#Chrome boost

[rudolphsb9]

I love your Snot Rod/Boost headcannons! This ship is so cute and it’s so fun to think about their dynamic, I’m definitely hooked on shipping them now. I’ve seen you mention a fanfic where the tuners become spies a few times, has it been posted somewhere? It sounds like a really cool concept and I’d love to read it!

Thanks a ton!

I borrowed the "tuners become spies" thing from the Cars 2 video game, where I think that's DLC content? It's in there somewhere tho and I think it's really cute. I think Finn would be a fun mentor to Boost especially.

I literally barely started the fic tho, not even the first chapter is done lol! I know what I wanted to do with it but... life, y''know?

[itsbansheebitch]

yall is youtube getting way worse or what? I'm on firefox and it was slow before, but now it's literally showing me a loading screen before videos or when I click on channels, etc.

Am I the only one seeing this? I smell an anti-trust lawsuit coming

[titleknown]

I feel the need to blog this, because holy shit this is scary. Long story short, Google is trying to basically make DRM for the web supposedly in the name of security, but really in the name of forcibly surveiling you and forcing you to use Chrome on most major sites.

Which, I mean, this isn't a new tactic of theirs, but holy shit this is going to make it so much worse.

Like, we need to start building movements against this shit ASAP, especially those folks in the new-old-web/Neocities-type scenes, but while that's being built up, I fucking urge you, for the love of christ switch to Firefox, they're basically the only holdouts against this shit.

[generallemarc]

Youtube adblock reminder

If you get the popup, clear out your cookies and log out of google. Both sites now "partition" cookies onto other sites' headings, at least, that's how it appears on Brave/Chrome(Firefox doesn't let you go into each site's specific cookies from what i've seen, so you'll have to ditch all cookies at once to make this work). Doing this has literally never failed me.

[mahoganygold213]

Christian Siriano| Spring Summer 2024

[obbiwonk]

heyo is anyone who is good with making windows unfuck itself online and able to help me via replies? I'm trying every browser in my computer and neither of the the three will load my local bus service website and it won't load my proton email without the vpn on and Windows won't let me remove anymore updates i am so irritated and confused

[hamscallion]

ooo need

im sure someone already made a post about it but i came across a ublock origin add-on that blacklists around 950 AI websites and disables AI overview ☝️ so u can be free from seeing AI in your search

[onlyhappyvibes]

[not-radioshack]

Please signal boost: One-of-a-kind Broken Prototype S3 Chrome 460 Mega-infopost

(Yes, I know that is a very word salad-y post title.)

This is the S3 Chrome 460. It is currently nonworking. Nobody knows anything about it, and I’m trying to get in contact with any former S3 Graphics engineers that may be able to help.

What is known:

All “@” handles are in reference to users on Twitter.

As a whole, the Chrome 400 series utilized the Destination architecture, which was S3’s very first unified shader architecture capable of GPGPU tasks, much like Nvidia’s CUDA.

The Chrome 450/460 series utilized the mid-range “Destination 2” (D2) architecture, as opposed to “Destination 3” used by the low-end 430/440. As said by Loeschzwerg, there were no known high-end “Destination 1” architecture chip taped out. (https://twitter.com/Loeschzwerg_3DC/status/1683162950951903235)

The Chrome 450/460 was a 13x13mm (169mm2) die produced on the 90nm node by Fujitsu, and later TSMC. Strangely, the 430/440 series was produced on the much smaller 65nm node.

The Chrome 450/460 supported DX10, whereas the 430/440 supported DX10.1

The PCI device IDs for the Chrome 450/460 series are as follows:

o 9020, 9022, 9023, 9024, 9025 (http://listing.driveragent.com/c/pci/5333)

o The vendor ID for all chips is 5333 (S3 Graphics)

o There is one known beta driver that supports these device IDs (https://www.touslesdrivers.com/index.php?v_page=23&v_code=21175)

These PCI IDs appear to correspond to different die revisions

o Known existing die revisions present in collection: 86C920-921 (ID 9020), 86C922 (ID 9022 based on the cards owned by @Loeschzwerg_3DC), and 86C924 (can be assumed to be device ID 9024)

There are two “major” die revisions that exist.

o Revision 86C920-921 (I will refer to this as the “’920” revision) is most certainly the earliest revision, being physically larger in package size than all other revisions.

 It also has a different pinout, and is produced by Fujitsu rather than TSMC, resulting in a greyish tint on the die rather than the blue tint of later revision chips.

 The date code on all 86C920 chips (in my collection) reads “0727”, which implies that every ‘920 chip in existence was produced in a single batch on the 27th week of 2007, but cannot concretely prove so.

o Revision 86C922 (‘922) changes fabs from Fujitsu to TSMC, leaving the dies with a blueish tint and changing the pinout. This revision serves as the basis for all following revisions known to exist.

 The date code on all 86C922 chips across my collection and Loeschzwerg’s appears to be 0738, implying that this revision was also produced in a single run much like its predecessor. (https://twitter.com/Loeschzwerg_3DC/status/1616750453500547072)

 The 86C924 (‘924) revision is minor in comparison to the jump from ‘920 to ‘922, but interestingly the two in my collection have mismatching date codes—0728 and 0734. Unless I am reading the date codes wrong, this means that the ‘924 revision was produced either in two separate batches before the ‘922 run was done, or that perhaps it was continuously produced between the ‘920 and ‘922 revisions. I do not know what changes were made between ‘922 and ‘924.

o Almost all dies have a number and a letter, a word, or both written on them in permanent marker, likely for IDing which ones were being tested for what. The two words that appear the most often are “mem” (by far the most common) and “shift”. The letter “p” (pass?) also regularly appears.

There are three known Chrome 460 ES cards that exist: my broken early-revision ‘920 card, and Loeschzwerg’s two later-revision cards, one of which appears to be a 460 binned down to a 450.

There were rumors that the reason why the card was scrapped seemingly just before release was because its die became too expensive to produce (https://forum.beyond3d.com/threads/s3-excalibur-with-128-bit-mc-taped-out.42965/). There is zero confirmation or denial of this, and this rumor was said in passing on a thread discussing the follow-up Chrome 500 series (Excalibur architecture, which was later revealed to be a mildly tweaked at best Destination architecture).

The Chrome 460 (or at least, its ‘920 revision) gets hot very quickly, and may have been the reason for the switch to TSMC’s fabs.

o I believe that my card, despite having a heatsink and a fan blowing directly at it, likely died from overheating in the few minutes that it was running while I was collecting information and attempting to install an INF-modded 430/440 driver. It worked again after replacing the popped MOSFET and putting on the proper stock heatsink that it would’ve had mounted, but quickly died to a short a second time even with the new cooler. I still feel bad about this.

Most if not all Chrome 460 chips were acquired either directly through the S3/VIA/Centaur lab auction or through someone who attended the auction. The chips and card I own came from John at CPUShack, for example, and a number of others purchased miscellaneous 460s for their private collections from him.

o Loeschzwerg got his cards from a reseller who attended the 2021 Centaur auction just like I had.

And now, returning to my own broken card, to reiterate:

The card died to a short, and triggers the power supply’s OCP mode when the chip is installed on the board according to @dosdude1 . This does not happen when the chip is removed.

VCORE and GND were found by dosdude1 on the card’s footprint of the Chrome 460, and using that knowledge, the resistance from VCORE to GND on the chip itself was found:

o The original chip that was soldered to the card itself measured 1.5 ohms from VCORE to GND

o All other ‘920 chips between the ones in my collection and sent to dosdude1 as candidates for chip-swapping measure between 0.5 and 0.9 ohms, which I was told should be normal for graphics chips, but according to dosdude1 is still plenty low enough to trip the PSU’s OCP mode when installed.

Timeline

I originally purchased the card, alongside two “spare” ‘920 chips, two ‘922 chips, and two ‘924 chips, from CPUShack. The card had no heatsink included, so I had to make do with a chipset cooler (that honestly might have actually been better at cooling than the stock cooler) and a case fan.

o A few weeks after the purchase and arrival of the card, which by then had blown out its MOSFET and died short, I was able to buy a couple S3 Chrome 400-series coolers from CPUShack after he found them. Installing the cooler and replacing the MOSFET with an identical one salvaged off a Chrome 430 managed to get the card to work again for about half a minute from what I remember. However, I will also mention that the salvaged MOSFET came off a Chrome 430 that also died short. The MOSFET itself was undamaged, but the die itself appeared to be busted. I guess it was just an S3 thing during this generation.

o From what I remember, I filled out repair forms for both Louis Rossman and NorthRidgeFix, in hopes that a chip swap with one of the extra ‘920 dies I’d acquired at the time could bring the card back to life. In both cases I was turned down, though this was to be expected since there is zero documentation available for either the card or the chip itself.

o I was then able to get in contact with dosdude1, asking the same thing—just a chip swap was what I was hoping needed to be done. After some back and forth, I sent off the card, both of the extra ‘920 chips I had at the time, and some additional VRM MOSFETs that I’d bought after I’d run out of salvage chips.

o Shortly after the card and chips were mailed out, I came back to CPUShack asking if he had anymore Chrome 460 dies in stock. I proceeded to purchase all remaining chips he could find, which consisted of 10 ‘920 and 10 ‘922 revision dies.

o The chip swap would be completed with minimal issue, but the card unfortunately remained dead. It’s at this point where dosdude1 decided to probe for VCORE and GND, and in turn I measured out the resistance between the two on all ten of the ‘920 chips that had arrived by then, finding that they all read between 0.5 and 0.9 ohms. I do not know what the resistance from VCORE to GND is on the later die revisions, as the pinout was changed.

o Currently, dosdude1 is waiting for a buck regulator replacement to arrive after replacing the MOSFETs themselves yet again, finding in the process that the replacement MOSFETs I sent were faulty and… sending 12 volts straight into VCORE. That’s on me for buying them off Ebay. I did not know where else to look.

o Despite this, even after the faulty MOSFETs were replaced with tested working ones, the card continued to pull far too much current.

o Finally, as of now, he is still waiting for the buck regulator to arrive. There is no evidence that it is faulty as opposed to the MOSFETs, but neither of us have any clue what could be wrong anymore at this point aside from the dies themselves. It’s very much possible that one of the three dies in his possession have been fried to a crisp by that momentary 12v to VCORE in the split second before OCP kicked in, but even then after a non-faulty replacement was installed alongside a spare die it continues to trip the power supply’s OCP.

o I own 27 Chrome 460 dies across three revisions, 13 of which, counting the two sent to dosdude1 and the one installed on the card itself, are of the ‘920 revision that’s been causing myself and dosdude1 headaches for the better part of a year. Neither of us know what is wrong with the card, and outside of the discovery of the faulty “new” MOSFETs I’d sent, the only thing that appears to still be the issue are the dies themselves. They can’t all be bad, right?

Misc. info

My only lead on anyone that may be familiar with the S3 Chrome 460 is Bruce Chang of VIA Technologies. However, his email appears to only accept messages from others in the company.

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[singingrainbows]

I use firefox for pretty much everything, it works great 99% of the time and has plenty of neat extensions too. I keep a back up browser for the tiny percentage of sites that insist on the being finicky, and happily use firefox the rest of the time. It's hands down the best browser for desktop for sure. Plus it has a cute logo.

[vintage-tech]

An actual goldurn Sony Walkman cassette player. This one has AM/FM radio, bass boost, and (not visible here) a switch to go between standard cassettes and chrome cassettes.

[junosmindpalace]

Heyo, I heard you needed some Dr. Stone headcanons. How about Ryusui/Chrome/Tsukasa and an s/o that is trying to imitate their behaviour, just because they like their bf? How would the guys react?

a little on the shorter side but i hope its okay! and my first time writing for chrome!

RYUSUI NANAMI: 

He’s probably the most enthusiastic over such a thing. 

Probably the quickest out of the three to figure out what you’re doing, but before he does, he’s genuinely clueless over why you mimic him.

When he does eventually figure it out, however, he might sometimes openly call it out. Not in any sort of malicious way meant to degrade you, but just calls out how endearing he finds it, exaggeratedly squeezing your cheeks and hugging/nudging you.

When he’s not calling it out, however, he’s silently appreciating it. When he takes notice, his face brightens and a smile quickly spreads across his features. 

It makes him melt a little, seeing that you admire and/or adore him so much as to adopt some of his own little traits. It's incredibly endearing to him, and if he thinks about it too hard, he might feel a little sappy.

But overall just finds it sweet and is appreciative of it as a love language.

CHROME:

Arguably the most flustered about it.

At first, he may think you’re making fun of him or judging some of his habits. He’s received some judgment in the past. 

It’s not like many people tend to look up to him or regard him too highly before his Kingdom of Science days. So to have someone admire or care for him so much as to adopt certain traits of his behavior is a big deal for him. An embarrassing deal. He’s embarrassed. 

At first, he doesn’t really notice it. It takes him a while to actually catch on to what you were doing, but when he does, he’s all eager and flustered about it.

He may grow a bit of a big head over it, just for a little while. He tries to show that he feels casual and indifferent about such a thing, but in all honesty, he loves it. He may even begin to exaggerate some of his mannerisms and pay extra attention to see if you follow along. Let him have this, okay? 

If you overdo it, however, he might get a little freaked out. It’s a little funny, since it's a bit of a 180.

But for the most part, he finds such a thing incredibly endearing and somewhat of an ego boost.

TSUKASA SHISHIO:

At first, he may be a little bit confused on what you’re doing, especially if trying to imitate him makes you deviate from your personality a lot. 

He watches curiously as you mimic what he does, his speech or little habits. 

Once he figures it out, however, whether through observation or through your own admittance, he very quietly finds it endearing.

He probably won’t make very many comments on the matter, but if he ever takes active notice, he feels his heart swell and a small wave of affection wash over him. 

He might look at you with a small smile on his face, or nudge you, or give you some kind of hug, just to express how such a thing is so adorable to him.

It flatters him a little to think that you regard him so highly as to admire even the little things about himself, so much so that you try to incorporate them into your own personality.

But he also may not like it if you do it too often, because he just wants you to be yourself and express yourself in a way that's authentically you. 

It’s natural to adopt some mannerisms from each other, however. He probably subconsciously mimics you a lot, too.

(and when you notice, you’re also just as endeared and flattered)

He might chastise you if you mimic some of his more risky habits, though, like mimicking his way of battle through brutish strength and putting yourself in danger, especially if you aren’t equipped to handle yourself in such a way.

[zais-zafu]

my simple manifesting "routine"

it's v automatic & random cos that's how I like it

state: I remind myself of the fact that I have it all through acting/thinking like "her" and rampaging whenever I feel like it to boost my self esteem

reminders: I have a minutely reminder that manifesting is instant and hourly reminders for self love, not doubting myself, taking care of myself, celebrating the present moment (ngl this all you need – it will be embarrassing for others to see at first but you will get used to it)

visualisation: I like daydreaming (was a maladaptive daydreamer) so I try to always consciously choose what to imagine when my mind wants to daydream (usually happens before sleeping)

vision boards: I do quarter planning and I create a vision board by the end of it, I keep it anywhere i could see it – wallpapers, chrome bg, etc. I'm thinking of employing visual subs into it (if u have experience with that please lmk !)

affirming: I have this setting on my phone that as soon as I unlock it, it launches my counter app & I do 10 sets of affirmations in wtv language/pov I feel like (switching the language/pov helps me a lot) + I affirm whenever I feel like it

subliminals & tapes: I recently started making my own subs and tapes (ima start to critically examine the submakers I follow too...), anywho ! I play subs and tapes whenever I feel like it, my earbuds are stuck to my ears 24/7 & I got yt premium for better access >:)

mediation & hypnosis: I meditate whenever I feel like it (used to do it once a day), I might sit in silence, play some frequencies/subs, do a guided meditation, or opt for a hypnosis if I wanna go for long and deeper.

journaling/scripting: can't believe I almost forgot about this, but I script every evening to work my self concept, practice gratitude, and visualise my ideal life/scenarios.

rampages: so I sometimes do mirror work or talk to ai chatbots in order to vaunt in the morning and evening+ whenever I need it.

prayer: so I'm muslim & I like using prayer & religion in general as a way to regulate my nervous system + to manifest! I don't have anything specific I do outside of the regular islamic teachings.

media: I like using movies, books, music, etc. to get in the mood, raise my self concept, and also normalise my desires & take them off the pedestal.

lmk what u think of it and any cool/unconventional techniques you use !!

[saiyanprincessswanie]

SaiyanPrincessSwanie Reading List Week 237 & 238

A/N: Thank you again to those who recommended fanfics or tagged me.

💜 This week had me reading 25 fics. Absolutely amazing fanfics here. This has been so much fun for me and I hope you enjoy my reading lists.

As always these will be listed in no particular order. None of these stories are mine. I’m just signal-boosting them. The author is listed next to the title. My goal is to signal boost writers and spread positivity in the community. 💜💜

Click HERE to see what I will or won’t read. This is very important.

Click HERE for past reading lists.

For my Masterlist click HERE.

Please make sure you’re reading the warnings on every story. They range from dark to fluff. Do Not Read if you are under 18 years old. These stories are meant for adults only. You’re responsible for your own media consumption.

Header by @fictional-affairs

Page-break by @whimsicalrogers

If you can, please reblog these lists so they can reach more people on Tumblr.

I love you 3000 💜 Missy

Chrome & Leather Series - (Steve x OFC) - @saiyanprincessswanie

Suncreamed - (Ari x Reader) - @biteofcherry

A Picture is Worth… (Bucky x Reader) - @navybrat817

The Imperfect Couple - 16 - (Bucky x Reader) - @deliciousangelfestival

The Imperfect Couple - 17 - (Bucky x Reader) - @deliciousangelfestival

Sweet as a Berry - (Bucky x Reader) - @navybrat817

Tangled hearts - (Bucky x Reader) - @buck-star

Change Your Mind - (Bucky Barnes) - @caplanbuckybarnes

TRAPPED WITH THE BOSS - (Steve x Reader) - @labella420

Fulfillment Initiated - (Ari x Reader) - @stargazingfangirl18

Feral - (Bucky x Reader) - @navybrat817

The Night's Not Over - (Nick x Reader) - @buckets-and-trees

Still Life 1 - (Curtis x Reader) - @krirebr

Favorite toy - (Bucky x Reader) - @buck-star

Come Down from Battle - (Steve x Reader) - @buckets-and-trees

Puppy Love - (Curtis x Reader x Jake) - @stargazingfangirl18

New Year Coming In - (Jake x Reader) - @bigtreefest

Only The Lonely - Rain and Umbrella - (Bucky x Reader) - @deliciousangelfestival

Only The Lonely - By Your Side - (Bucky x Reader) - @deliciousangelfestival

The Best Worst Day Ever - (Bucky x Reader) - @jobean12-blog

Blind Date - (Bucky x Reader) - @targaryenvampireslayer

in the woods with a couple of masked men - (Bucky x Steve x Reader) - @witchywithwhiskey

SUBDUE - (Steve x Reader) - @mercurial-chuckles

Love's Sanctity - (Steve x Reader) - @mercurial-chuckles

Roll the dice (1) - (Steve x Reader) - @holylulusworld

[nil-the-glitch]

Happy to say that, now that I have the new chrome book all set up, I can start taking writing commissions again! My Kofi link is in my pinned post, so if you'd like a poem that reaches deep into your soul to express your pain, rage, love, or joy, in a way you never thought possible, please check me out :3

(If you can't buy, then please boost? I only have about 200 left in my bank account with nothing going in due to disability preventing me from working a normal job. So every set of eyes on this matters to me!)