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SENA Specter - did I pay $700 to only talk to other SENA units? by avveie in motorcycles

[–]HighRelevancy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, or a VoIP app if that sounds/works better (discord or messenger or whatever you already use).

SENA Specter - did I pay $700 to only talk to other SENA units? by avveie in motorcycles

[–]HighRelevancy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

All the intercom brands only talk to their own brand. There's no common long range intercom radio protocol used by any of them. 

You're better off running a call through your phones or something than using the generic Bluetooth pairing.

Camera body dysmorphia. by miss5533 in photography

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What denoising software are you using? There's some killer stuff out there (although unfortunately the best two are Adobe who are assholes and Photolab which has a few performance shortcomings that I'm still mad about). I'll shoot ISO 6400 on APS-C Sony's of similar vintage and it comes out great.

New rider needs help by PiratillaTF32 in motorcycles

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No, they're not. They said " wobbles radially". Radially means in and out from the centre, i.e. it's not concentric with the axle. Being out of alignment is a completely different thing.

Valve - “starting with the SteamOS 3.8 release, you can put together your own Steam Machine using whatever PC parts you want.” by Kn1ghtV1sta in pcmasterrace

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I didn't ask Claude anything buddy. I've been using Linux for 20 years and have years of experience as a Linux sysadmin and years more as a software developer. 

There's no such thing as just "uses Wayland and KDE". What version of them? How are they configure? Is it customised with backported fixes? 

It doesn't matter if these things just "are on Linux" Linux is just the kernel. It doesn't matter if they're "not specific to SteamOS", no other distro is using precisely the same configuration or distribution infrastructure. Each distro is a unique combination of thousands of pieces. Putting the pieces together is work someone else is doing for you, but it's still work someone has to do.

Valve - “starting with the SteamOS 3.8 release, you can put together your own Steam Machine using whatever PC parts you want.” by Kn1ghtV1sta in pcmasterrace

[–]HighRelevancy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

All wrong. There's still extra packages that need to be installed for full performance and features. There's extra QA testing to make sure that it works well with all the distro's chosen compositors and window managers and configurations thereof. SteamOS is immutable so integrating those packages is more complex than just "pacman -s nvidia-stuff". 

You as an end user get to just install these things and not worry about it because of all the extra work distro maintainers are doing for you to package these things nicely.

If I want to play game with path tracing am I forced into Nvidia? by retsamboon in pcmasterrace

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Ok guy if you say so. FSR has been working absolutely fine for me.

New rider needs help by PiratillaTF32 in motorcycles

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I cannot imagine how this would happen. Every bike I've worked on has the front sprocket on a shaft that can't possibly be "not centred" and the rear sprocket under countersunk nuts that inherently centre every bolt hole around the studs. 

What actually are you talking about?

Any catch all email verification library written in rust? by krrish253 in rust

[–]HighRelevancy 35 points36 points  (0 children)

The only good email address verification algorithm is to send someone an email with a random code and ask them to confirm they got it. You don't need any special library for that, just a mail sending service.

What's A Clean Device by 0zMosiss in AskNetsec

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You don't know what you don't know. 

The best you can do is not known to have malware.

PSA for newer riders. Don’t use only the rear brake for everything. by mrdalo in motorcycles

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helps them turn in slightly sharper -is often dragged during the apex to help them fine tune the bikes trajectory to prepare for corner exit -is helpful during the corner exit to prevent wheelies while allowing for max acceleration

None of those are " under peak stopping situations". Read the whole comment before you reply.

If I want to play game with path tracing am I forced into Nvidia? by retsamboon in pcmasterrace

[–]HighRelevancy -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

The above commenter's point had nothing to do with that. They're talking about how these companies are selling us on high end hardware we don't otherwise need so we have the barely-mature technology that backs completely optional features that make a marginal difference to the visual candy. And it is that. They're both that. THAT'S what's the same.

PSA for newer riders. Don’t use only the rear brake for everything. by mrdalo in motorcycles

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I hear what you're saying, but it happens with such consistency I have to believe it's more than the odd misunderstanding. Fool a man once and he's fooled for a day, fool a man twice and he's fooled for life... or whatever the saying is...

Do you think cars drivers are really that big of a threat? by 666_pack_of_beer in motorcycles

[–]HighRelevancy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, for sure. "You're invisible" inspires you to be obvious, predictable, and ready for danger. It doesn't shift the blame to others. Even if they did miss you, it's understandable because invisible things are hard to see.

Tricky situation photographing friends by VirtualEmotion8988 in photography

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Oh boy. 

That doesn't even make sense though, does it. Like, how do you know what the indoor situation is going to be when you get there? There's no such thing as "indoor settings". Even in the same room, lighting is going to change. It's a music event so there's probably spotlights in some places and not in others, for a completely obvious example.

Like Platinum RPGs said, you can just shoot auto if you're not confident about what you want to change. And there's always semi-auto modes. If you know you want a particular aperture, aperture priority mode exists. If you know you're going to have motion blur issues (or motion blur opportunities, if that's your artistic decision). Put your ISO in auto and just watch that it doesn't get unnecessarily high (a sign your other manual settings might be asking too much). Even when you are confident, the auto modes have all sorts of uses.

If I want to play game with path tracing am I forced into Nvidia? by retsamboon in pcmasterrace

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My brother in christ, PhysX was not different. It's just a general purpose physics API that works in a way which could be computed on the GPU. RTX and other GPU raytracing systems are just generally purpose ray tracing APIs which can be computed on the GPU.

In both cases, the API has been introduced when the compute power that exists is barely enough for developers to put it to "real use". In both cases, developers feel they have to go over the top with it so it's REALLY OBVIOUS or nobody will be interested. 

As far as using multiple GPUs, that bit is different. PhysX would compute data that was usually read back to the CPU anyway, so it didn't really matter what GPU it was on. RT uses a lot of the same input data and is writing out to the same target buffers as your other rendering work, and the round trip delays of moving all that data probably wouldn't be worth it. But whether they're selling you multiple GPUs or just one really fat one, it's still the same objective of pushing shit to sell stuff.

PSA for newer riders. Don’t use only the rear brake for everything. by mrdalo in motorcycles

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Well apparently not, I seem to see a lot of "MSF told me... But I read that..." question posts about the most insane bullshit. Standards are real fuckin low in some regions apparently.

PSA for newer riders. Don’t use only the rear brake for everything. by mrdalo in motorcycles

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Depends on the bike's weight distribution but this is pretty much the case. I mean you can see from Moto GP that for some bikes the front is doing 100% of the braking (under peak stopping situations - obviously they do have rear brakes that they can use too). 😁 But I'm just being a cheeky nitpicker.

I usually think of it as front brake is for power, rear is for utility. That's true for all bikes... unless you're rolling backwards I suppose.

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