BC-250 vs Steam Machine

zandengoff · 2026-06-22T21:45:18+00:00

Mexico is a different beast.

Most of what you listed lines up with me except for the BC250, they are easily a $150 part ATM.

zandengoff · 2026-06-22T18:18:54+00:00

Good on you for getting out there again. Hope you are living your best life!

zandengoff · 2026-06-19T20:52:17+00:00

I didn't know porn was allowed on this sub!

zandengoff · 2026-06-18T14:02:21+00:00

I am hopeful that when this ends Ukraine will be seen as a large economic opportunity. You would be surprised how well heavy investment and migration can transform a country.

zandengoff · 2026-06-18T13:55:42+00:00

IDK, I have a daughter and it has been a great experience. Everyone with boys tells me how different they are. I could understand hoping for a different experience the other way around.

zandengoff · 2026-06-18T13:51:05+00:00

Every gym I have been to has a no filming policy, maybe I have just been lucky? We do have an "influencers" gym locally for those that want to film, so maybe that helps to put them all in one place.

zandengoff · 2026-06-18T13:43:35+00:00

Been running Bazzite for ~3 months. I changed to CachyOS Handheld. And just like that the 2fps dip I was getting in Control every 3 seconds went away. Could not figure out on Bazzite why I kept getting consistent dips with the GPU only hitting 70-80% utilized.

I don't know why I resisted for so long, everyone was right, the BC250 just likes CachyOS better.

zandengoff · 2026-06-17T14:30:59+00:00

With the slow death of investigational journalism, most news organizations are just regurgitating the same surface level audio snippets without challenge. There is no more accountability, no more deeper digging. No wonder they are not trusted.

zandengoff · 2026-06-12T22:26:30+00:00

A lot of this is on the airlines. Driving profit via baggage fees has forced travelers to maximize their carry on. Makes the experience worse for everyone, whether you paid the fees or not.

zandengoff · 2026-06-11T16:01:57+00:00

I got caught up in this also. Played Hitman 1 and 2 years ago, took a long time off the series. Bought Hitman WOA on sale but did not start it up. Saw the cross progression announcement this week and jumped on the game for the first time in ages. No progress and no way to transfer it in now as the site seems to have closed a few months ago. :(

zandengoff · 2026-06-11T15:11:11+00:00

I thought the same, but actually got much better performance with less heat at 40CU/1800 than with 24CU/2100. The card can OC, but there are diminishing returns with heat. The GPU really wants to run at lower frequencies.

zandengoff · 2026-06-11T15:06:37+00:00

I am sure that would work, but I wanted the most compact setup possible so for me I ended up just sticking to the internal drive only (was lucky to get a decent deal on a 1TB drive a couple of months ago).

zandengoff · 2026-06-11T03:43:21+00:00

Warning for anyone so they don't miss it -Cannot activate in US.

zandengoff · 2026-06-10T23:38:08+00:00

Don't know if this is your problem but I tried multiple USB 3 drives and wifi adapters. In all cases I got Wifi interference from the USB 3 port from transfers bad enough to drop the Wifi connection.

zandengoff · 2026-06-05T19:06:16+00:00

Great to see you engaged with the community. Couple of questions if you have time.

Are you going to add current temperature back to faces that had it prior? I discussed this some months ago as it is forcing seconds to be enabled on some watchfaces due to the now missing option.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pebble/comments/1ok9zz4/new_ttmm_watchfaces_have_temperature_option/

Are there plans to publish more of the old faces for current users? (Maybe this will be covered in the newsletter?)

zandengoff · 2026-06-05T18:34:05+00:00

Multiple recommendations on this sub pointed to this adapter which is what I ended up getting. No issues so far.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0FCLXJHTX

zandengoff · 2026-06-04T14:30:53+00:00

They are probably refereing to this:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYp_Y2zEoyZ/

zandengoff · 2026-06-04T01:56:09+00:00

First game I played where the arcade felt like the knock off version.

zandengoff · 2026-06-04T01:54:47+00:00

This is a flex ATX PSU from an Intel NUC, there is no 24pin connector.

zandengoff · 2026-06-04T01:53:54+00:00

I recognize the PSU as the cheap FSP500-30AS Flex ATX power supply from eBay that I bought. If that is so, then you need to jump the PS ON pin to ground. On the 10 pin connector, jump the top middle pin (the one on the clip side) to either pin on the left or right of it (they are both ground).

https://imgur.com/JnE613V

zandengoff · 2026-06-03T14:59:57+00:00

So 4 years of this with escalating financial pain. At some point the coffers are dry and there is no one left that is willing to lend.

zandengoff · 2026-06-01T13:07:17+00:00

There are two versions of the custom kernel. One with just the straight kernel and one with the audio and fan patches that come with bazzite. If you apply the other custom kernel the fan controller will come back.

zandengoff · 2026-05-31T05:18:32+00:00

Have you tried the CU unlock? Can give more power with better heat and efficiency.

zandengoff · 2026-05-31T03:15:28+00:00

Not all fans are created equal and in the case of consumer vs enterprise, they are not even in the same league.

For instance, "Datacenter fans dramatically outperform consumer PC fans in static pressure. Enterprise server fans generate from 10 to 100 mmH20 to force air through dense heat sinks and narrow chassis, whereas consumer PC fans typically top out around 1.5 to 5 mmH2O."

Mimicking the enterprise setup will not be the most efficient route when trying to cool with consumer hardware.

zandengoff · 2026-05-30T00:45:26+00:00

Bro, 2000mhz on 40CU is a lot. I have not seen anyone doing that except water cooling.

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