Right now I'm documenting the fault and status of the device. I have heard that Asus sometimes "add" extra damage to the device so that they can claim it's not covered under the warranty.
There's no reason this should impact your warranty. But also your ASUS warranty is meaningless anyway. Unless you want your device held for a ransom
I currently have an issue with my device. The SD card reader is faulty. It was not working on Bazzite. I thought maybe it might work on Windows (but chances were low). I installed Window and saw the SD card reader was indeed fried.
Now if I submit my device with Bazzite to the Asus representative, they might say "different OS, we can't help! hurr durr" and send me back. You can't argue with these on-field agents. I took the safe way and replicated the problem on Windows.
I heard some technicians replace the MB, apply proper shielding, adjust the fan curves, during the repair process so that the issue does not repeat. I'm hoping for this outcome.
but I’ve accepted defeat in trying to understand it
I may have shared the link but even I don't know how it how it works.
It's like admiring the Eiffel Tower; you can understand that it's a marvel of engineering without understanding the underlying engineering concepts. Such experiences are rare but they truly humble you.
Regarding the square root, understand the following concepts
Bit shifting simply shift the bits to a certain side (Left or right) => 0010 << 1 → 0100
Mathematically, it multiplies or divides the input number with a factor of 2, depending upon the type of shift
If you shift the number n with a nice shift amount x (I have greatly greatly over-simplified this), then you can calculate the inverse sq. root since inverse square root is 2^(-1/2)
Calculating the inverse square root manually will take lots of clock cycles, which was not feasible for a FPS game with the limited h/w
Bit shifting is a lot faster since we are not computing, but instead shifting
The resultant shifting gives us an answer which is close enough to the answer, and that is good enough for FPS games for calculation of reflections.
I maybe incorrect but towards the end of the movie, the Emperor asks how Katsumoto died, to which Tom Cruise replies "I'll tell you how he lived". So he was alive?
But i remember that Tom Cruise's character switches sides in the movie after spending time with the Samurai (He was captured by them). He trains under them and becomes a Samurai. In the end, they fight against the (British?) and lose due to a gattling gun. All the Samurai die except for Tom's character.
So symbolically, Tom is the Last Samurai.
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