What part of this upsets you vs a baseline understanding of reality?
There's often a criticism of the US military doctrine that our weapons are great but are often way more expensive than the thing we shoot them at (as exemplified in our engagement with the Houthis in the Red Sea.)
If anything, the quote you pulled sounds like its talking about highly precise weaponry, and it seems to me that the way to minimize the overall death in a war is to use your precise weapons to take out the most impactful enemy.
Which part of this is different than how you see the world so that reading this quote threw you?
I know war isn't pretty, but I really didn't expect that openly displayed level of callousness. Saying 'we think these people should be dead, but they are not important enough to warrant our "good" bombs', to me, says a lot about the mentality of the people in charge of that military assault: those aren't human lives, those are items on a 'to kill' list, and they aren't surrounded by civilians, but 'acceptable collateral damage'.
>> “You don’t want to waste expensive bombs on unimportant people — it’s very expensive for the country and there’s a shortage [of those bombs]”
expensive relative to what? a single rifle bullet? jdam kits are not expensive, easy to manufacturer, and there's plenty of 500lb dumb bombs lying around. If a country has access to precision guided bomb tech then I'd say the should be obligated to use it for bombing exclusively.
I love that app, I've set it to have a single task-bar icon with the screen's brightness, which I can control via mouse wheel in 25% increments when I hover over that icon.
For people that want to do something similar on Windows, I can wholeheartedly recommend FanControl [1]. It's sadly not open-source, but it works great, and is quite pleasant to interact with.
I'd also like to plug the underlying library LibreHardwareMonitor [0], where I was able to make a PR to support a bonus sensor on my particular motherboard-variant.
It seems to be an unpopular opinion these days, but I have no problems paying for software that is good and comes with a credible promise of ongoing support. FanControl looks pretty cool, and if I can jettison the mental sticky note in favor of them maintaining it I am all ears.
In my 15 years of PC building this fan software tops them all. Huge amount of customisation and actually allows you to control fan speeds both under CPU OR GPU heavy loads at once.
This software can do what this article is looking to do, but I am not sure if there is a non-Windows version.
Why some people prefer open source software is well established by now - so if you have a bone to pick with this position you don’t need to wait for an answer, go nuts.
Apart from what foofie already pointed out, I think it is 'sad' in the sense that a project like this is
- one you might expect to be open source, since there is no monetary interest behind it besides an option to donate, and
- one that would potentially lend itself quite well to being open source, since it would offer a great base for other people to tinker around with their own cooling setups.
Given those points and given that fan control has been around for A G E S, the collective OSS community need only blame itself for the lack of an open project that has parity with FC.
Ok thank you. I see the linked project somewhere closer to shareware. I don’t expect that to be open source (my own expectation).
But seems over time we’ve moved away from shareware and maybe open source to open source shareware. I’m trying to grasp how the expectations of people have changed over time. Not looking to start a flame war.
No it isn't. I use and like the app also, but the GitHub repo link on their page takes you to a separate release artifact management repo, not the source code itself.
I wonder why the author hasn't open sourced it - there doesn't appear to be any commercial aspect to the tool, and the author makes a point of it being "free" on the site.
Inside cables that support USB-PD, there are chips that tell the peripherals what level of power transmission they support, so that attack shouldn't be so easy.
Voltage is gonna be what fries devices, not current. If you reconfigure the phone or whatever to accept 20V (even if it would blow up at 20V) you could fry the phone quite easily. This would be extremely device specific, but would not be hard. It would also require you to be connected to a power supply capable of providing that voltage too… so it would be innocuous if it was never plugged into something capable of that voltage.
Also, the cable doesn’t care about voltage. You can use literally any cable to provide 20V just fine.
I was reading the parent comment and just could feel myself itching to recommend AudioScienceReview, but then was glad to see it was already the top answer. It's such a relief when you finally have some hard data to compare options in that snakeoil-laden field.
I built my stack based on the reviews there, and I've been completely satisfied with my Topping D10 (for DAC) and JDS Atom (for an amp), which cost me like $200 total a few years ago. But of course, there's already a newer model of the Atom that seems to blow the old one out of the water: https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/j...
And btw OP, for headphones I'm using DT1990s, which might also be worth a listen if you are looking to upgrade from the 990s :)
Sennheiser HD600 and Topping DX3Pro+[0] are the combination I recommend today.
The Atom doesn't hold up as well as when it launched in today's market at that price point. That DX3Pro+ is a strongly measuring dac+amp single unit at the price.
As for HD600, they're the time-proven, neutral, uncolored, accurate timbre kings. Great overall balance.
The DX3 Pro+ seems like a great recommendation, I might have gone for that as well if it had been available when I was researching.
And I concur regarding the HD600, it's a great choice for many people. I was trying out both a HD650 and the DT1990 before making my choice, and for me the 'precision' of the 1990s was just too enticing compared to the laid-back sound of the 650s -- but it was a hard choice, because sometimes you don't want precision, you just want comfortable listening, and there the HD600/650 really excel in my opinion.
