#Same seed, flipped with Germany and jimthegreek14

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solar glade
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Ew

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No

cloud thorn
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get better pc for less money

solar glade
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I don’t like pcs

cloud thorn
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save everything else

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pcs are better than laptops

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by a wide margin

solar glade
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Yeah they are. But I have a stupid ass custody schedule I legally have to abide by, so portability is important to me

cloud thorn
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a 2k laptop has like 1/4 the performance (max.)of a pc with the same price

solar glade
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Yeah

cloud thorn
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so its literally cheaper to buy 2 pcs for 1k than one laptop for 2k and you get better performance

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  • upgradability
solar glade
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Hmm. I’ll think about it when the time comes…

cloud thorn
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I have like 3 pcs standing around lol

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one primary, one of my old ones that became a 12TB server and a tiny one I can take with me (laptop like) but with desktop parts

solar glade
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Yeah I’ve seen super compact powerful pcs

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That’s something I could opt for

cloud thorn
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ye

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not that much more expensive than fullsize pc

solar glade
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What do you use the server for?

cloud thorn
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jellyfin +

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data backup

solar glade
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Ahh

cloud thorn
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that mainboard in there is from 2017

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and serves a cpu 2 gens later

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amd ftw

solar glade
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Intel sucks tbh

violet maple
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wooo amd gang

solar glade
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I’ve actually never used an intel cpu so I wouldn’t know lol

violet maple
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i have

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it was bad

solar glade
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How long ago?

violet maple
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before this laptop

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last year

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wasnt a good cpu tho

solar glade
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So a long time ago

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Hmm

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Hmmmm

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Idk

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Alright back to oni

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Who wants a full colony pic?

violet maple
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sure

solar glade
violet maple
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ooooh nice

solar glade
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Rate it out of 10

violet maple
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8

solar glade
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What needs improved?

violet maple
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water at the bottom of flipped could be centralized

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sulphric atmosphere might need fixing

solar glade
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Lol the sulfur def needs fixed

violet maple
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lmao

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made a new refinery setup

solar glade
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Very high quality lol

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It’s funny to me how everyone has different styles of building

violet maple
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yeah

solar glade
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mine is compact and yours is chonk

violet maple
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yeah lol

solar glade
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bouta tame these bad boys

violet maple
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nice!

solar glade
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some refined gold thrown in free of charge

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there is another massive ass hole

violet maple
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weird

solar glade
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I didn’t change anything about this asteroid so that is weird

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Guess it is normal worldgen

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these guys are close enough I can make a two in one tamer

violet maple
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sick

solar glade
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The colony on that asteroid is vital to my colonies progression as a whole

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This cluster is so water poor

violet maple
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yeah lol

solar glade
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There are three water geysers across the entire cluster if you don’t count the hsv

violet maple
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damn

solar glade
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My bad, 4

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Two csvs, a cool slush, and a water geyser

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my geothermal powerplant hasnt ran at all lol

violet maple
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bruh lol

solar glade
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Finally leaving the water planetoid

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Why did I make it at this point lol

violet maple
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lmao

solar glade
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I’m getting a little bored of this save tbh

violet maple
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bruh

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fair ig

solar glade
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Wbu?

violet maple
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idk yet i just got to the good part

solar glade
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I might have to make a new colony

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My low attention span can’t take it

violet maple
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can i make you one?

solar glade
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Sure, desolands start pls

violet maple
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kk

solar glade
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Make it slightly smaller size, everything else can be random

violet maple
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nvm

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didnt generate

solar glade
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Yeah

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Make a new one, it’s probably the two volcanic traits that fucked it up

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same size

violet maple
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this works

solar glade
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Alr let me try it out

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It does indeed

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Are there any fps tanks

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?

violet maple
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what do you mean by that?

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large planetoids?

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ah

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not really

solar glade
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Okay

violet maple
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i only did like slightly larger on some

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|| surprise oil to be found||

solar glade
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Oo, okay, going in

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123fps paused…

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Lots of water

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well, not really...

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looks like a volcano overwrited the csb

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*csv

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Our tp has no water as well

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Make something new charmich… I want at least a csv lol

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I suppose I could use the oil wells for water

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This is my first deso run in a while

violet maple
solar glade
violet maple
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post a pic of ur spawn

solar glade
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some stuff is similar, ie that metal vein above the pod but the rest is different

violet maple
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Huh

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It should be the same

solar glade
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Ik

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This is odd

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Lol

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I’m gonna stick to it anyway

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Send a zoomed out pic of your spawn

violet maple
solar glade
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Yeah the only thing that’s different is the cab

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*csv

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I have no csv, you have a csv

violet maple
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wtf

solar glade
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That’s really weird

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Yeah wtf

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I’ll stick to it anyway

violet maple
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ping sgt?

solar glade
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Nah he told us yesterday that certain worldgen mods can affect this

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I’ll try the preset again

violet maple
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i dont have any world gen mods

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apart from cgm

solar glade
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I know it’s probably an error on my side

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I’m gonna try the preset again

violet maple
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kk

solar glade
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Dude the flipped cluster didn’t make my fans run but this cluster is

violet maple
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lmao

solar glade
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Yeah I didn’t get the csv again

violet maple
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SNDST-C-1268929251-0-3A

solar glade
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I ain’t playing terrania

violet maple
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put the number part in the seed area when using cgm

solar glade
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Okay

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It’s the same number

violet maple
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huh

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wtf

solar glade
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I’m gonna just play without the csv, it could be fun

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Everything else is the same so it isn’t that big of a deal

violet maple
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kk

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im gonna go now tho

solar glade
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Same

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Gotta pack up the laptop to go to my moms

violet maple
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cya

solar glade
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Bye

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You should stick to playing the flipped seed, so Jim didn’t waste all that time for nothing

violet maple
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yeah i will

icy lichen
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Been celebrating New Year's, away from my laptop. Happy New year, fellow mouth breathers!

icy lichen
icy lichen
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As long as all three of us hop on it

solar glade
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That’s what we are doing

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It’s the exact same seed, only difference is I didn’t get a csv and charmich did, so whenever we are ready have charmich make you’re seed

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I’m spending time with family a bit rn, but I’ll hop on in a bit

icy lichen
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Alright. Exact same seed, huh? Do we have oil Wells this time around?

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Or do we need to dupe oil again?

solar glade
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Nah we got oil

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It’s the exact same seed for all of us

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We are starting on desolands this time

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If you want to liquid dupe you can, no restrictions on it this time I guess

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But there isn’t really a need to

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If charmich makes you the world you’ll get a csv, if I make it you won’t get a csv so you have to pick

icy lichen
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If I don't get a csv, what do I get?

solar glade
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Nothing takes the place off it

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*of

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It just takes away the water source

icy lichen
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h a desolands start? Perfect. Been there before.

solar glade
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You could try the cluster preset again

icy lichen
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Do we get teleporters?

solar glade
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Yes

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Modified tho

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The tp is met swampy

icy lichen
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Oh. What was sources does it have?

solar glade
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None

icy lichen
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No water? Really?

solar glade
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If you choose no csv you have no water in the planetoid

icy lichen
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Not even in the teleport planetoid?

solar glade
icy lichen
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I better do my research on metallic swampy and adjust my strategy.

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I realise my colonies were addicted to water, and now I despise its absence

solar glade
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Lol

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Again, charmich could make it for you or j can give you the preset

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And you can try the preset

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When starting in metallic swampy, the teleporter has a kg/s of water

icy lichen
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Lemme check what resources the metallic swampy had

solar glade
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However, we aren’t starting on swampy, and the csv was overwritten during worldgen

solar glade
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That’s it

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Plus metal volcanoes

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And nat gas

icy lichen
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Nat gas? Finally. I have never tamed one of those. I don't care about having a csv, I will just develop an alternative.

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What about oxygen though?

solar glade
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Yeah I’m gonna use a boiler for water

icy lichen
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Boiler?

solar glade
solar glade
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I keep forgetting you’re new to the game lol

icy lichen
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Never built one, but I k ow their existence

solar glade
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They’re simple builds

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Everything in this game is simple if you look at it in steps and not one product.

icy lichen
solar glade
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No offense: You’re not new but from what I’ve seen your skills are fairly… new ish. Considering the lack of moderately advanced designs built anyway

icy lichen
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I built my own geothermal plant and it worked pretty well in my last desolands run

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I don't do crazy builds but given enough time I can figure things out.

solar glade
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Geothermal plants are one automation wire, I’d say they are basic builds

solar glade
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I’ll have to gen you some pictures

icy lichen
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I don't do much automation, mostly something above basic but using small simple circuits you can do a lot

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I remember my geothermal plant had... 4 or 5 simple automation circuits

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A magma dropper, some temperature controls, some bits for igneous rock handling and transport.

solar glade
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Hold up I’m getting you the pics

icy lichen
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Oh boy

solar glade
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Lol

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Lots of pics

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I’m getting you every main overlay for my main asteroid and then just normal pics for the rest

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And some back story

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Technically I started metallic swampy but I left asap. The pics follow this order: Desolands, deso pipes, deso gas pipes, deso power, deso shipping, deso automation, then for rad ocean I will just show a normal pic, normal pic for swampy, normal pic for frozen forest, normal pic for flipped, normal pic for water roid, normal pic for niobium planet.

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oh and water roid

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and niobium

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That’s my most recent proper colony, and probably my fav colony to have played. Got bored of it tho

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Cycle 800 btw

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So @icy lichen want me to make the save(you lose csv) or do you want to try out the cluster preset? Sgt probably fixed the issue

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I just built a performance optimized badlands cluster

cloud thorn
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not in cgm

solar glade
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Ahhh

cloud thorn
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but no idea what exactly causes it

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there are a lot of game data fallback handler errors in the log

solar glade
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Ah, interesting

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@violet maple I re-engineered your cluster a little bit. I kept all of the twists you had, just changed deso to remove the volcanic activity. Do you wish to play this or would you rather we stick to yours?

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I still didn’t get a csv…

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Fuck that shit, I’ll stick with yours then

icy lichen
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Gimme the preset. If it doesn't work, I will just ask you to generate a colony for me.

solar glade
icy lichen
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Holy shit my clothes smell like smoked meat after all this grilling and sitting by fires

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Just got home

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Booting up the craptop

solar glade
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Lol, crap too

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*craptop

icy lichen
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I forgot, do I need to drag the preset into a game file or just download it?

solar glade
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Download it and drag it into a game file

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I sent a video yesterday

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Most of the button clicking is in game so it will work for Linux

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As anyone that knows me might know, I’m the goat at desolands

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It’s my favorite asteroid lol

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It’s better than terrania for beginners tbh

icy lichen
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i love desolands

solar glade
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I also really enjoy flipped after playing it once

icy lichen
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yeah flipped is fun too

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i still have a lot of clusters to go through though before i decide on a favourite

solar glade
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I’ve played every SO cluster but not many of the classic style clusters

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Actually, last time I played classic style clusters I was relatively new to the game

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Did you load up the laptop yet?

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Why does your bio say lover of APUs

icy lichen
solar glade
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Yes

icy lichen
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I love APUs, that is why

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They are a neat piece of tech

solar glade
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Neat, but garbage

icy lichen
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Not garbage at all

solar glade
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The only APUs I have experience with were garbage

icy lichen
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The 780m in your 7840hs is capable of gaming at 1080p with low to medium settings

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In graphically demanding titles

solar glade
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Oh yeah, this APU isn’t that bad

icy lichen
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Even the previous gen vega ones weren't really bad, they could game on low

solar glade
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But before this I had bad experience with APUs

icy lichen
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Well, I use a radeon r3 so bad experience with them is the only thing I have. But then, look at the stra deck!

solar glade
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It didn’t show the file explorer in that video

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But all you do is paste the file into the tab that opens up

icy lichen
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Which tab?

solar glade
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The folder button

icy lichen
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Oh ok

solar glade
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Yepp

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What did you think of my colony?

icy lichen
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Pretty neat, hopefully I will achieve such feats at some point myself.

solar glade
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Cool

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Yes hopefully you will

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Any luck with the preset?

icy lichen
icy lichen
solar glade
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Damn, rip

icy lichen
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Waiting

icy lichen
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Yes

solar glade
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Did you do research on it last night or something? Lol

icy lichen
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It competes with the laptop 1650 in compute, though it lags behind it in gaming due to memory limitations

solar glade
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Yeah

icy lichen
solar glade
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Oh, wow. That interested in them?

icy lichen
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Computers in general, but particularly APUs

solar glade
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Got it

icy lichen
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Enabling CGM, restarting the game.

solar glade
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K

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I game with my integrated graphics on oni

icy lichen
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Yeah, even the 780m is overkill for oni

solar glade
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It’s a waste of power to use my NVIDIA gpu, when the power could be allocated to my cpu instead

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Only a waste to use my NVIDIA gpu in oni, any other time I’ll let advanced Optimus do it’s thing and turn on my 4050

icy lichen
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760m would be just as good, albeit slightly less power efficient for a number of reasons related to how electronics work (diminishing returns in the frequency/power consumption curve)

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Though you could turn on that 4050 and free up a little bit of extra power for the cpu side of your apu. Small boost to fps

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Though probably not by much

solar glade
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I caught my cpu being clocked at 4.8GHz while starting up oni earlier today. If only it did that while I was playing…

icy lichen
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7840hs has a max boost of 5.1ghz single core, my guess is it will probably do 4.6-4.8ghz sustained on 2 cores.

solar glade
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O usually catch it at 4-4.4GHz during oni

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Idk why it was clocked so high during boot up

icy lichen
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Yeah, igpu also uses a bit of power

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And that igpu power co sumption rises a bit once it starts displaying more than the klei logo

solar glade
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Ah, but wouldn’t my 4050 use more power?

icy lichen
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It probably will

solar glade
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Whenever I did turn it on manually cos only went up by like 5-10

icy lichen
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Idk by how much though.

solar glade
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*fps

icy lichen
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Tried generating cluster, game crashed again

solar glade
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Unless I’m something that is graphically demanding

solar glade
solar glade
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Sorry for the wait lol

icy lichen
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Don't worry about it

solar glade
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K

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It’ll be probably around an hour or so before I can get you the colony

icy lichen
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I guess I can live without a csv

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Are there any space POI'S close by with possible water sources?

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Meanwhile imma look at the metallic swampy so I can better describe on the starting dupes

solar glade
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Not that I know of, maybe on other parts of the cluster

icy lichen
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Charmich are you around?

solar glade
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I know we have oassise and it has water

icy lichen
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How close is that?

solar glade
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There are also other parts of moonlet cluster that has water such as frozen forest

solar glade
icy lichen
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Good enough

solar glade
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You can also make a petroleum boiler for that 750g/s bonus water

icy lichen
solar glade
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Full trip

icy lichen
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So 5 tiles?

solar glade
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like 4

icy lichen
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10 decided by 2 gives us 5 tiles of range assuming we want to return

solar glade
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Yes but not everything is an 5 tile distance

icy lichen
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I know, but we are talking within, not at

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Within means this or less

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Anyways

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Hmu when you generate the cluster

solar glade
icy lichen
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Well, gotta go to sleep. Cya tomorrow!

violet maple
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12 pm to now

solar glade
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Wow

solar glade
solar glade
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This game hates me lol

violet maple
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Lmao yeah

solar glade
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Alright I’m loading oni

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Gonna make jim’s so long

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*save

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@violet maple

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Send a full roid pic

solar glade
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Except for the volcanoes

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But everything else is the same

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That is so weird

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Are we on different game versions?

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Hmm it isn’t really a same seed run if every geyser is different

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I made a new cluster for us

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You’ll need the empty worlds mod

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Actually maybe we should go back to flipped

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Nah

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Actually maybe I’m in that stage where I’m just bored of oni

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Yeah let’s go back to flipped

icy lichen
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So, I go back to my cycle 20 save?

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Or are we gonna generate a new flipped?

violet maple
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Back to your save

icy lichen
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Well, this save has made me realise that playing without teleporters Mey be more fun than playing with them. Makes rockets a lot more crucial

violet maple
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yeah this is my first time playing without teleporters

solar glade
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ye back to save

icy lichen
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Cycle 34: basic infrastructure done, setting up my ranches. I have amassed 4 tons of pwater, capacity for just 1 more before emergency measures have to be taken. I need somewhere to channel all that pwater to

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Insulating the left tundra biome

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I am thinking of opening up a way through the magma via compression

violet maple
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nice

icy lichen
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However, I will need a lot of igneous rock for that

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Current supply is 11 tons

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This is the fastest I have ever been progressing

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Can someone show me a pic of their colonies before you decided to obliterate the magma biome? I need to find a suitable route.

solar glade
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I need to get a shower but I really don’t want to lol

icy lichen
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You should

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Showers are pretty darn relaxing

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Now I need to find a big obsidian deposit to mine

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Core scouting anyone?

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How do I compress the magma vertically though?

solar glade
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Are we gonna hop onto the January monthly map or stick to this seed? I’m fine either way

solar glade
solar glade
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We will have to see what asteroid it ends up being and then put it to a vote

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Shower done

icy lichen
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I am up for hopping onto the January seed if we all do it

solar glade
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Okay

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I’m honestly hoping it’s rad ocean or desolands

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Those are two we haven’t done yet

icy lichen
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I just hope it is a map with easy access to space and gold amalgam

solar glade
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I hope it’s something challenging like rad ocean

icy lichen
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Not sure about rad ocean, never done any start other than temperate

solar glade
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It’s fun

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It’s just as easy as temperate considering I always build a spom asap

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The real kicker on rad ocean is the lack of everything except water

icy lichen
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Yeah, truly astonishing how much water rad ocean has

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It is my main source of water on my most successful desolands run

solar glade
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I am just going to play this asteroid in the mean time.

cloud thorn
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@violet maple are you on linux/mac ?

solar glade
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He’s windows 11

cloud thorn
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hm

icy lichen
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I am on linux

solar glade
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We know lol

solar glade
icy lichen
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My laptop is absolutely silent

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It has no fan

solar glade
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Oh yeah lol

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Mine is super duper silent as well, almost sounds like the pattering of rain on a metal roof during a heavy thunderstorm

solar glade
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Guys I’ve made a breakthrough

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My ram is bottlenecking my laptop… a lot, and I plan to upgrade to 32 gigs. Too bad one stick of 16 costs $60… where am I supposed to get $120?

violet maple
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uh save up, do chores for money

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go around neighbors asking if you can do stuff like mow their lawn for money or smth

solar glade
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The most I’ve ever gotten from working was $60 and it was doing the dishes every day for an entire month.

violet maple
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bruh

violet maple
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ok yeah

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shovel snow?

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idk

solar glade
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Ive got a plan

solar glade
violet maple
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shovel dirt?

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make a pit in their garden

solar glade
# solar glade Ive got a plan

I haven’t been to my grandmas at all. Usually she gives me $60 so that’s one stick, and maybe my aunt who usually gets me something will give me another $60… it’s a stretch but maybe

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And even if I can only buy one stick, if it’s the same speed and every thing 24 gigs would be better than 16 yeah?

violet maple
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yeah

solar glade
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Especially since I’ve firmly diagnosed ram is a bottleneck for my laptop, the only bottleneck

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My cpu could easily do so much more if I wasn’t stuck with 16 gigs

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Bruh ddr4 is so much fucking cheaper 😭

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It’s half as much…

violet maple
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yeah, i got 2 16gb sticks for £60

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so 32 in total

solar glade
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I’ll just have to live with these 16 gigs until I get 24. Somehow..

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I’m gonna take my laptop apart tomorrow for a peak at those in sides… I’ll get the proper screw drivers and such, then take a look. Warranty isn’t voided if I do so

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From what I’ve seen it’s only voided if you damage something inside, you’re perfectly able to take off the back to maintain fans, upgrade storage and stuff

icy lichen
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24 will function in flex mode

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but one stick of ddr5 is pseudo dual channel, so i guess the impact will be less severe

solar glade
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I was gonna have my 8 gig stick that came with the laptop plus a 16 gig one from corsair

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Alright guys, I’m doing a stupid. Fortnite on battery life max settings

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lol nevermind

icy lichen
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January seed has arrived, shall we?

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And it is a forest start

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Looks pretty neat, I say we give it a try

violet maple
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yeah i will give it a try

solar glade
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Yes, folia

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I will he starting after I get my shower

solar glade
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@icy lichen this is what my laptops inards looked like

icy lichen
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Now I'm jealous

solar glade
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Lol

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I tried scanning the QR codes and it just pulls up some random google search

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I’m gonna take it apart again later today to get the exact ram stuff

slow lagoon
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Normally the ram is accessible via a smaller panel

solar glade
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Yeah it’s under the silver stuff inside my laptop, but I didn’t have a smaller panel. It’s a gaming laptop, not a standard work one

icy lichen
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That silver stuff is the smaller panel

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It probably acts as a heatsink or protector

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Sometimes it isn't a panel tho

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But it does look solid in your case

solar glade
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It is solid

icy lichen
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Then it is a panel

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Ish

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God, that cooling

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Dual fans, multiple heat pipes...

Wait you also have a second NVMe slot

solar glade
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Yeah

violet maple
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i have 2

icy lichen
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I have 0

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My storage is soldered onto the mainboard

solar glade
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I’m considering putting my old ssd from my old desktop into there for some extra storage

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Oh

violet maple
solar glade
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Idk, I was gonna just try to fit it in and if it didn’t fit leave it

violet maple
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that works

icy lichen
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Looks like a 2242 slot

solar glade
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But I have a tb of storage as in, so I’m thinking about just leaving it in the old desktop

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The main thing I want to upgrade is ram but as we all know I don’t have money for that

solar glade
icy lichen
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But you can upgrade when you can.

solar glade
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Yeah

icy lichen
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Gimme a sec

solar glade
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This laptop is very upgradable I’d say

icy lichen
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Compared to other laptops, yes. Compared to pc, no.

solar glade
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Obviously

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Pcs don’t have soldered components…

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I think there is one laptop company called framework or something where the components can be upgraded

icy lichen
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Framework is cool

violet maple
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yeah i have heard of them

icy lichen
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They are soon releasing a 16" laptop with upgradeable gpu

solar glade
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That’s cool. If only that kind of stuff was the standard

icy lichen
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Price asf for its specs but long term is it worth it

solar glade
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My next laptop might have to be framework, but I’ve had a good experience with Acer so far.

icy lichen
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Ignore the fingerprints that have been burned into the "heatsink"

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The internals of my laptop (14")

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Those fingerprints are a story for another time

solar glade
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That’s a LOT of open space

icy lichen
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No shit

solar glade
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Mine has no open space

icy lichen
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Almost as if this chassis was also used for high end models too

solar glade
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That one sad cooling pipe…

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It’s so tiny

icy lichen
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At least it's copper

solar glade
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You can see the copper show in a little bit of mine

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But it’s mostly black

icy lichen
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The thermal paste under there is so dry it is starting to form cracks

solar glade
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Damn

icy lichen
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But it isn't worth repasting, this thing is bound for recycling.

solar glade
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Do you want my old Dell inspirion 5555….

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(It has a Dan)

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*fan

icy lichen
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It is already 3 years old and with such bad specs it's resale value will be less than the tube of thermal paste and alcohol I need to repaste it.

solar glade
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Dang lol

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If I take care of my laptop it should last me at least three or so years.

icy lichen
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3 to 5 years is the typical lifespan of an average aptop imo, assuming the user's needs evolve over time at a pace similar to current technology.

solar glade
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Yeah they will, I use it for gaming after all

icy lichen
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Do you have usb4

solar glade
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What’s that

icy lichen
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The biggest mess and biggest accomplishment of the USB standard

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Basically thunderbolt for non-intel systems

solar glade
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I think so, yes

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How would I know tho

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I’ll check the user manual

icy lichen
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But here is the messy part: the standardised part of usb4 is pretty much equivalent to thunderbolt 3, with the exception of no PCIe support and DisplayPort alt mode iirc. After that it is up to the manufacturer, which means that USB4 is a mess. One USB4 port might have PCIe support, another may not. Another USB4 port will be limited to a speed lower than another, and the list of the messy parts goes on.

solar glade
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I know I have two USB-C ports that can also hook up to displays

icy lichen
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So you have DisplayPort alt mode.

solar glade
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Yeah I can’t find my user manual, my mom seems to have misplaced it when she was messing around in my room

icy lichen
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Laptop model?

solar glade
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I found a spec sheet

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It’s in the back of my laptop by the hdmi port

icy lichen
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Thunderbolt?

solar glade
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That’s for intel

icy lichen
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I know

solar glade
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There are two different laptop models

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One intel and 3(?) different amd ones

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So actually four

icy lichen
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So you have USB4. If your usb4 port supports PCIe, you should be able to hook up an egpu, so technically you may be able upgrade your gpu. However egpus cost a shit ton of money on a lot of cases.

solar glade
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An egpu is just a standard desktop gpu no?

icy lichen
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Not always

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You have enclosures, which have a normal PCIe slot inside (meaning you can slit in a desktop gpu, thus making them upgradeable) but there are cases of complete sets that ship with mobile gpus. Those egpus are unapgradeable themselves, so you have to buy a new one to upgrade you egpu

solar glade
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I know there are special cases for having such systems

icy lichen
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But you can also set up an egpu via M.2

solar glade
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I don’t think I’ll ever have an egpu lol

icy lichen
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However that method is on the patchwork side of things, and not all M.2 slots are made equal

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Albeit significantly cheaper than a proper egpu

solar glade
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By the time I’ll want to upgrade my gpu I’ll also want a new cpu, so it would be new laptop time

solar glade
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I got $40. Almost enough for one stick. Only need $80