On: Why are my headphones buzzing whenever I run my game?

[kevindamm]

The source is electrical noise, but the solution of isolating the audio chain from the computer's USB means that in the future you might not notice when you've introduced another GPU memory bandwidth hog into your rendering loop.

Good story, though.

[PunchyHamster → kevindamm]

Just attach a scope to your power lines, boom, live feedback on what your renderer is doing.

I wonder if that will be next fad in PC building, just putting live power line graph on the screen inside

[kevindamm → PunchyHamster]

replace the scope with a dimmable light and we might have a better solution than low-decibel audio hum

or perhaps live wire into the seat, tied into a transistor on this signal, so if performance drops enough you're sure to be alerted to it

[ZeWaka → PunchyHamster]

Honestly, would be a sick mod for the upcoming configurable Steam Machine front face.

[jraph → kevindamm]

That might be the strongest spacebar heating workflow situation I've actually run into so far

https://xkcd.com/1172

[ivanjermakov → jraph]

First thing that came to my mind when I read it!