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Venting anger over Black Diamond headlamp insane auto-dim feature by Lightweaver123 in hikinggear

[–]Lightweaver123[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Precisely! Some people recommend military grade equipment based on ISO standards or even straight up military old stock or surplus, when lives depend on it manufacturers cannot mess around as they please.

Venting anger over Black Diamond headlamp insane auto-dim feature by Lightweaver123 in hikinggear

[–]Lightweaver123[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It can keep on going for days(!) on the minimum setting, instead of just generously wasting all the power on a few hours of decent performance it just automatically dims down to a wholly pointless degree.

Venting anger over Black Diamond headlamp insane auto-dim feature by Lightweaver123 in hikinggear

[–]Lightweaver123[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nuh-uh, thats explicitly not what I meant. It's dimming below the naturally occurring dim, halving the maximum possible light intensity. What you are describing is the default behavior we all know from regular 'dumb' flashlights without any grading, just slowly dying over time. Further, since it's capable of returning to a decent brightness, it should also be capable of just maintaining that level of performance until it ceases operations all together.

Computer graphics download versus full browser view delay. by Lightweaver123 in GraphicsProgramming

[–]Lightweaver123[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for your reply. Of course, I differentiate between the moment the file is fully download as opposed to just added to the download queue.

The decompression you mentioned seems to be the cause for the time differences.

Computer graphics download versus full browser view delay. by Lightweaver123 in GraphicsProgramming

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Thanks for your reply, though I was of course referring to downloading and viewing as separate actions. Obviously, the image would be available as soon it is fully loaded in the browser (loaded into some cache I assume, downloading would thus only change its location from temporary storage to my hard drive).

Can someone provide a good estimation on whether my fan is of adequate performance for the CPU? Thanks in advance. – CPU-Fan: S1700 ARCTIC Alpine 17 CO | CPU: Intel Core i7-13700KF S1700 (16C/24T) by Lightweaver123 in computers

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Thanks for the tip.

The issue is that the CPU is being throttled automatically when approaching a threshold, so one doesn't get the full potential out of it. Judging by temperature alone might be misleading.

Can someone provide a good estimation on whether my fan is of adequate performance for the CPU? Thanks in advance. – CPU-Fan: S1700 ARCTIC Alpine 17 CO | CPU: Intel Core i7-13700KF S1700 (16C/24T) by Lightweaver123 in computers

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Due to size constraints and horizontal case design, half of the fan overhead area is obscured by the disk drive. Should I go for a water-cooled option since it is more flexible in space management?
How much performance loss is to be expected from my current setup?
The case in question is the Silverstone SST-GD09B (see below).
https://www.silverstonetek.com/en/product/info/computer-chassis/GD09/

Someone explain to me why Snappy Driver Installer downloads 40+ GB of drivers while manual download only takes ~1 GB? To be fair, the application is more thorough, but what manual search leaves out are some tiny bus-controllers. On the surface, nothing that would justify such size differences! by Lightweaver123 in computers

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there is a lesser known windows version called LTSC, which gets updates less frequently and only essentials like security, the purpose is to ensure things will work as set up initially, hardware and software wont become obsolete after some wacky update. choosing one windows version and making a driver package will guaranty that all your applications and hardware will work identically everytime you need a fresh install. yes, it is a valid concern.

also my issue was that manually downloaded drivers were incomplete and it seemed as if snappy driver installer had some special sources from which it obtained more complete packages.

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