walderan

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[–] walderan 2 points 1 year ago

Don't forget your handkerchief

[–] walderan 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I got a Kingston SSD once ( yes I should have known better) that kept freezing my laptop which needed to be restarted. I couldn't narrow it down and put up with it for an embarrassingly long time, until while looking for unrelated stuff I found out that the firmware version was associated with freezes. And then I found out that it was basically impossible to upgrade it, even on windows. After many hours, I was almost ready to give up, until I found some random Russian video (which I don't speak) that used some ancient version of their shity firmware updater that you could only find in sketchy forums and software sites that could actually upgrade the firmware to a non-crashy version. I think it still freezes, but it's orders of magnitude rarer.

Long story short, Kingston, not even once.

[–] walderan 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Sadly, if you are using Linux and want your firmware updates for your SSD through the proper native channels, Samsung was the only option last time I checked. Crucial used to have a half-assed solution that they abandoned recently.

[–] walderan 10 points 1 year ago

The grain makes it look like he was using some ray tracing algorithm he had secretly developed, but he hadn't figured out denoising yet.

[–] walderan 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

(στον) κώλο μου / (ston) kolo mou. Ideally spoken, with an accent close to the dude in the middle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGyhXpx4Gis

[–] walderan 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

My contribution to the discussion is that the Greek phrase for "(in) my ass", if said in a hasty/hillbilly way, sounds pretty similar to Gollum. Might even call in to question the true nationality of this game's visionary inventor.

[–] walderan 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ah yes, China's and India's rivalry over supremacy over East Asia wasn't enough. Now they can have KSA and Iran fighting over the Middle East, plus Egypt and Ethiopia ready to go to war over a dam, under the same banner. I guess if half the members of a consortium want to murder the other half it balances out?

[–] walderan 13 points 1 year ago

If you think this is anything new you should look up who coincidentally invented the autopilot for airplanes and the mile high club.

[–] walderan 10 points 1 year ago

It might be available in Ubuntu Pro, with star support expanded to 10 billion years.

[–] walderan 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
[–] walderan 2 points 1 year ago

He shouldn't have gone looking for that 216 digit number again.

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