Someone just needs to make a double sided CD-R so we can have data and artwork on it.
cmnybo
joined 2 years ago
I started getting most of my definitely public domain stuff from TorrentLeech when TG started having issues. Keep an eye out for an open signup. The rest comes from RuTracker, 1337x and The Pirate Bay.
Nobody should be using potentiometer joysticks anymore. That's just ridiculous. Optical joysticks have been around since the mid 90's. Even my ancient SideWinder Force Feedback Pro is a huge improvement over anything with a potentiometer. It still works and doesn't have any drift issues. Hall effect joysticks are great too.
Yeah, it's really over priced. As long as your motherboard supports bifurcation and has a full 16 lane slot, you don't need the expensive PCIe switch. Asus has a similar card, but without the switch for $80.
There are adapters, but you only get 1 or 2 lanes and can only use short SSDs. If there is a BIOS whitelist, it won't work though.
My NAS uses a similar amount of power. The drives use most of the power. The PC uses less than 20W on its own. Upgrading to a couple of large helium filled drives will save a good bit of power. SATA drives tend to use a little less power than SAS drives too.
It would be nice if we could get desktops with 8 to 16 core ARM CPUs running at a very high clock speed.
128 cores is great for compiling large programs, but most stuff is not optimized to use more than a few cores.
What desktop motherboards even have a spare 16 lane PCIe 5 slot apart from Threadripper boards?
Those use a lithium ion cell, so they have a buck converter to step the voltage down to 1.5V, which will always use some power. They are not suitable low draw devices because of the high self discharge rate. They can't be used in high draw devices because the buck converter can only supply a limited amount of current. They also produce noisy power which can cause issues with radios and audio equipment. The USB port and charge circuitry take up a lot of space, so you get less capacity too. A low self discharge NiMH cell will be better for almost any use.
Better keep a big furnace full of molten steel ready just in case.
They didn't make it out of brominated ABS, so it won't turn yellow with age though.
The game developers could if they wanted to, but I hope they won't. I will not willingly install a rootkit on any of my computers. I wouldn't buy or pirate a game that requires one even if it could run on Linux. I don't even like running user level anti cheat, but at least that can be run in a sandbox.