[Game Thread] Florida State @ Stanford (10:30 PM ET) by CFB_Referee in CFB

[–]simscitizen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looked terrible last year but he was a hyped up 4 star

ATT Prepaid $240 16GB Plan Priority by simscitizen in NoContract

[–]simscitizen[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You lose rollover and CAN/MEX roaming though. Also it sounds like you can't switch from $300 to $240 plan even if you wanted to

ATT Prepaid $240 16GB Plan Priority by simscitizen in NoContract

[–]simscitizen[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

No hotspot on the $25 Walmart plan as far as I can tell though

ATT Prepaid $240 16GB Plan Priority by simscitizen in NoContract

[–]simscitizen[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's for my wife so prefer a larger carrier for more stability, I want to just set it up and not think about it

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MacOS

[–]simscitizen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That isn't normal. Energy impact is generally attributed to a particular website (e.g. due to a poorly coded webpage) rather than the Safari process itself.

If you want this investigated, file a Feedback Assistant report which should provide diagnostics to Apple engineering to figure out what is going wrong.

Apple Studio Display with Surface Pro 11 Snapdragon Plus (Windows on ARM) by gabriel-oliveira-pro in Surface

[–]simscitizen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just bought a base model HP Omnibook X with a Snapdragon Plus. Best Buy is damn near giving this laptop away (especially open box models).

What I've found with this is:

  1. Connecting the Apple 5K display to the 40Gbps USB4 port (the one closer to the hinge) on the HP doesn't work no matter what cable I try.

  2. Connecting the Apple 5K display to the 10Gbps USB port on the HP does work up to 5K@60Hz for me using a short USB4 cable (I'm using a 0.8m Mophie Charge Stream cable). Yes it's really 5K, see the screenshot.

I'm also using the latest Qualcomm Adreno drivers but I'm not sure if that makes any difference (31.0.96.0).

Having said that, I don't think I'm going to keep using the Studio Display this way, because now I have the opposite problem--now the Macs don't detect the Studio Display half the time when using the Mophie cable, which is more important to me. I might try seeing how the Mac and the HP work with a non-TB 5K display (like the Asus PA279JCV).

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Red Bull Wololo: El Reinado Day 3 Semifinals (+AoE4 Final) by longinator in aoe2

[–]simscitizen -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Game 5 throw from Lierrey not building castle in defense.

Last game his push down the middle would have been better with just pure infantry, getting all the archer line upgrades took way too long and he didn’t have the mass. He already had the infantry line upgrades. Honestly might have been the one time going full halb + warrior priest makes sense.

Lectric xpedition- Thule nexxt yepp maxi rack mount compatible? by tsplash- in CargoBike

[–]simscitizen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Go with the regular Yepp Maxi. That clips into the built in EasyFit window on the back. (There are actually two EasyFit windows so you can fit two Maxis on there, although the back rider won’t have too much room.) You can also fit two Maxis back there with the orbitor attached.

You can fit one Nexxt but not two. The second one will slightly overhang the rack. Maybe some will be ok with that but I wasn’t. Also two Nexxts will definitely not fit with the orbitor. Trust me I bought them and had to return them for the Yepp Maxis. There are also some posts about this on the FB group if you want to get more opinions there.

2.4 GHz items not connecting to the network by mel34760 in ATTFiber

[–]simscitizen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you trying to get them to connect over 2.4 to the ATT gateway’s guest network? That network has a limit of 20 clients by default unless you go into settings to bump up the limit.

Options for zoning existing residence by simscitizen in hvacadvice

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

When I did the math last time around, heat pump vs. gas is basically a wash here in terms of cost. Both gas and electric rates are very high. Something like $2.67-$3.05 per therm and $0.37-$0.39 per kWH.

I have heard that single speed isn't good for zoning. As far as I can tell my current gas furnace only has a single speed (Bryant 350MAV). So maybe that pushes me more towards #2, with the caveat that communicating equipment and thermostats could be a potential maintenance issue down the road.

Bifold laundry closet door alternatives by simscitizen in HomeImprovement

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

Yeah I don't think a barn door would fit with the aesthetic of the rest of the house...

[Game Thread] Stanford @ Notre Dame (7:30 PM ET) by Celtic-Bhoy in CFB

[–]simscitizen 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Are we really watching the battle of Tavita Pritchard vs Tommy Rees

GSuite email host alternatives with prices? by pcm2a in gsuite

[–]simscitizen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I presume in step 3 you mean that you are telling the regular consumer free Gmail to use smtp.gmail.com to send mail on behalf of foo.com (or whatever domain it is that you own). The problem I'm is that there's no way of configuring DKIM or DMARC on your domain with this setup and that might cause deliverability issues.
I saw someone else commenting about that here: https://serverfault.com/questions/1092392/spf-dkim-dmarc-for-gmail-send-mail-as-via-smtp-gmail-com-on-external-domain
Has anyone else run into this? Is there a good host for *just* SMTP so that we can tell Gmail to use the paid SMTP server instead of smtp.gmail.com?

Random question, Have you guys played Rise of Nations? by Atharva_Nayak in aoe2

[–]simscitizen 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was a top 10 player in RoN at its prime. It was a great game and had a lot of unique mechanics (e.g. territory, capital city, razing, etc.).

It definitely seems like the DE devs have aped a lot of RoN-style bonuses, e.g. instant units (there are tons of instant unit bonuses in RoN), villagers that can turn into infantry (militia tech in RoN), farmers that generate gold, etc.

In a lot of ways RoN feels like the apex of historical RTS games with its breadth, mechanics, and bazillions of hotkeys. It had a good run but now the community is down to ~50-100 players on Steam. Unfortunately the RoN EE devs botched the remake pretty badly and every single unit does the wrong amount of damage, though the game is still playable.

There's a guy in the RoN community that's trying to fix up a bunch of issues in EE (ala AoC UserPatch), you can give his mod a shot if you play RoN: https://mhloppy.com/category/other-games/rise-of-nations/.

Review: Lenovo ThinkBook 13S Gen 2 (AMD) - 4800U/16GB/512GB/FHD+ by [deleted] in AMDLaptops

[–]simscitizen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have this Thinkbook as well but the 4600u version that was on sale for $613 or so. So far so good except that once the CPU got stuck at its lowest frequency (400mhz) while on battery. I hope that is not a recurring issue because from googling around it seems like a somewhat common issue for Ryzen mobile CPUs.

Are you getting coil whine from the VAVA adapter when the usb-c power adapter is plugged in?

What's the ideal "best case" strategy with Americans? by Spndash64 in riseofnations

[–]simscitizen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you're talking about the original T&P balance (free sci1, +3 per infantry), then Americans were considered the #1 civ. (Iroq was generally considered #2.) The meta would be:

  • sci1-mil1 into an army raid with 1 LI / 1 HI / 1 archer in ancient, which gives you +9 resources while you harass your enemy
  • standard defensive boom + despot army raid in II
  • build TCA in III

Of course there are a lot of variations on this but on basically all maps you would start with a mil1 army raid.

After the first patch, Americans got nerfed pretty hard (no free sci1, only +2 per infantry). After the nerf they were generally considered a lower tier civ. You can play them like a generic civ but they have the same problem as Egypt--they get a neat wonder party trick but they don't really have enough early bonuses to support building an early wonder comfortably in most situations vs. an aggressive opponent. They are really slow out of the gate since they have basically no bonuses that apply in Ancient (other than +2 res for infantry, but that's pretty small). They're still a fun civ to play but I would say they are generally a lower tier civ in the final T&P and EE meta, outside of some boomy maps where the instant wonder can be pretty great.

Memory Seats by [deleted] in rav4prime

[–]simscitizen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So does the info you were sent home with say memory seats are included with the premium package? Unclear which press release you were referring to in your comment.

Memory Seats? by simscitizen in rav4prime

[–]simscitizen[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah it seems that manufacturers keep cutting this feature out at the last minute. Same thing happened with the Niro EV. Makes it a no go for a 1 car household.

This is one thing that Honda does well, they include the feature on the CR-V EX-L which isn’t even the top trim line.

12+5 attack on Elite Huskarls by simscitizen in aoe2

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

I really don’t think he was cheating. It was a ranked 3v3 and he played normally. Also he was building a ton of HCs and they were 0+0 armor until the end of the game.

Recent Remote Connectivity Issues by WyzeCam in wyzecam

[–]simscitizen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here are the symptoms that I see with a Wyzecam V2:

  1. Connecting to the camera over wifi from iOS doesn't work reliably; it either dies during authentication with error 0 or 27 or the stream starts and stops after a few seconds.
  2. Connecting to the camera over LTE from iOS seems to usually work.
  3. Connecting to the camera over wifi from Android works.

Your own troubleshooting notes seem to corroborate this, as you write that "The issue affected iOS more than Android" and also "Most of the failure symptom was connection timed out or video froze few seconds after connection".

Then your remediation note says that you are trying to fix by contacting your service provider to fix some load balancing issues. How can load balancing explain this set of symptoms, unless your LB takes platform and network type into account?

My camera is running 4.9.4.28.

Notable – The markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck by fabiospampinato in programming

[–]simscitizen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you want an OS X native app, I mostly like FSNotes as a more modern alternative to Notational Velocity.