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Re:Welcoming Beat Games to Facebook on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @07:16PM (#21644105)
Yeah, there's no doubt in my mind that this is a bad thing for the game and VR in general. We need less platform lock in, not more.
Don't trust the hardware survey. If the headset isn't plugged in it doesn't exist. Not many people leave the headset plugged in 24/7, so I don't think the HW survey is a reliable source.
I don't think it's actually trending downward, the hardware survey only shows devices connected at the time. I have two vr headsets and I only plug them in when I'm actually using them, so according to the survey I don't have one. I'm sure a lot of people do the same. Also, totally ancedotal evidence, but four of my friends bought into VR in the last few months since the price finally came down low enough for them to do it and they wanted to play Beat Saber. If that can sell headsets Half Life certainly can.
Re:AMD Ryzen 9 3950X Review on Thursday November 14, 2019 @02:43PM (#21538646)
It seems like ECC support is pretty widespread, I know for a fact that my Asus Prime X570-PRO has an option for ECC memory in the bios and it's a midrange board. Might depend on the board manufacturer to enable it. Asus seems to have it in most if not all of their boards.
FYI Steam doesn't even have content restrictions on the marketplace now. There's a ton of adult games on there now. So not the best point.
Re:A months-old AMD microcode bug destroyed my weekend on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @07:02PM (#21393025)
Hmm, I see 1.0.0.3abba was released for that board on 9-18-2019. That should include the fix, although I'm not an expert, maybe it isn't there for some reason?
Re:A months-old AMD microcode bug destroyed my weekend on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @06:31PM (#21392813)
You would definitely be fine as long as you're using an updated motherboard with at least AGESA 1003ABB, which would be any x570 board and likely the vast majority of x470s by now.
Re:A months-old AMD microcode bug destroyed my weekend on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @02:12PM (#21390312)
It was patched for almost all systems almost immediately like he said. I suspect the reason he still had the bug was due to the Asrock Rack X470D4U motherboard being an older generation board, and also a micro atx server board of all things. They might have only sold a couple hundred of them total in a niche like that so it's not too surprising it would be a low priority on the bios update list.

I also find it kind of funny that he calls Asrock Asus every single time he mentions them in the article. If he was trying to install an Asus bios on his Asrock mobo then he's got bigger problems than this bug.

Re:The IBM Pentium 4 64-Bit CPU on Friday October 04, 2019 @01:39PM (#21159986)
Yes, I know, but it never actually goes below 4.0 for me on all cores when doing a render. The 4.6 was referring to my 4770k which was at 4.6 on all cores all the time.
Re:Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired? on Thursday October 03, 2019 @08:10PM (#21153623)
I see you've met my CTO.
Re:Hong Kong protest safety app banned from iOS store on Thursday October 03, 2019 @01:58PM (#21149863)
Can being the keyword. None of that is even close to required. You have the option to tinker, you aren't required to.
Re:The IBM Pentium 4 64-Bit CPU on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @12:57PM (#21138525)
Not sure what cpus you're looking at but everything in the desktop space is over 4ghz nowadays. My last cpu was at 4.6ghz its entire life and my 3900x stays at over 4ghz on all 12 cores when doing a render.
The website it's linked on is called widgetsandshit.com. I think that's a bigger problem if you're that worried.
Seriously, the attitudes of so many people on here are absolutely disgusting. Why don't we throw all the poor people in camps while we're at it?
Re:Tourist's lucky guess cracks safe code on first try on Thursday June 27, 2019 @01:48PM (#20296771)
I remember my uncle playing my copy of Bioshock way back when, he walked up to a random door and typed in 0451 and it opened. My mind was blown.
I can believe it, Google pestered me to review a bubble tea place I drive by every day. I've never stopped there and never will but I continued to get the popup until I finally gave the place a 1-star rating just to shut Google up. Not really fair to the business but I was sick of seeing that notification.
Re:How I Got my $3500 Camera Kit Stolen on KitSplit on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @01:54PM (#20276905)
Weirdly enough it works for me from Edge but not Chrome.
Have you seen the Asrock Deskmini A300? It's not quite NUC sized but it's very close. I think it would fit the bill for you.
Re:RBA not fazed by Australian $50 note typo on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @05:23PM (#20227485)
You really think any cashier is going to read the microtext on every bill they get? You practically need a magnifying glass just to see the typo. It's an absolute non-issue no matter what way you spin it.
I know you're just using Netflix as an example, but has anyone actually had that app pulled from their TV? I have an old 32 inch Vizio smart tv that I bought back in 2011 and all my big apps still work on it, albeit kind of slowly. Netflix, Prime, Vudu, all still available.
Some could even run at 1080i! IT's pretty impressive honestly. ModernVintageGamer on youtube has some great videos with high quality footage of it.
Yeah, they really screwed you if you opted to keep the car. My dad has a TDI and wanted to keep it but the number of hoops to jump through was ridiculous. Plus they wouldn't have the fix for a year and he couldn't get a sticker for the car without it. Ended up doing the buyback instead.
This is one of the top 5 most entitled comments I've ever read on the internet, congratulations! Glad you can use your 'fine Italian Motorcycle' for work every day while us peasants have to deal with our reliable workhorses.
Re:The 3dfx Voodoo1 on Friday April 05, 2019 @03:45PM (#19586299)
You mean NVME. M.2 is just a form factor that can be SATA based. NVME is the protocol that replaces SATA and makes it fast.
Re:Apple Music Overtakes Spotify in U.S. Subscribers on Friday April 05, 2019 @02:26PM (#19585566)
Uh, Spotify absolutely has a setting to turn off explicit content, at least on Android. Pretty sure it's relatively recent, but it absolutely exists.
So how often do you see Baseball players end up pivoting to the NFL? RTS and FPS are essentially different sports.
"Assume you have 20k positive equity in your current vehicle" Yeah, that's definitely an assumption.
Re:The Death of External Storage: Where's Google? on Friday March 29, 2019 @02:03PM (#19524046)
Es was the best for awhile, but it's bloated and has ads now. I switched to Solid Explorer and it works great for me, nice UI and pretty quick. No complaints so far.
Re:Office Depot computer scans gave fake results on Thursday March 28, 2019 @02:05PM (#19514854)
I would have told him to call the cops honestly. What are they going to do? You've done nothing wrong, in fact, you're the victim of harassment. In a just world they would ream out the idiot security guard for wasting police resources.
Re:Tell HN: Google removing Gmail access from IFTTT on Friday March 22, 2019 @07:38PM (#19467977)
Well you're disagreeing with a proven fact, so yeah... When Spotify released in 2011 Facebook was absolutely required. They removed that requirement a year later or so.

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