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00:38
@Bob, the deed is done; posted on Meta. Feel free to edit.
 
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02:04
...clearly, ASUS has been busy making sure that older boards going back to X370 will take these new processors \o/
 
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04:00
> (Spoiler alert: Navi is even more power-efficient than Nvidia’s Turing architecture, a monumental reversal of the norm with GCN.)
You can't possibly be serious.
And I thought Navi was going to be a disaster.
It is true that AMD has a process advantage over NVIDIA...
The fairy from one of the Zelda games?
I think the hayfever/cold mucus may have gotten into my brain
It's running very slowly
@JourneymanGeek So... wait for a better price? Can't tell if current offer is good :P
Oh, right it seems £299 is down from the £400 RRP
Yup. AMD made a last-minute price cut to compete against NVIDIA's new RTX 20 Super cards.
(I'm talking about the SL Omega 2020)
In case of cross-purposes
04:19
So... about the same level of performance as the RTX 2070 (85-115% overall, but with some games strongly favoring one card or the other under some or all conditions). TechPowerUp actually reports that AMD is still behind the NVIDIA solution, but it's only about a 10% disadvantage, rather than the massive delta we used to see.
I'm in disbelief that RTG actually managed to make a competitive graphics card for mainstream gamers after struggling for so long to compete with NVIDIA.
Hmm. Thermal throttling issues. That is odd...
@bertieb precisely
Its a very comfy chair though
04:39
Looks like there are some glitches and oddities with the drivers and VBIOS that still need to be sorted out. But first impressions are very positive.
At the end of the day, it is evident that AMD has succeeded in leveraging a process advantage over its competition. While none of the products launched today are without their weaknesses, it's refreshing to see that we now have robust competition against both Intel and NVIDIA.
 
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@JourneymanGeek Well, I do have back issues... might be a good thing to think about
Would you recommend any particular line? I'm neither particularly tall (not short) so Titan is probably out
Or hmm
Their sizing guide says from 175cm up
07:18
@allquixotic It's a matter of personal preference, but I've tried many keyboards with low key travel and they're just not my thing, y'know?
As one comment on HN said, it's like slamming my fingers into a slab of metal
08:02
morning
08:13
Whoa, I didn't know users had an option to continue conversation in chat automatically
That's neat!
09:02
@rahuldottech not many people use it though
09:18
i didn't know it was a thing either
it clearly isn't documented very well
 
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@bertieb I have an omega soft weave
Ah, the non-leather dealie?
Its excellent - and has slightly more flexibility that the throne
Yup
2 reasons
Religious reasons?
Leather is expensive, and against my ethics
Go on
Ah yes
I meant morality
But fair enough
11:09
and the fabric version breathes better than pleather
It's more expensive here, the fabric one
AFAICT
Which is a concern when one lives in the tropics. My plether chairs generally look like they have leporacy after a few years
Than the actual leather one?
0_0
the fake leather is fine if its not too warm
Oh, probably fake leather then
If you lived in the tropics, fabric is a no brainer
Also, the fake leather version has... batman
I very definitely don't live in the tropics ;-P
11:11
yup
Haha yea, I see those designs
Quite catchy
But 50 quid extra
Still, over the lifetime of the chair
Sorry, thirty quid
A worthwhile expenditure
Fake/PU leather is till made from animal hide though, is it not?
Or is that only some varieties?
nope
they're made of polyurathane with a cloth backing
Hmm
Maybe I'm thinking of bonded leather
SL claims theirs is better quality (its plausible - they do make car seats out of the stuff) but If I ever got another SL, it would probably be softweave too
Fair dos
The 'leather' chair I have (almost certainly fake/PU) has done me fine
Rarely gets warm or cold enough to be uncomfortable
In a car I'd go fabric though
If only because of greenhouse effect
My family had an old Volvo back in the day that had leather seats... they got real toasty sometimes ;-P
If I do opt for a SL chair, I may go PU Omega
for the add on designs
would cause delay in shipping though while they get moar stock
11:22
Oh
get help to assemble
I've done it solo but some parts of it are better with help, and one or two steps are slightly hazardous to fingers....
12:01
> if my working drive fail, i have the backup
if the backup drive fail, I have the working drive
hmmm
@CanadianLuke Anything you'd like to say?
 
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@JourneymanGeek like all good geeks you chew read the instructions?
@Burgi it's not my fault they're so large
13:28
probability of their cheap "white box" measuring device:
1. causing security issues,
2. doing MITM,
3. sending personal data to the government or verizon without my consent,
4. having stability or performance issues (bufferbloat, latency, crashes, packetloss, etc.)

... is about 100%
!!info
13:46
@allquixotic I think @Ave has one of those.... repurposed for other purposes.
And its probably literally a cheap potato router with modified firmware
 
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@rahuldottech thunderstorms are fun.
Ave
Ave
15:10
@JourneymanGeek it's a nanopi
it's fairly strong
Bob
Bob
15:28
actually, yea, it'd need to be decently powerful to measure gigabit speeds
@rahuldottech Thanks, I popped in and left a note for them
15:53
@bwDraco Aye competition is good
To bad I still do not get many choices for equivalent graphics cards or CPU.
One you semi choose a plantform or a model it it 'we support any modern graphics card as long as it is Nvisia' or similar
While I have a slight preference to AMD for more stable drivers, but your milage may vary with that
16:28
@bertieb I really need a good computer chair too
My back has been killing me
I'm going to get a good chair as soon as I'm done with upgrading my PC setup
So I can't get an SL omega here, but...
This should be good, maybe?
the reviews :D
Also that product page is missing an </em>, let's help 'em find it
16:48
@djsmiley2k yeah :)
It's costly, and it'll take a chink out of my saving but honestly I don't want to compromise when it comes to my health at all
No nearby place to first test it?
@Hennes unfortunately not
I found chairs to be highly personal
People in India generally don't care about their health enough to actually invest in them
And thus all the chairs that you'll find in the stores will be cheap imported crap from china
@Hennes I understand, but I really don't have a choice here
I'll still go to the stores and take a look, but I doubt that I'll find anything half-decent
Foe me the settings on a semi-decent chair matters more than a very good chair.
But a very good chair with perfect settings should be even better
17:00
@Hennes Okay, I'll try to find something decent in stores. If I cannot... I'll probably go with the amazon one.
Thanks
> two classic backups are better and safer than one RAID backup.
> RAID backup
Meh. I think I have written about that before
1. Backups.
2. Better: multiple backups
3. Better: multiple backups on which is off site.
4 Better. Decent well tested recent backup. Disaster recover off site copy. And RAID1 to recover the latest files
Mind you: RAiD 1 makes sense when backup in not relevant and you aim for read speed
@Hennes Also when you can't afford downtimes
or when you have known good and recent backups and just want a way to keep a server alive untill past work time. After which you make a new set up backups.
Aye, that was what I was writing
Keep alive till after work time, then diff backup the latest files. Create a new raid (Empty, fresh format), restore from backup
17:04
My current plan for my main PC is...
Depends a bit on what failed. For two 32GiB OS drives, jusr rebuild. FOr multi TiB drives wipe and recover from backup
Main disk is two SSDs in RAID1, two incremental backups to separate HDDs
I'm still figuring out the off-site backup bit
I got a year old copy at my parents place
And once from the same time at my place
I really should do that more often
Not that I ever want to need them, but if there is a fire and you loose the main desktop and have backups in the same room....
@Hennes I'm thinking weekly/fortnightly off-site backups? Should probably be good enough for me.
imho plenty
Regular local. Over fast local network should suffice.
Offsite is disaster recovery option
17:07
Yep, sounds good :)
I even went with no backups yet on my new laptop. Out of cash error.
17:56
@fixer1234 Edited your post to add links to the extensions. Hope that's ok.
Is there a Windows wiki? And if not, why not?
@AaronHall ?
There's plenty of documentation for Windows on the internet
It just seems like there should be such a thing, and I'm surprised there isn't.
@AaronHall It's probably because MS doesn't want anyone and everyone to be able to edit Windows documentation
Would such a wiki get taken down by Microsoft?
With so much information online, and yet seemingly incomplete, I would expect a wiki to be a natural result.
18:04
@AaronHall If an unofficial one existed? I doubt that they would have any legal ground to get it taken down
That said, most of the info about the workings of Windows is documented Microsoft's website, SE sites, and a few others, and are easily searchable, so I can see why no one has bothered to compile all of it into a wiki
18:18
Is Forbes desperate for ad revenue?
And was Gordon Kelly, the writer of the Forbes article in question, instructed (perhaps by C-level executives) to write clickbait in an effort to drive ad revenue (possibly under threat of termination)?
What's your PC been up to, @bwDraco ?
;-P
Hmm. Forbes Contributor Network. Pretty sure that was a management-driven action, as in "if it's not clickbait, we're not publishing it".
might not need to be manager driven
algrothims love clickbait oo
@bertieb lul, desktop's been shut down this past week.
No Astaroth malware on Astaroth, you say
18:30
Heh.
@bwDraco Or has it? Dun, dun, dunnnnn.
Well... I'll be on the desktop tonight. But anyhoo, just a coincidence.
As for clickbait content... the digital media industry is starved of and desperate for revenue and most readers don't know it.
18:45
With a few exceptions like The New York Times, which has been successful in producing high-quality news content that people will pay to access, many news companies and websites are in a financially unsustainable state.
 
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Bleh... all that extra work you have to do because #VALUE doesn't evaluate to TRUE or FALSE
 
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@rahuldottech, thanks for the edit.
@bwDraco, thanks for the alert that the NYT has finally started producing high-quality news content. When did this change happen?
23:03
@bwDraco Maybe he's just a bad journalist.
23:28
lol

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