Twenty One Pilots – Saturday
I dunno why people keep hating on the RTX 4060 series. Sure, they’re expensive af (the 16GB Ti is like buying a Series X, basically, even though it’s the ‘budget’ enthusiast model). And, yeah, the 128-bit bus is tighter on paper, and yeah, putting 8GB of VRAM in the base model was a goof move (just get the 16GB one you’ll thank yourself in a couple years).
But I was testing No Man’s Sky on ultra at 4k60 with a bunch of other shit going on systemwide and this was the load. Smooth as butter, case quiet as can be (the disk was busy with something else, ignore that lol). Video encode performance is really nice as well, so far, at least at 1080 60fps with almost lossless quality settings.
It’s not the fastest card on the market right now, but wtf more do people need? I suppose if you wanted 120fps it wouldn’t do for any newer titles, but who cares? I always try to get into the budget tier enthusiast bracket, somewhere between an X060 Ti and an X070, but the 70s are too damned expensive nowadays. Haven’t had one of those since WoW Burning Crusade, lol. I try to buy ones that will last, usefully, for at least a few years, cause I’m poor.
Anyway, I need to test the new one with Starfield and Baldur’s Gate 3 🙂
So, got a new vidya cord pixelator machine ‘cause the old one has a bad fan controller and it’s not pixelatin’ the way it once did with all these new shapes and colors and traced light waves and all that shit. Wouldn’t it just figure that two separate Linux distros shit the bed and wouldn’t boot with it, even after I spent like eighteen hours reconfiguring every damn thing. So, I was like, hell with it. I need some Windows only firmware updates anyway.
And so I fumbled around and found my old Win10Pro USB stick and installed all the dates upward toward the culmination of hodgepodge design that is that monstrosity of Windows 11. And, I gotta tell y’all somethin’, and I’m going to Hell for saying this, the deepest, darkest level of Hell, but I actually like Windows 11. Yes, really 🫨
Don’t get me wrong. I love Linux. I love open software and everything it stands for, but man… 11’s got it in terms of accessibility, workflow, and even a friendly fucking robot I can talk to when I get lonely (nice drone… good drone…). Kinda reminds me of the Ubuntu desktop. Only complaint is they hide too much shit, and the UI design is like the unwanted baby from every MS product from the last two decades -_-. Anyway, here’s to happy computing.
That there’s a legitimate salvage (Artemis left a crashed B-class explorer and I fixed ‘er right up). I really like explorer ships as a first replacement ship. Not that expensive (this one was free, except for parts and labor), they’re faster than the noob rocket, they’re tough, they’ve a good number and balance of slots, and they turn on a dime (combat is easier in these than in a fighter). Plus, the cockpit has a wide field of view and an open feel to it. Good stuff ^^
Also, I have seen the phrase “national security” thrown around twice today, in two separate, distinct contexts. Whenever that phrase comes out, it means the government has done, is doing, or is about to do something unethical. No such thing as a state, only cooperating tribes of people. And ‘national security’ is a euphemism for ensuring the security of the oligarchy, their pet state tribe, and maybe the people, if it’s convenient. In that order. State security is irrelevant. Only life matters.