Random and important thoughts (ROTD's) mixed together.
"Whatever you believe, or can conceive of, someone else thought it up first, believes it as well, and has a better Blog"
You would think that a person would be the most innocent when asleep. But your body judges you on how you breathe and the way your back is supported. My body isn't too happy with me breathing like I do, with my lousy mattress, and it shoots random bad-dreams at me. The puffy hand, the aching upper arm, feel as though I've been in battle, but the feeling disappears when my body gets its wish, "Get up!"
My high blood pressure drops to normal quickly, and I feel great....................
In order to save some money and be able to plunk down a huge lump of money to the amazon card,
I'm not even *thinking* about replacing my very expensive games I bought recently, with anything else.
That means, searching for mods and hidden little quests,
like the 6th-grade teacher with her busted down bus-ship, or adding powers and abilities to Baldur's Gate.
I'll um, add to this. Beecause, for now, quests in Starfield are trivial, and Baldur's Gate has been played to death (but I've been avoiding the teeny quests)
I'll revisit BG3 and help old ladies, or something, I'll go to unheard-of planets that no one has ever gone before (I rescued some stranded miners that way, no quest needed)
I actually was looking for more chairs, a futon, maybe a couch.
There are lots of empty nooks on my ultra-modern space ship wherein people can stand pointlessly, or maybe sit on the hard-hard floor, but no candles, TV's or playstations. The evolved starborn ethos is minimalist, nothing matters so why bother.
A pet leech, an old-movie player... A bed?
That collector-guy has the right idea....although there's something about him I do not understand. He starts out playing the gay caballero
and then straightens up and castigates the starborn for being so mean (I mean, within the confines of the damn game, what else can the starborn be?)
I recently added tons of trivia to my mind about lighters, the ones made by bic and the Bich family, in Redon France.
I gotta wonder if those milllions of lighters are warehoused somewhere close by, the only official place for them is the Eastern coastline, and that can't be right.
I dare you to google the correct pronunciation of "Bich" which (the confidently stewpid say) is Beak, bich or something else. My money is on "Beak" but it might also be "bick" (as in, "Bic") because the guy on Youtube with the pretentious euro-accent says it that way.
Marcel Bich (the bigwig of the Bich family) is pronounced "Beek" but only if you include a thick french accent....Eet Ees Beek (so maybe it's actually "Bick")
The link here was my last attempt at optimizing my CPU for 3dmark,
since the video-card hasn't really changed a lot (they updated the driver.)
I know (always knew but I can verify) that "NX" and "SVM" slow the computer down somewhat.
The ridiculously high CPU score is back to "normal" now, it's no longer 17000, but it's still very nice. 15800 is what I'd get using nx and svm. Well that's it for this month, unless there's some arcane setting I forgot to tweak. This *should* ideally list every setting, not rely on my foggy memory, apologies to my future self.
After installing "Ryzen Master" but not changing anything.
LCLK-DPM-Disabled (it is rumored) fools with the "PPT" such that it reads "0"
And an unreadable document referring to "epyc" processors (so, not mine)
talks about nps1 and nps4, which are ways of fooling with numa-nodes.
I think it recommends both based upon other unreadables, so it's certainly something to try, but for now, I *think* disabling LCLK-DPM helped 3dmark. Whether or not it's good practice, I would not know.
So, (ahem), uh, if you don't use "MPI" whatever it is, try the single-numa node thing.
*I* would, but, I gotta have more intestinal fortitude than I do now, not owning an Epyc.
My choices range from NPS0 to NPS4.
Everyone knows that in binary math a single thingy is called "0"
but I'm trying "NPS1" anyway, I wouldn't want to accidentally behead my processor.
I can't pontificate that I know the exact voltage and temperature my CPU should be, because if a CPU is like a house, Eventually the plaster cracks and the paint peels, and maybe the roof starts to sag.
So having a "package power limit" of 145W *seems* OK, my voltage offset of
-.0625 *seems* to work. The temperature-range when the CPU is actually *doing* anything (not idling)
is from 65 to 75 celsius, and I hope that's all right.
We'll see.
Anyway, ideally, there ought to be another setting, sipping mint-juleps on the porch vs working real hard, so benchmarks would be happy and my room wouldn't overheat. And there are auto settings, some of which I've disabled, that do that.
The annoying part is that because windows updates often, I have to run these contests at all. For example a major-update just came through and I have to repeat everything I just talked about, And,
If there happens to be a BIOS update waiting for me, OMG.
So yeah this is more for (um) maintenance check than for pushing the old-girl to the max. For example, the *reason* I had such an old version of windows running was because AMD-Adrenalin liked it and would not reset (and change all my careful settings back to the defaults.)
The resetting is back, I'll have to readjust AMD on every reboot.
If I forget, I risk burning up my card.
"Progress," hmmph
The bitter irony is, no one looks into this because they just stick the blame on another company interfering with adrenalin.
"MSI" and whatnot.
This plain isn't true in my case, but I may as well be ranting on a street-corner.
streetcorner
(nvm)
No fast-boot here.
No MSI programs running.
On the late-July version of my windows (22631.2115) adrenalin did not reset. Now it does.
The really rough first-impression of my new "release Preview" also with AMD's latest Adrenalin driver (updated today) is,
It's slower overall performance-wise than the above paragraphs.
If it were a horse I'd say it was off its feed or an old ankle injury is bothering it.
Still fast, just not fast enough,
Plus there's that unforgivable resetting-thing.
I can attest that the grass-roots solutions are meaningless. Like disabling any other programs that modify the video-card or motherboard, or disabling "Fast-Boot."
The nightmare the author of the link had was windows updating while he was updating the driver for his freebie card. My version of windows 11 and previous versions dating back to early august, have added some service that conflicts with adrenalin, on *this* system.
If I had a printer or the patience of a saint, I would record all the services on the working version and This newer version, and figure out which service was conflicting.
But for now it's all heavy-handed guessing, tons of "What does *this* do, if I disable it?"
Beeecause for example, AMD's crash detection, or windows' display-policy, *might* (as examples) be at fault, or they might be absolutely necessary to keep my delicate system running.
Who knows.
I gotta start somewhere. They probably would have fixed it by now if it was more widespread...
LCLK and LCLK DPM:
I disable DPM, which pisses off Ryzen Master... LCLK, no one has an exact frequency or I am using the wrong keywords.
It's not explained very well, but it appears to be a AM5/Zen4 feature anyway. The AM4 people prolly sell real-estate now...
Not to be bombastic but historically the PCIE bus-frequency has always been 100mhz, but this is tons higher, tons. No one knows what it does and they seriously guess.
It's related because the bright-bulbs at AMD have decided that Adrenalin should directly fool with CPU settings, and now my slowness might be because of adrenalin erasing my highly optimized settings (whatever they were.)
I'm not sure why (prolly wifi or el nino) but my little menagerie of roaches are getting restless!! And me without any funds for the cans I buy monthly. I add it to my rental expenses. But next month I plan to get all expansive and buy expensive bottles of roach bait. They work, sort of, say some. IDK
I love google, hate most of their news (it's too political)
Politicians fart like everyone else. But they zero in on a few, carefully stepping over others
So I check out Bing, which is total weirdness, the kind of news you'd hear on a TV news show at 20 minutes after the hour.
Widely dispersed trivia about cats, accountants. Anyway they say Rite-aid might close a store or two, because they're short of money. *I* thought it was because the self-righteous biddies and mean women running the place were scaring customers away...That and the restrictive hours they keep.
They're being sued? Everyone's being sued, they can afford good lawyers, I'm not hearing the whole story.
Things I know next-to-nothing about that I wish I knew:
That brand-new chicken place, why wasn't it KFC? Pizza-hut and KFC are the same company (I think) so what made them leave town??
One of the Biggest Banks in the US and maybe the world, also left town. Maybe the bank customers represented too low a class for them, but then I wonder about the brand-new Chicken place. We're poor but we love Chicken? (Just not KFC?) (or "Taco Bell"??)
There's this song they used to play on the radio (when radio still existed)
"Every move you make, I'll be watching you" which is what I think of when I hover my mouse over a story on Bing. Once many years ago I thought I knew something about Disney's monorail, that it hovered, beeecause, it appeared to bounce slightly as if it were hovering, and maybe I'd read too much fantasy on hovering monorails.
Well shit, I was shot down, it didn't hover at all.
So what's up with monorails anyway? Wouldn't they be top-heavy?
Years later, I still don't know if any monorails disney owns hover, but there is a device called a "maglev" that fits the definition of a true-to-life hovering thing.
So if disney had a couple billion to burn, they could make a maglev, I suppose. Everyone is fascinated with tech, no one wants to pay for it. A hundred-mile maglev track would cost ten billion, say some, and there's a question in *my* mind why it has to be "Maglev" unless that's a way to qualify for federal funds,
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I heard this deteriorated into thoughts about cell-phones, so I've redacted most of the phone stuff.
OK a question, why did they remove Infrared from phones?
Remember Wifi 6 and 6e? Their life was too brief, We hardly knew them:
If a new battery they're trying out puts out 1 megawatt per half-acre, how much acres would be needed for 2 gigawatts? (Couldn't they just stack the batteries?)
If the bad-guy hunter is Star-born he already knows what's going to happen, and yet he continues on being a stereotypical Snidely whiplash.
*I* keep collecting powers, I think I'm missing only one,
and I still don't know what it's all about: WHO invented those fancy pieces of metal to transport a person into the multiverse-nexus?
WHY? (well let's just say they were smart and they could,) did they blow themselves up, is that why the "Artifacts" are buried in rock across planets?
WHAT is the message of those fancy lights???
Does this game have a conclusion?
Actually they include a question at the end about who and why, and they paid some writer to come up with a totally bombastic and meaningless answer, worthy of Wikipedia itself.
Let's say you had a secret room that the kids got into and played around in.
That's the multiverse-hopping Starborn. But who owns/owned the fancy room (the nexus of multiverses)?
The higher-ups at (uh) "Starfield"-inc really need to work on the concept, but kudos to the underling slave-workers slaving away on the art and the dialog. Pointless though it is. At the end of my current playthrough, there is the option to remove the dorothy-shoes from the dryer (remove the artifacts from the armillary)
and go wherever I want.
But where would I go? I barely knew "Constellation," but I'd feel obliged to at least say goodbye. To the doddering asshole, the middle-aged has-been, the clueless robot, the egoist,
and some really nice minions who never gave me the time-of-day.
Ya know what? Fuck'em, nevermind.
The heavy-handed moral is becoming apparent, that to really enjoy their game, you must embrace nested quests, puzzles.
Why? Nothing matters.
Could you help me:
Turn on a light-switch?
Kill the spider blocking the switch?
Fix the appliance you just broke toggling the switch?
Here's a quarter for your trouble. Ya know, you really oughta talk to Nancy, the head of the power switches;
she could really use your help.
Help the universe, don't rush to leave it.
(The universe being chock-full of bad-guys trying to blow your head off,
and mazes.)
Can you slaughter more trash-talking minions this time? Can you beat the mazes in record time?
Is it a spaceship? A disney-castle? No! It's a "temple." To whom and for what purpose, IDK
Starborn Spacesuit "Venator" 0021C77F, which I am about to try, skipping
over all playthroughs (You have to repeat forever to get "Venator")
Games can get lonely but that's to be expected.
Games can have endless nested quests (but this is ridiculous)
It's like, it's all pointless anyway
(so, shoot that old lady, Blow up the moon)
Also (you only heard it here) "additem" does not need leading zeroes;
"player.additem f 100" is just dandy.
Misc codes (there are so many that harvesting a chosen few is problematic)
But once you've done the "PSB" thing, your skills are useless and weak until you
"Player.addperk 25E19E" for example (upgrades the reactive shield)
I think the game has followed protocol: Win and get a (useless) sword/uniform/space-suit.
Or you could always start over (But isn't that already what I've been doing?)
Badass gun, richer-than-god,
Best space suit, everything else is meaningless.
player.modav PlayerUnityTimesEntered 10 gives you the best spacesuit, best ship but by then you're beyond caring. Seriously.
It's as if, you finally get a dress suit and shoes, after you die, for your funeral.
Games have been designed this way since forever, but The pointlessness is still there.
Plus I don't know (yet) about magically getting a spaceship, but the spacesuit is no problem.
player.placeatme 00363CA9 (Guardian 6 ship, but I think it's easier than that)
Use the command player.paycrimegold 0 0 5BD93 to pay off UC sec (It's a mandatory quest where you're forced into the criminal world, nvm) Get yelled at, made fun of, imprisoned, who wouldn't want that?
To log into Synchrony, which is Amazon's current bank (I've been told), this useless indian guy (filthy rich guy judging from the commercials he tacks onto his useless videos), uh, anyway he says to clear cookies and the cache. It becomes a chore then to go here or anywhere else, suddenly everyone is paranoid, and you forgot what you wanted to do...O yeah, log into synchrony, which still doesn't work (for me). The indian guy is prolific, if it's the same guy, and I think it is (all the videos are useless and boring)
"Type in your name and your password" he suggests three minutes into the video, with nine minutes remaining.
Quora/reddit (except for the "*I* have no problems" guy, who flies from site to site with superhuman speed, to declare quickly that he has no problems) say that this is a common problem, and suggest (I already know this but it's reassuring) that you log into Amazon/wherever and check from there, and *suddenly* Synchrony is more accommodating.
*Why* does this matter?
A "favorites" button and my password cache used to be able to log me into synchrony quickly, to (uh) check the hidden charges (interest) or withheld payments. And *this* month I am so close to the limit, that they could, prolly would, tack on an overlimit charge once they post their interest.
But now I have to root through Amazon's sub-menus.
Greedy sob's
Bombastic statisticians prognosticate
that it might rain / might not rain much (they're really not sure)
So, what's with the headline news?
It's like a familiar-type of movie you go see that you've never seen before,
The TLDR of Microsoft's "Dialog Blocking Service" is that
It's a service (duh)
It comes disabled. (why include it and then disable it?)
It probably interferes with the chosen apps who want to push messages. But that's a total guess.
Or it's a bear-trap. A "what does this do?" disaster waiting to happen.
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Speaking of "blocking".....
BG3 became a lot more politically correct lately, bowing to the whims of the book burners.
I kind of doubt they had stretchy material for underwear and bras back then...
No one has a gun but the tailors are state-of-the-art.
The *useful* info is from quora/reddit as usual, and they say to dump all the underwear before the scene starts.
(and for the terminally immersive, if the magic pixies can bury the bodies and remove all the blood, they can certainly remove any hashmarks from armor from going "commando.")
It's a very recent development. These patch-happy guys will prolly patch the patch and this entry will be irrelevant.
For the rest of the game you have to be psychic or an avid googler, and it's pointless.
Bye, game (for now)
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One million copies =50 million (almost), times ten, equals 500 million.
For tax purposes they prolly lost zilllllions, but it's a lot of money going somewhere.
Natural desire to be hegemonious. (no that's the GOP, sorry)
what....homogenized? (homogeneous)
Real estate: pick some dwelling close to *your kind*, assuming you have funds. Pick a breeding partner based upon certain genetic characteristics. Conclusion: More rich successful types have lordosis. OK I'm FOS butt.... https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32920227/ Desirable characteristics might be morphed by religion and country-mandates. (Only rich marry rich, in their political stratum, in their particular location) Anyway, slight Lordosis (as I will prove in the next 60 seconds or abandon this research project) is a desirable trait passed down from desirable ancestry.
Desirable traits being multitudinous, (her mind, her heart, her acne, the shape of her nose, her religion, her father,) Lordosis is minor. Rotating pelvises (like some hypnotic clock) are in there somewhere (and breastesses, gotta have breastesses), uh, I'm drifting...
Feeling like you wanna be alone? Isolophilia? Slouch!
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Armenia.
A country with nice people, surrounded by real a-holes.
Reading their topical politics is like reading an advanced book on Quantum-physics, but people (messed-up people) mess with them tons.
Imaginary Captain Picard grilled his engineers about the time-space thingy they sort of accidentally invented (shoot a trillion volts through it, that'll show them) And he wanted to know, WHY in the current universe would they design an unstoppable machine that could not be shut down with one single switch????
???
In case, you know, of an accident. Or bugs fouling the system,
or the switches being so incredibly hard to reach, they sort of gave up, forever, Paying a trillion-dollar electric bill for something they couldn't, wouldn't use. ("cuz we're craaaaazy!!") came to mind. cuz (lol) what if they crash the game (haha) just before player leaves the planet (ROFL) and has to start over AHAHAH!!! Huh?
"My god, it's full of stars!!" You're prolly too young to remember that movie...
anyway that's my current position, in the "Unity" imitating "Dave" or whoever.
If my bot were with me he'd prolly freak.
Wait, so the evil-dude smoking-guys in 2001(the movie) wanted something secret.
Yeah so the game does too. I'm sorry I can't remember what the secret was in 2k+1
Now I remember, the movie made no sense whatsoever but it had cool special effects.
The *second* movie made a LOT more sense; That shark-beach guy went off to find answers, and was told in no uncertain terms to leave (a certain planet, "Europa?") alone,
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Nowadays hackers hacking into the space-station terminals must be a trivial thing:
"NO NEW TAXES"
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My possessions and everyone I knew?
But I'm being unfair, I got a powerful vaccination today and (see above)
I don't really know if my usual temp of 97.4 being 100.0 means my temp on that fancy ear thermometer (the "97.4" one) is actually higher, but I'm bad at math.
98.6-97.4 is (uh) 1.2, so (in theory) I have a 101.2 temp, on a plain-old-glass thermometer.
And will Tylenol with Codeine help or kill me?
TBA
Baldur's gate 3 has no plus-powers or foreknowledge, only Google. I wanna be the biggest badass, sacrificing life and love for dexterity.
I'll be back.
Well actually, I know (sort of) to be a human-eldritch knight, and I don't know what an eldritch is, but I don't care, I won the last playthrough.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/323411-starfield/80568984 Most professional sites are exceedingly vague and none of any site thinks the powers I usually get (before I get bored and quit,) are worth mentioning. My point is, there is no quest that needs powers, especially the ones I have, end of google-quest. They could'a made it "rare flowers" I suppose, or assassination-missions. They could a made it so you save the grubs (there Is a mission that includes leech-looking grubs) So I guess as fetch-it quests go, powers are OK. I was more interested in the "artifacts", little bumper-things that shock your brain,
but......
To be more popular,
one quest to get an artifact is 100% a western,
and the other is something vague to do with business.
(Stephanie Powers+Robert Wagner did a show a lot like the quest)
I care for neither quest, both are ugly guys ranting on about yada-lalalala..
I don't wanna skip to the end, but actually I do...why are so many bad guys around, what do they want?
If we (players) *win*, what happens? Do I turn into an illithid monk?
Do I marry someone?
Or is it as pointless and stewpid as it is now.
None of the other cast-regulars fly spaceships, they stand pointlessly in a fancy room reminiscent of a bob newhart show about museums and artifacts:
Each week a poor sucker is tasked to nearly kill themselves getting some artifact.
Newhart has untold powers but he's too lazy to actually use any.
They were too inconsiderate to show me to my room, I must hunt for it. They said they would, and the subject sort of...Died.
"I hope you are happy with your accommodations,"
prattles the (useless) robot every time I see him.
The 9-year old will hate you forever if her dad dies, a severe disincentive to go anywhere with him, but when you do he always drags the kid along, better not cuss or crash the damn ship.
My intro should read as one very long, simple sentence: I recently discovered that AMD Adrenalin kept rebooting itself *and resetting* itself, with the latest update of a couple weeks ago, so I downgraded my beta version of windows, *and* switched to the "Release preview" channel.
(OK, two sentences) Now I can't get any more updates, I'd have to reinstall windows completely after doing a complete wipe. Solution: Find the lastest ISO from microsoft, which is proving difficult. Hungry drooling wolves would LOVE to have me download their version, which Microsoft is too upper-crust to give. Solution? (maybe?) Re-enable the "Dev" or the "Beta" channel instead of the "Release Preview,"
wait for the Windows-update download,
hope AMD doesn't have their predictable cow. OR...I could just let everything sit pretty, since windows is running fairly fast,
You know you're you (unless you have a brain-worm) so it's pointless attesting to yourself.
uh.......??
A bank or some google service, but they'd rather use phones. So wtf is a TPM good for?
I'm gonna go play video games now, once you start with "enclaves" I fall to sleep like I was hypnotized.
This guy explains TPM tech, but does not explain (yet) who the hell cares, or if the people he is addressing haven't already broken down TPMs into a vast army of bot slaves.
*"Yet" means I can't stand the video, couldn't watch more than 3/8ths (37.5 percent)
The cult that is Linux prolly consists of good guys and one hell of a lot of eveil ones...and I doubt his audience cares about the intro, or the tech-specs, they know it already.
Who uses TPM (not the technology in general but actual TPM-actions).
As in "who are yew?!!" (You flash your TPM/absolute/True-soul badge)
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