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Cake day: October 30th, 2023

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  • I’m currently running 2 displays at 1080p (one HDMI, one DP) on a 3070TI. Idle TDP with just plain color is 37-40W, 2 different scenes with features like audio reactivity and mouse input @15FPS are 55-60W. They get paused automatically when a window is maximized (per display), the secondary display pauses additionally when i run a fullscreen/borderless window on the main display.

    It is absolutely useless eye candy. I love it lol

    ETA: They DO have over 15000 curated wallpapers, if you stick to that you can avoid the questionable content easily. if you look at it from this perspective, that’s worth the price of a small meal.

















  • I’ve been a gamer and intensive pc user most of my 45 years of my life, and my experience in the last years regarding input devices:

    • razer sucked 20 years ago and sucks still
    • never buy no-name input devices for more than minimal investment, even if the featureset sounds nice
    • logitech (my brand of choice for a long time) is only held afloat by their brand name, not by their hardware quality anymore (the last good mouse i had was the mx-5, the last keyboard the G11)
    • but there are exceptions: my roccat keyboard works like a charm, and my current roccat mouse is robust and comfortable (but no RGB compatibility with anything else -.-)


  • It was not the train manufacturer, but a body shop (Swoboda Karosserie- und Stahlbau GesmbH, now Carvatech), which was recruited by the Gletscherbahn Kaprun (GBK) for renovations. It might have not had so large repercussions if anyone of the actors during those renovations had done his job correctly tho:

    • the model chosen was for household use and chosen because the recommended fan heater was unavailable
    • other departments of Swoboda (and because of that, everyone else) were not informed about this change, even leading to sending out the documentation of the recommended fan heater to GBK
    • the fan heater was mounted in a way that allowed liquids to leak inside of it
    • it was mounted directly in front of the hydraulics, which contained flammable liquids
    • those hydraulics were redone during the renovations by Mannesmann-Rexroth AG (now Bosch Rexroth AG), and were done using plastic pipes and were not appropriately encased.
    • They started melting because of the malfunctioning heater, spraying flammable oil at 190 bar into the fire
    • the dropping oil pressure caused the train to automatically break
    • but the hydraulics were also needed to open the goddamn doors.

    On top of all that, because the cable cars were made of aluminium, they were deemed inflammable. This did not take into account that any installed equipment or passengers and their luggage might NOT be fireproof.

    This lead to: no fire exits, no emergency signage, no training for employees how to react in case of fire. (which might have saved a lot of people: the 12 survivors were the people who went downwards, passing the fire, because they listened to a fireman onboard the cable car.)

    it was a single malfunctioning heater, but the Kaprun disaster had many fathers.

    I found a nice paper regarding the different actors written by a student of the University of Virginia here, well sourced.