Getting a new PC

[Judge]

Thank you but I worry all the time about things. I do not want to think about my PC breaking. It has been working so I will wait and hope nothing happens.

I'll do all the worrying for you. You have no idea how much others here also have to deal with the same thing, which admittedly can seem "crippling" at times emotionally speaking. -Myself included.

Can you simply look at your SSD (brand and description) that drives your i9 computer system? I'll see what I can find out using the same resources I posted to you. Just let me know what SSD you have and I'll do the rest. Please don't leave this to chance when you don't have to.

If your drive(s) don't involve Phison controllers, you should have nothing further to worry about short of a new discovery to the contrary.

But if you do, very large file transfers like online updates on games could potentially bring down your SSD if it has a Phison controller. Enough respected content providers on YouTube have pretty much confirmed how such file transfers are one way to create data corruption given this controller and whether or not it is related to Microsoft's security update KB5063878.

A real consideration IMO given the nature of MSFS and large updates/patches.

So far, I find this scenario both unique- and alarming. Especially given that both Microsoft and Phison claim their products are not to blame, as more and more such reports are hitting the blogosphere.

 

[grommet]

I'll do all the worrying for you. You have no idea how much others here also have to deal with the same thing, which admittedly can seem "crippling" at times emotionally speaking. -Myself included.

Can you simply look at your SSD (brand and description) that drives your i9 computer system? I'll see what I can find out using the same resources I posted to you. Just let me know what SSD you have and I'll do the rest. Please don't leave this to chance when you don't have to.

If your drive(s) don't involve Phison controllers, you should have nothing further to worry about short of a new discovery to the contrary.

But if you do, very large file transfers like online updates on games could potentially bring down your SSD if it has a Phison controller. Enough respected content providers on YouTube have pretty much confirmed how such file transfers are one way to create data corruption given this controller and whether or not it is related to Microsoft's security update KB5063878.

A real consideration IMO given the nature of MSFS and large updates/patches.

So far, I find this scenario both unique- and alarming. Especially given that both Microsoft and Phison claim their products are not to blame, as more and more such reports are hitting the blogosphere.

Too stressful, I do not want to think about it. Thank you for trying to help.

 

[grommet]

Just now, the most amazing beautiful flight I have had in Microsoft Flight Simulator. I learned how to use the trim wheel on my throttle quadrant (the pretend one I have on my desk). I decided to fly just for fun and I flew across a bay at sunset. It was so beautiful I cannot tell you. I flew east over cities a few miles away from me but which I will never get to go to in real life. The game shows everything exactly as it is in real life, except the cars.

So I was seeing where a Safeway was, turn circles, houses, every building is really there if I went there so I am seeing real places. It is the best feeling I ever. I kept flying looking at things, the light got darker (it was using real-time weather, wow) and I landed alone at an airport.

My CPU never got above the 40ºC, it stayed around 46ºC, I got frame rates as high as the 120s and when I was close to the ground down into the 30FPS. My PC never got warmer than about 80ºF air coming out the back of it and I could hear no fans.

The screen was butter smooth. I heard my friend use that expression and that is what I thought when I saw it. I guess my settings are pretty good.

When you are afraid of the world and get lost all your life so bad you used to wear a compass around your neck (before the internet). When you have dreams you are lost and cannot find out how to go home. When you never know when someone is mad at you for some reason you did not know about so for all that you stay smaller and smaller going out less until now I stay home unless I must leave for something.

When all that happens and I have this game and I can go places my friends talk about and see people and them driving the their homes. What I wish I could really do, when I can do all that and the sun is setting and the colors are so perfect, it is like having a really good dream awake.

 

[grommet]

I have a force feedback flight yoke now from Moza, it is new. I am learning to use it. It is very complicated but so far I a really like the green lights. It is supposed to let me feel the plane reacting to inputs and conditions. To let me feel the tarmac and taking off, the landing grear and flaps operating. I just got it so I do not know how to do all that but I will learn I think.

 

[the_tortoise]

but I once posted about a custom house key I made for myself that took two weeks and I still love but no one seemed to be able to connect to it and find it thrilling. It was a big project for me and works great.

That is really cool! Can you link to your post about that?

I am also very happy for you that you found a friend to share the flight simulator game with; And happy for you about your new computer; That is awesome!

(I am sorry to not say more about the actual point of your post here ... I just have never heard of anyone making their own key and I want to know how you did it....I am the only person I know who can quickly and easily identify every key I have at an unfocused glance based on the teeth alone...people think I am weird ans cannot see any difference between the teeth and this just boggles my mind....Anyways keys and locks are like visual spatial puzzles so this grabs my attention even though it is not the point of your post.)

If I said something I was not supposed to let me know. I am getting something good and maybe you are not supposed to talk about that too much because someone could feel bad they are not getting something that good. I am not sure about rules like that.

I think you should share your joy.

I don't think you did anything wrong by doing so.

I think this is at least as likely as someone feeling bad about not having similar experience:

Maybe you posting about your joy and finding a friend with as much passion for a special interest as you, and the same kind of communication and detail-orientation as you, will give others who haven't found that some hope. So it could make them feel better.

For myself, I sort of get vicarious joy when people talk about their passions and things that make them happy. (Which makes people surprised sometiems when they learn I have no personal interest in whatever they like to talk to me about.)

Any sadness I might feel about not having a wanted or needed thing someone else has -- that sadness does not stop me from being glad for someone who does have the needed or wanted thing; The two feelings are separate, so I am usually just happy to hear of others experiencing good things, finding joy and friendship and safety etc.

I actually don't even necessarily (not sure how often anymore -- was not at all normal for me in any context until I was in my twenties...and I am not sure I have ever done it often enough to call it "normal" for me) do any comparison between myself and others unless they say something like "I can do this therefore everyone can" or "this happened for me so it will happen for you, too". Or something that I mistake as telling me what I can do or what will/could happen for me. (I think that's part of why I was so oblivious to how different I am for such a long time ...even though everyone around me could see it my entire life.)

You are a very considerate person -- it comes through very powerfully in how you speak about yourself and others and try to imagine their feelings. I hope you give yourself credit for that. (You're a lot better at it than I am!)

(I say this because I can relate to your concern about doing something wrong and not knowing at all how to guess...

I have that, too, and in my case people usually don't believe I don't know if I have done something wrong or not and often will not tell me when I have...not even when I ask them to consistently....and if they do tell me, usually will tell me only indirectly or in extremely vague terms I have done something wrong but never explain what it is (let alone how/why it's bad/wrong - which does matter because if I don't understand that part I might keep making the same mistake -- be unable to generalize)...

So I often end up thinking everything is fine or it just never occurs to me I'm upsetting anyone if they hide it or pretend they are upset about something else, and so I keep doing the wrong/bad thing I would not do if I knew it was bad/wrong....Or, if I am sort of half-told or get the very strong sense I have done something wrong, then try to change what I do or say to fix it but never actually succeed because I am changing the wrong things and getting no informative feedback; because I don't actually understand what I'm doing wrong and nobody will ever actually tell me...

If that has ever happened to you, I just want to tell you it is very clear to me how much you care about others.

I am not assuming you make the mistakes I do, though!

Nor am I assuming that you have any need to hear this;

Nor am I assuming you are unaware of your considerate-ness...

I'm just saying all of this in a "just in case" and "Wouldnt it be nice if we all provided each other more positive feedback" kind of way....

I'm not explaining myself very well so I'm going to stop trying now.

I'm sorry I've gone so off topic, please feel free to ignore me!)

 

[grommet]

That is really cool! Can you link to your post about that?

I tried so find the post but I could not, sorry. It may be part of one I did not title about making a key.

I am also very happy for you that you found a friend to share the flight simulator game with; And happy for you about your new computer; That is awesome!

That is nice. I am happy for people too when they are happy. Finding a friend seems to be the hardest thing. One day he and I figured out we could fly in the same sky with our own planes. He showed me around a city and I tried to keep up. It was so fun.

(I am sorry to not say more about the actual point of your post here ... I just have never heard of anyone making their own key and I want to know how you did it....

I could tell you how. It is appropriate to tell you here? Sometimes you are not supposed to digress from a thread topic, I do not know if it would bother people in this threat, what do you think?

I am the only person I know who can quickly and easily identify every key I have at an unfocused glance based on the teeth alone...people think I am weird ans cannot see any difference between the teeth and this just boggles my mind

It seems very obvious to me. I am confused by people not being able to do that.

....Anyways keys and locks are like visual spatial puzzles so this grabs my attention even though it is not the point of your post.)

I wish my mind was better, like yours. I worked very hard to learn lock picking but I do not have a good visual ability to imagine the key and parts inside. I try but I feel like I am guessing, not really seeing it. They say people who are really good can do it.

You are a very considerate person -- it comes through very powerfully in how you speak about yourself and others and try to imagine their feelings. I hope you give yourself credit for that. (You're a lot better at it than I am!)

I do not know why people are saying that about me.

(I say this because I can relate to your concern about doing something wrong and not knowing at all how to guess...

I have that, too, and in my case people usually don't believe I don't know if I have done something wrong or not and often will not tell me when I have...not even when I ask them to consistently....and if they do tell me, usually will tell me only indirectly or in extremely vague terms I have done something wrong but never explain what it is (let alone how/why it's bad/wrong - which does matter because if I don't understand that part I might keep making the same mistake -- be unable to generalize)...

So I often end up thinking everything is fine or it just never occurs to me I'm upsetting anyone if they hide it or pretend they are upset about something else, and so I keep doing the wrong/bad thing I would not do if I knew it was bad/wrong....Or, if I am sort of half-told or get the very strong sense I have done something wrong, then try to change what I do or say to fix it but never actually succeed because I am changing the wrong things and getting no informative feedback; because I don't actually understand what I'm doing wrong and nobody will ever actually tell me...

I understand that. I had to stop being around normal people because they do not communicate what upsets them, not directly and I cannot interpret, that seems to make them double-mad but I can ask autistic people and they say it clearly.

If that has ever happened to you, I just want to tell you it is very clear to me how much you care about others.

I am not assuming you make the mistakes I do, though!

Nor am I assuming that you have any need to hear this;

Nor am I assuming you are unaware of your considerate-ness...

I'm just saying all of this in a "just in case" and "Wouldnt it be nice if we all provided each other more positive feedback" kind of way....

I'm not explaining myself very well so I'm going to stop trying now.

I'm sorry I've gone so off topic, please feel free to ignore me!)

The site limits the length of a reply, I hope it lets this through.

 

[the_tortoise]

I tried so find the post but I could not, sorry. It may be part of one I did not title about making a key.

That's ok - thank you for trying!

Finding a friend seems to be the hardest thing. One day he and I figured out we could fly in the same sky with our own planes. He showed me around a city and I tried to keep up. It was so fun.

That is awesome that you can fly together in the same sky!

I could tell you how. It is appropriate to tell you here? Sometimes you are not supposed to digress from a thread topic, I do not know if it would bother people in this threat, what do you think?

I am not sure if it would be okay or not....

If you want to, you could send me a Direct Message to tell me how, if you feel comfortable doing that?

(Anyone is welcome to send me a direct message whenever they want to.)

It seems very obvious to me. I am confused by people not being able to do that.

I'm happy to know someone else is like me in this way

I wish my mind was better, like yours.

I worked very hard to learn lock picking but I do not have a good visual ability to imagine the key and parts inside. I try but I feel like I am guessing, not really seeing it. They say people who are really good can do it.

I could say the same thing to you -- that I wish my mind was better like yours, grommet;

Because I wish I could do perspective taking and predicting other people's feelings as well as you can.

And I bet there are lots of things you can do better than I can besides that.We are all just different.

And my visual spatial abilities may be very similar to yours...since you can differeniate keys by the teeth, too...I don't know.

Most of my thoughts are visual-spatial...I can't even use/understand words without seeing the words in my mind before I say/write them as part of translating my thoughts into words; or without seeing the words either in my mind after I hear them when listening or with my eyes when reading when translating from words to thoughts.

I know basically nothing about lock picking. When I was 12 I tried to shape a paper clip to match a very very simple key for the lock on an old trunk I kept losing and actually got it to work BUT:

I actually don't know how any lock mechanisms precisely work. And information about how locks work is not exactly easy to find -- probably for the very good reason that it would help criminals commit crimes that involving breaking into homes and cars and things.

What little I did find I couldn't understand because it was all words. I couldn't translate the words into pictures in my mind. The way I imagine a very simple lock works has blank spots in the picture...or more accurately is sort of a shifting set of pictures that make up a vague concept, but don't actually let me understand.

I do not know why people are saying that about me.

I can't explain for everyone ... for me i can only say that when you write about imagining other people's possible thoughts and feelings, and why they might do things, you think of things that would not occur to me. And you seem to consider other perspectives more often and in more detail than I can.

I understand that. I had to stop being around normal people because they do not communicate what upsets them, not directly and I cannot interpret, that seems to make them double-mad but I can ask autistic people and they say it clearly.

The site limits the length of a reply, I hope it lets this through.

Thanks for saying that --I both understand what you're saying and feel understood by you.