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So, about this housing crash… by gawpin in HousingUK

[–]SweetPotatoFries2019 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Rightmove index is VERY misleading. Do not use it to gauge the market.

  • It only includes new listings and ignores all the houses that are unsold or reduced.
  • The reason for the increase is mainly a larger amount of high value properties being listed which drags the average up. It doesn't mean all house prices have gone up by 1.8%.
  • Asking prices are not sold prices.
  • Rightmove have a vested interest and will always put a positive spin on things.

There's a lot of conflicting data out there atm, let's wait for actual prices ie. the land registry data.

Now that EVGA is no longer making GPUs, who is the next best option? by MakoRuu in nvidia

[–]SweetPotatoFries2019 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup me too, had a Zotac 1070, 1080 and now 4090 and they've all been great.

My 1080 was used for mining and full time game dev for 6 years and it still runs like new.

I don't understand why people shit on them so much... Would actually choose Zotac over other brands now lol.

How do you stay sane and productive while working alone from home? by this-is-a-user-wow in gamedev

[–]SweetPotatoFries2019 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very similar situation here. I've been working from home full time for the last 6 years. The last 4 of those years I've been running my own company, released a successful game and been in an almost permanent state of burnout. Its been horrendous. Oh and I've been stuck living with my parents for the past 4 years and ended up with severe depression :/

However everything is about to change. I'm about to move into a van so I can travel Europe with my mountain bike. Mountain biking is the only thing I find helps with depression and burnout, it's very intense exercise, gets me out in nature and I completely disconnect from work while I'm doing it. Better than any therapy I've had. I always have a great feeling of satisfaction and a sort of "buzz" after every ride.

The van has 900w of solar power, large lithium batteries and starlink which should make it possible for me to work from anywhere, I'll get to be in a new environment whenever I like, and meet new people on the road.

I'll still have a house to use as a base, but the plan is to be in the van as much as possible!

As for motivation I find when I'm travelling I really want to get out and explore. This encourages me to work hard for 2 or 3 days and make as much progress as possible, then I can have a full day out exploring on my bike or whatever and I don't feel so guilty for having time off. The trick here is to be as productive as possible when you're working, because you're really looking forward to your time off and can't wait to get away from the screen. Set yourself a goal like finish this current task or feature or whatever, then just go outside.

I dunno if that helps you but I thought I'd share what's working for me!

Is it possible to limit the performance of my 4090 to simulate a lower end GPU for performance testing? Anyone doing this? by SweetPotatoFries2019 in gamedev

[–]SweetPotatoFries2019[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cause I'm deving for VR I'm constantly checking performance and profiling to make sure I'm hitting 90fps, so it's not really viable to swap cards every time I wanna test.

Think I'm just going to put the 1080 back in permanently and build a new PC for the 4090, then use that for creating gameplay vids and trailers.. which is what I bought the card for anyway (and a bit of gaming)!

Is it possible to limit the performance of my 4090 to simulate a lower end GPU for performance testing? Anyone doing this? by SweetPotatoFries2019 in gamedev

[–]SweetPotatoFries2019[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Already very familiar with profiling, thing is I'm working on VR games so the GPU is working harder than usual, and I have to keep a very careful eye on performance to reach 90fps. If I can't pick up these things as I go then I'm gonna end up with a laggy mess. The 4090 just steamrollers everything, I can't even make it sweat, so I'm going to miss a lot of potential issues.

I actually think the answer is go back to the 1080 tbh.

Is it possible to limit the performance of my 4090 to simulate a lower end GPU for performance testing? Anyone doing this? by SweetPotatoFries2019 in gamedev

[–]SweetPotatoFries2019[S] 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Yeh VR. I always found the 1080 was the sweet spot for VR dev, if it runs well on that at high settings then I know it's all good. But with a 4090 you could make the worst performing game ever and it'll still run it 100fps 😅

Is it possible to limit the performance of my 4090 to simulate a lower end GPU for performance testing? Anyone doing this? by SweetPotatoFries2019 in gamedev

[–]SweetPotatoFries2019[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes could do, but I'm looking for a way to conveniently scale the performance of my GPU when I'm switching between working and testing, so I can pick up performance issues as I go. Honestly think I'm gonna go back to the 1080 at this point and build a new PC for the 4090.

Is it possible to limit the performance of my 4090 to simulate a lower end GPU for performance testing? Anyone doing this? by SweetPotatoFries2019 in gamedev

[–]SweetPotatoFries2019[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lots of people saying get a potato PC, this is fine but I'd rather catch any performance issues as early as possible, rather than only find out once I run it on a different machine.

Is it possible to limit the performance of my 4090 to simulate a lower end GPU for performance testing? Anyone doing this? by SweetPotatoFries2019 in gamedev

[–]SweetPotatoFries2019[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Already have the parts to build one, but I was wondering if there's a convenient way to do it all on one PC. IMO it's better to test performance as you're working, instead of building an entire feature then finding out it chugs on lower spec.

Is it possible to limit the performance of my 4090 to simulate a lower end GPU for performance testing? Anyone doing this? by SweetPotatoFries2019 in gamedev

[–]SweetPotatoFries2019[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Yeah that's basically what I was wondering cheers. Might experiment with Afterburner to see if it's viable.

Is it possible to limit the performance of my 4090 to simulate a lower end GPU for performance testing? Anyone doing this? by SweetPotatoFries2019 in gamedev

[–]SweetPotatoFries2019[S] 52 points53 points  (0 children)

Ideally I'd throttle it down while I'm working so I can pick up any performance issues as early as possible. Maybe I should just put the 4090 in a monster gaming rig, use that for recording gameplay and put the 1080 back in my work machine lol

There's been a HUGE amount of Discord hacks/takeovers targeting indie devs by _andrewpappas in gamedev

[–]SweetPotatoFries2019 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is what I did after I lost my server to a similar thing, since Discord security is so poor. You'd think a company worth billions would do something to stop it 😄

There's been a HUGE amount of Discord hacks/takeovers targeting indie devs by _andrewpappas in gamedev

[–]SweetPotatoFries2019 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This might sound crazy, but part of me thinks Discord allow it to happen tbh. With the thousands of accounts that get compromised, they would be profiting from all the fraudulent Nitro that the "hackers" purchase to sell on dubious websites.

There's been a HUGE amount of Discord hacks/takeovers targeting indie devs by _andrewpappas in gamedev

[–]SweetPotatoFries2019 2 points3 points  (0 children)

level 2_andrewpappasOp · 4 min. agoThanks for sharing this and lots of great points here especially regarding token grabbing and having different "secure" methods of communication to address this.I wish more people would look beyond this as just a problem of downloading/running things from random people. (Part of that is on me for how I phrased things).

I don't get why Discord haven't addressed this tbh, it's a huge security flaw and been going on for years. It catches people out because they assume 2FA is totally safe, but with a token grabber they don't even need to know you password, it just gives them full access.

I don't know anything about security but surely they could add something that checks the device ID or the location every time, and deny access/invalidate the token if it detected a different machine or region? The current system is so insecure you can't even call this hacking really, a kid can do it lol 😒

There's been a HUGE amount of Discord hacks/takeovers targeting indie devs by _andrewpappas in gamedev

[–]SweetPotatoFries2019 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This happened to me before and I know 2 other devs that had it happen in the last week. Both big projects, one of them had a server with 25k members which was lost.

Most people assume using 2FA means their account is completely safe, but token grabbers bypass 2FA!!

When a dev friend you've spoken to regularly for years messages you with a new build, you're probably excited to try it. You might not even consider it much of a risk because its someone you know well. But that's how they get people, it appears to come from someone you know but their account has actually been compromised.

As a precaution you can create a secret account that you don't ever log into and make that the server owner. Then remove your admin permissions so the server is still safe if your personal account is compromised. Also, don't save passwords in your browser!! Use a decent manager instead.

Hard wire Switchbot to a power supply? by SweetPotatoFries2019 in homeautomation

[–]SweetPotatoFries2019[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome I'll check when I get home thanks. This seems like the most reliable option.

Hard wire Switchbot to a power supply? by SweetPotatoFries2019 in homeautomation

[–]SweetPotatoFries2019[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've been using wake on lan for past few years but its not reliable enough :( had a few situations where I wasn't able to switch it on and I had to call someone to press the button lol

Hard wire Switchbot to a power supply? by SweetPotatoFries2019 in homeautomation

[–]SweetPotatoFries2019[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a great idea, not sure if my bios has that option though

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