u/maxwelldoug

Image 1 — I've been outperformed by a Suzuki Sidekick.
Image 2 — I've been outperformed by a Suzuki Sidekick.
Image 3 — I've been outperformed by a Suzuki Sidekick.
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I've been outperformed by a Suzuki Sidekick.

I may have forgotten to account for him being over a foot thinner. and overestimated the flexibility of a suspiciously unmoving branch. Smug little fucker didn't even close his soft top while we maneuvered our way back out of Satan's bunghole in the woods lol.

Lesson: when the trail map says this is the tightest part ahead, and you're in the last turnaround point... stop when you go around the corner and see it get even tighter. the map is not gospel. do not end up in a situation where you have to reverse 800 meters with both mirrors folded and no front right fender.

pic 3 is what happens when you finally make it back to the gas station and acquire an automotive grade repair kit (zip ties.)

Now I just have to wait for my appointment with my regular tech (dad) to find out if my repair work is good enough to avoid dropping a few Brownies on parts that haven't sheared the mounting clips :P

Learn from my mistakes!

u/maxwelldoug — 3 days ago

This is why we don't FTP our rooms, I guess.

Pokemon Conquest is looking a little worse for wear - dumped on one console with a functional cart slot but several broken buttons, ftp to my laptop and to the one with full functionality but a damaged reader. my desktop (with SD card reader), unfortunately, is a 4 hour drive away so I guess I won't be playing conquest for a while.

u/maxwelldoug — 10 days ago

Ryzen AI 340 vs 350 for upgrade?

I have narrowed down my input deck failures to being the fault of the connection point for the mainboard, and my occasional GPU issues seem to also be coming from the interposer mount. Basically, my mainboard is and always has been screwed (despite support giving me the runaround for 2 years straight on both the input deck and the GPU until I just gave up), and now my iGPU is rapidly dying. (Visual snow on all apps include the desktop flashing at random, not observed on external monitor from dGPU)

I run a dedicated GPU, so I am not concerned about the downgrade in iGPU performance for gaming, and am comparing only the CPU performance, but I rely heavily on CPU compute for work and school (I build very large CPU heavy projects like the Android kernel, and am doing large scale data science, and occasionally CPU heavy games like HOI4) so multi-core performance is a must. I'd ideally like to maintain my current CPU capabilities, but the extra 400$CAD for the 350 is *really* painful right now.

How much is that extra dough actually worth? I can't find good comparisons of the actual raw performance of the chips anywhere.

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u/maxwelldoug — 27 days ago