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I didn't like Trump then, I really don't like Trump now, I just wish people would stop giving him attention as that's apparently all he seems to want. When all eyes and ears are on him he seems to be at his happiest. I won't be voting for him this November and I didn't vote for him in November...

Okay, so some things have changed. I'm on my fourth super IO card, this one being ISA, and it seems to work fine. Round about as fast (or slow) as the VLB one it replaced, more reliable, it just works... I had awful luck going through these things. My second VLB card was unreliable (in fact it...

Just so you all know I'm alive (the 'rona didn't get me), I've been building a 486 desktop. It's been going well -- I've been messing with it for the last few days and it's worked very well but I'm planning to take it up a few notches. I broke my singular VLB super-IO card by trying to solder...

Apparently the 10900F will consume 224W for 10c/20t. Ouch. I consume less than half that -- hell, a little over a quarter that -- for over half the core count. Of course I'm not at the blistering clockrates of the 10900F and at that price-point, power consumption doesn't matter for much...

I feel like that'd just start WW3 with how closely tied the businesses are with their government. One we could never hope to win -- we don't make anything anymore, we have something like a fifth of the population and even less with the stomach to fight. I know I wouldn't do it. That said, I do...

This bit really got me thinking. I hadn't really thought of it that way and the more I do, the more it makes sense. Then again, Trump's always the type to do what he wants, damn the press. His people will fervently support him either way -- they're like a damn cult. Wouldn't be at all surprised...

You're about, oh, five years late? ;) This was what got me into playing Doom mods and while the dev of this particular one is apparently a bit of a prick (as well as alleged plagiarist...?) it's definitely a classic. Personally I'm a much bigger fan of playing Doom II with Combined Arms...

Well damn. My pulse was too high to give blood. 112 when their threshold is 100 -- I had a cup of coffee earlier not thinking about it and I don't like needles on the best of days. I drove 25 miles for nothing.

The Red Cross needs blood. I'm O-, or so all the junk mail they've sent me over the years says. I'm scheduled to donate Tuesday at a rural church roughly 25mi away, I know the area, I used to live there. I'm going in dressed to the gills, who knows what I've come into contact with where I work...

Personally I believe this would have hit us hard no matter who was in office. It wasn't just Trump, I don't think anyone would have really been prepared for it to hit US shores and quickly make its way into the urban population. Some would have perhaps handled it better, taken less time to...

That's if you believe the numbers coming out of China, which I and most others I talk to don't. That's if they're not keeping the infections down by firing squad a la North Korea.

Hah, my name is actually Jacob, I came up with this screen name as a nonsense word that looked "cool enough". This was, gosh, almost ten years ago now? Time flies.

People are sick and dying. Now is not the time to have political hang-ups. We need to get much further on constructive conversation. But alas, such is humanity. My symptoms almost entirely cleared up by, oh, Wednesday. I've still got a little bit of congestion going on but I blame that on...

Longer than a normal cold maybe, but I'm not exhibiting my normal flu-like symptoms -- I'm not lethargic at all, just sneezing my head off and hacking up a lung every three minutes. Plus, the flu knocks me flat on my ass for a week at least, so I'm still well-within that range.

I still don't feel significantly better, but the swelling in my lymph nodes went down, and as with yesterday and Saturday, I don't have a fever. It's just that every time I cough or sneeze feels like razorblades coming up my throat. My cough dried up, sometimes it was productive before, but...

I called out from work yesterday because I had a cough. Nothing serious, though I did have a fever and swollen lymph nodes, and normally I'd work through it -- I can't afford to miss, and we don't have the people to cover my absence, but I figured the current climate would be very inhospitable...

Ouch. Really sorry to see that. Hope the RMA process goes smoothly with all of the... current events going on.

I'm actually quite happy with my stability -- since I got everything dialed in, not one crash or lockup, and I've been periodically folding and stress testing with mPrime and big compilation jobs using all threads. For a cheap upgrade this is really looking nice.

Of course that's not how it actually works, but that's how it does in most people's minds, so hopefully they'll stop panicking for three seconds and realize that they're not helping.

Cool, there's a potential vaccine now. Hopefully things will calm down in relatively short order.

Well, if the utilities go down I'm about 95% sure the wood stove downstairs is hot enough to cook on with a full fire going. Not that it's ideal to have a fire going in it with it getting warmer and all, but if I have to the option's there. I should have stocked up on water while I could but I...

Why does everything have to get political?

Burnt my candle at both ends a bit and just went for it -- it's remarkably quick and painless. The hardest part, no exaggeration, was realizing eudev uses the old network interface naming convention and so my network interface, which was enp5s0, was now eth0.

Debian, or: How I learned to stop worrying and love systemd. It's no secret that I'm not a big fan of systemd -- not its concept, and not its perceived mission statement, that being to absorb all the little helper daemons and utilities in the GNU/Linux userland until there's nothing left. A...

Considering we have areas here in the US within areas within areas within areas that do/do not observe DST (think the various Native American reservations, specifically Arizona is what I'm thinking about with this remark) it's really time something was done about it, I think. I'm ready to...

I did buy it within the last couple years -- I think it was early-mid 2018? I can't remember, but I know I didn't have it before then. Like I said I'll have to check it out when I have it open next, until then I don't see much of a point in bothering. I really should do some kind of Windows ToGo...

Fair enough -- I don't actually have any UHD blu-rays I'd like to rip in the first place, I just figured the capability would be nice. I use MakeMKV. When I have the case open I'll check to see if it's an NS50 -- but I think it's just a plain NS40 anyway. If it is an NS50, I might go through...

I have the same drive and was wondering what the best firmware is for drives that still need to be able to burn discs? I read the thread you linked and mostly just still feel lost -- this is my first experience with potentially flashing (and cross-flashing at that) optical drive firmware and I'd...

In everything I've thrown at it my R5-1600AF handily outpaces my 3570K, even with the clock deficit. Even single-threaded tasks usually run noticeably better -- not world-shatteringly so unless it makes use of AVX2, but still, the gains are there. I was a little surprised actually. I got 3200...

I rushed my own plans a little and got my NVME SSD because I was concerned that by the time I was ready to "properly" get it in mid-summer supply would be low and prices much higher. I'm not having another situation like where I got my GPU where I got it less than a month before the market...

My V30, and because the stock Verizon ROM goes through my battery in... not a great amount of time, mostly. That and I wanted access to the storage that'd be freed up by actually being able to delete stock carrier-installed apps like that NFL thing Verizon insists on preloading. Other than that...

Well, it's certainly a lot more well-heeled than what I've got, and it's more "pro-sumer" level at least. I'd figure they might have saved that specific feature for chips that could actually make more use of it, as in, those meant for use in servers and/or high-end workstations. Much like how...

So would this be something I might see on Linux, perhaps when using a different CPU scheduler? I currently use MuQSS on my ck-patched copy of 5.5.2. It'd be cool to see it power down all but maybe 2 cores when I'm "idling" but I understand if that sort of thing is restricted to not only the 3000...

Well, considering it's just a 2600 hiding behind the old 1600 name (the AF moniker is an unofficial one to differentiate it from the original 1600 whose P/N ends in AE) I'd probably say anything it can do, the 1600AF can do as well. I'm not sure what that means, and likely won't until I get it...

I'm at as much of a loss as you are, but I'd suggest backing up your profile and just trying to unregister them to see what happens. My money's on them reloading when you reload the page they're attached to.

I find it interesting that in Stereodude's latest screenshot, it appears to be idling at ~300MHz all-core. That's actually way lower than the lowest idle I've seen from a modern chip (the N3050's 480MHz is what I'm comparing against) and I find that interesting -- is that kind of power-savings...

What release of Lubuntu is that? Kernel 3.13 is ancient, just how long have they been procrastinating on updates? Anyway, I second what Chewy said. Though, if they're freaked out by this, then maybe these steps are a bit too much for them.

Got my phone unlocked, rommed with an unofficial build of LineageOS 17.1, and rooted via Magisk for the hiding capability. Still can't use Google Pay but then again I didn't use it anyway, so it's not a big loss. A couple things are slightly broken (the Wifi menu is one of those things, but I...

Well, damn. I can't say I saw this coming -- I caught a sale on some things, and now I'm the proud owner of a Ryzen 5 1600AF, ASRock B450M-Pro4, and 16GB of DDR4-3000 CL16 RAM. This is strictly a platform upgrade, nothing crazy otherwise, keeping everything else. Right as I started messing with...

... Scratch everything I just said about 1.1.1.1 not working, apparently it does just fine now. I couldn't use it when I took it for a test spin on my burner phone about 6mo ago. I just tried it again.

I'm sure that's what it uses by default, but on LTE if I enable the 1.1.1.1 proxy-type thing that worked fine on Verizon, I lose all internet access on Straight Talk. I'm betting they filter by that. But again, my Tor proxy works, so I'm not too worried.

Paid off my phone and immediately transferred my number back over to Straight Talk. Probably sticking with this until it dies. I went from US$145/mo with Verizon's "Beyond Unlimited" plan and my phone payment to US$95/mo for just the plan to US$55/mo for a nationwide unlimited plan from Straight...

@jtr1962 I wouldn't be surprised if that is indeed the case. It would horrify me, but it wouldn't shock me at all. And considering that the numbers are in all likelihood far worse than the Chinese government is letting on... this is really starting to scare me. I'm afraid I'm still a bit out of...

I should probably be more careful myself considering I regularly serve people who travel all across the country if not the continent at large.

I mean, I would... I'd very much like to build a DX2-66 with VLB video and super I/O. Much moreso than anything 10th-gen Intel, though I might be upgrading to a Ryzen 5 3600 later this year if I catch a sale with the money in my pocket. It's the last era of computing that really interests me...

That's true. It was a very long operation -- over twelve hours -- it could have easily gone wrong somewhere. I should really be more grateful. But she'll be all right, that's the important thing. Thanks.

All I got for Christmas was food poisoning -- the whole house was laid up all day the 26th because one of our cousins brought something in with the holiday dinner and didn't know herself until she got home. Guess who had to go to work in that mess? Of course, saying that's all I got is a gross...

Oh, I'd just love a Model F or a real Model M (I have one, but it's the mid-90's rubber dome version) but for half the cost of one of those beasts on ebay I built myself a nice board that I like a lot and can tinker with when I get bored. I'd characterize the BOX Navies as being much, much...

My views trend along the "everyone is corrupt and we need to reset everything" line. My own politics tend to be moderately liberal, but everyone currently in Washington is either crazy or bought and paid for. I try not to talk politics because I'm either considered a bleeding heart liberal who...

I think AMD will still send you some crappy AM4 Athlon for flashing purposes if you need it. You just have to send it back.