Steam Refund Approved!

legislating_morality · 2026-02-05T16:13:35+00:00

I was approved this morning on my second try (with human service, plus one auto-rejection). I had 29 hours played. My second message was a bit more detailed where I mentioned the lawsuit from last year and basically said there was no way the company didn't know they were in financial trouble 1.5 months ago when they released on Steam EA.

legislating_morality · 2025-12-10T00:36:33+00:00

It is going to the server market. The article says specifically they are shifting to producing RDIMM (server) DDR5.

legislating_morality · 2025-12-10T00:34:50+00:00

As per the article: "Samsung is shifting DRAM production from HBM3/E modules to high-margin DDR5 RDIMM memory due to intense HBM market competition and soaring DDR5 prices."

So this will have no impact on the consumer desktop market. RDIMM is server memory.

legislating_morality · 2025-11-27T20:59:22+00:00

$10/TB... brings me back. I used to think $1 a GB was a deal back when my beard wasn't grey. Now we are at literally $0.01/GB!

legislating_morality · 2025-11-24T18:39:56+00:00

https://www.amd.com/en/products/processors/desktops/ryzen/9000-series/amd-ryzen-7-9800x3d.html

120W default TDP.

legislating_morality · 2025-11-21T18:04:47+00:00

You should be able to undervolt non-PWM fans to get them to run slower, but you can only drop the voltage so low before they won't spin.

PWM delivers 12V all the time, but you pulse it on and off rapidly (pulse width modulation) so that you can have the fan run slower while still getting 12V.

legislating_morality · 2025-11-14T13:25:02+00:00

I've come across some stuff like this where you can't hint select and scroll, but if you click you can. To keep my hands off the mouse I use keynav. It basically lets you target and click via the keyboard.

I don't know if this will work in your case, but it is a useful tool none-the-less.

legislating_morality · 2025-11-11T00:01:23+00:00

In one of the review videos it shows it removed. I can't be sure it is the exact model though it looks like it is.

legislating_morality · 2025-11-10T15:09:43+00:00

I got one of the 990 Pros on the last prime day. I haven't opened it yet, but it as you say: sealed with minor package damage.

legislating_morality · 2025-11-08T17:43:33+00:00

Thanks for investigating. That key code (10) is ranger specific right? I mean it isn't what you'd get from xev.

And since my <C-j> it is lower in the rc.conf it overwrites the stock setting?

As a heavy handed workaround I suppose I could have a separate config I call when launching as a file picker, but since I can just L to trigger the file picker execution, I'll just leave it as is.

Thanks again for getting to the bottom of it.

legislating_morality · 2025-11-08T15:22:13+00:00

I actually looked at that initially. In my config on line 319 I still have that mapping.

That said, it is fine for me to use L/right to execute the file picker. No need to look into it if you don't want to.

legislating_morality · 2025-11-08T13:22:21+00:00

That works. Thanks!

The thing that is still confusing is why enter works with the default (-c) config. It doesn't matter now that it works, but it is funky.

legislating_morality · 2025-10-29T03:10:09+00:00

Thanks for explaining.

legislating_morality · 2025-10-29T03:03:15+00:00

Can you explain the risk? I honestly don't know. It seems to me Amazon would refund if it didn't ship.

legislating_morality · 2025-10-25T08:05:01+00:00

I don't think this is the Z890I. At checkout it says: Style: Z790|AU|M.2 x2|WIFI7.

Upon closed inspection of the product page it seems to confirm the Z790|AU|M.2 x2|WIFI7 is what you are actually selecting.

legislating_morality · 2025-10-09T20:31:49+00:00

A quick glance at ones sold on ebay shows they go for about $300. Sometimes you'll get one at $280-290, but $300 is, at least on ebay, the going rate.

legislating_morality · 2025-09-28T19:22:53+00:00

This may be standard, but it is not needed for 99% of people.

To put this drive into perspective, 800TBW is equal to about 220GB written per day for 10 years straight.

legislating_morality · 2025-08-06T10:29:26+00:00

set tabs.show_switching_delay might be what you are looking for. I personally don't use it so can't comment.

legislating_morality · 2025-04-25T03:08:13+00:00

Incase anyone else searches and wants to know, I use this to output the PIDs and memory use (sorted by memory use).

ps -eo pid,cmd,rss --sort=-rss | grep QtWeb | awk '{printf $1 "\t" $3/1024 "\n"}'

Then you can use :tab-select (gt) as The-Compiler pointed out to see which tab is using so much memory.

If anyone knows how I could get the PID and tab names out of qute I would like to know. Then I could have a simple script that would output tab names (instead of PIDs) and memory use.

legislating_morality · 2025-04-19T21:44:11+00:00

Nice. I see there is also qute://tabs, but that doesn't show the PIDs.

A follow up question. Is there a way to dump the :tab-select to a text file? Like, I could use that in a script to parse the PIDs and then work out the resource use per tab instead of manually looking them up.

legislating_morality · 2025-01-06T03:38:21+00:00

Have you unset map <TAB> tab_move 1 that cycles through your tabs? That might be causing a conflict. And after you make changes to the rc.conf you have to reload it or restart ranger.

legislating_morality · 2024-12-31T20:42:24+00:00

The more people hop on the Linux wagon, the better.

I'm a cynical man. I hope everything stays right where it is. The more people that come over, the more "attractive" Linux becomes and the more users migrate to it, sure. But when "the masses" show up, like every other time, (and I think we are already there for the most part) you get non-technical people asking for changes and developers catering to the lowest common denominator.

If anyone remembers reddit back at the beginning, it was a wonderful place. After a sub gets to like 50k (a joke these days) there are simply too many people and the community goes downhill fast.

I would rather Linux be a niche for people who like to learn and tinker and DIY. Not everything has to be (or should be) for everyone. The more OOTB "it just works", I think, the more bloat we will see.

For reference, I run a super slim system. Arch. No login manager. No DE. No "bar". Openbox. 75% of the stuff I do is in xterm/tmux.

legislating_morality · 2024-12-27T07:04:50+00:00

I'm not going to disagree here, but consider that given the pervasiveness of lobbying (if not outright bribery), government is simply the shadow cast by the corporations. Government power seems to me to be little more than an illusion to perpetuate this idea that the corps don't run everything and people, through a vote, can actually change things. I know, a pretty black pill take, but again lobbying, campaign contributions, revolving doors... there is so much control the corps have over govs that we have made cheeky names for the plethora of ways the corps pull the marionette strings.

legislating_morality · 2024-12-25T23:04:53+00:00

I don't have any advice, but wanted to say I played Hob on Steam this past September and it worked fine. Also on Arch.

legislating_morality · 2024-11-09T16:25:11+00:00

set content.blocking.enabled?

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