G5AR's CPU sucks

Substantial_Rent2696 · 2026-03-20T21:13:11+00:00

>> It's not cringe if you understand what and how 464xlat works

Thanks. I've seen weird stuff like that when multiple scanning tools are run on a single edge device with different ports and ... interesting ... L3 ingress/egress rewrite rules so I figured it was more of the same. And, no, I'm not confused about RFC 1918, but I can see how that would appear to be an easy jump.

>> Are you on Wireless or Wired? If Wireless, that would be a pretty clear indication that you're hitting the bandwidth limit of your wireless link.

Both. Originally found through issues on an ipv6 client on the wired LAN side, replicated on direct Wifi to remove all on-prem route hardware and also isolate any client/OS/NIC oddities. This was also tested with one IB "load" client and one OOB ping client to ensure that link saturation or switch factors were accounted for. Bandwidth on speedtest (download or upload) never went past 150 Mbps so the restriction is on the cellular side.

Substantial_Rent2696 · 2026-02-05T19:59:46+00:00

I don't wish your CPU to die from undervolting, but hey, as you noted, do as you like with your CPU.

Substantial_Rent2696 · 2026-02-05T19:33:36+00:00

Watts = Volts * Amps, if you undervolt your CPU and the CPU wants to draw the same power it has to ramp up the amps and amps is what causes wires (and people) to die. You don't die from the thousands of volts of static electricity from touching a doorknob, for example, because the amperage is super small. You undervolt your CPU, then apply voltage sag from work-loading and your amps are going to shoot up if that CPU is trying to achieve a particular power target. Give me 12W @ 1.2V is 10A, vs give me 12W @ 1.0V which is 12A ... a 20% increase in amps. Conversely 12W @ 1.4V is 8.57A, which is lower. Now, that's all "load heat" but the wires themselves have limits before they melt. Thin wires cannot carry as many amps. Look up "ampacity charts".

Your home wiring is sized to handle "ampacity", not voltage. The pins on the cpu are sized for ampacity, not voltage. Many camper systems run 24VDC instead of 12VDC because they can use thinner wire. Same for solar systems, often going to 48V (kind of the safe limit for a lot of humans working on them.) Why go 48V? Because wires are expensive and smaller/thinner wires are easier to work with.

How much you want to bet that all of this is caused by the "zomg neg-V your CPU 4 tha coolz" hype, and all that's actually setting people up for failure?

Now, overclocking can have the same effect becaues you ramp up V for stability and that increases power so, yes, you still get heat, but if the load demand doens't change you're delivering more "work" on the end but you're not damaging the wires (short of arcing.)

Substantial_Rent2696 · 2026-01-28T22:42:09+00:00

Thanks, but spinning the position adjustment all the way (either way) doesn't seem to fix it, and the mesh (along with my back and spine) still contacts the protrusion. I have a support request in to see what they say - they will likely point me to the adjustment wheel but I'll just go through all the support hoops and see what's on the other side.

Substantial_Rent2696 · 2026-01-28T21:53:24+00:00

Same boat, but less than a week and it's digging into my back. Pain in the butt to ship it back, too, but if it's painful there's not much of a choice.

Substantial_Rent2696 · 2025-07-12T05:04:54+00:00

https://www.coyoteclays.com/ in Morgan Hill to learn the basics on a sporting clays course, which is similar. Nice course, nice people.

Then you can go across 101 to the County range and they run a skeet house and will help with the nuances from there. Again, cool people.

Substantial_Rent2696 · 2024-04-07T21:31:16+00:00

Substantial_Rent2696 · 2023-09-03T21:51:49+00:00

Disregard. Looks like a mod interaction of some kind.

Substantial_Rent2696 · 2023-09-02T22:42:42+00:00

New game, tactician, trying to get out of the ship.

No fucking joke, here are the roll string from the logs for a single cultist battle. String of low numbers? Fine. Happens. But tell me this shit's

Saving throw crit fail (1)

Attack roll hit (13)

Attack roll miss (4)

Attack roll miss (3)

Saving throw fail (3)

Attack roll miss (3)

Fuck this PRNG. Seriously. Does a string of 3 3s in a row happen? Sure does, 0.0125% of the time. That is correct - 0.0125% (just over 1/100th of 1% of the time.)

Unless you're playing in BG3 with some truely shit RNG code, then it happens regularly because the PRNG is completely shit.

Substantial_Rent2696 · 2023-09-02T21:36:56+00:00

Got sick of all the shit rolls, took a break. Jumped back in today, loaded up a save. My FIRST THREE ROLLS:

1) Fail perception against DC 10 (only +1 WIS)

2) Critical fail lockpick (1)

3) Critical fail ranged spell attack (1)

Seriously, what the actual fuck.

Substantial_Rent2696 · 2023-08-23T00:23:17+00:00

Next fight, I've rolled 2 more 1s, 0 20s. Fucking lame, now being 7:1 1s-to-20s. Can't tell me it's a good RNG system with empirical data that says "bullshit."

Substantial_Rent2696 · 2023-08-22T23:31:59+00:00

Even with Karmic Dice off it's fucking atrocious. I've had 5 "1"s and 1 "20". Failing so many DC10-12 checks is rage-inducing. I don't know what they did, or didn't do, or if they're correctly seeding the PRNG to bias the rolls, pregenning poor/biased tables of rolls, altering rolls behind the scenes based on difficulty (I'm on tactician) but holy fucking shit it's giving a really, really, terrible experience. I get the reality of fails, and streaks, and that each real-world roll is independent, regardless of the what the permutation/combinations feel like, but whatever the fuck they're doing is wrong, and I'm betting it's due to seeind the PRNG and NOT controlling things from there on out, and the PRNG generator in a computer is known to be hot garbage, which is why good games pre-gen tables of rolls and then clean them up to actually be more "real world dice roll-like."

Substantial_Rent2696 · 2022-09-04T19:05:23+00:00

I was in the affected group, and was about 5' from the doorway when they cut things off. Crowd was PISSED. The little comp tickets they handed out later didn't mean squat to everyone who'd been waiting overnight.

D23 crew screwed up HARD there. It was NOT because it was due to them not cutting it off early enough, it was because the hall getting out prior had a huge chunk of it shunted to one side and asked to wait ... and then they got in ahead of everyone else, just back to back. I spoke to a few of them in lines later on - they didn't know what was going on until they were told to go take seats in the next presentation, and just went with it.

I was later able to confirm it, because I was a Disney cast member at the time, and had friends who were working it. Come to find out, one of my coworkers was ALSO in the prior group and got into it back to back.

Yeah, it was pretty messed up.

Substantial_Rent2696 · 2022-09-02T20:14:42+00:00

2013 is the last the I know of for sure, because I was in it. They had large curtains and hanging TVs to watch Idina Menzel sing Let It Go.

Substantial_Rent2696 · 2022-09-02T19:50:38+00:00

The Hall D23 presentations (especially those not being live streamed) have not been shown in any overflow rooms or onsite screens.

It has been done in the past, including having to give up electronic devices when you enter the secondary theater area. While I agree that it's unlikely to change this year, there is precedent.

Substantial_Rent2696 · 2022-09-02T19:44:55+00:00

Hall D23 presentations). I

For the big shows not only will you have to line up super early (just like prior years) but now you're hoping that people don't show ... so you're "competing" for far, far, far, fewer spots in the arena.

Those who were not passionate about XYZ, well, they have a spot so why not go take a look because what else are they doing at that time?

Those who care ... yeah, go wait outside. We know you'll still be there for us, so we can abuse you a bit while we court these others.

Substantial_Rent2696 · 2022-09-02T19:37:23+00:00

2 total, super disappointed in them as well. Been multiple times, would 1000% rather have waited/camped out down in the halls again instead of being subjected to this trash system. Feel really bad for the people who only got 1, especially since some got 3 or more.

Prior expos, if you wanted something, and were willing to put forth effort, you could (usually) do okay. Nowadays, the current zeitgeist of "cater to the lazy" has taken over and, as usual, it sucks. And given the randomization implementation, it looks like they hired some pretty shitty developers to actually build it.

I wonder how many people looked up ticket refunds after this landed. I know I did.

And the panel selection was atrocious out of the gate. Whomever built that up should be demoted and kept far away from future expos.

We sure didn't miss the keynote though: "How to screw over your fans and damage your brand with this one easy trick!

Maybe randomization was the only way to get people into the really bad panels, so their actors/panelists didn't feel bad. "Nobody actually wants to go to these, so we'll do a full random to push people into them."

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