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pale sigil
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If I got something like that with say a 10900k or whatever they decide to call it xD

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I’d be fine for a long time

ashen spindle
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my personal gaming pc is srs buisness rooSpy

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bandwith I'd suspect, and increased latency

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bandwith maybe, latency not really

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if the distance is bigger, you still can't push beyond fixed speeds for light/electrons

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same reason why we don't just get bigger L1 caches for example, which would make stuff much faster if you could just add more

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ok I looked it up, thought backplane meant something else

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so just a motherboard but with a pci socket for cpu basically or what is your idea here

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oh hell yeah, going over a variable slot instead of having traces directly to ram and such? sounds like an easy way to lose performance

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so basically a motherboard but the lower half is cut off

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hm idk enough about electronics to know if that would introduce more bottlenecks or so

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having a standard size for mobos should make it easier for putting stuff together though, also then cpu's would need support to not break from the cooler's weight or we need gpu coolers for gpus idk

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seems like too much stuff to change for not too many benefits

fair gull
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i heard serious business

ashen spindle
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okay no you cant try it by using something like water as the standard

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you cant try to make this the new thing instead of what we have but force watercooling

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like it needs to make sense to completely replace it or else why bother if it only segments the market even further

wheat plume
chrome estuary
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oh my god i want to buy a 2080ti but they're 1300$ after taxes and 236$/m if on payments

bronze ether
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damn

feral jolt
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It's possible to find deals on occasion

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Not that anything is a great deal with a 2080ti

fair gull
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i bought One

plush summit
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F

chrome estuary
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well i own a 1080 but one of the ports is broken on it and my main monitor is a fairly decent 4k.

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plus the payments thing is through amazon and I can pay it easily.

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but that's a lot of fucking money

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even if it's over 5 months

ashen spindle
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got a 1080 as well, I'm waiting for the 3000 series, most likely introduced at gtc in march

chrome estuary
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yeah and that's something else i wanna wait on

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I kinda wanna buy nicer 4k since this is more of a business 4k.
Something like the Predator series or Nitro series perhaps

fair gull
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and here my 2080ti runs 2 24" 1080p monitors

feral jolt
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i wish 1080 ti's were available when my last gpu died

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ended up getting the 2080 ti

reef patrol
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Quite an upgrade 😄

feral jolt
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i went from 970 to 2080 ti yeah it was a huge upgrade

fair gull
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why would one want a 1080ti over a 2080ti

ashen spindle
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price/perf

feral jolt
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yeah it was a much better deal

fair gull
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cant really compare that imo

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the whole rtx shit is barely taken advantage of rn

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but the games that can use it

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look brilliant

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and run brilliant

feral jolt
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yeah i dont play minecraft tho

fair gull
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what

ashen spindle
feral jolt
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the only game ive played so far that had ray tracing was metro exodus

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i wasnt particularly impressed

fair gull
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metro is like the worst game i have seen implement rt

ashen spindle
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dont think I have a single game that supports it lel

feral jolt
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yeah i did the $1 month of xbox game pass and then dropped the sub because it was shit

fair gull
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the only thing i know of that has an actual good RT implementation and a nice tech demo to go along with it

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is bright memory

feral jolt
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god damn windows update always changes my power settings

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i thought my psu was dying and had a mini heart attack

wheat plume
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laughs in Linux

ashen spindle
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I do kinda wish there was one settings file for literally every windows setting that you could generate and have it load it after an update

wheat plume
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is there any OS that can do that?

ashen spindle
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idk

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I only use windows

wheat plume
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welp

fair gull
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i only use templeos

wheat plume
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wow xddd no networking ftw

fair gull
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god has his messangers

wheat plume
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:PP you talk to them in that game

fair gull
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so hyped for this

reef patrol
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created by one man studio

fair gull
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yes

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and id say its better than many games by AAA studios

reef patrol
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Based on a cherrypicked trailer? Sure.
The entire game? I remain doubtful 😄

fair gull
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"cherry picked trailer"

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if u mean the game anyone can get for 5 bucks that has a nice hour or 2 of gameplay

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yes

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totally shit

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def doesnt look like the trailers

pale sigil
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It’s very possible

reef patrol
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It's....not out?

pale sigil
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There was this guy who made a fake in 5 years

fair gull
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manmsen bro

pale sigil
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All using bought assets

ashen spindle
fair gull
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its out

pale sigil
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Was a dope af game

fair gull
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ya

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the infinite thing is the full game

reef patrol
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There ya go - Context helps 😛

pale sigil
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Oh wait I think that’s it

ashen spindle
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I mean its the first thing you see on the steam page.. the early access thing

pale sigil
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Shroud played it

fair gull
reef patrol
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No what I see is a bunch of chinese letters, an epilepsy inducing logo and an autoplay video 😄

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That's as far as I got. Oh and "TBD"

pale sigil
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It’s such a dope game

fair gull
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i sometimes still cant believe its made by 1 dude

pale sigil
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I can

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He didn’t make any assets

fair gull
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i mean first trailer was 2017 or so

pale sigil
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So all that time he’s focused on backend

fair gull
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he did pay an artist recently

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to actually get modified assets of his

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and some other shit

pale sigil
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Either way it’s s superb game

fair gull
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yep i replayed it a few times

fair gull
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can u explain to me why u use linux and not windows?

ashen spindle
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because not everyone has an open bench with a fan as pc case

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reference card? aib?

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then ask zotac

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not really, minimum fan speed set to 45% of max is making perfect sense

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in terms of definiton

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if you want less you turn the fan off, if you want to run the fan the lowest speed is apparently set to 45% of max rpm

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thats how it sounds like yes

zenith sonnet
reef patrol
zenith sonnet
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I sense approval ☺️

reef patrol
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Oh yes. 😄

pale sigil
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So based off some calc and monitoring I use roughly £12 a week just for 90% if my room 😒

plush summit
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ouch

pale sigil
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I think I’m working this out wrong

pale sigil
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Wow our rate is higher than I thought

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This just can’t be right

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This just doesn’t add up

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If I base my electric usage in this I should be using around £2.45 a week

wheat plume
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:/

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At the student house we have to pay €40 a week

pale sigil
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And we get charged £1.90 a week set payment

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Rounding it up I should be using £10/month

wheat plume
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Wow

pale sigil
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But for some reason we are constantly topping up our meter

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We have an old meter you use a key with

zenith sonnet
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That's weirdly low
But it depends on what appliances you run, I guess

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2.2 KWh a day is next to nothing

pale sigil
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Thing is @zenith sonnet we are constantly spending £10-20 topping the meter up

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Like j just put £5 on

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And we used 20 quid in 2 days

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Or 3 can’t remember exactly

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@zenith sonnet that 2.2kwh is just my room

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Computer, monitors, router, switch, lamp, charger

zenith sonnet
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That's not much, then

zenith mirage
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dude, we use like £2 a day

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£2 a week would be nice

zenith sonnet
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Your stuff is weird

zenith mirage
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actually more like 3 a day

zenith sonnet
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Why do you have to top up power meters?

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We just get billed at the end of thr year for what we used

zenith mirage
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it's shite

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only got one coz the last people never paid their bills

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so now we're stuck with it

pale sigil
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This is why I’m saying it’s weird

zenith sonnet
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Us two use 6000 KWh a year or thereabouts

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But that's the whole house

pale sigil
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Our last bill the entire year was like £900+

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My total usage since June last year

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@zenith mirage what’s your rate

zenith mirage
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no idea tbh

zenith sonnet
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Well, you got no high power appliances, and probably do not much heavy gaming

pale sigil
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Do you have a meter?

zenith mirage
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we do

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don't really look at it until it needs topped up

pale sigil
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Check on that if you’re interested in seeing

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But ye this is what I mean

zenith sonnet
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Your power is so cheap...

pale sigil
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It doesn’t add up we are topping up constantly

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Yet so little is power usage

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Well

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I’ve just always grown up with us having it

zenith sonnet
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20 / 0.175 = 114 KWh

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Well, that really is a lot for two days

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That's approximately 2400W average

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Maybe someone has been running a space heater the whole time?

halcyon moss
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last billing period we used 2.207kWh

pale sigil
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Lol ofc not

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You have a key

reef patrol
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If you're still not taking advantage of free upgrade to 10 at this point, I don't know what to day 😄

pale sigil
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Take that to a local shop and top it up

zenith sonnet
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'stop providing support'
Who uses Microsoft support anyway?

pale sigil
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Security updates

zenith sonnet
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There will still be critical security updates

halcyon moss
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now i just need to figure out what a billing period is.. :p

pale sigil
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When I’m gaming I usually use 230-300w

halcyon moss
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oh, seems to be the last year

zenith sonnet
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Nothing changes, everyone will just keep using it :p

pale sigil
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It’s stilly to use windows 7

zenith sonnet
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@pale sigil Has someone been running a space heater or similar appliance the whole time? Dehumidifier? Power tool?

pale sigil
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A fan

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My sister uses the tv downstairs a lot lately

zenith sonnet
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Neither uses that much power

pale sigil
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this is what I mean by weird

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But again

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This is my room only

halcyon moss
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maybe the meter is broken :p

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maybe your should turn off your bitcoin farm

reef patrol
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Dogecoin

zenith mirage
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@pale sigil what happens if you press the blue button on the meter?

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I'm sure it's nothing bad, I've just never done it

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Also I'm pretty sure the rates on these prepaid meters are trash

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We're on 17.42 pence per kWh apparently

old marlin
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@zenith sonnet my power is the cheapest

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included in my rent

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whihc isn't very high

zenith sonnet
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Free bitcoin mining

fair gull
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tmw u read about win7 support ending

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tmw u check ur service queue and theres like at least 50 planned upgrades next week

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makes me wanna quit

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cause everyone comes to us and is like "we cant work with it" and so on

fickle ore
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change job? 😄

fair gull
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and when we are like "it just means no more updates except critical security patches"

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they are like "what do you know... ure not microsoft"

fickle ore
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how about you just put a badge on your door with that text and keep it shut

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profit

fair gull
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sadly doesnt work

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theyd call

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or email us

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or talk to us when we are not working

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like in the store etc

fickle ore
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ehh make them call microsoft, how is it your issue

fair gull
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because we provide it support

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u dont call ur car manufacturer either if its not working

fickle ore
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rip

fair gull
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its not like i dont wanna do it at all

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its just frustrating that its so condensed

zenith sonnet
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Can I make a living building custom watercooled computers? 🤔

dapper ridge
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possibly

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if you can market yourself

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problem is getting customers

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well ultimately its up to how well you can market yourself

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can you convince everyone they need water cooled pc's?

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and can you convince them that they should pay you extra to do it?

pale sigil
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@zenith mirage you're on a lesser rate than me by 0.022 lol

dapper ridge
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bleh

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Im a little upset

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but

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we have been working to mitigate windows 7 in our org for the past year

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so we are down to probably less than 5% windows 7

fair gull
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@zenith sonnet from my experience id say no

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unless u do international

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which becomes a real pain in the butt

zenith sonnet
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Germany is big enough a market

fair gull
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just on watercooling? no

zenith sonnet
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Just the question, whether or not I would get customers and if they're willing to pay

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Watercooling is comparatively big here

fair gull
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u said just on watercooling and i can tell u no

zenith sonnet
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Just custom builds?

fair gull
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custom builds in general yes

zenith sonnet
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One of our three big etailers is based around watercooling

fair gull
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lije i get tons of requests for watercooling

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but not custom loops

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just aio

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and u def cant really live just of that

zenith sonnet
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Upsell them, lol

old marlin
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still not enough

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you would have to do more than just that

fair gull
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theres only so much theyd pay more

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like i have worked in pc retail for 5 years now and on parts alone u wont be able to live and they wouldnt even pay much for putting it in

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the people that want that wpuld usually say "i could just look on yt then so just sell me the aio" or "its cheaper on amazon/conrad/whereever"

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i barely make profit of coolers i bought in bulk

zenith sonnet
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Lol, that's harsh

fair gull
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thats the reality of any store selling smth thats noot food

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same pc building is just one of our services

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we mainly do it support

misty saffron
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i can't see how that would be enjoyable to do all the time

fair gull
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it wouldnt be

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i hate it

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neeD to always make sure its nice and neatly managed

misty saffron
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i hate swapping components in my pc

zenith sonnet
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Same, lol

misty saffron
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literally the worst way to lose time

zenith sonnet
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Cable management is the worst

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Also, changing GPU coolers

old marlin
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it is called big chungus

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wtf

reef patrol
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😄

fair gull
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????

wheat plume
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Your youtube history must be a strange place @fair gull

fair gull
wheat plume
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need to open this one my phone welp one sec

fair gull
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wont help bra

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thats 30% zoom in FF

wheat plume
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O.o

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Yeh it's blurry af

pale sigil
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i rarely logged into YouTube

wheat plume
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ahh

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does android stop you getting security patches if all your apps arent fully updated?

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cause I am not getting the january patch

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and my phone thinks its a pixel 4 so it should be

fair gull
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@wheat plume na u can have unpatched apps

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doesnt matter at all

wheat plume
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that image isnt loading

fair gull
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thank discord

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open it in browser

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high res scrolling cap

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thanks sharex for having that feature

wheat plume
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my wifi is too busy struggling to load a 22 minute long video in 1080p60fps

fair gull
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so thats how they troll grandmas

wheat plume
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ooooof

pale sigil
fair gull
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i really wanna run that docs macros

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better make a vm snapshot first tho

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so win10 doesnt do 128mb of ram

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but 256

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everything just takes 200years to open

wheat plume
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I have youtube, chrome and telegram and discord open

fair gull
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i think this word doc is actually borked

wheat plume
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hmmmm

dapper ridge
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I used text documents

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easy to unbork

fair gull
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no clue what the crap this is supposed to do

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and a huge macro list

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Sub n()

End Sub




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woops

dapper ridge
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what language is that?

fair gull
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VBA

dapper ridge
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vb?

fair gull
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yes and no

dapper ridge
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oh its the embeded lang

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ic

fair gull
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ya VBA

dapper ridge
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tbh that shit scares me

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I will do powershell scripting and batch scripting

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but never have I tried doing vba shit in excel

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Ive had to use it in outlook

fair gull
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its pretty nice for a few things

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for excel i use nodejs tho

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cause easier

dapper ridge
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when I needed to do stuff to excel I used python

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does nodejs have good libs for excel?

fair gull
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yes

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i dont like python to begin with

dapper ridge
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eh

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I can use it

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but it has fallen from my favor ever since I learned more logically structured languages

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I much prefer langs that use physical character syntax like brackets to designate logical structure

fair gull
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            const columns = [
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                { width: 20, name: 'Date updated' },
                { width: 15, name: 'Size' },
                { width: 38, name: 'Hash' },
                { width: 15, name: 'URL' },
            ]

            for (let entry in columns) {
                entry = Number(entry);
                sheet.column(entry + 1).setWidth(columns[entry].width);
                sheet.cell(1, entry + 1).string(columns[entry].name);
            }

            sheet.row(1).freeze();
            
            let i = 2;
            for (const file of files) {
                debugMessage(`${file.name} (${file.id})`);

                const extension = path.extname(file.name);
                if (!['.nsp', '.nsz', '.xci'].includes(extension)) continue;
                
                sheet.cell(i,1).string(file.name);
                sheet.cell(i,2).string(moment(file.modifiedTime).format('M/D/YYYY H:m:s'));
                sheet.cell(i,3).string(getFormattedSize(file.size));
                sheet.cell(i,3).comment(`${file.size} B`);
                sheet.cell(i,4).string(file.md5Checksum);
                sheet.cell(i,5).link(file.webContentLink, 'DOWNLOAD');
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dapper ridge
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over the stupid python tab system

crimson wigeon
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Python would prefer if you used 4 spaces tho

dapper ridge
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which is generally inserted by tabs on most ides

zenith sonnet
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Gimma an idea what to do with 2 thermistor cables?

ashen spindle
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eat them

zenith sonnet
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Measure intake and exhaust air temp?

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I dunno

fair gull
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put one up ur bum

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and measure temp

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selfmade thermometer

pale sigil
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The audio is pretty bad but i have to admit.... the delay is insanely low

wheat plume
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The quest only has mono audio??!!

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Aghhh nuuu

feral jolt
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Well I think spatial sound would be really important for br

old marlin
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are gigabyte SSDs decent?

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I can get a 512GB NVME one for 48 euros shipped rn

glad scroll
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Today is the day, my friends, the final day for Windows 7. It's long journey have finally come to an end BigBossSalute

zenith sonnet
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@old marlin That's insanely cheap
Even if it's not that great, still a good deal
Personally I'd spend 20€ more and get an AData XPG, though

halcyon moss
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get 1tb 😉

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512GB fills real quick these days

zenith sonnet
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Depends on your use, really
I wouldn't store music or videos on an SSD

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And it's space for plenty of games

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And if you don't game, you'll 'never' fill it up

halcyon moss
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if you game most aaa games are going to 100gb these days

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and yet here i am.. playing graveyard keeper on my 3700x with 5700xt :p

zenith sonnet
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I need to play that again

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Maybe get the DLC for more grind

halcyon moss
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its a bit overwhealming sometimes with the things you can do

old marlin
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I have just a 512gb drive rn

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it is only limiting because mhw got an update which made it almost 80gb

halcyon moss
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My 1TB drive is almost full :/

feral jolt
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i need an hdd for my gameplay clips

dapper ridge
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you need salad state

pale sigil
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I had 4tb in my NAS for stuff like they

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That

dapper ridge
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My work needs a bigger nas

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smh

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tired

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cant get my fekkin acronyms right

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we presently have one with like 30 tb, raid 5 or 6 so we get about 20 or less

pale sigil
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Ye work

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You personally I guess not?

dapper ridge
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personally I would love 10tb nas

pale sigil
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XD

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I almost got 8tb

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But didn’t feel the need to

dapper ridge
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more honestly tho

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since I would love to be backing up shit

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constantly

pale sigil
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Pretty much what I do

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Daily backups at 8pm

dapper ridge
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I have about 1 tb of shit to back up

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and then I will likely do consolidation backups

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not to mention the shit I would love to have a copy of in the cloud

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so my present data foot print is probably ~2-3 tb

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and it will grow a lot more since im saving more shit these days

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am I a bit crazy for wanting this much storage?

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probably

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but dammit I want it

fair gull
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i just use google drive

halcyon moss
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1TB of data to backup? videos or something?

dapper ridge
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music making shit

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  • historic game backups
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I have several kerbal space backups

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for pre aquisition kerbal space program

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with some historical config shit and projects

fair gull
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i have multiple backups of my pc

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each around 1tb

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all in gcloud for ease of access

dapper ridge
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I dont like google that much

zenith sonnet
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Holy crap
Edge is so much faster now

fair gull
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eh idc 10bucks a month for unlimited storage is unbeatable

zenith sonnet
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The old Win10 installation is just keeping on running, lol

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Been using Edge Beta for a couple months now

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God damn it

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Ryzen is so snappy

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Holy crap

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Ever felt like letters lagged behind when you typed?

ashen spindle
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No?

fair gull
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the real question is if its actually ryzen that made the difference or that u just got a new cpu

zenith sonnet
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Feels like they did on the old rig

fair gull
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not for me

zenith sonnet
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Maybe all the security patches degraded the experience of the 5820K

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It's not like it was too slow for discord or edge

fair gull
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lol 5820k

zenith sonnet
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But Ryzen is noticeably quicker

fair gull
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like i still have an 4790k in another build

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and its as snappy as my 9700k

zenith sonnet
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Right click menu on the desktop? Quicker now

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Folder opening? Quicker

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Downloading? Quicker

dapper ridge
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@fair gull unlimited?

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fo real?

fair gull
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yes

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currently at 135tb or so

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growing each day

zenith sonnet
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Still need to do a clean install, though

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GPU temp when idle: 27°C junction. Awesome

old marlin
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@fair gull 4790 with all security patches is slower than some FX CPUs in MC apparently

fair gull
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dunno had a great time using it as working pc

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and rendering was still reasonably fast

dapper ridge
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we talking intel 4790?

old marlin
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yea

dapper ridge
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I loved that processor

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my first desktop had that processor

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I overclocked it about 8%

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bleh

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dots

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workin on em

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gonna make nice readme

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oh wups

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wrong discord group

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well that was supposed to go to a linux group

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bit tired today

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Fite me

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I mean you knew what I was talking about

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so

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why did it need clarification

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so you could feel right?

crimson wigeon
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ackshually if you're one of those programmer nerds you would call them guilds ackshually

dapper ridge
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ur good, im being salty for no reason myself

dapper ridge
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furry confirmed

fair gull
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we already knew mage was a furry

reef patrol
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Get me off of this wild furry ride.

ashen spindle
reef patrol
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I'm a duck. I have feathers, not fur. Don't even try ! 😛

dapper ridge
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what happened to this channel

reef patrol
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I... I have no idea.

wheat plume
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Same
...

ashen spindle
wheat plume
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It's odd and it's scary

dapper ridge
#

wonderful

ashen spindle
#

time to burn everyone and resume to talk about tech, though I dont think anything interresting in hardware space will happen till gtc, aside form 3990x launch next month

dapper ridge
#

hmmm

#

how are you going to burn them?

foggy solstice
#

I'm sure there's other things to talk about.

#

Tech is pretty broad.

dapper ridge
#

why does my microwave sometimes turn on by itself

ashen spindle
#

hence I said hardware not tech :p

#

as in pc-related hardware

dapper ridge
#

pff

foggy solstice
#

This chat wasn't about either tech nor hardware for a bit.

dapper ridge
#

my linux computer needs more stuff on it

#

ideas

ashen spindle
#

no its also about xeanoa's pc that he's never building bc he waits for better parts

foggy solstice
#

Speed stripes.

dapper ridge
#

speed stripes would make it go faster

foggy solstice
#

Also flame decals.

dapper ridge
#

and flame decals

#

hmmm

#

xD

ashen spindle
#

probably photoshopped

#

yea dont be him

dapper ridge
#

there

#

I think it is clear now

#

ohgod

foggy solstice
#

Whatever happened to regular darrell

dapper ridge
#

perfect

#

and fuck spelling

#

cause too many chars

#

/giphy Tayko

#

wups

#

meant to do nick

#

fek im tired today

#

hands are just defaulting to usual commands

#

and I guess bat works

#

my job rn

fair gull
#

the

#

fuck

#

is

#

that

#

blue

#

light

#

filter

dapper ridge
#

f.lux

ashen spindle
#

flux ftw

dapper ridge
#

I would use built in

#

but

fair gull
#

ya makes all screenshots look aids

dapper ridge
#

does not work with displaylink

fair gull
#

ftw indeed

ashen spindle
#

you can turn it off quickly if you really need clean screenshot

dapper ridge
#

not worth it

#

only when I write documentation

ashen spindle
#

and I really care more about my eyes than the color in screenshots

dapper ridge
#

same

#

at least it is better than what my coworker does

#

his apps have this stupid darkness filter

#

that just darkens shit

fair gull
#

@ashen spindle uk that win10 has a blue light filter itself right?

dapper ridge
#

makes it almost impossible to read anything he screenshots

fair gull
#

that goes all the way to hellscape

dapper ridge
#

as I said builtin bluelight filter does not work with my displaylink drivers

ashen spindle
#

I had flux installed and it means I dont run the risk I need to change it after windows updates

fair gull
ashen spindle
#

so no point in changing it to windows' solution

dapper ridge
#

heh

foggy solstice
#

Ah yes, dark room mode.

#

For when you really don't want to enjoy colors anymore.

ashen spindle
fair gull
#

i always have mine on 60

#

even at work

foggy solstice
#

You sometimes need colors.

dapper ridge
#

I just like my eyes not hurting after a day of work

foggy solstice
#

Graphics designing is so much easier with colors.

dapper ridge
#

well sure

#

if I fire up gimp or something I turn off the filter

fair gull
#

@foggy solstice guess im lucky to not work in that branch right?

#

not that normal monitors show the actual color anyway

foggy solstice
#

It's just an example, there are others.

fair gull
#

my profession luckily doesnt need accurate colors

dapper ridge
#

Im just an IT guy

#

I solve problems for idiots

#

I dont need colors

fair gull
#

u can sadly

dapper ridge
#

I have some that I have had to

#

although what really hurts me

#

are people who make me walk to their office

#

to press a single button

#

My printer does not work!

#

turns it on for them

#

yes

#

My title is officially IT Help Desk

#

but I am basically the Sysadmin/Business Analyst/Help Desk/It Everything

foggy solstice
#

It is.

dapper ridge
#

I wish we had one

#

for our employees

foggy solstice
#

They just missed it.

dapper ridge
#

like dos and donts

fair gull
#

i readlike DOS and fonts

#

and was like "what"

dapper ridge
#

well also note these are construction workers

#

so

#

40's mostly

#

a lot of these people started their jobs with pen and paper

fair gull
#

so if i become a construction worker now im mostly 40

zenith sonnet
#

Blue light filters aren't all that great either

dapper ridge
#

they are great

#

My eyes go from burning and causing me a headache

zenith sonnet
#

I hate them

dapper ridge
#

to not causing me a headache and making looking at my screens a pleasant experience

zenith sonnet
#

I can't deal with the colours being so far off

dapper ridge
#

eh

#

my eyes adjust

#

pretty quickly

fair gull
#

i imagine mages screens being pure red and burning themselves into his soul

foggy solstice
#

Some people choose to use the light theme.

zenith sonnet
#

Hours, and it still feels off?

dapper ridge
foggy solstice
#

Sometimes these people are in charge of UI design.

fair gull
#

like i got so used to it that wihtout bluelight filter looks off

foggy solstice
#

I wish these people weren't.

dapper ridge
#

I stare at windows 2012 servers all day

#

bright white interfaces and shit

#

is wonderful

#

thank you bluelight filter

fair gull
#

so buy a crt?

foggy solstice
#

LCDs sound like racists.

dapper ridge
#

Fek

#

I have 8.4 tb to go

#

the point is to reduce the strain

#

which it does

#

so

zenith sonnet
#

Due to my astigmatism I have issues with light text on black
Light on medium gray works, though

dapper ridge
#

they are not pointless

zenith sonnet
#

Just imagine every letter bleeding colour

#

The background needs to be bright enough to mask it

fair gull
#

so

#

i also have astigmatism?

dapper ridge
#

as do I

#

it is minor tho

#

mine just makes night driving hard

fair gull
#

i hate white text on black

zenith sonnet
#

I have no issues with night driving

fair gull
#

windows night light saves me tho

dapper ridge
#

I cant see very well at night

fair gull
#

cause it just looks like grey on black

#

which is nice

dapper ridge
#

because lights glow like freaking beacons spreading massive light everywhere

#

mostly creates giant shafts of light that go all the way to the bottom of my vission

fair gull
#

@dapper ridge btw to quickly chime in on the unlimited gdrive ```
rclone size games:
Total objects: 244252
Total size: 134.698 TBytes (148102145367791 Bytes)

dapper ridge
#

holy fucking shit

fair gull
#

thats the top drive

#

out of all the ones i have

#

so i dont have to worry about not finding download links later on

dapper ridge
#

and that is business right?

fair gull
#

especially for more rare shit

#

@dapper ridge yes

#

the 10$ plan

#

1 user in the org

dapper ridge
#

gsuite business?

fair gull
#

@dapper ridge yes

dapper ridge
#

encryption

fair gull
#

@proud nacelle only if reported

#

i have collected all that shit over a year now

#

and nothing

dapper ridge
#

well

#

this is business

#

not sure if they run scanners on business

#

I know they do on personal

#

I have had some of my stuff share locked due to copyright concern

fair gull
#

i even got a cool organization logo

dapper ridge
#

hence why I dont store anything in google drive

fair gull
dapper ridge
#

lol

#

hmmm

fair gull
#

so ya i wont waste thousands of dollars/euros on drives to build a nice raid 6 or smth

#

if i can spend 10bucks on unlimited storage

#

and we do know u can technically use it as cold storage aswell

#

since u can suspend a business plan

#

which leaves the drives intact and accessible

#

just locks the business accounts

#

and according to their support they wont ever get deleted

dapper ridge
#

I think box does

fair gull
#

since u can technically always reactivate

dapper ridge
#

and backblaze

fair gull
#

so u could make 40 shared drives

#

add another account as manager

#

on all of them

#

and suspend the plan

#

in theory

#

at least

#

btw if anyone wants a copy of that games drive.... hit me up and add me to ur google shared drive Kappa

dapper ridge
#

...

#

are they gog?

fair gull
#

i do have a gog folder

#

a lot of repacks

#

and pmuch all console games ever

#

except a few psx games

#

i borrow for an unspecified amount of time

#

and this is more archival

dapper ridge
#

oof

fair gull
#

the only games i have actually played lately are

#

swtor

#

nfs heat

#

and lego starwars

dapper ridge
#

Im trying to find a copy of nfs underground 2

fair gull
#

i got 20

dapper ridge
#

how

#

also why

fair gull
#

different langs

#

beta builds

#

physical copies for ps2 and pc

#

obviously isos of those aswell

dapper ridge
#

best nfs

#

imo at least

#

that is the only one I ever enjoyed

#

my life now

#

turned up bluelight filter to save your eyes

fair gull
reef patrol
#

I wanted orange, but it gave me lemon lime.

fair gull
#

all nfs2 copies on the drive

#

and as i mentioned i own the game multiple times for ps2

#

cause

#

its a good game

dapper ridge
#

^

fair gull
#

and one disc got eaten by the cats

#

or well

#

scratched

dapper ridge
#

now there is a cat size hole in the yard

fair gull
#

no

#

i like nfsu2

dapper ridge
#

:p

fair gull
#

but

#

i also like the cats

dapper ridge
#

cats are expensive I guess

#

vs an old game

fair gull
#

why archive anything

#

obviosuly for future generations

#

the hardware is lost at some point

#

its not made for eternity

#

sadly

#

yes

#

for me there is

#

i like video games

#

and i like the journey video games had

#

maybe not right now

#

like

#

animals arent all endangered rn either

dapper ridge
#

I think all art should be preserved

fair gull
#

doesnt mean we can just let them be killed for no reason

dapper ridge
#

regardless of quality or message

fair gull
#

^

#

like at some point

#

these games wont be able to be found anymore

#

i had a serious ahrd time finding a game i really like from my childhood

dapper ridge
#

it is all part of the human spirit and an expression of the human condition in a way

fair gull
#

one day i found someone like 100km away from me who owned a barely working copy

#

scratches all oiver and shit

#

i was so fucking happy

#

sure the english version is pmuch everywhere on the net

#

but i wanted the german one

#

so?

#

thats still not what was sold

#

1:1

#

no i wont

#

still doesnt make it the original

#

easy as that

#

why do we even make international releases lol

#

just let modders do it

#

only release in jp now

#

nowhere else

dapper ridge
#

semantics are important in this case tho

#

why have a modified copy when you can have an original translated one

#

feels more valuable

#

not tarnished by another person

fair gull
#

or what it was called

#

the problem is

#

a shit ton of this

#

is copyright material still

#

exactly

#

tons of IP etc

#

if that wouldnt be a problem

#

id already have mailed them

#

@digital cliff thats why i offered

#

if someone wants a copy of this

#

and has gdrive business

#

dm me

#

copying them takes like 10mins

#

or so

#

no

#

if u want free games use pirate bay or some shit

#

some yes

#

some no

#

also a ton from other collections

#

i know

#

private collectors i met

#

they either exchanged me for music i had

#

or just marketing docs etc i had

#

since i own a ton of german crap

#

which they didnt have

#

like i met someone

#

who pmuch collected nintendo marketing material

#

u dont go anywhere

#

at some point a convo starts like this

#

u get a dm

#

u talk

#

and u just meet them then and there

dapper ridge
#

urg

#

sorry to change topic a little but we have a guy who broke the first toughpad in our org

fair gull
#

LOL

#

"hey kid u want some nice tunes"

#

prob shot it with a Tiger Panzerkampfwagen

#

shush

#

dont blow my cover

#

ive been found out

#

gonna delete this account

#

hf bois

dapper ridge
#

he says he "knocked it over"

#

I dont believe him

fair gull
dapper ridge
#

possibly lol

#

smh

#

im pissed too

#

that was one of the last older models we had

fair gull
#

wait wait wait

#

toughbook or toughpad

dapper ridge
#

it was a toughpad

#

stupid service tech thing

#

they used to use ipads

#

I wanted to use toughbooks

fair gull
#

well

dapper ridge
#

but

#

fuck me

#

im not the director of IT

#

so

fair gull
#

thoughbooks would have been indestructible

dapper ridge
#

yesir I know

fair gull
#

but the toughpads while yes sturdy arent that good imo

#

have seen better

dapper ridge
#

I have to jump through hoops to get them anything

#

they want to save all this money

#

but want the best of the best

#

oh well

#

its broken

#

and now I have to replace the dam thing

#

with another 2.5k device

#

I dont have it yet

#

he just called me

#

ill have it within the hour tho

#

he apparently shattered the fuckin screen something bad

fair gull
#

i know how to convinve highe rups to buy toughbooks

#

get them all in a meeting

#

bring a toughbook

#

lock the door

#

bash someones head in

#

and say if they dont approve they are next

dapper ridge
fair gull
#

ez

dapper ridge
#

lol not where I expected that to go

#

dude they dont care

fair gull
#

"Even after dealing with your underground business and killing someone with the toughbook body and blood all over it, it will still work fine"

dapper ridge
#

it took us 2 years to convince them that cloud storage would be better than spending hundreds of thousands

#

in march

#

I will put in my 2 months

#

so the IT department can prepare

#

if I did 2 weeks it would collapse

fair gull
#

"put in my 2 months"

#

what

dapper ridge
#

im not cruel

#

the people who work here depend on this job for survival

fair gull
#

i dont get it

dapper ridge
#

and besides

#

I want to get out of this business

#

I hate IT

#

it is my least favorite thing

#

I want to be a programmer

#

It is the one thing I actually enjoy doing

fair gull
#

software engineer*

dapper ridge
#

yep

fair gull
#

id rather not want to be a software engineer

dapper ridge
#

there is not much else I want to do with my life

#

maybe kill myself later but for now I want to develop

fair gull
#

for all the programming i do in my free time

#

and i do enjoy it most

#

i wouldnt want to get paid for it

#

its the shittiest job to get into

#

and the shittiest job once ure in

dapper ridge
#

eh, if its getting Alzheimers or dying by my own hands at the age of 50, id take the latter any day

fair gull
#

who says ud get alzheimers tho

dapper ridge
#

im gonna die to something

fair gull
#

maybe u just get old and die in ur sleep

dapper ridge
#

and as I get older my Quality of Life will deplete

#

just a fact

#

I dont want to be old

fair gull
#

uh no

#

i know tons of elderly

#

that come into my fucking it store

dapper ridge
#

I've known tons

fair gull
#

that are really up there

dapper ridge
#

I've watched them go from being incredibly healthy

#

riding bikes 20 miles a day

#

to limping down the halls

#

unable to lift a thing

old marlin
#

yea can happen in a year

dapper ridge
#

fuck that

old marlin
#

or you might get a stroke like my grandpa

dapper ridge
#

Im not a very positive person ngl

old marlin
#

was working in the garden one day

dapper ridge
#

sorry, I usually filter it

old marlin
#

and then never recovered from it

dapper ridge
#

but we started talking about my future aspirations

#

eh

old marlin
#

also making your hobby your job isn't all that great

dapper ridge
#

nothing makes me satisfied anymore

old marlin
#

since you loose something to do as rehabilitation in your free time

dapper ridge
#

so honestly I might just dig ditches the rest of my life

#

I disagree

#

modern technology is pretty much the root of all my depression, anxiety, and in general stress

old marlin
#

idk, I personally am BAD with people I don't know

#

I prefer technology

reef patrol
#

Ever since the vibrator incident?

fair gull
#

wha

reef patrol
fair gull
#

wai

#

wait

#

wait

#

the fuck

#

context pls

reef patrol
dapper ridge
#

Im fine

fair gull
#

no

#

ure not

dapper ridge
#

I know actual depressed people

fair gull
#

u are depressed bro

dapper ridge
#

a bit sure

fair gull
#

^

#

depression takes multiple forms and comes in multiple degrees

#

of severity

dapper ridge
#

I know

#

again sorry for getting dark there, just not very excited for what the future has to bring for me

fair gull
#

get help

dapper ridge
#

this is america

#

you think I can afford that shit

#

xD

#

im better off starving in a gutter

#

when is Nvidia's next card coming out?

#

well

#

tino

#

I love programming

#

creating

#

solving problems

#

it is my passion

#

but

#

I fear for what a job will do to it

#

but I have worked the last 10 years of my life towards that goal

#

and if I change my mind

#

I have devoted that time and effort to nothing

#

I think honestly no matter what I do

#

I will hate it

ashen spindle
#

what what did I say? I didnt follow the last 5000 messages

#

????

dapper ridge
#

regardless

#

3 months ish and im gonna probably have a new job

#

ill try programming next

#

maybe I can find a position I enjoy

#

I do dread the hunt for a job tho

#

it starts in march

old marlin
#

?

dapper ridge
#

hi

old marlin
#

oh ye

ashen spindle
old marlin
#

you should always have a hobby besides what you do at work

dapper ridge
#

well tbh

#

my hobbies are quite vast

fair gull
#

sorry @ashen spindle

dapper ridge
#

I do wood work

ashen spindle
dapper ridge
#

Make Music

fair gull
#

i also work my wood

dapper ridge
#

play with lego obviously

#

do general art stuff

#

frisbee golf is one of my favorite outdoor activities

#

and I hop around with different hobbies

#

im tempted to get back into modeling again

#

its just

#

this job is killing me

#

and I want to program

fair gull
#

ya like me

#

i did 3 months of therapy

#

now im cured

dapper ridge
#

I do have it on my list of things to do when I have time

#

see a psychologist

fair gull
#

NO

#

take ure time

#

not when u have time

#

make time for it

#

otherwise ull always not have time

dapper ridge
#

its fairly low priority

fair gull
#

i can already tell u right now u wont be actually happy with anything until u got help

dapper ridge
#

eh...

fair gull
#

^

dapper ridge
#

honestly it comes in waves these days

fair gull
#

like ik that i wont ever get rid of my depression