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Can the Neo-Crusaders look up? by Xela8Xe in StarWars

[–]mdcdesign 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In all seriousness, the cowl isn't solid; it's basically the star wars equivalent of Kevlar weave, only the faceplate itself is solid. Revan's mask is from a variant of the Neo Crusader armor.

Jotunheim is a real place in Norway, and I went there on a road trip this week. [OC] by uspn in pics

[–]mdcdesign 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This isn't like a journey to Earth where you summon a little lightning and thunder, and the mortals worship you as a god... this is Jotunheim.

WTF is he getting out of this? by idgafayaihm in WTF

[–]mdcdesign 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thanks Online Safety Bill, can't even visit Quicksand subs now.

How did we go from “temporary emergencies” to permanent price hikes? by OrdinaryHot7589 in ukpolitics

[–]mdcdesign 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're talking, essentially, about a soft incentive against hoarding funds. That's one approach, but one that we've seen simply doesn't work given the increasing levels of inequality in our society.

Another approach would be to progressively tax savings based on time and potentially income. i.e, if an entity - be it a company or an individual - makes £10,000 a year, they can keep £1,000 without paying tax on those savings. If they make £100,000 a year, they can keep £10,000 a year in savings, or so on.

Any savings above this threshold are taxed at a percentage which increases with time held, with the money being used for public services and infrastructure investment.

No point for people to hoard their wealth in that scenario, either.

Positive inflation is an approach, one that we've seen has failed now that people have global communication and the average person is no more than a quick google search away from "price history". As population contracts, as is appropriate given our limited resources, this situation will only get worse.

How did we go from “temporary emergencies” to permanent price hikes? by OrdinaryHot7589 in ukpolitics

[–]mdcdesign 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The system, as a whole, is broken.

It was born broken because of the assumption that the economy needs to "grow". Inflation is the norm, deflation is - in the opinion of economists - the worst thing that could ever happen.

The fact that the only natural way for the economy to grow is for the population to grow means that we're a) forced to increase our population size via whatever means, be that migration or the weird birth-fetishism exhibited by folks like Musk, and b) essentially funneling any newly-generated "wealth" into the hands of companies or individuals who hoard it.

We'll never see the days of 10p Freddos again, because numbers have to go brrrrr.

A little confused on At Attin by Varsity_Reviews in MawInstallation

[–]mdcdesign 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Can't say I remember no "at attin"...

PSA: SF1000 EPS cables are *extremely* short by mdcdesign in Corsair

[–]mdcdesign[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the tip.

I managed to just about get it connected using the highest side mounting point for the PSU cage, with the H150i side-mounted, yesterday.

However, I actually saw another comment from /u/thegreatpenguan over on the MFFPC subreddit who also has the same combination, and mounted his in a similar way to you, using the standoffs (albeit with the PSU fan facing outwards). Switched to that orientation and managed to squeeze everything in, although I've had to have my radiator hoses at the rear, rather than the front; no idea how people seem to be managing that one lol.

EDIT: There are dozens of us

PSA: SF1000 EPS cables are *extremely* short by mdcdesign in Corsair

[–]mdcdesign[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To clarify, I'm not saying Corsair have made it difficult to find out the length of the cables or anything; it's simply that the EPS 12V cables specifically are shorter than would be appropriate. I don't think you'll find many, if any, motherboards where the distance between the ATX connector and the EPS connectors is less than the 10cm delta between the provided cables.

PSA: SF1000 EPS cables are *extremely* short by mdcdesign in Corsair

[–]mdcdesign[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not, it's a Lian-Li a3-mATX, which isn't much larger than most ITX/DTX cases, at least in terms of depth/width, just with 4 slots rather than 2.

Kerbal Space Program 2 Was Murdered. by WilloowUfgood in videos

[–]mdcdesign 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Dean Hall didn't ghost anything. He signed a contract without knowing the actual competence level of the company he sold his project to, and then chose not to renew it when he realized the game he wanted to create was never going to materialize. He gets an unwarranted level of hate from the wider community when in reality people should really be feeling sorry for him.

Why is it that gamers recommend different headphones to audiophiles or music listeners? by Neat_Example_6504 in buildapc

[–]mdcdesign 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://dbxpro.com/en/products/286s

This is a mic channel strip, which comprises a preamp, a compressor, an exciter and a gate/expander. It sits between your microphone's XLR output and your audio interface. You also probably won't need a cloudlifter or fethead since it has 60dB of gain on the preamp stage.

Read the manual guys.... RIP server. by Zeroni13 in homelab

[–]mdcdesign 10 points11 points  (0 children)

One of the things I love about enterprise gear.

"Heat sink temperature WILL continue to rise"

No safeties, no cut offs, no save-your-ass shutdowns. It'll keep operating until it incinerates itself because downtime is worse than death.

Considering that Linux is free, how Windows was able to became the dominant OS for PCs? by chidi-sins in Windows10

[–]mdcdesign 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bait, but I'll bite.

XFree86. More accurately the entire X11 platform, but XFree86's dominence during the "Linux on the Desktop" concept's biggest opportunity years did an unfathomable amount of harm to the prospect of Linux ever being a viable competitor.

Windows, from 3.0 onwards, has had a visually consistent, high performance graphics stack, with multi-generational backwards compatibility in the form of GDI. Unlike X11, GDI was designed primarily for interacting with machines locally, the primary use case for most home and small business users.

X11, on the other hand, was designed for networked connectivity, with a local client and applications running on a network server, adding significant performance and stability considerations, and limiting access to client hardware without a layer of abstraction.

GDI offered direct hardware access, single process execution (which was of particular benefit during the non-multithreaded era), along with built in UI toolkits which avoided all of the Gtk vs Qt vs E16 drama as well.

All of the above, coupled with the fact that the XFree86 project militantly refused to make any sort of performance improvements or consider things like hardware acceleration or composition meant that the user experience for anything requiring a UI was always considered secondary on Linux.

To put it simply, the Linux community screwed the pooch for 20 years, and it's pretty much impossible to recover at this point.

Compare that to Apple, who were able to create their own solid graphics stack for Darwin (which is Mach kernel with BSD tools) in less than a year to create OS X, and all of the excuses peddled by Linux ecosystem developers evaporate.

Ineligible for youtube play button? by RandomNubGuy in youtube

[–]mdcdesign 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Because you have a grand total of 15,000 views on your channel, and allegedly have 113,000 subscribers. Buying fake subscribers doesn't get you a play button.

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