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You're posting some very classy music, Jan. I'll have to listen to all this soon. I mostly listen to metal, trance (which your generation can't stand generally lol) and older 80s and 90s rap. I also listen to and enjoy classical but am not very well versed in it. I like Vivaldi Four Seasons and Dvorak New World symphony. I just finished listening to Pink Floyd "Wish You Were Here", whole album, on my retro stereo with my ma. The only genre I can't get into and generally can't stand is country, the exception being I love Johnny Cash (but I heard he qualifies more as rock than country). Thank you for posting these so an entitled millennial can expand his musical taste, lol.

Hi @J7SC_Orion. Thank you for your very encouraging, very thoughtful post full of suggestions. I am so sorry it has taken me this long to reply to it. I saw my doctor yesterday and got my Tylenol #3 refilled, as well as an increase in the dose of gabapentin, since I was on hydrocodone following a procedure and they had dropped me down to one 5mg a day that I had to split. I was previously on tylenol #3 before the procedure. I also recently saw a hip doctor as I have bad hip pain, especially sitting. Initially, they wanted to do a hip femoacetabular surgery to the left hip first, then the right. However, I had the left hip MRI'ed (and thankfully my insurance approved it without 6 weeks of physical therapy) and they basically said I have moderate arthritis in the joint and that this would prevent me from getting the femoacetabular surgery. Interestingly, there is no torn labrum of the left hip anymore, which showed up on previous MRIs, and they said it could have healed on it's own. Anyway, what ended up happening is they injected me with 40mg of kenalog in both hips with a 3 inch needle. It was not fun to have done and I am very sore, even as I sit at my PC and type this out. This was on Tuesday that they injected me, but I am very sensitive to injections and having had steroid in the past, it makes me very sore for a week before I get relief. Finally, I was told I need a hip replacement and they don't want to do it because "I'm young" (38, I don't feel young) and would like to delay it for as long as possible and give me steroid injections every 3 months instead. However, we got a referal to the doc there that does hip replacements and I kind of just want to get it done and over with. The replacement lasts around 20 years and then needs to be removed and put back in and I'll be 58 then and actually old. Anyway, I've been keeping myself busy and hanging in there but have needed a lot of medication to deal with how bad my hips hurt from those injections. I will get relief in due time, and if I don't, then that would be a green light to proceed with the hip replacement. Now to address your post. We tried looking for the "Thrive" gum you mentioned, and my mom (who was a nurse for 20 years) said it seems to be the same as the regular generic nicotine gum I already have. Also, it is not available in the US, however we can import it from Canada on ebay. I am wondering if there is something different/special about it that generic nicotine gum does not have, like does it burn the back of your throat or something? If I get a hip replacement, I will probably be forced to quit. It's like $10 + shipping for 36 ct Thrive gum, so let me know if its different than the regular stuff. Regarding pregabalin- I have been on this in the past and it was not effective for me. as I said I am on gabapentin and it helps, and the dose was just increased from 1200mg to 1600mg daily. It is literally hell to go without this med as I will have increased neck, low back and hip pain as well as pain all down the back of my arms and legs, and random stabbing pains throughout my body. I was off it for a year from 2020 to mid 2021 and the pain daily got to be so severe (fibromyalgia) that I had no choice but to ask my PCP to put me back on gabapentin. Regarding exercise, any type of exercise, even just cleaning our master bedroom and bathroom (vacuuming, dusting, lysol wipes on the toilet and sink, Screen Mom and a microfiber cloth on the mirror, etc) puts me in really bad pain. I used to study martial arts, I still have an 80 lbs. heavy bag hung up, I have a weight bench, I have some folding mats to put down on the floor to do Yoga or Qigong (like Tai Chi) on, but I don't do any of it because it just puts me in horrific pain the next day. Walking is also difficult and what with injections and back surgeries and so forth I have not done that, though my wife and I went on a long walk the other day and I tolerated it well (this was before the hip injections). But yes, she gets no exercise either and taking daily walks has been discussed though it is supposed to be in the teens next week and frigid cold like that is really bad for fibro. I should stop making excuses and just get out there and do it, I need to lose weight. Anyway, that's my update and my response. Please let me know about the Thrive gum thing and if it's different than generic nic gum.

Theres 5 actually but thanks.

Can you do the embroidered black hat design with the text on the flat bill hat in black? I'd buy that for a dollar.

Claim your prizes guys!

Alright, I have winners for my prizes: @beelzebub-django- keyboard @firedfly - mousepad (Flux won it but didn't want it, your name came up on the Wheel of names) @Avacado- yate loon fan @Cerberus- delta fan (damric won it but passed to you) Please pm me with your shipping address and we will get these shipped out.

You mean the designs I came up with... And Flux did one cuz they're a lazy girl

Just a moment... WWW.OVERCLOCK.NET Hopefully if that link works, it was my documentation on OCN of building the GMMK and should give you a few reference points or a visual idea on what to do.

Lol @Fluxmaven I see your PONPONPON and raise you one Glico ice no mi commercial.

Those look great but one is missing: the logo with gradient icons on a white shirt. (Let me know if it wasn't in the high res art i sent but I'm pretty sure I included it) If you could add that one and edit the post that would be great. Thanks and good working with you privately.

It's kawaii

Hell no. Lol

Just for @Fluxmavengamer girl.

92m, glad I run Linux and OC on it.

Other hobby is art. One of many. I am also interested in meditation, yoga, basketball, qigong (like tai chi), hiking, East Asian philosophy, martial arts (I did Wing Chun Kung Fu), tea, Linux, retro gaming and collecting, learning Japanese, anime and probably other stuff I'm forgetting. Most of the physical hobbies I can't do anymore, so I'll just post my art:

Hence why I've sent everything to both of you in zips.

Sure, I will test this out after the foldathon and let it run at stock mem for like 2 days and report my results here. Then I will have to OC my core high despite the clock dropping to 2000mhz thing and leave that for a few days to see if it affects ppd negatively or positively. My card is capable of more on the core, including in benches in Windows, but I am voltage limited. Anything over 3100MHz gives artifacts in Fire Strike etc. I think if I could add more than 1.1v the chip is capable of more.

Of course. And I am more than willing to pay for shipping and knew that when I offered prizes. Also, I never said nor was I trying to infer that anyone expects me to offer prizes every foldathon. I am actually happy to get rid of them as everything I offered is just sitting unused and I failed in selling them on ebay, I just wish we didn't have to pay shipping, that's all. Hopefully the things I offered get put to good use instead of sitting in my personal storage taking up space (I have tons of game consoles and tech stuff and boxes for pc parts and other stuff back there)

Yeah it just updated and is showing what I would expect after 12 hours. I answered my own question lol. Though I do wonder if they are having server issues or something as I said the page frequently fails to load when I refresh it and only in the last 3 days or so. I can OC my ram to 12210MHz and stock is something like 10500. I will test with and without but given the price and rarity of the card, less strain on it is fine with me. Unfortunately if I overclock the core more than 2900MHz, then in my OC tool in Linux I will see the core dropping to around 2000MHz then going back up to 2925MHz for a while then dropping down. Currently I have it at 2855MHz and it doesn't drop down at all. I am wondering if it is a voltage issue, neither GreenWithEnvy nor Nvidia X Settings seem to have voltage control in Linux. Obviously I do in Windows and I can OC it to 3090MHz there. I suppose I should look into if I can control voltage in a terminal using nvidia-smi or any other utilities. I've heard there is minimal gain to be had in overclocking the 4090 to begin with, so maybe I should leave it as is, it is still actually doing 30 mil a day as per this: https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=1311203 Once the foldathon is over, I will fold for a day with mem at stock and see if I get the same PPD over a day or two. Thanks.

My first time doing a foldathon and it's been fun to see my output and everyone else's charted. I never did them on OCN, despite folding like 4000 WUs over 10 years. My only problem is that since I offered up prizes, I have to ship them and I assume pay for shipping. We can afford it no problem (duh I have a 4090), but I am concurrently selling things on ebay and already going and shipping those things out. Well actually I ride with my wife and she handles it while I sit in the car and chain smoke at the Post Office. It wouldn't be fair at all to ask someone who won a prize to pay shipping for it, but this will probably be a one-time thing.

Does anyone know what's up with folding.extremeoverclocking.com? Half the time the page doesn't load and I get a 404 error. Also, it doesn't seem to be showing accurate stats currently for me, it says I've only done 11 WUs today since Midnight and it takes my card about 45 min to complete an 18601 so I know I've done more than that in 12 hours. How often does that site update? At this point in the day I generally have 15m points but it's only showing 10m. I even went into /var/lib/fahclient/log.txt and looked through it because I thought maybe something was wrong and I was failing WUs, especially with my high GPU RAM OC but everything appears normal and I see no failed units. Edit: Nevermind maybe? I just looked at my hourly production and it appears folding.extremeoverclocking.com updates every 3 hours??

A few posts back I posted to PC Sarge (in a very long post) about taking apart my GMMK and using thin crafters foam to pack the hollow areas of the case with, as well as putting this foam on the front of the pcb between the space bar stabs and using double sided tape to keep it in place. Go read it, and then you might want to consider doing it to get rid of any metal clang sound from your board. It worked great for my GMMK, and it made it heavier so it wouldn't slip around as much and when you lift it it doesn't feel hollow or cheap.

Thanks!

Any other artists on EHW? Traditional or digital, doesn't matter. What mediums do you work in? I'll start: Tiger Lilies Abstract lines Chu Chu Rocket and Bomberman Tupac I literally just finished. For my sister. Ray Allen, Milwaukee Bucks player Assassin Cross from Ragnarok Online Peonies