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It looks better in Linux.  Overclocking is still available in the Linux Nvidia Settings , but I don't have it activated.

I have a better idea, why don't we just stop making everything in China.....and please stop buying cheap chinese knock-offs from Aliexpress.

11 hours ago, ArchStanton said:

You can't just give it to people straight, you must cloud the issue with techno-enginerd babble! These are the rules! 

I'm an electrician, so I explain things as simple as I can.....and people usually like to avoid getting shocked.   For me...It isn't to bad.  120V is just a tingle....It's like alcohol....you build up a tolerance.    It isn't until you get up to 277V.... then it starts to hurt.

If you don't connect the ground, and something goes wrong, the outer casing could become electrified...that's assuming the terminal is bonded to the case.  With the ground connected, a fault would trip your circuit breaker.

8 hours ago, ArchStanton said:

Okay schuck, be mysterious and give me no preview of what I'm clicking on.  Challange accepted .

I haven't clicked it, but once clicked, I imagine hearing...

"Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you"

I bought windows......NO...not MS Windows....real windows....get your mind out of the gutter.  What kind of person do you think I am?

Me??  Use Windows??  Please!

ARM isn't open source.  Third parties pay a license and sign an NDA in order to produce an ARM CPU.   ARM doesn't produce anything themselves, they develop the IP and sell licenses.

RISC-V is an open source CPU. 

We can have a pandemic every year...or at least every election cycle.

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The researchers were able to demonstrate BAM using a prototype system equipped with off-the-shelf GPUs and SSDs running Linux.

This is for Linux.  Directstorage is Windows only.

Seen plenty of distilled in Walmart.  I just recently bought 6 gallons....but I'm using that for a radiator flush in my truck, not my computer.

On 13/03/2022 at 19:08, iamjanco said:

@PCSargeWhat's mid-range? Something like the PRUSA?

 

That's the one I've had my eye on for some time now. The kit, that is.

I have a Prusa MK3S.  It's really nice.  It's totally open source and from Czech Republic....and I haven't had any problems with Prusa-slicer as PCSarge mentioned.  I'll probably buy a Prusa XL with multiple extruders when it's released.

11 hours ago, iamjanco said:

 

well, i can see a main pwr switch, a bunch of axis, a cooling fan on a head, and an interface hub for a controller and/or a pc; but i don't see any spools of plastic stringy stuff. is that head a mount for a router/cutting head? what's the clamp on the left for? that's not a nipple clamp, is it?

 

a 3d printer's been on my list for a while, but it's not a priority for me. and i'd love my own cnc, but just don't have the room for it. 

Buy a 3D printer and use it to build a CNC machine.

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6 hours ago, pioneerisloud said:

I think so as well.  I'm not looking at overpriced $300-500k homes though either.  I'm trying to find a used probably double wide on a few acres.  So long as I'm spending at or under $200k, it's going to stay affordable for me to pay for it for well into the foreseeable future, and the price of the land itself should raise in value long term.  Yeah, my $200k house might drop to $50k in a worst case bubble pop scenario.  However I also don't see how you can put a price on full on freedom from the rental grinch.  Besides, in a "normal" financial situation, those properties would actually still be worth between $100-150k, so if the markets just simply correct themselves, I won't be overspending too terribly much either.  I'll be staying long term, like very long term, so overall it'd actually end up being LESS monthly cost for me than renting as is right now.

 

If this guy I sent the letter to doesn't respond or whatever, then so be it.  I was actually kind of waiting for the crash before seriously looking to buy anyway.  It's just THIS house, is seriously just about perfect in almost every way.  Not too big, not too small.  Both the house and the land.  Right next to family.  Right next to a good school for kiddo.  I'd save money compared to renting as is right now.  One day I could build a racetrack and drag a couple beater cars home, and nobody can stop me........things like that.  

 

I have put a lot of thought into all of this already, and I agree right now is a terrible time to be looking to buy a home.

This might be the best it's going to get for a while to buy a home.  Interest rates are going to rise in an attempt to slow down the rate of inflation.

I bought my house during the last housing boom in 2005.  At the time, I paid an inflated price, but I'm better off now than if I hadn't.  Renting a 1 bedroom apartment is more than the mortgage for my 4 bedroom house.

Doesn't make sense for Google to develop their own.  Proton is WINE with Valves own patches that often get upstreamed into WINE.  It would be better for everyone if they would contribute to the WINE project.

19 hours ago, pioneerisloud said:

Oh I've already started credit "repair", I just derped and kinda spent too much of it.  $450 card and paypal credit (ebay addiction screwed me on that one ).  If I pay both of those off, which is easy peasy, I noticed my score boosts immediately up to like 680-700 on my credit karma.  

 

Talked to my realtor today, and she's not entirely hopeful about that house, seeing as its in "preforclosure", which apparently just simply means the home owner is 30 days delinquent.  I'll be keeping my eyes peeled on it.  Realtor said she's going to send them a letter with her business card to see if they're interested in selling it to me, so we'll see.  I guess she's going to continue looking for me to see if she can find my dream home.  I don't care that much, running water, electricity, and a functional roof is all I really require....and land, I want a few acres.

You should be doing the looking.  Go to Realtor.com enter your price range, area's you want to live. When you find one you like, tell your Realtor and she'll arrange a time to see it.

Get advice from your Realtor.  Your Realtor will setup a home inspection if you decide to buy it.   But that seems really cheap, where I am the land alone would be worth more than the $221k.

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10 hours ago, ArchStanton said:

I've been wondering (still am) if Putin got "pre-approval" with China before starting this ball rolling. 

China is hoping Russia shows support when China invades Taiwan later this year or next year.  China has been flying into Taiwan airspace on a regular basis. They flew 9 fighter jets into Taiwan airspace the same day Russia invaded Ukraine.  After what happened in Afghanistan earlier this year and how the world is sitting around watching Ukraine be invaded, the invasion of Taiwan is more likely by the day.

If China takes Taiwan, imagine the IP that can be stolen once TSMC is under government control.

12 hours ago, pioneerisloud said:

My opinion?  Both sides are wrong in this.  War is bad.  But its equally bad purposely provoking a world power too.  What do you think is going to happen if you keep poking a sleeping bear?  I think each country needs to keep to themselves, including our own countries respectively.  If you can't play nicely, don't play.  Russia meant business when they said they didn't want NATO so close to them.  That needs to be respected.  Ukraine means business when they say they don't want to be a part of Russia.  Fine.  I'm sure we could've reached a safe middle ground there had things gone differently.

 

Obviously political here, but yeah our own country (the US) is in absolutely NO PLACE to be dictating what another country is doing.  That goes with our tech sectors too.  We rely too heavily on other countries in current times to have any say in what they do.  We shouldn't be telling other countries what to do anyway.  I don't get why we can't just all get along like we were just 2 years ago. -_- 

Well actually the US and the UK aren't holding up their end of the Budapest agreement.  After the fall of the Soviet Union, Ukraine had the worlds third largest stockpile of nuclear weapons.  In 1994 Ukraine agreed to give up their nukes for security assurances that aren't being provided.

Also Ukraine is a sovereign country, they should be able to join whatever organization they wish.  They have been trying to join NATO since the 1990's but they've had leaders at varies times, aligned with Russia, that were against it, so it's been a long process.

6 hours ago, Avacado said:

Yea... Seems like price gouging if you ask me. Though its not like what was released will have any impact on prices. I will definitely be buying electric next time I need a vehicle. 

 

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Not really price gouging when the market price for oil is $115 a barrel.  Throughout 2019 oil hovered between $50 to $60.

Releasing oil reserves is just "doing something" so you can say you're "doing something".  Drilling actually does something, but the US chooses to  artificially reduce the worlds supply of oil and natural gas which fuels the current situation.....Massive inflation and Russia's war.  The administration calls it "transitioning away from fossil fuels" which is fine and dandy if every car lot was filled with new and used electric vehicles...but they're not.  With the chip shortage, the lots aren't filled with gas vehicles either.

We shouldn't be buying Putin's oil.  Putin doesn't plan on stopping after Ukraine.  His goal is to unify the former Soviet states into Russia. Crimea was first to be invaded in 2014.  He's also made the same speech about the Baltic States that he made about Ukraine.  The Baltic States are members of NATO, so either NATO sits back and watches more countries get invaded or it's the beginning of WW3.   We won't have to worry about scalpers buying up all the GPU's anymore.

The one thing that hasn't stopped, the importing of Oil and Natural Gas from Russia by the US and Europe.  That's what funds the war.  It could stop if Germany ends the process of shutting down it's last 3 nuclear power plants to end it's dependence on Russian natural gas for electricity production, and if the US reverses it's decision to place a moratorium on oil and natural gas drilling leases.  In 2019 the US became a net exporter of energy for the first time since 1949, now our oil imports from Russia are at it's highest point in 20 years.    The US could provide Europe with it's needed oil and natural gas and end it's dependence on Russia.

We are on the verge of Battlefield 2042 becoming a reality...just 20 years earlier.

I only live 7 miles from Microcenter.  It's really convenient. 

I think Nvidia has hit a wall.  They can't increase performance without also increasing power consumption.  They've become old AMD. 

We need Maxwell again.....Performance increased while power consumption went down.  With the way energy prices are right now, this isn't the best time to release a power hog.

Were there any games other than Fallout 76 that required it?

That's freakin' crazy.