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Krakkles posted:One of these days I'll actually undock instead of just logging in, queueing up skills, and talking poo poo in local for five minutes. I usually play with the aussies Join Delta Sqad and come shoot stuff 
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shy boy from chess club posted:Looking at SSDs for the music gently caress around computer. Are there any to avoid or look for brand-wise? It'll probably be 5g-1t. I just ordered 8g of ram for it today so it should run pretty good soon. I just got done putting a fresh Win7 on it. if it's just for music it basically don't matter as long as it's reasonably reputable. M.2 or 2.5" form factor, or don't care?
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:if it's just for music it basically don't matter as long as it's reasonably reputable. M.2 or 2.5" form factor, or don't care? 2.5 since it has a 4 slot holder in there already. I may do some video on it too if it does alright when I try some editing on it if that matters on the HD speed. From what I saw they were like 400-500mb/s no matter what brand and I'm not a power user or anything so I could probably just get the best size/price.
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Darchangel posted:This. That's the only problems I have with it. I kind of like the fake pop ups. I like pop ups to an unhealthy degree and it's a shame that they wouldn't actually move, but if they can manage the safety stuff and have that distinctive profile, that makes it fine in my book Hell, it can even keep the obnoxious mouth size if it's not protruding out like that. Such a bizarre design choice... Maybe the fish lips are a way to work around the pedestrian safety rules and allow them to put in the fake pop ups?
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shy boy from chess club posted:2.5 since it has a 4 slot holder in there already. I may do some video on it too if it does alright when I try some editing on it if that matters on the HD speed. From what I saw they were like 400-500mb/s no matter what brand and I'm not a power user or anything so I could probably just get the best size/price. Crucial MX500 is fairly standard rec for around $100/1TB. It has a SLC cache so it performs better than the BX500, especially as the drive fills up. The BX500 is about ten bucks cheaper, though, if you're really tight on cash. KYOON GRIFFEY JR fucked around with this message at 23:25 on Mar 10, 2021 |
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Mar 10, 2021 23:19
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:Crucial MX500 is fairly standard rec for around $100/1TB. It has a SLC cache so it performs better than the BX500, especially as the drive fills up. The BX500 is about ten bucks cheaper, though, if you're really tight on cash. Thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for but I've been out of computer building for so long I don't know the specific questions anymore. I've got a few more I'm going to be getting going again soon though.
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Mar 10, 2021 23:32
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Why are you still running Win7? It's not supported at all now.
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Mar 11, 2021 00:27
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I have a legit copy of it and that computer won't be online anyway
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Mar 11, 2021 00:33
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Wrar posted:Why are you still running Win7? It's not supported at all now. It doesnt BSOD when you print like what Win10 Update March 2021 does.
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Yea I prefer Win7 over all the newer ones. I actually bought it so Id have an OS any time I needed one with no key bs
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:It doesnt BSOD when you print like what Win10 Update March 2021 does. To be fair all OSes poo poo itself when it comes to printing. Then we took that horrible 2d experience and added a third dimension. shy boy from chess club posted:Yea I prefer Win7 over all the newer ones. I actually bought it so Id have an OS any time I needed one with no key bs Shits all embedded in the bios with IvyBridge and newer.
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shy boy from chess club posted:I have a legit copy of it and that computer won't be online anyway Y'all know you can activate Windows 10 with a Windows 7 key, right?
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:sorry to hear bout your relationship but for this you should come join us in the negotiation thread. Hell yeah thanks for linking me. I’m in Austin now. I forgot how many hot people live here god drat haha.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:It doesnt BSOD when you print like what Win10 Update March 2021 does. Throw salt over your shoulder before sending the print job.
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Mar 11, 2021 02:39
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There's a job posting on Indeed for a driving instructor job that pays for the training and the wage is a modest increase from what I make now. How bad could it be?
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Mar 11, 2021 02:48
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In 2021 that I can’t just pick my wifi printer when I bring my work Surface home to send a simple PDF to without downloading the freaking HP smart bullshit is beyond infuriating. I’m on the locked same network I have the printer password i set print you miserable piece of crap
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Fermented Tinal posted:There's a job posting on Indeed for a driving instructor job that pays for the training and the wage is a modest increase from what I make now. Do it for the posts.
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FAT32 SHAMER posted:who would have known that like 9 years later i would be back to playing eve online like an idiot and shitposting in AI again A few goons keep wanting me to come back, found my etched zippo lighter the other day.
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everdave posted:In 2021 that I can’t just pick my wifi printer when I bring my work Surface home to send a simple PDF to without downloading the freaking HP smart bullshit is beyond infuriating. I’m on the locked same network I have the printer password i set print you miserable piece of crap Thhhhaaatt doesn't sound correct. You should at the very least be able to add a printer by tcp/ip address and then put in the ip that the printer has your network. Although these days there are the new fangled wps connections for printers instead of tcp/ip but I don't them in a corporate environment. For home it may be the way to go but you got a work machine so no idea what sort of GPO's it may have on it.
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What do you guys recommend for tax software? The free poo poo is being, so far, poo poo, claiming that we owe more that we did last year, even after adjusting our W2 to account for my daughter no longer being under 18. Owed $1400 last year, $2k this year. AND we would have to pay an “underpayment” penalty. Only the US loving government would have all the information necessary to make these decisions, make the directions and that information as obtuse as possible, then penalize you for them not jus doing this poo poo automatically. What a loving racket. Uh. /rant. Sorry. Wife decided to do taxes after I’d already had a long busy day. Thanks, hun.
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Mar 11, 2021 03:45
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It's beyond insane, one of the guys I work with, him and his wife both work for the Federal Government, and cannot adjust their witholdings and owe $11k in taxes somehow. Somehow this never happens to the Rich.
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Mar 11, 2021 04:19
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Elviscat posted:
No because they're exempt from taxation. Taxes are for poor people.
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Darchangel posted:What do you guys recommend for tax software? The free poo poo is being, so far, poo poo, claiming that we owe more that we did last year, even after adjusting our W2 to account for my daughter no longer being under 18. Owed $1400 last year, $2k this year. AND we would have to pay an “underpayment” penalty. Only the US loving government would have all the information necessary to make these decisions, make the directions and that information as obtuse as possible, then penalize you for them not jus doing this poo poo automatically. What a loving racket. I liked (well as much as one can like taxes) using Turbotax over the last 10 or so years. This year I'm having the CPA we use for the business also do our personal return but I'm assuming turbotax is still decent.
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Darchangel posted:What do you guys recommend for tax software? I went with CreditKarma this year, thinking I was going to tell Intuit to go gently caress themselves - turns out Intuit owns CK. But, at least I didn't pay them a loving cent to file, including e-filing state. I checked it against actual TurboTax and the results were identical. TurboTax is definitely a bit more 'friendly' but it actually takes longer because of all the questionnaires it wants you to go through even if there's no way they could actually apply to your situation.
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Dentist visit went well enough. My hands hurt from clenching the chair but that's just my whole fear/hate of dentists in general. Gonna cost about $450 out of pocket to fix everything which is nothing considering my last round of repairs was $3000 due to no insurance. I'm genuinely curious what life without pain is like.
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Congrats! My dentists trips are mild usually, one root canal was the only thing done. And still I find myself having to release tension every 5-10 minutes in the chair. Three different hygienists have cleaned my teeth twice a year for the past decade. I know how it works. I have no cavities. It doesn't hurt. Yet I slowly clench my whole back and core in the most comfortable chair ever.
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The hygienist was super chill but I was still tense as hell. Three tiny cavities clustered on the upper right and they're going to fully replace my chipped filling. Next Wednesday, I'm anxious but really looking forward to this being in my rear view.
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2nd vaccine status: knocked on my rear end. I have no loving energy and very limited use of my left arm.  shy boy from chess club posted:Yea I prefer Win7 over all the newer ones. I actually bought it so Id have an OS any time I needed one with no key bs Once you install it, if you WANT to get a legit Win10 key, you can still download Win10 from Microsoft and do an upgrade in place. After that, your Win7 key will work with Win10. https://www.zdnet.com/article/heres-how-you-can-still-get-a-free-windows-10-upgrade/ Coredump posted:Thhhhaaatt doesn't sound correct. You should at the very least be able to add a printer by tcp/ip address and then put in the ip that the printer has your network. Although these days there are the new fangled wps connections for printers instead of tcp/ip but I don't them in a corporate environment. For home it may be the way to go but you got a work machine so no idea what sort of GPO's it may have on it. With my Brother, I just typed in the wifi password on the touchscreen, then clicked "add printer" in Windows. Boom. On Brothers without a touchscreen, you have to download their wireless config software first, then plug it into the PC. You configure the wireless that way, then unplug it, click add printer, remove the one it added when you hooked it up via USB, done. IOwnCalculus posted:I went with CreditKarma this year, thinking I was going to tell Intuit to go gently caress themselves - turns out Intuit owns CK. But, at least I didn't pay them a loving cent to file, including e-filing state. I still occasionally do Uber Eats runs. So long as my Uber account is active, I can use TurboTax Self Employed for free (which also covers all the Deluxe stuff, like 401ks, investments, etc). Thanks Scruber.
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STR posted:2nd vaccine status: knocked on my rear end. I have no loving energy and very limited use of my left arm. I'm surprised you have energy to post tbqh. E: not to be snarky, I was asleep on and on for the last 24 of the 36 hours after I got my shot, and my head hurt too bad to read SA.
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New dads: how hosed is your back? I've been having realllly bad stiffness and tightness in my low back from what I can only assume is lugging around a 24lb baby all day, car seating him, playing on the floor with him... either way, by the end of the day my back is done, only thing that kinda helps is a hot shower. I've been going to the same chiropractor for years - don't know how everyone feels about them but I think its helpful because its a deep massage and some intense assisted stretching - The doc I had was really helpful, genuinely interesting guy and just generally enjoyable to talk to. before Covid I'd usually see him 3-5x per year - Called to see how appointments were working with covid and as soon as I mentioned his name, I was transferred to another Dr. in the practice who gave me the news that my Dr. had passed away in December after a battle with cancer. Really threw off my day and made me sad - I got an appt with the other Dr and while he was good, he didn't have the same charisma and good conversation I had with the other guy. In other news, I found a pretty cool job I want to go for, went to apply, and quickly realized I haven't had to give a resume or show a portfolio in about 5 years, its all been reference and I've never had to look far for a job - I started updating it and realized that doing these is really loving difficult, and in reviewing mine from 5 years ago, man it needs work and having been on the other side of resumes and portfolios, I feel I probably wouldn't hire me either. I worked in the event industry, which has obviously been hit very very hard by the events of last year. Pretty much every contact I had has been laid off, fired or the entire events department of some of these companies completely shut down, so its kinda like starting from scratch. I've been lucky enough to get other little jobs that are design related that have kept me afloat, but nowhere near the income I had been used to making, but the fact that I'm not alone in this gives me some kind of hope. I spoke with several colleagues today that are actually in the middle of doing exactly what I'm doing right now and my dumb rear end goes and buys another car with money I really shouldn't spend.
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LobsterboyX posted:and my dumb rear end goes and buys another car with money I really shouldn't spend. AI.txt
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LobsterboyX posted:New dads: how hosed is your back? I've been having realllly bad stiffness and tightness in my low back from what I can only assume is lugging around a 24lb baby all day, car seating him, playing on the floor with him... either way, by the end of the day my back is done, only thing that kinda helps is a hot shower. Backs are stupid things. My story was going to a Chiro for my pain for months and it would stop pain a little bit but always returned just in time for the fortnightly appointment. I had to skip appointments to help with getting Grandma sorted in her new old folks home and bada-bing my back no longer hurt at all. I have been poo poo nearly 2 years now with no problems. I would go to a real back doctor and get scans/xrays and find the source, not treat the problem.
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LobsterboyX posted:New dads: how hosed is your back? I've been having realllly bad stiffness and tightness in my low back from what I can only assume is lugging around a 24lb baby all day, car seating him, playing on the floor with him... either way, by the end of the day my back is done, only thing that kinda helps is a hot shower.
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Sometimes the smallest thing is a boost. Had a goon I don't know or have interacted with send me some compliments in PM regarding some of my retro-gaming effort posts.
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Dad-back is definitely A Thing, but don’t take it for granted, because you’re spending time with the kiddo. The worst was when my younger son was 9 months old and I’d just broken my pelvis so I couldn’t carry him around or play with him for like a year. In some ways I think it affected our relationship negatively as we didn’t bond the same way as I did with my older son. There are other issues like his difficulties in getting his thoughts out loud easily and my general curmudgeon-ness, but I can’t help to think that if we’d had better time together at his young influential age, it might have been easier to get to a normalized point. In short, relish the time you’re spending with the kids but definitely take a break/ibuprofen if you can, and maybe try an inversion table for a big stretch?
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Got heating and hot water back, no gas hob until I get a new one, persistent leak even when off and I know they're basically unserviceable. So I get to shop for a new hob, might as well get a slightly bigger one as we've often discussed, oh looks like that cupboard will have to come out, leaving the tiling a mess, the worktop will need butchering too... So I'm going to have to do a hack job in order to get the kitchen back in a reasonable time. Awesome.
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I did a bit of bicycle-related DIY, since I do 99% of my grocery shopping by bike these days. This surplus Russian medic's shoulder bag had been sitting in my closet for a while, after I replaced it with a soft-sided shoulder bag that's larger and more comfortable as a shoulder bag.  The medic's bag has a stiff front and back, and is made from super sturdy cotton canvas, so it's a really good starting point for mounting various fastening hardware. There are a bunch of them for around $40-50 on Etsy and various surplus sites, probably a lot cheaper if you find them in a random brick'n'mortar surplus store. My 14" Thinkpad fits perfectly inside, so I'll also be using it when biking to work, once the pandemic is over. I already had some webbing scraps laying around from a worn-out backpack, plus some elastic cord left over from repairing the elastic in an old jacket. The only components I had to buy were the tarp hooks. The end result is pretty good, I had enough webbing to anchor the elastic cord and have a nice carrying handle. The bottom ring slips over a hook on the bottom of the pannier rack and the heatshrinked tarp hooks sit snugly over the top.  I have another identical bag on the way from a Russian seller on Etsy, so I'll have two identical pannier bags 
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re tax software although Free Tax USA sounds like some sort of Cato-adjacent PAC it is actually good, free, and not affiliated with Intuit. you do have to pay 13 bucks to file state, though. There's also a tax thread in BFC that is generally useful.
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TOYOTA AIRBAG POLICE caught me the other day. Found this under the wiper: Just dropped it off at the dealer. Surprisingly they have the airbag in stock, didn't have to order it. Should be ready around closing time. The look when they saw the odometer (96k), then looked at the paint, then at the odometer again.... they asked if I wanted a complimentary car wash and detail, my answer was "no, I'd like to keep what little paint is left". There's no clear coat left on it except on the body panels repainted/replaced after it wound up as the spit roast in a 3 way wreck years ago (airbags didn't pop when that happened), roof is slowly turning into bare metal. I should probably just sand and spray paint the roof at some point to keep it from rusting. Elviscat posted:I'm surprised you have energy to post tbqh. I've been sleeping off and on (mostly on.. even fell asleep on the patio yesterday). There's a lot of stuff online about avoiding NSAIDs following a COVID vaccine (the science is still TBD, AFAIK), but I took one ibuprofin last night to deal with the injection site pain. I'm about to go pick up some acetaminophen (which is not considered an NSAID) and a few frozen meals. Having to wear sunglasses even sitting at my desk with the lights off and blinds open just enough to keep the cats from loving with them. And the dude that drove me back from the Toyota dealer was pretty chatty. I'm usually fine with that unless my head hurts, but at least he was cute, so I was willing to put up with him for the 10 minute drive. 
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