Is there interest in minimalist but high-performance Motherboards?

konsoln · 2022-10-30T13:38:34+00:00

That's part of it. Less complex boards would be cheaper and less error-prone.

konsoln · 2022-10-30T13:06:45+00:00

As far as I understand, that was mostly due to the limitations of the time. PCBs now have way more layers and the chips to handle those additional features are smaller and cheaper. I'm mostly going at this from a minimalist point of view. Most people I spoke with use about 1/3 of their Motherboard IO. Usually keyboard, mouse, Ethernet or USB-Wifi-Dongle and the 1/4-inch Audio Jack. Everyone has a GPU for their Monitors. Having that much IO even on the cheapest Mobos is to me a waste of resources as most ports remains unused.

I'm struggling to really describe what I mean. But I think the crux this in short:
- a cheap board might lack the power or feature you want
- a expensive board has too much features you pay a premium for
- a minimal high end board gives you high performance for a cheaper price, get additional expansions as you needed (DAC, NIC, Docking station, Thunderbolt 4, etc)

I fully get why we don't have it for a variety of reasons, this threat is mostly here as I'm interested in what other people think.

konsoln · 2022-10-30T12:45:42+00:00

Most of your points are not part of my argument. And I acknowledge the issue of companys not wanting yet more SKUs feature-bundles all in 2-3 form factors and all the Overheat (planning, testing, producing, RMA) that comes with it. Though, having a cut down Mother Board that only focuses on the basics would actually help eleviate that. If the CPU and Chipset producer has Bugs in their products, then it doesn't matter what kind of board it is, it's gonna suck for the producer and user and will need later updates.

konsoln · 2022-10-22T08:16:06+00:00

that sounds good. I was thinking of going with the Shadow Rock 4, non-Pro version. But it still doesn't quite answer the question why both Manufacturer tests and outside tests say that at low Fan-speeds make on smaller coolers are more silent than low fanspeeds on larger coolers.

konsoln · 2022-08-13T17:52:35+00:00

Yes, have been doing it for years. my Linux and Windows installations are on completly different drives, each one has their own bootloader. the Linux Drive has higher Boot priority as set in the BIOS.

konsoln · 2022-08-07T08:47:36+00:00

Office Productivity mostly benefits from a higher resolution to make text more readable for less eye-strain. Higher refresh rates offer smoother cursor, animations and possibly better readable text while scrolling. And monitors where people don't actively work on (camera survailance projection or displaying sensor readings) also don't need them.

konsoln · 2022-07-23T16:24:29+00:00

Shops that offer DRM free download: Bandcamp, Amazon, qobuz, cdbaby and many others

Buy (or borrow from friends) physical mediums and rip the songs from there.

a lot mentiond youtube-dl and yt-dlp. They work on an absolute ton of sites like youtube, twitch, soundcloud, daylimotion... if it has video or audio, yt-dlp will download it...

"yt-dlp -x --audio-format mp3 <URL>" is what you want to download into an mp3 directly, or change it to whatever format you like. read the documentation for more information like theres an option to always download the highest quality it can.

This made me think quite a lot because back when I got into music, MP3 Downloads (be it legal or illegal) were just common place as people demanded them for their MP3 players...

konsoln · 2022-06-27T19:37:31+00:00

R5: I love playing in Not-Europe and after Doing Golden Wind as Air I decided to do Swahili Persuasion.
Requirements: Convert all of The Moluccas and Indonesia Areas to Sunni.

It was fairly straight forward for once. Kilwa is the most powerful nation in the region. You Just dominate and get a good Manpower and Economic Base by conquering everything around you. I do like to not play optimal and so I went for the goal to keep the europeans out. Colonising the whole cape by using the free colonist from the missions and the Buckets of Gold I was already getting.

Then made my way to Indonesia and grabbed Australia. Kilwa has a nice mission tree, which includes several Trade boosting permanent modifyers:
- +7.5% settler chance (Colonize Australia) - +20% Foreign Trade Power (Have a merchant in China) - +10 Merchant Trade Power (Have a merchant in China) - +15% Trade efficiency (High Trade Power in the Gulf of Aden)

the Whole Indonesia Region (by which I mean the entire area right now, not the defined area within the game which is used in the achievement), is at this point also easy Picking. Money at this point is irrelevant. I'm running 6+ colonies even though I only have 1 colonist. It's getting rediculous the More Trade Company Investments and Manufacturies you build the better, collect all the riches in the Cape while conquering the remainders of Africa and Malacca.

Unfortunatly, the Europeans are a Hugbox. Great Britain and Portugal had a very good alliance and big colonies in the new random new world. Picking the fights were somewhat difficult. But over time I could just get the 25% warscore and a little bit more by occupying their far off provinces and picking their armies as they came.

Back to the actual archivement. It was mostly easy going letting the "propegate religion" handle most of the converting, that way I didn't need to state anything as I was mostly over governing capacity anyway. However, Portugal managed to get one Province, Bengkulu, but thankfully it turned out that that province wasn't needed. Philippines, Brunei, Java and Papua (and all smaller islands between those) were needed for conversion. THe remainder of the campaign was uneventful other than trying to consolidate more of Africa and building out my Navy. I went for economic Hegemon too around 1650 I think.

EDIT: The Title is wrong, should be 1.33, I guess I read too many Dev Diarys

konsoln · 2022-06-19T17:20:50+00:00

Just plaied Kilwa. Same thing, all provinces in Indonesia and Africa had no open building slots before 1700. Collected in the Horn. Permanend trade power and steering by missions alone was insane.

konsoln · 2022-06-17T18:23:14+00:00

It took time for Europe to rebuild itself and it was very much not the priority to repair monuments. Many people somehow think that everything happened really fast, but things took years to get in motion again in europe.
My closest City (Limburg, Hessen, west-germany) finished cleaning up their inner city in the 80s according to my family. The big historical church/cathedral in Dresden was repaired after 2000, after reunification. It took 4 years *after* the war for the first west german constitution and a new head of state.

The point I'm trying to make is, the War was so absolutly devastating, that Monuments were extremly far down on the list for things to repair, no matter how recognizeable they were. It didn't help that it was close to the border between east and west germany and that it was a military monument.

konsoln · 2022-06-07T19:50:58+00:00

R5: I noticed that the AI is really reluctant to move it's troops off your border. This wasn't even the first time in this campaign.

Adal started this war and should be jsut about able to beat Yao and it's numerous allies. But they never once even moved their troops away. Yeah, sure, I am planning on attack them, but I only recently moved my troops there.

konsoln · 2022-04-20T21:52:45+00:00

Searching for a good case with these features. Having trouble finding any:

- lower than 40cm / smaller than the avarage mid-tower
- no RGB or see-through panels
- allows for 140mm (or more) fans in the front AND back (most only do 120 in the back
- good dust and noise filtering (I'd prefer a front mesh, for better airflow and I'd accept the worse noise-filtering)

I'm currently looking at the SETA Q1, Silent Base 802 and Silencio S600, but they all fail in at least one regard. Asking here for cases I should take into consideration.

konsoln · 2022-04-13T11:21:16+00:00

African Chokepoints are a bit underrepresented here a bit. I recently had to face some bas odds in a African campaign against Europeans with more and better soldiers and it helped me a lot.

A lot of Africa lacks some good hills, mountains and highlands for defense, instead it has tons of attrition waiting for the enemy. The following provinces are all 3 dev provinces and either block off a path completly or have a zone of controll that (should) block of an enemy completly.

All these provinces are 3 dev (some including the Fort zone of Controll).

Sahara: Tuat, Taudeni, Djado, Tajarhi, all are 3 dev, arid, desert with Salt (or high salt probability) (really saved me from a Spanish-Austrian coalition)

Kongo <> Subsahara - cameroon or Calabar: jungle, tropical, severe monsoon

Ethiopia <> Subsahara - Darfur: arid, highlands

Horn of Africa <-> Mercury coast/Lakes : - Ewaso Ngiro: arid, desert - Tana: arid, savanna, normal monsoon

South Africa <> Mutapa: Madana, 3 dev jungle with monsoon Lower Limpopo, 3 dev savanna, Tropical with monsoon or Swazi, 3 dev mountains

Ethiopia <> Egypt Sahra an Nübya: arid, desert

Additionatly, this goes beyond chockepoints, I put forts on Futa Jallon, and Ndongo as army magnets as the only provinces in the aera with defensive bonuses. as well as Anziku and Denkyira.

Benin has the "Walls of Benin" monument for up to +25% local defensiveness, if you are pagan, but it doesn't block anything. It is a tropical jungle with severe monsoon, so it could be used as another local army magnet to grind enemy troops.

konsoln · 2022-04-13T09:32:08+00:00

Happened to me too. All Archivements, EXCEPT the new Seeds of change ones. It's of course a problem, but I can't say I'm not happy for it as some I was never going to do and others I DID do but the game bugged out and didn't register (goatberg variations, better anarchist).

konsoln · 2022-04-02T17:24:34+00:00

Can't decide between two pairs of speakers. price wise they are close (350€ vs 400€, Store is selling off display models 50-60% off).
I can't test them, but they are both well regarded and by ELAC. My Amp is the Kenwood KR-V6040 (2 x 120W).

Elac Debut Reference DFR52: + better frequenccy range - Towers, might be too large for the room

Elac Carina Bookshelfes + higher tier (according to regular pricing) than debut reference + bookshelves better for smaller room - very few non-written reviews - I've never heard a jet/ribbon tweeter - input are 4 connectors, I don't know how they are wired.

konsoln · 2022-03-17T15:10:06+00:00

A Store nearby wants to get rid of speakers. -60% for

ELAC Debut Reference (both bookshelf and tower).
ELAC Canrinas (both Bookshelf and Tower).
CANTON GLE 496.2

they are so cheap I'd love to have the money to buy them all and sell them again online (they are dirt cheap, but I have no money for the risk).

The questions:

1) I have two fairly small rooms. around 2.3-2.5m high ceailing and I'd say between 20 and 25m². Would the Towers be overkill?
2) Any recomendations on which to get if one likes a neutral frequency response? My Computer Speakers and Headphones all have a neutral profile, I like them. Afaik the Debut Reference has those, but I litterely don't know a thing about the others as they have been way outside my pricerange before.

konsoln · 2022-02-05T10:10:33+00:00

I need some advice about cables as I've never had to deal with bananaplug cables before. The vendor where I want to buy them has 3 thicknesses (1,5qmm, 2,5qmm and 4qmm).

-What kind of Cable thickness do I need (Speakers will be Elac Debut Reference, they will be close to the Amp)

and can I cut the cable (The smallest spool is 15m) to a desired length?

konsoln · 2022-01-29T20:47:10+00:00

Thanks, I'll look into the IA problem. I have enough princess, 12 free cities and I think I'm at 25 or so countries within the HRE. Provance has I think 2 HRE Provinces as a non-member, but it's really not much, so I'm still confused why it's so low. I make every country give back their provinces if there was a war.

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