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Cake day: June 21st, 2023

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  • Yeah you can usually turn it off, but it’s still annoying.

    I bought a mechanical keyboard that I otherwise really like. But it came with full RGB on it. I can disable the rainbow pattern it does by default with the software, but the manufacturer cheaped out and didn’t include onboard memory for settings. I didn’t realize this would ever be an issue so I didn’t look for it when buying… The end result is that every time my computer turns on, my keyboard looks like it’s trying to summon a leprechaun, and that only stops once Windows has loaded the software up in the background.


  • Thought this was going to be a more specific complaint about computer hardware/accessories. So much of the high end stuff is just littered with bullshit RGB lighting. Coolers, GPUs, keyboards, mice, monitors, case fans, even fucking RAM sticks! It’s insane.

    For general appliances my complaint wouldn’t be the single LED on it but the brightness. Like you I cover up the bright ones with electrical tape. It wouldn’t even cost them any extra money to make it lighter. Just requires a different resistor value.


  • What grinds my gears with all the people (whether Denuvo officials or elsewhere) that claim that it has no effect on performance: they only focus on average FPS. Never a consideration for FPS lows or FPS time spent on frames that took more than N milliseconds. Definitely not any look at loading times.

    I’m willing to believe a good implementation of Denuvo has a negligible impact on average FPS. I think every time I saw anyone test loading times though, it had a clear and consistent negative impact. I’ve never seen anyone check FPS lows (or similar) but with the way Denuvo works I expect it’s similar.

    Performance is more than average framerate and they hide behind a veil of pretending that it is the totality of all performance metrics.


  • That’s the automod for the sub in question. It’s not a reddit wide bot in this case.

    Of course, it could be that reddit’s admins are helping mods make these kinds of reactions. I’d believe that. But the account itself in question (automoderator) doesn’t tell us anything about how reddit’s admins feel.





  • No, but you should still donate yourself. It allows you to focus on charities that you care the most about and which you can research as having the greatest potential positive impact.

    If you give $1 to Grocery Store to donate to Cause, what happens is Grocery Store gains $1 of taxable revenue, then they remove that $1 of taxable revenue with the deduction. All the deductions do is make it so that Grocery Store neither gains nor loses money from the forwarded donations. They simply aren’t paying taxes on the money you gave them to donate.

    The rules for this are good.




  • I think the point is that if all the staff do is pack up take out orders, they legally cannot make them do it for $2.13/hour. The employer legally has to pay tipped employees minimum wage if tips do not cause them to reach minimum wage. More time on take out orders is less time earning tips.

    More broadly, most wait staff aren’t going stick around even if they’re being paid minimum wage and getting no tips. They’ll go elsewhere where they can earn better — presumably somewhere they can consistently earn tips.