Notices by The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place), page 5

@gilesgoat everyone likes different stuff eh 🙂 You might find an untapped audience

@gilesgoat @ahchay @llamasoft_ox I just remembered the TV series is set after the book & isn’t a retelling of the original story , not sure if that makes it more or less appealing to you (still top notch IMO)

@ahchay @llamasoft_ox @gilesgoat it’s been years since I read the comic so my memory is fuzzy but the 2019 TV series was really very good, I’d recommend that over the film if you have the time for it

@GeekAndDad an excuse to play around with https://getfancontrol.com when I have some time

I sometimes buy RGB hardware and never even plug in the RGB cable, to annoy the RGB nerds (RGB editions are often weirdly cheaper or the only ones available because so many people want RGB on everything)

I technically have an RGB keyboard but you can’t tell because I put the circuit board under a solid brass plate mounted inside a solid wood housing with black sound dampening foam so no light is escaping from that (evil laugh) 🙃

@GeekAndDad yeah it’s an option

@idbrii @runevision that tool replicates your posts to a bsky account they make for you, so you don’t control it. I’d prefer to control the process myself

Thing is I could buy a couple of 120mm Noctua fans to quieten this down and still have spent less than an equivalent Noctua cooler (and have 2 spare fans). I’ve actually been a big fan (heh) of the BeQuiet ones and they’re slightly cheaper. My Peerless Assassin review: good cooling performance, mediocre fans you’re probably better to replace if you want quiet.

I’d still buy this kind of thing over an AIO though, I have no interest in RGB or case pimping, and air cooling is far more reliable.

The problem seems to be that in this configuration the rearmost CPU fan is a little too close to the exhaust case fan (about 2cm gap), and even though they’re blowing the same way, they’re different fans running at different speeds so I think that’s setting up some conflicting air flow and introducing extra vibration. Now that the rear CPU fan blows through the second tower before hitting the exhaust fan, it seems better. Sound profile is still a bit whiny, may replace fans sometime anyway
2/2

Managed to improve the sound levels on the Peerless Assassin, it still has a slight whine at the top end but it’s better.

I was trying to be clever with my fan placement and as always, that’s a terrible idea. This cooler has 2 towers and 2 fans so there’s 3 spots you can put them in. I thought I’d avoid covering the RAM slots and put them towards the rear of the case. The last one even slotted perfectly in the gap above the IO block. 1/2

@Wizarth erm, maybe I don’t want to know, but what else could it be?

Boop #caturday

@dev_ric oof you could whistle a better upload baud rate 😐

@runevision yeah I’ve seen some scripts that auto-split the posts into replies

Maybe I should set up a cross posting script so posts on here get copied to BlueSky as well. Doesn’t seem that hard to do although images might be tricky. I’m getting a constant stream of new followers there despite not posting for ages so maybe I should give them something to look at. But then I’d have to check bsky for replies more often and I’m not sure I can be arsed. 🤔

@jonikorpi I’m working on the assumption that if they’re sufficiently drained of charge, they’re probably harmless

@runevision if evolution had thought of it, it would have been a winner

@lisyarus @SmallisBeautiful thanks, yeah in the past you only had undo which is simply not good enough for any serious layer-based editing tool

I might give GIMP another try from 3.0, since I hear layer effects are *finally* non-destructive. Whenever I’ve tried to use it in the past, beyond just generally disliking the UX which maybe I could get used to in time, the destructive effects system made it basically useless to me. Non-destructive layer effects have been the norm for decades elsewhere after all

@JeremiahFieldhaven @djlink it probably made sense as a decision 10 years ago but if it was happening today I don’t think it would. You simply don’t need new tech to get people interested in a game anymore