I definitely want to know more about this. Was this in an actual test environment, or could it be caused by a lot more reads/writes than expected due to something like using nvme’s as RAM through page files/swapfile?

Quick recap of what’s been happening recently:

• The Ryzen 7 5800X3D is one of the best performing chips for gaming on AM4 motherboards that also supports DDR4. Demand has been high for this CPU even after it ran out of stock and even used units are sold far above MSRP.
• Micron announced that they would stop providing RAM to consumers due to increasing demand for datacenters.
• RAM prices skyrocket (especially DDR5)
• Consumers turn to older DDR4 RAM since prices haven’t gone up as much as DDR5
• Demand for older Ryzen AM4 chips increases even more.

A little more context as to when the engineer declined to continue the discussion:

Kilpatrick then brought up something especially awkward. He reminded Lendacky of a comment that the engineer had made back in 2020, confirming that a Ryzen 3700X, a consumer CPU, “should support TSME.” In a later 2025 comment in the same discussion, Lendacky again recommended using TSME, while noting that the motherboard BIOS provider had to expose the option. So there it was, AMD’s own engineer, years earlier, acknowledging the feature working on exactly the kind of lower-end chip now stripped of it, proving that Ryzen support was not some fantasy users invented.

After some more back-and-forth, Kilpatrick asked bluntly whether the flag being set to FALSE on consumer chips was a silicon-level limitation or a firmware policy decision — since one is permanent and the other is potentially reversible. Limonciello’s reply effectively closed the chapter. “My apologies, but I don’t have any more information to share on this topic,” he wrote.

To be fair to AMD, there is no clear indication that the company ever publicly advertised TSME as a consumer Ryzen feature. AMD has long said that a related memory protection, Secure Memory Encryption (SME), is available only in the Pro and EPYC CPU tiers. SME is OS-managed, using a single key and allowing the OS to selectively encrypt individual memory pages. TSME, by contrast, is firmware-managed, encrypting all RAM with no OS involvement.

Sounds to me like he had originally wanted to have it enabled for consumer CPUs, but some decision was later made to make this a feature only for higher end chips, even if lower end chips could technically support it. I can’t really blame the engineer for wanting to stop the discussion at this point. He’s most likely not the one making these decisions and the questions would be best asked to someone higher up.

For Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, the OP method was to become an enchanter. Just enchant a dagger with “Weakness to magic” and some magical damage enchantment. Weakness to magic will stack, so if your dagger is enchanted with 100% weakness to magic, then the second hit multiplies the effect of their weakness to magic.

TL/DR: A dagger enchanted correctly could kill basically anything within a few hits.

There’s a furniture store near me that’s always going out of business and having closing sales (at least for the last few decades). But the name on the store always seems to change every year. I’m wondering if it’s just the same owners that shut the business down and rotate out names every now and then.

I guess that’s one way to get out of fulfilling warranties?

Thanks for the ping! Worth the read.

I’m also wondering the same thing. There are tons of product placement in movies.

The easy ones to spot are the car ones, since they always seem to have the manufacturer logo visible.

Wayne’s World even had a not-so-subtle clip about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lgLYGBbDNs

A large number of pokemon are based on animals/mythical creatures. A large number of pals are based on animals/mythical creatures.

They both have a very similar artistic style. But you can’t copyright a style. At some point using a similar style on similar animals will get you similar looking results.

Allowing companies to copyright styles would be a very bad thing.

Yeah, at the physical aimbot mousepad level, the only thing that can detect that would be utilizing something like machine learning techniques for detecting/flagging accounts.

I thought that surströmming was okay, it just depends on how you use it. The way it was explained to me is that you’re actually supposed to use it more like a spice. So, rather than eating it alone, you add a little bit to a sandwich.

It smells terrible, so much that it’s best if you submerge the can in water before opening it (plus it sprays everywhere if you don’). But adding it as a spice to something like a sandwich and it’s actually not that bad.

There was a project called Proxitok: https://github.com/pablouser1/ProxiTok

It used to work fairly well, but it doesn’t look like it’s been updated recently, and after testing 3 or 4 of the publicly listed instances they don’t seem to be running anymore.

You just barely replied to the wrong comment.

You replied to the person asking what JTAG is instead of replying to the person who didn’t know what these “app connected only” Motorola devices are using.

A similar option is to split your social media accounts in two. Keep everything political on one account, only dive into that account occasionally/rarely.

For your main account, keep it subscribed to all of your hobbies and unsubscribe from anything political. For this account switch your news feed into “uplifting news” feeds.

Since the E. coli here are only functioning as a screen, you could do the same thing with a neogeo and then write another clickbait article about it.

On a more serious note, it’s worth noting that there is a very noticeable difference in the sun when there’s is a fire nearby (likely a sign of battle as well).

Those who live near wildfire prone areas should be able to confirm.

For example, see this image that a user posted here:

https://www.reveddit.com/v/Reno/comments/oit5ok/wildfire_sunrise_downwind_from_pyramid_lake_over/?rdt=63711

Looks like a slight decrease compared to Win 10, but an increase across different Proton versions.

Win10: 50.82
Proton-EM-10.0.33: 43.88
Proton-EM-10.0.37: 49.96

That’s the one!

I love you, you love me… Then something about ganging up on Barnie…

It could no longer function all on its ohm.

Works fine for the most part, although I’ve noticed a bug in docked mode where, when changing users, it won’t show me where the highlight is at. I just listen for the audio queues and select the right profile that way.