that’s like the only reliable way to kill a GPU, I wouldn’t
yeah you’re right, I miscalculated
isn’t the reference spec for a 1080 Ti 250w?
uh why did it post that reply as an edit of my previous post lmao
reader, upgrading the power supply fixed it, and also let me do slightly better cable management and therefore fit in the second case fan, and everything is now running noticeably cooler to boot
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is Windows 11 really out in a goddamn week or so
my review of 11 as an idiot who joined the insider dev ring so I’ve had installed since it went live: it bad
the new context menu: it bad. I get making the most used options the most visible but it cuts out shell extension stuff (thus far) and then you can just get the old context menu with another click so why are you wasting my time
the new taskbar: it bad. why can’t I move it
the new start menu: it’s okay. I wasn’t a big start menu user but being able to use it as a app launcher/drawer is way better than has been in the past
my main area of complaint is I noticed my framerates just slowly going down over time and to get frames back, all I had to do was install a new chipset driver and disable TPM
you know, the TPM thing that 11 requires
that thing
I know this is because the main new thing in 11 on the backend is hypervisors and extra security stuff but they’ve already announced that there’s going to be versions of 11 that don’t have all the security stuff on because gaming for SEA markets so why can’t you just let me turn it off
the thing I’m mostly angry about is that they made the volume mixer a whole ass settings page instead of the nice little window it is in 7/10
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It’s really damning that I’m having a much better time using Office downloaded from the Mac App Store (with Teams and OneDrive running through an x86 translation layer) than I did on Windows 11 for a day.
I wonder if performance would be any different with a hardware TPM. I’m still sitting on two modules I bought before the prices went up.
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I’ve found the Mac versions of Office to always be a joy to use over their Windows versions. Not that I’m an Office power user by any means.
I am struggling to conjure an image of an Office power user so maybe it’s me. I resent knowing PowerQuery and PowerAutomate better than actual scripting languages but them’s the shakes.
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the Office team has been in a three-decade-long cold war with the Windows team over GUI concepts so it makes absolute sense they can work in some other platform
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OneNote makes a lot more sense in this frame lol
lord, I still use OneNote because, well, it syncs with my phone, but they have basic window compositing bugs in both the desktop and Windows Store app that should never have been shipped
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I always kept a Windows machine specifically for working with Powerpoint because the OSX versions were truly awful as of say 5 or 6 years ago, but I guess maybe it’s different now and no one should ever use Powerpoint anyway.
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Anyone want two asus hardware tpm modules
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It’s very sad/funny that what I’d actually want is Sticky Notes with a file system (Obsidian) and OneNote is basically authoring a wiki for one.
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this is apparently an AMD-only issue and doesn’t affect everyone and I have the double whammy of being on an unsupported CPU
11 just doesn’t like the AMD fTPM for some people 
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I hope it’s ironed out for Zen 4, that’d be a helluva caveat for what should otherwise be the runaway best choice.
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as someone that started with 3.1, and went through the 3.11, 95, NT4, 98, Me, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10 bootcamp, it almost metronomically was every second win version you should have/get, and they tried to break the curse by omitting 9, so 11 is in fact the real 10, and as such a waste of time, until proven otherwise.
Hint: From here, it doesn’t look like that!
(says me, who noticed after moving from popOS 20.04 to Ubuntu 21.04 last week, that the filemanager sometimes shows… interesting behaviours, fully aware of the awful intermediate versions you always, always, ALWAYS should skip… i skipped the x.10 versions for more than a decade, and still am dumb enough to try (uneven x).04 versions, which sane people do not do, ever. (installs 21.04 
it’ll be better this time!) … so who am i to preach, huh!)
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still use onenote but self consciously, it’s like this awkward thing i have Actual Notes in and lists for grocery shopping etc.
i should probably switch to obsidian + google keep or ios notes
first impression is that this was a good call