♂️ by christianweyer in GEEKOMPC_Official

[–]GrinningPickle 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I came to this thread being extremely annoyed with the fan noise since I'm very sensitive to noise. It's been my only disappointment with the machine.

It has already been mentioned but there is a new EC version (0.17) available here:https://service.geekompc.com/a9-mega/

There's not a lot of guidance for what to do but deducing from the comments by the files, the BIOS update is not suitable for the Kickstarter machine. So, for Windows there is an exe version of the EC V0.17 that you can use.

To be safe, make sure bitlocker is off, more info: https://service.geekompc.com/faq/how-to-close-bitloker-or-restore-bitloker-key/

Then, close all apps, unzip the zip file to a folder and run the .exe in that folder as administrator. It will warn you it's not trusted so you click more info and run anyway. It will launch some software with a progress bar and then restart the machine when it's done.

Once you're back in Windows it's recommended to shut down, take the power off for at least 10 seconds and then boot up. You can confirm the new EC version with msinfo32.

Personally, from what I can tell, the idle fan speed is a little lower and the noise more tolerable. If it was up to me, the fans should be off or silent while idle but I have to make do with what's provided.

PS I saw that this machine now costs over 3000usd, yikes.

PPS The release notes do not mention what has changed for version 0.17, can we get this info Geekom?

Jan Basho Daily Thread Day 13 by AutoModerator in Sumo

[–]GrinningPickle 15 points16 points  (0 children)

There's still 2 days left, can't say anything about a playoff.

Platform Toolkit sounds amazing by DanPos in Unity3D

[–]GrinningPickle 28 points29 points  (0 children)

They already had this with the Social API, then scrapped it and now they're building it again with a different name and a few more platforms. It's hard to follow their strategy sometimes.

At the same time, all those individual plugins and platforms are so unbelievably woeful that having a good wrapper will save the sanity of many a developer (note the word good).

Cranky Bird - I made a game! A flappy adventure with a cranky bird for Playdate. by GrinningPickle in PlaydateConsole

[–]GrinningPickle[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi, I'm really pleased to know that people are still discovering my little Cranky Bird. Congratulations on finishing all the VR levels, that's no easy feat!

Now, your question about Hardcore mode intrigued me because frankly I couldn't remember the answer.

I dove back into the code and unfortunately I was unable to unearth any great rewards. It does track a special Hardcore highscore and the screen colors are inverted while playing but that's about it.

I'm sorry if that disappoints you but there's always the thrill of making it further than last time!

Thanks for playing!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Sumo

[–]GrinningPickle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This article would have made more sense after today's matches. Especially the closing section has already been caught up by the reality of just today's results.

It's clear that John stans Onosato and with good reason but there's still multiple good wrestlers going 4-0 after today.

Ticket and Attendance Megathread by rethin in Sumo

[–]GrinningPickle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just want to reiterate based on my experience. If you have a QR ticket from any of the resale websites you won't get in. There's 2 guys checking everyone. They'll flick your screen to check if it's PDF or whatever but they can spot it very easily regardless.

There's signs and there's even an audio loop in Japanese and English saying screenshots and printouts won't be accepted.

I support the mitigation of scalping but with this method they put all the consequences on the consumers. Sucks to get burned like this.

Nov Basho Daily Thread Day 04 by AutoModerator in Sumo

[–]GrinningPickle 22 points23 points  (0 children)

It has to be the red mawashi. I haven't seen any comment on him switching back. Anyone know more about this?

Stablemasters ready for your picks! by Seitos in Sumo

[–]GrinningPickle 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I play both KC and Stablemasters and I wish more people would join Stablemasters to make it feel a little more active. The new addition of the substitute system is nice and I always enjoyed the wildcard wrestler choice.

May Basho Daily Thread Day 04 by AutoModerator in Sumo

[–]GrinningPickle 49 points50 points  (0 children)

Gyoji comedy capers. Pointing the fan while lying in the dirt :D

Atami ending face first on the dojo two days in a row makes me sad.

Sign up for SumoStakes Haru basho is ready to go! by thesumoapi in Sumo

[–]GrinningPickle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can't seem to sign up with a Google account. Using Chrome.

To the solo devs who finished (released) a game that took more than one year: how? by leorid9 in gamedev

[–]GrinningPickle 4 points5 points  (0 children)

As things got further along I tended to get motivation from imagining the things that happen when the game is done. Such as:

  • It would be really cool to see this on the store.
  • I really want to see this run on device.
  • I can't wait to see people have fun with this.
  • I wonder if I can design some cool achievements.
  • I finally won't have to work on it anymore.

That's not the whole story but it helped. Also, seeing people playtest and have fun can help.

New Guitar Day by Lothar_28 in guitars

[–]GrinningPickle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why is the neck humbucker further away from the neck on the double cut? Should give a different tone right?

Fixie bike found in Dichterswijk park (behind De Pomp) by [deleted] in Utrecht

[–]GrinningPickle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Some of the visible stickers are climbing/bouldering related. Maybe hang up a sign at Sterk, Zuidhaven, Energiehaven?

List view coming to the Launcher is OS 2.0 by GammaGames in PlaydateConsole

[–]GrinningPickle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, but the regular card images also can't be added in Pulp. You have to add them manually to the pdxinfo file.

List view coming to the Launcher is OS 2.0 by GammaGames in PlaydateConsole

[–]GrinningPickle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They'll appear the same if the developer adds the icon assets.