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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • Funny, I was very much in camp NVidia until the RX480, which ran just fine. So did my Vega56, and my 6900 as well as numerous APU’s (one was a bit annoying for overscan on the attached TV). No driver installs, just what came with the OS.

    I’ve also got a tablet with an Intel Iris chipset that works fine with the in-kernel driver, and a laptop with an Nvidia chip that most of the time worked but periodically after a kernel update fails to output video requiring me to manually piss around with it and figure out why the stub didn’t build properly.

    Maybe you should stop being an ass and consider that when the product/brand has worked for MANY people, maybe the issue is you


  • Sounds like they probably last used AMD devices shortly after the ATI acquisition, and yeah for awhile the drivers were absolutely shyte (as they were with ATI).

    The second possibility it’s - as you mentioned -, running bleeding-edge (i.e. trying to run a video device just released). I got a 6900XT early when they came out and drivers were a bit finicky for maybe the first 1-2mo. I think I had to manually download the firmware files to get it running. However, I’ve had the same issues - or worse - with other vendors in that regard.

    Apart from that, then anything in the last half decade shouldn’t require any driver installs and minimum to no tinkering. It’s all







  • Yes and no. These are AC/DC adaptors so they’re rectifying the AC current (+/- AC to DC) and using transformers, resistors, etc to step down the voltage. Watts is V*A

    On a power brick, the numbers of a matter of how many volts it pushes out and how fast it can push them out (amps).

    The components inside your laptop need a relatively fixed amount of power at a variable amount of current. If it’s working harder, it may pull power now quickly using more watts of power. The components within the laptop are designed with that amount of power in mind and the resistance is fixed within a certain tolerance.

    The brick is similarly designed to provide a relatively constant amount of power at a maximal rate. You’ll notice that a brick heats up with use. Pull power through it faster than capacity and it’ll overheat and die.

    If you compare to home electricity, think of it like this.

    • 110V, 15A appliance in 220V, 15A circuit. That appliance is gonna melt something and catch fire. This is like a laptop with an over-voltage brick

    • 220V, 15A appliance in a 110V, 15A circuit, it’s probably not going to start or run properly. This is a laptop with an under-voltage brick

    • 110V, 30A appliance on a 110V, 15A circuit. It may run for a bit if it doesn’t immediately draw over the 15A, but when it does the breaker trips or a fuse pops (if they’re working). If you have a bad breaker or fuse that doesn’t trip in time, the wires in your wall will actually heat up and either burn out or set your house on fire

    In the home circuit, that 110V is the constant voltage and 15A is a maximum. You can plug in a 1500W ([email protected]) microwave, or a 20W ([email protected]) wall wart. Just like the circuit from the wall to your panel, your brick has a fixed volts and max amps. Your laptop has a fixed volts and variable amps.




  • I’ve tried to deal with several vendors regarding abusive domains and it’s pretty terrible in general. Everything is a webform with a generic responder - if any at all - and then weeks or months or nothing. Even domains impersonating proper commercial entities.

    • GoDaddy: here’s the real domain, now here’s the domain registered via you, cloned from the real domain (including text, corporate logos, etc with some additional chinese crap) and being used for phishing/scams. Their response: “fill out this bullshit form that goes nowhere”
    • CloudFlare: “uh, we don’t actually host the site (just the DNS and “protection” service that hides who does) sorry” Google: “we’ll continue showing the scam/phishing domain in top search results after your reports because apparently accurate search results aren’t actually our thing”

  • I’ve tried to deal with several vendors regarding abusive domains and it’s pretty terrible in general. Everything is a webform with a generic responder - if any at all - and then weeks or months or nothing. Even domains impersonating proper commercial entities.

    • GoDaddy: here’s the real domain, now here’s the domain registered via you, cloned from the real domain (including text, corporate logos, etc with some additional chinese crap) and being used for phishing/scams. Their response: “fill out this bullshit form that goes nowhere”
    • CloudFlare: “uh, we don’t actually host the site (just the DNS and “protection” service that hides who does) sorry” Google: “we’ll continue showing the scam/phishing domain in top search results after your reports because apparently accurate search results aren’t actually our thing”

  • I’ve tried to deal with several vendors regarding abusive domains and it’s pretty terrible in general. Everything is a webform with a generic responder - if any at all - and then weeks or months or nothing. Even domains impersonating proper commercial entities.

    • GoDaddy: here’s the real domain, now here’s the domain registered via you, cloned from the real domain (including text, corporate logos, etc with some additional chinese crap) and being used for phishing/scams. Their response: “fill out this bullshit form that goes nowhere”
    • CloudFlare: “uh, we don’t actually host the site (just the DNS and “protection” service that hides who does) sorry” Google: “we’ll continue showing the scam/phishing domain in top search results after your reports because apparently accurate search results aren’t actually our thing”


  • I loved how it referenced a ton of things from D&D in terms of both tabletop stuff and TSR novels etc, but didn’t try to cinematize the plot of any book in particular nor really focus on any particular book storyline etc.

    I honestly loved it. I felt it was a decent movie with lots of easter eggs and iconic lore/characters in it, that was made by somebody who appreciated the source material. This is as opposed to say, the Mario movie which felt more low “let’s toss in as many game characters and references as we can, then add some plot to that”. D&D was a savory soup with just about the right amount of spices, meat, and vegetables.

    Mario was still an ok soup, but it had less broth/base and an almost overwhelming number of chunks of stuff in it.