Weekly Ramblecast 116: Hack the Sack: The Video
Added 2023-08-30 01:23:49 +0000 UTCThis week, the rambling agenda includes screens large and small and bright and dim, our love of thunderstorms, surge protectors that don't surge-protect, pleading for your roommate's (academic) life, time-traveling back to adolescence, hot hot silicon, and more.
CHAPTERS
(00:00:00) Start of show
(00:00:19) Don't fly in the summer
(00:03:12) Don't use old surge protectors!
(00:06:46) Brad has become OLED-pilled
(00:15:50) We're a bunch of PC gamers (again) now
(00:17:39) New screens for everyone!
(00:18:19) The X3D is in
(00:29:04) Don't use USB boot drives!
(00:33:05) The video game dating game
(00:41:22) The amateur filmmaking has resumed production
(00:43:35) Is middle school the worst? Probably
(00:54:01) Time traveling back to adolescence: y/n
(00:56:12) Hey, do your roommate a solid so they don't get kicked out of school
(00:59:27) The end. Content!
Comments
I think the 7800X3D is supposed to run a little cooler (like high 80s), but the rest of the 7000 series does a really weird thing with its temperature curve where it's intentionally meant to run at 95 degrees under load. It will keep running harder and harder until it hits 95 degrees and then it will thermal throttle to stay at 95 degrees, so the better you cool the chip the faster it naturally runs (because it throttles less to sit at the same temperature). I actually think it's a fairly elegant design for a CPU thermal curve, but it's pretty weird getting used to seeing it run that hot that often. I don't think the X3Ds run that way though.
Peter L Eldred
2023-09-06 16:54:03 +0000 UTCI have a similar college roommate story to Brad, except instead of “a loss of faith in the college process” my friend developed a crippling addiction to Ultima Online. We were freshmen at the University of Maine and he joined a guild mostly comprised of Australians (at least I’m pretty sure they Australian, they were definitely overseas on a completely flipped time zone). He changed his entire sleep cycle to align with the guild’s working hours, and just stopped going to classes because that was his new bedtime… He failed every class. Didn’t even bother attending the finals. At the end of that Fall semester the school put him on academic probation for the Spring semester. Nothing changed. Except he sprinkled in a few Tribes matches in between UO guild activities. At the end of the Spring semester, the school gave notice that he was being unenrolled, which was mailed to his dad’s address. His dad owned a sizable logging company and my friend was the heir apparent. So, to avoid the embarrassment of telling his partners and family members that his golden boy was kicked out of school over a video game, his dad gave the school a significant donation in exchange for my friend getting a second (third?) chance with another round of academic probation. The only thing that changed that next year was that my friend showed up to school with a better computer. Still just played UO. Still kept Australian hours. Still didn’t go to a single class. Still utterly and completely failed everything. And this time instead of cutting a check, my friend’s dad threw his computer in one of their company’s huge pulp shredders and put my friend to work for their company as a logger across the border in some deep Canadian woods. Lost track of him after that.
Mark Beaumont
2023-08-31 23:46:22 +0000 UTCBrad, I'm a bay area guy. Check out Video Only. You may be able to get a 65" LG C2 for $900-$1,200. I got a 65" C1 for $1,000 this time last year, which was cheaper than anything online by like $400. I'm not sure what's going on over there, but they've got some pretty good deals.
Dirty Erdie
2023-08-31 23:32:03 +0000 UTCI got 2 ultrawide! And I'm considering a 3rd :)
Anders Næss Åfarli
2023-08-30 15:51:27 +0000 UTCI had a Samsung 55 inch for 10 years. I finally purchased the 65 inch C2 last year and I couldn't be happier. Even my wife said I made the right choice.
Kenneth Jones
2023-08-30 14:35:08 +0000 UTC
