66fm472tjy7 (u/66fm472tjy7)

66fm472tjy7 commented on I am giving up on Intel and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D michael.stapelberg.ch/pos... · Posted by u/secure

microtonal · 4 months ago

I feel like both Intel and AMD are not doing great in the desktop CPU stability department. I made a machine with a Ryzen 9900X a while back and it had the issue that it would freeze when idling. A few years before I had a 5950X that would regularly crash under load (luckily it was a prebuilt, so it was ultimately fixed).

When you do not have a bunch of components ready to swap out it is also really hard to debug these issues. Sometimes it’s something completely different like the PSU. After the last issues, I decided to buy a prebuilt (ThinkStation) with on-site service. The cooling is a bit worse, etc., but if issues come up, I don’t have to spend a lot of time debugging them.

Random other comment: when comparing CPUs, a sad observation was that even a passively cooled M4 is faster than a lot of desktop CPUs (typically single-threaded, sometimes also multi-threaded).

66fm472tjy7 · 4 months ago

Occasionally occurring issues are so annoying. I lived with these issues for years before becoming able to reliably reproduce them by accident and thus making a good guess on the cause:

My system would randomly freeze for ~5 seconds, usually while gaming and having a video in the browser running a the same time. Then, it would reliably happen in Titanfall 2 and I noticed there were always AHCI errors in the Windows logs at the same time so I switched to an NVMe drive.

The system would also shut down occasionally (~ once every few hours) in certain games only. Then, I managed to reproduce it 100% of the time by casting lightning magic in Oblivion Remastered. I had to switch out my PSU, the old one probably couldn't handle some transient load spike, even though it was a Seasonic Prime Ultra Titanium.

66fm472tjy7 commented on Stop Killing Games stopkillinggames.com/... · Posted by u/MYEUHD

andrecarini · 6 months ago

Lots of bad takes in this thread. The whole idea behind this is just to stop defrauding customers that buy your software and then are left holding the bag. Nobody is asking for developers to keep running server infra for eternity.

Any of the following options are enough to satisfy this proposal:

- Put an expiration date on the storefront and make it clear that your software is not guaranteed to continue working after date X.

- Have your server source code (stripped down of proprietary stuff) ready for public release at EoL.

- Allow customers to reverse engineer the binaries and communication protocol after EoL.

- Package dedicated server binaries with the game and allow customers to connect to it via a LAN or direct IP option.

66fm472tjy7 · 6 months ago

  Put an expiration date on the storefront and make it clear that your software is not guaranteed to continue working after date X

False, it says[0]

  providing reasonable means to continue functioning of said videogames without the involvement from the side of the publisher

It MUST be possible to continue playing the game using reasonable means. It is not sufficient to declare an EOL date.

  Have your server source code (stripped down of proprietary stuff) ready for public release at EoL

This would only be sufficient if the proprietary dependencies are reasonable easy to acquire.

  Allow customers to reverse engineer the binaries and communication protocol after EoL

I don't think this reverse engineering could currently be disallowed in the EU, so it would not be affected by the initiative.

  Package dedicated server binaries with the game

True, it would meet the requirements of the initiative, but it would be sufficient to provide the server after EOL.

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[0] https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/20...

66fm472tjy7 commented on Microsoft deletes official Windows 11 CPU/TPM bypass for unsupported PCs neowin.net/news/microsoft... · Posted by u/doener

ch_123 · a year ago

What is Microsoft hoping to accomplish here? Given the rate of adoption of Windows 11, it seems unlikely that a majority of Windows 10 users will replace their hardware between now and October. It also seems to me that the scenario where a majority of PC users are running an unsupported Windows release is likely to create MS more problems than is offset by potential revenue from a hardware refresh cycle. Is there an ulterior motive at play beyond wanting to create a hardware refresh cycle?

66fm472tjy7 · a year ago

puts tinfoil hat on

Ensuring that a critical mass of people use remote attestation[0] capable devices.

The next step is a browser API[1] for this so that content owners can exclude devices capable of storing the content, or stripping out ads/tracking, etc.

Sure, there will be a cat-and-mouse game where people will figure out how to fake the attestation for some period of time, but general computation[2] is probably on the way out.

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[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trusted_Computing...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36817305

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg

66fm472tjy7 commented on The biggest blocker to LibreOffice adoption? LibreOffice (2023) dedoimedo.com/computers/l... · Posted by u/marcodiego

lordofgibbons · a year ago

What's everyone's opinion on OnlyOffice? It seems to have a much more polished UI than LibreOffice.

https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/DesktopEditors

66fm472tjy7 · a year ago

I have first encountered it as the default office suite in Manjaro.

It can correctly open my company's Power Point templates and IMO the UI is much better in both aesthetics and discoverability compared to LibreOffice.

66fm472tjy7 commented on Some Fritz!Box modems might have been hijacked crapts.org/2024/04/21/all... · Posted by u/mmcnl

66fm472tjy7 · 2 years ago

I cannot confirm this behavior. With a router running FRITZ!OS:7.57 configured to use Google's DNS (in the router only) I get the following on Windows 10

  > nslookup google.com
  Server:  fritz.box
  Address:  fd00::[redacted]

  Non-authoritative answer:
  Name:    google.com
  Addresses:  2a00:1450:4001:828::200e
            142.250.181.238

Update: the connection does have the DNS suffix, so according to the superuser answer linked in OP (which is the first result when looking up what a DNS suffix is), it should get appended to lookups on windows, but it looks like it isn't in my case.

  > ipconfig
  [...]
  Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . : fritz.box

66fm472tjy7 commented on EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy theregister.com/2024/04/1... · Posted by u/rntn

ApolloFortyNine · 2 years ago

To me this is the most egregious opinion that came out of GDPR (I've seen in argued in other GDPR threads). That a company is required to provide a service even at a loss.

A company should have every right to deny service. Untargeted advertising pays 90+% less than targeted advertising. If they lose money by serving a user content because they denied targeted advertising, they should be able to deny them service or have them pay up. They're just legislating into law the Meta (and others) have to provide a service at a loss for a growing number of users.

66fm472tjy7 · 2 years ago

> A company should have every right to deny service

Plenty of utility companies are already being forced to provide service. As the EDPB opinion says, a lot of big tech is

> decisive for participation in social life or access to professional networks, even more so in the presence of lock-in or network effects

> Untargeted advertising pays 90+% less than targeted advertising

I don't think that such a large difference is rational. "Untargeted" advertising can still be based on the content being viewed, just not on surveilling the viewer.

> If they lose money by serving a user content because they denied targeted advertising, they should be able to deny them service or have them pay up.

As I understand it the opinion does not categorically rule this out

> Controllers should ensure that the fee is not such as to inhibit data subjects from making a genuine choice

That is why NOYB also focuses[0] on the fact the the fee is disproportionate:

> The current average revenue for programmatic advertising in the EU is € [1.41] per user - across all websites per month [...] visiting the top 100 websites can already cost more than € [1500] per year if you do not consent to tracking

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[0] https://noyb.eu/en/statement-edpb-pay-or-okay-opinion, https://weis2019.econinfosec.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/...

66fm472tjy7 commented on Google is tracking you even in incognito mode, new disclaimer is up news.abplive.com/technolo... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

66fm472tjy7 · 2 years ago

I feel like commenters in this thread are talking past each other.

Some are saying "of course sites are still tracking you in incognito!", but is is unclear to me what they mean by this. I see the following interpretations:

1. Sites can still use local storage so they can track you for the duration of your incognito session, but they cannot connect this tracking to your regular session or other incognito sessions as incognito sessions start with empty local storage and discard it at the end of the session.

2. Sites do not rely on local storage, instead using fingerprinting via a combination of IP, HTTP headers, information they can query via JS, etc., so incognito has no effect on sites' ability to track you.

3. Google has special privileges in Chrome to track you when you are incognito.

66fm472tjy7 commented on Tax, healthcare, immigration: why Dutch people voted for Geert Wilders theguardian.com/world/202... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

petre · 2 years ago

> Apart from the economic problems that this might cause, it is simply not possible due to EU legislation.

It is possible. Don't give them money and only provide basic shelter. Do you wonder why the migrants don't stay in Eastern Europe? Because here we offer accomodation in tents. There isn't enough social housing for citizens (largely Roma), let alone migrants.

We have friends and neighbours from Germany who want retire early and to move back to Eastern Europe because they are unhappy with the federal government taxing them nearly ~500€ in order to house and feed migrants. These neighbours are working class people of retirement age, who left to Germany during the communist regime, leaving everything behind. There they were housed in a Lager common social housing with shared toilets and showers and they had to work to support themselves. Now they see how migrants are treated and view them as freeloaders. The fact that they're muslim and also cause problems doesn't help either.

So I'm not at all surprised the Dutch voted with Wilders.

66fm472tjy7 · 2 years ago

> It is possible. Don't give them money and only provide basic shelter

In the EU you would have to reduce your welfare state to that level for your own citizens as well. The ECJ says[0]:

> It follows that the level of social security benefits paid to refugees by the Member State which granted that status, whether temporary or permanent, must be the same as that offered to nationals of that Member State

[0] https://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&do...

66fm472tjy7 commented on Starfield’s missing Nvidia DLSS support has been added by a free mod arstechnica.com/gaming/20... · Posted by u/mannylee1

Eisenstein · 2 years ago

Unlike DLSS, AMD's upscaling tech works cross vendor, so I am not sure what the big deal is. I have a 3080 and I don't notice any difference between DLSS and FSR on games, and Starfield is running fine and looks great at 4K with whatever the default settings are at 'High/Ultra'.

66fm472tjy7 · 2 years ago

In my experience, people are sensitive to different aspects/weaknesses in game graphics. For instance, I don't really notice any difference between 60 and 120 FPS. I am also not very bothered by traversal stutter.

What I AM sensitive to however, is temporal instability - it just draws my attention and hurts immersion. Here DLSS makes a huge difference, as shown here[0].

Therefore it is sad that Bethesda chose[1] to deliver worse than possible image quality for 80%+ of their PC customers[2].

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[0] https://youtu.be/ciOFwUBTs5s?feature=shared&t=336

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37452149

[2] https://archive.ph/mqPLK, nvidia has 75% market share here, but you have to look at the higher end parts only and exclude Intel as Starfield does not run at all on their GPUs[3]

[3] https://in.ign.com/starfield/193351/news/starfield-intel-fin...