Is there a way to use my MBA keyboard/trackpad to control my home theater PC?
Iām imagining an endless series of cross-industry meetings where nobody can agree on a shared standard for DDR5 memory timing and at the last minute they decide to split the baby with a horrible workaround.
Or even more likely, nobody thought about this at all in the first place, and Asus ended up quickly throwing together a workaround after realizing some DDR5 RAM was already shipping that wasnāt within the expected timing envelope.
Shader compilation jank is in the same class of problem. GPUs donāt want to commit to a shared shader bytecode standard, so it becomes the responsibility of the driver to paper over the disagreement at runtime. Which does not bode well
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weāll never escape shader jank because a lawyer will have a fever dream and declare compiled shaders to be company IP
(I have unironically read this as a reason as to why people wouldnāt post shader compilations for Cemu on reddit, though thatās probably different because a lawyer probably could argue that and win. somehow.)
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anyone know much about windows colour profile stuff
i got a new display a couple of months back and windows ui colour always looks a bit washed out, but games and video look perfect - can even see a difference between the actual video output and the scrubber preview on youtube for example. i just kinda shrugged my shoulders but iāve had cause to run another copy of windows in hyper-v today andā¦ my vm has significantly better colours than the host lol.
thereās a ādell [whatever the model number is]ā colour profile installed by default, by the look of itā¦ can you just nuke these and run a default?
Tabs, especially YouTube tabs, in Vivaldi keep arbitrarily crashing on my desktop (whereas this isnāt nearly as big of a problem on my laptops ā which have the same amount of RAM as my desktop). Vivaldiās support forums donāt really have shit to go off of. Is this a bad RAM problem or something I can potentially resolve reconfiguring some shit? Iād rather not have to buy another set of RAM if I can help it.
if you suspect your ram is sketchy iād def run memtest86+ for a bit and see what happens
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aha, this was it.
i just added the normal srgb profile and suddenly everything looks good
nice iāve put up with this dogshit for two months needlessly
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Synergy is old, oh paid-for now?? but one of the cross-OS screen-sharing apps is where Iād start looking
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Sometimes itāll pull the monitor color profile along in the windows updates like the other drivers.
Since itās ok for games and washed out in windows, are you running hdr on a non hdr monitor by any chance?
lol
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gksudo already exists and Iād been using it for years to have a shortcut to spawn an elevated powershell from a windows terminal when Iād normally be working in msys bash or wsl bash and needed to run a system command
feels like ever since wsl2 shipped theyāve been focusing on making all my windows unix workflow hacks somewhat normalized
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Wheel in the sky keeps on turning
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oh right itās gsudo, gksudo is an actual Linux thing
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wait for the marvelesque ending sting
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i recently bought this
https://computers.woot.com/offers/new-lenovo-15-6-fhd-gaming-laptop
i really love this thing. the downside is that it only comes with 8GB DDR5, but SSD and RAM are very easily user-serviceable so i got a crucial 2x16 from amazon and popped that in there and after a maybe 30-second memory training black screen (shout out to parker), i got logged in and system info shows 32GB now.
itās powerful but not too heavy/bulky, and the gamer aesthetic is thankfully minimal.
pretty stoked, iām going to use this for music stuff as itāll be easy to take with me and get VST sounds through the MODX8
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Kulagin said that governments in jurisdictions other than Canada have been much more open-minded about the Flipper Zero. One such body was the New Jersey Cybersecurity & Communications Integration Cell, which contacted the device maker directly following the rash of misleading videos. After investigating, the agency in January 2023 said the Flipper Zero ācan be used as a positive, legitimate, and convenient way for pentesters and curious minds to learn about, access, and dissect signals and protocols.ā
i use my flipper primarily as the worldās worst universal IR remote but i did get my garage doorās rotation in it
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I cannot imagine an entire country being more wrong about something than the state of New Jersey
and yet
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the Canadian government has been incredibly humorless about this stuff since a year or two before the pandemic, someone started whispering in their ear about tech policy and they hard reverted to neurotic protectionism
but Iāve beaten that drum enough
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