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  • I have been playing CS since 1.6. I know a cheater when I see one and I know wallbangs can happen. You mean the guy with 100% headshot rate, shoots exclusively at people thorough walls before seeing them, and puts their face into a wall to stare at the enemy and track them walking through the map on 1v1 is playing legitimately? Unless I’ve done something to tank my trust factor and it hasn’t changed in something like 5 years, then there’s no reason for me to have low trust factor.

    The cheater problem was not like this before and has been getting steadily worse. Just because you don’t see them doesn’t mean they don’t exist. Besides that wallbangs are nothing like in 1.6.



  • The problem is that for detection of identical programs, vac relies on program signatures. You could make slight changes to to program to change the signature and recompile it, or use something that changes the signature every time you compile it. That means even though those running the cheats are using essentially the same program sold to them by the same person, if one gets banned then VAC sees the other program and goes, “I’ve never seen this program in my life”

    Other anti cheats will try to identify programs by their functionality (e.g modifying or reading memory of other programs) and using heuristics but that is both more invasive and requires higher level of privilege which many people aren’t willing to give.

    The other alternative valve is experimenting with is AI to detect aimbot, which could work in some instances, but is prone to false positives, and isn’t able to as easily identify behavior such as walling


  • It’s basically luck of the draw with trust factor and region

    I regularly run into cheaters who I watch the demo afterwards and they just sit there aim locked onto someone and tracking them through the wall for 10s before blasting them without ever seeing them, or react to things they can’t see (e.g. suddenly flick to a corner someone is walking up to in a panic wo seeing or hearing a thing). Basically every other game has someone suspicious if not blatantly cheating from the start. If was bad in CSGO and it’s 10x worse in CS2



  • That is not how devices like this work; plugging a 5V 3A device into a 5V 1A port means you can only pull 1A. Going beyond that will either trip a fuse on the board or cause the port to shut off, or potentially keep working with diminished voltage.

    If it is USB PD or QC then the devices may negotiate a higher voltage, but for standard hubs like these it’s most likely to just use a USB A port and 5V.

    Eta: a powered hub will also take its power externally from an adapter which can supply much more current, so its draw from the unpowered hub is minimal. In the opposite order, the unpowered hub could max out the current on the powered hub and as long as the port is protected everything should be fine.Theoretically a decent hub would be fused and not allow drawing enough current to damage anything.












  • There are a number of factors involved. Each phone will support a number of protocols and charging speeds, as will the charger. The two devices will typically perform a handshake to negotiate a charging speed before charging begins. This is what allows the voltage to be adjusted, for example to 9/12/24V rather than the 5V default. Then you have to consider the maximum power to be delivered. Some devices might negotiate a higher power, which at the same voltage will result in slower charging.

    Tldr on voltage vs power vs current: power = voltage * current. You want to minimize current in the long wires and connectors/ contacts where there is high resistance because resistance causes power loss, so you use higher voltage until it reaches the end device before dropping it back down.

    If the Android device negotiated 18W and the apple device 25W for example (idk what apple does) then the apple device will charge faster. Also, if the apple device has a smaller battery, it will charge faster. You may be able to get faster charging with a different combination of port/cable, charger, or settings on the Android device. For example, I restrict my phone to charge to at most 85% and slow charge because it keeps the battery from degrading as quickly, so I can still use my phone in several year’s time without having to recharge it every few hours.



  • You don’t seem to understand that you are contradicting yourself. You are thanking Israel who has had a long history of genocide against the Palestinians, and is currently killing numerous Palestinian civilians, and yet you want everyone else to encourage peacefulness…

    Now children have water when they didn’t

    Giving them a basic human right back after taking it away isn’t something to be commended or thanked. It’s something they should never have taken away in the first place and they should be punished for committing war crimes. The Hamas likewise should be punished for their war crimes.