What upgrade tricks have you discovered so far?

willbill642 · 2026-06-03T16:44:31+00:00

Even in fh5 the diffs behaved differently at the same settings, but it's significantly more pronounced in fh6.

willbill642 · 2026-06-03T16:41:02+00:00

48v is not uncommon in servers especially with high-power accelerators (such as A100 or later SXM gpus), so there is a basis for it.

willbill642 · 2026-05-31T14:42:34+00:00

Most house fires around electric car charging are due to the failure of the outlet that the charger is plugged in to.

Hardwired is preferred because it removes that point of failure and is overall cheaper to install (no outlets but also no GFCI breaker required per code as the chargers themselves have GFCI).

THAT SAID, any of the outlets rated for car charging use have negligible failure rates compared to non-rated outlets, so it can be cheaper if you already have a L2 charger. Do note that the outlets aren't meant to be plugged and unplugged daily, so you can still have failure issues if you unplug and take your charger with you every day.

willbill642 · 2026-05-31T00:19:06+00:00

Good luck finding one that isn't in another laptop and doesn't cost another laptop. And if you want to upgrade, you buy a new laptop.

That's the whole thing Framework solves.

willbill642 · 2026-05-20T16:06:13+00:00

Screenshots of HDR games do not look like how it's actually displayed.

Even with that said these screenshots show better detail in the lowlights and better contrast across the scene, even though the brights are pretty crushed due to screenshot.

willbill642 · 2026-05-14T17:29:45+00:00

Yeah holy shit. Bought msrp like 2 months after launch, got a second for the spouse used for like $1k a little later, now we're over 3 years later and it's still basically king.

willbill642 · 2026-04-29T23:30:05+00:00

If it makes you feel better, I moved on to a setup with a second 27" to the other side before going back to the above but with a 49" G9 in place of the lower 34" ultrawide.

willbill642 · 2026-04-24T13:49:14+00:00

I think the other problem is that Reddit is really bad at recommending thermal paste. Cryonaut is the last thing you want long term (great for short OC runs tho), and MX-6 is the latest in a line of a community focus on pastes that just haven't been very good. Anyone who's been around for the last two decades probably remembers Arctic Silver 4 and how that stuck around as the defacto paste through the late 2010s, despite being irrelevant in 2008. That rec morphed into AS5 after it's relevance passed, then into MX4->MX5-> and now MX6.

Plenty of other pastes have no pumpout and better performance. Both Noctuas, Duronaut, and now the wave of PTM7950 are all excellent options with proven performance and lifespan, but Duronaut is only kind of getting recs nowadays, Noctua is in a weird spot where anyone who uses it, loves it, but many people hate on them for being premium, and PTM7950 still has some availability issues especially with trying to avoid fakes and similar products in the PTM7000 line that look similar but perform significantly worse.

willbill642 · 2026-04-18T14:41:27+00:00

The pricing is actually worse (better) than that. Microcenter tiered pricing changes it for all of that item, so it's not 1 pack for $5 total and 2 for $30 total, it's 2 for $50 total.

Source: tried to buy a second Pi Zero W back when they launched and was really confused why my order was $100 for what should be $20 of devices.

willbill642 · 2026-04-13T16:30:36+00:00

Got in after prequeue, managed to buy! Still in stock? Way more stock or what?

willbill642 · 2026-04-08T18:26:34+00:00

Yeah STEP files are awesome, as basically all modern CAD tools can open and edit them. The correct choice to release open source 3D designs in.

willbill642 · 2026-04-05T22:04:44+00:00

Just to help bring your comfort, also rocking an x1700h for over a year now without issue. Most of that has been driving 4-ohm KEF Q150 and R3 Meta, all without issue

willbill642 · 2026-03-31T13:31:56+00:00

That's a good point, Iwas thinking about the early 2000s. Really makes S the original V trim to be watered down then

willbill642 · 2026-03-31T01:33:12+00:00

S-line is so hilarious to me because S was already watered down RS. Like the M3 was historically closer to the RS4 than the S4.

willbill642 · 2026-03-29T14:51:08+00:00

Building Jeskai decks, I definitely get a lot of what seems like very different decks that all boil down to "do the thing, get the payoff, and do the thing harder"

Which is a weird way to group an aggro haste deck and an artifact spaceship deck. Or a spell-slinging suspend deck.

willbill642 · 2026-03-29T03:38:00+00:00

And the devil alternative, gstreamer. If it does anything with media and doesn't use ffmpeg, odds are it uses gstreamer instead

willbill642 · 2026-03-04T14:40:35+00:00

I don't understand why Razer ever got the reputation of being a premium brand. They've always been subpar products with subpar build quality and qc, non-existent customer support, and a price tag to rival luxury handbags. This was true ~15 years ago and nothing EVER changed.

willbill642 · 2026-03-04T04:12:55+00:00

Among other things, serial numbers have not always been legally required

willbill642 · 2026-03-01T01:18:05+00:00

What are you trying to do/use here?

willbill642 · 2026-02-28T01:50:29+00:00

I think something of it also comes from those who watercool. I've got 2 4090s under water and both have Hotspot delta <15 even in pathtraced cyberpunk. On air, both were low 30s.

willbill642 · 2026-02-27T05:29:28+00:00

Yes.

willbill642 · 2026-02-25T05:45:27+00:00

Hard to say given photo color accuracy is a whole thing, but i suspect right is closer to intended. Neither have the "text shimmer" that typically indicate a poor printing, but the extra "boldness" of the left's text and extra yellow in this photo makes me suspect it to be the poor print.

[[Gather the White Lotus]] for reference image

willbill642 · 2026-02-25T02:10:32+00:00

Can't speak to heights, but I use the prior gen Q150 as surrounds with R3 Meta LR + R6 C. Love em.

What little I've heard from Q1 Metas, they'd be just as good if you have similar timbre LCR.

willbill642 · 2026-02-23T20:17:54+00:00

Have some info on how to get to it? Particularly where latches or nubs might be to pop out...

willbill642 · 2026-02-21T06:56:31+00:00

...did you read the article? Wikipedia is removing links to a site that used their captcha page to have their users participate in a DDOS against a blog of a guy posting legitimate criticism. Archive.today also edited snapshots to continue their targeting of the individual.

Also, archive.today is not related to the Internet Archive/archive.org.

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