NaibofTabr
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- Comment on What can US citizens do to fight/prevent their country enabling genocide? 4 hours ago:
You can get anything you want
- Comment on Become ungovernable! 13 hours ago:
Become illegible?
- Comment on Heheheh my secret door of secret knowledge 13 hours ago:
Hmm, I’ve always found the exposed bits of machinery and the genuine work areas to be a lot more interesting than the safety-padded candy-coated consumer-facing side of things.
- Comment on Games on my PC start stuttering pretty badly when they aren't the active window for a while. Have to close the game and restart to resolve the stuttering issue. What exactly is causing this? 3 days ago:
but it still is different from virtual memory. that’s a broader thing.
Of course, that’s why I said…
the function is called Virtual Memory in Windows
because that’s how it’s labeled in the Windows Settings menu.
then open the control panel and fix the swap setup. and then enjoy your more ram. the solution to this problem does not seem to be not upgrading to have more ram.
Adding more RAM is not a solution to OP’s described problem in any way. In the context of moving data from active memory to the pagefile, Windows doesn’t care how much RAM you have, only how long the data in active memory has been idle (which is not configurable). Adding more RAM to the system will do nothing to change that behavior.
However, adding more RAM might make retrieving data from the pagefile slower. Yes you could adjust the pagefile settings to address this, as you said, but it still doesn’t do anything to address OP’s problem.
- Comment on Games on my PC start stuttering pretty badly when they aren't the active window for a while. Have to close the game and restart to resolve the stuttering issue. What exactly is causing this? 4 days ago:
that also gets used when no swap file was set up.
The swap file or pagefile is automatically set up in Windows 10/11. You have to do something manually to prevent it.
I agree that adding more RAM won’t necessarily make the problem go away as windows might still swap the game out if it deems it more important to cache more files in RAM, but I don’t see why that would make it worse.
By making the swap file larger, which may be an issue if the hard drive doesn’t have enough space left, and if not it will still increase the amount of time needed to recover data from the swap, because it’s larger.
- Comment on guys what the heck theyre putting micro chips in the cheese and using blockchains to track the micro chips 4 days ago:
QR codes are just symbols in a camera readible way and barcodes numbers in a camara readible way.
A storage medium for 0´s & 1´s like a USB stick or a disc but way less storage.Yes, a QR code is a representation of digital data. There are different versions which can represent different amounts of data. The represented data can be anything that you want, as long as the scanning device can interpret that data as something useful.
They dont add any security,
An RFID tag holding a blockchain token string also does not add any security, it’s just a different thing holding an alphanumeric value. They could just use RFID tags without the blockchain, the result would be the same.
But my point is mostly that this is already an entirely solved problem, you don’t need very many bits to store a useful unique ID code, you certainly don’t need a blockchain-token-value amount of bits, and a printed paper tag is cheaper, easier to manufacture, and less environmentally impactful than a microchip.
- Comment on Games on my PC start stuttering pretty badly when they aren't the active window for a while. Have to close the game and restart to resolve the stuttering issue. What exactly is causing this? 4 days ago:
Sure but this still requires going through the reinstallation process, compared to just plugging an NVMe drive into a PCIe adapter and sticking it into an unused slot - done in 5 minutes.
- Comment on guys what the heck theyre putting micro chips in the cheese and using blockchains to track the micro chips 4 days ago:
Barcodes and QR codes do not have enough information for unique identification. (Well they could but they start getting bigger and bigger)
This is not really true. A 16-digit decimal code gives you 10 quadrillion unique numbers. FedEx handled ~3 billion packages in 2024, so at that rate it would take them more than 3 million years to use up the ID space. You don’t need ridiculously long strings for useful package ID codes.
If you stored the 16 digits as ASCII characters (7 bits each) it would be all of 112 bits of data. The Micro QR format is more than enough to represent that data, with room to spare for error correction. If you used alphanumeric instead of decimal you’d have 62^16 unique IDs (UC + LC + 0-9), still only 16 ASCII characters (112 bits), and at that point you’re more worried about the sun burning out than you are about running out of package ID codes.
But the real issue is needing these codes tracked and audited in a public manner. Instead of having a third party company trusted with all the cheese, you use a Blockchain with a public ledger. This doesn’t even require much processing power since there’s no incentive to mine as many blocks as possible.
If you want the tracking to be useful, then every time a package passes through a handling station the ID needs to be scanned and the ledger updated indicating the transfer of the package ID from one station to the other. Then every node on the blockchain network needs to update their copy of the ledger with the new transaction data. Never mind mining, if you’re handling millions of packages per day then updating the ledger will create a stupid amount of network traffic and just eat processing power. Also, correcting any errors that get written into the ledger due to some handling failure will be extremely difficult if not impossible.
Without mining, what incentive would there be for anyone besides the actual shipping company to host a blockchain node for this? How would it not still be “a third party company trusted with all the cheese”?
- Comment on Sam Altman Wants Your Eyeball 4 days ago:
AI is a surveillance technology.
- Comment on guys what the heck theyre putting micro chips in the cheese and using blockchains to track the micro chips 4 days ago:
using blockchains to track the movement of goods, like from ports or for cheese, is probably their only non-BS use case other than volatile currencies
We already do this with barcodes and QR codes, which you can just make with a printer.
- Comment on Games on my PC start stuttering pretty badly when they aren't the active window for a while. Have to close the game and restart to resolve the stuttering issue. What exactly is causing this? 4 days ago:
This is the correct answer and the function is called Virtual Memory in Windows but is commonly known as the pagefile or swap. Adding more RAM won’t save you from this, as Windows will automatically move memory files into virtual memory if they’re idle for awhile, regardless of how much RAM is currently in use. In fact adding more RAM will probably increase the size of the virtual memory which may make the problem worse for you.
Here is a more complete explanation: Swap file in Windows 10 & Windows 11: How to use it to optimize PC performance (increase, adjust, deactivate swap)?
The pagefile is configurable. You can change which hard drive it gets stored on, how big it can be, and even turn it off completely. Turning it off has risks though, and may lead to system crashes (see the warnings in the article).
You could add an SSD specifically to serve as a pagefile location and nothing else, in which case you could just get a small cheap one (a 32GB SSD would be more than enough for 16GB of RAM) - assuming that you have a place to plug it in to your motherboard, and then turn off the pagefile storage on all other drives in your system. That would be an easy change as you wouldn’t have to reinstall Windows onto a new hard drive.
Ultimately though, the easiest and cheapest fix is to just change your behavior - close the game if you’re not using it for awhile and relaunch it when you want to play again.
- Comment on Rate my setup 4 days ago:
So, wait… cold beans in the tank, then game session for awhile, then take a break and have a properly cooked snack?
- Comment on SoundCloud changes policies to allow AI training on user content 5 days ago:
Best update all your files with some trash first and let it sit for a couple months to hopefully overwrite any backups, there’s no guarantee that “deleting” it from your account will actually remove it from their servers.
- Comment on CD Projekt exec says "the right thing to do" is release a real Nintendo Switch 2 cartridge for Cyberpunk 2077, not a game-key card, in message to other studios: "Do not underestimate the physical edit 1 week ago:
I’m not sure what most people were expecting
People were expecting the game that was promised in all the lead-up marketing.
CD Projekt has been building up expectations, previewing intriguing scenes and customizations that never came to pass.
It went to promise real-time AI that would grant over a thousand NPCs a variety of roles and actions that, complete with a day/night cycle, was designed to change up their routines. But as fans began playing, they quickly discovered this wasn’t true.
Then, there are the gameplay and AI issues that hinder the experience. A game like Cyberpunk 2077 runs on crime, and CD Projekt promised realistic interactions with the police. One would fully expect officers to come running if a crime was committed out in the open with witnesses, or even in a remote alleyway. Sadly, there is nothing realistic about a bunch of cops spawning unexpectedly around the player with guns firing – especially if no one even witnessed the crime.
Basically all of the marketing turned out to be lies and the game that CDPR promised never existed.
- Comment on When technology is the problem, not the solution 1 week ago:
It’s your problem. It’s somebody else’s solution.
It’s not final yet.
- Comment on Showing your ID to get online might become a reality 1 week ago:
How could this possibly be GDPR compliant?
- Comment on CD Projekt exec says "the right thing to do" is release a real Nintendo Switch 2 cartridge for Cyberpunk 2077, not a game-key card, in message to other studios: "Do not underestimate the physical edit 1 week ago:
Ah the ol’bait’n’switch, a classic.
- Comment on CD Projekt exec says "the right thing to do" is release a real Nintendo Switch 2 cartridge for Cyberpunk 2077, not a game-key card, in message to other studios: "Do not underestimate the physical edit 1 week ago:
Hey, it’s been awhile, it’s gotta be done by now!
Did they finally add all the features they advertised?
- Comment on Telepathy will be real once we master brain computer interface 1 week ago:
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- Comment on Hear me when I tell y'all 1 week ago:
- Comment on At least 4,500 Americans per year die from hydroxyl acid exposure 2 weeks ago:
Spread awareness of the hazards of DHMO
- Comment on You never forget your first 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on You never forget your first 2 weeks ago:
But… but… Sega does what Nintendon’t!
- Comment on USB 2.0 is 25 years old today — the interface standard that changed the world 2 weeks ago:
Personally I just splice all my cables into MIL-DTL-26482 connectirs, that way I know they’re solid!
- Comment on Winning 2 weeks ago:
“Show me on this doll…”
- Comment on USB 2.0 is 25 years old today — the interface standard that changed the world 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Just completed rewatch of NGE 2 weeks ago:
What’s your angle?
- Comment on DeepSeek Transferred User Data & Prompts Overseas Without Consent, Claims South Korea’s Data Protection Authority; Activities Were Carried Out When Service Was Active In January 2 weeks ago:
AI is a surveillance technology.
- Comment on Can I self host a VPN that sneakies through the China firewall? 3 weeks ago:
VPNs as a technology might not be illegal but circumventing the firewall certainly is.
Unless you are very vocal and high profile person no one will black bag you in a country of billion people, lol.
This is a bit of a misunderstanding about how things work in an authoritarian system. Sure, you might fly under the radar for awhile, but if you call attention to yourself (say, by getting caught trying to bypass the government firewall) and you are not high-profile, then it is very low-effort to make you disappear. Few will notice, and those that do will stay silent out of fear.
If you are more high-profile you still get black-bagged, you just get released after, with your behavior suitably modified.
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