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Think I saw it on a youtube.

From memory the 13% difference in performance between 2080ti vs 3090 is with DLSS disabled. With DLSS enable it averaged a 30% improvement, at 4k and 1440p. At 1080p in many games there was not as much of a difference.

Though this showed how much chip real estate they were putting into tensor cores.

It gets murkier when you have the late gen higher model 2080tis that are power modded and the difference in performance becomes much less.

edit: Capping voltage so the boost clocks are limited to 1900 Mhz lowers the heat dramatically but hurts game performance relatively little. It hurts synthetic benchmarks dramatically though.

Edit: The 4080 series is just nuts for thermals and power. So I wonder if performance per watt will go negative lol.

DLSS is a retarded post-processing enhancement, though. And it's not necessary to play any game. And it can't be compared across generations anyway (I don't think the GTX 280 has "DLSS"). So saying it gives an additional "17% enhancement" is like saying the atari jaguar is 64 bit; it completely ignores industry standard measurement practices. Unless framerate actually increases when DLSS is on?

"Blast processing..." yeah, whatever.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jul 4 2022, 15:56

Made a weather checking shell script that works for the USA that uses national weather service data and displays a forecast graphic.
You can either set $COORD and $IMGVIEW for your coordinates to look for and image viewer to use, or you can enter them in a config file (~/.wthrrc).

.wthrrc format example (for looking up weather in death valley and using mcomix to view the charts):

CODE

COORD=36.53,-116.93
IMGVIEW='mcomix'

The script itself:

CODE

#! /bin/sh
# COORD and IMGVIEW variables can be pre-set in environment; otherwise read them
# from .wthrrc
CONFFILE="$HOME"'/.wthrrc'

if [ -e "$CONFFILE" ]; then
  if [ ! "$COORD" ]; then
    # allow for overrides at run-time
    IMGVIEWOLD="$IMGVIEW"
    . "$CONFFILE"
    IMGVIEW="$IMGVIEWOLD"
  fi
  if [ ! "$IMGVIEW" ]; then
    COORDOLD="$COORD"
    . "$CONFFILE"
    COORD="$COORDOLD"
  fi
fi

if [ ! "$IMGVIEW" ]; then
  IMGVIEW='mcomix' # default to my favorite viewer
fi
if [ ! "$COORD" ]; then
  1>&2 echo 'Error: I need a set of coordinates to find the weather for.'
  1>&2 echo 'Please either set $COORD or enter a value in '"$CONFFILE"'.'
  exit 1
fi
#### grab chart graphic ####
COORD="$(echo "$COORD" | tr ',' ' ' | sed 's!^!lat=!;s! !\&lon=!')"
WEATHERGRAPH='/tmp/weather.png'
GRAPHURL='https://forecast.weather.gov/'"$(curl 'https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?'"$COORD"'&unit=0&lg=english&FcstType=graphical' | \
  grep '<img src="meteograms/Plotter.php' | \
  sed 's!.*<img src="meteograms/Plotter.php!meteograms/Plotter.php!;s!".*$!!')" 2>/dev/null
#echo "$GRAPHURL"
curl "$GRAPHURL" > "$WEATHERGRAPH" 2>/dev/null
"$IMGVIEW" "$WEATHERGRAPH"
rm "$WEATHERGRAPH"

Example usage:
With coordinates and image viewer already defined in .wthrrc, where the script's name is 'wthr':

CODE

$ wthr

When you want to override coordinates for a single lookup without editing .wthrrc:

CODE

COORD=36.53,-116.93 wthr

Grabs a graphic like this:
[i.imgur.com] (IMG:[i.imgur.com] https://i.imgur.com/1j88Sq0g.png)

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jul 4 2022, 22:18

New Gmail layout is pretty nice - although I should stop using it and switch to something else, less Google, the better.

There's version 2021 and I still can't manually specify the line's angle in AutoCAD.

New Gmail layout is pretty nice - although I should stop using it and switch to something else, less Google, the better.

thunderbird or seamonkey.

I use seamonkey as both a browser and a mail client.

Also performs much better than gmail web client.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jul 5 2022, 07:42

damn I almost missed the fermi posting completely. cant let it end without seeing this gem though

Made a weather checking shell script that works for the USA that uses national weather service data and displays a forecast graphic.

I've seen mutliple people use these and its really neat but I can never find one that covers europe so I just stuck to curl v2.wttr.in

This post has been edited by cate_chan: Jul 5 2022, 12:49

I've seen mutliple people use these and its really neat but I can never find one that covers europe so I just stuck to curl v2.wttr.in

Probably depends on your country's weather service/api's. I didn't use an API though, just scraped webpages.
What part of europe, if you don't mind me asking? Might be fun to make something for it.

I'd forgotten the wood screw fake thermi card.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jul 5 2022, 17:58

thunderbird or seamonkey.

I use seamonkey as both a browser and a mail client.

Also performs much better than gmail web client.

That's definitely a thing I should do, I assume they also have support for multiple emails within the program.

An UPS is really the kind of thing that like insurance, make you wonder over time if it's really worth it, until the day it's not here and issues arise and you realize that you may have avoided lots of annoyances in the past.
In summary, waiting for my new UPS while getting another power outage around 3:00 this morning.

That's definitely a thing I should do, I assume they also have support for multiple emails within the program.

Yes; both do support multiple accounts at once.

My suggestion would be that if you're the kind that likes Pale Moon or older Firefox, Seamonkey is truly awesome. If you just want to check email, use thunderbird. Seamonkey has a few incompatibilities that they're working on fixing when compared with up to date firefox, although addons can mitigate most of the problems.

Thought: I got a Toshiba 8TB HDD. Formatted it btrfs, set up fstab, and am going to bed now. Will start using it for making backups tomorrow. Only backing up some of my disks unfortunately; I don't have enough storage for complete backups of everything. Will back up the laptop's disks to it, as well as my 500GB 15 year old boot drive.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jul 7 2022, 07:21

I got a Toshiba 8TB HDD.

So did I, also a Toshiba 8T, though I'm considering if I should have gotten the 16TB NAS instead (lower $/GB for me). Not sure if I can just plug it in and use like a normal drive.

This post has been edited by Ass Spanker: Jul 7 2022, 12:16

So did I, also a Toshiba 8T, though I'm considering if I should have gotten the 16TB NAS instead (lower $/GB for me). Not sure if I can just plug it in and use like a normal drive.

Mine's an N300 (SATA "NAS" drive).
I could easily use mine like a normal drive; I just decided that I really, really should start backing my shit up so this one's going to be a backup disk. My file structure is fucked enough already anyway, so I'd like to avoid using this for multiple purposes and making things even more confusing.

I would hesitate to buy ultra high capacity disks since they might use helium, and that will eventually leak out. When you need/expect the kind of longevity I do, it's something I don't want to risk. Though I guess toshiba claims that laser welding prevents the helium leaking out. IDK. Their 12TB to 18TB models are helium filled.

One of the disks this replaced was a WD green with over one million head parks logged in SMART.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jul 7 2022, 15:56

I would hesitate to buy ultra high capacity disks since they might use helium, and that will eventually leak out. When you need/expect the kind of longevity I do, it's something I don't want to risk. Though I guess toshiba claims that laser welding prevents the helium leaking out. IDK. Their 12TB to 18TB models are helium filled.

One of the disks this replaced was a WD green with over one million head parks logged in SMART.

How long do the helium drives last?

How long do the helium drives last?

I don't know, but it probably depends on how they are sealed.

Just based on experiences with helium in everything else escaping, I would hesitate to use them for over three or four years. Helium is really, really, really good at escaping from containers on account of how 'thin' it is.

If you are looking for an expert opinion though, look elsewhere; this is just a gut feeling I have whenever an extra layer of complexity and repair-hostility (as a side effect in this case) is added to a device. Also I want my drives to last > 10 years, so my expectations are pretty high.

If it's welded together, it might be okay for a while. The number I read a lot online suggests that helium drives might last five years.

Worth noting that any microfracture in any part of the drive will be enough for helium to seep out, and that just thermal expansion/contraction could be sufficient to cause this over time.

The fact that there's a SMART ID for "helium level" makes me suspect that I am correct in my assumption that it is a problem.

Lol, found a nice faux pas on WD's site.

Although not an approved use, we have demonstrated the seal’s effectiveness by immersing running drives in a tank of non-conductive cooling liquid.

Ignoring of course that helium atoms are much smaller than whatever liquid they could pick unless they're using liquid hydrogen (unlikely due to the whole 'explosive' thing and ridiculously low temperatures/high pressures needed).

Basically helium drives have one more possible failure mode than bog standard HDD's, and it is one that directly is caused by aging - as opposed to typical HDD's where just spinning them up occasionally to get the lubricant moving around can greatly increase their longevity/largely counteract the major effects of aging.

Additionally data recovery will be harder, since the heads/platters are designed for a lower clearance via helium, and just having a clean room won't "cut it" if you want to recover data from them. You may even have to cut your way into the drive. Seems like delidding a CPU but even harder due to needing to re-pack the helium and re-seal it. Or do it in a clean room that is literally filled with helium.

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Update:
Placed my first electronic parts (IC's, power supplies, that sort of thing) order since COVID hit today. This cart's been building up for two years.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jul 8 2022, 14:18

Got myself a new keyboard.
I will finally see where O and I are, though muscle memory did the job till now.
Also got new volume up/down buttons.

I will miss the bigger buttons and the better spacing on FXX keys of the old one, but I could have been victim of more forceful thinning.

I still feel it's somewhat idiotic the first thing that led me to this keyboard was the AZERTY photo.
Maybe other keyboards would have been AZERTY too, but the boxes were all featuring a QWERTY picture, and since even among a same type, keyboards can have a different buttons layout, it sort of is anti-sale (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/mellow.gif)

Got myself a new keyboard.
I will finally see where O and I are, though muscle memory did the job till now.
Also got new volume up/down buttons.

I will miss the bigger buttons and the better spacing on FXX keys of the old one, but I could have been victim of more forceful thinning.

I still feel it's somewhat idiotic the first thing that led me to this keyboard was the AZERTY photo.
Maybe other keyboards would have been AZERTY too, but the boxes were all featuring a QWERTY picture, and since even among a same type, keyboards can have a different buttons layout, it sort of is anti-sale (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/mellow.gif)

[support.pckeyboard.com] https://support.pckeyboard.com/knowledgebase.php?article=17

Unicomp sells AZERTY boards.

Also you can order 100% custom layouts from them if you so desire, so if you want some weird mixed layout that is doable.

Made in the USA. Dye sublimated printing, so the legends won't come off. Good customer support.
Full size F-keys.

My board (I didn't buy a 'ctrl' keycap for the caps lock position, but that's mapped to ctrl in the firmware).
[i.imgur.com] (IMG:[i.imgur.com] https://i.imgur.com/oowjdI7g.jpg)

Caveat: long shipping times (and maybe high prices?) to Europe (I assume you are in France?).

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jul 8 2022, 19:26

any keyboard is any layout if you just throw on blank caps, cheaper as well to pickup blank keycap sets

any keyboard is any layout if you just throw on blank caps, cheaper as well to pickup blank keycap sets

I wouldn't mind blank caps; I would have to buy a full set of caps though while three or four individual printed keys costs ~$5. I rarely look at my board, even though mine has custom 'F' and 'J' keys without homing bumps.

You will notice one blank "windows key" on this board, though. Couldn't think of something to put there, but the windows 8/10/11 logo is hideous and huge and wrong.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jul 9 2022, 00:33

Gmail giving me the shits, like I didn't even sign up for the double authentication but they activated it.

Now google is asking for location data access for my phone to prove where I am. I could cancel it but that is just cancer BS.


edit: dang, Shanghai police forgot to password protect their copy of the national citizen and crime database. Entire population of China got their identity stolen.

This post has been edited by EsotericSatire: Jul 9 2022, 12:54

I appreciate the virtues of a modular power supply, but the premium on them is just too high.

Upgraded from my circa 2015 430W PSU with a 115/220V switch on it to a more modern PSU today (EVGA 750W something or another). The 430W one was sometimes failing to turn on my computer, so I figured it was finally time.

Nice to not have to use a bunch of Molex -> SATA adapters for my hard disks. Ended up bundling the PCIe power and molex cords together and stuffing them back behind the optical drives since they aren't being used.

I still kept an 80mm exhaust fan ziptied to the rear vent of this PSU, though. Might be unnecessary but I've grown fond of it.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jul 9 2022, 19:47