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failed all of mine

whoops

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Originally posted by Flygon

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I want fixed pixel displays that can integer scale with Nearest Neighbour scaling.

It's absolute garbage that a 4K screen should feel the need to blur up a 1080p image, when it could render it just 2x as big without the filtering.
The filtering is pointless!

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I keep looking really closely at my new 4K TV's 1080p upscaled output and I swear it's Waifu2Xing it. You don't notice it from like, the kitchen, but up close it totally doesn't look bilinear or bicubic.

Samsung what even



What I really want is 24" 1080p 144 Hz IPSes to exist, but since that's not happening, I'd like it if 1440p 144 Hz IPSes weren't as expensive as they are. Once I sell my car and am no longer spending $900/month on transportation I think that'll be my next major tech purchase.

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I've heard season 2 is better than season 1. Even when season 1 had some low points it was still a better Star Trek than Discovery.

At least this isn't grimdark hard manly men marking hard manly man choices like CBS seems to think sci-fi has to be in the 21st century.

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I'll probably end up being an early adopter of Win11. I was an early adopter of Win10 as well, and I've honestly never had any issues with it, and it's only gotten better as time has gone on (and not in the "it's finally functional after five years" sense; rather, after improvements to the general Microsoft software stack, Windows serves literally every purpose I need other than one). So long as Office, Vivaldi, wt, VSCode, Discord, f.lux, and a handful of video games run on it at launch (which I suspect they all will, except maybe Riot Vanguard might need an update), I'll have no real reason to not upgrade.

Honestly I like that Microsoft is continuing to chase the macOS design philosophy without ripping it off too obviously. Apple has historically been great at making user interfaces that non-technical users can just reason their way through without much trouble, and Microsoft has lacked in that department in at least a few aspects in the past. Most of Windows' more unusual UX choices in recent years make a lot more sense when you watch a bunch of sales people try to struggle through basic technical things like "open the sound control panel and check your microphone volume" and realize that those of us who are posting on web 1.0 forums in 2021 are an extreme exception to the rule of "the user is generally completely non-technical and will throw their hands up in frustration and complain that computers are too hard if they see too many scary computer words on the screen at once".

Windows does UX stuff that's weird to us technical types like upgrading the OS overnight because the average user will never update their ancient, Facebook-ad-sourced-malware-clogged horror show of a Walmart discount tier laptop, then when they get pwned by every worm and exploit out there shell out $200 a pop to Joey E. Silicon's Electronics Butchery to run Malwarebytes on the poor then and then hand it back to them so they can continue posting the 21st century equivalent of chain letters on Facebook. It's also the core reason that the Year of Linux on the Desktop is a thing that continues to be a current_year+1 concept but that's probably a ramble and a half about user experience for a different thread.

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Apparently the TPM 2.0 thing might be a dev testing requirement and they just shipped their dev requirements as their prod requirements because their project managers are freaking out right now and that it's likely to be dropped back to TPM 1.2 or firmware TPM emulation as a minimum for the actual released.

Microsoft may be a megacorporation but they're not stupid.

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1440p at 144Hz seemed enough for me when I bought mine and it still seems more than fine now. I'm generally more into temporal resolution than spatial resolution, and going for increased pixel density on my desktop is generally a bad idea because then I'd have multiple monitors with different pixel densities, so my primary monitor is a 32" 1440p 144 Hz VA panel flanked by a pair of 24" 1080p panels (one TN, one IPS). I suppose if your goal is to increase pixel density then yeah, either a 1440p 27" or a 4K 30" is going to be a good fit, but if you plan on keeping your other monitors then multi-display UI scaling is absolutely raunchy in most operating systems (macOS being one of the few that's actually reasonably good at it in my experience).

I have a 1080 Ti which is honestly enough card right now for the stuff I play (League of Legends, Burning Crusade Classic, VALORANT, and recently I've added good ol' Battlefield 4 back in thanks to the 2042 hype) at 1440p targeting a buttery smooth 144 frames per second. Maybe in the near future once bitcoin collapses and gently-cooked 3080s enter the market on the cheap I'll buy one, as of right now the most demanding thing I expect to be playing in the near future is BF2042, and DICE has generally managed to make Frostbite run well on just about anything, so I'm not terribly concerned.

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I recently got onto a new ISP, because my old ISP was shit (cable companies that get into the ISP business tend to be terrible at providing internet services). Thankfully, I have moved into a new building and my apartment has fibre to the home, so now I have a nice gigabit symmetrical connection that terminates in my entrance closet. I run it into their ONT and connect to my switch via gigabit ethernet -- if I had a switch with NBASE-T ports I could get 1.5Gbps down/1 Gbps up but honestly, gigabit is enough.

Previously, my cable connection previously crapped out completely several times a month, and at one point they were claiming that the coax wiring in my place was messed up but it was actually their terrible modem. Props to Xkeeper for their graphical UDP ping tool, that actually got me past frontline support and into someone who was like "oh lol yeah looks like you have one of those faulty Puma chipsets, we'll send you a better modem". They had way too many cable connections on a really old shitty CMTS though so the connection there still sucked.

My new ISP (Telus) does building-wide fibre installs in all new buildings in Canada that they aren't locked out of, so it's not wonder that Shaw (shitty old cable company turned ISP) is basically bleeding their market share.

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Originally posted by Reaper Man

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They should've called it "big suck," because, well, it's mac os.

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Originally posted by Reaper Man

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Your sad attempt at humor is in fact quite pathetic.

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turn on your monitor

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I have this habit of just using technology that works best for the market segment I need it to and at the price point I want it to and that results in me being generally vendor agnostic

My desktop is a Windows machine, my laptop is an M1 MacBook Air, my phone is an iPhone, my switch is a Cisco Catalyst, my server is a VMware box with a couple Linux VMs on it doing Linux stuff, and my router runs OpenBSD.

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I have a few bits of software to wait on before I upgrade from 10 to 11. I suspect I won't actually make the jump until RTM because it's unlikely that eg. Riot will update the Vanguard kernel modules for 11 until closer to the RTM date.

So currently my desktop runs Windows 10 20H2, my laptop runs macOS Big Suck Sur, my server runs ESXi 6.5, my file server VM runs Windows Server 2016, my firewall runs OpenBSD 6.9 (nice), my build server runs Ubuntu Server 20.04, and my switch runs IOS 15.1.

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I've been listening to a lot of Dankmus lately. For those who haven't heard of him, he's an artist who makes electronic music based around Simpsons clips. His other YouTube channel, DankPods, on the other hand, is the one that keeps him fed and housed, so it gets way more frequent updates, but his Simpsons remix channel has some absolute bangers like - D I S S I N - Y O U R - F L Y - G I R L - and - W E - G O T - B E E T S -.

Other than that some old Queensryche bootlegs have been in my rotation recently, and the classic Iron Maiden album Powerslave. Also unironically listened to the first few Nickelback albums pretty recently since that's my official Canadian flaw. I won't link my favourite Nickelback tracks because I don't want to get shunned (they're "Never Again" from Silver Side Up and "Breathe" from The State.)

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Originally posted by Reaper Man

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Originally posted by Kazinsal

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turn on your monitor

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Oh really? How about you eat shit instead?

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eating ass is the only ethical form of consumption under capitalism

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I wanged up a bit of the system on my macbook by trying to force install some old unsigned 10.15 drivers from BOSS on big sur because I wanted to see if it would work and after rebooting and falling over because apparently rosetta doesn't handle kernel modules (makes sense, that would raunch to try to write an emulator for) it immediately booted into a recovery console and said "what even were you THINKING jeez now I have to undo your mistakes, click here to continue" and sorted out my big dumb stupid then booted back up and reopened all my programs to the exact state they were in before I decided I was smarter than the magic lightning demons

anyways if that was a windows machine I'd be booting into safe mode and manually deleting .sys modules and shit and probably would have to reverse engineer an INF file to try to undo it. if it was a linux I'd just flatten the machine and start over

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Do you like metal, and also Garth Brooks? For all zero people here who aren't me, here's an awesome cover of the Garth Brooks song so rad that CMT and TNN both banned the music video (and VH-1 started playing it) because it dealt with infidelity and they didn't want GB calling out the majority of their viewer base!

e: Just be glad I didn't embed any Nickelback here.

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my shitty former ISP is claiming they never received my modem return so they're dinging me for two hundred and fifty bucks

this is not an insurmountable amount of money but on sheer principle I will probably send them a box of rotten eggs once a month for the next two years and call it fulfilling a contract when they complain

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black hole CO, won't you come

and wash away the rain

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won't somebody think of the poor oppressed *checks notes* Gamers (tm)

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