The Lounge 0001 [From the Beginning]

I always kept my SSIDs split for each band as otherwise could never be sure. 2.4GHz is mostly for legacy devices and 5GHz for everything else. Though technically I only have 5GHz myself under separate VLAN ids (one for main and the other with Nintendo DNS blocking

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Until recently all my devices only supported 2.4GHz. Are 4-5 year old devices really legacy already?

fitness related thing (if anyone cares… lol) … i was wondering how i got to 220lbs and then i remembered how much I’ve been working out since i got here (200ish pushups a day on my arm days, leg days, a whole bunch of randomness) and well… here i am now :smiley:

my ugly mug

for reference, i was 205lbs before basic.
after i get to phase 2 in a weekish I’ll start doing the Thor workout and see how that goes :smiley:

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at the rate tech advances I guess they kinda are, though I’ve got 5 year old devices that are still 5GHz and work fine today.

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Until I got the Motorola none of my devices even supported 5GHz, so for me it’s quite new. Same with USB Type C (although I don’t understand why they bothered using it with the 2.0 standard and not just made all Type C compatible devices 3.0/3.1).

Holy mother of storms lol

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Type C is just a connector and still makes sense for devices that don’t require 3.0 speeds like peripherals and embedded devices because of the any side insertion making it rated for longer life. The only thing wrong with type C was the marketing around it and people thinking it was always 3.1 gen 2 if it has that connector.

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That and the number of cables that don’t meet the specs. iirc there was some guy from Google who - in his spare time - tested USB Type C cables for their specs and a lot of them failed (some even being a fire hazard).

edit: apparently the problem is only with USB A to USB C.

Yes, the main problem is with ā€œlegacy cablesā€, Type-A plug to Type-C in particular. The Type-C specifications define the primary mechanism of how the consuming port (phone/tablet, or Upstream Facing Port, UFP) detects source capability.
If a standard C-C cable is used, the supplying port (Downstream Facing port, DFP) ā€œadvertisesā€ its capability by using three different pull-up resistors on CC pin. If a 5V pull-up reference is used, these values are 56k, 22k, and 10k, for port’s capability of 500mA, 1500mA, and 3000mA correspondingly. The CC wire propagates this information from DFP to the end of Type-C cable. The connected device (phone) will (should) detect this, and limit its consumption accordingly.
Now, what to do if you have only a legacy Type-A port on your host, as most PCs do? The Type-A does not have any extra pins like CC. The Type-C Specification suggests embedding this information into the Type-C end of the legacy A->C cable. Therefore, the ā€œinformation channelā€ is broken now, and the phone will try to grab as much current as the pull-up resistor inside the Type-C overmold indicates, which is soldered by cable’s manufacturer. Since the cable does not know which port you will plug it in, the safe cable pull-up should be 56k, otherwise the phone can try to suck 1.5A or even 3A from the cable. If the port is a regular USB, the requested cable power may vastly exceed port’s capability. With cheap uncontrolled power delivery (some cheap PC mainboards connect the VBUS directly to internal +5VSTBY), it will cause system shutdown.
If the port is powerful enough, but the cable in use is skinny (Type-C cables can have as low as 28AWG on VBUS and GND wires) and the C-connector has wrong 10k pull-up, the cable might burn out and cause fire.

Good to know. And a good thing my motherboard has a USB Type C port on the back. So I’ll probably get a USB C to C cable. Charging my tablet via USB C to A is gonna take fucking long (over 7000mAh).

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Do you know where I could find the 2016 bios to an msi gs63vr 6rf?

You would have to get the java edition

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msi has all the things if you search that specific model. will be under the support page

oh well. still, $3 for minecraft lol

but it isn’t

MSI website is odd, have to find the second page, hiding in the first one lol
also why would you need it anyway
the 2018 one is newer… and has improvements and etc
https://www.msi.com/Laptop/support/GS63VR-6RF-Stealth-Pro

The laptop hasn’t run right since I updated the bios.

tenor

Have you tried updating it again? Or do you know that it’s a bug introduced with that update?

All I know is its not as stable as it was when I got it pre update

tried a clear cmos? (Not just a bios setting reset)

shouldve anyway after a bios reset but often fixes issues with bios flashes that seem iffy

Aren’t there any other BIOS updates in between the ā€œbadā€ update and the one you’re looking for?