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3 hours ago, mx500torid said:

Well I screwed that up thought it started tonight at 7. Starting them now. Apologies.

Better late than never

On 18/12/2023 at 12:05, Fluxmaven said:

I'd love to go back down to a 42". The 48 is just a bit too much for how close I sit. I don't use mine for anything other than the PC so I'd like to get away from a TV. Turning it on and off manually is only a minor inconvenience, but if I'm gonna spend more money, I'd like to get exactly what I want. I haven't come across a 42" glossy OLED monitor yet. They always put some sort of BS Matte coating on the monitor versions of all the big OLED displays. 

 

That being said. I still love my CX and it's been going strong for a few years now with no issues. At work currently so I can't check but the last time I looked a couple months ago I was just shy of 2300 power on hours. Still no burn in. Haven't needed to or at least haven't been prompted to do a pixel clean. 

 

*Just checked and she's at 2481 power on hours. 

The 42" is amazing

Of course it's not the most "immersive" since it doesn't fill as much of your vision, but for watching anime and playing RPG's and slower-paced games, being able to see the whole screen without moving my head or relying on peripheral vision that is blocked by my glasses frames, it's amazing.

And being so small and 4k, the pixels are so bloody tiny and close together, you cannot tell where they start and where they end.  It even makes older GameCube titles look amazing.  I actually enjoy the GameCube version of Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles better when the Switch Remake on this screen.

Slightly Unfocused picture in dark with my phone:

On 15/12/2023 at 05:19, UltraMega said:

 

• Bill 29 Adoption: The National Assembly of Quebec unanimously adopted Bill 29, which targets planned obsolescence¹.
   
• Prohibitions & Protections: The bill prohibits the sale of goods with deliberately limited operating life and introduces an “anti-lemon” measure for seriously defective vehicles².
   
• Warranty & Repairs: It establishes a warranty of proper functioning for many new goods and ensures the availability of spare parts and repair services³.
   
• Universal Charger: The law will set standards for a universal charger compatible with all electronic devices⁴.
   

This legislation positions Quebec as a leader in consumer protection in North America⁵. Justice Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette highlighted Quebec’s pioneering role in legislating against planned obsolescence⁶.
 

All of those links are broken and lead to a bing chat bot.

I finally got my LG C3 42" installed, currently only on a 2.1 system in the nice dark basement, but kicks butt for gaming. Just waiting on an eventual RetroTink4k for the GameCube and my other old consoles.

Now I can finally start watching some of these videos

Oh man, I came in here just to give a shout-out to the their Twitter post acknowledging us: 

While I have my own opinions, hopefully we can put this behind us as a learning experience and keep working together on Folding@Home as a whole and continue increasing the interest of potential new Folders with future events on either side.
 

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I've just been busy with work and baby so have not had a chance to troubleshoot this further, something related to MySQL "LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE" statement used for the initial import each hour.

Some default settings of MySQL are preventing it form working versus the old MariaDB setup, or some user permission issue after the migration.

7 hours ago, bonami2 said:

I just ran DDU and reinstalled driver. I can confirm 8k 60fps hdr won't run on an amd 6800XT.  Going to try on my igp...

 

RUN FINE ON THE 13900k IGPU 

What Codec though?  A lot of the 8k videos posted here are AV1 which  couldn't get them to play on my 6700 XT either, so stuck with CPU decoding which my Ryzen 5800x wasn't enough for, but Intel iGPU Quick Sync have supported AV1 decode since I believe 11th gen.

All the the VP9 videos work fine on my 6700 XT though, but the AV1 10-buit videos did not in VLC.

I can't find a straight answer on AV1 support on RDNA 2, the UVD Wiki Page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Video_Decoder) claims that it should, but the VCN Wiki page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Core_Next) says that some RDNA2 can and some can't.

Thanks for all the folding power team, sorry about my mix-communication with @damric and @neurotix on the start day and the 24-hour delay.  In the future, it *should* run midnight to midnight over Saturday and Sunday UTC.

It also looks like my ETF 750 Ti is no longer enough to get enough work units, might be time to look to adding another small GPU in to the fray, but I have no spare PCIe slots right now.

I do have an old Haswell mATX board that I could slot a GPU in to, but normally I only power up new computers if they will serve an alternate purpose as well...

So um... Yeah, damric changed May to start beginning of Friday at Midnight UTC instead of Saturday like the previous 2 and 3 day ones and my smooth brain didn't actually properly check the day of the week, so it basically started a full day late, Friday May 19th at 8 PM EST (Saturday May 20th Midnight UTC).

I have two Unraid servers at home in different rooms.

One is the Primary and has mostly flash storage and runs Plex.  On this server I have most of my media including downloaded shows/movies, 4k/8k demoes, rips of all our DVD's and BD's, and home videos and Photos.

The other is a secondary and has all spinning disks (mostly IronWolf drives at this point) and has a backup of all the media that can't be easily replaced.  So on the secondary I DON'T backup the 4k/8k demos, downloaded movies, and our DVD/BD backups since those are all easy to find again and instead I just keep a full Excel list of where I got all my media from and where it is stored.  I do backup all the downloaded shows since most of those I have gone through and painstakingly renamed and sorted and also re-ordered the audio and sub-title tracks and I don't want to have to do that again.

I then use Both OneDrive and Google Drive to backup all my home videos and photos, or the really hard to find movies/shows that I have and some handpicked 4k/8k demos for easy finding while on the go.

My Home Videos and Photos also get written to archive BD's twice a year.  In June I do a single disc of uncompressed files with just the new stuff since last June, then in December, I do a complete write with a compressed set of files sorted by 1 archive per year.  Then I give those BD's to my mom who lives a few hours away to store them with her picture albums.

On 12/05/2023 at 16:16, REPUBLICOFGAMER said:

Haha thanks ! Long time no talk! You’re still around folding huh ?

Yep, even though it's tiny numbers, I never stopped folding and started here as Editor helping get the Folding@Home section off the ground, and now have the wonderful help of  @damric, @bonami2, @Avacado and many others.

15 hours ago, REPUBLICOFGAMER said:

Logged on to OCN to see some big changes ! I wonder if anyone remembers me

 

 

I see some names I remember . 
 

Here’s some Hints ,

 

I was the team capt for Team 13 ….. I made some of the largest build threads on OCN , Team BBQ , PPD Police , the good old trash talking threads of folding@home 

 

as always , RIP to 

 

Hertz & Syrillan and anyone that might have passed that I don’t know about . 
 

 

Welcome to your our new home

ExtremeHW is 15th in Points Production  over the last 24 hours and that only includes a portion of the Foldathon points, that is awesome.  Even more awesome considering the small amount of users compared to a lot other teams up in the top 50.

1 minute ago, Minotaurtoo said:

ok.. this is a bit sappy, but I want to thank all the folders on here, even those who only do it when it's convenient, you never know what work unit might be the one to make a breakthrough.  My wife's had cancer (she's recovered fully) and she has had many other issues.  My dad, uncle and some of my cousins have Alzheimer's.  The research being done here is important to me.  I have missed a lot of folding time this year due to a few calamities in my life (storm damage, medical insurance/doctor changes, medical issues, shift changes and more).  I'm glad to be back and until it's too hot, I'll be folding off and on.  It's heartwarming to see that while I was gone, there were so many continuing the efforts.  

 

Thanks to all. 

We have a great community here and my fellow Folding Editors have been super helpful in keeping things going.

6 minutes ago, ENTERPRISE said:

Just for my education, the rest of the team stats I assume you scrape onto our Stats site backend to make our widget work, can the same scrape be done for the ranking ?

I just grab the large Team Stats Flat File from Stanford every hour which just has all the teams sorted by points and import that in to SQL.  

For the Team Rank to get filled, I would need to calculate the rank based on the current list of teams but I haven't dedicated any time figuring out if ther is a single SQL command that can fill in a column automatically based on another column, or just manually assign a rank after sorting the rows by points.

49 minutes ago, Avacado said:

@axipher

 

How frequently does the team ranking get checked within the widget? The points and WU total seem to be spot on, but the ranking is behind.

 

 

Right now, never.

It's a manual check by me that I keep forgetting to check or come up with a fix for it.

2 minutes ago, pioneerisloud said:

I'd also be happy to participate (obviously).  Can also submit my audio editing skills if needed (I don't know video editing but I can try).  I don't think I'd be any good at making the intro and outro screens, photoshop / creativity kinda edits.  But I could probably blend scenes together, cut out bad scenes if needed, things like that.

Previously we were audio only, the YouTube cut just got a single graphic edit with a bunch of images depicting the topics we ended up discussing and the date.

For the most part, we had about 6 Podcast hosts who would add to a single Google Doc all week, spend Sunday afternoon widdling out the bad quality ones and let each host add some of their commentary to the notes so we have a rough idea where everyone stands before we start discussing as well.

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We previously did then Sunday Nights EST and had guests on like Level1Tech Wendell.  Most of the hosts just had lots of other things come up in life and it died off.

I would be happy to be party of these again to discuss weekly tech topics, especially ones that didn't get lots of coverage, or are hot topics on our own forum.