v0rld

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[โ€“] v0rld 4 points 1 week ago

Not really relevant for an iPad, but it's a good example:

Have you ever tried putting a custom ringtone on an iPhone?
In Android you just put an audio file in the ringtones folder, either by plugging it into a pc or with an on-device file manager.

For an iPhone you need to either buy the ringtone from the store or put it on the device through iTunes (๐Ÿคฎ). Also it can't be just any format. It needs to be a specific profile of AAC (if I remember correctly), then rename the file to have a specific extension. There is no way you could do all that without reading a guide.

[โ€“] v0rld 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Here's how it works in countries that are not dystopian hellscapes:
You tell your boss "I'll be at the doctor's on Tuesday from 08:30 to about 11:00."
You go to the doctor and pick up a paper from the receptionist when you leave that confirms the hours you were there.
You go back to your job and hand HR the paper, they put the hours into the system. The time you spent at the doctor's office as well as the time you spent going there counts as work time.
This works the same for other things like getting your passport renewed or school events that parents should attend.

If the system in your country is worse in any way you should probably fight to improve it, or get out of there as fast as you can.

[โ€“] v0rld 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I hope you're right. I'm future proofing anyway by preferring DRM-free stores when possible.

[โ€“] v0rld 8 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Sure that's reasonable at the moment. And while it seems Gaben would never sell out, he is going to die at some point. What's going to happen to steam / valve after that?

[โ€“] v0rld 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

GOG enabled regional pricing several years ago.

[โ€“] v0rld 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Personally I enjoy the complicated character building of Grim Dawn way more than the item hunting. This also means I will play a host of characters and eventually complete item sets and have the resources for crafting after half-completed character number 86. For me the grinding is mostly a test on the efficiency of my build.

Maybe look into Warhammer: Chaosbane. It has a point system that superficialy looks similar to Grim Dawns devotions or Path of Exile, but in reality it's super simple. And while you do collect items, they don't matter as much as in other ARPGs. The flip side is that it's kinda hard to fail because the game is so simple.

[โ€“] v0rld 7 points 5 months ago

Pro Tip: A vacation + going to a concert there may be cheaper depending on the band.

[โ€“] v0rld 14 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Maybe it's just me but I think the Mumble UI is way better than the Discord UI

[โ€“] v0rld 1 points 6 months ago

Coppelius is absolutely awesome. You get a theater-like show while they play headbanger after headbanger. Understanding German is a must though.

[โ€“] v0rld 23 points 7 months ago

It's not just that characters make stupid decisions, the same characters keep making the same mistakes and nobody ever learns from those mistakes or grows as a character. It's so extremely frustrating.

[โ€“] v0rld 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There are like 20 different calculator apps on F-Droid, ranging from basic to scientific. There's plenty of instances where the dystopia screws you, calculators ain't one of them.

[โ€“] v0rld 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The point is that an email address that is not in use except once to create that epic account is worthless to whoever buys it.

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submitted 1 year ago by v0rld to c/buildapc
 

I got a used PC from a friend, it works perfectly fine most of the time. But some games crash unregularly but reproducibly. When a crash occurs sometimes my screen just goes blank, other times I get a popup from the AMD driver saying "AMD software detected that a driver timeout has occured on your system."

Here are the specs:
Graphics: MSI Radeon RX 5700 XT (driver version: 23.12.1, but I also tried several earlier versions)
Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 3800X 8-Core
Mainboard: Asus Prime X570-P
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX, 2x8GB
OS: Win10

Some games crash more than others, for example:
GrimDawn crashes after a few minutes. TitanQuest runs for at least an hour.
Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous (and Kingmaker) crashes after a few hours.
Turbo Overkill crashed once (9 hours playtime so far).
Neverwinter Nights 2 crashes almost immediatly if it isn't the first game I play after a reboot.
Stellaris minimizes and I get the usual driver popup but continues to run fine afterwards (solid coding I guess).
A lot of other games sometimes crash. But there are a also games that never crashed for me including: Deep Rock Galactic, Factorio, Redout and Tyranny.
Older games tend to crash less than newer games, other than that I didn't really find a pattern in what games crash and which games run fine.

My friend says he never noticed any crashed, and given how some games are fine and how long even affected games can run before crashing I believe him.

I suspect the graphics card has some kind of fault, but is there any way I can verify that before I get a replacement? I already tried several GPU benchmarks, all ran through without a crash.

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