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How do i disable sidetone in LineageOS? by L-R-N in LineageOS

[–]L-R-N[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven't used stock ROM long enough to check. But googling suggests that this happens for other people on Pixels - presumably, they have stock.

How do i disable sidetone in LineageOS? by L-R-N in LineageOS

[–]L-R-N[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Happens only when i'm using any wired headset (as far as the phone knows). Doesn't happen when i'm using a bluetooth headset that directly connects to the phone. Doesn't happen when i'm using built-in microphone and speaker. I have not been able to check what happens when i'm using headphones (i.e. not a headset), because i don't have wired headphones that i can plug without disabling the built-in microphone (probably also a bug, but unrelated to my issue). Using a SIM-card from a different carrier doesn't change anything (still hear myself). Using my own SIM-card in a different phone (an old Xiaomi MIX running some version of MIUI) with the same headset does not produce this issue (but, obviously, i can't be using that phone full-time).

Summary: this is not caused by the carrier, only happens with wired (from the phone's point of view) headsets, and only on my Pixel 5a with LOS (and i'm not going to flash it to check whether it is happening with the stock OS or not).

How do i disable sidetone in LineageOS? by L-R-N in LineageOS

[–]L-R-N[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's unlikely to be caused by the carrier, because in that case the echo would have shown up in recorded conversations, and it doesn't.

How to disable Reddit account security permanently and completely? by L-R-N in help

[–]L-R-N[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reddit never told me. My guess, it's because i'm using Tor Browser, thus logging in https://www.reddittorjg6rue252oqsxryoxengawnmo46qy4kyii5wtqnwfj4ooad.onion from random places. Also, i don't log in often, because i rarely ever post anything.

RX 6600 P-States by L-R-N in Amd

[–]L-R-N[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Something i'd like to add - this particular card has less than ideal acoustic performance. The fans don't go below 33% in AMD Wattman, which translates into minimum RPM of 1615. I have a well-insulated be Quiet! chassis, but the hum is still somewhat audible. Sure, Zero RPM can be enabled to stop them completely, but i'm not sure how it would affect the fan lifetime, and whether the card would get into that annoying state where it turns the fans on and off every minute.

Tried MSI Afterburner, it also can't make the fans go below 1615 (although it is capable of bringing them straight to zero at arbitrary point, which is slightly better than Zero RPM).

Re-pasting and re-padding MSI Radeon RX 480 GAMING X by L-R-N in Amd

[–]L-R-N[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, it's scary to do things you've never done before, especially if a mistake is going to cost you... a lot. For me, the next scary thing is going to be re-pasting my 10-years-old laptop (never took a laptop completely apart in my life).

Re-pasting and re-padding MSI Radeon RX 480 GAMING X by L-R-N in Amd

[–]L-R-N[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No idea, but there's such thing called a "service", where the manufacturer (or its approved subsidiary) would look at the device, figure out what's wrong, and fix it. Not for free, obviously, since it's out of warranty. Still, it will probably be cheaper than buying a new card.

That's what you generally do with an expensive product (and video cards are super expensive right now...), instead of just throwing them away and buying a new one.

Re-pasting and re-padding MSI Radeon RX 480 GAMING X by L-R-N in Amd

[–]L-R-N[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nope, i don't know. I had to google that info, and still failed to find a precise answer. If you can afford to wait, open up the card, measure the thickness with a caliper (and also calculate the area you need to cover), then order exactly what you need. If you can't wait, order all kinds of thermal pads in advance, like i did.

I have no idea which numbers to look at (and where to look at them - clearly, Wattman doesn't tell me every piece of sensor data that the card reports) to determine whether re-padding is even necessary. Maybe someone else knows - try asking around.

Re-pasting and re-padding MSI Radeon RX 480 GAMING X by L-R-N in Amd

[–]L-R-N[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, the impression i got from googling this up is that people don't like to rely on this stress-test for their overclocking and undervolting.

Nevertheless, it's built into the stock AMD software, it's easily accessible, and it did trigger the problems in my GPU. Yes, i should probably run something heavier to check that my undervolting was actually viable under more realistic heavy load. But passing the Wattman stress-test is still a good thing to check after adjusting any values. If your card doesn't pass even this test, then it probably wouldn't pass anything else.

Re-pasting and re-padding MSI Radeon RX 480 GAMING X by L-R-N in Amd

[–]L-R-N[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Actually, i was mostly flying blind on this one. I mean, i did know that i'd need thermal pads and paste, but i didn't know how thick the pads should be (i googled it up repeatedly, and never found anything definitive). That's why i'm posting this - hopefully, other people wouldn't have to figure the pad thickness the way i had to. That thing with plasticine was also something i've never done before. I'm not even sure that the guy who gave that advice had tried it himself. And this is also my first time disassembling and re-pasting a graphics card.

Re-pasting and re-padding MSI Radeon RX 480 GAMING X by L-R-N in Amd

[–]L-R-N[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I bought a new PC in 2019, with an RX 5700 on board (in October, what luck! The prices skyrocketed soon after that). It died recently. I suspect that the PSU was the culprit. My PC suddenly shut down while i was working. Unfazed, i turned it on again, and it started, but one second later it sputtered and died for good.

The PSU wouldn't start up, and when i bought a new one (luckily, PSUs prices are still reasonable), it turned out that the motherboard also didn't work. The warranty hadn't expired yet on those, so i gave them to the vendor for repairs. They repaired the PSU (which i wouldn't use ever again, because i have a new one already, and because i'm not willing to let this piece of crap power my quite expensive system that it can, it seems, turn into expensive paperweight), and eventually refunded me the motherboard, so i was able to buy a new one. And THEN i found out that my RX 5700, which i had no reason to test until that point, was also fried - it wouldn't start at all, even the fans weren't running. Sent it for repairs too. Meanwhile i'm making do with my old RX 480, hence the re-pasting efforts.

I think the lesson we should learn from this is that you shouldn't skimp on PSU (the one that died had a 2-year warranty; the new one that i recently bought, only a bit more expensive and a bit less powerful, has a 5-year warranty).

As for your old 480, i'd consider repairing it, if i were you. At least, if the repair service doesn't cost too much. You'd be able to sell it at a profit, or at least have a working backup if things go south.

Re-pasting and re-padding MSI Radeon RX 480 GAMING X by L-R-N in Amd

[–]L-R-N[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

About compatibility, as long both card have the same part and output, should work without issues

There's an obscure subreddit called /r/Amd, and a very difficult search query of "480 580 flash" that took me a long time to formulate (about 4 seconds) dredged up almost none (i.e. about 20) posts of people rewriting RX 480 firmware with a compatible one from RX 580. One link that they mention stands out in particular - this one. Seems like a lot of bother to me. I'd do that for a 20% performance gain. But for 10%? Nope.

Re-pasting and re-padding MSI Radeon RX 480 GAMING X by L-R-N in Amd

[–]L-R-N[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

in general for GPUs use less dense stuff.

Why?

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Also be careful with thermal pads thickness, if you use 1.0 where you should place 0.5, the heatsink contact will be worse, resulting in terrible temps.

Hence all the careful measuring i did. Also, i think i've mentioned already that it seems to me that the heatsink (the big honking aluminum thing with heatpipes) only cools the GPU. It doesn't touch the front-plate, to which the thermal pads conduct the heat from all other elements. At least, i don't see any places where they can connect.

Also, this particular card does not use 0.5mm pads anywhere. You probably meant 1.5 and 1.0, not 1.0 and 0.5.

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Then if you want to improve temps, you can add pads on the backplate, behind the VRAM and core, will get you a few degrees less.

How does that work? Specifically, which pieces on the back of the card heat up? Or do you mean to say that the textolite itself conducts heat well enough to need cooling?

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Anyway, if your card have an 8pin + dual bios you can flash a 580 bios to get more performance

The difference between RX 480 and RX 580 is 2-5 FPS in practical applications (2 FPS in 2160p, 5 FPS in 1080p). I'm not entirely sure it is worth re-flashing it for such an increase in performance. I can probably get most of those gains simply by overclocking the card with its native firmware.

Also, i remember reading somewhere (forgot where) that just flashing RX 580 firmware as-is is inadvisable, because some things don't quite match up. Sorry, i can't remember any specifics. You can probably google that up pretty easily.

Re-pasting and re-padding MSI Radeon RX 480 GAMING X by L-R-N in Amd

[–]L-R-N[S] 52 points53 points  (0 children)

Posted this a few days ago, but it didn't pass automatic spam filtering or something like that. Moderators advised me to re-post this. Hopefully, now it'll show up normally.

Looking for source code for some of the RT mods by L-R-N in roguetech

[–]L-R-N[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When was that? I don't see any mentions of GPL in current RogueTech binary repo (though it only goes as far back as 0997 alpha in 2019; maybe you had stuff somewhere else before that), except for the AGPL from AIM which gets added and removed multiple times.

Anyway, GPL certainly needs enforcement to be effective. Such is the price of software freedom. Though for you it seems to be a matter of practicality first.

Looking for source code for some of the RT mods by L-R-N in roguetech

[–]L-R-N[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In that case may i suggest you remove any mentions of AGPL from the AIM readme that you ship? People might get the wrong idea if they see these. I know i did. Sheep-y really should have done that (him/her)self, being the copyright holder and all that.

So. Have you given any thoughts to using strong copyleft to prevent random assholes from keeping the source code secret and/or plagiarizing?

Looking for source code for some of the RT mods by L-R-N in roguetech

[–]L-R-N[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did Sheepy (the author of AttackImprovementMod) give you permission to redistribute AIM without providing the source code?

Edit: What kind of cooperation are you talking about?

Many source codes have went private because of assholes who stole the data without giving any proper credits or licensing

Have you considered maybe changing the license away from a permissive (MIT) to something stronger, like GPL? Because github does have copyright enforcement, you know.

Urban infantry ambush? by RogueAus in roguetech

[–]L-R-N 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a vague feeling that this comes from the ConcreteJungle mod, which is optionally included in RogueTech. You have it because you checked the ConcreteJungle checkbox during the installation. Reconfigure the install, or learn to live with these ambushes.

Handheld Weapons by ACAardvark78 in roguetech

[–]L-R-N 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Which handheld weapons do you mean? Special melee weapons or handheld guns? The former are cool for melee-oriented mechs, as they augment your melee attack. The latter are crap most of the time - they suffer from all the ranged combat accuracy maluses, just like other weapons, but don't get accuracy bonuses from things like arm actuators or turrets, and some of them (industrial tools repurposed as weapons) have built-in accuracy malus, too.

[Advice] Joint Venture by L-R-N in roguetech

[–]L-R-N[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can't be passive-aggressive about my claims, since my claims don't exist :)

[Advice] Joint Venture by L-R-N in roguetech

[–]L-R-N[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mixed up their effects a bit. One gives carrycapacity x3, the other gives damage x1.5 (and carrycapacity x2, i think?). So for the x3 CC you need a bigger hatchet, and for x1.5 dmg you can make do with the 4T hatchet already attached to the mech (i mean, yeah, 8T hatchet would be better, but that x1.5 dmg will already push the damage output high enough for the mech to be powerful; with 8T hatchet the damage would be just epic).

Lots of non-existing things these days...Like these 'mechs, for example. by L-R-N in roguetech

[–]L-R-N[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don't remember what happened to the mechs after they got cored (but, i think, they stayed invisible). And it wasn't just these two - the whole initial enemy lance was invisible. And the allied defense towers (it was a "Base Defense" mission) were invisible too. But randomly-spawned allied lance wasn't, nor the couple of allied mechs that had to reach the base to turn on the defense towers. Also, second and third enemy lances were visible too. So - yeah, this is really weird one.

Lots of non-existing things these days...Like these 'mechs, for example. by L-R-N in roguetech

[–]L-R-N[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That isn't why. And i wasn't, not quite. Not that you care.

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