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11 votes
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Why we crave – The neuroscientific picture of addiction overlooks the psychological and social factors that make cravings so hard to resist
15 votes -
What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking?
What food and drinks have you been enjoying (or not enjoying) recently? Have you cooked or created anything interesting? Tell us about it!
13 votes -
The kingdom of books – In 1977, an eccentric book lover formed a micronation for book lovers
11 votes -
The three-decade saga that led to the Crown Heights tunnels
13 votes -
Migrating from Substack to self-hosted Ghost: the details
32 votes -
What’s something you want to tell someone, but can’t?
This can be something you want to tell a specific person in your life, or something that you want to tell anyone but are unable to (for any reason). Share it here instead. Also, for everyone...
This can be something you want to tell a specific person in your life, or something that you want to tell anyone but are unable to (for any reason).
Share it here instead.
Also, for everyone reading the things posted here, please be empathetic and understanding. Remember that the person posting knows their situation far better than we do.
66 votes -
Alabama's Nick Saban retiring after seven national titles, most in major college football history
20 votes -
Frostpunk 2 | Official gameplay trailer
13 votes -
Jonathan Majors’ ‘Magazine Dreams’ leaves Searchlight as filmmakers shop for new home
4 votes -
A theory of grift
8 votes -
He spent his life building a $1 million stereo. The real cost was unfathomable.
46 votes -
Completing the Silk Road bike race on a cargo bike
9 votes -
Three migrants drown at US border as Texas blocked their rescue
37 votes -
In the screening room with Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio
5 votes -
Uncovering the forgotten female astronomers of Yerkes Observatory
15 votes -
Denmark's far-right, populist Nye Borgerlige party is being dissolved – other right-wing parties applaud, spying greater share of votes
14 votes -
What was your highlight of 2023?
It can be anything really, just excited to hear about everyone's favorite moments or "wins" of the year.
48 votes -
Using NLP to detect mental health crises
7 votes -
Oil companies will soon pay fees for emitting a climate ‘super-pollutant’
11 votes -
Norway's decision to permit exploratory deep-sea extraction of valuable minerals breaks a promise to the other nations on the Ocean Panel and to scientists
14 votes -
Kiki Rockwell - Cup Runneth Over (2023)
5 votes -
UK and Denmark launch Viking Link underwater cable project – potential to transport enough electricity to power up to 2.5 million UK homes
13 votes -
The neglected clean heat we flush down the drains
37 votes -
MARINA - Man's World (2020)
9 votes -
Verge TS Ultra - The hubless electric motorcycle with sci-fi style and a great name
20 votes -
Covid kills nearly 10,000 in a month as holidays fuel spread, World Health Organization says
63 votes -
Why is AI pornifying Asian women?
30 votes -
My computer has lost its mind and I can't even begin to diagnose what's at fault. (It's the power supply.)
UPDATE: It was the power supply. I've never even heard of such a weirdly anal issue, but after installing a new one, everything is a-okay. So, I've never really had issues with power supplies, and...
UPDATE: It was the power supply. I've never even heard of such a weirdly anal issue, but after installing a new one, everything is a-okay.
So, I've never really had issues with power supplies, and generally have always troubleshot (troubleshooted? trouble...shot?) my own issues with no real, well, issues. Until now.
The other day, I got a helluva deal on a 6800 XT on Facebook Marketplace, the guy had the printout with the receipt, it's still under warranty for two years, whole shebang. So I upgraded from a Vega 56 to it. And there were zero issues. Admittedly, my power supply is only 650 watts, so I thought I might be missing some wiggle room there, and was prepared to need to upgrade. But the other night, it was fine. I stress-tested with a nearly-maxed-out 100+ FPS Cyberpunk 2077 and had zero issues, and followed that up with moderate use 144 FPS board games and things for the next few hours with a friend.
And sometime after I went to bed (I left the computer on because I'm a bad man who doesn't take care of his things or some other vaguely acceptable excuse), Windows Update occurred. Again. It's been raising hell on me in the middle of the night any time I leave my computer on, but whatever. So in the morning (this was Sunday), I saw it wasn't working right, and just kind of... shitting itself. Had trouble getting out of BIOS, all this other stuff. Eventually, I realized it was ignoring my SSD, and after unplugging everything else and forcing it to boot from my SSD with the Windows 10 install on it, it said the install was borked and asked me to do recovery steps. None of them really worked. So at this point, I was assuming that I might have hit something with the SSD and damaged the SATA controller when moving the power for the GPU or something.
So today, I got a new NVMe drive, booted from a 16gb flash drive, installed Windows 11 on it, and everything was fine. I was able to create a functional Windows 11 install, and it was fine. Until I got to the login screen. As soon as the screen asking for my PIN (on a complete, 100% valid Windows install) would load, that first frame, it would shut down hard. No BSOD, nothing. Just immediate shutdown. So I thought, "well, this seems like an issue for the POWER SUPPLY!" and removed the GPU, plugging my main monitor directly into the motherboard. Now, it was shutting down and power cycling before it even hit the BIOS, which is... weird as hell? So I thought "well, it gets further when a video card is in, let's put ye olden Vega 56 in and see how far that gets me!" and... it just works. I'm typing this from my fresh Windows 11 install with zero perceivable issues.
So my question is: How is it that my computer was perfectly fine on Saturday night with my new video card under 100% load, but by the next day would decide seemingly at random based on some sort of schrodinger's cat theory when it would shut down and when it wouldn't.
So, in summation, the four inconsistent scenarios, in tl;dr form:
- New RX 6800 XT is installed, computer runs fine at 100% load while stress testing and then for hours afterward
- 6800 XT installed, Windows won't boot and the power supply seemingly gives up
- No video card installed, the computer starts power cycling before even reaching the BIOS
- My old Vega 56 installed, everything is perfectly fine
So, obviously there's something weird going on with my power supply, but if someone can set my sights on exactly why all of this has happened, and what the proper solution to make sure it doesn't again, or just... I don't know, typing this all out has made the last day and a half of my life feel much more worth it.
And as an aside, my theory for why Windows was broken and I assumed my SSD was dying is as such: When it did the Windows Update and started trying to install it was the first time it powered down with no warning, which just broke Windows mid-update in a bad way.
22 votes -
CitraVR brings the Nintendo 3DS emulator to Quest next week
11 votes -
Hyundai unveils ’crab-walking” car that makes parallel parking a snap
16 votes -
Finland must crack down on hate speech against minorities if it's to appear “united against all external threats” says presidential hopeful Pekka Haavisto
14 votes -
My 2024 theme - Expanding recipe repertoire
My theme for 2024 is to work on creative avenues, one of which is cooking. I want to expand my recipe book to include more show-off-y meals from a variety of regions. Are there any recommendations...
My theme for 2024 is to work on creative avenues, one of which is cooking. I want to expand my recipe book to include more show-off-y meals from a variety of regions. Are there any recommendations for recipes to try out?
25 votes -
Rebecca Solnit: Slow change can be radical change
19 votes -
A universal lowering strategy for control effects in Rust
12 votes -
Humorous messages on electronic signs discouraged by new guidelines from US Federal Highway Administration
33 votes -
Maldives pro-China leader gives Indian troops March deadline to go
8 votes -
The government algorithms too few people are talking about
14 votes -
British Columbia, Canada: Family pets will no longer be considered property during divorce proceedings
15 votes -
The US Federal Trade Commission made an unprecedented move against data brokers
20 votes -
‘Don’t mess with us’: WebMD parent company demands return to office in bizarre video
68 votes -
Iceland residents of Grindavík, first evacuated in November, have been told to evacuate again after volcanic fissures opened
17 votes -
Weekly thread for casual chat and photos of pets
This is the place for casual discussion about our pets. Photos are welcome, show us your pet(s) and tell us about them!
11 votes -
Midweek Movie Free Talk
Warning: this post may contain spoilers
Have you watched any movies recently you want to discuss? Any films you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
10 votes -
Citing safety, dozens of Jewish families are leaving Oakland public schools
37 votes -
Every year since 1989, a hotel built out of snow and ice is constructed anew, and welcomes guests in the Swedish village of Jukkasjärvi
17 votes -
Guenther Steiner leaves role as Haas Team Principal
15 votes -
Just finished my first twitch stream in a while. It wasn't great, but for once, that's actually okay.
My head was all over the place, I played really badly, I lost the run I was playing much quicker than expected, and decided to end stream early because of it... but despite all that, I'm weirdly...
My head was all over the place, I played really badly, I lost the run I was playing much quicker than expected, and decided to end stream early because of it... but despite all that, I'm weirdly happy about the whole thing anyway.
One of my big goals for 2024 is to stream a lot more often. For context, I've been off work on medical leave for a good long while now, and I find streaming to be (very fun but also) draining in a similar way to how work was draining - like in how "on" you have to be, and how much multitasking you have to do, that sort of thing. And so the main reason I streamed so rarely last year is that I rarely felt "on" enough to be at 100% for all that, and I worried that I wouldn't be doing a good enough job.
Today was the 1 year anniversary of when I first started playing the game I'm obsessed with these days, so I really wanted to do a special "anniversary" stream today, which for obvious reasons couldn't really be rescheduled. My brain did feel kind of fuzzy going in, and if it were any other day, I definitely wouldn't have decided to stream at all... but I'd been hyping up this idea to myself for a while, and knew I'd regret it if I bailed at the last minute, so I pushed myself to go live anyway.
And yeah, like I started this off by saying, the stream definitely wasn't perfect. I didn't play super well, made a bunch of boneheaded decisions, caught myself mentally drifting off every so often and not either playing the game or talking to chat or just being an engaging streamer at all. I lost a run that I for sure could have gotten further with if I played a bit smarter.
BUT!
I did it. I did the thing, and I still had fun, and my friends who tuned in as viewers seemed to have fun too. At the end of the day, that should really be all that matters.
I could very easily take today as a bad omen for the year to come... as in like, I'm gonna be mushy brained and keep doing embarrassing mediocre streams, because that's clearly all I'm capable of, blah blah blah. Past-me definitely would have latched onto that train of thought, hard. But right now, mostly what I'm feeling is just... proud. Proud of myself for not letting perfect be the enemy of good today for once, for actually putting myself out there, for not putting so much stock in "I have to be good at the games I play" as like part of my identity or anything (which I used to have a ton of bugaboos about, as a woman who used to play in a lot of sexist male-dominated spaces... it was kind of like, I have to be great at this game, or I'm just encouraging their sexism so much more and letting all other women down because of it, therefore I can't ever afford to be bad at games and especially not when someone else might see). I can finally feel myself starting to let go of a lot of those old toxic ideas, and while I know I still have a ways left to go with it, it already feels incredibly liberating.
Throughout my struggles with chronic illness these past few years, I've been trying my best for some time now to accept myself for where I'm at, instead of berating myself for not yet getting back to where I want to be. Moments like these are really nice reminders that that isn't nearly as hard as it used to be. :)
So, yeah. Thanks for reading. Here's hoping this story resonates with at least a few of you -- and here's to (hopefully) many more mediocre non-ideal streams to come this year, and maybe a few half-decent ones too if I'm lucky 😅
32 votes -
Advice for anger management when dealing with frustrating technology?
I'm curious how you tech oriented people handle this and whether you react in the same way to tech frustrations as I do. Advice is welcome. I hate hate hate the black box aspect of dealing with...
I'm curious how you tech oriented people handle this and whether you react in the same way to tech frustrations as I do. Advice is welcome.
I hate hate hate the black box aspect of dealing with computer technology. When I try to do something and it fails to work for reasons that are opaque or inscrutable it causes me to react with rage. I haven't quite thrown my computer out the window when something fails to work as expected, but I want to and it ruins my mood and makes me irritable and difficult to deal with until the problem is solved.
Do other people react the same way? How do you mitigate this? I'm currently needing to learn and use more tech skills and interact with more programs than I have in the recent past. What advice do you have?
Thanks
53 votes -
‘Fast & Furious 11’ will be Vin Diesel’s last one, smaller budget and a “throwback” to the first film
17 votes