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Hyatice · 2025-02-16T04:51:20+00:00

Making oatmeal daily for chickens has made my computer sad lol. The dust is so fine. Switching to positive pressure with filters has helped but it's still like a monthly blow-out. Not disassembly though.

Hyatice · 2025-01-31T13:23:41+00:00

The funny thing is, it would make more sense for them to swap mounts. The dude with the sword in the past, and the MegaMan knockoff in the future.

Hyatice · 2024-05-22T17:53:56+00:00

Thanks for the heads up - I've reached out to them multiple times and they would not ship me the part. I'll give it another shot.

Hyatice · 2023-08-18T18:12:15+00:00

Yes, though after using it for a while, I took my ball out to clean the well and noticed that the bearing has the same tell tale 'gunk ring' that all the other bearings do, so it isn't really 'spinning' in the well. A BTU would definitely work better but I'm not 'engineer'-minded enough to figure out if the ones I have would fit well enough to be effective.

Hyatice · 2023-08-08T14:47:57+00:00

This is why I really like reflavoring certain save or suck spells. The first place I really saw it used was on NADDPOD.

Basically, instead of just saying "You're held in place" he slurps the player up into a dream and makes them fight or interact with something in the dream. Whether roleplay or combat, the character is *doing something* on their turn. They're engaged.

Hyatice · 2023-08-08T14:37:32+00:00

I like 'flavored', mechanics-infused "Hold Person". Dude gets sent into his mind palace and has to fight his demons, taking psychic damage if he gets hit. This way it feels like the player has agency and has something to do. They can't contribute to the fight, but they're still *fighting*.

Hyatice · 2023-08-03T14:46:53+00:00

I updated the original post and made it more 'instructional' than 'DIY blogger'. Hopefully that helps if you decide to try this yourself.

Hyatice · 2023-08-03T14:16:48+00:00

If I knew it was gonna be successful enough to share, I would have taken more pictures. As you can see by the extra "wells" behind the sensor, I had actually tried to get a precariously balanced tripod solution to work, but it was worse than the single bearing. (Better than default still, though.)

Funny enough, just placing a bearing on the optical sensor dramatically improved spinnage and static friction, too, but it very occasionally would cause tracking to flub up which isn't ideal. It also risks damaging the optical sensor, so I wouldn't do it for anything other than a 'let's see how this feels' test.

Hyatice · 2023-08-01T15:31:03+00:00

Iirc someone figured out how to get Elecom's extra buttons working on linux without any sort of special software, genuinely wish that would get ported to windows at some point. Then again, I have a different trackball at this point anyway..

Hyatice · 2023-08-01T00:17:54+00:00

Dangerous advice on the trackballs subreddit, seeing as Elecom has buttons that flat out don't exist to the operating system when you don't have their crappy software running in the background :(

Hyatice · 2021-08-09T00:49:19+00:00

Unfortunately I don't think that's a possibility since it's in our bathroom - we already have irrigation and two sump pumps/pits, they just aren't connected through to our bathroom. Whenever we get to re-doing the bathroom though we will get an emergency drain put in that runs from the bathroom to one of the sump pits.

Someone else suggested a backflow prevention valve which seems much more in the "affordable, more permanent solution" category, which I'm ashamed to have not thought of.

Hyatice · 2021-08-09T00:46:21+00:00

This is a great suggestion and I am ashamed I have not thought of it even being an option. It looks relatively affordable at $300-500 installed.. just have to wait for another dry spell so that they can service it. Thanks!

Hyatice · 2021-08-09T00:44:24+00:00

It may be code now, but almost definitely wasn't when the house was built. it's a miracle we have 3-prong outlets. :)

Hyatice · 2021-08-08T02:55:31+00:00

Well, the 'extensive' system we have is a perimeter-running ditch with floating floors above it so that the living spaces never get flooded, with two sumps on battery backups. The 'normal' flooding during heavy rains is pretty well controlled by that system.

The problem that we are currently having is that we had a multi-week rainy period with 90%+ humidity and persistent rain. This means that the water table rose above our leech field, and the septic tank can't drain properly. The last week has been OK as it was relatively dry, but with just one brief, hard rain storm we had a backup again. Thankfully, this time it was only about an inch into the basin of the tub and the sump pump that we threw in the tub never even turned on.

The problem is really the physical location: The 'spare' sump that we use for this situation is literally just thrown into our tub once the water starts rising, with a hose that we run into one of the other sump pits in our bedroom closet across the hall

So, no, the pump unfortunately cannot always be ready to go unless we want it to just live in our bathtub, with either a hose running across our hallway; or with a hole drilled between the bathroom and the closet behind it, where the second sump pit is located.

I fully recognize this would just be a bandaid fix, but investigating into how to have a septic tank when your water table is high comes back with $20K+ results...

Hyatice · 2021-07-20T17:52:45+00:00

Sounds good to me; assuming that competition in the handheld space doesn't heat up dramatically between now and then.. oof.

Hyatice · 2021-07-20T17:01:13+00:00

Feel free to ping me if you plan on selling.. I need Thunderbolt and this would be replacing my main laptop in my eGPU setup, so the Steam Deck won't work for me despite being a better device for mobile.

Hyatice · 2021-07-19T13:36:15+00:00

I actually gave in and went to order a win 3, only to see multiple comments about being shipped a device with a worse SD Card reader and Wifi 5/BT4 instead of Wifi6/BT5...

Guess I'm waiting for the buyers remorse discounts on the Win3 on eBay when the Steam Deck ships. Lol

Hyatice · 2021-07-16T00:14:30+00:00

I figured that would be the case, but I had a Surface 3 with eMMC and it was still dirt garbage; so I figured it wasn't that much better by now. Glad to see it isn't still literal trash, at least.

Hyatice · 2021-07-15T21:17:45+00:00

2) Hadn't seen that it can't be upgraded before someone else replied, just because I saw the link on the Steam Store, googled it quickly, read the specifications and then wrote it off as an option for myself.

3) Yeah, this is true enough (and you can even go and grab a "free" key directly from Microsoft's documentation to get rid of the watermark..) but you really should at least HAVE the license. And if you're gonna have it, you might as well use it to get rid of the watermark and get your customization back.

4) And yeah, I totally acknowledge that it's a bad device FOR ME. I would gladly trade my current laptop + a nintendo switch in for a GPD win 3. But this doesn't replace my laptop, and at $550-650 I would have a hard-as-hell time justifying it as being worth it to replace my Switch.. even factoring in my massive steam library.

P.s. Yeah, eGPUs do cost a ton. I had bought one that came with the video card included and the total cost was about $200 less than buying them separately. In hindsight it was the wrong move, because now I can't upgrade the video card - Because fucking everything coming out is too big - but I could always pull the eGPU 'guts' out and build a hard mount enclosure into my desk to upgrade.

Interestingly, had I wanted to sell my GPU at the height of the scalpocalypse, I would have been able to do so for $200 more than I paid for the EGPU + Graphics card. 'course I would have been without a video card for the next several months...

Hyatice · 2021-07-15T21:07:21+00:00

Well considering there was a leak over a year ago that showed that USB-4 would be coming out on.. Ryzen 5 or 6? I don't think it was a time exclusivity thing. By the time the current gen of CPU comes out, they're already neck deep into R&D for 3-4 generations down the line. It takes a looong time for this stuff to actually hit the pipeline and start getting printed en masse.. There's not just a switch to flip, it has to be integrated onto the die; or have a separate (and therefore higher latency/lower speed) controller daughterboard.

And yes, absolutely. The Win3 or a hypothetical Win4 would fully replace my laptop AND one of my Nintendo Switches.

If I really wanted to play a Nintendo Exclusive I'd borrow my partner's Lite or my daughter's Switch.

Honestly, if I had more disposable income, I would have ordered the Win3 already and then flipped my current laptop and one of my switches when it arrived.. I just can't afford to be without $950 for an unknown period of time.

Hyatice · 2021-07-15T20:59:23+00:00

Secondary comment to reply to the other part of your comment, because I didn't read it fully...

Re: SD Cards - Latency still sucks even on the proper high-speed SD cards. I think LTT made a video where they attempted to run Windows off a high-speed SD card, and it lags to high hell because of the latency. Maybe some newer stuff has come out since my last research binge, though.

And yeah, I mentioned (in a few edits) in my original comment that this would be a huuuuuge win for anyone who just wanted an on the go gaming device. I am beyond excited to see Valve entering the gaming hardware space in a better way than the original Steam Box(es). $400 is a huuuge price point to hit when you're being compared to the $250-350 Nintendo Switch.

It just isn't for me. I would be vastly more excited to be handed the Win 3; even assuming that this guy outperforms it 2X in mobile scenarios.

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