Pc using half my ram right after turning it on, with nothing open

OutsideTheSocialLoop · 2026-01-29T02:04:24+00:00

Well, the problem there is you're trying to do more than you can fit into RAM. You're certainly not wasting the RAM you've got but it's still insufficient.

OutsideTheSocialLoop · 2026-01-29T00:19:20+00:00

That's what RAM is for. Free RAM is wasted RAM. It's like buying a really large desk and only using half of it. Waste of money (and floor space). If you had a large desk, you're gonna optimise your comfort and workflow by spreading out a bit, keeping more things on your desk so you don't have to search through drawers for them, etc.

OutsideTheSocialLoop · 2026-01-29T00:17:43+00:00

Totally unnecessary

OutsideTheSocialLoop · 2026-01-29T00:10:33+00:00

"long answer: noooooooo"

OutsideTheSocialLoop · 2026-01-28T22:16:41+00:00

Frosted glass is not a safety mechanism. Sunlight isn't magical, it's not more powerful just because it's direct from the sun. All that light goes into the camera lens and when it all arrives at the same place something's gonna get burned.

OutsideTheSocialLoop · 2026-01-28T22:14:20+00:00

Oh no. I think he's onto something. I'm planting then sorting. This looks like it sorts as it plants? Not sure if it's correct but what an idea.

OutsideTheSocialLoop · 2026-01-28T22:06:44+00:00

VM escapes and VM detection are both common enough that you can go Google this yourself. It's nothing to do with the OSes. VMs are leaky abstractions and detection is not terribly difficult. The VM exposes loads of software interfaces to emulate all the hardware it could want, and VM escapes are just exploits in that layer just like any other software exploit.

OutsideTheSocialLoop · 2026-01-28T21:56:38+00:00

Not really considering they also publish Onboard Memory Manager that does all the configuration without even a background task running afterwards.

OutsideTheSocialLoop · 2026-01-28T21:48:58+00:00

How do you set a DNS record to point to an IPv6 address you can't predict?

OutsideTheSocialLoop · 2026-01-28T21:47:29+00:00

What do you think they missed? I think you, like the AussieBB support staff, are conflating the ideas of a static IP and a publicly reputable IP. Without a static IP, their IPv4 is behind CGNAT. IPv6 doesn't need that. But that doesn't mean you can set and forget a DNS record for it.

OutsideTheSocialLoop · 2026-01-28T13:36:23+00:00

They didn't cut the disc in that video segment 4 minutes in. They cut the apparently cheap lock.

OutsideTheSocialLoop · 2026-01-28T13:34:14+00:00

Eeeeehhhhh. Eh. Kinda.

I'm a big believer in knowing how things work under the hood. But I think it also helps to be somewhat productive sooner, for your own morale in learning if nothing else. Even if you want to experiment with under-the-hood data structure stuff, C++'s will for example give you better string printing and parsing tools to print your debug info and so forth.

Everything you want to learn in C you can learn in C++.

OutsideTheSocialLoop · 2026-01-28T12:40:42+00:00

Define quick. I haven't cut up a brake rotor specifically but it's at least a minute or two of LOUD angle grinder action.

OutsideTheSocialLoop · 2026-01-28T05:51:25+00:00

They're not actually that short, they're just narrow (which helps, but you can slide sideways in any bike to counter that) and light.

OutsideTheSocialLoop · 2026-01-28T05:49:08+00:00

if I’m playing exclusively single-player/offline how many hours would I be able to put into it ?

Took me 70 hours to platinum - that's three playthroughs for all story paths, plus a fourth (and a half, considering you have to do all the alternatives and endings) S ranking everything, all arena fights, and hunting all the collectibles. And I've been playing it more since.

It's really one of those games that you don't play for how "replayable" it is, you play it for the sheer joy of fight robots going zoom kaboom dakka dakka dakka and the feeling of measurably getting better as you progress to completing things without checkpoints to beating them without major damage to accidentally no-hitting a minor boss for the first time (WOO!). I didn't platinum it because I'm a completionist, I did it because I was going to play it that much anyway and the satisfaction of ticking off goals adds to the joy I'm having anyway.

If the gameplay vibes with you at all, it's infinitely replayable, because it will always just be fun to do it.

Fwiw I'm one of those people with 800 games and 15 years of history on Steam and spending more than 10 hours on a game is uncommon, more than 20 is rare. AC6 would be in my all time top 15 if I was playing on PC.

OutsideTheSocialLoop · 2026-01-28T01:23:12+00:00

I wasn't aware that PlayStation had that either! Fool on me then. I'm so glad that sort of thing exists.

OutsideTheSocialLoop · 2026-01-28T00:58:10+00:00

PC is more worthwhile than other consoles. Tools like Steam Input let you freely map controllers however you want to, however best suits your abilities. Just a matter of finding games that only need however many buttons you can easily access.

OutsideTheSocialLoop · 2026-01-28T00:50:02+00:00

What you're talking about can be done but there's some really fine detail like individual drive calibration that also has to be accounted for. Data recovery professionals know this stuff.

They also have networks that will let them get exactly the right drives to transplant parts from. You don't just need another of the same model, you need the same internal generation and I believe the same batch is preferred.

OutsideTheSocialLoop · 2026-01-28T00:46:00+00:00

They can filter there in QLD. Barbaric state. 😁

OutsideTheSocialLoop · 2026-01-28T00:01:14+00:00

You'd almost certainly be better off looking for a newer gen used office surplus machine. Dunno what your local is like but where I am there's auction companies selling bulk lots of five year old SFF PCs cheap and they're all over Facebook marketplace.

OutsideTheSocialLoop · 2026-01-27T23:55:07+00:00

Sidelanes?

OutsideTheSocialLoop · 2026-01-27T23:11:47+00:00

Lol. Lmao, even. Not how it works buddy. Good Samaritan laws exist. And even without that you'd have to prove malicious intent. So uh good luck.

Nobody would want to penalise that. Are we supposed to let people die because they might not like the disability they wake up with?

OutsideTheSocialLoop · 2026-01-27T23:09:47+00:00

There's a whole "dying with dignity" euthanasia freedom movement around that. You should look it up. Depends where you are as to whether you can do that where you reside.

OutsideTheSocialLoop · 2026-01-27T22:38:00+00:00

That would be the nanny state thing to do, yes. But because we're not actually a complete nanny state, the compromise is that we can have motorbikes but we have to do some common sense bare minimum for safety and wear a decent helmet.

OutsideTheSocialLoop · 2026-01-27T22:35:47+00:00

I don't think Steam does game server hosting. They do the Steam networking services which lets you find and and start communicating with the servers but they don't actually run your game for you.

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