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Got 100% achievements the other day.

Since It's Christmas I decided to print this "Major Award" from the movie A Christmas Story.

Wish I had tan filament so it would look more realistic, I didn't want to paint it so the light would shine through.

My guess, this will cost $1999.

On 07/12/2022 at 14:24, UltraMega said:

Good to hear that they're making good advances on drivers. Still a long road ahead for intel, but we're all hoping for more competition in the GPU market so I'm definitely routing for them. 

They actually didn't make many advances.  They packaged DXVK with the driver.  DXVK is what Steam Proton uses to convert DX to Vulkan for playing Windows games on LInux.

This video mentions using a translation layer.

The readme for the driver shows the open source license for DXVK.

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SOFTWARE: dxvk

The zlib/libpng License

Copyright (c) 2017-2021 Philip Rebohle

Copyright (c) 2019-2021 Joshua Ashton

This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software.

Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose, including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it freely, subject to the following restrictions:

– The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be appreciated but is not required.

– Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be misrepresented as being the original software.

– This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution.

I guess this will have to wait...

This deal is only being done to convince reluctant regulators to allow the Activision merger.

I just switched from KDE to Gnome, and from Fedora to Nobara Linux...well Nobara Linux is still Fedora just with gaming tweaks.

Nobara Linux is maintained by Redhat employee GloriousEggroll,  he also maintains Proton-GE.

14 minutes ago, Avacado said:

So yea, it happened again tonight. Crazy thing is that the officer that responded is a patient of mine. When I left the scene he was doing a field sobriety test on her. You can't hear the clicking over the music, but I did have my indicator on. She was also about 8 feet past the stop sign she had. Puritans have at it  

 

That almost happens to me on a regular basis while turning onto the street I live on.  I'll have my signal on, but they'll still start to pull out right when I get in front of them as I'm making the turn.

22 hours ago, Mr. Fox said:

This is the system I am struggling to make viable on Linux. I think it may be something bugged in the ACPI implementation by the dumb-dumbs at ASUS on the Strix ZX690-E. I cannot get the CPU turbo clocks to display correctly in any desirable monitoring tools. CPU-X shows the 12900KS clocks to a fixed 5.4GHz (correct) under load, still not correct at idle, but all of the "normal" things I use show either a fixed 3.4GHz (c-states disabled) or a fixed 4.1GHz (c-states enabled). I have tried KDE, POP!_OS and ZorinOS and all have the same issue. I have tried passing a variety of kernel parameters in GRUB. I have installed different packages intended for monitoring clock speeds and it is hit or miss. The couple that actually work correctly are worthless to me because they are CLI stuff I can't use the way I want to. I also wonder if it is something with the 12900KS not being recognized properly like a 12900K and 13900K. At any rate, this is a classic example of a thing that make noobs believe that Linux is not a viable replacement for Windows, and on this system it probably isn't solely for this reason. I would not embrace Linux if this were an example of normal, but I have used it enough to know it is an exception (albeit a more common problem than desired).

 

 

Your problem might possibly be fixed when Kernel 6.1 is released.  It's going to have a new ASUS sensor driver.

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This ASUS EC Sensors driver not using the WMI interface proved to be faster, more flexible, and all-around better than the WMI-based driver. ASUS also abandoned the WMI interface moving forward with their latest products.

Linux 6.1 HWMON Nukes The Short-Lived ASUS Driver, Other Monitoring Improvements

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On 23/11/2022 at 02:22, bonami2 said:

Oh well not canada. There alot less avalaible but you can still get some model and aliexpress ship worldwide.

 

IP protection is the reason we pay 500k for a cancer treatment that cost 2k. Same for high end cloth that are made in india but branded for 3k.

As much as i respect engineer and inventor as much as am exhausted of scam.  Just happened in canada. We have some medical treatment that jumped from 10k years to like 400k $$ Because the Patent owner decided so.

If you spent years and a lot money inventing a really cool product that you patent and hoped to earn a living selling, how would you feel if some chinese knockoff of your product started selling for half the price.

We would be better off if we made an effort to not buy products made in China.  We could enrich our own economies by being producers instead of only being consumers...plus it could have national security implications if China continues to swallow up the world's manufacturing ........why we continue to enrich the CCP I'll never know.  Have a little pride in our own countries and stop buying their junk.

So you're buying a piece of hardware that is intentionally gimped...then you have to pay extra for it to work properly.

The Datacolor SpyderX also does this.  They sell "multiple" models, but they are the exact same hardware.  The software locks features based on the serial number of the device.  This can be bypassed by using an open source option instead of using their software.

On 23/11/2022 at 02:21, UltraMega said:

Not compared to the i9, also 32 threads. 

 

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Except that has 16 normal threads and 16 baby threads....which, to me, is a sketchy way of claiming "32 threads"  If using something like boinc that runs 1 application on each thread simultaneously, the apps on the baby threads would take longer to compute.

It's not really competition if they're only available in China....and that's right where they need to stay.

I'm sure adding RGB would have given you 15HP.

On 17/11/2022 at 00:52, schuck6566 said:

lol, Seriously? Naughty Dog,The company that made Uncharted and The Last of Us series "Naughty Dog, LLC is an American first-party video game developer based in Santa Monica, California. Founded by Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin in 1984, the studio was acquired by Sony Computer Entertainment in 2001." Still wanna talk about Corp's buying gaming studio's and making their content exclusive to their own platforms?

Edit: Oh wait! Let's blame Microsoft for Blizzard games not being available already.... I wonder how this will get worked into the Sony scare tactics? Did MS put Blizzard up to it?

Blizzard and NetEase break up, ending support for key titles in China

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Blizzard is splitting with Chinese licensing partner NetEase and will be suspending most Blizzard game services in mainland China as a result.

 

The games you listed were never on another platform.  I get it, being a Linux guy, I don't like it either, but trying to justify Microsoft's purchase of Activision by using a "whataboutism" isn't the way to go.  If you don't like Sony doing it, then you shouldn't like Microsoft doing it either.

5 hours ago, schuck6566 said:

Really??? I'll just run 1 example by in argument against that, The Uncharted Franchise....

Epic Game store launched in 2018,

The First Uncharted game launched in 2007, Finally in 2022 Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection, a remastered version of A Thief's End and The Lost Legacy, was released for PlayStation 5 and Windows PC.

Sony's been at it longer than Epic

But none of those games were on another platform first, then bought by Sony and then taken off of other platforms, which is the fear of Microsoft buying Activision, since Microsoft has said in the past that Microsoft content would eventually be exclusive to their platform.

My first console was the Atari 2600.

I plan on going full retro by building a full size arcade cabinet.

On 13/11/2022 at 08:52, schuck6566 said:

Meanwhile.....

Forspoken will be a PlayStation 5 exclusive for over two years

WWW.GAMEBYTE.COM

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Forspoken will be a PlayStation 5 exclusive for over two years. Sony has confirmed the news in a recent PS5 trailer.

 

The Epic game store business plan is contagious apparently.

Here's something you don't see everyday on a tech site.

My girlfriend wants me to fix the straps on her "boulder holders" so she doesn't have to keep adjusting them, and since she says I can fix anything, I now own a sewing machine.

Lets try again.

On 09/11/2022 at 01:02, schuck6566 said:

"and for PC operating systems"  Ok, Now I'm at a loss. Are they gonna say the same thing when Sony goes to buy a company that makes games for pc also? THAT would seem more likely to me....

I'm guessing they would if they spent $69 billion on the company they purchase.

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In particular, the Commission is concerned that Microsoft may reduce the ability of rival providers of PC operating systems to compete with Microsoft’s operating system Windows, by combining Activision Blizzard’s games and Microsoft’s distribution of games via cloud game streaming to Windows. This would discourage users to buy non-Windows PCs.

Seems Like the EU is classifying consoles as PCs.  I doubt they're talking about Linux when mentioning "non-Windows PCs."

On 09/11/2022 at 01:02, schuck6566 said:

"and for PC operating systems"  Ok, Now I'm at a loss. Are they gonna say the same thing when Sony goes to buy a company that makes games for pc also? THAT would seem more likely to me....

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17 hours ago, Fluxmaven said:

 I'll go with other Meguiar's stuff unless anyone else has any other good recommendations 

 

 

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