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Nothing to tree here
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1 minute ago, GOTSpectrum said:See I'm the opposite, I like to see the infrastructure for what it is
Wind farms are the worst offender IMO
Hey wanna travel to the Windows XP background IRL? Too fuckin bad mate, it's full of big poles
Wanna see the gorgeous coastline in Western Australia? Well, it's already teeming with fans.
Mountain? Sure, put em there too, who gives a damn
I hate to cite Grand Theft Auto V as a source in my argument but... they really did a great job of satirizing wind farms
I'm not anti-clean energy by any means. I just wish there was a way to make these a little less ugly
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I want to put 5 1/2 Drivers on my future PC.
GOTSpectrum replied to eerie5's topic in General Discussion
Oh god don't remind me -
Me: Mom I want pop tarts
Mom: we have pop tarts at home
The pop tarts at home:
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A shocking display of stupidity
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Alright, I'll join in. I taught high school physics for 10 years and during my first year, they had just "renovated" my classroom. They put in a bunch of computers and caged off the lathe, drill press, and whatnot but put just a bunch of random stuff in there too. Included in that list was a glass Hoffman electrolysis apparatus and a bunch of 12V lantern batteries. You shouldn't leave stuff like that just lying around for me to find.
Not that it had anything to do with what I was teaching at the time (kinematics or something, but I decided to hook up two of the batteries in series and ran it for a while. It produced quite a few bubbles and filled up the hydrogen side pretty quickly. I then showed my class what happens when you put a burning splint at each of the two valves (O2, H2). They thought the 12" tall flame on the hydrogen side was pretty impressive.
What I DIDN'T show them was when I hooked up eight batteries in series (96V DC) during my off period, switched the polarities halfway through the process (producing O2 and H2 in the same container), and then held the splint to the valve and opened it. Luckily the electrodes were attached to rubber stoppers because they absolutely blew out the bottom like a gunshot rather than the glass exploding into my face. There was water all over the batteries (but didn't short them out somehow) and the aluminum electrodes that had been in the glass chambers had completely vaporized.
When I told my students the story, they asked why I hadn't waited for their class period to do that
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I have seen a 50ft 4/0 cable make a 60hz sine wave...
Don't cross phases kiddies.
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The ElectroBOOM supreme!
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Yes, the strongest malk
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Actually Madagascar has the spider with the strongest silk
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I'm watching a guy milk spiders on YouTube....
What a time to be alive
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Consumer W - ISP's must display their pricing correctly!
GOTSpectrum replied to BrandonTech.05's topic in Tech News
For residential connections in the UK they can't charge you rent or to own the hardware, they can however charge a "bond" which is repayable when you return the equipment. If you have a business connection then they can charge you for the hardware. (Also if they offer multiple hardware options, such as a base model and then a higher end model (think mesh network) they can either offer to sell it to you as an optional extra or rent that extra hardware to you. In practice renting is rarely done any they either sell it to you or give it to you on the bond model as the base hardware but at higher bond. The base model is legally required to be able to operate at the rated speed of the connection no matter what) -
True, I just meant that, if they have an up to date bios currently all DDR5 currently on the market should work. But I suppose clarity is important in these things
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The QVL exists more for system integrators than it does the public. It's a way of saying, if you buy X ram with this motherboard it will run at X speed 99% of the time... It's not supposed to be an exhaustive list of every RAM kit out there. It's a buy this one and it will almost certainly work at the speed rated on the QVL, buying something else will 100% work, just sometimes you won't get the rated speed of the ram for whatever reason, but in the modern world it is rare that you can't get the rated speed unless it's a stupid high clock, like 5000mt/s on DDR4 for example ALL DDR5 ram will work on your board, but the only guaranteed speed is JEDEC specs, but in practice it's much less of an issue these days than it was in the ddr3 era because the JEDEC specs are much better than back in the day
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I'm sure Scotty from strange parts will give it a try, or maybe Luis rossmann
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Fastest theoretical am3 system
GOTSpectrum replied to aren332's topic in CPUs, Motherboards, and Memory
I'm pretty sure it would be a Phenom II X6 1100T Although @da na knows better than me -
What have you tried so far to fix the issue?
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Microsoft makes it even harder to change your default browser
GOTSpectrum replied to AMDKilla's topic in Tech News
Although it's less common today, it still happens where when you install one piece of software, a browser or security software is included in the installation. AND, if the person installing isn't paying attention it's easy for this to make itself the primary browser -
I could be wrong, but I don't believe there is a legal requirement to cover the legal costs in UK courts. Although I'll be looking into this because I may be taking the NHS to court
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Funnily enough I ordered one of these recently... So it may surprise people that the folding team leader is mining, or well in this case planning to mine. I like to make fermented foods and I have an outside cupboard that I use to make them, well much of the year it needs a 100w heater in there to keep the right temp, I decided if I'm using that 100w anyway why not throw a miner in there. I don't care about profit, but getting back some of the money spend on the electric to head it will be nice
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Consumer W - ISP's must display their pricing correctly!
GOTSpectrum replied to BrandonTech.05's topic in Tech News
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So here's the thing, you go anywhere in the world and there is a group that is marginalised and hated. My family had to flee south Africa because of the horrible racism against white people there. How does this relate to Dbrand, well that's simple, a racist will use ANY justification for their actions. They are a big successful company "doing the racism" and to them that justifies the way they treat others who are different to them, no matter if they are white, or another colour. There is no place in the world for direct hate, and Dbrand walks a fine line, and in my opinion often steps over that line
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