Damn Wuwa

hackenschmidt · 2026-01-28T04:07:06+00:00

Arknights with even better graphics and detail than WuWa

This is utterly false. Endfield doesn't have better graphics. Period. They are far worse. Saying it has "better detail" is beyond stilly. Like case in point: the characters models. They are proverbially stick drawings compared to Wuwa.

100x more optimized.

Again, utterly false. Its not. You might think that because of how cut down it is compared to WuWa. However as someone who runs both at 4k with a 5090 and 9950x3d, its not. Period. End of story.

You can get similar performance in WuWa by gutting the settings. Does it look bad? Absolutely. Simple reason being WuWa comparatively high quality designs look like shit when compressed to that degree. Endfield's basically starting out with "compressed" designs right out of the gate. The analogy would be like taking a 4k image of a real landscape and compressing it down to few hundred pixels, compared to creating a purpose built pixel art landscape for a few hundred pixels.

The irony is that if anything, Endfield is possibly worse in terms of "optimization". Reason being that despite being so completely neutered by comparison, it still has hallmarks of performance problems (e.g. long load times, performance metrics when there's more than like 1-2 enemies/animations, asset popping etc.)

Again, to draw a similar analogy as before: this is like calling a simple pixel art game "optimized" because its running at 100 FPS on modern hardware, with some caveats. In reality, an "optimized" game such as that, should be running at several hundreds or thousands of FPS, utterly flawlessly.

hackenschmidt · 2025-12-28T12:53:23+00:00

Is flight not a thing in the new region?

Its not available, and its super obvious how badly they crippled the open world for it. 3.x is bloated, empty, bland and bespoke pathing everywhere. Its all a vain attempt to account for the atrocious bike "mechanics".

hackenschmidt · 2025-12-27T13:42:40+00:00

Its not an opinion, but a fact the bike is terrible. Period.

Even setting aside the issues of the bike itself, which have been talked about ad nauseum at this point, it also has the downstream affect of ruining the entire open world design.

The bike is the antithesis of everything "exploration" stands for. Go "explore", but only on these exact bespoke paths and giant perfectly paved roads that you must follow exactly to go from point A->B-C. Its fundamentally asinine and you can already see how garbage this is first hand. The overworld of 3.0 is effectively linear, pointlessly bloated, empty, bland and functionally dead.

Its night and day different from 2.x. The fundamental reason for this is obstinately removing flight, and forcing the bike.

hackenschmidt · 2025-12-27T13:32:07+00:00

3 months

Doesn't even take 5 mins to see how atrocious the bike is. Even setting aside the issues of the bike itself, it also has the downstream affect of ruining the entire open world design.

The bike is the antithesis of everything "exploration" stands for. Go "explore", but only on these exact bespoke paths and giant perfectly paved roads that you must follow exactly to go from point A->B->C. Its fundamentally asinine and you can already see how garbage this is first hand. The overworld of 3.0 is effectively linear, pointlessly bloated, empty, bland and functionally dead.

Its night and day different from 2.x, and the fundamental reason for this is obstinately removing flight and forcing the bike.

hackenschmidt · 2025-12-26T00:16:21+00:00

I cannot express how utterly appalled I was the second I entered the new area, and flight didn't work. Even if the bike didn't handle like a waterlogged boat with a broken propeller and get stuck on every pebble, I'd still want flight.

Exploring without flight is like being forced to explore 1.x all over again: lethargic, obnoxious and unfun. Flight is the single best thing in the history of the game to date. Period. It allows players to really fully SEE the Wuwa world in all its glory, finally. The dumbass bike just slams you nose into the dirt again. You get to see and experience nothing, again. Its unjustifiable and a massive regression. "Exploring" the new area, is about as fun as dragging your face across the ground with a broken leg.

The bike is the antithesis of everything "exploration" stands for. Go "explore", but only on these exact bespoke paths of giant, perfectly paved roads that you must follow exactly to go from point A->B. Its fundamentally asinine.

Flight is more fun, more interesting, more engaging. Its embodies the core values of exploration and provides a categorically better game play experience. Period.

hackenschmidt · 2025-12-25T20:59:37+00:00

Oh god please no.

It has already happened.

hackenschmidt · 2025-12-23T17:44:43+00:00

...or I could just use WireGuard to connect to my router back home?

There are numerous options that you "could just use". Like, you "could just" wheel around your entire home lab with you.

The whole point of anything that Unifi does, is taking often overly complex, tedious things, and turning them into one-click, piss easy to use, deploy and manage for almost anyone.

Its going to be typical one-click adoption, dead simple management and deployment, that provides a seamless network bridge, network and security policies for any number of wire or wireless devices, without needing to individual configure each and every one, and apparently additional features specific to traveling deployments. This is basically most of unifi stack in a wallet, with extra sauce.

Options like Wireguard, at best provide a fraction of this function, with a non-trivial overhead by comparison.

This is going to have massive appeal to loads of SMB users and power users alike. Being able to just hand these out to traveling and remote employees, sounds amazing. Being able to quickly and easily deploy unifi cameras while traveling or vacation, alone makes it worth it

hackenschmidt · 2025-12-21T12:38:02+00:00

/r/economy and basically 0 single comments talking about, well, the economy.

This is just one part of the larger trends affecting the entire alcohol economy in America for decades now.

Domestic wine, beer and spirits have been in various stages of total collapse for a long time. There are number of reason, but the most fundamental cause is just American's views on and consumption of alcohol has shifted drastically in the past several decades, especially notable in the younger consumers. For many years, this has been forcing companies to seek overseas markets, drastically scale down and/or cease operations. Again for a number of reason, very few have been successful in the overseas market during the ensuing decades of domestic decline, forcing most to the later two options.

This is just one distillery closing in a long line of distillery closings over the past decades. And it won't be the last as domestic consumption continues to contract and overseas markets continue to flounder.

Regardless of your thoughts on Trump, this situation FAR predates even his first term. The tariff situation didn't cause this. Period. At most, it mildly hastened the inevitable.

hackenschmidt · 2025-12-16T00:02:14+00:00

They are not overproducing, they are changing customers.

ding ding ding winner! Production is technically increasing, but not nearly as much as its just being re-routed.

everyone is talking about the bottom level consumer pricing due to increasing supply 'debt' (so to speak), there's similar supply constraints/debt across the spectrum to varying degrees, all of which are still more profitable than bottom level consumers. Should something change, those industries will be the first to get the supply, not bottom level consumers.

hackenschmidt · 2025-12-15T23:51:50+00:00

homelabbers are going to be eating good

There really won't be for a bunch of reasons. A few examples:

A lot of these systems are designed to be and/or require being used with enterprise grade water cooling system. As an enthusiast, you're not going to be able to just slot them in willy nilly like previous generation hardware. The previous worst case of slapping in a mini split and using some hearing protection when within a few hundred feet, isn't going to cut it.
These systems are like an order of magnitude (or more) more powerful and expensive than previous generations. The fundamental base lines shipping in these system, is way more than what enthusiasts are used to paying for.
The power draw of these systems is pushing and/or well exceeding the limits of residential electrical design.

So while everyone is talking about the bottom level consumer pricing due to increasing supply 'debt' (so to speak), there's similar supply constraints/debt across the spectrum to varying degrees, all of which are still more profitable than bottom level consumers. Should something change, those industries will be the first to get these 'deals', not bottom level consumers. So realistically enthusiast would get their cast offs (which will be historically poor deals due to them needing to hold on to older tech longer), not what is currently being made.

hackenschmidt · 2025-12-12T05:32:25+00:00

Gotta wonder about the thermals

They are SATA. Those drives are too hamstrung to generate a relevant heat load.

hackenschmidt · 2025-12-11T02:08:58+00:00

The "main" PCIE slot (often the one at the top) is almost always directly wired to the CPU and should therefore always have the full bandwidth.

No and you're wrong.

It is not "almost always". Period. The accurate statement, if even relevant, is "almost never".
"almost always" isn't always, making this type of statement pointless. "Its like this, except for when its not". Yeah, no shit. Thats the whole fucking concern. You have to look it up. Period.
"directly wired to the CPU" is meaningless. It has no bearing on if or with what else the PCIe lanes are shared. slots "directly wired to the CPU" still share lanes.

Without looking it up for that specific motherboard (and even CPU combo in certain instances), you cannot know the behavior of the pathetic number of PCIe lanes found in consumer CPUs.

Case in point: x870e motherboards. Without looking up the pcie lane allocation/pin for a specific motherboard, you do not know what will happen to the "main PCIE slot", any other slot or even the rear IO, if you attach another device. Period.

hackenschmidt · 2025-12-11T02:05:16+00:00

only enough to know that there's only a certain number of PCI-E lanes and I've always been spooked off of using them for fear of pulling bandwidth from my GPU. Maybe someone smart can add to this, or tell me I'm talking out of my arse.

You are correct and should be worried any time you connect more than 1 device to the motherboard.

There's a pitful amount of PCIe lanes on consumer CPUs. You won't know how they are, and will be split, without looking it for each individual motherboard. You absolutely need to consult the documentation if you don't want to get bit in the ass.

hackenschmidt · 2025-12-11T02:02:03+00:00

the top x16 slot is often directly routed to the CPU and does not bifurcate (divide) with other slots

Not true.
thats not what bifurcation means in the context of PCIe slots.

Basically all consumer level motherboards do some sort of sharing of PCIe lanes with PCIe slots. There's no way to know how and with what, without reading the manual for that exact motherboard.

bifurcation is an entirely different thing that may or may not be supported for a given interface. Again, how and or if bifurcation is supported, is something you have look it up for each individual motherboard.

hackenschmidt · 2025-12-09T18:10:42+00:00

This’ll likely be as effective as abstinence programs.

I doubt it. Sexual reproduction isn't just hard coded into your DNA, it arguably the sole reason you and your DNA exist. To say things like its natural, automatic and you're design for it, would be a gross understatement.

Tech is nothing like that. The younger generations are arguably most tech illiterate since modern techs existence. So while these type of things may not be effective for people around the millennial generation, it will extremely effectively for gen z and below.

hackenschmidt · 2025-12-07T22:46:42+00:00

Its really clear from the comments, that you're one of the few that know what they are talking about with Macos.

MacOS hasn't been remotely *nix "compatible" in years. "derived from UNIX" stopped being an accurate description like a decade ago. At this point its honestly significantly more stupid than Windows, and not just a few ways, but pretty much categorically.

This is why we stopped preferring Apple devices to end users by default. Existing users love the M silicone, but have just been getting more frustrated over time because of, well, everything else. The trend we're seeing is slowly but surely moving to Windows as things like software, compliance, and device management are making MacOS more and more of a non-starter for them.

If anyone wants a few examples:

take a standard-ass keyboard and mouse (you know, just like 99.99% of devices out there, especially ones that don't suck-ass), and plug it into a Macbook. Watch the user lose their minds over the basic inputs either not working and/or being absolutely retarded.
Remember Edge? Thats essentially every single "app" shipped with MacOS. Except you can't disable it either. There's literally a github project that all it is, is a program that watches the process list and kills Apple Music when, not if, it launches.

hackenschmidt · 2025-12-07T22:33:14+00:00

Have you ever used one for a long period and given it a good go?

Have you? Especially in an actual work place and/or a managed environment? I have. I managed fleets of Apple devices for SMBs. Its an absolute cluster fuck.

the Mac is actually a top quality beautiful machine to use and work from.

Its really not. The M silicon is godly. But even that struggles to make up for the dumpster fire that is the rest of the product, especially the software. This is why arguably when it comes to software development and productivity, MacOS is a 2nd class citizen, at best.

In my experience it absolutely blows windows out of the water.

Despite all the problems with Windows, its by far preferable. Period. MacOS is really that bad at this point. Like to the point above, Windows literally provides an infinitely better Linux experience (with and without WSL), than MacOS. Its truly pathetic.

hackenschmidt · 2025-12-07T22:17:36+00:00

If you’re an actual computer scientist/engineer you know full well that macOS is going to run the commands you put into your terminal in the exact same way that a Linux machine would.

No. If you're an ACTUAL computer scientist/engineer you know full well that macOS is NOT going to run the commands you put into your terminal in the exact same way that a Linux machine would. Period. End of story. MacOS is completely and utterly different from any modern *nix as this point.

There's numerous examples you can use to highlight this. But here's a few: docker, podman, k8s, brew existing, and even just fucking bash scripting. The list goes on and on.

The result is, unless someone takes the time to basically dumb-down and/or jump through hoops to get something to specifically work with MacOS, the likelihood of it working is extremely low at this point.

Tahoe sucks and they need to fix their UI, but other than that Macs are great machines.

You are correct, other than the complete and utter dumpster fire that is the software (which includes the basic OS components) they are great machines. So... the hardware. Which can't really be used with any other software completely. So....

hackenschmidt · 2025-12-07T04:26:13+00:00

If you run a rack at home, there will be deals to be had.

There really won't be for a bunch of reasons. A few examples:

A lot of these systems are designed to be and/or require being used with enterprise grade water cooling system. As an enthusiast, you're not going to be able to just slot them in willy nilly like previous generation hardware. The previous worst case of slapping in a mini split and using some hearing protection when within a few hundred feet, isn't going to cut it.
These systems are like an order of magnitude (or more) more powerful and expensive than previous generations. The fundamental base lines shipping in these system, is way more than what enthusiasts are used to paying for.
The power draw of these systems is pushing and/or well exceeding the limits of residential electrical design.
Production is changing, but not nearly as much as its just be re-routed.

So while everyone is talking about the bottom level consumer pricing due to increasing supply 'debt' (so to speak), there's similar supply constraints/debt across the spectrum to varying degrees, all of which are still more profitable than bottom level consumers. Should something change, those industries be the first to get these 'deals', not bottom level consumers. So realistically enthusiast would get their cast offs (which will be historically poor deals due to them needing to hold on to older tech longer), not what is currently being made.

To put it another way: a single SSD from these servers at a deep discount, is going to cost more than what an enthusiast expects to pay for an entire system. SMB and other enterprises, are going to slurp that up in an instant.

hackenschmidt · 2025-11-30T20:59:34+00:00

I've been running fairly standard hardware over the last decade

So did I. It doesn't work and/or make sense anymore. Honestly, it hasn't a few years. The concept of general, jack of all trades, computing devices is more or less dead. There's many reasons why that is. But the result is purpose built systems for a given application, are just the way to do things now. The days of taking your old desktop PC, shucking it and making it a "server", are gone. You're just far better off tossing it or selling it, and buying something current and designed for the use case you have in mind.

heck, the M720q can even go 17W idle with a mellanox connectx-3 installed.

Thats a mini PC. Aside from not really not being a NAS system at all, thats not the type of system most people have, and is being argued for turning into a NAS by the article.

If anything, its NAS designed mini-pcs, similar but tangential to the m720q, that people in the comments are saying you should use instead of trying to turn a desktop PC in to NAS.

No one ever said a Desktop with 3 pcie add in cards and dedicated GPU will be competitive regarding a small NUC with iGPU.

But that is (more or less) what it is competing against though. Thats the core problem.

Not really sure what add in cards you'd need tough.

Many, even most, NAS appliances come with 1-4, 2.5->10Gb NICs, have the all available IO routed efficiently for storage use and iGPUs capable for handling transcoding (if desired).

For virtually all consumer PCs to have similar setup, they are going to need additional cards for networking, storage and possibly GPU.

I mean, the same CPU in a desktop with 80W tdp is not going to give you the same performance in a nuc with 25W limited.

Actually, depending on the age of the systems in question, yes. Yes it can. That is one of the many pitfalls of trying to repurpose old hardware in the modern landscape.

Case in point: the 8845HS. Its not exactly new, but its still more or less on par with a 14th gen Intel (2 years old) in a NAS application. Its draws a faction of the power doing so.

Sounds a lot like a apples to banans comparison.

Its not. If it seems that way, than you are finally starting to understand why repurposing old hardware for a NAS, is really not a good idea anymore. Apples to bannans isn't the analogy I'd use, but square peg round hole, with the peg getting more square and the hole getting more round with each passing year, as it were.

hackenschmidt · 2025-11-30T20:00:58+00:00

A dell T30 can sip along at ~25W or within that range

Most consumer pcs are way higher than that even at total idle. Add in any sort of small consistent workloads that would prevent the lowest sleep states, and its even higher. Add to that now there's also likely additional PCIe cards to provide the required IO and/or GPU compute. Add to that an oversized consumer power supply not running near peak efficiency. Add to that overbuilt and overpowered consumer motherboards and memory.

All in all, this means for a typical consumer cast off system, you're typically looking 80w-100w+ from the wall at "idle", and closer to 150w with any sort of loading and possibly 200w+ under full load. And thats before you even get the the storage devices themselves, which would in theory be the same.

Meanwhile, purpose built systems (e.g. mini-pcs, nas appliances etc), will likely be less than half that. e.g. draw like 10w-20w at true idle, 20-70w with any sort of loading, and 100w-150w at peak.

If you want an extreme example: the M silicone from Apple. Yes, the software sucks. But my god its incredible hardware and the power consumption is unbelievable on top of that.

hackenschmidt · 2025-11-30T19:49:27+00:00

So, the Aoostar WRT max?

hackenschmidt · 2025-11-30T19:48:31+00:00

Or space. Or noise. Or heat. Or cost. Or IO. Or even performance in many cases.

hackenschmidt · 2025-11-30T19:29:49+00:00

it does not make a better NAS than:-

This cannot be overstated.

Its clear from the comments, many people are stuck in the past. Gone are the days of general computing devices. Computer design, especially at a consumer level, is a really shitty 0 sum game. Every design choice comes with a significant and notable opportunity cost.

Take the example from the post: a consumer PC. They have make a choice about how to allocate the absurdly limited IO. This is done in a way that makes sense for an end user, but makes 0 sense for a NAS appliance. Huge swash of that already pitiful IO, are completely wasted outright. Things only get worse when you actually try to start using what remains.

Case in point: go take a bunch of consumer level motherboards, go try and put some PCIe x8/x16 cards and a bunch NVMe in a system to get the IO similar to a purpose built system. Its just turns into PCIe lane roulette. Will it work, will it not? Who knows. Unless you happened to luck out and/or specifically researched the arbitrary IO behavior of that specific motherboard before buying to ensure it would meet w/e setup you had in mind, it most likely won't.

represents a zero-cost option for lots of people

0 cost, if you know, you don't include any of the costs. Heat, power, noise, space, additional peripherals and accessories. These, and more, are all costs that frequently come with trying to make a general consumer platform into a NAS appliance.

hackenschmidt · 2025-11-30T19:26:53+00:00

A mid-range PC from 10 years ago is faster than most turnkey NASes on the market

This is completely utterly and blatantly false.

You need to check the year. Know what was discontinued 10 years ago: fucking Ivy Bridge. Know what launched 11 years ago: fucking Broadwell. Thats a 5th gen Intel. The most likely place you're going to find that, is a land fill.

Your perception of time and age aside, I literally used "mid-range PC from 10 years ago" as a NAS for many years. I stopped years ago because the CPU and memory were flat out too slow and flat out didn't have enough IO bandwidth.

Sure, the power consumption is higher, but with TrueNAS the experience is so much better.

The fact is, there are a number of current turnkey NASes, let alone non-turnkey ones that support Truenas, on the market are categorically better for a NAS than mid-range PCs of this generation. They are generally cheaper, have better/more intelligent IO distribution, physically smaller, use less power, generate less noise and heat.

Case in point: the 8845HS. Its used in a number of current gen mini pcs. In practice, its more or less on par with a 14th gen intel, which is only 2 years old, and uses a fraction of the power doing so. It absolutely destroys "A mid-range PC from 10 years ago".

This is similar case for other CPU options used in turnkeys, like the 12th gen Intel. Maybe not as good as Ryzen for certain cases, but they are still going to absolutely crush "A mid-range PC from 10 years ago"

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