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Burgi

17:01

i hate working from home

i struggle with the mental separation of home and work life

Boris_yo

"5G will increase the current 700 to 5.8 billion microwaves per second for cell phone and Wi-Fi data to tablets and laptops to pulsed microwaves of 24 to 90 billion microwaves per second."

I am not sure of buying 5G router...

I don't want to fry my brain.

allquixotic

@Boris_yo Microwave radiation gets weaker with the square of the distance, so unless your router is right up against your head, you're not going to "fry your brain"

the maximum Tx power is 100 mW anyway, which is 7000 times less energy than your microwave oven

so if it takes 2 minutes to heat up a cup of water to boiling in the microwave oven, it'd take... what... 233 hours assuming zero heat loss if you could capture the total Tx power of your router and focus it on some water?

(in reality it'd never boil, because the water can dissipate the heat into the atmosphere faster than the heat is transferred into it by the microwaves)

Boris_yo

17:18

233 hours...

Okay I will buy 5G router then.

allquixotic

basically, all that wireless communications equipment does is it transfers a tiny amount of heat into your body -- thousands of times less heat than you'd even be able to feel on your skin

turning up the temperature in your house by 1 degree (Fahrenheit or Celcius, take your pick) adds waaaay more heat to your body than all the microwaves you can throw at it from radio/microwave telecommunications

Boris_yo

@allquixotic Do brainwaves not affect human emotionally on nervous system?

That cell tower 30 meters away from me... I think it affects me.

allquixotic

@Boris_yo based on our understanding of the electrical impulses in the brain, I think that's very unlikely -- due to the tiny distances between the origin and destination of each electrical impulse in your brain, the strength of the microwave signal would have to be way stronger than it actually is, to affect those impulses at all

if your neurons were firing over several kilometers, then sure, there could be some interference there

Boris_yo

That YouTube video could benefit from your explanation about 5G... People there have fear about it. Some argue, others ask for peer-reviewed scientific studies etc.

allquixotic

@Boris_yo yes, people overreact and fear things they don't understand, but no technology used for telecommunications involves ionizing radiation, and there is no scientific evidence that, at the energies used for telecomms, those transmissions have any effect on anything except for other telecomms signals

the energies are really too tiny to have any magnetic or electrical impact on life, even at point blank range

in fact we're all surrounded by a weak magnetic field produced by the Earth's poles, so everyone is constantly in a magnetic field even before human technology existed

and with every magnetic field is also an electrical field in the perpendicular plane

so all life has forever been "electrocuted" (at low energies) since the first signs of life til the present

Boris_yo

17:30

"They" want to cover wirelessly every possible area to create wireless grid and integrate smart technology deeper in our bodies and eventually facilitate connection of our minds to the AI cloud through that wireless grid. Developers in AI field earn huge money where I live.

Taking off tinfoil hat and going to sleep...

allquixotic

you should really wear that while you sleep

they do most of their mind control while you're sleeping

djsmiley2k

Please, show me something that's happened since the 70's, which didn't exist before, which has some explaination of being caused by microwaves from mobile devices

other than antivaxers

maybe it explains them..... as the crazy is equal.

@allquixotic tis true, just look at cuba!

bertieb

18:00

o/ from Cornwall y'all

bwDraco

points at self derp — Calyth 4 hours ago

djsmiley2k

@bertieb o/

bwDraco

18:48

> [HTC] has struggled financially for some time--particularly its smartphone business--and the company bet big on its pivot to virtual reality. If it can’t stay afloat with revenue from the Vive platform, the company could be in very serious trouble.

tomshardware.com/reviews/htc-vive-pro-headset-vr,5549.html

Well, if you've already spent $2000+ on high-end gaming gear, an extra $800-$1100 can be difficult to justify. But then again, if you're like me, having spent $4k on a PC, you might not truly mind.

Then again, it is exceedingly unlikely that my mom will like this, and I don't really see how this is really worth spending the majority of my reserves on.

Also, I'm honestly not all that interested in VR. Astaroth may be more than ready for premium VR, but it was never really intended for that purpose.

So... does anyone here have or plan to get a VR system?

bwDraco

FFXV Windows Edition needs a dynamic quality feature. Under intensive combat conditions, even my overclocked GeForce GTX 1080 Ti is unable to maintain playable framerates with most settings (except lighting and shadows) maxed out at 1440p.

The game is most definitely not CPU-bound. GPU load was at 99% throughout.

Otherwise, framerates typically hover between 50 and 75 fps as reported by the Steam overlay.

(All GameWorks features enabled.)

bertieb

19:09

@bwDraco raises hand

I have a Vive

It's pretty cool

I would like the time (/ funding) to develop with it as well as play with it but only so many hours in the day

allquixotic

19:20

@bwDraco this is called a "card-selling game" - certain game publishers work with GPU manufacturers to very intentionally release games that can't get playable FPS with max detail/quality settings on current hardware (at least, not without SLI, but now SLI is kind of going away...) to make you want to upgrade to the next gen when it comes out

they are perfectly capable of making a game that will run at 144 FPS consistently at 1440p... it'd be almost effortless compared to the cost of the product they developed/released... but it wouldn't sell GTX 1180s

there's a certain segment of the market that just can't stand the fact that they might not be able to run at max detail with max quality, and those people will leap to the next available card so they can rock on at max detail with their favorite games

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Michael Frank

19:34

@allquixotic i have someone at work like that. I play on whatever gives me the smoothest gameplay, yet he isn’t satisfied until all his sliders are maxed out and his FPS exceeds what is humanly visible.

allquixotic

@MichaelFrank even in games with quality settings like "Low", "Medium", "High", "Ultra", "Extreme", I'm usually satisfied if I can play it at high FPS on "High" -- or if it just goes to High, I'd be okay with a couple settings bumped down to Medium

bwDraco

@allquixotic FFXV has no SLI support.

allquixotic

I am sensitive to framerate drops, but I tend to address them by lowering detail in a few expensive areas, like shadows

if it's still slow even with shadows disabled or set to lowest, I'd be looking for a GPU upgrade

Jonas Stein

Hi, my question was moved from superuser to webapp. Which makes no sense. IRC protocol is no web application at all. What should I do now? webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/111341/…

bertieb

(callback: bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-43676359 - Hither Green 'burglary death' suspect to face no action)

allquixotic

19:39

@JonasStein flag it and a webapps mod will close it, which will reject the migration, which will bring it back to SuperUser but it'll be closed, then flag it here to reopen

looks like you got bitten by user ignorance and 5 people for some reason thought your question should be migrated, as it doesn't appear to have been migrated by a SU mod

also, the server operator has many more tools available to them to combat spam, so spam should really be fought by the network operator, not end-users

check your network if there are any network-supplied bots you can report spam to

Jonas Stein

I was looking for end user solutions

allquixotic

they might have a filter bot that can heuristically ban IPs / name patterns / message patterns as applicable if they're spammy

@JonasStein aside from the one you posted (which also prevents you from getting PMs from legitimate users who are unregistered - could be a bad thing), there's not a whole lot you can do from Quassel itself without writing a plugin for Quassel, and I'm not sure what that plugin would even do

DavidPostill

@JonasStein Your self answer is an end user solution is it not ...

Jonas Stein

I have to believe that the server admins do all they can do. So it is up to the user, if this was not enough.

allquixotic

Quassel just doesn't have tools like that as part of its base code

Jonas Stein

19:44

@allquixotic yes, sadly. I found this out after the question.

however I could not believe that.

There is a filter, but it is unusable.

Quassel gets nearly frozen, if you want to use it

allquixotic

@JonasStein on Freenode they really don't do enough... it's on life support by PIA since the dissolution of the Peer Directed Projects Center (PDPC)

there's nothing other than their own lack of investment in the network that's preventing them from developing intelligent, adaptive spam filters to combat the intelligent, adaptive bots evading their filters

we do that daily here on SE, both frontend tools like Smoke Detector and backend tools they don't tell us about

Jonas Stein

I think a clever bot could track 99% of the spammers today on freenode

the spammers are very stupid.

But there is no chance but to bribe the freenode admins ;-)

bwDraco

@allquixotic We're at least two generations away from running the game fully maxed out at 4K. Yes, it does sell high-end GeForce cards, but I doubt it'll coax existing owners of high-end cards to upgrade all that soon.

FWIW, it's perfectly feasible to max out the game at 1080p on a GTX 1080 Ti.

Once 7nm chips hit the market, I'm pretty sure 4K at 60 fps will be doable. But that probably won't happen until well into 2019.

djsmiley2k

20:03

it's times like this i'm glad I'm half blind

all games look crap to me \o./

bugs.quassel-irc.org/projects/1/wiki/…

That wasn't hard?

@JonasStein oh there is, if you know the right people

but really, get a better client, lul.

'my cars wheels fall off!'

Jonas Stein

@djsmiley2k I think CTCP is not SPAM. I get a lot spam with an URL and a bunch of usernames in the channel. I could not find the lul client in my distribution. Do you have a link to the source?

djsmiley2k

try irssi

Jonas Stein

I used irssi and weechat for many years but I did not like the two very much.

Ave

20:19

I use weechat for daily use

and my own personal library for irc bots

bertieb

21:33

netcat to port 6667

(type really fast)

Ave

21:48

I DID THIS BEFORE

@bertieb JOKES ON YOU

to learn how to interact with IRC in the real world

the RFC is a little outdated.

allquixotic

22:00

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