Resistor/Capacitor broke off, anyone knows if it matters?
Looks like maybe the copper pad came off for one of the contacts.
In that case a resolder might be a pain, and require some extra work to expose more of the trace.
I think it's fine.
The first party device has existed over a year now, proved its worth, and become more widely understood by gamers.
Android suffers from fragmentation, sure, but it being used by a variety of manufacturers hasn't stopped people from understanding that android is android, and can do similar things whether you buy a phone/tablet for 200 bucks, or 2000.
A laptop is a great place to start.
I like using desktop components as I've been able to incrementally upgrade the ram, CPU, and drives as the years go by. A lot of people also really like using single board computers.
The only thing I'd recommend against are pre-built NASes. Theyre proprietary AF and so overpriced for what you get if you don't need the handholding of the consumer NAS software.
One thing I recommend doing, is keeping step by step notes on everything you set up, and keep a list of files and folders you'd need to keep to easily run whatever you're running on a new system.
That way, moving to a new system, changing your config, or reinstalling the OS is so much easier. A couple years down the line you'll be thanking yourself for writing down how the hell you configured that one thing years back.
Almost every problem I've had was due to me not accounting for some quirk of my config that I'd forgotten about.
And that would apply with a VPS, too, if you end up going that route.
Yes. Yes they can.
Good companies will have measures to ensure customer privacy, all the way up to ridiculous level stuff like keeping servers inside electrically touch-sensing cages with biometrically locked entrances that can only be entered with a customer representative present.
So generally there shouldn't be a cause for concern with any respectable provider.
Then again, running a server at home isn't that bad. My dad did it, he still does it, and now I do, too. We are each others' off-site backup.
The main issue is usually whether you have access to a suitable internet connection. If you want to access your stuff out-of-home, that is.
The hardware can be almost anything. Depending on what you want to run, you usually don't have to be picky. My machine was built, and gets upgraded, using dirt-cheap parts off the used market, always a couple generations behind the latest hardware.
The only thing I buy new are the hard-drives.
He sure is
My cat gets his claws stuck in things.
No, they're not overgrown. Hes able to fully retract them out of the way. He just. Doesn't.
Not once, ever, have I seen him relax his leg and calmly lift the paw off to unstick the claws. Instead he only ever pulls harder and more violently, which makes retraction impossible due to how the force pulls on the claws. He will struggle more and more fervently until whatever thread, carpet or rope he is stuck in, is the thing that gives.
If he's really stuck, I sometimes help him by pulling on the stuck limb to give the claws enough slack to come unstuck. This has not led him get the hint.
Because it introduces latency.
Higher framerates only in part improve the experience due to looking better, they also make the game feel faster because what you input is reflected in-game that fraction of a second sooner.
Increasing framerate while incurring higher latency might look nicer for an onlooker, but it generally feels a lot worse to actually play.
I would have been salty about Apex dropping linux support, if I hadn't already stopped playing due to them messing up the game itself.
Depends on the games, but I play several games modded on linux, and some have even gotten linux-native mod managers.
Before them, proton usually lets you run stuff intended to mod windows games.
Two I know have all but commited to switching after seeing me be able to join them in basically everything we might want to play together.
They're just using their w10 installs until they inevitably need an OS reinstall, at which point they've said they'll have me over to set them up with whatever I've figured out works best at that point.
Nextcloud notes finally got good enough to replace google keep a while ago.
Been happily using that since.
I actually find that the best way to see the dirt on my displays, is to place a bright light at the edge of it.
This causes every particle and smudge on the screen to catch the light and cast a shadow across the surface of the glass.
You'd think it wouldn't work on a transparent material, but no, it lights up every speck of dirt like the way a ray of sunlight reveals the dust that is invisible but always there, floating around mid air.
And the second woman didn't really have a choice
That's something the books suffer from in general. Stuff happens in very convenient sequence with very little agency for the reader to live through.
She was the only woman considered, and only due to popular demand. The other candidates were all men, from an age when "real" ones existed.
They were chosen specifically due to being suitable for the task at hand, she was not.
The button needed to be pressed. She didn't do it. According to the story, no person from the age of peace would have either, nor would ANY woman, because apparently no female candidates aside from her were even considered.
Eventually, a man somewhere else, presses it for her.
That in isolation these plot points can be excused, doesn't change the fact that every aspect of a fictional story is deliberate to at least some extent. The series consistently makes events and the people who are in them men and women, depending on what needs to be felt, said, or done.
When women do stuff, things go wrong. Men then step in to fix it, until a woman ruins things further. It happens several times in the series.
And when you combine that with what characters say to each about what humanity and its genders represent, I don't approve.
Characters don't just say stuff. That's especially deliberate, and from the author. She could have come to terms with her guilt entirely on her own, without a man, or another person at all. And she could have come to terms with it through some completely different logic, that didn't need to make it about her gender.
The author barely lets her think for herself to begin with. In fairly harsh contrast to the male perspective characters.
Why would she not stick around for that? Why is her first way to drive her partner to fulfill a wish of hers what should be a last resort in any sane relationship?
And by hibernating into the future, she is taking the child towards the danger, not away from it.
Why is saving the world his (and hers) responsibility at all? There is no guarantee he'll succeed. In fact the earth IS destroyed in the end.
If the decision was hers, it's pretty objectively the wrong one. Even moreso within the framework of what is known about her. She doesn't make sense.
The plot in this arc was driven by his fantasy, and his fantasy alone.
Her appearance and then disappearance was engineered by the government. Because they wanted him to save a world he didn't feel like fighting for. Both times.
Ok fine. The government can find a perfect woman, who also loves him for real.
It cannot then just take her back. You can't tell me she's fine with just up and leaving the love of HER life, cuz some government dude said so.
She is treated like a non-person, by the author. Not just the people in the story. The personality that would have to exist in her head for her to be the way she was in the story, is not possible.
Maybe it works for people who are less intuitive about people, but psychologically she's a gaping plot hole. The same way physics or math errors can be.
Maybe if you could see each plot device in isolation, you might be able to excuse the stuff. But the sexism is an ever-present background noise in the whole series.
The plot doesn't put a woman in charge except when it wants bad things to happen. Contacting trisolaris. Surrendering to trisolaris.
It doesn't have a single woman charachter that isn't a caricature of personhood. Even the female perspective lead is written like her head is empty, and she's making decisions based on essentially nothing. Stuff just happens to her. And the one decision she makes, dooms earth.
The story literally makes a point of the fact that even a woman from hard times, is always the wrong person to put in charge. And that what is needed is a man, and a "real one", at that. (The other candidates)
The whole damn series ends on a man absolving the woman that doomed earth by explaining that her being a woman isn't her fault. That she was elected because she was "fairest of them all" by a humanity that was "at its fairest". As if beauty and femininity goes hand in hand with weakness and incompetence.
As if humanity's beauty comes at the expense of its drive for survival.
I found the sci-fi cool as hell, but as far is can tell, the message of the story is outright disgusting.
It tries to uplift women as the "fairer half" of man. And completely infantilizes them as it does so.
As if beauty and strength, sensitivity and intelligence, innocence and ferocity, etc. are different mutually exclusive sides of the coin that is humanity. And as if man and woman can only ever represent one or the other.
I kept hoping for a plot point or charachter that would break that mold. There were so, so many chances.
It doesn't happen.
I've been working my way through Alastair Reynolds works.
Finished up the newest books in the Revelation Space series, (big recommendation, very cool universe).
Done with that, I went through the Revenger trilogy. Smaller in scope than Revelation Space, but a very fun read.
Set in a far-flung future where humanity has disassembled most planetary bodies in order to construct thousands of space-borne habitats. Planetoids with singularities to generate gravity. Ringworlds. etc.
And then even further into future, where several consecutive ages of civilization have sparked and died within these habitats.
It's the only series I've come across that depicts fairly accurate solar sailing as a mode of space travel, too.
That would be my assumption.
You don't see much redundancy in motherboards, so OP is off in that regard.
Rather, a lot of parts are non-critical because not every single one is needed to begin with. Unless you actually populate every single connector and port on a motherboard, a lot of it is doing nothing.