I think I’m in a similar boat, except I bought the Core i5-6500. Snowdrop engine games are virtually unplayable for me, which I guess is a good thing.
The new Kinesis split board sold out on Drop in 28 minutes. By the time I got around to it this morning the only option was no Bluetooth, no ZMK with Dvorak (lol) so I’m going to wait for the custom switch options next summer.
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fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuckkkkkkk LGA
I hope 20 minutes of gingerly moving pins back into place is worth it
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As someone from the greater NYC area I can’t agree more
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trying to bend the little planes back into the airport
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LGA?
short version: pins in socket, not on CPU (PGA)
My experience is that PGA chips have few enough pins that if a fix is necessary, they’re large and few enough that fixing isn’t an absolute pain
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If Kinesis is adopting ZMK and contributing to it that’s a huge boon to it as the MIT license (and therefore Bluetooth-friendly) successor to QMK. Kinesis might have the longest running commercial reprogrammable firmware.
@Felix knows how to pick ‘em
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Windows 11 is… fine? I don’t really hate anything about it so far. It was one of the easiest migrations I’ve done to a new OS. The context menu thing is lame, but I mostly use keyboard shortcuts anyway.
What is giving me absolute hell is that, despite enabling hardware virtualization in my BIOS and turning on Hyper-V and WSL in windows features, I absolutely cannot boot a Hyper-V vm or initialize a WSL distro.
I’ve quadruple checked everything at this point. I guess I’ll try to forget the problem and mess with it tomorrow.
win11 recently decided to downgrade the AMD drivers on every boot, this sucks. don’t make me learn about group policies to blacklist updates
best(?) part is, if you do hide the driver update, it’s pinned to that specific version, and the next time they decide to bump it it’ll install and you have to blacklist it again. it’s supposed to learn not to install it if you roll it back but I just use the AMD installer
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Sounds like they’ve reached parity with Linux at last!
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I can’t wait for them to never make windows 11 usable but force every game developer to use some win 11 only directx to force me to upgrade anyway. not that I could if I wanted to, my computer tells me it’s not eligible for whatever reason
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I think they’re just going to be more and more catty about ancient hardware configurations, there’s definitely some middle managers at microsoft going “how can we force more people to upgrade without alienating our userbase,” and given that win10 was in many ways a better compromise than many people expected, they probably have goodwill to burn
which is to say, I basically would not consider win11 in any circumstance other than building a new machine
my shit ain’t even old, it’s an am4 machine. i remember seeing whatever nonsense it was about literally zero amd chips being eligible without some part that doesn’t exist or something, but I thought they patched that out if you got some driver update. anyway, fuck that, by the time I ever consider 11 I’m sure I’ll be on a new build.
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My fix is just running WSL1 and VirtualBox instead of WSL2 and Hyper-V for now. I don’t need my VMs to be /that/ performant.
Really funny to see the same old same old setup for Win 11. Apple surpassed this look and feel last century.
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hey it’s almost like 11 is a reskin and not a major version upgrade
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trying to diagnose this at the moment, excellent
update: it just hates gsync apparently
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Why would anyone go from 10 to 11, I only just switched to 10 this year, and I don’t plan on upgrading until 12 has been out for at least two years.
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An Iphone 13 is certainly nice. I do miss a headphone jack and trying to find
- bluetooth
- corded (so that a baby doesn’t swallow)
- earbuds like Apple’s
Actually trying to find something like this that is more than 20 bucks is surprisingly hard. Do i just buy a few 20 buck options and keep the best one?
I got weird ears and Apple style earbuds are the only thing that is comfortable and doesn’t cause ear fatigue.
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