What happened today that you liked?
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I wish I could be objective about all of this, and simply cook popcorn.
I ran into an amazing collection of Star Trek/Simpsons shit posts:
View: https://imgur.com/gallery/9Oldu5K
View: https://imgur.com/gallery/9Oldu5K
More like
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Please, don't come, I don't want people driving up demand and prices.
Oh you devil, you.
Whelp - I was wrong. The fiber cable from the primary router to my core switch died somehow. Since the primary router was up and running and still accessing the internet, it never failed over to the secondary router where the fiber cable to my core switch was working fine. Which means I had no internet until I replaced that cable. That also means that my core router is a single point of failure, but that is by passable to a large degree - easily for WiFi driving PoE switch, more work for all the rest of the switches due to the high number of fiber ports on my core switch an the lack of fiber ports on the rest of my switches to fully move everything over. Oh well, can have full redundancy - I mean that would be ridiculous for a residence, am I right (please ignore dual ISPs, dual routers, etc and the 50Gbps backbone).
Dr PROFESSOR Nno!!I've been promoted.
Just a reminder of how awesome my 'net connection is. I was selecting a location to save a file download and it was already done by the time I had quickly navigated to where I wanted to put it. It was just shy of four hundred MB. We've come a long way.
I am also admiring my internet connection. I got the new shiny ATT fiber and am floored by 2Gb symmetrical service but am more impressed by the savings vs Comcast. I was paying Comcast $160 a month for 1.2Gb service down and about half that up. For $120 a month I'm getting 2GB up and down from ATT. Its quite the savings!
I got the funniest marketing (or scam) email today.
It was something like: "Is your company's email security strong enough to block malicious links? Click here to find out and enter for a drawing for a $200 gift card!"
It was something like: "Is your company's email security strong enough to block malicious links? Click here to find out and enter for a drawing for a $200 gift card!"
A secret spell to make Windows 11 stop stuttering all my music
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Power\PowerSettings\54533251-82be-4824-96c1-47b60b740d00\0cc5b647-c1df-4637-891a-dec35c318583
ValueMax=0
I put a new Ryzen 9700X system together a few weeks ago but hadn't had the chance to power it on for a test.
It's been weighing on me because I dreaded ruining something with my less-than-competent wiring (the last PC I put together was 10 years ago and lots of small changes have accumulated in the process since then).
Powered it up yesterday and not only did it not spit sparks and smoke at me, it updated the BIOS just fine.
It's been weighing on me because I dreaded ruining something with my less-than-competent wiring (the last PC I put together was 10 years ago and lots of small changes have accumulated in the process since then).
Powered it up yesterday and not only did it not spit sparks and smoke at me, it updated the BIOS just fine.
I too recently purchased parts to make a computer, and have slowly been assembling this last week.
I had a non-POSTing system, but had seen a couple of warnings online that I might need to update the BIOS. Which I did, and then it POSTed just fine!
I will be assembling a 9800x3d system, later this weekend. Should be interesting. Last time I had an AMD system was an Athlon XP 2500 (Barton core) on an Asus nForce 2 motherboard. Spent some time yesterday downloading motherboard drivers and the latest bios/uefi to a USB drive, and built a bootable USB Windows 11 installer drive. All of the parts are here, but had to ship them to the wife's office, because we were out of town.
Hopefully this system will outlast the upcoming trade chaos.
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I used to build my own PCs but now that I'm in my 60s, I find it's worth it to pay the relatively minimal fee and have the store build, test & install the OS of choice so that I don't have to muck about with all that. Me old.
Evening weather is finally warming up. Got the Weber set up, first grilled tri-tip of the year.
I haven't seen any case in recent years where it was cheaper to build a new PC from parts than to buy a standard configuration.
I built several 9800x3D systems over the winter for myself/friends. Many motherboards let you update the BIOS without ever fully powering up the computer. I've done this a couple of times when I worried the CPU was too new for the MB.
It's always been a quality thing for me. It costs the same, but all my components are better because I'm not eating a profit margin. Better quality SSD, better quality RAM, better quality Case & Fans, better quality CPU cooler, better cooled & binned GPU.
So I get better performance for the same price.
Spent the day at my partner’s bookshop enjoying time with her in her element. Followed by dinner out where we talked about life, what we might do for our 12th next spring.
Cheaper no, but at my point in life cheaper isn't the driving motivation. I get precisely what I want set up how I want it, and for me that's worth an extra few bucks to avoid all the hassle.
I’ve got 3gbps symmetrical and there are days when I dread working from the office with the paltry 400mbps symetrical link there. Now that was fast and relatively inexpensive 5 years ago when I signed the contract for the office, but its slow now and starting to get saturated some days.
EDIT: MISSED HALF A SENTANCE?!?
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For me it was picking parts to last another decade, this time without feeling cramped or creaky by the end of it, and trying to go for power efficiency. A high-end (for me, $350-ish) motherboard with lots of power gating and current-gen connectivity options was important given my last few long-lived machines' limitations.
I still need to figure out how to turn off the dang unicorn vomit, though. Windowless case or not, it still leaks out through the ventilation grating. Mocking me.
Oh, and as a long-time Linux desktop dabbler* but first time Mint user, Cinnamon is a thing that I liked today. It just feels like home. No jank, no compromises.
*I stretched Ubuntu from 6.06 to 7.10 to bridge the gaping maw of Vista and reach the blessed shores of my dear departed Windows 7, and now I'm planning to do the same to elude 11's all-consuming hellmouth before 10 goes EoL this autumn. In between then and now, I've played with various distros in virtual machine form but haven't really used it for more than keeping in touch with the Linux side for years.
I guess I liked this.
I went to bring in the chair off the deck. As I pulled it in and spun it around my little Fuji camera went flying off and landed on the polished concrete floor in a huge twhaaap.
I stood there, looked, and thought....fuuuuuuck.
Picked it up, battery cover had popped open, closed that and.....everything works and not a scratch! I think it must have landed really flat and by default on the integrated L grip it has.
Screen is still scratched from the tiniest of tips 6 months back but not made worse.
So yea, I guess I liked that.
I went to bring in the chair off the deck. As I pulled it in and spun it around my little Fuji camera went flying off and landed on the polished concrete floor in a huge twhaaap.
I stood there, looked, and thought....fuuuuuuck.
Picked it up, battery cover had popped open, closed that and.....everything works and not a scratch! I think it must have landed really flat and by default on the integrated L grip it has.
Screen is still scratched from the tiniest of tips 6 months back but not made worse.
So yea, I guess I liked that.
Similar. I know what our VPN capacity is, but not sure if it's the total corporate internet bandwidth reflected into the VPN endpoints. I know all internet traffic has to exit the corporation at those same two endpoints.
It is interesting as I get much better performance working remotely than I do in the office. I recently upgraded to 5Gbps Symmetrical as it's now the same as my 2Gbps symmetrical. The 2Gbps I could max out regularly, the 5Gbps I'm getting more in the 3.5Gbps range on the computers that can handle it (faster computers are on the network at 10Gbps, but the ones that download the most have 2.5Gbps NICs.
Anyway, what I like is that I increased my theoretical bandwidth by >2x with no impact to budget (and the fact my network can easily handle it).
A month ago, I started a trial of Kagi. Thanks @Jonathon for the push that finally got me to give it a shot.
I’ll be keeping this and paying for it. I still use DDG occasionally, especially for gif & youtube video searches because I like their preview interface better. But otherwise? It has been a truly superb experience.
I’ll be keeping this and paying for it. I still use DDG occasionally, especially for gif & youtube video searches because I like their preview interface better. But otherwise? It has been a truly superb experience.
I was looking at the files I wanted to transfer between old and new PCs and sweating capacity issues when two neurons collided. I reached into the peripheral drawer and pulled out a 1TB Crucial P1 (PCIe Gen3x4), never used.
It wasn't a great drive even when new, in fact it's one of the first generation of QLC Nvme drives and had some significant performance gaps, but it's paid for!
It wasn't a great drive even when new, in fact it's one of the first generation of QLC Nvme drives and had some significant performance gaps, but it's paid for!
The good and the bad. There is a "women in sports" conference on campus today. This means there are many enthusiastic, pretty women athletes rushing about in the library. If it were midday Wednesday, it'd be easier to deal with, but at 8 AM on a Monday, it is an awful lot of chipper to have to deal with.
Since you and I are basically going through the same PC changeover steps right now... I just pulled all the HDDs from my old computer and transplanted them in the new one.
Some of the older drives should be replaced soon, but for the moment, all I've done is add even more capacity to my new computer.
Check your motherboard. Mine has a stealth mode setting that turns off all the LEDs. Not perfect, putting it in stealth mode turns off the power and drive activity lights. That works for me as I don't need any lights at all on my system.
So, I have a TikTok addiction. I fully recognize it, and revel in it 
Currently, the latest trend? Spoon-tok. People are submitting pictures of their spoons, and the 'Tism / OCD crowd are replying with their reactions. Its totally surprising about how many picture provoke a visceral reaction in me - Some spoons are totally beautiful, and look great to use, some revolt me on a subconsicous level. Its amazing to see a picture of a spoon posted, and see six thousand other people post that "I'd hate to use that spoon because I know it would taste bad and feel incorrect on my lips".
So much fun
Currently, the latest trend? Spoon-tok. People are submitting pictures of their spoons, and the 'Tism / OCD crowd are replying with their reactions. Its totally surprising about how many picture provoke a visceral reaction in me - Some spoons are totally beautiful, and look great to use, some revolt me on a subconsicous level. Its amazing to see a picture of a spoon posted, and see six thousand other people post that "I'd hate to use that spoon because I know it would taste bad and feel incorrect on my lips".
So much fun
So, I have a TikTok addiction. I fully recognize it, and revel in it
Currently, the latest trend? Spoon-tok. People are submitting pictures of their spoons, and the 'Tism / OCD crowd are replying with their reactions. Its totally surprising about how many picture provoke a visceral reaction in me - Some spoons are totally beautiful, and look great to use, some revolt me on a subconsicous level. Its amazing to see a picture of a spoon posted, and see six thousand other people post that "I'd hate to use that spoon because I know it would taste bad and feel incorrect on my lips".
So much fun
I wonder if we could feed that into ML and distill it down into one objectively perfect spoon design.
I don't really get on tiktok that much now but yes some spoons should just not be used. Sadly my wife doesn't agree with me that we need to throw half of our spoons out and replace them.So, I have a TikTok addiction. I fully recognize it, and revel in it
Currently, the latest trend? Spoon-tok. People are submitting pictures of their spoons, and the 'Tism / OCD crowd are replying with their reactions. Its totally surprising about how many picture provoke a visceral reaction in me - Some spoons are totally beautiful, and look great to use, some revolt me on a subconsicous level. Its amazing to see a picture of a spoon posted, and see six thousand other people post that "I'd hate to use that spoon because I know it would taste bad and feel incorrect on my lips".
So much fun