Recent content by sedrosken

It got "escalated" over the weekend, and yeah, now they want me to pay for a replacement board. Basically as much as if I were to go and buy another handheld entirely. I get that I'm the one who messed it up, and I understand the supply crunch we're in, but I'm simply not paying that much for...

Nothing more US-american than celebrity marriages and blowing off your fingers with pretty explosives while you eat your weight in various meats. I stayed home and played a video game. Been getting pretty into Project Diablo 2, got a Vengeance Paladin build going. Very squishy in Hell, I need...

I've been running one of those cheap switches with dual 10Gbit RJ45 transceivers for well over a year, feeding both my server and my desktop. The 10Gbit link is only useful for local transfers between them, but it's been going strong for all that time, 24/7 aside from the odd power outage. One...

They seem to have just silently moved onto the "repair" part of the RMA. No update email, nothing asking for payment, they say it'll be done on the 8th. Interesting.

I'm feeling a lot more optimistic today, actually. I've had friends who've apparently managed to get away with low-key kind of scamming new monitors out of them in exchange for some pretty heavily-used ones they bought off ebay one time that apparently still had a scrap, a crumb of warranty time...

Ally's due to arrive at the ASUS shop today. Bracing for whatever I may end up being told. What I imagine is most likely is being told that they'll fix it, but that I'll have to pay for the motherboard out-of-pocket.

Pretty sure that's running Rhythmbox with root permissions since you'd have to call the script with sudo or what-have-you. Not good practice by a long shot but also unlikely to be something that gets you pwned from within your LAN. I also wonder if that's effectively just turning off the...

Well, thanks for that nice dose of dread. Now I guess I really do have to hope for a miracle.

I, um. Actually did buy one of those open-box ROG Ally Xboxes. I got it yesterday. I figured if I sold my Retroid Pocket and some of my hoard of DDR4 it'd just about cover it, and my birthday is next month... I immediately ripped the battery connector off the board disconnecting it to get the...

My guess is that it'll be adequate, but not perfect on up to Half Life Alyx, but anything after, who knows.You have to push two fairly high-res displays at a high enough framerate to not make people sick, after all.

I agree with you that GoG is much closer to ideal, but I frankly don't think it's realistic to expect corporate publishers to ever go to a no-DRM world unless they're dragged kicking and screaming the entire way by some governing body or other. Pandora's box is already open on that front. I'm...

A socketed CPU and PCI-E slot would have made it a fundamentally different sort of machine though, one that'd need adequate cooling and power for the stronger hardware it'd support. It'd nix the form factor and silence of the machine. Maybe that'd be for the best, but it'd be a different sort of...

I don't disagree with that interpretation. It seems a lot of people are taking this as a betrayal. I honestly didn't realize it performed that badly until I saw GN's review with benchmarks, and boy, is this just embarrassing. This loses to a stock PS5. The CPU loses to an R5 3600. The GPU is...

On one hand, I get it, but I personally see the last no-bullshit version of Windows as 2000. And even that had SOME bullshit, i.e. the integration of Internet Explorer.

I was f*cking kidding. Holy crap. It really didn't even make it to Friday.