true, the big data guys may delete the data (so they say) but they have already sold most of it to other parties. i doubt those parties (even we even know who they are) will comply, we would need a record of where the data went, not just what they collected.

but yes, cant hurt to start.

for most of us, its way too late. they already have so much info that preventing them getting more, while worthwhile, wont invalidate the data they already have.

i started using the web when it 1st came out (and internet/BBS before that). privacy wasnt a concern back then and not much if anything was logged for profile purposes (maybe AOL/compuserve did dunno never used them).

never used facebook/twitter stuff. BUT i did use google a lot when it 1st came out, not realizing just how much data they keep. still use sometimes it as its pretty good. but now its duckduckgo. also use gmail as its just convenient and everyone has the addy. be a pain to change now.

vpm is fine if you can take the speed hit.

bottom line is i accept my data is logged for whatever. looks like my goat porn habit is well known to google and three letter agencies. have fun.

but now data collection has reached the point of absurdity. its actually intrusive to get ads on something the second i do a search for it. i wouldnt want to be at work and have my phone display an add for adult diapers or something if i show someone at work a web page on my phone.

i do believe in the right to privacy, and going forward will be paying more attention to it. 

actually i noticed that 11.6 does that (low hash rate with ethelargement pill), but 11.4 runs fine at 50+ mhs. driver doesnt crash on 11.6, just low hash rate. havent tried 11.7 yet.

thought it just operator error on my part.have 2 1080tis on ethlargment.

technically and opportunity wise we are much better off than in the past. in general (at least developed societies) disease and starvation are fairly rare. education is the main (IMO) way society advances.

however.

we now (here in the USA) have programs that encourage laziness and leeching from the government so work is entirely optional. free housing, food, healthcare. sit around and breed so you get more subsidies for every extra child. why bother bettering yourself and society when you are paid to watch tv, eat, and complain you need more handouts because you dont have what that guy who works for a living has.

the human race... we are devolving, not evolving.

(some of) the latest generations seems to just want easy living, no stress, and more money and status without earning it, just because they feel entitled. "snowflakes"  yeah right.. they need to learn how life really is.

my parents and myself made ourselves what we are. not that we havent screwed up here and there, but when we did we learned from our mistakes and bettered ourselves on our own. we didnt go cry to the government for handouts.

BTW, yes some on welfare do need it, im not saying all take advantage of it. safety nets are needed. but it seems that its being abused beyond belief today.



 

charities are obviously a good way to help the needy (but verify how funds are used).

i donate here and there to charities i find worthy, and my church is involved in many local charities. i like that way more than the national mega charities as churches tend to help local communities with problems local to the area. it also builds up relationships with that community.

personally helping directly with charities, as in volunteering your time to food pantries, soup kitchens etc is a personally rewarding experience. money is great but hands on labor is a good way to help your community as you directly see how it is helping and touching families lives, as well as gain knowledge on what is needed, what is not, what can be improved. and many idea presented by volunteers in the field to better utilize resources and what further directions to go have made it even better.

back before huge government handouts churches handled helping much of the disadvantaged, it seemed to work well then.

win10 1709, 8 gb ram, 120 gb msata, g4400 cpu. hoping that would suffice for now.

ive always meant to toss the 6400t i have in my htpc into the onda at some point. perfect excuse to upgrade the htpc cpu

i actually like it. as in an "all mining" related company.

another interpretation is "miners for all"

i have an onda B250 D8P v1, and you can set the link width for slot 0. in the bios i just set PEG 0:1:0  (which is the 1st slot near CPU) to  x4 link,  and gpuz confirms a x4 link to the card. its under Max Link Width which is default AUTO which leaves it at x1. can be set to x1, x2 and x4. so we can use a x4 pcie->m2 adapter in slot 0 at full efficiency.

so i will definitely take one of these for my rig.

BTW did the survey.

sure some posts can be annoying; this thread can get NSFW images and ideas as well as blatantly racist stuff posted.  so what? i would rather make the choice of who and what to ignore than have different opinions than mine censored.

the only posts that really annoy me are those useless shitposts about nothing by users that are bounty hunting or whatever to get posts counts up. those can be deleted as they are not even remotely worth reading. content=null, so fine to delete. thankfully this thread doesnt have a many of them compared to the rest of the forum.

it will say something like "you are a merit source, the next x merits will come from your source" on your merit page.

i voted B by mistake (sorry, lack of coffee) as after thinking a moment i would change to D if i could.

we all know what the ignore button does, thats all we need. as we all have different things that offend us we really cant expect someone to arbitrarily decide for us.

the current level of moderation is fine.

yes my t arrived yesterday. setting it up tomorrow (31 may).

already have two trezor ones.

its still big in medical, mainly for HIPAA compliance as email is not considered secure. most records are sent from practice to practice that way as there currently is little standardization for electronic medical records. i would send/receive hundreds of pages a day.

agree. 3 out of the 4 times i updated my ledger nano s it got stuck somewhere and i had to hit reddit to figure it out.

NEVER had a problem with my trezor updating. i have two, 1st was bought several years ago, another last year. my trezor t arrives today.

trezor is much more polished, better design from an intuitive and physical usability standpoint, better ui, doesnt need chrome; it can use any (most) browser. although ledger is moving away from chrome to a stand alone app from what i gather.

i would argue that happiness is security (or at least security is the base that happiness can grow on), as in no worries about your future.  pretty much you need to own property and a home, and have enough things of value (money/crops/tradegoods/livestock/crafts/knowledge/whatever) that you know your future needs will be met with what you have or know you can produce.

at that point you can more or less not worry that others control your future, instead of you (i discount war/terrorism/tinfoil hat stuff).

so actually, perhaps happiness is having control of your life.

its not the cpu, undernourished cpus are usually fine in miners. even single core cpus have been used with no problems (in most miners).

probably a bios limitation. vga cards need a lot of resources, and the mobo/bios can run out unless special settings are used.

see if the bios has something like "above 4g decoding". short version is it increases the range of memory the mobo can assign to the cards, which is likely the issue. that bios setting is fairly recent in consumer mobos as having 4+ video cards wasnt very common back then when those mobos came out.

no worries, here, have some of mine. the white ones are the best.

SWEET!

now we are prepared for serious doom and destruction. none of this wishy washy half baked stuff.

so we are only at "suck level 3"? it can get worse?

bleh

at least the dial doesnt go to "11"

i have found my criteria for meriting posts changes when i am almost out of smerits. and it does tend to lean towards giving to lower ranks at that time. which is unfair on my part.

legendaries obviously dont need smerits for ranking up, but i figure (generally) legendaries will give out merit with greater "accuracy" than lower ranks simply because they know more about the subject matter and what benefits the forum than lower ranks. so they definitely need merits sent to them.

OTOH for lower ranks it can be discouraging for them to have good posts skipped, where legendaries probably wont care as much (at least i dont). i like to encourage them.

when i only have one or two smerits left i find myself withholding smerits on the off chance i might find a better post later, and thats kinda a pain. i wound up with a bookmark folder named "merit these posts" for when i have smerits to send lol. when i go through that folder, lower ranks do get preference all else being equal.

is that unfair toward legendaries on my part. well, yes.  on average, legendary posts do tend to be better quality and thus deserve merit like any other quality. but since smerits are intended to reward good posting habits, and (generally) legendaries already have that, the merit goes toward the lower ranks to "point the way" so to speak.