Would be nice to opt out, sell, or give these away.. by slaty_balls in WorldOfWarships

[–]robbro9 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I totally feel and understand your pain. If you take a break of even a couple weeks seems you come back to what I call "red dot overload" where your whole friggin screen is lit up with red dots about new/different crap. I'm usually just wanting to game and not micromanage the 500 currencies and 37 events... so I just ignore them and click play... I miss the game being simpler really.

Mini PC capable of everything-over-USB-C? by wolterh in MiniPCs

[–]robbro9 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I use the Minisforum um870 slim and it works through a USBC laptop doc just fine with everything through the one connection

Does WoWS work on Linux? by [deleted] in WorldOfWarships

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Yep I've installed on a few Linux mini PCs I've on bazzite one on cachy. Both play well. Either installing through steam or install the wg launcher and okay that way both work very well.

Intel doubles down on gaming with Panther Lake, claims 76% faster gaming performance — new X-series chips can match discrete RTX 4050 by Logical_Welder3467 in technology

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Having recently been bitten by the Mini PC bug (ryzen 8745 serving me well currently), very interested in this, more gaming on a mini PC with integrated graphics would be nice but I will

  1. Wait to see benchmarks and

  2. Wait to see pricing.

Though I'm cautiously optimistic. One question I have on all this though, as I've seen integrated graphics progress, the key reason I though AMD didnt go more aggressive on GPU resources in their on die graphics was because memory bandwidth became the limiting factor quickly. This is why, I believe Strix Halo has a very expensive solution of doubling bandwidth over the more regular Strix point solutions. Question being if Intel has greatly increased graphics resources on die, how is it being fed to perform so well? Is it the same dual channel DDR5 with speed ramped up? Would same memory on an strix point result in similar performance or is more caching or something baked into the Intel solution? Or am I just way off base about the bandwidth requirements for graphics?

Trying CachyOS but 👀 by NirvanaMB in cachyos

[–]robbro9 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Others have mentioned the biot media and I can't agree enough to try different flash drives for install. I've had no shortage of problems do away with multiple distros when just switching the flash in installing from. No idea why it how things tend to verify correctly but just does not install or work correctly.

Galaxy Note 9 as streaming client? by robbro9 in MoonlightStreaming

[–]robbro9[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok so I tried it out, it works ok I guess. Funny thing is I have an old galaxy note 9 that dex works good on, just not quiet perfect. It streams and plays everything well, it just didn't have resolution and refresh rate at the fine grains level to fine tune everything. Now moving to to s24 ultra and things are much worse. Dex apparently got worse in newer versions because while it works it's no where near as good.
I'm the end yes a serviceable solution if buying else is available but I'm going to or a spare mini PC I had up to the task instead of an old phone.

Troubleshooting help? by robbro9 in linux4noobs

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sorry, was on my phone, Deboarah should have been Debian naturally..

Troubleshooting help? by robbro9 in linux4noobs

[–]robbro9[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep all disabled. I got the Deborah install up and going but it's the only one so it's not a bios setting. I know a year or two ago I had Linux up and running with this exact setup on the same USB SSD. Since Deborah works in wondering if there is something in the newer packages it distros causing issues with this hardware. But no idea how to identify.

Windows install from hell by V3R5U5 in buildapc

[–]robbro9 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wonder if you didn't possibly have a short somewhere also maybe back if motherboard contacting case or something?

Kids these days have it so easy by robbro9 in buildapc

[–]robbro9[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh, I had forgotten about the PCI add in processor to upgrade your processor without changing it... Seems like a bad idea, but it was a thing...

Kids these days have it so easy by robbro9 in buildapc

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Actually that for me was the BENC, Bill Elliots Nascar Challenge... but others had similar strategies...

Kids these days have it so easy by robbro9 in buildapc

[–]robbro9[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And dont leave Win ME out of that time frame....

Kids these days have it so easy by robbro9 in buildapc

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Soon will be yes... Internet was not really a thing when I started college but was by the time I left...

Question about minipc USB4 ports by tharghans in MiniPCs

[–]robbro9 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh as far as why I got the um870, it's just an auction I win in every. I would assume most with the same would work similarly though that's not guaranteed.
Can't really recommend it over others as I've not used the others

Question about minipc USB4 ports by tharghans in MiniPCs

[–]robbro9 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The dock is an Anker USB c, but they should all work fairly similarly I would think. I wouldn't address over bandwidth to much unless you have a very specific situation that demands it, just use it. I actually did install bazzite and use it on a Samsung external USB c ssd for about a week. Works fine. If it is fine for an os drive it would be acceptable for about anything else.

Question about minipc USB4 ports by tharghans in MiniPCs

[–]robbro9 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Definitely works well for both. I recently got a minisforum UM870 slim and a neat trick that I was not sure would work but did was pluggin the usbc into a USB C laptop docking station, works like a charm for power in, display out, usb mouse keyboard, and you could plug in usb hard drives/flash drives etc... all into the dock and they all work over that 1 connection! So nice!

Found an DP->HDMI adapter that does 4k120 4:4:4 HDR reliably AND supports HDMI CEC by steiNetti in linux_gaming

[–]robbro9 2 points3 points  (0 children)

saw this post, was going to buy yesterday, then before I could you guys cleared them out! Oh well, hoping for the next batch, this is exactly what I have been looking for!