u/ChrisOnRockyTop

Ark Survival Ascended just flat out will not work with game linking. All other games I can go in and add the right .exe file for the game and link a keyboard/mouse profile to it and it will auto switch to it whenever the game is in the foreground.

With Ark Survival Ascended it keeps wanting to use the "ArkAscended_BE.exe" file

I removed the game from the linked games menu and added it back manually and I even deleted that file and manually chose the "ArkAscended.exe" file path and then looked at what file it was pointing to and it still keeps linking to the "ArkAscended_BE.exe" file path even when it's been deleted.

I'm assuming this is why it won't auto switch the profiles is because it's linking to the BE filepath instead of the regular one.

Anyone know how I can fix this?

I'm in several Discord servers. Even my own server. I have completely turned off friend requests from literally everyone, friends of friends, and server members. So it should completely block friend requests.

WRONG

For some reason one server still gets through and I am getting spam friend requests from what I guess is a bot account even though I have friend requests completely turned off.

I don't see how this is possible as I also have an alt account that is also in my own Discord server where it's just my main account and alt account to test things and even my alt account can't send my a friend request.

So how is this bot on multiple accounts from a shared server able to add me?

I'm an early adopter of Sonos but I've only ever had one speaker. The OG Play 1. Had it for probably 15+ years now and it still sounds great.

I only ever use it to listen to music in the bedroom. It puts out enough sound and bass that I never really needed more speakers. And I never felt like dropping $200+ for another one just for music in the shower so have just been using my Galaxy phone for music in there.

I do love how I have the option to just add more speakers throughout the house if I do feel like splurging on more speakers and how the whole system is basically wireless except the power cable. And how all the big music streaming services are built into the app and that I can also add my media server library too and play my own stuff.

I now want my TV audio to come through my speaker in my room so I've been searching on ways to do that instead of just buying a Bluetooth speaker.

Today I discovered Sonos has an Erra 1 speaker that is basically just a better version of my OG Play 1 and cool thing is it has Bluetooth built in and also even a line in. But looks like they jumped in price recently and are $220 where as the video I watched on them said they were under $200 at the time of the video about 8 months ago.

I guess I'm here asking for other alternatives or suggestions for multi room audio without the Sonos price tag or if I should just see if I can find an Erra 1 for under $200 since my OG Play 1 has been good to me for 15 years.

I think a while back I heard something about a Wiim Streamer that basically works like Sonos but I think to achieve multi room audio with them I would need to buy multiple streamers and on top of that I'm not sure they make wireless speakers to connect to them or if I'd have to wire speakers up to each Wiim device.

Any advice or input would be much appreciated

I've been gaming on a 27 inch Dell monitor. Nothing fancy just some 2560x1440 budget gaming monitor 165Hz refresh rate. Non curved. The GSync never worked on it. Always flickers in game but whatever.

I figure it would make a good secondary monitor for Discord or OBS and stream chat so now I'm considering getting another monitor as my current secondary is an old 24 inch 1080 res one.

I was thinking I'd like to go a little bigger and a little wider and keep the same 1440 res or whatever it would be since it's being stretched.

Just started looking on Amazon and everything I'm finding is ultra wide. Like as wide as my arm span wide. I don't want to go that wide but maybe half that or a little less wide than that.

Anyone know of any?

I know that's probably not ideal for gaming and should probably go 4k but it's fine. Only games I mainly play are Ark Survival Ascended and Rocket League and the new Forza Horizon 6 when it comes out. Rarely play shooters or FPS and my current PC can't do 4k but I'd love to upgrade to a 5070 TI GPU if the prices of GPUs and RAM ever dip back down 😬

If I had to list a budget I'd say no more than $400 but preferably around the $300 mark.

Just mainly trying to get an idea of what resolution and size monitor I am after as I'm only finding Ultra Wides out there.