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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • These are more like last 2 week but anyways:

    • Finished Agent A after a year of hiatus.
    • Got hdr to work in Dark Souls 2 with the graphics overhaul mod and finished getting the 4 big Souls.
    • Got tired of the difficulty of Dark Souls 2 and decided to start a new random shooter from my library… Devil Daggers
    • Had a management sim itch and gave another shot at FTL, never got to win. Half the time I lost in a single encounter to things like never landing a shot on the enemy ship due to shields + misses or 7 people teleporting to my ship and wrecking havok. Other times I got too greedy.
    • Tried to figure out which way to go next in Dark Solus 2 by checking the wiki but kept getting sidetracked by things I might’ve missed.
    • Also tried to quench the management itch with shapez, but didn’t like it much. Just made me crave the factorio dlc more. Amazing music though





  • I feel silly for not thinking this… It works fine without the mod unless you try to change resolution/fullscreen settings.

    Apparently the mod is supposed to disable in-game resolution controls and force it to borderless window at monitor resolution when the flipmodel swapchain is enabled (which is necessary for hdr). It seems to do this by always launching the game in a 720p window and depending on if the custom swapchain is enabled it either resizes it to the screen or applies the in-game resolution setting. Gamescope doesn’t respond to the change and keeps outputting 720p in a 1440p window :/.

    I can’t wait for wine wayland

    Edit: Just found that using the --force-windows-fullscreen option fixes this issue!!





  • *HX - mobile workstation
    *H / *HS - laptop
    *U / *P - ultrabook

    Ryzen AI - current gen amd
    Ryzen 7x4x / Ryzen 8x4x - last gen amd
    Ryzen 6xxx / Ryzen 7x3x - prev gen amd
    Core Ultra 1xx / Core 14xxx - current gen intel
    Core 1xxx / Core 13xxx - last gen intel
    Core 12xxx - prev gen intel

    Generation is the most important factor for single thread performance, then power usage and lastly sku.
    You could go for an *HX or *H model from a recent gen for an upgrade or if you’re fine with the performance you had you could also get a *U model as those are cheaper, more silent and use less power. It’s actually surprising that your laptop wasn’t that loud

    Also the next intel generation is soon to come with big improvements I think, but it’ll probably take time for it to be sold





  • Very much unrelated but I recently read samsung’s smart monitor/tv privacy policy and it says they can record EVERYTHING you do on it and devices connected to it including programs or games you use and you can’t opt out of this short of foregoing smart features (except screen casting) altogether. There’s also an option (that doesn’t look optional in their ui) that lets them automatically process that data.

    I’d heard those things were ridiculous but didn’t imagine this much