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No worries, we're having a stomach flu go around the household at the moment. I'm the last one standing and may go down any minute. I'm also the type that totally doesn't take offense when my suggestions/advice/recommendations are not taken on just about anything. I just reserve the right to "I...

It seems that all the motherboards have firmware updates that better protect the CPUs now (just be sure to update to the latest BIOS). No word on whether it affects performance or not, but if it is giving it a lower power target I can't see how it couldn't.

Thanks for the playlist. I do like Debussy and Glass, and Mahler is nice to fall asleep to. Even Chopin and Tchaikovsky my head sorts into the same area as Gershwin which doesn't translate to "classical" the way that the older stuff does. A lot of the music I listen to falls into what my brain...

Newtun, you average one post every 2+ weeks, but they are always good ;)

That is entirely absurd, and his performance is amazing. While I've managed to develop a taste for single-malt scotch and even the Danish rugbrød, classical music and coffee still elude me. I agree that I am unsophisticated. But I do enjoy the more playful side of piano with Hiromi Uehara...

Firmware is certainly a concern, but the nightmare I saw was running wooden racks of GPUs in open-ended tents as a "solution" to the cooling issue. Those seemed to be corroding a bit.

2080Tis were good cards, that is what I ran before this, but the 3060 is probably pretty close performance wise and much better on power. That is what I'd pick. I suspect that my system right now is in that "local account" tied to MS account situation. Not a big deal because it works the way I...

I wasn't going to get a notification because I don't use their service, but I heard about it a month ago in the tech news. Users locked out for a full week while the investigation was underway.

If you do want to test on different hardware, you can remote into mine. Creative Cloud license is active and hardware in the sig.

All good. I'd consider it sitting there good for a year or two, but at that point it should be spun up, a consistency check run, and any drives that failed replaced and array rebuilt. That may be paranoid, but I don't like unknowns, and with it offline it feels like Schrödinger's hardware.

Putting it in storage isn't useless, but one of the advantages to having it powered up is that when failures do happen you can fix the system and get the redundancy back. In storage failures are less likely, but what is more likely is that enough failures will happen to overcome the redundancy...

20C lower temps on Ryzen 7000

Fun fact; if you use Rufus to build your bootable USB from the ISO downloaded from Microsoft, it has a checkbox during install to remove online account requirements along with other cool stuff.

Easily double, all in cans of diet coke (20-30 per day). The headache did clear up, and I sleep much better now.

Never developed a taste for coffee. Before I left the states caffeine consumption was becoming a problem for me (consuming way too much to keep up with work), so when I came here I cut it out entirely. Brutal headache and sleeping issues for a couple months, but now much better. I think I'll...

Indeed. Quite happy with the light and effective hands at the wheel here. Probably helps that we are a smaller, tighter group, but that is fine with me.

Has anyone noticed that our accounts here are (or just about) old enough to drink in the US? And that is without counting the time at SR...

I just use YouTube Music Premium (256kbps AAC). I know it is technically inferior to many of the competitors, but it still sounds quite nice on my gear (in my sig). My main reason for using it is just ease of use on my computer and Android, and that I'm already paying for YouTube anyway.

It does do a lot of things. So many things that, for my use cases, it would feel like overkill for any one of them. Very rarely is either a DAC or an amp with bluetooth support not the right answer for me.

The last version they sold a perpetual license to was CS6. In theory you might be able to buy a copy of that from someone (Adobe no longer sells it). Honestly the right play is paying their subscription and getting the new version all the time. I don't like it either, but it is what it is.

Not disagreeing with your reasoning Merc, but I went a different way that leads to a similar outcome. Only numbers I whitelist ring or ping or notify in any way. Everyone else is dumped to a voicemail that informs them to contact me via email and doesn't allow messages to be left.

I have about 10000 hours in Factorio, it is amazing.

It was on the short list, but DK won.

Everyone here speaks entirely fluent English. In my 6 months of interacting with people I've encountered two who had to speak slowly, out of hundreds. Anyone under 20 years of age has no accent; you wouldn't know they weren't from California. The cultural domination of YouTube cartoons is fairly...

I was thinking of long lenses. Once my stuff gets here from California the 100-400 with a 2x converter will no doubt outperform binoculars. I was even considering the Ubiquiti PTZ camera on the balcony. But the purpose of this isn't to capture stuff; it is to be sitting on the coffee table when...

With the view of the fjord and working docks from my living room, I'm thinking a good set of binoculars would help see all the things out there. My first instinct is the Canon 12x36 IS III. For sure I want image stabilization, and I think that is the right amount of magnification. The boat...

That sucks Lunar.

That looks roughly the same as this one?

We're now in my perfect weather, 15C and overcast. Occasionally it gets to 20C, but then a bit of rain cools it down.

Yeah, I have the Pro as well, the one with only one arm seemed too flimsy even from the product pictures. The most I ever hung off of it was the 7DII and 100/2.8 (macro). I never trusted it with the 100-400.

I used it quite a bit years ago. The only profitable work was "virtual tour" home interiors for realtors. That was good money. I did haul it to the top of El Capitan in Yosemite once, I won't do that again.

I'm pretty sure nVidia is picking up their pricing model from Porsche. Price your entire current catalog for the few that can afford it, and that keeps the pricing of the last gen cards up. This allows you to sell the old stock, and might convince people to buy the new one for more than they...

My Gigapan robotic pano head is still in California. Looking forward to getting it back.

The funny part is that Denmark is so flat, this building built at sea level is taller than the tallest natural point in the country.

The trick is to be in the tallest building in town.

I've tweaked my neck and am mostly stuck in bed, but that is the view from the bed, so not so bad.

Easter in Copenhagen

I do personal physical backups, but they aren't local. The original is local, the backup is at another location I control on hardware I manage. And that is backed up to the cloud. I would bet that on a long enough timeline my physical primary and my physical remote combined are not as reliable...

Interestingly the weather here now is just about what the weather was in Monterey, California in the '80s. Only another few years and it'll get there.

Fortunately my apartment faces mostly north and a bit east. And since the building is only 2 years old the windows are absolutely absurd in their ability to insulate all the things. We shall see.

My Euro S22 Ultra is a Snapdragon and supports eSIM just as a datapoint.

Dedicated air exchanger per unit. Brings in fresh air, does a thermal exchange with the outgoing stale air, and circulates that fresh air to every room. You can manually adjust the airflow rate, or leave it to monitor conditions and adjust accordingly. This is the system that I plan to tap into...

When I was in the US I'd buy phones new on Amazon and use Google Fi as my cell carrier. Now that eSIM is a thing it is really easy.

I absolutely felt uncomfortable in an apartment in the US. Wood-framed walls between me and people I don't trust is a no. Here all the walls are foot-thick concrete + insulation + 2 layers of brick. The floor/ceiling is also pre-stressed concrete panels. All the doors between the apartments...

The truly valuable items were separated and flown in suitcases (jewelry, cash, laptop). The non-valuable items (like furniture) were given/thrown away at the source. Only the semi-valuable items (computers, other electronics, heirlooms) are in the container. I'd honestly be happy to never see...

Merc, the place in California you want to visit is San Luis Obispo. Liberal college town near the coast, close to wine country, far enough south for the warmer weather but far enough north to not be polluted by LA or the people from it. From there day trips to Morro Bay and Avila Beach are...

Just trying to find a company that will do it. So far I only have one quote from a company that did not inspire confidence and it was 25k USD for a 20' FCL.

Nah. It would be incredible if it weren't packed full of lost people driving rental RVs at 5 mph. The only time it isn't is when it has collapsed into the sea or is on fire.

Being from the US, everything in the EU is small and close together. Except Norway/Sweden/Finland. Those places are huge and take forever to get around. I'm looking forward to driving the coastal highway in Norway when it is ready.

I haven't looked in a while; all my computer stuff from the US is still in a container that I'm struggling to have shipped over.