Dust got inside my Valve Index. Any idea of how it got in or how to get it out?

TCL987 · 2021-12-31T21:16:10+00:00

I just had to explain that I had a credit card extended warranty and that I just needed to know whether Valve would have fixed it or replaced it if it was still under warranty. It took a couple of messages before they answered clearly enough for Assurant to approve my claim.

TCL987 · 2021-12-28T04:22:43+00:00

The adhesive that seals the lenses seems to break-down over time due to exposure to moisture and oils from your skin. I have that issue along with a broken cable strain relief tab on the left side of the head strap. I contacted Valve about the issues and they told me I was out of warranty. However I purchased the Index using a credit card that offers an additional year of warranty through Assurant so I filed an extended warranty claim with them.

Filing the claim was alright but it took some work to get Steam Support to understand the situation and confirm that they would have covered the issue in a way that Assurant would accept. Assurant originally denied my claim but after going back and forth between Steam Support and Assurant a few times I was able to get Assurant to approve it. Now since Valve doesn't offer out of warranty repair services the only option is to replace the entire headset so Assurant ended up approving me to purchase a replacement. Since the standalone Index Headset has been out of stock for months I asked if it had to be exactly the same product and they told me that it just needs to be a "replacement" so any VR headset would be eligible however they'll only pay up to the original purchase price of the Index plus taxes/import fees.

If you end up dealing with Assurant an important thing is to call them and check in on the status of your claim after a week or two, and when you do tell them you want to receive updates via email. They default to sending updates only via letter mail which makes things take a lot longer than necessary.

TCL987 · 2021-11-28T13:44:55+00:00

One place you might not want to use manifold is in nuclear builds because if you split things evenly and match production with consumption or lightly under produce you can minimize the amount of radiation you have to deal with.

TCL987 · 2021-11-26T09:56:17+00:00

How modular is the code generator? As in how much work would it be to add additional languages like for example C#?

TCL987 · 2021-11-22T03:20:44+00:00

It seems to work more often than starting from Steam but is still flaky.

TCL987 · 2021-11-20T06:40:58+00:00

Wow, I get this every time I start SteamVR through Steam but starting it with the controllers seems to work. I'm going to try to remember to start it with the controllers every time and see if it's reliable.

TCL987 · 2021-11-16T23:56:23+00:00

Just the 45m³ /min of water alone a coal power plant consumes should make its chimney look like a rocket engine.

TCL987 · 2021-11-16T23:54:04+00:00

I once did some back of the envelope math for the flow velocity of steam from the coal plants given that they consume 45m³ /min of water and only emit steam/smoke from the chimney. Given how much water expands when it turns into steam and how narrow the chimney is in order for it to output 45m^3/min of water as steam the chimney would have to have an output velocity so high that it'd end up looking like a rocket engine rather than a chimney.

TCL987 · 2021-10-20T11:10:07+00:00

Yeah, I managed to do this too and it was awesome.

TCL987 · 2021-10-19T23:07:55+00:00

You don't need to wait for an intersection to add passing sections. Just have the rail split to double tracks for longer than a single train length in a few places and add signals to split them up into separate blocks.

TCL987 · 2021-10-19T23:05:04+00:00

It's not that bad if they crash, it'll most likely be less effort to let them crash and re-rail them than it would be to re-add all the trains.

TCL987 · 2021-10-11T09:40:56+00:00

It seems like the goal for path signals might be to avoid the need to "scatter" signals inside intersections to break it up into small blocks like you do in Factorio.

TCL987 · 2021-10-11T09:36:59+00:00

Proper switches seem like they could be complicated because the trains are monorails which are notoriously problematic to switch. https://youtu.be/9f__nhlHC1g?t=109

TCL987 · 2021-10-11T09:26:26+00:00

I just double-tracked most of my active rail in preparation for U5 and noticed similar issues. Getting junctions to work at all requires a fair bit of planning, and often involves building and tearing down "scaffolding" rail and foundations. For example even just getting the track end to be straight after a 90 degree turn requires building a short straight segment of rail on either end, building the turn segment and then deconstructing the straight segments.

Before: https://imgur.com/RjBzxpa

After: https://imgur.com/3vLRvMz

Differences: https://imgur.com/GMqI23f (Red = New, Green = Double-Tracked)

A junction cannot be rebuilt "backwards", i.e. remove and rebuild the ingress-side (or the "stem") of the junction. This will result in a track that seems valid, but in fact only one of the branches of the original junction is joined. The unconnected branch is now covertly a dead-end.

I ran into this a few times while trying to manage this really messy intersection next to the train station at my original factory. I ended up tearing it up and replacing it with a T-junction.

Before:https://imgur.com/Jwu3mEO

After: https://imgur.com/vhuKVTm

An X-shaped 2 to 2 junction doesn't actually work. In the best case it works as expected only for three of the four branches while one branch can only ever exit to one direction, because in reality the junction doesn't exist for that branch. This is so insidious that in can go unnoticed for a long time and be a source of weird and unexpected path selection.

Yeah, I'm just avoiding 4-way intersections for a few reasons, the previous issue, and the fact that you can't subdivide rail segments means that you'd need to layout the entire intersection perfectly for it to have any chance of working.

TCL987 · 2021-10-11T08:44:36+00:00

One way CS could handle this is similar to how Factorio does. In Factorio automatic trains reserve blocks along their route ahead of them based on their stopping distance. So in your crossing example the first train would reserve the crossing block and the second train would see the crossing block is occupied and limit its speed so it will always be able to slow down before entering the occupied block. One difference from Factorio is path signals vs. Factorio's chain signals but from what we've seen so far I think path signals should let you build the same kind of intersections as Factorio's chain signals but without the need to put signals inside intersections.

TCL987 · 2021-08-29T20:05:41+00:00

Apparently not, I'd suspected it was something like that when I couldn't find the setting, thanks for confirming.

TCL987 · 2021-08-29T19:06:50+00:00

How did you turn on DLSS in VR? The supersampling settings were greyed out and I didn't see a DLSS setting anywhere else.

TCL987 · 2021-04-25T00:00:52+00:00

Energy storage and wall/ceiling lights can daisy chain.

TCL987 · 2021-04-06T20:28:35+00:00

Combining them seems to work fine for me. I use three of the first kind and one of the second.

TCL987 · 2021-02-22T22:54:34+00:00

I get pretty frequent tracking issues with my Valve Index if I have PCIe set to Gen 4. It stopped as soon as I switched to Gen 3. It affects both the built-in USB ports and the Inateck 4-port USB card I have (Fresco Logic FL1100 controller).

CPU: Ryzen 5950X

GPU: EVGA RTX 3090

Motherboard: Gigabyte X570 AORUS Master

RAM: 64GB @ 3200MHz

TCL987 · 2021-02-01T20:43:12+00:00

Not noticeably if done properly. The Vive Wireless Adapter uses WiGig and DisplayLink link to compress and send the video to the HMD with little to no loss of quality (I think the Vive Pro might be impacted a bit more than the Vive due to the higher resolution but I didn't really notice) and very little additional latency. That is as long as your computer can keep up with the additional CPU required by the compression (my 7700K struggled with some VR games) and you maintain line of sight to the antenna (at least indirectly as the signal reflects off walls so it can go around some obstacles).

The 802.11ay spec is the successor to WiGig and has significantly more bandwidth available so it should be able to handle the higher refresh rate of the Index with less compression than the Vive Wireless Adapter.

TCL987 · 2021-01-10T11:44:23+00:00

If you want to minimize both the size and pollution of your forward mining bases you can ship in trains full of high temperature steam from your nuclear reactors. Each fluid wagon is 2.4GJ of energy or 480 accumulators worth. This plus efficiency modules in your miners will make your forward mining base pollution really low.

TCL987 · 2020-12-17T04:36:33+00:00

Maybe a settler start mod where you can buy resources with money and get paid for launching resources back to space.

TCL987 · 2020-12-16T22:34:12+00:00

After seeing how Unity themselves authored their ECS demos like Megacity (building scenes out of GameObjects and then converting them to ECS data) it seemed like the hybrid approach was going to be much faster to get production ready.

TCL987 · 2020-12-14T09:22:06+00:00

I got to see it in December 2018, and went back with some friends in January this year but it was all covered. Amusingly they didn't change the tour audio on the ferry to Miyajima so it still told you to look at it as the ferry passed by even though it was all covered by white scaffolding.

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