This is an update of this post. I didn't put a single drop of water in since then, but I think the plant is compromised: the branch that was pale yellow ten days ago has since completely shriveled and two other branches on the other side are now completely flopped over the edge of the pot.
Let this be a lesson for the future, although since I managed to kill one of the most resilient and beginner-friendly succulents out there I should probably stick to fake plants.
Having said that, if you have a look at the second picture, it seems like the damage is starting to show right around the point it bends over the edge of the pot itself, while below and above that point (at least for now) the branch looks fine. If the roots are rotting, shouldn't the damage show at the base and crawl upwards?
Hello all! I had this stapelia (variegata?) ever since February of 2025 and so far it only grew and grew (except during winter) and it's been very healthy.
Unfortunately, after coming back from a three days trip before which I gave it just some water, I came back home to it having an arm completely dessiccated (it broke off and I threw it away) and one looking like that, pale yellow but only where it bends down.
Temperatures these days have been scorching, but it never stayed exposed to direct sunlight.
I'm afraid it might be dying or be very close to it. Moreover, ever since I got it, it never produced a single flower, maybe it was under stress this whole time and these days' exceptional temperature tipped off the balance too much?
Thank you all for your time.
Ciao a tutti! Sto considerando di fare un aggiornamento al mio PC in vista di possibili rincari all'orizzonte e in particolare vorrei cambiare la scheda video.
Attualmente ho una GTX 1650 da 4 GB che a dire il vero funziona benissimo, ma non durerà per sempre e in futuro non vorrei ritrovarmi nella spiacevole situazione di dover scegliere tra lo sborsare 600+ euro solo per rimanere nel suo stesso tier o spendere meno ma ritrovarmi con l'equivalente futuro di una GTX 1630 per le mani.
Visto che allo stesso tempo vorrei anche passare da Windows a Ubuntu, stavo pensando alla RX 9060 XT, ma sono indeciso su quale taglio di VRAM scegliere.
C'è la XFX Triple Fan da 16 GB che non mi dispiace affatto, specialmente perché con tutte quelle ventole mi dà l'idea di essere raffreddata meglio e quindi potenzialmente anche essere più longeva. Il problema è che costa una cifra che per me è già fuori di testa, oltre 500 euro.
In alternativa avevo visto una versione dual fan da 8 GB della Sapphire a circa 390 euro, che per me è sempre tanto ma è già un po' più ragionevole.
Un'alternativa completamente diversa potrebbe essere una RX 7600 della Asus, sempre da 8 GB, che ho visto a 300 euro, che rientra perfettamente nel budget che avevo in mente ma che è anche una generazione indietro rispetto alla 9060.
In ogni caso non conto di spingere al limite nessuna di queste schede, il carico di lavoro quotidiano resterebbe quello cui già sottopongo la GTX 1650, mi interessavano soprattutto perché potenzialmente più longeve a livello prestazionale.
Voi cosa mi consigliereste? Grazie per aver letto tutto il muro di testo.
(I flaired this as "Discussion" just because it's not about hardware I physically own or use, yet.)
Hello everyone! With the threat of more price hikes looming on the horizon, I decided to pull the trigger and get a new card now despite my current one (a GTX 1650) being already powerful enough for what I need to do.
Since at the same time I was also considering moving from Windows to Ubuntu, I decided to go AMD since, as far as I understood, Nvidia drivers for Linux cause catastrophic performance losses (up to 15%, if I remember correctly), and that's when they work at all.
In particular, my eyes fell on the triple fan 16 GB XFX RX 9060 XT Swift (how many Xs...). It's very expensive for my tastes, but it also looks like it should have enough VRAM, raw power and cooling capabilities to last many years and not get obsolete too quickly. I'm also getting a support bracket to keep it in place and not stress or twist the PCIe connector.
Power-wise I think my 650 W Gold PSU should be enough, right? Also, is the power connector safe? I know that on some cards of other brands and models it catches fire on its own, apparently.
Software-wise, instead, how do drivers work on Ubuntu? Windows detects them on installation (unless the GPU is straight up defective, as it happened with the iGPU of my Ryzen 5 8600G), does Ubuntu do the same or does it install with generic video drivers and I have to look them up myself?
Thanks a lot for your time.
Hello everyone!
Straight to the point. I think I lack some fundamental that even most low elo players mastered to some degree, something that sits between "right-click to move and attack, QWER for spells" and the topics covered by the beginner tutorials like farming and warding.
An analogy would be how basically anyone is familiar with the concept of "cover" in shooter games, even those who pick them up for the first time: you stay behind a solid object --> enemy bullets can't hit you.
I'm the equivalent of an FPS player who cluelessly stands in front of the enemy fire because his brain didn't make the aforementioned connection. That player can think about aiming, recoil, spray patterns, loadout, where to plant, sniper spots... all they want, but they'll just die over and over anyway because they fail at the most basic thing ever, that even the most basic tutorials gloss over because it's just so basic.
So what are the things you consider so basic that there shouldn't be the need to even explain them, because even a beginner usually picks them up subconsciously anyway? Because those are the things I'd be most interested in understanding.
I can provide recordings of some of my games to better convey what I mean, too, my explanation is admittedly a bit nebulous.
Ciao a tutti! Spero di aver scelto il tag giusto per il post.
Ho 25 anni, vado in palestra dal 2021 ma ultimamente (da febbraio-marzo) mi è passata un po' la voglia per tutta una serie di motivi.
Ora vorrei ricominciare, però con un approccio diverso. In particolare vorrei concentrarmi sul mantenere in salute il cuore (in famiglia le noie cardiovascolari sono all'ordine del giorno e io stesso potrei avere già un principio di insufficienza venosa alle caviglie) e sviluppare veramente un minimo di forza, perché in vita mia non sono mai riuscito a fare una singola trazione alla sbarra (come mi attacco così rimango), che sinceramente è un po' umiliante, specie dopo cinque anni di palestra.
La massa muscolare in sé per sé, quella su cui mi sembra di capire si concentrino le schede "predefinite" delle palestre, invece mi interessa relativamente.
Su che tipo di esercizi potrei concentrarmi per queste mie necessità?
Hello everyone!
I just got gifted the Quantum 250 headphones and they look amazing, the only problem is that they also don't fit very well on my head.
To put them on I have to stretch them sideways so much that the elastic band completely touches to the rigid plastic one, which I feel like it's not really supposed to happen.
Judging by the pictures I saw online of this and other headsets with this configuration, there should be at least one centimeter of space between them, and the plastic band shouldn't stretch sideways so much.
When they're on they also clamp my head very tightly. I didn't wear them for more than a couple of minutes, so far, but I'm afraid that if I keep them on for hours (as I usually do when I work from home or play videogames) they could cause discomfort or even straight up give me a headache.
My current headset, a Trust GXT 322, has speakers that can slide up and down, does the Quantum 250 also have those? I tried to lightly pull the speakers a bit but they don't move and I'm afraid to put more force because they look like they're on a ball joint and I don't want to break them with such a maneuvre. The manual doesn't mention any adjustable feature either.
Did I miss something? It's my first somewhat proper headset after almost ten years of way cheaper equipment (the aforementioned GXT 322 and before that I had a GXT 310) and I know myself enough to have the feeling there's some super easy solution to adjust them that I didn't figure out.
Thank you all for your attention.
My grandfather (80 years old) will soon receive an ICD due to a severe heart failure he suffered last week and a decades long frail cardiological situation.
Doctors, however, aren't very optimistic about the procedure. They told him that the risk of endocarditis, complications and infections is very high, so much so that the choice between getting the ICD and living day by day with the risk of sudden cardiac arrest isn't that clear-cut, in their opinion.
He chose to do it anyway, and we agree with him because an infection is a more nuanced threat compared to cardiac arrest: the former could even be mild and treatable with just antibiotics, the latter would always be a dice throw for his life.
Moreover, as far as I know, an ICD option isn't even offered to begin with if the patient isn't expected to survive heart failure for at least a year, so it's not even some kind of desperate effort to prolong his life by just a few months.
Are doctors being overdramatic or trying to preemptively wash their hands in some way? Otherwise why would they even offer him a choice if the surgery carries so many risks?
Thank you all for reading this so far.
Hello, first of all I wish you all a good day.
My 80 years old grandfather last Saturday was hospitalized for heart failure, they treated him and in the past days he recovered well, they gradually removed all the medications (beyond those he already used to take) and, thankfully, he seems to be fine in general. He's still in the HDU, but just because he needs a heart monitor and the antibiotics to fight off bronchopneumonia.
Now doctors are evaluating whether to implant an ICD, a pacemaker or, if his heart is too compromised for either implant, continue with only medications.
To be honest, I'm really scared by this whole situation, and I'm afraid my family is being reticent or in denial about the bigger picture and that all this might just be done to give him a few weeks or months of life instead of allowing him, with the appropriate treatments and implants, to put this scary mess behind him.
What can I expect for the future? Are things as grim as I fear?
Thank you all for reading this and sorry for sounding so desperate/ranty.