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by Krom
Sat Jul 22, 2023 10:43 am
Forum: Tech Forum
Topic: Comments on new build components?
Replies: 40
Views: 21950

Re: Comments on new build components?

XMP is usually a safe goal to aim for to get the most out of a CPU/memory combo. It can produce a pretty significant performance uplift in some cases, just need to watch out for the BIOS doing stupid stuff mostly around voltages. Lots of them like to boost the voltage to the memory controller/system...
by Krom
Sat Jul 22, 2023 5:36 am
Forum: Tech Forum
Topic: Comments on new build components?
Replies: 40
Views: 21950

Re: Comments on new build components?

Always nice when it POSTs on the first attempt (though POSTing when XMP is not enabled yet almost doesn't count). I wouldn't put it past them to have renamed it after the exploit in order to avoid people looking it up on the internet, but that name is actually more descriptive and helpful for explai...
by Krom
Sat Jul 15, 2023 7:48 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Sound of Freedom
Replies: 41
Views: 14615

Re: Sound of Freedom

"child trafficking pizzagate blah blah yadda yadda yargh"

"So you want to do something about it?"

"No! ThAtS sOcIaLiSm!"
by Krom
Wed Jul 05, 2023 3:53 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Affirmative Action
Replies: 73
Views: 8056

Re: Affirmative Action

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by Krom
Wed Jul 05, 2023 8:33 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Feel Safer?
Replies: 48
Views: 7508

Re: Feel Safer?

So you agree that people having more guns does not mean it is more safe.
by Krom
Mon Jul 03, 2023 10:49 am
Forum: DBB Feedback Forum
Topic: Account recovery needs to be updated
Replies: 1
Views: 5105

Re: Account recovery needs to be updated

No.

Working exactly as intended.
by Krom
Thu Jun 29, 2023 2:58 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: What the world has come to...
Replies: 298
Views: 1233497

Re: What the world has come to...

TC: A lot of human form can be explained by amphibious evolutionary pressure. Don't compare us to land mammals, compare us to marine mammals. Basically at some point in our evolutionary history being able to swim well and hold your breath was a huge advantage. Things like fur and short legs don't he...
by Krom
Wed Jun 28, 2023 6:55 pm
Forum: DBB Feedback Forum
Topic: recovering my "Neo" account
Replies: 4
Views: 5485

Re: recovering my "Neo" account

Done.
by Krom
Tue Jun 27, 2023 3:17 pm
Forum: DBB Feedback Forum
Topic: recovering my "Neo" account
Replies: 4
Views: 5485

Re: recovering my "Neo" account

I can look in to merging the two accounts. Otherwise I can change the email on the old account to something you do currently have control over.
by Krom
Tue Jun 27, 2023 3:05 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Crush Depth
Replies: 17
Views: 1949

Re: Crush Depth

Right next to Hillary's missing emails.
by Krom
Thu Jun 22, 2023 3:20 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Crush Depth
Replies: 17
Views: 1949

Re: Crush Depth

It is difficult to feel much sympathy for a Pakistani billionaire. One does not become that wealthy in a country with so much poverty by being a nice or upstanding guy. That being said, with "catastrophic implosion" as the description of the accident then at least they probably died instan...
by Krom
Thu Jun 22, 2023 3:12 pm
Forum: Tech Forum
Topic: Comments on new build components?
Replies: 40
Views: 21950

Re: Comments on new build components?

Yeah, that app center is probably it. The thing about memory and motherboards with 4 memory slots that they don't tell you is that populating all 4 slots pretty much universally requires running it significantly slower than the memory would otherwise be rated for. The memory controller has to work m...
by Krom
Wed Jun 21, 2023 5:02 pm
Forum: DBB Feedback Forum
Topic: SSL cer
Replies: 5
Views: 7950

Re: SSL cer

It did at one time, probably gone from the htaccess now in a phpbb update at some point. Consider updating your bookmarks.
by Krom
Sat Jun 17, 2023 2:59 pm
Forum: Tech Forum
Topic: Comments on new build components?
Replies: 40
Views: 21950

Re: Comments on new build components?

I did a quick scan and it appears the 13900k is the clear winner in productivity with lightroom and photoshop. Likely do to its 24 core 32 thread architecture giving it the most brute force compute just edging out AMDs 7950X. There is nothing in a modern consumer socket that a NH-D15 cannot cool ade...
by Krom
Tue Jun 13, 2023 5:49 pm
Forum: Tech Forum
Topic: UPS battery backup recommendations
Replies: 6
Views: 5380

Re: UPS battery backup recommendations

I have some older cyberpowers that are doing fine, but I have a standby generator out back with an automatic transfer switch so about the longest my power ever goes out for is 10 seconds at a time. I can at least say I used to have some belkin units and they weren't good, float charged the batteries...
by Krom
Tue May 30, 2023 6:33 pm
Forum: Descent Development
Topic: Unofficial Unauthorized Descent 2 Texture Patch (UUD2TP)
Replies: 8
Views: 29394

Re: Unofficial Unauthorized Descent 2 Texture Patch (UUD2TP)

If you want a patcher, look up a command line utility called xdelta. If you bundle it with some pre-set command line scripts that run through the sequence you can get away with just patching.
by Krom
Tue May 30, 2023 8:33 am
Forum: Descent Single Player
Topic: Going Rambo on D1 level 6 (And other levels)
Replies: 409
Views: 803634

Re: Going Rambo on D1 level 6 (And other levels)

Maybe, but not only was fusion less powerful, but most of the d2 robots had more hp too, so even 60 power fusion isn't as dominating as it was in d1.
by Krom
Wed May 24, 2023 7:55 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: What the world has come to...
Replies: 298
Views: 1233497

Re: Mainstream media are reliable, FOX news is the bad guy?

If you stitch together a bunch of snapshots covering the entire lunar phase from earth it becomes totally obvious the moon is a sphere.
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by Krom
Wed May 24, 2023 4:15 pm
Forum: Tech Forum
Topic: Intel Arc (new question)
Replies: 7
Views: 7234

Re: Intel Arc (new question)

It is easy to get major performance upgrades in drivers when the driver quality is complete garbage to begin with. Don't get me wrong, nvidia and amd drivers are frequently full of all sorts of comical errata, bugs, performance regressions, etc. But nvidia probably has maintained 10x the amount of h...
by Krom
Sun May 21, 2023 5:46 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Uh-oh. Rob, my dahd found my stash.
Replies: 6
Views: 2338

Re: Uh-oh. Rob, my dahd found my stash.

And the Wisconsin GOP will probably double down in their refusal to legalize it because "progressive" states did it first.
by Krom
Wed May 17, 2023 3:30 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Mainstream media are reliable, FOX news is the bad guy?
Replies: 12
Views: 12928

Re: Mainstream media are reliable, FOX news is the bad guy?

Attacking the mainstream media also makes it easier to poison the well of information and get away with evil. Which is why the first step towards destabilizing or overthrowing a country in order to install a dictatorship involves attacking and then shutting down the free press.
by Krom
Sun May 07, 2023 7:47 pm
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Lawn thread.
Replies: 21
Views: 16837

Re: Lawn thread.

Yeah, we regularly treat all the working parts of the blower with ceramic coating spray. It is an inexpensive but more durable automotive hydrophobic coating, lasts longer than an oil or lube spray. Think like Rain-X but for an entire vehicle.
by Krom
Sun May 07, 2023 4:06 pm
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Lawn thread.
Replies: 21
Views: 16837

Re: Lawn thread.

So this winter we had late storm where a foot of snow accumulated and pretty much as soon as it ended it reached 33 degrees outside. Truly the worst case for a snow blower ever, it was sticky, it was wet, it was heavy and it was deep. I figured if our battery electric snow blower could handle that, ...
by Krom
Fri May 05, 2023 6:34 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: AB Tranny Beer
Replies: 114
Views: 71907

Re: AB Tranny Beer

It is a thing that literally happens in many parts of the world to this day, thinking it won't happen here is burying your head in the sand. In living memory here in America minorities have been killed for even less robust reasons. Like you know why conservatives in Florida are revising history and ...
by Krom
Fri May 05, 2023 3:24 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: AB Tranny Beer
Replies: 114
Views: 71907

Re: AB Tranny Beer

Seriously, what the hell would it even mean to become a Christain country? Please spell it out for me. They get more cover/justification/validation/mainstreaming for their hate and bigotry. Basically they can declare <oppressed minority group> is not christian or are against christian values, which...
by Krom
Thu May 04, 2023 6:21 pm
Forum: Tech Forum
Topic: D3 and some possible stability tweaks
Replies: 8
Views: 8970

Re: D3 and some possible stability tweaks

IIRC you can avoid that particular crash by disabling weapon effects in the graphical settings. (It is generally fine to leave them on in single player, but one should always disable them during multiplayer since their absence is an actual competitive advantage.) I'm not particularly confident it is...
by Krom
Sat Apr 29, 2023 5:32 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Tucker Carlson got fired.
Replies: 24
Views: 2819

Re: Tucker Carlson got fired.

7% may as well be 700%, if all the conservative media silos cover are the violence then they are all violent in their minds. Just like how Tucker Carlson cut and edited the footage to portray January 6th as orderly and peaceful which immediately became their unquestioned reality.
by Krom
Sat Apr 29, 2023 5:21 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Where have all the feminists gone
Replies: 197
Views: 339219

Re: Where have all the feminists gone

Top Gun wrote: Mon Apr 24, 2023 7:12 pm That counts as a threat, right? Can we get this psychopath out of here?
Yeah, mystery2018 will not be joining us for at least two months.
by Krom
Fri Apr 28, 2023 4:49 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Tucker Carlson got fired.
Replies: 24
Views: 2819

Re: Tucker Carlson got fired.

Just vomiting up another laundry list of imaginary grievances his handlers have goaded him into a frothing rage over as usual because he is incapable of critical thought.
by Krom
Wed Apr 26, 2023 3:37 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: AB Tranny Beer
Replies: 114
Views: 71907

Re: AB Tranny Beer

Top Gun wrote: Tue Apr 25, 2023 6:41 pm It's a slur and you goddamn well know it. You are such a bigoted piece of ★■◆● it's disgusting.
Either his head is so far up his bigoted ass he doesn't know he is using a slur. Or he knows it is a slur and is trying to play stupid (which would of course come most naturally).
by Krom
Wed Apr 26, 2023 3:33 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Tucker Carlson got fired.
Replies: 24
Views: 2819

Re: Tucker Carlson got fired.

Well you voted for the supreme liar into office so you don't have a leg to stand on in the complaint department Despite this whole thread being about how the biggest right wing "news" organization lies and makes ★■◆● up, how they got caught lying and making ★■◆● up so badly it cost the th...
by Krom
Tue Apr 25, 2023 3:08 pm
Forum: DBB Feedback Forum
Topic: SSL cer
Replies: 5
Views: 7950

Re: SSL cer

The SSL certificate is handled by the web host, it is only valid for 3 months at a time (Let's Encrypt), but it automatically renews. If you are seeing an expired certificate your browser may not be configured correctly. The current certificate is valid from Wed, 12 Apr 2023 09:04:58 GMT until Tue, ...
by Krom
Sun Apr 23, 2023 7:42 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: I don't think ai is a threat in the way you think it's going to be
Replies: 89
Views: 12609

Re: I don't think ai is a threat in the way you think it's going to be

You overrate humans a little. In multiplayer games I've done plenty of ass kicking and also received plenty of ass kicking to know that people (myself included) fall into the same or even worse predictable behaviors than AI. We all have a "moveset" we develop and practice that we apply to ...
by Krom
Sun Apr 23, 2023 10:27 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Where have all the feminists gone
Replies: 197
Views: 339219

Re: Where have all the feminists gone

Looks like a duck, moves like a duck, quacks like a duck... Oh I see, it must must be "discussion". :roll:
by Krom
Sun Apr 23, 2023 9:32 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Where have all the feminists gone
Replies: 197
Views: 339219

Re: Where have all the feminists gone

*sigh*
Krom wrote: Sun Apr 23, 2023 9:27 am * crosses off the transphobia square on this weeks fascist bigot bingo card.
by Krom
Sun Apr 23, 2023 9:27 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: AB Tranny Beer
Replies: 114
Views: 71907

Re: AB Tranny Beer

* crosses off the transphobia square on this weeks fascist bigot bingo card.
by Krom
Sun Apr 23, 2023 9:24 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Thank God
Replies: 44
Views: 4932

Re: Thank God

I used to live on a dangerous/slippery corner and have helped more than a dozen people who either ran off the road and rolled their trucks or got stuck or were lost in the middle of the night (before cell phones and GPS) and I never needed or carried a gun for any of it. It is really simple: The peo...
by Krom
Wed Apr 19, 2023 3:26 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Dominion verses Fox News
Replies: 34
Views: 4916

Re: Dominion verses Fox News

And Vander, stop being a mark for NPR as the fuckers are lying to you. Wrong. NPR and PBS are some of the most trustworthy news organizations still operating, just because they don't exclusively reinforce your personal views doesn't mean they are lies. In fact the lies are generally the stuff that ...