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I hate to say that I think windows 11 has solved my issue. Performance feels smoother than before here. Assuredly, this game was bugged in its directx implementation so gains shouldn't be too out of the realm of possibility. If not windows than its AMD driver updates, though they would be way overdue for a 2017 game.

I'm looking forward to seeing the final product and having a nostalgic reminition.

I have an 800mbps connection, I think it's like 20mbps upload. Comcast, about $70 a month.

I really like their approach for ray tracing. It seems like the reflections are low res enough to allow the game to run at 60fps while still getting the job done nicely. I can see a little aliasing here and there but I'm sure in motion that won't be noticeable.

Finally adding some activities!

Epic v. Apple: Judge Rules Apple Must Allow Developers to Direct App Users to Outside Payment Options - IGN WWW.IGN.COM A judge has finally ruled in the Epic vs. Apple lawsuit, issuing an injunction in Epic's favor that will... Good new IMO.

You're right, I misread the graph when I first looked at it. Skimmed it too hard I guess. I have seen other benchmarks that show a difference though. This video shows a small but tangible difference in most of the games tested.

Researchers unveil ransomware detection and recovery method for SSDs WWW.TECHSPOT.COM The Register spoke with the researchers, who come from Inha University, the Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technology (DGIST), the University of Central Florida (UCF), and... Neat stuff, goes over my head but anything that slows down the spread of ransomware seems good to me.

I hate that I can't move the taskbar. I usually keep mine on the left, having it on the bottom again feels so weird! I found a registry edit that lets me move the taskbar but it doesn't really work when it's set to the side, presumably that's why they don't have this feature enabled right now.

Does mining use a lot of Vram? Seems weird that they would make the higher Vram only for miners, I didn't think Vram was super important for mining but I don't know a lot about the technical parts of it.

Windows 11 vs. Windows 10 Performance: Gaming and Applications | TechSpot WWW.TECHSPOT.COM Windows 11 is coming. We didn't plan on testing it just yet, but with so many Windows 11 benchmarks out there with mixed results, we thought we... Edit: just updated to win11 via insider preview. Windows has come full circle, from blocky to rounded to blocky and now rounded again.

What's DCA?

Damn that's pretty nuts. What made you decide to buy ADA initially? I'm curious to know more about anyone's general strategy with buying crypto. Do you just buy when you see a dip in something or did you get in really early? Is it just buy low sell high? It's hard for me to wrap my head around the investing strategy for crypto since there's nothing tangible to it.

ohhhhh haha damn I didn't get that at all. Been a long time since I've seen that movie.

There are design ideas but the problem is there is no funding for it. No one profits from cleaning anything up so no one is seriously working on it.

Looks like they set some things in motion.

Not exactly news, which is why this is in the entertainment section. I came across this video and it's actually really well made and informative on the subject of "bit flips" caused by cosmic radiation and how that has had all kinds of real world effects.

Germany wants phone makers to offer 7 years of security updates WWW.MSN.COM Your current phone might get security patches for several years to come, at least if Germany has its way. C'treports the German federal government is pushing the European Union to require seven years of... I like this.

If I understand it correctly, it looks like 12 RX6700s would get you about $45 per day, but that's only if the value Ethereum stays at least as high as it is now. Ecoin is crazy though, 5 years from now it could be worth ten times as much and we will all be kicking ourselves for not buying more, or it could lose most of it's value really fast after being outlawed or something unpredictable happens. Assuming ecoins stay at about the same value, I think u'd be better off with stocks but it might not be a huge difference either way. Maybe you could average a little more per day with the same investment in stocks, but it might only be 25% more or so. But with that said, it's a lot easier to grow your stock account because when your stocks go up in value, they're already stocks. When you make money mining, you will have to keep buying more GPUs and expanding your mining operation to see rising growth the way you would with stocks. Basically it's the difference between making percentage over time and making a fixed amount each day.

Yea it's been an interesting time to get into stock for sure. I tried some of the sort of popular pandemic stock ideas like cruise lines, never got into airlines, but that was pretty short lived for me. As you mentioned with the pandemic stretching out more and more it didn't seem like the simple bet it did in the beginning. Now, if I have any pandemic stocks they're still in the tech sector. TSM, for example, I probably wouldn't have invested in if the chip shortages hadn't put them in a position to have more business than they can take. I was lucky enough to have some Moderna stock (MRNA) and I sold it just before it started dipping at $480 with a stop limit. I only had a few shares, but with the rise it had as the delta variant spread was pretty great. I think I am going to put another ~4-5K or so into my stock account soon and put it all in one stock that I think can move up quickly, and keep a stop limit on it. I'd like to have one stock that I consider a more active/risky bet, but just one so that it's real easy to keep track of and manage. Long term though I think AI is going to be a big winner. My portfolio doesn't have a lot of AI stuff going on with it right now but long term that's probably where I will shift a lot of my focus.

The single share stocks I have are not so much for diversification but rather just there for it to be easier for me to keep an eye on. They're mostly stocks I had more of but sold all but one of just so I can see them when I check my stocks.

EToro is just for crypto right? With something like VGT the risk is basically pretty low. I think a stock like thet would only go down significantly if the entire economy tanked, which is always a risk, though as I understand it that's not going to happen anytime soon because the federal reserve is locked into a codependent relationship with the stock market now where the fed basically adjusts constantly to keep stocks happy.

I don't mine so I don't have any first hand experience but if you have the means to do it with enough capacity to add up to a meaningful amount, I don't think there's a lot of down side on a personal level. For me, I don't see a huge difference between something like mining and having money in stocks. Either way your spending money hoping to make money. Mining is probably less risky since the only way you could really lose big would be if you bought a bunch of GPUs and they lost their value before you could at least make enough to cover your costs which seems super unlikely right now. I guess the best question for you would be if mining is more profitable than putting the same money in some reliable stocks. With my stocks, 20k nets me about $2300 over a 3 month period. If you assume that as a baseline, what could you make with 20k worth of mining gear in 3 months?

IDK if most satellites are geostationary, but certainly a lot are. Correct that this only applies to low earth orbit, but that includes all of spaceX, lots of communications satellites, the international space station. It's a bit weird to add up though, because higher orbits like geostationary orbits are used for defunct satellites, so a lot of what's there is junk that was in lower orbits but was intentionally put into a graveyard orbit, so if you count defunct satellites there are probably more up there.

Nvidia Develops AI Algorithm to Improve Computer-Assisted Speech (guru3d.com) Interesting to see Nvidia working on something that doesn't really have anything to do with gaming specifically.