The Tech Random Crap Thread

GasBandit

Staff member
Just got my first utilities bill since officially turning on the solar power. It was about $230 lower than it would have been had I drawn everything from the grid.
Just 22 years until it has paid for itself!
(Technically it already is because that's more than my loan payment)
 

GasBandit

Staff member
So now that I have my new server with its RAID to protect my music library, I've started looking to rebuild what I lost in the HD crash. And for some of that, I need my old music CDs.

But I can't find them.

But when I went looking for them, I found a box with two Dreamcasts and a PS2 in it.

So I got that going for me.
 

GasBandit

Staff member
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So one of our clients, rather than buy a camera.... velcroed an ipad to a wall and put an HDMI adapter on it, then put the ipad in "camera" mode. Then when the ipad broke (as such unprotected electronic devices in an athletic space are prone to doing), they then velcroed an iPod to the broken iPad and put in another adapter and put the iPod in camera mode.

This is a very large and moneyed university, guys.
 

figmentPez

Staff member
Using an Nvidia graphics card for the first time in decades, I've got to say I like the UI of AMD's drivers much better. I don't know whose drivers are better for performance or compatibility, but when AMD is a lot better when it comes to interface. Also, AMD is a lot better at 2D scaling, unless I'm completely missing options that I should enable for Nvidia.
 
I don't know whose drivers are better for performance or compatibility [in gaming, I assume]
NVIDIA, and by a lot. Not necessarily because they're objectively better, but because they're more universally supported since NVIDIA has something like > 75% market share, and because NVIDIA's DLSS upscaling tech is better (i.e., faster frame rate) than AMD's FSR.

--Patrick
 
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