someone can check me on this but that additional 8-pin connector is so common these days that I suspect the power supply is actually mis-listed as lacking it unless it’s a mega cheapo brand (but you really should be just buying from recognized brands if you’re unfamiliar with this stuff, cutting costs on power supplies is trouble)
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if you’re doing something that requires a second EPS connector, you are doing headass shit to your CPU
the top of the AM5 stack is claimed to have a 170W TDP (or whatever bullshit benchmark AMD is using). so maybe if you were using a 7900X/7950X at full tilt for an extended period, I guess? otherwise, everything else is within a 125W power envelope
I feel like they throw it on there because it would probably cost them more to re-engineer whatever X670 board they’re cutting down from than to include it
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It’s an old-ish compact-ish part that I bought in 2021, so I wouldn’t be shocked if there was some compatibility issue there, but the guy at Microcenter was so cock sure that it wouldn’t work I started just assuming it would. Google and Internet randos agreed with @notbov too so I’m willing to roll the dice on it.
Why does every PC guide go “well if your budget is X tier…”
Like… who makes decisions like that? I want the Toyota Camry of PC gaming. No bullshit. Can be kitted out to be nice for a little more. Will get me everywhere I need to go. Etc etc.
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is there any reason a laptop battery would lose 30% capacity in 24 hours
(tbh, it doesn’t feel like it’s getting any less running time so i might try the gauge reset)
some cells failed the battery management systems criteria so it’s pretending they don’t exist
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Junk disposal complete, and on the same day M3 Airs are released. Praise Jobsus
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i have a mate who’s offering me his old one at what i anticipate will be a price way below market rate… surely it’s still worth it coming from a 2015 minspec MBP right?
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Yeah it’s still worth it. I did a similar upgrade at the time from a 2016 dual-core MBP. You should notice a big speed improvement, plus the keyboard is more reliable
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powertoys shipped a feature for the keyboard manager that allows chording but the latency is, uh, noticeably worse than qmk on an atmega32u4
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do not use their keyboard manager, it runs in userspace and prevents keyboard input from using regular interrupts which is nuts and should never have shipped enabled by default
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i remembered that (got work to let me use regedit for making caps into ctrl) but thought, you know, maybe they’d fixed it since. nope
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The deeply discounted Surface Go 2 I got last Black Friday has really worked out for me as a portable Email and Word machine for my specific use case. Last night I completed a freelance job while I was cooking dinner, great stuff
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they’re killing off windows subsystem for android already
wait wasn’t that one of the selling points for windows 11?
only if you think being restricted to Amazon’s app store is a selling point
yes I know people were instantly sideloading apks, we know why it died, especially now that Google is shipping their own game player (let’s be real here, you’re only using Android emulation/translation if you’re either a dev or playing a game)
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sick a gauge reset shows we’re on 50k still
https://www.reddit.com/r/htpc/comments/1936n8g/dolby_vision_lldv_now_possible_on_windows_1011/
dolby vision playback with your pc handling it and sending it to any hdr10 display seems like a just a matter of time thing
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grabbed an AV1 rip for the first time to test hwdec. it works! absolutely no visible or computational difference from hevc on here. cool