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kelvinhall05

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  • Gender
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  • Location
    Ontario
  • Interests
    Film photography, keyboards, hobby electronics and PCBs

System

  • CPU
    Ryzen 7 3700X
  • Motherboard
    MSI B450-A Pro Max
  • RAM
    32GB
  • GPU
    MSI Vega 56
  • Case
    Fractal Design Define C
  • Storage
    256GB NVMe boot, 512GB Samsung 850 Pro, 1TB WD Blue SSD, 1TB WD Blue HDD
  • PSU
    Inwin P85 850w
  • Display(s)
    3x Thinkvision P24Q on a Steelcase Eyesite triple monitor stand
  • Cooling
    Stock for CPU, be quiet! case fans, Morpheus Vega w/ be quiet! Pure Wings 2 for GPU
  • Keyboard
    Focus FK-9000 (heavily modded)
  • Mouse
    MX Master 3
  • Sound
    Sennheiser HD598SE, Sony Linkbuds
  • Operating System
    Arch w/ KDE
  • Laptop
    Thinkpad T14 Gen 3 AMD, fully loaded
  • Phone
    Pixel 6 Pro

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  1. Lmao board works perfect. I prooooooobably should've checked BIOS to make sure all RAM was detected and whatnot but it booted immediately without issues.

     

    Think it's safe to say it works perfectly?

    1. NTDaws

      NTDaws

      What board you got

    2. kelvinhall05

      kelvinhall05

      On 2/24/2024 at 3:26 PM, NTDaws said:

      What board you got

      Prime X570P

  2. Ewaste came through today. Complete, seemingly brand new. Will see if I can bring it to Canada Computers tomorrow to test (not about to rip my rig apart in case it blows up CPUs or something).

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    2. kelvinhall05

      kelvinhall05

      6 minutes ago, Techstorm970 said:

       

      Oh, the overvolting thing? I think this is too old for that. Not sure tho.

    3. Skiiwee29

      Skiiwee29

      Just now, kelvinhall05 said:

      Oh, the overvolting thing? I think this is too old for that. Not sure tho.

      LMG has actually stopped working with Asus as well late last year in response to horrible Customer Service

       

       

    4. kelvinhall05

      kelvinhall05

      1 hour ago, Skiiwee29 said:

      LMG has actually stopped working with Asus as well late last year in response to horrible Customer Service

       

       

      Interesting, though I couldn't care less about LMG at this point. Even if their content interested me in the last few years, the community and their (somewhat) recent behaviour has pushed me away.

       

      I'll test the board and flip it either way. I have no use for it.

  3. After years of wanting one, I finally got a reMarkable.

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    And yep, you're reading that right. $24.99. Boxed, basically brand new, everything but the micro USB cable included. Even has every single original stylus tip.

     

    Firmware was from late 2018. My guess is someone got it as a gift or from work and then never used it. Win for me. I'm absolutely stoked. It works perfectly.

    1. Senzelian

      Senzelian

      Remarkable reMarkable deal!

  4. My thrift store laptop battery luck continues; got a T430s (i5/8gb/160(?)gb ssd/1600:900) for $30 and the battery is at 96% designed capacity. $30 with a charger. Not too shabby.

    1. Levent

      Levent

      I can show you how to manipulate that value lol.

    2. kelvinhall05

      kelvinhall05

      3 hours ago, Levent said:

      I can show you how to manipulate that value lol.

      Hey come on now. It's a fun machine to fuck around with.

       

      You want value? I also bought this framed image of a three-legged dear pissing for $6. THAT'S value.

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    3. kelvinhall05

      kelvinhall05

      7 hours ago, Levent said:

      I can show you how to manipulate that value lol.

      I absolutely misread this btw. I thought you said "I can see how you manipulate that value" referring to how I'm supposedly making it sound like a better deal than it is.

       

      I don't think it's manipulated though. I don't doubt it's possible to do but it seems legit to me.

  5. TTP done. Incredible game. Buy it right now. It's so good. Spoiler comments:

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    I did the tower ending first, then the "eternal life" ending (just from a restored savepoint tho). Haven't done the star endings and probably not gonna bother, at least for now. I did kinda see the tower ending coming from pretty early on; I'm mildly disappointed by that, but I still enjoyed the crap out of it. Fantastic pacing, good puzzles, sound and music are excellent, "feel" is literally perfect, it's exactly what I want in a game....I can't say enough good things. Absolutely blown away. Easily going into my favourite games of all time.

    Definitely gonna get the second one at some point. If someone has suggestions for other games with a similar feel/story, I'm all ears.

    1. kelvinhall05

      kelvinhall05

      More spoiler thoughts:

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      I think it could've been cool if they played the "what does it mean to be human" or whatever aspects out a bit more. I understand why they were included the way they were, but honestly, I kinda loved the existential crisis I got about halfway through during my chats with the MLA. It's been a while since any piece of media has made me feel that way, and probably the first time for a video game.

       

  6. The Talos Principle is fucking incredible but wow is it giving me an existential crisis. Not even close to being done either.

    1. Poinkachu
    2. kelvinhall05

      kelvinhall05

      5 hours ago, Poinkachu said:

      Soma gave me that.

      It's been on my wishlist for a while. I'll give it a shot at some point.

  7. Oh yeah so I got that SSD for the Dell installed along with a 4GB stick of DDR3 I had lying around (bringing it to a cursed 5GB total) and it honestly runs fantastic. It did take me 90 fucking minutes to replace thermal paste, requiring a complete (yes, COMPLETE) disassembly (everything from the god damn display, wifi card, separate Bluetooth antenna, both halves of the lower chassis...jesus fucking christ Dell), but it's great now. Obviously I threw Arch/KDE on it, and it's been fun just messing around with it a bit. Not sure what else to do with it. Somehow it has 91% battery health which is astonishing.

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  8. Check out this cute thing I got today:

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    Latitude E4200 for just $8.49 plus tax lol. No charger but it was 87% charged on the shelf and powered right on.

     

    Unfortunately, there is one fairly big problem. I guessed it would take a standard 2.5" SSD, but apparently not.

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    Welp. I'll have to return that tomorrow. Super fun as it's only a train and two busses totalling an hour assuming no delays and no wait time to get to the MemEx I bought it from.

     

    Thankfully, a friend of mine found me fitting drives on eBay for just a couple bucks more, and they have an extra 80GB of capacity. I'll probably toss in another 2GB of RAM, too. This'll be fun to fuck around with.

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    2. kelvinhall05

      kelvinhall05

      2 hours ago, da na said:

      Heya, I've got one of those. Absolutely love it. I'd recommend a 1.8" to mSATA SSD adapter though, the authentic 1.8" SSDs of the era are... not fast.

      Adapter + SSD would cost significantly more than just an old SSD. And it seems like a fairly decent drive. https://www.ebay.com/itm/386101263046

       

      And let's be real. It's a C2D. It doesn't need a blazing fast SSD.

    3. da na

      da na

      13 minutes ago, kelvinhall05 said:

      Adapter + SSD would cost significantly more than just an old SSD. And it seems like a fairly decent drive. https://www.ebay.com/itm/386101263046

       

      And let's be real. It's a C2D. It doesn't need a blazing fast SSD.

      OK, the SanDisk might be fine; the Intel one in mine is barely faster than a 2.5" HDD.


      Does yours have the SU9600 chip?

    4. kelvinhall05

      kelvinhall05

      8 minutes ago, da na said:

      OK, the SanDisk might be fine; the Intel one in mine is barely faster than a 2.5" HDD.


      Does yours have the SU9600 chip?

      I believe so but I don't remember. I've avoided turning it on much since 1. I can't do much without storage and 2. I'm saving the battery since I don't have a charger here.

  9. Yeah alright, 10 mins in and I get the RPN hype. It's easy, fast, and just make sense. I love it so much.

  10. Well well well. Guess what I scored for $5 today.

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    Yep, that's right. A working HP 42S in fantastic shape for five fucking dollars. I'm absolutely stoked. I have wanted one of these for so damn long but they were so expensive I gave up even searching. Definitely living in my bag alongside my FX850P from now on. Will probably use both, who knows. They're both so damn cool in their own ways.

  11. arch linux forums and stackexchange

     

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    1. kelvinhall05

      kelvinhall05

      oh yeah and also "this link" is always for an unrelated setup/issue and/or a dead link

  12. Lol this is REALLY BAD. I gave Factorio another whirl yesterday and was able to play for six hours straight and get all the way to fully scalable green science pack automation without even looking anything up. I'm really fucking proud of myself but yeah this is BAD. It really is addicting now that I'm not stressing over literally everything I do. Sure, it's kinda reflected in my layouts of everything, but I don't care!! I don't feel like I have to care!! It's incredibly freeing. But yeah this is so bad lmao

  13. Update time I guess? Not sure who's left here that cares (or that I care about caring).

     

    SSRIs are wild. Didn't realize how much stuff I was "incapable" of doing was actually just not possible with anxiety. Basic shit like taking notes is no longer constant questions of "am I wasting ink, am I wasting paper, am I writing the right stuff, is it legible, am I missing stuff, etc etc etc". Same revelation for basically every other stupid little thing in life. It's great. Unfortunately the note thing in particular means I'm getting back into fountain pens. God please not another expensive hobby, fuck fuck fuck fuck...but i'm absolutely loving rhodia dotbooks and a mango safari with an m nib and herbin ambre de birmanie is a gorgeous and very fast-drying combo, love love love

     

    Engineering workload is keeping me busy but not nearly as bad as I worried (then again, read above lol). I'm handling it with relative ease and my first midterms went pretty damn well. Am really loving the overall experience and fresh start socially and otherwise. This too is great.

     

    In terms of tech, I'm still loving the T14, and the battery life isn't that big of a deal. Sure, it's objectively...well, terrible, but does it really matter if I have to carry a small and light 65w adapter in my bag and plug it in for 30 mins while I eat lunch or study in the late afternoon? No, not at all. It's purely a mental thing. And it charges ridiculously fast so I really couldn't care less. Every other part of the machine is fantastic.

     

    Oh, I switched to Firefox as of...two days ago? Something like that. YouTube's adblocker blocking was the push I have wanted for a couple years now. Took maybe a day of getting used to hitting shift+ctrl+p for private and ctrl+k to jump to the search bar, now it's like I've always used it. Really loving it. Snappy as fuck and hardware video acceleration is pretty cool (floored that Chrome STILL hasn't implemented it on Linux, I mean, come ON Google...). My one complaint is that the mobile app is...well, shit. I mean maybe I'll get used to it, but the only thing it has on Chrome is that the sync between devices is FAR more seamless. I really miss small things like swiping down from the top for running tabs and opening to normal browsing by default (seriously, it should only open to private browsing if I have the app already running with private tabs open).

     

    TF2 has been fucked on Linux for several weeks now which is a real shame but means I've been playing other games instead. I bought Spiritfarer and am absolutely in love. It's absolutely stunning on this display, which definitely makes it more enjoyable. Also gonna give Factorio another shot; curious how it'll be without a constant "is this efficient, is it scalable, is it optimized, what if it's ugly, what if it's inefficient, what if, what if, what if..." playing out in my head.

     

    Oh and I finally got to try an openly enby identity which I've wanted to for over a year now and I'm digging it. Still experimenting with style (man, it fucking SUCKS having to think about how I dress myself lmao) but I feel way more comfortable overall lol. Who knew that looking at myself in the mirror and wanting to stab whoever was standing there was actually dysphoria and not insecurity? Well, it's probably both, but you get what I mean.

     

    I guess that's it for now but I'll probably make another lol bye

    1. DildorTheDecent

      DildorTheDecent

      13 minutes ago, kelvinhall05 said:

      SSRIs are wild. Didn't realize how much stuff I was "incapable" of doing was actually just not possible with anxiety. Basic shit like taking notes is no longer constant questions of "am I wasting ink, am I wasting paper, am I writing the right stuff, is it legible, am I missing stuff, etc etc etc". Same revelation for basically every other stupid little thing in life. It's great.

      I've been on Setraline (Zoloft in the US) Since December last year for anxiety and it's been life-changing. What you describe with the questioning is exactly how mine would manifest.

    2. kelvinhall05

      kelvinhall05

      5 minutes ago, DildorTheDecent said:

      I've been on Setraline (Zoloft in the US) Since December last year for anxiety and it's been life-changing. What you describe with the questioning is exactly how mine would manifest.

      Yeah it's fantastic. Cipralex for me. Everything feels doable now and I actively want to get out of bed and do stuff (most days, it's not a magic cure all lol). Glad someone can relate.

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