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Today i finally jumped it and threw my money at an Asus Zenbook UM431 with a Ryzen5 (Good bye, Intel - i hope i won't miss u).
Mainly because of the slightly bigger dimensions than the newer UM433 models and the better bottom vent placement.
At about $600 without windoze, it's OK for me, but that's still some fiat i didn't invest into corn, on the other hand.
I hope you got 16 GB RAM. 8 GB just doesn't cut it anymore. Ryzen laptops are nice. I got 8, like in my current laptop. It's sufficient for my uses, if i don't have more than hundred tabs opened in the web browser. They didn't offer the 16GB model on discount, so i didn't care to take the bargain priced one instead. |
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You guys with your stacked terabyte HDD’s. I’ll stick to the 1.44 MB not so floppy disks, conveniently strung together with a little help of ARJ. Even has a read only switch for eternal storage. Who needs blockchains.
you techies with your advanced devices. pfffft still rockin my TRS-80 and C64 cassette drives. my Columbia IBM clone has a cassette interface too but i never used it. those full height 5.25 floppies were the bomb. EDIT the TRS-80 also had several 8 inch floppies hooked to it at one point. Oh those times... LOAD ZAXXON,8,1
<10mins waiting, enjoying sound of tape slowly moving>
LOAD ERROR
Afternoon spoiled. While in my head it goes: Peek'n Poke, Peek'n Poke, Peek'n Poke... all the time Today i finally jumped it and threw my money at an Asus Zenbook UM431 with a Ryzen5 (Good bye, Intel - i hope i won't miss u). Mainly because of the slightly bigger dimensions than the newer UM433 models and the better bottom vent placement. At about $600 without windoze, it's OK for me, but that's still some fiat i didn't invest into corn, on the other hand. |
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I think Tuesday and wednesday will break 10k, theres a lot of fomo, news coverage etc. But what do i care, im just a HODDLER for life. I live my life satoshi by satoshi
Arrr, she's coming down again. Bears nailed to the $9k barrier, it seems. However, i stay by my original prediction assumption of vegeta coming in some more times before i dust off the moon boots. Accumulate it  |
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You guys with your stacked terabyte HDD’s. I’ll stick to the 1.44 MB not so floppy disks, conveniently strung together with a little help of ARJ. Even has a read only switch for eternal storage. Who needs blockchains.
I decorated the top of my table, made entirely out of punch cards, with my old 8-inch floppy disks, because i switched to 5,25" a week ago. Anybody need a 8" drive? 50 pin cable included. |
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I took delivery of 28 TB of spinning hardness today. Nothing gets my watery sap rising more than quality storage these days.
2nd millennium mechanical storage? How about magnetic tape and paper punch cards? Do you also use vacuum tubes (Eccles-Jordan bistable multivibrator circuitry) and revolving drum memory? SSDs have been around for over 40 years, mainstream for 20, consumer/retail for well over a decade. I concede that mechanical HDDs have some archival value but they're so slow and so fragile. I guess they're cheap though. You get what you pay for. SSD's are around for 40 years now. They were sized a few hundred kilobytes back then, survived a few thousand of writes (at best) and were pretty slow, agree? OK, it's no more 198x now, so SSDs got faster, bigger and more reliable. Wait... Is that all? Let's see: If a SSD with all your precious data on it dies. Can you recover it? I guess not. And if so, the operation would be quite complicated. Harddrives offer at least two options. Mounting the discs and reading the raw data, or changing the drives electronics (taken from a spare drive from the same production batch). Hey, HDD's are there for a reason, and it's not only the low price. Speaking of that, how much would you pay for 14TB on a single SSD? (Might be a trick question, you'll find out). I'll end the irony here. Just think for yourself, i'm sure you are capable of finding the right answers, just by doubting your own genius statement ... a little bit ... (at least). no offense  laugh a little... EDIT: Damn! I just found out i'm actually RIDING A BICICLE!!! FFS!!! I should immediately replace it with a jetpack, or i'm bound to using a 100s of years old mechanical transportation vehicle (so almost from stone age). SCNR - please don't shoot me P.S. All this talk of storage has me thinking that we all owe a little thanks to Joe Breher for his work in making these storage technologies possible. Many people here see him as an argumentative pro-BSV "troll". He's a lot more than that.
Word. Seconded. Humans are just prone to error. Like judging a whole person on a single opinion... Tape is great for archival but the issue I think is a working drive to read it, I have millennium Disc blurays for family memories and what not. They're rated at 1000 years and can take a hell of a beating, plus they're cheap.
Maybe, if they're stored in perfect conditions. (no light, right temperature, humididty, horizontal orientation etc.). Also need to store a drive that can read them and hope that you have a compatible interface in 1000 years to connect it to |
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That means nuttin. Which manufacturer? Mind to share the disk sector size and count, too?  And did you already patch and configure the firmware? Nothing too exciting. It was a WD My Book Duo with two 14 TB reds. They were immediately whipped out and rammed into me NAS. It's now being refilled with my real time rail journey videos. I tend to point the camera towards the carpet as the changing light and the sound of the train, plus passenger coughing, lulls me to sleep. I stuck to WD once Seagate got shit and Maxtor kept producing increasing numbers of drives that died after a few years. Sadly, i only could get WD Greens for my NAS, but i configured them to head parking / energy saving plans of Blues. Otherwise they also won't have lived too long in a NAS that gets used on a daily basis. |
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Will we Vegeta short time frame-ish??
YES NO
YES and more frequently, and then boom (50% sure it's an up move  ) |
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Haha, all of us are secretly still PC Nerds I took delivery of 28 TB of spinning hardness today. Nothing gets my watery sap rising more than quality storage these days. That means nuttin. Which manufacturer? Mind to share the disk sector size and count, too? And did you already patch and configure the firmware?
My 8086 confirms this.
That DIN 41524 keyboard connectors |
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Haha, all of us are secretly still PC Nerds I always was. Not a single non-custom built workstation in my house until date. Remember the old days when my neighbors rang the doorbell to ask about the humming noise that kept them from falling asleep. I pushed the door fully open and they saw my four development servers in the wardrobe. Had to watercool them. Since then it's only low noise builds for me EDIT: 1996, before virtualization became the thing. Why no bottom vents? so it doesnt heat up when its on your stomach/ lap?
I bought a Acer aspire 5 slim ryzen 3 AMD vega, on amazon they are $350 but i bought a refurb one they $80 cheaper! it was brand new literally, not even 1 fingerprint on it.
I'm looking for a new laptop atm too... want something really slim... I'm an Intel guy (last time had an AMD CPU back in 486/Pentium 1 times it was crap so I sticked with Intel ever since) Defo no Apple products for... reasons... Perhaps DELL? Any solid and stylish models? Dell got good reputation for offering long time support. You'll get spare parts for at least 10 years. (Or seven years, if i confused that with IBM, now Lenovo). Quality went down over they years a bit, because high integration and all, but Dell's should still be pretty good. I'd go for a XPS13. |
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Looks nice, classic design. Just too big for me, 14 inch screen is my personal maximum. I started into the notebook era with these 9-inch vaio's, when i did a lot of wifi/lan packet sniffing on the road, settled with 12/13 inch screens for a long time, but my aged eyes need 14 inch for full-HD to save me from headaches... Why no bottom vents? so it doesnt heat up when its on your stomach/ lap?
I bought a Acer aspire 5 slim ryzen 3 AMD vega, on amazon they are $350 but i bought a refurb one they $80 cheaper! it was brand new literally, not even 1 fingerprint on it.
Yep. The old couch/blanket issue. The Acer models from 2017, based on the Swift aluminum cases, are my go-to reference. Good work, no bottom vents, good battery life, nice non-glare screen, sufficient for indoor use. I really consider getting a used one as replacement for my wife's Swift3 (screen flickers, old Acer problem with the crappy display connector on the sub-board). |
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my early i7 still kicking ass after all these years.
Lots of other upgrades and re-upgrades latest was a 1040ti I think.
SSD etc. no real need to spend the silly money for newer components right now (or the money)
oh totally, I have yet to see a compelling reason to move off my hotrodded X58 setup; 48G of RAM, nvme boot drive, 1080ti, it does what I need Nice setup. My daily driver is still an i7 4770K, 16GB RAM, 1080ti. I'll probably upgrade in 2022 when Zen 4 releases. It's supposed to release on a new socket (AM5), and support a lot of the next gen tech, like USB 4.0 and PCIe 4.0. I'd also like to get away from Intel due to all the security vulnerabilities. Did you mean DDR5 and USB 4? Ryzen 3 supports PCIE 4.0.AFAIK The new intel socket will support PCIE 4.0 but eh CPU's don't. Rotflmfao what a joke they are twisting marketing to make it sound like they do. And the Intel Fanboi shills are all trying to make it sound like thats a reason to buy the new socket, so you can upgrade the cpu in the future and have PCIE 4.0. funny thing is the retard fanboi's are eating it up. Its going to be even funnier when the next Intel gen gets released and they find out they need a new socket again because cough DDR5. LOL but then they will be saying how great it is to have DDR5 and that was their goal all aloneg, now run and buy new boards again you little sheeple. I am still on Intel, mainly because my i7-2800K is still sufficient as desktop processor and some 3-4 year old i5 on the laptop for cooler operation (lower fan noise, more battery time) but my next mobile one will probably be a Ryzen, too. They have come into Intel territories, regarding operation temps and single core processing power (for DAW use). Intel is just marketing crap nowadays, not to mention the numerous bugfixes rolled out that impact performance considerably  EDIT: Anybody aware of a 2019/2020 notebook without bottom vents? Currently i run on Acer x349, but i failed to find a successor yet. Even the newer Swift 3 has bottom vents now. Suxx |
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To protect the Bees you need a Metal Housing, the Hornets will not penetrate that. + When you see that Giant ass Hornet , pick up a Tennis Racket and play some Hornet Tennis Hornets remember Dead hornets won't  they still have their alive buddies, don't they? I remember as a child stepping on a apparent ground nest of either large wild bees or hornets deep in the woods, then I saw them crawling outta there and starting to get airborne. I ran like a wind...and escaped. It only takes a few dozen bites to bring you down, I think. Oh yeah. Wild bees. These are of a different kind. The first marks you with a sting, the rest of the pack is locked in on you. Hornets are big, mean sounding, thus intimidating, but they're really harmless, unless you attack their nest or squeeze them between clothing and skin (for example). If you step on a wild bee nest, run before you catch the first sting and change direction often, like a rabbit. |
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To protect the Bees you need a Metal Housing, the Hornets will not penetrate that. + When you see that Giant ass Hornet , pick up a Tennis Racket and play some Hornet Tennis Hornets remember Dead hornets won't |
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How predictable.
Number over nine-thousand.
Assholes take profits.
wise words, my brother. those bears who filled their pockets made me buy more corn S'all good, man |
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Would never have thought it.
I doubt that nice selfie, btw. #nohomo |
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Nonsense! There's no boot like the Carolina Boot. Certified for moon walking (going to need it soon, better stock up)... Nice curvature. That offset toe cap also definitely has something. #nohomo |
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This is where mine come from. https://www.doublehboots.com/I've had a pair even since my teens and they last 10+ years with a heel change somewhere along the way. Fit like a glove and I wear them everyday.  Nice. How long to break them in? I left the leather boots because of work. Career and boots didn't quite match. Sometimes i wore some black, high top classic Vans, the closest to a boot i could get. I don't count the wellingtons, i put them on rarely. Looks like this thread is being taken over by  Blame it on the charts |
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suit yourselves nothing like a leather reinforced vibram sole for curbstomping mouthbreathers though also available in corks, but urban environments wear them down pretty fast  I was on doc marten's for almost a decade. The rubber sole is more comfortable on longer walks and when running, after they finally broke in. Switching to a new pair was blood and pain. These where like curbstomper standard back then. Color-coded lacing, of course EDIT: Gawd, now i remember the boots the nazis were wearing: bulldog (iirc). Hard, black rubber sole, leather insole, army grip style. They were faster in winter, when the marten's became slippy to run with. But the bulldog sole got hard as rock in cold weather, you wouldn't want to run too far wearing them. They looked way more aggro, though. BTC c'mon bullflag! complete! BTCLet's see how strong resistance really is! |
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Reminds me of that buffalo boots on all the raves of the mid 90's. Even some guys wore them, not sure if they all were ghey. But, you know, honestly, imho, all in all... at least... a... lil... bit ... ghey. The boots looked good on tall women, though |
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