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Wife bad

Maybe

Bit hard to tell due to the resolution of the image, but it looks like some traces may have come up with the IC.

Sometimes, pads can still be left behind on the PCB while no longer being connected to the vias underneath them.

Read It

https://thisweekinvideogames.com/review/marvels-wolverine/

(In case anyone was wondering why someone woulf say that in response to a comment on a post that is a link to a YouTube video)

It really did play like a finished game and I would have been happy even if it never evolved past what it was.

Pretty excited to go back and see what 5 years worth of updates did, I stopped playing that first year and told myself I wouldn’t touch it until 1.0

Haven’t played since release, but it is indeed a crafting / survival game.

There is/was a Raven who provides tutorial to get your bearings.

There are quests, but not in the same manner as a big open world RPG / there is no formal quest log.

There are 7 bosses that you’re working your way through each material age to be anle to fight. Advancement largely involves finding and talking to the right NPCs in order to learn how to proceed.

It’s really quite fun, game became a problem for my partner and I as we kept leaving work early to go play and then staying up far too late playing every night. We ate a lot of freezer dinners those first few weeks.

I went AMD on my most recent upgrade (9070XT) for a few reasons.

Price was a bit of a consideration, but I could have easily swallowed the cost of 5070Ti.

Minimizing friction with a potential Linux transition was a big one.

Above all else, though, Nvidia doesn’t feel like a gaming company anymore, they’re an AI company. With the effort that has gone into DLSS5 and Framegen, it feels like they envision a future where the visual aspect of games is going to be left to be hallucinated by their cards.

I prefer my art made by humans. Games looking like games is a big part of why I play them, the limitations in each generation of graphics have forced the hand of many creative solutions and workarounds that lend themselves to unique visual styles.

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Well, thermal performance in terms of silicon temperature is going to vary based on the heatsink of the card you get.

That’s going to be irrelevant to the heat introduced into the room - a larger heatsink will bring down silicon temperature, but you’re still moving the same amount of thermal energy.

What you are actually interested in is power efficiency, which is also missing from the article.

Based on average cards / without overclock: 5070 uses 250W 5070Ti is up to 300W 9070XT is around 305W

It stands to reason that a 9070XT will heat up your room more than the weaker 5070, but about the same as a comparable 5070Ti

Because it is

This impressed me: GPT-5.6 Astra turned Zork (the classic 1977 text adventure) into a full 3D playable action-adventure game It kept the original plot & puzzles, added fight scenes, and built all of the characters & environments directly in Threejs code

There’s all kinds of weird stuff, like being able to move behind the Fireplace or the window “in the corner of the house” being smack dab in the middle of that face of the building.

And even then, for ‘true blacks’ one would need to go OLED (or Plasma, but practically speaking that’s not likely to happen anymore)

it’s going to run

Cyberpunk 2077 did that. It just did not do it well.

Wouldn’t it be poetic if the rest of the countries on these continents ‘maliciously complied’ by going all-in adopting the term “American”?

“American tacos” and “American Cerveza” sold with the Mexican flag on it, “American bacon”, “American Whiskey” and “American maple syrup” with the Canadian flag, etc.

Leave the population of USA orphaned without a collective name for themselves.

Does drinking negatively give you Chocolate Liver or Deep Fried Liver?

100C / 212F is the temperature water boils at. You’re going to need at least twice that to combust something thin and dry, like paper. The wave soldering used in assembly of these components exposes them to temperatures exceeding 250C / 480F.

Silicon degradation takes place at sustained temperatures in excess of 120C.

There are plenty of notebooks that, by design, can boost the CPU up against its thermal limit (usually 95C or 100C) so as not to leave potential performance on the table.

On the topic of the article, operating temperatures of components like the CPU and general cooling of the system are wholly irrelevant.

The issue is that the 12VHPWR specification does not include the means to balance electrical load across the 6 VCC wires that carry power. Electrical current follows the path of least resistance - if that happens to be one wire over the others it may overheat, melt that wire’s insulator, melt the adjacent wire’s insulator, and eventually melt an adjacent ground wire’s insulator. VCC comes into contact with GND, a ton of current gets dumped into the shorted circuit, and there is a chance of a combustion event in the milliseconds before the PSU’s Over Current / Short Circuit Protection measures can kick in and cut power.

EDIT: Hadn’t read the article yet. It seems that this particular case involved a failure on the FBVDDQ (VRAM) line, not the 12VHPWR connector. The facts that this happened to a 5090 in an Alienware system are largely irrelevant, the most probable point of failure is a power stage or MOSFET which can and do fail in any laptop or graphics card.

I say largely irrelevant because the 5090 does have a TON of VRAM, it is possible that Inno3D cheaped out on a power stage / FET that is not up to the current demands of that much memory. If that were the case, though, I would expect to be seeing / hearing about widespread issues with this particular card in GPU repair communities.

The term “hacking” gets tossed around to describe all kinds of different behaviors that may each require a different level of response.

You’ll get more specific help by providing more specific symptoms/behaviors.

Infostealer malware can steal session cookies, which an attacker can then use to interact with online accounts completely bypassing the password and MFA.

If you have a keylogger, everything you type in might be intercepted. Ditto for anything pasted to your clipboard.

To start, you need to make sure you have a trusted OS environment - that means wiping and reinstalling the OS using installation media that was prepared from another trusted device - not your potentially compromised device.

From there, you would have a trusted place to change all of your passwords. While in the security section of those online accounts, you would want to revoke all existing sessions. Some services have a “sign out everywhere” function, others may require manual review of each session.

If you have an email account that was compromised, be sure to check the mail forwarding settings.

For SSO accounts, audit your list of connected apps and services. Revoke and reinstate access for anything that can be set up again (e.g Google Drive Desktop App)

Momentary discomfort, and then you have the option to enjoy your food in a still-cool home.

Using a stove warms up the house.

TIL kids can die from lack of internet access

the butt of the gun isn’t being braced by his shoulder, so when he shoots it the recoil is going to make it fly backwards and out of his hands

You’d be surprised how little recoil there really is with 5.56. It’s a bigger priority to get solid cheek weld and keeping the head upright which often means that most of the stock is not actually in contact with the shoulder, just the corner.

Some setups will even just have a pad on the buffer tube, or they’ll use a brace that isn’t meant to be shouldered.