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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If thats true a lot has changed since AM4. Only the pricier B boards and not all X boards (but most) had them when I last kept tabs on the majority of boards. A cursory google shows at least a few solidly midrange boards with lights (and some without) so you may very well be right.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Only higher end boards tend to have diagnostic lights.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do you have a firewall? Packet inspection in particular can wreak havoc on speeds.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

The lack of separation between the toes indicating socks stayed on and no grip marks means it could've been worse. When you get that irresistible feel that you have to remove all clothing is when you're in for a life changing experience.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

New as in not the ones from the 90s but the ones from 17-19 :)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It's excellent for making Thrawn come to life, it just conveys so much more than you could ever hope to achieve from dialogue or exposition. But I really do feel it's pointless and slightly annoying when he does the monologue thing for the other characters. Thrawn is alien in so many ways, but everyone else is just... Not. They're easy to understand motivational wise, they're not strange or different in how they think and operate and their motivations and drive is fairly plain to see. Thankfully I listened to them and Mark Thompson really makes the characters come to life and that makes it work. Still Thrawn as a character is just so well written. Truly fit to join the likes of Hari Seldon, C. Auguste Dupin, Sherlock Holmes and Ender Wiggin as a masterfully crafted fictional genius.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I found his characterization much better in the Thrawn series of books (the new ones, which are Canon, by Timothy Zahn). Well worth the read. Though the second book isn't as strong as the first and third. It's just too hard to write Vader from a first person perspective, he's always best when viewed through the eyes of other characters.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I think this is the best take really. She obviously lacks the typical qualifications and it's no doubt that she got the job because of who she knows and not what she knows. But I really dislike when it's framed like working at hooters and bikini modelling is something bad, shameful or vapid. It's a job like any other and in this particular scenario it means she has hands on experience dealing with pervs, weirdos and people stuck in a time before women's suffrage. She might very well be a very effective leader of this bunch...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Ah, so he's not smart enough to understand how a progressive tax system works. At least he's in good company seeing as that's the norm if my lunch room discussions at work are any indication.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes, which is exactly what I'm stating. Showing a forcibly non-upscaled video (or one where you've manually tweaked the upscaling for that matter) is likely not what you want because there are no circumstances where that is what you'd watch on that particular screen. It could perhaps work as an example of how that video would look if you had a 1080p monitor of the same size instead of the 4k one you have, since it scales in a linear fashion, a pixel of 1080p is 4 pixels in a square on a 4k screen. But that's likely not what you want to test. Instead the thing you do want to test is "does it matter if I download X content in 1080p or 4k? How big is the difference really?" And if that is the question you need to let it upscale.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Not really possible. A 1080p video smashed into a 4k container (so it can actually represent the 4k part) would look worse than a true 1080p video file since that would get up scaled by your TV or monitor in most situations.

Best comparison would be making a playlist of the same video first in 1080p and then 4k.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're being downvoted here because you set the goalpost as "Biden shouldn't sign this pro-Israel, anti-palestine budget because he'll lose the election" when that is refuted you then move it to "Biden wants to sign this budget, you're dumb if you think he's reluctant". I don't think he's reluctant, but not because he today wants to block aid to UNRWA, because he as a life long career politician knows there's no such thing as a bill you support 100% if you reach 51% that's good enough.

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