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by duffyjp 3y ago
I've never tried it, but in Windows you can have CUDA apps fall back to system ram when GPU vram is exhausted. You could slap 128gb in your rig with a 4070. I'm sure performance falls off a cliff, but if it's the difference
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by duffyjp 3y ago
I’ve been using Krita for a year or so now. At first I found the UI very confusing, but after learning the top bar is just as important as the side bar it really works. YouTube videos of pros using it will blow your mind. It’s really powerf
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by duffyjp 3y ago
I tracked down another source which has a much better image: the frog on a coin, giving a sense of scale. Very neat, absolutely tiny. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240220-worlds-tiniest-f...
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by duffyjp 3y ago
Not who you asked, but Asus was in the news last year for overvolting the CPUs on their AM5 boards killing both the CPU and motherboard itself.
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by duffyjp 3y ago
I have a sample size of one, so I really couldn't say. Problems with long boot times, Expo causing BSOD, context restore not working etc appear very widespread on the AM5 platform by what I'm seeing online. Are you on AM5? My ki
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by duffyjp 3y ago
This fall I bought a 7700X with an MSI motherboard through a Microcenter bundle. The board came out in late 2022 and the firmware is still atrocious. I found a single release from August last year that is actually stable, anything newer c
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by duffyjp 3y ago
There's definitely a trend of FOSS products and older trivially priced products being bought up by companies that re-release in subscription models. So frustrating. I always get recommendations on the Play Store for World of Goo, an a
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by duffyjp 3y ago
Siri must not like me, she never does what I want. "Hey Siri, turn off my alarm" (ignores me) "Hey Siri, turn off my alarm" (ignores me) "Hey Siri, I'm going to buy an Android" (turns off alarm, refuses to
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by duffyjp 3y ago
This is how it works in my town. My elementary school kids start at 7:20, but I checked their future high school and they start at 8:15. Logistically it makes sense-- high school kids can get themselves to school even if their parents have
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by duffyjp 3y ago
I drop my two elementary school kids off before the 7:20 bell every morning. We're too close for school bus service, but I checked the schedule and the first stops begin before 6:45.
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by duffyjp 3y ago
I had to pay $800 for an ambulance my son never actually rode, that someone else called. They administered a band-aide to his forehead.
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by duffyjp 3y ago
Oh dear, yes I did.
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by duffyjp 3y ago
This is great news. My kids are both dual citizens of the US and Japan, born here. I know when they turn 20 they'd pick the US if forced to and that has long stressed me out. They'd be giving up so much and would probably regre
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by duffyjp 3y ago
I always assumed fiber either worked or didn't, but that's not the case. My connection would drop several times a day and be down for around two minutes before the fiber gateway rebooted itself to correct the problem. I had coun
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by duffyjp 3y ago
I do have a pretty deep table at around 33 inches, but my secret is that I use a lapdesk for my keyboard & mouse. I set the whole thing on an ottoman I have under the table for my feet when I'm done. It's super comfortable an
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by duffyjp 3y ago
This will unavoidably sound like one-upmanship, but I've been using a 43" 4K screen in my home office for probably five or six years now. I'm on my second panel. The first one was a Hisense TV and the new one is an Aorus mo
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by duffyjp 3y ago
I'd recommend looking into the 5G home internet services all the major cell carriers offer. They're all cheaper than I was paying Spectrum for their minimum tier. None are offered at my address unfortunately but being in Seattle
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by duffyjp 3y ago
AT&T finally started offering fiber in my neighborhood this summer while Spectrum raised their minimum tier another $5. Needless to said I've seen a lot of AT&T vans around. Unlike most folks my experience with fiber has been
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by duffyjp 3y ago
This summer I bought two Intel 2TB nvme drives for $65 each. Not the newest tech but I've also never had a problem with an Intel SSD. I still have my original 40GB from 2012 in an old laptop and it works just like new. The company th
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by duffyjp 3y ago
I have an Optiplex with an i7-2600 and 1050 Ti in the basement. We use it to Parsec games onto my wife's laptop when she (rarely) gets the itch to join in with our boys playing games. Was the 9700K -> 7700X upgrade a nice jump? I&
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by duffyjp 3y ago
I tried measuring the wattage of my Pi Zero W when I got it but my Kill-A-Watt just registered 0 even when running stress -c 1. ;)
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by duffyjp 3y ago
I'm with you on this. I have the Pi Zero W and Pi Zero 2 W. These are IMO the ideal devices in their lineup. Maybe I'm just nostalgic for when computers had limitations but I love them. I have the old one running PiHole, (so D
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by duffyjp 3y ago
Yeah, I learned that lesson the hard way buying a 9th gen Intel chip and having literally zero upgrade path on the same board. My plan is to get the 7700X bundle, which for $400 with board and 32GB DDR5 is a steal, then when AM5 is replaced
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by duffyjp 3y ago
I'm looking to snag the Microcenter Ryzen 7700X bundle the next time I'm in Chicago. Intel dominates stuff like Cinebench but that's not what I use my computer for. The Ryzens are very competitive in gaming at a fraction of
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by duffyjp 3y ago
I suspect iPhones do both. I have a 12 Pro, and when taking video the file is much more stable than the viewfinder while recording.
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by duffyjp 3y ago
I tried removing a sign post in front of a photo of my car in Photoshop with their Firefly AI, and it refused to produce a result if I mentioned the model of my car. I can't imagine a situation where Adobe could get in trouble for gene
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by duffyjp 3y ago
I was excited seeing iOS 9.3+ on their requirements listing, but after digging my useless but 100% functional iPad 2 out of storage it won't install the app. :( I do use the built-in iPad as a second screen thing in MacOS with a still
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by duffyjp 3y ago
The only reason I buy nicer phones is for the camera. My kids are getting older and I'm not taking 100 photos a day anymore so when my iPhone 12 Pro is retired I'll likely get whatever iPhone SE is current and call it a day. Hop
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by duffyjp 3y ago
My wife's 5a was bit by a common "screen" completely dies for no reason bug. It's more like the phone is stone dead, but that's how Google describes it. Even though she was well past the 1 year warranty they replac
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by duffyjp 3y ago
There has only been one film I've been unable to find in our library system. It's an out of print foreign film and impossible to buy new or stream so I periodically would check eBay. Finally I found a copy at a good price and bo

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