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Microwaved pizza from the day before tastes just as good. I don't mind that it's a bit soggy.

Especially among older people I've talked to, it's very common to refer to the PC itself as a "hard drive". So you'll have people connecting a keyboard, mouse and monitor to their laptop, close the lid, and now they're "just using it as a hard drive".
Is that just in Norway, or is that a common misconception elsewhere?

Yes.
Assuming you use Windows 10, you can right click your desktop, enter Display settings, highlight the monitor you want to disable and select "disconnect this display" under the "Multiple displays" drop down box.

I want to know the state of VR gaming on Linux. Last I tried, I got massive input lag and decided Linux isn't quite ready yet. Before I give it another go, I want to know that there's been made some significant progress.

I want to know the state of VR gaming on Linux. Last I tried, I got massive input lag and decided Linux isn't quite ready yet. Before I give it another go, I want to know that there's been made some significant progress.

Hmm, I'm thinking it might just be the firmware crashing. I mean, the same CPU have worked reliably in my PC (B350-F) for over a year until I decided to get an upgrade.
Might be worth RMAing the motherboard? Worst case scenario, my brother will have to pay for shipping, but given my experience with this store, they might just cover the shipping either way.

I read in the manual that, if it finds a BIOS file on a USB while POSTing, it'll enter BIOS flashing mode. So hey, if I can make something other than the splash screen show up, it'll be a welcome change. I tried downloading the BIOS from Asus' website, extracting the .CAP file out of the .zip file and putting it on the USB, but it didn't work. Maybe there's supposed to be a particular folder structure? Does anyone know?

Yeah, that's definitely worth a shot. Unfortunately, this board doesn't have any USB 2 ports on it, otherwise I'd have used that to begin with. I might hook up the case's USB 2 port, though.
 
 
It does have a PS/2 port. I was thinking about that myself, and I've been looking around for a PS/2 keyboard I remember seeing around somewhere in the past. That keyboard brings back childhood memories...

It just took much longer to POST. I have to walk all the way around the table to see what's on the screen, so I have no idea if something showed up in the meantime.
Only got GPU, keyboard, mouse and a single SSD. So I'll unplug the SSD and the mouse, then, I guess. I'll put one of the sticks in the B2 slot, since that's what the manual recommends for a single stick.
Man, getting my computer out from underneath the desk is a major hassle. I hope that won't be necessary. That said, I'm gonna have to pull it out anyway at the end of next week, or some time the following week(whenever the parts arrive), to upgrade the RAM from my current 2133MHz ones to 3200MHz ones.

Didn't help

No, I just unplugged the power, took it out, made sure there was no plastic and put it right back in. I'll try leaving it out for a while.

I want to know the state of VR gaming on Linux. Last I tried, I got massive input lag and decided Linux isn't quite ready yet. Before I give it another go, I want to know that there's been made some significant progress.

I want to know the state of VR gaming on Linux. Last I tried, I got massive input lag and decided Linux isn't quite ready yet. Before I give it another go, I want to know that there's been made some significant progress.

New Kalmar-Union let's go, boys!

In addition to the letters in the English alphabet, the Nordic countries all have three additional letters. I Norway and Denmark, there's Æ, Ø, and Å, and Sweden and Finland have Ä, Ö and Å. I don't know about Finland, but Sweden, Denmark and Norway all have slightly different keyboard layouts. Norway and Denmark, for instance, have the Æ and Ø on the opposite buttons compared to each other, which is fine, as long as they don't make keyboards with all these layouts mashed together.
Oh, but they do. They didn't use to, but now that's all I can get my hands on. And we use our additional letters a lot here. And mind you, these letters aren't fancy versions of O and A, they're completely different letters, just like the letter C isn't a fancy O. Substituting them with a lookalike letter that's in the English alphabet is just janky.
 
Look at this shit:

Sure, I know which one is Æ, and which one is Ø, but that's no help when I'm having a brain fart and need to check which one is which. And imagine if you're a kid or a grandma who's just learning to type on this shit!
And which button do you think I have to push to get a backslash? I mean, I use backslash often enough that it's annoying when there's a fake one next to the real one, and I use it rarely enough that I never remember which one is which.
 
And if you're curious, if I press the two dots next to Å, nothing happens immediately, but if I then press O, I get Ö, or A I get Ä. If I press space, I get the two dots by themselves ¨
 
 
Whoever though it would be a good idea to mash these layouts together should get fired.
And if whoever is responsible for this is for some reason reading this, well, I'm not gonna condone suicide, but your contributions to society is certainly not of a positive character.

In addition to the letters in the English alphabet, the Nordic countries all have three additional letters. I Norway and Denmark, there's Æ, Ø, and Å, and Sweden and Finland have Ä, Ö and Å. I don't know about Finland, but Sweden, Denmark and Norway all have slightly different keyboard layouts. Norway and Denmark, for instance, have the Æ and Ø on the opposite buttons compared to each other, which is fine, as long as they don't make keyboards with all these layouts mashed together.
Oh, but they do. They didn't use to, but now that's all I can get my hands on. And we use our additional letters a lot here. And mind you, these letters aren't fancy versions of O and A, they're completely different letters, just like the letter C isn't a fancy O. Substituting them with a lookalike letter that's in the English alphabet is just janky.
 
Look at this shit:

Sure, I know which one is Æ, and which one is Ø, but that's no help when I'm having a brain fart and need to check which one is which. And imagine if you're a kid or a grandma who's just learning to type on this shit!
And which button do you think I have to push to get a backslash? I mean, I use backslash often enough that it's annoying when there's a fake one next to the real one, and I use it rarely enough that I never remember which one is which.
 
And if you're curious, if I press the two dots next to Å, nothing happens immediately, but if I then press O, I get Ö, or A I get Ä. If I press space, I get the two dots by themselves ¨
 
 
Whoever though it would be a good idea to mash these layouts together should get fired.
And if whoever is responsible for this is for some reason reading this, well, I'm not gonna condone suicide, but your contributions to society is certainly not of a positive character.

A while ago, I discovered a new brand I had never heard of before, called Svive. I was kinda excited for Nvidia now supporting freesync, and though I'd get a freesync monitor, and the cheapest 27" 1440p 144hz freesync monitor I found was a Svive monitor. Now, they make a bunch of different gaming related stuff, that is headphones, mice, keyboards, wireless routers, chairs, microphones, microphone accessories and computer cases.
 
Turns out, this is a brand aimed at the Nordic market. They don't seem to be selling outside of Scandinavia. On their website, if you click the Norwegian flag in the upper right corner, you'll get a list of stores where you can buy their products, but I've only heard of Komplett.no (and Komplettbedrift.no, which is just Komplett.no for companies). Komplett.no is basically the place to go if you want to build your own PC in Norway. There's also Komplett.se in Sweden and Komplett.dk in Denmark.
 
I'd love to see a review of Svive products.
 
I can point out one catch here and now: If you have a problem, you'll find nothing on Google.

id personally rather watch it in a video... i'm to ADHD to read a book. but i have a feeling its going to be a very centrist view when it comes to most things. kind of a live an let live sort of deal, and respect is earned, not given or expected due to (insert minority groups here) which is the preferable. i also believe he much prefers meritocracy over affirmative action as well.
 
anyways that's just my predictions. i guess we will have to wait and find out, he might be an insane right winger dropping the black pill in his book, which i think would be pretty funny, or he could be a closet SJW which would be just disappointing
 
BUT at the end of the day, does it really matter? as long as it doesn't effect the quality of work he is producing, and i imagine nobody he works with cares that much, then its all good

Nah, I wouldn't buy his book just to find out what his political views are. Because I don't care.
I'm not watching LTT for his political views, I'm watching him for his tech knowledge while at the same time managing to make tech entertaining to watch. 
He could say "Hitler was right" for all I care and I'd still watch him.
 
While GN is probably better on the knowledge side, he's just too boring to watch IMO, his voice lull me into a stupor.

Nah, Oculus Rift is not worse than Vive at all, Vive is better at some things, but Rift is better on others (like being much more comfortable)

Dogs

Dogs

I worked at an electronics store once. Well, I wasn't employed by them, and they didn't pay my wage... Well, long story, not important. I got paid, just not by them. I didn't have to be there to get paid.
Anyway, I didn't talk to customers, because fuck that, I'm not a people person, so I mainly worked on preparing customers' PCs for them (if they paid for having their PC prepared for them) and fixing problems for customers that had some subscription thingy for, well, getting help with their PCs and stuff.
 
This one guy apparently turned up every week or so with a bunch of bloatware on his PC. And we had to reinstall Windows, every time, because he got every single piece of bloatware you could possibly get on your machine. Including some modified version of Chromium that refused to uninstall. So, we had to reinstall Windows every time he showed up. He was apparently a regular before I got there, even.
 
One day, he had apparently written a complaint to the boss guy, and accused us of installing this bloatware on his PC.
What now? I don't know what my colleague might have done previously, but I highly doubt he installed anything the customer didn't explicitly ask for, and more than a couple of times, I was the one doing the reinstalling, with a USB I had prepared with of an ISO file I downloaded freshly from Microsoft's webpage, and I even went out of my way to remove Candy Crush! I've also watched my colleague reinstall Windows on this guy's PC, and I can testify that no shady business was going on. No sneaky installing Ask toolbar in such a way that it would magically appear a couple days later. All he got was Windows 10 and a couple of legit programs he asked us to install.
 
The bullshit this guy pulled would be the same as accusing the mechanic of doing some voodoo shit that gives your car's bumper a dent while you're driving it. Nooo, you didn't drive it into a street lamp! The mechanic made the dent a week before the dent was even there!

Huh, I just fixed a similar issue a few hours ago. I was about to move the GPU to a different slot, when I discovered the power cable wasn't plugged into the GPU.