I am a Meat-Popsicle

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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • Maybe an electrode with a lot of age on it was nearly burned up and one more flip on managed to blast a little clean spot on it.

    Maybe you had a short in your ballast that got hot enough to change material properties a little and not become a short anymore.

    Maybe your ballast was loose and had an open line and it just managed to wiggle enough to work again.

    Maybe your ballast is partially shorted and ineffective at certain voltages and your temperature in the room is now cold enough to work with a lower potential ballast.

    Maybe you had a shorted cap that leaked and then burned itself the rest of the way out and is now open.






  • The definitions picked up as a different name from everything almost everybody just refers to it is a generic Trojan.

    It could very well just be a false positive but I wouldnt leave it at that.

    An offline windows defender scan would be a good idea.

    You can always switch over to bitdefender there’s a free version of you search hard enough. Don’t run Windows defender and bit defender at the same time long term but it’s not a bad way to get a second opinion.


  • TVs are cheap right now like really cheap. I seriously doubt they’re selling them much above cost and making the money back on the advertising and information gathering.

    I don’t think any of the TV manufacturers would bulk too much at selling you a TV but it’s going to be at a price of around the lifetime value of your watching habits. You can get a 50-60" reference monitor for about 10 grand. If there was a market for it Best buy would probably sell it.



  • Is it ready for primetime supporting everybody’s random hardware and everyone’s software without crashes, stutters and slow downs or be free of the requirement for weird configuration tweaks?

    Probably not.

    Can it work perfectly well with a lot of hardware and a lot of situations for a lot of games Yes.

    Is it ready for primetime on a steam deck? Yes.

    Last OS change I threw bookworm on a random laptop asked it to install steam, enabled proton for my games and everything just worked. But that doesn’t mean it will work for everyone and for every game.

    Mixing ram is one of those no-nos that a lot of us do anyway. Ideally everything just slows down to the slowest piece of RAM and everything runs fine. And you wouldn’t think that the board would care if you have 16s in one side and eights and the other. But if you’re having problems with your stability that’s absolutely the first place to look. Even if all the RAM is perfectly matched, from a stability standpoint it’s better to run two sticks than four. I’d pull it back to 16 and see if it stops crashing. If it stops doing that so all your RAM and get two 16gb sticks.