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Alpha71 @lemmy.world
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Hands On with Spacetop the AR Laptop

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Here's an interesting problem. Forza Horizon 5 won't go to 21:9 aspect ratio even though the game detects 5760X1080.

I recently booted the game up and forgot about the problem. Here's the thing. The game was able to do so on my old 2TB super cheap NVME drive. But I upgraded to a WD Black 4TB drive and that when the problems started.

I'm sure a major portion of the problem is I have a Intel Arc A770 card. runs the game smoothly at 60fps locked on extreme settings (as long as ray tracing it turned completely off.) But Intels monitor combining software is HORRIBLE!

I have tried the hack of using SRWE to get around it, but even doing that the screen still defaults to 1920X1080.

was just wondering if anyone had any other suggestions for getting my triple monitor setup working again?

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Most consumers hate the idea of AI-generated customer service
  • No. What actually needs to happen is for companies to give GOOD FUCKING CUSTOMER SERVICE!!! Try getting ahold of a real person at Amazon for example. I ended up cold calling the delivery company that handles local deliveries to get a phone number to talk to an actual person.

    The next time i called they had turned that number into a robo call center...

  • When was the last time you made Jello?

    I'm 52. And in my entire adult life I've never made Jello. How about you?

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    Why is my Twitter feed full of right-wing content when I don't consume political content?
  • because you keep responding to those posts. Same thing happened to me on tiktok. I am now getting nothing but misogynist redpill bullshit in my feed, because I foolishly responded to their posts calling them out for the idiots they are.

  • Woman suspected of violating traffic law for riding an electric suitcase
  • The woman is reportedly denying the charges saying during voluntary questioning that she was not aware that the suitcase is a vehicle that requires a driver's license.

    When you start to realize that there could be too many laws on the books.

  • Would anyone know what type of bug this is?

    I wrote here earlier about being unable to turn off my microphone. My headset had a removable mike. So in the end in order to fix it I just unplugged the mike.

    I'm using an older pair of IEM's I have, and the problem resurfaced. I did all the steps turned off microphone in the settings, even went through device manager to turn it off. Was still getting sound.

    What finally worked was going into speakers, and sliding the "Rear Pink In" slider all the way down. It's still not off, but at least i can't hear myself breath anymore.

    would anyone know why this is happening?

    The motherboard is a Gigabyte Z790 UD AC

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    micromobility - Ebikes, scooters, longboards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility @lemmy.world Alpha71 @lemmy.world

    Well I did it. I bought it. And the winner is...

    The Hitway BK6M.The main reason was price. I got it for $999.00 CAD. It was also the quickest shipper from amazon arriving by this Friday. everyone else was minimum July 4 or longer.

    I was sorely tempted to get the Wildeway FW11S due to it's 32AH sized battery. but the battery weighs almost 20lbs by itself. I am going to be buying extra batteries for longer range, and the most I could carry would be 1 extra with the Wildeway. where for the same weight with the Hitway's battery I could get 3 extra. so I could carry 80AH's with me VS only 64AH with the Wildeway.

    I am looking forward to going out and riding. I have been stuck in this house for so long I'm going stir crazy. I will get back to you and let you folks know how it's going.

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    micromobility - Ebikes, scooters, longboards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility @lemmy.world Alpha71 @lemmy.world

    Final Question. E-Bike or Electric scooter?

    I am going to make my purchase this Wednesday. And a late addition to the fold is an electric scooter.

    Now why I am considering an electric scooter, is I live in Vancouver's downtown east side. It's basically where hopes and dreams go to die. so It's not the nicest neighborhood. and I am worried about theft. a scooter would be alot more easily secured. I could basically take it inside with me wherever I go. And it's alot easier to take it on transit. Plus the ones I'm looking at have a supposed range or 60+ Km's but even if I only got half that It would be good.

    The only downside is no swappable battery which you get with most e-bikes.

    So which would you choose? e-bike or scooter?

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    Is this season just not hitting for anyone else?

    The first one, "Space Babies" was alright, but felt too childish. "The Devils Chord" didn't hit for me because they just didn't have the budget for really being able to explore a higher level being of such power.

    But Boom? Boom can be defeated by one simple question. "Where's the Sonic?"

    It's never addressed, the Doctor never asks Ruby to go get it from the TARDIS if he doesn't have it on him. And it's never even explained that if she could go and get it, it wouldn't effect the landmine.

    It's basic questions like this, that need to be answered in an episode like this. It would have taken a total of 4 sentences to cancel out the Sonic. But they never even mention it.

    That's just bad writing right there.

    Plus the Doctor's dialogue felt like it belonged more to Matt's Doctor than Ncuti's and DEAR GOD, Moffat cannot write children to save his life.

    I'm hoping the season gets better because they're 1.5 for three with me right now.

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    Which do you prefer? A triple monitor setup? Or one single 32:9 ultrawide monitor?

    I have a triple monitor setup right now, but am thinking of trying a single ultrawide monitor. What is your preference?

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    micromobility - Ebikes, scooters, longboards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility @lemmy.world Alpha71 @lemmy.world

    Burning LiPO Batteries • IMPORTANT LESSONS LEARNED • Do LiPO Bags Actually Work?

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    micromobility - Ebikes, scooters, longboards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility @lemmy.world Alpha71 @lemmy.world

    I have a choice to make.

    Well I've saved my pennies and I now finally have enough to get an Ebike. after HOURS of watching youtube videos, reviews, etc. I think I've narrowed my choice to these two options.

    1. KEQJSK Electric Bike 1000W Motor. The things I like about it. It looks like a traditional bike. and it will fit on a bus' front bike rack. But it only comes with a 48v 15AH battery. But with the savings I would make up on this I could easily buy two extra batteries. And it's the lightest of the two. My other choice is

    2. Wallke H6 Pro. Now I'm a heavy guy. and this bike is designed for the heavier rider. Plus it comes with a 40v 40AH battery pack. And you can upgrade with an extra internal 20AH battery so you would end up with 60AH total. at HALF the cost of the other 60AH models, the Aniioke A8 Pro Max, and the Eahora Juliet. Plus I like the fact that it folds into a somewhat compact size.

    The downside to this model is you can't take it on buses, although I can take it on our local subway. But with the range this models provides I wouldn't need to take transit as much. Another downside is the weight. This thing is HEAVY. it comes in at 90lbs minus the battery.

    So those are my current choices. Which would you choose?

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    The Coolest New E-Bikes & E-Motos at AIM Expo 2024 in Vegas!

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    Conan Explains What Happened To His Body After “Hot Ones” | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

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    I just want to play my game...

    Apparently the Ubisoft servers are down so I cannot play SINGLE PLAYER Breakpoint.

    I don't even want to play the game online. I just enjoy running around in single player. Why they haven't dropped an offline patch yet?

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    Are you supposed to be able to hear your microphone in your headphones even when no programs are open?

    And can you disable it?

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    Why AI is going to be a shitshow.

    I was just watching a tiktok with a black girl going over how race is a social construct. This felt wrong to me so I decided to back check her facts.

    (she was right, BTW)

    Now I've been using Microsoft's Copilot which is baked into Bing right now. It's fairly robust and sure it has it's quirks but by and large it cuts out the middle man of having to find facts on your own and gives a breakdown of whatever your looking for followed by a list of sources it got it's information from.

    So I asked it a simple straightforward question:

    "I need a breakdown on the theory behind human race classifications"

    And it started to do so. quite well in fact. it started listing historical context behind the question and was just bringing up Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, who was a German physician, naturalist, physiologist, and anthropologist. He is considered to be a main founder of zoology and anthropology as comparative, scientific disciplines. He has been called the "founder of racial classifications."

    But right in the middle of the breakdown on him all the previous information disappeared and said, I'm sorry I can't provide you with this information at this time.

    I pointed out that it was doing so and quite well.

    It said that no it did not provide any information on said subject and we should perhaps look at another subject.

    Now nothing i did could have fallen under some sort of racist context. i was looking for historical scientific information. But Bing in it's infinite wisdom felt the subject was too touchy and will not even broach the subject.

    When other's, be it corporations or people start to decide which information a person can and cannot access, is a damn slippery slope we better level out before AI starts to roll out en masse.

    PS. Google had no trouble giving me the information when i requested it. i just had to look up his name on my own.

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    Wubuntu, the Dubious Linux Windows

    What do you guys think?

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    It's Been a Good Run, Drywall.

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    Motors Of The Future Are Here! | Taipei Cycle Show 2024 Pt.2

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    The possible future and nightmare of ebiking.

    wattwagons.com Hound

    Announcing the ultimate wilderness companion - The HOUND. Built after extensive consultation with serious campers and hunters, the HOUND is the ultimate beast in the woods. With a super stable ground up design geared towards storage and hauling capabilities, belt drive to reduce impact of elements, ...

    Hound

    Ladies and gentleman I give you the Watt Wagons Hound. this may look alot like an Aniioki or Eahora. But what makes this different is the fact that the battery can be hooked up directly to a public car charging station. Charge time is rumored to be 2-3 hours. Which is a big difference of the 6-9 hours of the other mentioned brands.

    This is good because it means increased range for people who are serious about it. But it could be bad because think of the current line-ups you can have at charging station right now. I've heard of some wait times of up to an hour or more for people with cars. Now imagine throwing ebikes into the mix. I can see fights breaking out for sure.

    I think the future of ebikes is amazing. but we all have to put thought into the infrastructure right now to prevent headaches in the future.

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    Why does BIOS suck?

    This is a bit of a mea culpa from me.

    In 2022 I started the build of my dream PC. i9 13900k, 2 TB M.2 drive, 32 GB of 5200 DDR5 ram.

    ...and a 6600XT.

    Now at the time it was all I could afford. I just wanted something that would run most games decently. nothing earth shattering but could do the heavy lifting i needed it to. I planned to upgrade later down the road.

    For most games it was (and still is) perfectly fine. It ran most of my 100+ game library with no complaints from me.

    But there was one game. Arma 3.

    Now anyone who knows Arma 3 will readily admit it is a horribly optimized mess. This games drinks ram and chews up GPU's like they're candy.

    And my 6600XT was crushed underneath it's massive weight.

    Now the problem for me is at the time I was fanatical about the game. It was pretty much the only game I played constantly. I still play it to this day, just not as much.

    I would get stutters, massive frame drops and tons of crashes all centered around not enough GPU ram. (the 6600Xt only has 8) I HATED this card and would loudly complain on every forum every time someone would mention it. I sneered at AMD and desperately wanted to go Nvidia.

    problem was i still couldn't afford to upgrade.

    But I finally had it last month and so I saved up and bought...

    An Intel ARC A770.

    But it worked. frame rates went up, crashes pretty much disappeared and and all was good in the world.

    At this point I know you (probably) are screaming "Well what the fuck does this has to do with BIOS!?

    well let me explain. You see I also wanted a much better m.2 drive so I bought a WD Black SN850X.

    but while I was installing the NVME drive I noticed that my PCIe slot was set to gen3 X8. Not gen4 X16.

    This solved everything. I went back to my 6600XT as I was having driver issues with the ARC card. and now when I play Arma 3 it runs much smoother. It still crashes because honestly the game needs a minimum of 16 GB of memory on a video card to run (sort of) fairly smoothly, but frames went up, stutters pretty much disappeared and the 1% lows were much more less noticeable.

    All because I missed a BIOS setting.

    So WHY? why is BIOS still so troublesome? why can't it detect cards and automatically set the proper settings by itself?

    WHY!?

    Anyways, that's all I have to say about that.

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