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2x Moderna, then Pfizer booster yesterday. I definitely felt the 2nd Moderna (tho not too bad), but the pfizer booster was just a slightly sore arm the next day. No blah feeling. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1GlFlMfszc&t=10s
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tinned owl posted:Wife and I had moderna boosters today, she had hers at 10:00 and said it was amazingly quick so when I had mine at 14:00 I timed it, walking in to walking out the building was literally sub-3 minutes There’s a lot of lovely things to be said about the whole ‘rona fiasco, but the industrial scale testing and vaxxing operations are a joy to behold.
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I got a Moderna boster jab last week just had a sore arm from it no extra sickness like the first shots.
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mariooncrack posted:STR, you can get a windows 10 key for cheap on SA Mart if needed. It came with physical media and a key, something I haven't seen in ages. Apparently me shoving a video card in and changing a few BIOS settings is what pissed it off - was able to reactivate it, though it took calling their automated system. I have a couple of legit Win10 keys, though I'd have to jump through hoops to get one activated on this system, since they're still tied to dead PCs (one of which was tied to a legally purchased Win7 key). ryanrs posted:I'm looking forward to the day when computers have a similar lifespan to cars. So a 15 year old computer wouldn't be the greatest or whatever, but it would be perfectly fine as a daily driver. The computer industry isn't there yet, but it's getting closer. Honestly, the only real gains I'm noticing here are having M.2 slots, and DDR4 RAM. The CPU I had was more than adequate. I also have USB C now, though I don't have anything that would use it. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 23:10 on Dec 19, 2021 |
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ryanrs posted:I'm looking forward to the day when computers have a similar lifespan to cars. So a 15 year old computer wouldn't be the greatest or whatever, but it would be perfectly fine as a daily driver. The computer industry isn't there yet, but it's getting closer. My 2012 i7 MacBook pro has had a new battery and the spinning rust relegated to bulk storage (iTunes library etc) and the optical replaced with an SSD for the OS and apps, and it's still more than fine for a daily driver. It's had a hard 10 years so far too, literally used every day. I was drat happy with my 6S too that lasted me 6 years with only a new battery and is still in use for my sisters business. Yeah, not 15 yet, but still pretty good. bolind posted:There’s a lot of lovely things to be said about the whole ‘rona fiasco, but the industrial scale testing and vaxxing operations are a joy to behold. Yeah even here (NZ) where our "industrial" scale is much smaller, I've still been really impressed with the organisation, especially when a lot of the facilities I've used are run by fairly small community orgs. I've got 2 or 3 places I can get a test or jab within a 5 min drive, probably two dozen or more within 10mins, from pharmacies or GP's to large scale operations in empty big box stores or community buildings.
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I have an 11 year old Mac desktop that I maxed out with datacenter pulls a few years ago. So now it has 2 sockets of 6-core Westmere Xeons at 3.46 GHz and 96 GB of RAM (total cost $500). Anyway, I'm mad because Apple ended support for it, so now I have to hack it or something. Or spend over $5k for a new machine that might even be slower.
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my main computer is a day-of-release 2500k, and my newest laptop is a 2010 macbook. its fine. eventually ill upgrade both, but parts prices are way too insane right now for it to make sense anytime they feel slow, i try browsing the modern web on a 20yo G4, then after i go back to my 10yo computers they feel lightning fast again
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I used my I5-2500 (no K, the OG!) up until mid-last-year, and my 2015 13" MBP until about a month ago. Both were totally fine workhorses but holy poo poo does a Ryzen 7 and the new 14" MBP blow them out of the water. Especially the MBP, running Quicken and the Windows versions of Office on Win11 ARM + Parallels feels drat-near native when using Coherence mode - The M1's performance is really incredible, and I love not needing to use the horror-show that is Office for Mac.
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I have an M1 MBP and it is pretty amazing what they did with it. Everyone who complained it only had 16GB of RAM is missing that even with a billion chrome tabs open it is fast unlike the intel based ones that just started swapping and ran like poo poo.
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meltie posted:Nice one Freelop! Had mine this week too; it was again a 36-hour "hangover" afterwards, just like shot #2 was, then I was fine. Lol, I had mine on Tuesday PM and my side effects then developed into actual covid symptoms by Saturday (I had a positive PCR test today) I now have a delightful and variable combo of lovely flu fevers and annoying cold symptoms and am tired and my head hurts. I am hoping the delightful viral threeway currently going down in my body gives me some superimmunity to make up for the awesome timing and means that it gets no worse than this!
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Raluek posted:my main computer is a day-of-release 2500k, and my newest laptop is a 2010 macbook. its fine. eventually ill upgrade both, but parts prices are way too insane right now for it to make sense I still say a Sandy Bridge i5/i7 is is enough for most people. Throw a good SSD and 16GB of RAM at it, and you have a computer that keeps up with a lot of today's stuff (hell, runs circles around a lot of cheaper stuff). For bonus points, slap a PCIe to M.2 card in and a M.2 SSD instead of SATA. The only real benefits I'm seeing from this new build so far are the memory bandwidth (not noticeable unless I'm gaming)and the M.2 SSD. And the much faster boot now that I'm on a UEFI system, though some Sandy Bridge boards were UEFI. I need to get off my rear end and see which spinning drives survived (if any - the video card surviving apparently unscathed gives me hope).
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the spyder posted:Spoiler - you're going to want a refund on 2022. People could give two fucks about taking this seriously. We're preparing for another year of hell in healthcare. Tomarse posted:Lol, I had mine on Tuesday PM and my side effects then developed into actual covid symptoms by Saturday (I had a positive PCR test today)
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STR posted:I still say a Sandy Bridge i5/i7 is is enough for most people. Throw a good SSD and 16GB of RAM at it, and you have a computer that keeps up with a lot of today's stuff (hell, runs circles around a lot of cheaper stuff). For bonus points, slap a PCIe to M.2 card in and a M.2 SSD instead of SATA. i did this, but since sandy only has pcie 2.0 it's not noticeably faster than sata
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I just finished remodeling my closet if you can call it that. Move everything out, clean, patch, primer, paint, put up a fancy closet system, put most of the stuff back in and create a pile for donations. Feels so nice. Took a lot of sweat though for such a small space. A lot of moving, a lot of moving back in and organizing. One day dedicated to prepping the space and another half day to filling it in. The side effect is now I feel super productive and motivated to do more! But that's all I had. My wife is now jealous and we get to plan her side out. Her side is 50% bigger. RIP a future weekend.
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Dec 20, 2021 04:01
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So I hear you want a toilet that can flush. Turns out this is a one-year only flush valve. Original to the house, 1961. Did I throw it out for a new Fluidbastard? Nop.  But wait, paper towels and hose clamps that can’t fix that. It’s what’s under.  Take some blister-pack plastic. Cut a strip.  give it some bend, slather in Gorilla glue, wrap the pipe, wrap it again with paper towel, hose clamp till set up. Toilet go flushy again.  I really love fixing dumb poo poo like this. Maybe it’ll go another 60 years now. Anyway, I don’t have anywhere else to post poo poo like this were it might be appreciated, so y’all get it.
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I’ve still got a 2600k and 3770K system kicking around. The 2600k was my main rig until last year when it got upgraded to a 3900x Ryzen (I needed more cores for video/photo/GIS work) and then got relegated to media PC duties until I got put on home detention from work and then the M1 Mac Mini got dropped into that spot cos it came home from work (work video editing rig) I’m still daily driving a 2012 MacBook Pro too- ivy bridge, 16GB of ram, optional high res display (not retina) and both spinning disks replaced with SSD’s. it’s still on the factory battery- only maintenance I’ve had to do to it is redo the thermal compound about a year ago with Noctua and other than that it’s rock solid. I MIGHT upgrade to a new M1 pro one down the track, but that will only be if the 2012 dies
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My launch i5 2500k is still trucking along doing media duties. It’s stock clocked now but was at 4.8ghz for years. Amazing chips all around. What amazes me is the reference R9 290x and the now 8 year old AIO cooler I zip tied to it are still working perfectly. It hasn’t been shut off for more than a few months in that 8 years, I wonder what the fluid inside it or the water pump bearings look like at this point.
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trouser chili posted:So I hear you want a toilet that can flush. That’s amazing. Would love to see the face of whomever unwraps that in a couple of decades.
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I'm still using a Phenom II X6 1100T as my primary PC. It started out around 2012 as an X2 555 with 4GB RAM, a Geforce GTX 460 and conventional HDDs. I found a cheap 1100T on eBay a long while ago and upgraded, plus added a gigantic Scythe cooler. At various points it also got upgraded to an SSD and a Radeon RX560, and a week ago I upgraded from 16GB RAM to 32GB, because a local PC shop had some DDR3 sticks on sale that would fit under the CPU heatsink. I don't play any AAA games, and it keeps up well with everything I do, and I fully intend to keep it running for as long as possible. My other PC is a Thinkpad X220i, so I'm used to not having the latest and greatest 
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At least with a phenom you’ll save on heating bills over the winter! I had a phenom before the 2600k and I couldn’t use it in summer in Australia because it would kick my bedroom up to 30+ degrees without trying due to not having any AC
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Dec 20, 2021 10:06
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Currently sat waiting for a PCR test because I'm intending to escape the covid petri dish that is the UK. Was meant to go last year but my flight was cancelled 3 days before. My flight is tomorrow morning at 6am so I've still got time to get hosed over by covid regulations and a positive test (I've been exceptionally careful!) Place your bets, which is going to gently caress me?
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drat.... with my computer I'm so wanky I wanted RGB on the PSU... and a little dynamtic wattage OLED for reasons. Fun thing is I sold a GPU I bought for $850 for $1500 and then only $100 more and I have the new upgraded version.
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ran a 7700k for a while with 32gb, dug an old 2600k out of the back 40 with a dead bios, fixed it up, threw a water chiller at it and turned the wick up to 4.8. outside of memory and sata3 bandwidth it'd run just as well as the 7700k did. It was a pretty good cadbox at that clockspeed. daily is a ivy bridge x230 with a pile of modifications. I wanna do more to it but ugh, its starting to show its age. Buuuut it runs on all of about 10W of power from the wall. 2022 might be the year to build a x2100 or go M1.
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tinned owl posted:Wife and I had moderna boosters today, she had hers at 10:00 and said it was amazingly quick so when I had mine at 14:00 I timed it, walking in to walking out the building was literally sub-3 minutes gonna try to pop in and get mine today
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My wife is still running my ancient 2500k w/GTX780 as her primary personal computer. I suspect it will live until the heat death of the universe. Speaking of, fired up my old C64 the other day too. Worked like a champ. Didn't run it for long because I don't trust the original power supply. I think it is circa 1983? An old work 'friend" reached out to me through Linkedin. He was a manufacturer rep I saw 2-3 times a year for about 8 years. Nice enough guy, retired a few years back at around 60 years old. He used to be a bit of a bike and car guy, so we'd usually good conversations. Basically a mutual acquaintance passed away and he was asking me if I knew what happened, and was curious to updates with our office since he retired about 4-5 years ago. So I gave him a really brief reply (suicide without saying so much) and gave him an update, also a small bit of personal talk IE: Cars, motorcycles, etc. I gave him my personal email and suggested we move it off the linkedin messaging (we're not strangers). Few days later I get his email. First line of the email he tells me how his retirement was great and did all sorts of holidays.... but now he can't travel because *surprise* he's not vaxxed... yet. Then proceeded to give some normal updates about retirement life and wrapped up the email about the bible and end of times prophecies and how Biden is ruining the world. To be fair to the guy, he didn't make it his primary goal of communication, but yeah, thought it was important enough to mention to someone he hasn't communicated with in years.  I knew he went to church and of course I have no problem with that, it's a free country, and I suspect he's opening up because he's comfortable with me, but now I am debating even replying to the guy. If I do, I don't think I'll be nice. I'm past being "nice" and coddling the vaccine hesitant/antis, and why even mention Biden, we're 
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Galler posted:I used Tung oil for the first time recently and I'm now a fan. It's just so much less effort than most finishes. Boiled linseed oil, maybe? Isn't that designed for outside stuff? It did a nice job on some old barstools I had in the garage. s: f,b. everdave posted:I type a and my grandmothers email from the 90s pops up in gmail where I imported from yahoo…when you need an extra ounce of pain that day it’s great Yeah, I can't make myself delete my late father-in-law from my address book. Somewhat Heroic posted:Whomstever is in charge of titling the January Chat thread LobsterboyX has done the work for you. If this is not the title for the thread I will be Personally Offended. I'm 52 and my daughter just turned 20. The memes she watches on YouTube... (are the only reason I understand half of what they're talking about.) ryanrs posted:I'm looking forward to the day when computers have a similar lifespan to cars. So a 15 year old computer wouldn't be the greatest or whatever, but it would be perfectly fine as a daily driver. The computer industry isn't there yet, but it's getting closer. I'm currently using a 2013 MacBook Pro. I only upgraded from the 2012 model last year when Apple finally excluded that model from the current OS. Macs seem to remain viable for a lot longer than your average PC. Upgrading to an SSD, replacing the (dead) optical drive with a hard drive, and more RAM on the 2012 helped extend its lifespan. BuckyDoneGun posted:My 2012 i7 MacBook pro has had a new battery and the spinning rust relegated to bulk storage (iTunes library etc) and the optical replaced with an SSD for the OS and apps, and it's still more than fine for a daily driver. It's had a hard 10 years so far too, literally used every day. I was drat happy with my 6S too that lasted me 6 years with only a new battery and is still in use for my sisters business. Yeah, not 15 yet, but still pretty good. What's up old Mac buddy. The 2012 I replaced has been repurposed as my file server, so it's still doing work. I also have the last model of the big aluminum Mac Pro still operating. 4 hard drives, and either a quad core Xeon, or 2 of them. I honestly can't remember. Still chugging along running Windows 10. BigPaddy posted:I have an M1 MBP and it is pretty amazing what they did with it. Everyone who complained it only had 16GB of RAM is missing that even with a billion chrome tabs open it is fast unlike the intel based ones that just started swapping and ran like poo poo. The M1s are very impressive. They may actually get me to fork out for a new machine. I haven't bought a new Mac since my original LC3. I've used second-hand machines since that one. StormDrain posted:I just finished remodeling my closet if you can call it that. Move everything out, clean, patch, primer, paint, put up a fancy closet system, put most of the stuff back in and create a pile for donations. All that work for just a closet is why the paint and drywall company my wife works for only does commercial work. Houses have too many closets and odd spaces that take as much time to drywall as the rest of the house. Also, homeowners. Speaking of my wife, she and my daughter went and got boosted on Saturday, and of course felt like poo poo all weekend. But they hopefully won't die of a stupid pandemic. I gotta go get mine, now.
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slidebite posted:I knew he went to church and of course I have no problem with that, it's a free country, and I suspect he's opening up because he's comfortable with me, but now I am debating even replying to the guy. If I do, I don't think I'll be nice. I'm past being "nice" and coddling the vaccine hesitant/antis, and why even mention Biden, we're It's weird how other countries obsess over the US. I mean, I guess we're influential, but... I get it more with Canada, though - you're right next door, and sort of attached. Hell, we've got another bit attached to your left ear up there. You're surrounded!
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Hi guys! If I was vaxxed with the Moderna shot originally, is it really a good idea to get an alternate booster?
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I don't think it matters if you got an mRNA shot originally. If you had the J&J then you likely want either mRNA booster.
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BigPaddy posted:I don't think it matters if you got an mRNA shot originally. If you had the J&J then you likely want either mRNA booster. Okay excellent, thank you.
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I had J&J originally as did my partner her doctor recommended her getting the Moderna booster so I just did the same.
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I got Moderna for the first two shots. No reaction to the first. The second made my arm hurt like no shot I've had before. I got a Pfizer booster because that was the only flavor they had at the hospital (I was there for a doctor visit). I barely even felt the shot going into my arm but it also hurt pretty bad the following two days. Our little almost-five-year-old wants a "makeup table" for Christmas. My wife found an old example with very beat up paint. I took it apart. My wife sanded all the flat parts. I put the round legs in my wood lathe and turned them to sand the old paint off. I reassembled it and painted it yesterday. The top needs to be sanded, shot again with color, and then cleared. Our daughter picked the paint. She has seen the vanity, but we have told her it is going to be my new computer desk. 
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It will never not amuse me the number of people who own cars as toys and don’t have even basic mechanical knowledge. Guy in a local Facebook group is asking if he needs to get a car towed as it won’t turn over after sitting for 6 months. I want to tell them to take the battery out and have it tested as it is likely super dead and throw a new one on it but I know the response will be something dumb like they don’t know enough about cars to try and fix it.
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Going on from that, the winter tyre problem: https://twitter.com/TamerlaneBlog/status/1473000750770888704?t=tSz9RhpL8ATXacOeUBPRBw&s=19
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KozmoNaut posted:I'm still using a Phenom II haha holy poo poo. I'm not one to talk... I'm using an AMD FX9590 220W TDP. I used to have two R9-290x graphics cards, but now I'm just down to one watercooled one. Yes, I have a 1000w Platinum power supply. Yes, I do need it.
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PBCrunch posted:I got Moderna for the first two shots. No reaction to the first. The second made my arm hurt like no shot I've had before. I got a Pfizer booster because that was the only flavor they had at the hospital (I was there for a doctor visit). I barely even felt the shot going into my arm but it also hurt pretty bad the following two days. That’s super cool.
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Stop hesitating and just do it, this is the future and it's great. Did I mention the battery life, even running poo poo in Windows VMs through the x86 translation layer, is spectacular? Between this thing and the iPhone 12 mini I enjoy computering again for the first time in a long loving time.
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