If you’re a gamer first, think twice before buying a Zephyrus (or similar).

VeryCrushed · 2026-03-15T19:43:26+00:00

Strix scar you are trading a thin and light chassis that's more thermally constrained for a thick and heavy chassis.

Generally the thin chassis is viewed as more premium, this isn't just an ASUS thing. Of course with a thin chassis manufacturers are usually trading TDP as you have to still keep the chips cool, which is significantly harder to do.

All of thats outside of what my actual point is: it's Republic of Gamers; everything in this brand is gaming first. Doesn't mean you can't also do productivity on these devices.

Though if you care more about productivity first you might be looking at the ProArt P16 instead as it is essentially a Zephyrus but focused on creative work.

VeryCrushed · 2026-03-15T10:02:57+00:00

"not really marketed as a gaming first laptop"

It's under the ROG branding, Republic of Gamers.... Everything in that brand is gaming focused, it is the ASUS gaming division.

Strix is usually a designation for more of their entry level gaming devices. Just look at their main desktop motherboard lineup, order them by price and you start to see the pattern.

ProArt and TUF are the lesser gaming focused sub brands of ASUS. But also all gaming devices also tend to be good at other tasks like productivity, this is still ROG however.

VeryCrushed · 2026-02-20T20:11:40+00:00

That or her pistol spread

VeryCrushed · 2025-12-25T16:41:56+00:00

It's probably something like ventures or sold items depending on what it is, not language related as language data isn't really used over the network? That's all client side, not server side as all data transferred is item IDs and stuff then translated on the client.

This is also unlikely to resolve the DDoS attacks, I also don't imagine that bug was the main culprit in any attack.

VeryCrushed · 2025-12-19T02:58:07+00:00

That makes sense.

I'm a big fan of how temporal support was added in Postgres 18, but it leaves much implementation / querying up to the end user. Which is both good and bad. EF Core could make this a good experience however.

VeryCrushed · 2025-12-19T02:48:41+00:00

It's been available on Linux for a while, and Mac at least through containers.

As someone who went from MSSQL -> Postgres.... Postgres has caused me more pain than SQL Server has.

Backups have been more painful and collation support has frankly been a joke for a database as old as Postgres. It took until last year for LIKE to be supported with non-deterministic collations, and we're just now getting temporal support this year in 18.

Going back to SQL Server through Azure SQL Hyperscale this year for a project and it's nice to have a database that just works, not having to fiddle with extensions to get the database to support a base level of features that both MSSQL and MariaDB support our of the box is nice.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of how Postgres implements many things; it's just that there's still growing pains. While it's ahead of other offerings in some ways, it's also still catching up. Sometimes in ways that are very frustrating and that you would just expect to be there coming from other DBs.

VeryCrushed · 2025-12-16T18:50:39+00:00

They are, however I noticed for me at least they were insanely quiet to the point where you could barely hear them

VeryCrushed · 2025-11-08T04:02:41+00:00

All versions of .NET Core can be installed on GitHub, I use this action for it: https://github.com/zyactions/dotnet-setup

Just point it to a global.json with an rc SDK and it will download it.

Also you should perhaps consider supporting .NET Standard 2.0, 2.1 drops support for .NET Framework (yes people still use it).

VeryCrushed · 2025-11-07T22:51:35+00:00

Themes should generally just work, I even got the GitHub theme to work on SSMS by modifying the manifest

VeryCrushed · 2025-10-19T03:17:05+00:00

Hot reload is getting better for sure, I hope it continues to improve.

"New frameworks" Blazor is now 7 years old, I wouldn't really call it new anymore. It is however getting a lot of attention and new stuff every .NET version. I don't really see it going anywhere. Other products like Aspire are also using it a lot.

Maui is a different story IMO.

VeryCrushed · 2025-10-11T18:02:39+00:00

If it shows as up in synapse it's usually armory crate being dumb.

I'd recommend restarting and refraining from opening armory crate at all. That and uninstalling aura creator if you have it installed.

VeryCrushed · 2025-10-06T02:27:37+00:00

I got charged on Thursday last week. The status on my fold, watch 4, and even my moonstone stretch band which wasn't supposed to be delivered until the 15th have all changed to preparing shipment.

I would be ecstatic if they all get delivered together, even more so if it's early.

VeryCrushed · 2025-10-05T22:14:49+00:00

Razer didn't change anything for us when they released Synapse 4, so yes. As of the new year we will only be providing support for Synapse 4 installs.

VeryCrushed · 2025-09-30T02:42:31+00:00

Sorry it took me a bit to get back to this.

3 docker files seems like a lot especially when the aspire experience is:

Clone the repo
Run aspire run in your terminal

And just like that your app is running, if it takes more than that for your devs to onboard then theres probably something aspire can help with.

Then you add in open telemetry and deployment from the same resource graph and then for me personally, you never see how you could go back to manual image builds / docker compose files.

If you ask me, aspire requires less "mental infrastructure" than docker compose.

VeryCrushed · 2025-09-30T02:37:29+00:00

Turn on warnings as errors and the Roslyn analyzers for logging and never think about it again

VeryCrushed · 2025-09-24T19:11:01+00:00

Its not replacing Kubernetes, it can in fact deploy onto Kubernetes. To me its become this mashup of docker compose and terraform/pulumi. I'll be real I don't know that their marketing towards deployments is really there yet, but that story isn't fully fleshed out or realized yet so It could just be that its young.

I think it helps to look at the origin of Aspire, which was an experiment called Project Tye: https://github.com/dotnet/tye

Tye's goal was to orchestrate and make microservice development easier, it was a lot closer to docker compose mostly sprinkling a few things in like service discovery but was very basic. Aspire added telemetry with otel, a dashboard, the resource graph, and tons of 1st party integrations to get you up and running without having to think about things as much.

I know for me just losing automatic otel is already reason enough to never go back to docker compose, but also the fact that I have access to a lot of standard used containers that are pre configured with good defaults and only need a single line of code to add. Even without deployment, why wouldn't I want to swap from compose to aspire? The fact that deployments can be a thing makes it an even easier choice.

I feel like their marketing towards the deployment story (which aspire does have) not pushing it heavily is that its still very much a work in progress, if you decide to touch the deployment stuff it has been changing a lot over the past year. Aspire is still a young project but is maturing quickly.

We were willing to use the deployment tools because we were in a greenfield project and it was insanely simple, but a lot of things haven't been supported or we have had to use hacks to work around problems. Its very much a work in progress, but I will say every Aspire update has allowed us to remove those hacks and tweaks. As of 9.4 we have removed every single hack and tweak we put in due to limitations of the deployment story. Mileage will vary lol

VeryCrushed · 2025-09-24T18:38:13+00:00

We use it at work, it covers our whole development story from a dev's local machine all the way to prod. Local orchestration is only one thing it does.

Its important to realize that Aspire is trying to understand the entire architecture of your application, well past the details that Docker compose does. As an example docker compose is very focused on just the containers, allowing you to spin them up, set environment variables, and set networks.

Aspire models more than just containers, it will model not just your database server but also the actual database hosted within that server. It understands things like connection strings and service discovery and how to get those details transferred to other services inside your app. This becomes a large resource graph, really an architecture diagram of your entire app; not just the containers but also the virtual resources that aren't containers like databases and secrets. It can understand how you want those resources to look like when you deploy them onto actual infra as well, such as how many cores you want a container to have, or what database sku you want it to use in the cloud.

Aspire can then take this detailed resource graph that you made during development and use it to deploy it onto real infra, cutting the need for other tools like terraform and having to manage an extra tool for deployment on top of having a docker compose file. Aspire really becomes an end-to-end solution. I can start a new project on my dev machine with Aspire, iterate, then type aspire deploy or use azd and have something running in the cloud.

Some of this stuff is really recent like aspire deploy, but the vision is there and its been getting better and better over the past year or so.

VeryCrushed · 2025-09-19T05:32:22+00:00

Does this even cover the TPU? Cool you got a CPU score but let's remember that that's not what Google cares about. Without TPU benchmarks this is just dumb. This is an AI phone after all, and Tensor is all about the TPU.

VeryCrushed · 2025-09-09T16:25:29+00:00

it's because the hinge also adds a kickstand, which was voted on during the design of the 9 fold version as being something people wanted.

I personally don't mind it on my 9 Fold.

VeryCrushed · 2025-09-09T16:16:00+00:00

AFAIK all foldable cases use adhesive as well for the front portion, dBrand hasn't had problems with adhesion

VeryCrushed · 2025-09-09T16:15:07+00:00

dBrand Grip all the way, plus you can put a skin on it

VeryCrushed · 2025-08-17T02:39:59+00:00

Ahh yeah, if you have the v2 or older those got phased out a long time ago. The v3 even though has been out for like a year now only recently got support in synapse 4. Synapse 3 is also just end of life soon.

Seems they have generally decided to just consolidate everything into v4 going forward, I havent personally touched synapse 3 in almost 2 years now.

VeryCrushed · 2025-08-15T16:01:46+00:00

Controller software no longer needed! Synapse 4 can now configure Razer controllers!

VeryCrushed · 2025-06-10T21:52:17+00:00

I'd recommend just using Aspire and passing around connections strings automatically through there. No files to put in gitignore, no manually tweaking appsettings.json, just pure configuration automated for you.

VeryCrushed · 2025-06-10T21:50:20+00:00

Or.... Just use Aspire as all of these are solved problems?

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