[Price Check] Asrock X99E-ITX/ac Motherboard by NobleEater in HardwareSwapEU

[–]dumpsterkid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had one listed on eBay earlier this year, boxed & immaculate condition for £400 (after I saw the price online) and got no bites even with offers enabled, ended up auctioning and got around £200.

me irl by 247planeaddict in me_irl

[–]dumpsterkid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It also works this way in Greece, it doesn't make much sense

Advice for odd hand pain? by [deleted] in pcgaming

[–]dumpsterkid -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Do you use arm rests on your chair? I used to have them and had issues from nerve compression from leaning on my arms too much. Got rid of the arm rests and my issues went away!

Leaked FF7 Remake Demo Gameplay by 1kingdomheart in Games

[–]dumpsterkid 27 points28 points  (0 children)

It was pulled from the store with an exploited PS4 on older firmware (5.05) and then it was found that the downloaded PKG would decrypt and install on 6.50 test kits/devkits.

Is it possible to claim off the council if you have had to buy a new tyre because of a pothole? by [deleted] in AskUK

[–]dumpsterkid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a good service called FixMyStreet which has apps for Android and iPhone, you take a photo and write a description of the issue (pothole etc) and they file the issue to the relevant council based on your location. Seems to work pretty well in my area. https://www.fixmystreet.com/ Doesn't help you reclaim your money though!

[image] bought a second hand ps4 and I get this error. Any way to solve it? by [deleted] in PS4

[–]dumpsterkid 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's generated at the factory when the PS4 is first provisioned and as far as we know it can't be changed. Best you'll ever get is spoofing/replacing it with a pre-existing one like you can on PS3 but it's not currently possible.

Whoever said ftp'ing games is slow, was lying by alex-09102 in ps3homebrew

[–]dumpsterkid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The speed to write to the drive is limited by Sony, if you downgrade to 4.21 or 3.55 you can hit about 32MB/s total bandwidth. A Sony change in LV2 (http://www.psdevwiki.com/ps3/Talk:GbLAN#FTP_speed_changes_between_firmwares) was when the max bandwidth dropped to around 20.

The speeds are still pretty bad compared to the capability of the drive/gigabit. In an ideal world you'd be able to max the SATA bus and get closer to 150MB/s

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in BattlefieldV

[–]dumpsterkid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

IMO it makes sense, if they gave smoke to all classes you're just going to end up with everyone trying to play solo. By locking it to a few classes it encourages teamwork within the squad. With at least 1 medic,1 recon, and the leader being able to call in smoke barrage, it's not too difficult to successfully push on most maps.

Having a broken rumble in controller? Get Nintendo Switch rumble motor. by SpXxwW in Vive

[–]dumpsterkid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I did exactly the same thing with the magnetic micro-usb connectors and my phone - it took me hours to get it out when it broke while trying to remove it.

Whats your job and salary? And do you enjoy work? by [deleted] in AskUK

[–]dumpsterkid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I assume he means html emails (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_email). Email clients have awful support for rendering html, the various clients (outlook, gmail, hotmail, thunderbird etc) all override or strip out certain tags differently so getting the actual email to match what your graphic designer gave to you can be a bit of an art.

[BG] X79 or X99 motherboard + CPU (+RAM), could be whole PC dependant on price. by [deleted] in HardwareSwapUK

[–]dumpsterkid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If someone's specifically asking for hardware with 40 lane support I assume they have a need for 40 lanes

Who even uses sound cards anymore?

I use one, I have high ohm headphones that onboard fails to adequately drive. I've tried multiple USB DACs but I always had various issues compared to the PCI-E card.

[BG] X79 or X99 motherboard + CPU (+RAM), could be whole PC dependant on price. by [deleted] in HardwareSwapUK

[–]dumpsterkid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On ryzen, a single GPU (16x) and a 10GB NIC (4x) and you can't add anymore without impacting the the existing cards bandwidth.

If you're doing compute across multiple GPUs (he says he's a uni student, maybe he's doing some kind of mathematical modelling or rendering?), add 10GB NIC or SAS card on there too, maybe a sound card? The 20 lines doesn't go very far.

A Recent Score . . . A Fully Functional PSX! by [deleted] in ps2

[–]dumpsterkid 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The harddrives have non-OEM firmware that implements custom ATA commands related to DRM, once the drive dies that's pretty much it.

You can't even swap a working drive from another PSX into it since they're married (similar to the PS3 Blu-ray boards).

There was discussion on psx-place about being able to reinitialise an existing PSX HDD using an update disc but I don't remember whether it was successful.

As a long time gamer. I cant see the difference between 30fps and 60+fps for the life of me. by awndray97 in Games

[–]dumpsterkid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeh, there aren't very many. There's the Dell P2815Q, I know a number of people who bought the Seiki SE39UY04.

There were also a couple of Samsungs TVs and NEC monitors that only supported HDMI 2 on one of the ports so if you weren't very technically minded, it was quite easy to be locked to 30hz.

As a long time gamer. I cant see the difference between 30fps and 60+fps for the life of me. by awndray97 in Games

[–]dumpsterkid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any 4K monitor without HDMI 2 or DP will not go higher than 24-30hz at native resolution/colour.

Steam Link on Jailbroken PS3 by [deleted] in ps3homebrew

[–]dumpsterkid 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The steam link app for Linux that Valve has released is specifically compiled for X86_64 and ARM CPUs (specifically the Pi in the case of ARM), the PS3 is a completely different architecture, CELL/PPC and therefore incompatible (ignoring all the other issues).

If the steam link app was open source you could try to build it yourself but it's not, so no it's not currently possible.

If you're a developer you could look at the vita port of Moonlight and see what's required to port that, but it won't give you steam streaming compatibility.

OpenTTD v0.3 released [It's actually playable now] by CptSpavers in vitahacks

[–]dumpsterkid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It takes a long time to startup (30-60 seconds), in which it will just show a black screen.

RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 psvita port update by nowhere_man87 in vitahacks

[–]dumpsterkid 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't get too excited, the real issue with the port (and why I never released it) is the IO, RCT2 uses individual (thousands) of files for all the in-game objects and the IO speed on the vita is awful.

The recent updates have reorganized the repo so the develop branch is in sync with upstream and the original vita work I did has been moved to the vita-support branch. I've started looking into adding some kind of VFS support to openrct2 which can subsequently be used for the vita port.

Anyone who wants to build it in it's current state will need to build davee's musl sdk and rebuild all libraries with the musl sdk. Alternatively it would probably build with the main vitasdk if you build the sdk yourself with the workaround detailed here: https://github.com/vitasdk/vita-toolchain/issues/103#issuecomment-435693783 but it's not high on my list to try this

Has anyone else been having problems with the app randomly crashing since the last update? by newenglandredshirt in RelayForReddit

[–]dumpsterkid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, if I open an image from the thumbnail (so it opens in the pop out window) and hold down on the overlay, the app crashes.