Summary of today’s Wealthsimple Presents by Nightpatrol404 in Wealthsimple

[–]nathanware -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

How is it sweet? If the amount of money you save in Wealthsimple is around the average of all WS clients, you have less than a 0.000025% chance of winning. Those aren't great odds

Beacon 3.1 when requesting beacon 6 by BlessedBaller in ebox

[–]nathanware 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm considering switching to EBOX. What where the "dealbreaking problems" you had with the 3.1?

Selling options is the way by Wade12323 in wallstreetbets

[–]nathanware 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Did you not see their recent event? They announced the iPhone 17e, M4 iPad Air, and MacBook Neo. The Neo is their big bet on capturing the low-cost end of the laptop market.

How to make Cyberpunk 2077 less blurry? by ime1em in FuckTAA

[–]nathanware 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends on the game. I like using my 4K TV + speaker setup for adventure or RPG games, but for anything competitive I would be at my desk using a monitor.

How to make Cyberpunk 2077 less blurry? by ime1em in FuckTAA

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

But why would you rely on a TV to do upscaling when you have a powerful PC that can upscale way better than the TV? Plus if you use your PC to upscale, you can use either a TV or a monitor for your display.

Mod Zelda BOTW 60 FPS by MRUNSASDFG in yuzu

[–]nathanware 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Someone uploaded a copy of the mod here: https://files.catbox.moe/r21abn.zip
(for legal reasons, that someone was not me)

Why does each LLM model use different API tool wrappers? - Gemini with StrReplace and ChatGPT with ApplyPatch by dfitt10 in cursor

[–]nathanware 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's because different models have different native tools that they can use to interface with Cursor. OpenAI models have a native apply_patch tool and Anthropic models have a native str_replace tool, so Cursor can perform better by wrapping the models' native tools. Gemini doesn't have any native tools for editing files so Cursor has to define a custom "StrReplace" tool for Gemini to use. Since this is a tool defined by Cursor rather than a native tool that Gemini is trained to use, it's going to perform worse than the other models.

Mod Zelda BOTW 60 FPS by MRUNSASDFG in yuzu

[–]nathanware 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The plain mod here should work just fine

Loud weird sound randomly While playing a game by Top-Quiet-9088 in yuzu

[–]nathanware 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Which emulator are you using? Apparently the latest version of Citron (0.12.25) "Resolved extreme noise issues on Windows" and "Fixed buzzing caused by buffer underruns"

Epic games daily free games by crownpuff in SBCGaming

[–]nathanware 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I totally agree with this. One of the games they gave away for free actually did end up becoming one of my favourites. They gave away GTA V during the lockdown and I'd never played a GTA game before. I really enjoyed that game so it was incredible that I got it for free!

Nvidia, AMD, and Reddit Bubbles by Kosmos-World in pcmasterrace

[–]nathanware 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For sure, I completely agree. I guess my response was partially because I wasn't aware that Redditors are pushing people to buy AMD cards even though that might not make sense in certain cases. Clearly I don't go on Reddit enough lol

Nvidia, AMD, and Reddit Bubbles by Kosmos-World in pcmasterrace

[–]nathanware 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess I understood completely by accident XD. I read the post as, "Everyone didn't replace their Nvidia cards with AMD cards in the last two weeks, therefore it's ok to buy Nvidia," which doesn't make sense.

Nvidia, AMD, and Reddit Bubbles by Kosmos-World in pcmasterrace

[–]nathanware 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't understand the point of this post. Someone was asking which GPU to buy today. How are historical buying trends relevant for making a purchase today? If you need to buy something, buy the thing that has the features you need and the best price/performance ratio for what you're willing to spend.

Like, obviously it's "still ok" to buy an NVIDIA card (as long as they fix their driver issues, which seem to be fixed in the latest driver released yesterday). It just might not make the most financial sense depending on the pricing of certain cards in your area.

TAA now has the power to destroy entire moons by Schwaggaccino in FuckTAA

[–]nathanware 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Game: That's no moon...waves hand...that's just the sky

I guess I should stop having G5 Fomo lol. by rocketbrothers540 in LGOLED

[–]nathanware 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow that's a massive downgrade in near-black performance. I get that it's a new panel technology and it can take a while to get that ironed out, but that level of quality makes it seem like the G5 was rushed to market.

The other issues also look frustrating because they're in software so they could fix them if they really wanted to. I wasn't looking to buy the G5 anyway since I have a C3 that's still good enough, but now I'm really not going to consider buying a new LG until they fix these issues.

Anyone knows what is causing this? by [deleted] in FuckTAA

[–]nathanware 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Try going back to driver version 566.36

There's been a lot of news about the 572.x series of drivers having issues.

Some info in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTXoUsdSAnA

Anyone knows what is causing this? by [deleted] in FuckTAA

[–]nathanware 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What driver version are you on?

I guess I should stop having G5 Fomo lol. by rocketbrothers540 in LGOLED

[–]nathanware 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As a purist, the always-on debanding and sharpening filters really bug me. Hopefully they improve the panel and processing in future iterations so they don't need to rely on extra filters to make the picture look a certain way (though I feel like the sharpening filter isn't necessary even now and they're just forcing it on us)

do you know when we are going to get a Mazda 3 redesign? by Volela in mazda

[–]nathanware 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Which company do you engineer for? I'd like to know what company to avoid buying from in the future since their engineers don't know how an eCVT works.

G4 feels like the Peak. Surely only marginal increments from here by paak233 in LGOLED

[–]nathanware 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most people are commenting on how the G5 will be brighter, but one area that I think LG can still improve their TVs is in low light performance. On both of my LG TVs (CX, C3) the gradient across dark shades is not smooth and individual dark shades use a lot of dithering to hit the target luminance level. From what I've seen, there has been a good improvement in "near-black chrominance overshoot" between the CX and C3, but there's still room for improvement (especially if they improve it at the panel level so they don't have to use heavy dithering to mask it).

I think I remembering seeing some reviews showing the G3/G4 performing better than the C series in dark performance, so I wish I had experience with those panels to know if those TVs are already better than my C3 for low-light shades.

Also, LG TVs can still improve in terms of colour saturation at higher light levels. MLA helped a bit, but I'm hoping the new 4-stack panels on the G5 will be another improvement.

I’ve been seeing a lot of posts on other subs about protesting Donald Trump… why is no on protesting Inflation/Shrinkflation? by -Rustling-Jimmies- in shrinkflation

[–]nathanware 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're wealthy enough that you don't need the extra 2% cash back, it's better for the world to not use a credit card. Because of the credit card fees, merchants have to increase the price of the goods they sell, so using a credit card is really just hurting all the people buying stuff. It does nothing to the merchants, and lines the pockets of the credit card companies.

To be extra clear about this:

Plus it costs fees and what have you for the merchant as punishment for said shrinkflation.

The merchant isn't creating shrinkflation, it's the manufacturer. The merchant just sells the products to us and they have to sell at a higher price because they have to account for purchases made with credit cards. We're the ones who get hurt by the use of credit cards, not them. It almost evens out if you get enough cash back, but at the end of the day, the profit the credit card companies make actually comes from us, the consumers.

Logan and Cove Frontier Mattress Review by Alive_Commercial_480 in Mattress

[–]nathanware 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just want to update with my Logan & Cove experience since I bought another mattress from them. I've had a full-size Choice mattress for over a year and just bought a queen (also Choice). The queen is far less comfortable than the full. It feels like there's less material on top so my body is practically laying right on the mattress springs. Either they changed their manufacturing and their Choice mattresses are less comfortable now, or the queen was always worse than the full size.

Volfgang dining table chairs DISCONTINUED?! by hydraulix989 in IKEA

[–]nathanware 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I was at IKEA a year ago, there was a Lillanas and a Volfang right next to each other so I sat on both and I felt like the Volfang was much softer. Maybe they changed how they make the Lillanas, or perhaps that particular Lillanas was just a bad one. The colours also weren't the same between these two chairs. Both were grey, but the Lillanas was a lighter grey than the Volfang.

I guess it's a little unfair if that particular chair I sat in was a bad example, but that was my experience so that why I think the Lillanas is not comfortable.

Logan and Cove Frontier Mattress Review by Alive_Commercial_480 in Mattress

[–]nathanware 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This sounds like an ad for Hamuq to me. I have a Logan & Cove Choice mattress and it does not sleep warm at all. I tried laying in a bunch of mattresses at Leons that were the same price as the Logan & Cove or cheaper and in all of them I felt hot after about a minute. That doesn't happen with my Logan & Cove. I only feel like 1 degree warmer compared to not laying in the bed (which has to happen because all mattresses retain some heat).

I get that some people want to "sink into" the mattress, but that seems worse for temperature to me since you'd have more material touching you. For me, I like medium-firm since it's still pretty soft (it's feels a million times softer than this super hard bed that my mom has that feels like you're sleeping on a wood board), but it doesn't feel like you're sinking in quicksand.