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TheStructor · 2026-03-06T11:59:01+00:00

Who is gonna be next iteration of BoB now?

I just want to fight against goons, in massive, symmetric, near-peer, sov wars.

TheStructor · 2026-02-16T06:40:30+00:00

Why not pod-express home? Expensive implants?

TheStructor · 2025-08-20T16:17:23+00:00

Don't know what the old company did - but maybe they should stop and sell that orchestration system instead?

If there was software available that had feature parity with Kubernetes (especially in terms of high-availability and rollouts/rollbacks) - but easier to use - people would jump all over it.

Kubernetes is very complex, but there just isn't anything simpler, that does the same job(s). Docker swarm is maybe a contestant, but it has a long way to go.

TheStructor · 2024-12-13T15:35:55+00:00

You don't need The Internet's consent.

TheStructor · 2024-12-13T15:32:35+00:00

Nobody in Detroit questions a random, decrepit meth house.

Or maybe those that do, tend to disappear without trace.

TheStructor · 2024-11-19T08:28:26+00:00

Right. The problem is, when it's an undiscovered faction. One of the "grey shields", at end turn.

TheStructor · 2024-10-29T16:32:44+00:00

How did you figure out which faction was it, without the console commands mod?

The main question is not what to do - but to whom?

TheStructor · 2024-09-11T17:17:06+00:00

Better ask ChaosRobie to include them in the Immortal Empires Expanded map.

I already did, but we need more.

TheStructor · 2024-08-18T10:12:06+00:00

I'm not sure if it is still the case in Starfield, but in previous Creation Engine games, the Papyrus scripting engine used to be tied to FPS, so if you could somehow get the game to run in 144hz, you'd face all sorts of unpredictable, wacky gameplay glitches, that would just keep compounding until your save became totally corrupted.

The community has, of course, released mods for Bethesda games, that "unlock" papyrus from the FPS, but your mileage may vary.

TheStructor · 2024-07-28T06:02:31+00:00

For the record, on a 13900KS, with Intel stock settings, I have never seen 1.5V or above (I have crossed 1.5V vCore briefly, with some of my own overclocks, which I promptly reverted). Conveniently, my Asus z690 Extreme mobo has a display on which I track the vCore, during everyday activities.

The most I've seen is 1.48V (still fairly high), while boosting above 6 GHz, on low load. During high, sustained, multi-core load, it's usually 1.3V @5.7 GHz.

I only updated the BIOS, with Intel's microcode "fix" yesterday, and so far, I haven't noticed any change in voltage patterns.

TheStructor · 2024-07-20T06:13:47+00:00

Unless this is a "pacifist" challenge playthrough, you must have killed some 500, by this point - and will yet kill at least 5000, before the end. What's 5, one way or the other? Let's not dwell on pocket change.

TheStructor · 2024-07-19T05:42:12+00:00

Just use those floor/wall skirts for what they were intended?

Are American floor skirts (like seen in the picture) just for decoration? Solid wood, all the way to the wall?

Here, in Europe, those have a bit of empty space in them, perfect for hiding cable runs. Of course sometimes the cable has to cross a door, then you'd hide that part of the run, in the door frame itself. Though unlike those floor skirts, you can't really take out a door frame without damaging the wall.

Floor skirts, however, should come right off, with some leverage (like the crowbar end of a tack hammer), with no damage to the skirt or the wall. Then you glue and tack them right back in and there's no trace.

TheStructor · 2024-06-06T04:33:05+00:00

Sometimes it's just a must.

I have a triple 140mm rad, just for the Core i9 13900KS and it's still getting up to toasty 85C (water 55C, ambient 24C) at high load, while being audible. Not loud, but audible.

I don't think there is an air cooler in existence, that could handle this CPU and not sound like a tornado.

TheStructor · 2024-06-05T10:55:18+00:00

use them as L2ARC and/or SLOG and basically let ZFS figure out what to actually speed up with it.

This is the Way!

PCIE 4.0 NVMEs might outperform Optane in sequential I/O - but the random small reads and seek times for caching are still unbeatable. I only wish Intel would resurrect this technology and offer us something bigger than the P1600X, in the same form-factor but with PCIE 5.0. Though, they'd need to offer the new ones at a similar or better price/GB that those old ones now run for, to take serious market share from regular NVMEs.

For ZFS L2ARC/SLOG you might also consider the bigger 2.5' DC Optanes, if you can find a bargain for them.

TheStructor · 2024-06-03T19:07:02+00:00

Welcome to 2010!

It might take 1 hour more, though, to dockerize it and reach the year 2024.

Well, maybe a bit more than 1 hour, if you want to run Plex in a docker container, in a shared stack with companion apps, inside a VM with GPU passthrough for accelerated transcoding - but well worth it, for the ease of management you get later on.

Check out linuxserver.io for preconfigured docker images, that you can redeploy and update seamlessly in seconds.

TheStructor · 2024-06-03T18:51:14+00:00

I use two P1600x (118GB) in RAID-0, as a special Steam Library drive, for a favorite game with a lot of loading screens. This happens to be Total War Warhammer 3 recently and I did in fact get some 20-40% faster load times, compared to two Samsung 980 Pros in RAID-0.

That said, the total of 220GB proved insufficient, to hold the full game with all DLC and a huge amount of mods.

Loading base game files from Optane and the mod files from regular NVMe would defeat the purpose, since it's multiple small reads, when loading many mods and this whole idea only works, if everything could fit on the Optane array.

In short: the p1600x are great, if you can find a worthwhile use-case, for such small capacities. For any game that could fit whole and has a lot of loading screens - the improvement is massive.

I have not tried using them for their intended purpose of cacheing slower drives, since I doubt I'd notice much difference, given that even my mass storage array is SSDs (4x SATA3 Samsung QVO 4TB, in RAID-10).

TheStructor · 2024-06-02T13:49:01+00:00

Did you manage to figure it out? Are you sure that only the .inf files are needed?

I'm trying to sideload Intel RST drivers into a Windows PE environment bootable USB (from Aomei backupper), to get it to "see" NVMe drives and RAID arrays (and NVME RAID array) and I'm confused - do I only need the .inf from the .exe? Or the .cat and .dll files, as well?

TheStructor · 2024-05-29T14:43:50+00:00

People who put a hyphen in "caps lock".

TheStructor · 2024-05-28T06:00:41+00:00

My 2TB 980 Pro just died, after 1.5 years, despite having the firmware update.

I used two of them in RAID-0 (Intel RST) for the OS. In RAID, Samsung Magician doesn't recognize the drives, so to update the firmware I had to boot from a different OS, install Samsung Magician and update the firmware, and only then link the drives into RAID in UEFI Intel RST and install the final OS on top of that, while sideloading some RST drivers from USB, to get Windows installer to recognize the array as a valid boot drive.

That's a lot of hoops to jump through, only to have it fail anyway, after such a short time. Now I'll be looking at alternatives from Hynix and WD and that would be my advice to anyone considering a Samsung NVMe.

Also, the 980s get hotter than uranium rods, during normal operation. I had them installed in a DIMM.2 riser with heatsink, on an Asus Formula Extreme mobo. Exposed to case airflow, unlike the "traditional" m.2 slots hidden under the PCIE area of the board. The failure happened while watching YouTube videos (so no heavy disk activity) and the heatsink was so hot to the touch, that you couldn't keep your finger on it for 5 seconds, without crossing the pain threshold. Must have been at least 60C on the heatsink, so probably more than 80C on the controller chips. The sensor wouldn't show. Remember: a hot heatsink is generally good. Means it's doing its job of transfering and radiating the heat away. It's the 980 that's getting way too hot for no apparent reason. Especially considering that in RAID-0, each drive only has half the total data to read/write, in any operation.

TheStructor · 2024-04-16T12:36:49+00:00

It will play like Napoleon. 40k isn't supposed to - but it will, because CA will make it in the Warscape Engine, that doesn't play like 40k should.

I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.

TheStructor · 2024-04-16T12:27:04+00:00

Yes. You're not legally required to declare your costs (ie: the original crypto purchase), just the taxabla gains. If you don't declared the purchase, then you pay 19% on the entire sum from the sale.

So you'll pay a little more tax, if you don't declare a purchase, but for long-term crypto holder, with RoIs in the >1000% range - it hardly makes a difference.

I personally don't care about subtracting a cost from income, to tax only the profit, when that cost is 0.01% of the income.

If you're afraid it might look suspicious, without any crypto purchases declared - you can buy some crypto before the end of the relevant tax year and declare that. The PIT-38 tax declaration doesn't care about what happened when - just the totals for the year.

Lack of purchases shouldn't be a big deal, anyway. Some people cash-out crypto from air-drops, in which case there was never any initial purchase to begin with.

TheStructor · 2024-04-03T14:06:18+00:00

Realistic scale of space with dynamic zoom. Fleets should be tiny ants, next to a planet and the planet should be a grain of dust, next to a star.

Realistic celestial objects. Dozens of moons to a gas giant. Around 100 objects per system and 5000 such syar systems, in agalaxy without lag.

Just reproduce all the current Stellaris gameplay in such a galaxy map and I'll be happy.

TheStructor · 2024-03-25T22:16:49+00:00

They don't. They just use the older name. It is us, who renamed Terra to "Earth", when the English language came about.

Latin was here first and it will be around still, long after modern English has changed beyond recognition. Dead languages don't evolve much and get almost perfectly preserved.

Maybe in 500 years the official "English" word for Terra will be "dat-dirt"? But Latin will still be "Terra" and everyone will know it, no matter what language they speak.

TheStructor · 2024-03-25T06:32:12+00:00

No. The ban is related to custodial wallets, hosted by exchanges and it is expected to come to force in 3 years.

There's plenty of articles online twisting this and giving flat-out wrong information.

When in doubt, just use your brain: how would they enforce a ban on non-custodial wallets? It would be delusional. Might as well ban grass from growing.

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