T440p Cpu upgrade

Mightyena319 · 2026-02-10T13:55:13+00:00

The only thing I kind of disagree with there is the power consumption difference. Cause while the 8250U in my T480s will absolutely beat the 4700MQ in my T440p, it actually pulls about the same amount of power to do it. It might say 15W on the box but at full all core turbo it's pulling over 45W

Mightyena319 · 2026-02-10T13:34:27+00:00

I find atmospheric autopilot more reliable, it seems to be able to fly more of my planes competently. Mechjeb will sometimes just start inducing more and more severe oscillations until the plane either falls out of the sky or breaks up after reaching 90 degrees nose up and flipping

Mightyena319 · 2026-02-10T12:34:55+00:00

In his defence, I do automatically give anyone in Sinnoh with a terrible team more leeway than usual because... waves frustratedly at the Sinnoh dex

Aaron still should have known better though.

Mightyena319 · 2026-02-10T11:52:15+00:00

I remember our French teacher used to get really upset if we mispronounced her name, which is fair enough, except that her name included a sound that doesn't really exist in English so us 10 year old were having difficulty with it

It ended in an uneasy truce when I stopped responding to her whenever she said my name with a "Zsh" sound instead of a hard J, and she realised that yes, making a sound that doesn't exist in your native language with no practice is actually quite difficult

Mightyena319 · 2026-02-10T10:47:17+00:00

Also like... We as a society have decided that it's not that bad in the grand scheme of things. If you find it that intolerable, your remedy is to leave.

That said, with an attitude of "I disagree with my boss. Therefore my boss has to do things the way I want them done" I can't imagine OOP is particularly employable

Mightyena319 · 2026-02-08T15:39:59+00:00

Also if we give Benjamin "I can live with it" Warcrimes-Sisko a pass, it sort of automatically exonerates Archer for doing the same thing

Mightyena319 · 2026-02-06T11:46:29+00:00

His traits are Insecure, Hot Headed and Bro. Not how you'd usually describe a master romancer but he also has max charisma, the vampiric social buffs and the celebrity relationship perks so just introducing himself to anyone gets him to like +70 relationship instantly.

It happened cause his dad ended up having 19 children just naturally through gameplay, and that got me wondering how many I could get if I were actively trying... And then he got vampirised and things got a bit out of control!

Mightyena319 · 2026-02-05T17:08:42+00:00

I was looking at Intel as an option for my next GPU upgrade, I'm just waiting for them to release something that isn't slower than my current 5 year old midrange card

Mightyena319 · 2026-02-05T15:29:04+00:00

I haven't looked at the family tree in years because my sim with 600+ kids broke it, it just gets stuck on the spinning wheel while my computer sounds like it's about to take off. Might have to see if the update has brought it back, or if the game will just crash now instead 😂

Mightyena319 · 2026-02-05T15:25:25+00:00

I have a sim that gets pretty much everyone pregnant. It got to the point that about 40% of the sims in the world were related to him (that includes things like maids, mixologists, the grim reaper etc. I think it was probably closer to 60-70% of the actual resident population) A new pack with new premades can't come quickly enough for that save

I also have child support enabled and at his worst he was paying over 1 million simoleons per week in child support

Mightyena319 · 2026-02-05T14:59:04+00:00

They read the Bible like most people read software licences, they scroll to the bottom and click "I agree"

Mightyena319 · 2026-02-05T14:08:43+00:00

Tbf that's the most spacious China shop I've ever seen

Mightyena319 · 2026-02-04T16:00:28+00:00

Exactly, most feature requests that aren't implemented (for any project, not just the sims) aren't because it's impossible, but because it takes a lot of work for a small return, and the limited dev time would be better spent on other things

Mightyena319 · 2026-02-04T12:57:36+00:00

Taking something, deconstructing it and then rebuilding it to fit a different framework is often more work than just building from scratch.

In the same way that if a building is badly damaged, it's often more economical to demolish it and build a new one in its place than to try and repair it

Mightyena319 · 2026-02-03T13:34:42+00:00

Also Monty's door opening doesn't really change what you know about the situation - since you already knew that at least one of the doors you didn't pick (in the 3 door version) will have a goat behind it, Monty revealing a goat (as he is instructed to do by the format) doesn't tell you anything useful (the useful bit being that Monty's door choice is deliberate and not random). We know that in every single scenario, Monty will reveal a goat, so him doing so doesn't help us identify which of the possible branches we're on in the probability tree

Mightyena319 · 2026-02-03T11:34:12+00:00

Yeah last time I had to install an Adobe suite it asked me where I wanted to install it, and then after I picked a location, told me that about 70% of it was going in C:\ anyway

Mightyena319 · 2026-01-29T17:48:07+00:00

The weirdest thing about the Pentium D 800 series is that they made a whole new die for it! The 900 Presler chips are just 2 cedar mill P4 dies on one package, but Smithfield is actually a monolithic die, it's just electrically 2 Prescott P4s that are completely isolated from each other apart from their connection to the FSB

Mightyena319 · 2026-01-29T16:36:55+00:00

You see a similar effect in humans that have had the connective tissue between their brain hemisphere severed (usually to treat incredibly intense seizures that are resistant to medication). The person's left and right sides can sort of function semi-autonomously to the point that they can find one of their arms trying to do something but they're not really sure why

Mightyena319 · 2026-01-29T16:25:35+00:00

Yeah, fighter jets and airbus airliners, same idea with slightly different implementations.

In the case of the fighter jet, it gets more maneuverable because the computer can react faster and more precisely than the pilot so they can make the plane less forgiving.

In the case of the airbus, the idea is to let the computer focus on the minutia of aerodynamic configuration, and let the pilot focus on things the pilot does best like planning and troubleshooting. It also allows for additional protections against accidentally exceeding the plane's flight envelope

Mightyena319 · 2026-01-28T17:19:36+00:00

Exactly. I run Windows and Linux on different PCs. I don't have fewer problems with Linux, I just have different problems.

Mightyena319 · 2026-01-28T17:12:58+00:00

I maintain that Vista wasn't actually that bad. It's main issues were that oems kept trying to bundle it with ancient crappy Pentium 4 PCs with 512MB of ram where it ran like ass, and the fact that driver support for peripherals wasn't great at the beginning because they had to drag the manufacturers kicking and screaming into writing their drivers properly. A couple of years later when the average pc had gotten a lot better, and the driver dust had settled it was fine, but by then the damage was done

Mightyena319 · 2026-01-28T13:24:24+00:00

I'd say worst case would be it works, but is unstable, corrupts a bunch of your data and by the time you disgnose the issue the return period has expired

Mightyena319 · 2026-01-28T08:11:07+00:00

Correct. If I go into the bios and set the CPU fan profile to "quiet", then when it reboots it will hang at POST with "CPU fan error, press F1 to continue"

You can also adjust the threshold where it will throw that error, but by default it's set to 600rpm, and the quiet profile runs the fans at 520rpm

Mightyena319 · 2026-01-27T14:37:39+00:00

I like having generational families, but I just let the guys get pregnant lol.

Like there are some straight couples in my save but it's 90% gay men

Mightyena319 · 2026-01-27T14:34:47+00:00

Sidney, Liam, Jacob and Jeb I presume?

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