icedterminal

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[–] icedterminal 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Nothing has changed sadly.

30 was the standard up to PS3 and X360 at 720p. With the complete rework of the hardware design for PS4 and XOne, both consoles targeted 60 at 720p and encouraged developers to reach this. If the resolution is upped to 1080p, games will more often than not target 30. There are exceptions to this such as Gran Turismo. To this day, in the era of PS5 and X Series, a majority of games still target 30 because it's easier to do so and they can crank up the graphical quality.

[–] icedterminal 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't know if this is well known, but Lamborghini has a track record of loud exhaust, period. Regardless of valve state. Huracan Performante owners requested that Lamborghini make the next special edition a little quieter. Reason being the Performante was too loud even on race tracks. Track day drivers know there are noise limits that vary by track. You're asked to leave immediately if you exceed the limit. You may also receive a temporary ban and/or fine.

What did Lamborghini do? Make the Huracan STO even louder across all driving modes. The company demonstrates it believes noise limits themselves are annoying. While I do like loud cars myself, sometimes a noise compliant normal or comfort mode doesn't exist.

[–] icedterminal 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's always been bad practice to just blindly update software. That's why we have different distros.

Ubuntu and Mint hold your hand and make it easy for newcomers. Great way to dive into Linux. I completely agree these are great for "it just works" and no fuss. I've not had one break on me.

Arch and Gentoo expect you to have experience and know what you're doing. You build it up how you want it. That's what makes these so great. But you need the experience and knowledge.

I've personally tried openSUSE and in my opinion it feels like a good middle ground between both ends. In the past I've recommended Mint to get started, openSUSE once you've got experience, and then Arch for when you want total control.

[–] icedterminal 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Different crew. It was so badly reviewed, viewer count fell off a cliff, so Discovery pulled the show after season 15.

Edit: To be clear, season 14 was the final season with the original hosts. Discovery renewed it for season 15, two years later after casting new hosts

[–] icedterminal 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is so true and it hurts.

Have a mouse, keyboard and speaker set from 2004-2005. They all still work. I've bought several new Logitech products since 2015 and all have failed or have some defect. I've reached the point where I don't buy anything Logitech.

[–] icedterminal 2 points 5 months ago

No. It's not neutral like a car. The transmission is still engaged, thus cranking the pistons up and down in the engine. With no oil flow from the systems, it's not very friendly to the metal bits inside. Lol

[–] icedterminal 2 points 5 months ago

This is definitely meant to make it less painful for the players of those games.

[–] icedterminal 2 points 5 months ago

Vivaldi does have it's own built in adblocker. You can add sources. It's not as robust at uBO, but than nothing

[–] icedterminal 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You can move the drives. Just have your recovery key/password in hand. No problem.

[–] icedterminal 1 points 5 months ago

You either set the DNS settings per device to the system running PiHole / AdGuard Home, or if your router allows, set the DNS there. It's ideal to set it on the router.

Any time a device makes a DNS request to a domain, it's checked against the list. If found, it's stopped. If not found, it gets sent upstream to your choice of a public DNS configured during setup. I use Cloudflare (1.1.1.1, 1.0.0.1).

[–] icedterminal 2 points 5 months ago

By being ripped out and sandboxed the same way other apps are, Google services isn't free to siphon battery. This means you can restrict battery use and cut the constant communication down. Thus saving battery. If you allow it, yes it is not different than if it was preloaded.

[–] icedterminal 9 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Tagging on here: Both the first model PS3 and Xbox 360 were hot boxes with insufficient cooling. Both suffered from getting too hot too fast for their cooling solutions to keep up. Resulting in hardware stress that caused the chips solder points to weaken until they eventually cracked.

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