one of the few upvoters here 😂 this is mostly not wrong. most people don't give a shit, don't be mad just because you don't like the truth. however, I'm still gonna blame billionaires, or by extension anyone with the mindset of trying to become a rich person. all of these rats actively undermine democracy using highly effective lobby campaigns. you can only blame the plebs to some degree. they're stupid but also too stupid to fix it. meanwhile most people with higher education have no sense of compassion and just afford themselves a few more blissful years. we're cooked, guys, time to finish what you wanted to do in life and get ready for the bad days 😂

now they're nostalgic about unhappiness 😂😡

that's true but i think compared to most other consoles nowadays it goes a very sustainable path. valve does nothing to prevent you from running gog games, which are true digital ownership at least. i know physical media are the most tangible option in the moment, but in the long run blurays for example actually have a limited lifespan

i think it might be a problem with the design of the rest of the game, maybe too many distracting elements necessitate the yellow paint. in real life i can function without yellow paint. i used to be fine without it in games, especially hitman contracts for example. it could be due to graphical fidelity, which seems one of the reasons battlebit made such a surprise success in the military shooters. in modern games with too many 3d rendered objects you can't see clearly what's going on - in real-life you at least have depth information to distinguish things, it's not all in the same plane in front of you.

however, i found the old hitmans so much more immersive. i really disliked feeling guided around as if it was a theme park in the latest ones

if you play games on arch, your brain clockrate slowly goes up over time, so the games seem to slow down 😎

joke's on anon, the only thing nsa ever wanted is spy on everyone's dickpics without having to go in person

doesn't need a chain. many companies save money offloading the application process to an external website, and that one manages it for a lot of different companies and then sells your data

precisely. a few years ago i thought people will become more used to cyberspace and at some point revolt against digital blackboxes as much as if the builders or housing agents would put actual blackboxes into people's homes. but no, digital literacy is going down, i guess the newest generation doesn't even know that we had start menus without candy crush ads at some point 😔

billionaires and their super important opinions eh? having money is a personality trait apparently

your sis needs to make a dotfile git 😎

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I'll have the 20x leveraged please 👌😎

they look at how most of us seem to be able to pay landlords and got jealous 😂

I'll chime in with a weird take: this is a privacy community, we are united in a sense of defending our peaceful and unproblematic browsing on the internet and sending messages to friends from lunatics who seem to want everyone treated with the suspicion of highest criminal activity. the article posted describes a "privacy infringement" onto someone who not only has already broken the rule, but strongly publicized it by making people have to smell it. the perpetrators didn't even have an expectation of privacy, so the premise is ridiculous.

I'll say it like this: if the tv detects nicotine patches on someone's skin, then i pick up the torches and pitchforks.

That's precisely the SSD PCIe solution that I bought. ^^ Yeah, might have to redistribute... Thanks for letting me know about the compatibility listing, I wasn't aware of it. I'll check if I can get one of those second hand.

Edit: I'm slightly worried about ASUS as a mainboard supplier though because of their recent rootkit escapades...

It's a MSI X470 GAMING PRO. Tried both upper x16 slots. The second one seems to be x8, but the first one doesn't work either despite being x16. I have other m.2 slots but they're already used up - however those are smaller SSDs so worst case I could move my OS to a SATA drive and populate those m.2 slots with the larger and newer SSDs that i bought! 😂

as x4/x4, but PLX would divvy it all up essentially 4x M.2 at x2/x2/x2/x2, that kinda thing. If this adapter doesn’t have it and you can’t get this to work, and you’re willing to blow another hundred bucks, that other kind of adapter would def work.

Without knowing your motherboard I’d def download the manual and ctrl+f some promising keywords such as ‘bifurcation’ or ‘PCI’ and basically hunt for anything in the manual that describes settings to enable this. Sometimes on a 3 slot board the bottom ‘chipset’ slot can be toggled to run something different than PCH, like some other controller.

I’d also try running the adapter in every possible configuration, on the most current supported PCI-E standards and a previous generation if motherboard allows, ie: adapter top slot, GPU middle slot, GPU top slot, adapter 3rd slot (if mobo has one), disable PCI-E 4.0 or enable 3.0 each time just to see if some configuration works (kinda tedious but costs 0 dollars so

Thanks for the hints. I'll try to put it in gen 3.0 mode and see if I get more settings there, good idea!

ur “main” NVME SSD. Your chipset typically has like 4 or 8 more (the very bottom slot). And you have to figure out some sort of combo where that works, and they’re not combineable. What’s worse is a lot of motherboards hard wire those extra x4 pcie lanes to the M.2 SSD slots so you get no choice.

I've put the bifurcation card next to the CPU now and it only offers two x4 lanes. I thought zen2 should be able to handle bifurcation, so if it was directly hooked up with the CPU, I should get all four. Seems chipsets still have some influence over the first PCIe slot.

This sounds like a path I could take - just buying a mainboard like that and making it a NAS. Which board do you have there? If it's AM4, I could get a similar one and just reuse my old CPU.

don't know about op's claims but one time a crack actually affected my computer - in a really goofy way. it just installed a background wallpaper that was advertising for canned tuna, all in Russian 😂 the brand didn't even exist where i lived. also i could easily reset the background, so it wasn't malicious at all.