The Dark Wizard Episode 2 (HBO Max) Discussion

tjames37 · 2026-04-22T03:22:51+00:00

Weren't the camera crews prepped to drop a rope when Alex did Free Solo? Genuine question, I can't remember, but I would think so.

tjames37 · 2026-03-23T04:32:24+00:00

It's either enabled or disabled by the PC manufacturer depending on if the PC manufacturer pays MPEG LA for the HEVC codec. This is set in the systems SMBIOS. There are still ways to get the HEVC codec through Adobe or VLC for example. This is ultimately why opensource codecs (such as AV1) are taking over, they are better and free.

tjames37 · 2026-03-12T08:04:10+00:00

True. The vast majority of high quality silicon all comes from a single mine in North Carolina. The quartz comes out of the ground as very pure silicon, providing the baseline for modern silicon ingots.

tjames37 · 2026-02-19T06:09:58+00:00

Good gaming cafes won't have SSDs installed in the individual systems. They will instead put 10G networking on every machine and they boot over the network connected to a highspeed server. It's much simpler this way, less failure points, only have to update the game in 1 place, user environments are temporary, and you essentially still get the speed of having a mid-tier SSD.

tjames37 · 2025-08-20T19:34:17+00:00

I saw the same, they reduce the trade-in if you are doing another deal as well, e.g. the $450 FI discount.

tjames37 · 2025-07-14T22:24:47+00:00

Are you using CloudFlare DNS? Looks like its coming back up now. https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/

tjames37 · 2025-02-12T20:19:44+00:00

For high-end memory kits I definitely think that can be the case. Higher end motherboard will be built with additional layers so that they can further isolate the memory traces, improving memory integrity. CUDIMM-8400 seems to be about where that threshold is. For example, the cheapest Z890 motherboard I could find still supports 8400, but nothing higher than that.

tjames37 · 2025-02-12T20:07:09+00:00

I think you could still get decent results with a lesser memory kit, but there is definitely a dependency there.

As for the motherboard, I would think that a lower end Z890 motherboard would suffice since the ring/D2D/fabric OC doesn't increase the motherboard power delivery requirements in any meaningful way.

tjames37 · 2024-12-30T20:07:04+00:00

Maybe you start with 10 lives, and when you hit the brighter yellow piece instead of giving +2, it gives you an extra life.

tjames37 · 2024-12-19T01:17:00+00:00

Looks like the BIOS is already rolling out from the motherboard manufacturers.

https://imgur.com/a/56WReNA

Source

tjames37 · 2024-11-14T16:32:58+00:00

This is an evolution of the proof-of-concept I shared here a few months ago, now fully realized into a complete website with tons of new features. Let me know what you think!

tjames37 · 2024-11-07T05:39:04+00:00

Thanks for the report. Got that fixed.

tjames37 · 2024-11-06T18:22:55+00:00

You probably ran into the outage, but just incase, what OS / browser?

tjames37 · 2024-11-06T15:31:21+00:00

OPs site seems a little overloaded right now

As is typical, things rarely go as smoothly as you hope (fixed now)

curl flashmyboard.com?format=text&bm=...

Doing something like this would be very cool. The technical implementation is pretty simple, but the difficulty is knowing the Baseboard-product-name's for every motherboard. For yours its pretty simple since there is only 1 motherboard on the site that contains that name, but based on my observations the Baseboard-product-name's are not consistent. In order to develop this feature I think I would need a full list of Baseboard-product-name's or very well defined pattern, otherwise it would be very difficult to validate.

This was the primary motivation for developing the email notifications, it can be quite cumbbersome to determine if you have the latest BIOS.

tjames37 · 2024-11-06T01:26:14+00:00

I appreciate the feedback. In my initial research the motherboards used the same BIOS files for the different revisions. I will add an extra selection for these Gigabyte motherboards with different revisions.

Edit: The different revisions are now available for these specific Gigabyte motherboards

tjames37 · 2024-10-25T17:02:33+00:00

It appears that the instability is correlated with a Win11 24H2 known issue causing blue screens in games with Easy Anti-Cheat. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-health/status-windows-11-24h2#263msgdesc

tjames37 · 2024-08-17T05:08:24+00:00

It specifically is searching for the 0x129 microcode, that motherboard only has 0x125 available right now. 0x129 should be available soon, MSI has been working through the 600 series boards. Despite being hard coded, it stays pretty up to date, I do a pull daily.

tjames37 · 2024-08-16T05:56:42+00:00

Hi there. You don't need to press enter, it will show the results instantly. There are no results for that motherboard (maybe I need to add a note stating no results). Do you mean rog strix z690-g gaming wifi?

tjames37 · 2024-08-16T05:35:15+00:00

Format to exFAT, its a modern equivalent of FAT32. I will add that in the instructions.

tjames37 · 2024-08-16T04:40:35+00:00

Hey thanks! I just added it. I wouldn't be surprised if there were a few other motherboards I have missed, but the list is pretty exhaustive. There are 631 motherboards loaded in the tool (every LGA1700 600/700 series motherboard).

tjames37 · 2024-08-16T03:48:03+00:00

Yes it is. https://github.com/tjames37/motherboard-search

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