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drewpowers

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    drewpowers reacted to Mew in Shooting/Gunman at Youtube Headquarters   
    but that makes no sense! WHY WOULD A LEFTISTS EVERY DO HARM TO OTHER LEFTISTS REEEE
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    drewpowers reacted to Zion_ in Random number called me   
    if anybody calls you and says "can you hear me?" then be worried... don't say yes to stuff like that imo
     
    also watch your credit cards for changes.
     
    bc in court they have a recording of you saying "yes." 
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    drewpowers reacted to Ryujin2003 in Shooting/Gunman at Youtube Headquarters   
    Can't use the word automatic when referring to California. I hear it's illegal, so no one can use it...
     
    Except for prints and lack of him powder on the shooting game. And probably security cameras.
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    drewpowers reacted to TheKDub in Shooting/Gunman at Youtube Headquarters   
    By the sound of it the woman had shot her boyfriend (google employee) and two other women.
     
    I highly doubt this has anything to do with YouTube's recent censorship of firearm related channels/videos.
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    drewpowers got a reaction from Taf the Ghost in Shooting/Gunman at Youtube Headquarters   
    More likely to be an employee. They have keycards and guards and auto locking doors that would make it hard to get in there if you didn't work there.
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    drewpowers reacted to LienusLateTips in My friend has laptop issues, any dell reps here?   
    Could you at least explain what's wrong with it and why it's broken according to.him
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    drewpowers reacted to Syntaxvgm in Amazon Closing accounts   
    he at least should be told why his account was terminated ffs.
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    drewpowers reacted to MedievalMatt in Amazon Closing accounts   
    i mean.  from a business standpoint it makes sense.  each household gets one prime membership.  Netflix doesnt care because they have market saturation.
     
    you are getting mad because you got caught abusing the system.
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    drewpowers reacted to Oshino Shinobu in How much should I charge to build   
    $100 and either charge for any help thereafter or explain that you're not responsible for every problem they have with it in the future. 
     
    From my experience, helping family, friends, neighbours etc. with computers sucks because they then end up coming to you for every little issue, acting like it's your fault. Because of that I pretty much only help with computers that are actually in the house unless it's a simple problem. For friends, I mostly point them in the right direction if it's something they can do themselves rather than doing it for them.
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    drewpowers reacted to Zando_ in Quintuple A Battery   
    Why not just google it?
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    drewpowers reacted to iamdarkyoshi in Finally Installed a FIREPOLE!!   
    Does this mean I'm still a moderator for Linus tech tips if there's no more Linus to make tech tips?
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    drewpowers reacted to _Froyo in Finally Installed a FIREPOLE!!   
    not enough RGB/10
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    drewpowers reacted to Snapperx in Anyone know of any hardware stores in Fort Collins Colorado?   
    You can always create a 30 day free Amazon prime membership to get the parts a little bit faster. Not sure about Amazons prices though.
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    drewpowers reacted to Drak3 in Prebuilts with both an APU and Graphics Card   
    AMD's Bulldozer based APUs are extremely cheap, and basically replaced low end Bulldozer CPUs.
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    drewpowers reacted to Crunchy Dragon in Server with PC parts?   
    How much storage do you need, and do you require any kind of redundancy?
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    drewpowers reacted to ArtemisFolly in A better way to copy files from one drive, to another?   
    IF you use TeraCopy, it will let you look at which files (if any) fail to transfer, and give you options for trying again.
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    drewpowers reacted to KarathKasun in Advice on a small and quiet Linux build   
    You may look at the used market for equipment to learn on, as its going to be better supported.
     
    https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA5HA6YT6967&cm_re=dell_optiplex-_-9SIA5HA6YT6967-_-Product
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    drewpowers reacted to Jurrunio in Need Help With First Build   
    $400 for a GTX 1070? You already have that? cuz that's GTX 1060 6GB money right now. 1070s were $400, but that was back when mining crypto currency isnt a thing with graphics cards.
     
    Change the PSU to this one.https://pcpartpicker.com/product/KmgzK8/seasonic-focus-gold-550w-80-gold-certified-semi-modular-atx-power-supply-ssr-550fm
    The one you picked is quite outdated as it is a group regulated unit. This build wont use more than 300w anyway, but I picked a 550w rather than a 450w because those somehow cost more (modular cables are a must though)
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    drewpowers reacted to iamdarkyoshi in Need a server name   
    I'd call it WhonnockButItWerks
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    drewpowers reacted to sazrocks in Need a server name   
    Nah, save that for secure storage. No unauthorized access!
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    drewpowers reacted to Razor Blade in I need a cheap home server   
    A lot of people have the misconception that a server is a big ol' loud, heavy, massive, beast running dual CPUs, a hundred gigs of ram and ten zillion hard drives. While it would be neat to have a data center straight out of Google it is not necessary. A server is simply a computer that provides data and services to other computers on networks. A NAS is just one flavor of server that exists. They don't really need a ton of power to run well either. Even using a service like Plex where transcoding is done on the fly by the box it runs on, if you're not running multiple streams being transcoded at once running a server that consumes several hundred watts even at idle doesn't really make much sense.
     
    Now if you want to get into enterprise grade server stuff by all means go for it! Generally that stuff has a lot of compute power for the dollar and are designed to run 24/7/365. I'm not trying to talk you out of it. But please take it from someone that has recently gotten into old server stuff, getting exactly what you want will be ludicrously difficult if you don't know exactly what you're doing. There are got-chas all OVER the place with this stuff. People that have been into the enterprise stuff for years will not understand that a new guy won't know that an Intel servraid 8k raid card from an X3650 7979 server can't support drives over 2TB. Which means you would have to get out your wallet to buy another raid card... then find out that unless you can install that raid card into the riser card above the old raid card you'll need a 1 meter sas cable. Oh and if you want to run the new raid card in HBA make sure you didn't buy the LSI megaraid 9260 8i card because it doesn't support it. All this to say that especially since you're on a budget you don't want to end up with a giant proprietary paperweight you can't use and have a heck of a time trying to sell...or in so deep you can't sell it.
     
    If you want my opinion... That budget is tight for any enterprise grade hardware really worth plugging into the wall. Even an off the shelf NAS with multiple disk support may be a bit too rich for that budget. What you could do for now is to find a good working second hand computer locally that is maybe a few years old. If it doesn't already come with an OS, you could install a free Linux based OS on it and run something like Plex to access your media where ever you want.
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    drewpowers reacted to Benjamin_ONeal in I need a cheap home server   
    Thank you everyone for your help.  I ended up with HP ProLiant DL380 G5 for $138.50 AUD. I will eventually replace the duel core xeons with quad core ones which when done any of you are welcome to the duel cores for free.  I just need to know now if freeNAS will make use of xeons.  Thanks
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    drewpowers reacted to Mira Yurizaki in What’s point in wifi channel like 6 and 11   
    If two or more Wi-fi networks in the same area are talking on the same channel, it's harder for the computers on the network to communicate. It's like a radio, if everyone talks on the same channel, it's hard to hear the person you really want to hear and it's hard for them to hear you.
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