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Tribalinius

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  1. I own a T460s for work and an old G74SX that I was using when I was always on the road. Pretty much the opposite from one to to the other. The G74SX was nice to have to play games but I'll never get something that big again, even if I need to be away from home for a long time. It's far too heavy and takes a lot of place in my luggage but hey, it had good firepower 5 years ago! I still use it from time to time to do YouTube livefeeds on it. My T460s, on the other hand, could have a better battery but the form factor is ideal for whatever I do these days, especially when I have to stand in a server closet with nothing to put my laptop on. I don't really need more than an i5/12GB/960 Pro SSD for every day use. I got 2 docking stations I use at home and at the office hooked to 3 monitors on each setup when I need a bit more real estate. The only issue is that gaming on it is not really an option but I mostly play Cities: Skylines, StarCraft or Diablo these days and I don't mind putting everything in low settings on my work laptop. Ultrabooks are enough for me as long as I/O are suffecient.
  2. I'm running a channel for an hydroplane sport organization in an ultra niche market that will get cut in the new process (15.5k hours in 2017 / 760 subs~). I'm not exactly happy about this because while I did all the videos and livefeed voluntary for that organization (money is tight and we're doing what we can with what we have), the small 150-300$ I get during the year from advertisement is reinjected in the channel directly to buy supplies and/or pay for a wireless hotspot during the season. Money has been so tight in 2017 that I had to drop livefeed except for the season's main event partly because I did not have the funds to purchase a data plan for the hotspot where I could use one. 2018 is going to be a tough year for sure and I'll miss that extra money to keep the channel going. I understand YouTube's point of view but it is certainly going to hurt channel like mine that use the advertisement money to keep it's show running. For those curious: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-S07uQyszg8-ee9G1shbYA
  3. Enterprise support is a thing you know. AWS is pretty competitive overall especially when you take long term contracts with them on EC2 instances for example. For me, it does not make sense anymore in 2018 to buy physical servers w/licences to have to replace them every 5 years (except for very specific use case), to have to do the maintenance on them every once in a while and ensure that we have everything on hand if a failure occurs. The less physical stuff I have to deal with, the more I can focus to make a company grow through IT instead of having my head inside a rack trying to check which RAM module is defective. I deal with so many SMB that are not equipped properly that moving them to the cloud to centralize everything is by far the best thing that we can do with them.
  4. A really decent option for those looking for an EATX compatible case. I kinda like it, I'm not a fan of the big wall. I don't know if it's because it's too large and/or the fractal logo but that's the only drawback to me. I'd probably get rid of it since I don't use HDD in my systems anymore anyway. For those using this case for a file server, you can cram a metric ton of drives in there. It's a versatile case with lot of options. Good job Fractal!
  5. I remember buying Baldur's Gate 2 there around 2000-ish iirc. I think it was at Place Versailles but it's kinda far in my memories, I was around 12-13 at that time and just started getting into computing.
  6. 1.) Talk to your parent about the ongoing issues with your brother. I am not sure how you should be tackling that point. An 11yo boy screaming at people online seems to be quite common these days but honestly should not be happening. I don't have kids yet so, I don't know! 2.) Expose the streaming bandwidth issue using words they will understand and the money involved in that. It's quite easy to lose people in technology terminologies. 3.) Make your point regarding the PS4 streaming port filtering and, if you get the green light and you are comfortable enough (and I'm sure you are), make the change in the router. 4.) Make sure your brother knows what's going on too and let your parents explain the situation to him. You don't want to lead the charge on that one, that's their decision not yours even if you did propose it. 5.) Propose solutions for your environment and try to negotiate with them. More importantly, be upfront with them on everything. If you block stuff without having them in the loop, it will just end up in a messy argument down the road. Parenting differs from one family to an another. Some regulate, some don't, some should. We don't know any specifics but if your younger brother is having tantrum playing too much video games, maybe they should be looking into that. My parents never enforced any rules regarding playing video games but I was a shy kid, quiet, had good grades and never had any arguments with anyone back then. They did not have any reasons to do so. In retrospect, maybe they should have put limit on so I could participate in more school activities and stuff.
  7. If you work a lot physically, it's probably normal but if you are always working in front of your computer and you keep drinking and drinking and drinking and you would still drink a god damn lake in the process and still feel like your mouth is as dry as a desert, I'd talk to the doctor. In my case, that's how I figured I had diabete. I went from drinking 6-8L /day to 1.5-2L /day with proper medication. Drinking a lot and going to the rest room real often is one of the early sign for people who has it. If you don't have access to a doctor and you happen to know someone who has a glucometer, just do a couple of blood sugar test before eating and 2h after. Your result before eating should be between 4-7 and 7-10 2h after eating. If you are way outside of these values, I'd contact a doctor for additional tests.
  8. I thought we were getting closer to maxing out PCIe 3.0 transfer speed using PCIe storage? That would make sense to move to PCIe 4.0 on mainstream platform, if technology permits, if that's the case. At least, that would be one reason to move to it. Beside, what would be the point for AMD to not push the technology as soon as they can? I don't think cost will be a factor for holding on PCIe 4.0. With the way Ryzen shook things up lately, having PCIe 4.0 as a feature is ground for bragging rights for whoever can bring it first to the market in my opinion. That makes for good marketing "Team X brought PCI 4.0 to the table while you will have to wait 6 months for Team Y to see their implementation. See how we care about our customers!" Threadripper, being the HEDT platform, should benefit from all they can cram into it from the get go. I would not be surprised to see it on "x499" from the start while Ryzen, I guess the timing would be better for "X570" if, again, technology permits.
  9. So, I guess the rumor mill is going to start to spin regarding second gen everything AMD. According to Canard PC, we should expect a second gen Epyc with 64 cores, 256MB of L3 cache, 8x DDR4-3200 and 128 PCIe 4 lanes. If that's the case and not just a rumor and turns out to be true, I wonder what's going to be Intel's response to this in the near future. I can see Linus having a field day with that CPU if it turns out to be real! Source
  10. They have been teasing it for a while now but, god does it look beautiful. I'd swap my T460s in a heartbeat for that.
  11. 486 DX2 to a Pentium III 733MHz. 7200 RPM HDD to first gen SSD back when they first launched.
  12. Currently using 3 flavors of OneDrive (My business one, my sharepoint one and my personal one), google drive for certain projects and dropbox for other misc. stuff. I'm fully embracing the Cloud conversion as it is.
  13. God forbid that it could be a mistake or a typo coming from the person who made the graph in the first place...
  14. I'm using an MX Anywhere 2 on a daily basis for the past 8 months. Price is on the high side but it's a really great mouse to work with. I really dig the profile management and the bluetooth connectivity. If I had to buy an another one, I would do so in a heartbeat.
  15. I don't consider myself a "successful" YouTuber. Actually, I've only been investing serious time on YouTube in the past 2-3 months. I have a personal YouTube channel that I don't update frequently, I've uploaded mostly old Final Fantasy XI videos back from when I was playing and unrelated stuff. I also manage 3 other channels, 2 of them being phased out right now. The other one is a channel that I've created 2 months ago for a boat racing organization. In 2 months, we're up to 186 subscribers and 15k views. The main attraction is the live feed coverage we do of the races we attend but we also upload edited races, interviews, testing sessions, etc. It's still in it's infancy stage but I think I got something good going on. <Link Removed> Boat racing as a whole is a niche market and, honestly, I don't think we'll break any subscriber records any time soon but I strive to deliver quality content for our active subscribers and the fans of the sport around the globe. I won't lie, I drew a lot of inspiration from the LinusTechTips channel for the layout and creating separate playlists for the different subjects we are covering. I've also borrowed his idea of publishing a video per day. By doing a release almost every day at 4:00PM, I'm trying to create an incentive so that my subscribers come back every day. Obviously, I'm not missing content to go that route but somebody could be struggling keeping that rate of publishing. I've also established a release calendar and, right now, I've got stuff uploaded and scheduled to go live up to July 2nd. I'm also starting to schedule posts on their facebook page to go up simultaneously with my videos to reach as much people as I can when the videos are released. In my case, scheduling is a god send. I can prepare videos and posts a lot of time ahead and forget about it. That leaves me some time to work on other ideas like a "tech corner" kind of series to learn more about hydroplane racing and something that would be a bit like the WAN show where I have drivers, officials and fans talking about the racing weekends once or twice a month in a live show. One thing I found super usefull was the tips YouTube is giving on your channel. They run that as classes and I learned a lot of stuff regarding how the metadata works, monetization, cards, running ads, translation and all that. I strongly suggest that you take a look at that, they got really good pointers and use real life YouTube examples to demonstrate their points. The most important thing to me is to have fun while doing that. Don't do it for the subscriber numbers or the views, do it because you like that!
  16. http://ark.intel.com/products/53426/Intel-Core-i3-2120-Processor-3M-Cache-3_30-GHz Ark is life
  17. As long as there is a download button for the driver, I could not care less!
  18. Even then, if you are trully motivated, you could strap a GPU through thunderbolt and boom, you are good to go for a while. It would start to cost a lot of money but that option is there if you ever got a good video card laying around and a thunderbolt housing :). P.S.: Let's all agree that the skull design looks tacky
  19. A nice little package by Intel. I could see myself bringing that with me in a LAN party in a really near future! I like the expandibility options that we can get from Thunderbolt. Source Intel Brochure
  20. Off-Topic: I swear that, as a collective, we probably used every 3 letters acronym possible in the IT industry. No wonder people look at us like we are some kind of aliens when we can say whole sentences using only 3 letter acronyms haha :p. On-Topic: Not everyone know what RAM is or what a CPU is either. In the same way that I don't know jackshit about car internals and if I ever get some sort of crash course, I'd love to know the basic stuff. That sucks for you though because you'd probably better off in a more advanced class.
  21. I would not pay that much but yeah, that's the point of that kind of technology. That would certainly drive the price up for the raw material, there is no doubt about that. But, would you pay 100$ for a 360TB storage unit that is virtually indestructible in a controlled environment? I'd do it ;).
  22. By the time it would be available for the normal consumer, I tend to think that we will have monstruous SSD available on the market. We're already at what now, 4TB with the consumer grade SSDs when Mushkin will release it's SSD later this year. Beside, I don't think they're looking to replace normal HDDs with those quartz disc, it's really designed to be useful as a cold storage backup unit that can withstand the test of time more than anything else. With these kind of technologies emerging, I'm starting to wonder if HDDs will still be relevant in, let's say, 15 years.
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