YellowJersey

Jake, you committed one of my biggest pet peeves at 7:50. You say, "There's also more PCIe slots..." when you should have said ,"There are also more PCIe slots." People using "is" when they should use "are" drives me crazy. And once you notice it once, you notice it everywhere. I long for death. Still, cool computer.

It's pronounced "cheranna" not "Toronto."

Are you looking at doing wide angle or deep sky objects (like nebulae, galaxies, etc)? What I recommend will depend on what kind of night sky stuff you're looking to do.

I'm currently watching last Friday's WANShow where they're talking about labs. One of the things that LTT and many other reviewers don't really comment on is the value proposition of various pieces of hardware as prices are constantly changing and a product that is bad value at launch may be good value in the future if you find it on sale. So the idea is that you select the part, input the price (like if you find a hell of a black friday deal) and it spits out some kind of value metric (like FPS-per-dollar?). Asking on forums and doing your own research can be time consuming in the case of the latter and frustrating in the case of the former. Anyway, just a thought. I imagine it's probably a lot more complicated than it sounds, especially given that every, say, GPU has a bazzilion variants from various board partners.

Yeah, I don't really understand the tempered glass side panel trend. It's hard finding cases without glass. I also find it weird that there are so few cases where you can mount a fan on the side for a GPU intake. You'd think that would be ideal for cooling.

Any cases you'd recommend then? I'm thinking 2 or 3 120mm intake fans on the front and a 120mm exhaust fan on the back. Maybe a 120mm exhaust fan on the top-rear, but I don't think that'll be necessary given my cpu/gpu combo not kicking out that much heat. (I'm keen on 120mm fans since I already have a bunch. I'm really liking the Silent Wings 3 120mm fans I got). I generally try and buy things like coolers, cases, etc with a view to be able to carry as much forward to a future build as possible, so I usually buy something that's a bit more than I currently need to give myself room to grow into something more powerful (the dread "F" word)

I can just imagine the looks on the MSI reps' faces. Alex, you are the king of backhanded compliments.

Mine's an ATX board

Keep in mind that my desire to get as much out of a computer as possible borders on psychotic XD

Got you beat, I was using a laptop with an i7 35xx (don't remember the exact model number) from 2012 until October. Got 10 years out of that thing and only in the last few months did the performance really feel like a limitation. I'm hoping to get around 4-8 years out of my new rig with a GPU upgrade somewhere in the middle (currently running a 6600XT that's doing just fine). Even managed to sell that old laptop for $300 CAD; she served me well.

I'm in the market for a new case, though I'm in no hurry to buy. I currently run a 5700X (cooled w/ a Noctua NH-D15S) and a 6600 XT (on an ATX board) and am generally a solid "medium man" in terms of specs. My monitor is a 1440 100Hz ultrawide. I'm not particularly interested in water cooling. Looking for a full tower or mid tower in terms of size (though I'm willing to consider anything that has good airflow/thermals/noise and can fit my NH-D15S) I was watching Steve from GN and he had a few "best cases of the year" videos, so this is what I've based my prospects on. I'm currently torn between the Corsair 4000D airflow (currently $140 CAD at Memory Express) and the NZXT H7 Flow (currently $170 CAD at MemEx) (I'm also considering the Fractal Design Pop Air, currently 120 CAD at MemEx ). I'm looking for good airflow and thermals as well as something that's reasonably quiet. I also have three BeQuiet! Silent Wings 3 120mm fans that I'd be carrying over from my current case. Any reason why I should choose one over the other? At my specs, does it really matter? Any other cases I should be looking at? any thoughts? I'd like to keep it under $200 CAD.

This is one of the reasons why I don't chase the cutting edge: there's always something (potentially better/cheaper) just around the corner. Buying the previous generation just as newest generation is coming out (or slightly after) strikes me as being the sensible approach as, by that point, it's a known quantity, especially when the new stuff has a new socket. Got myself a 5700x on black Friday and I'm pretty happy with it. I'm glad I don't need the high end cutting edge stuff.

Sorry, I'm super tired (it's nearly 5:30 AM where I am) and I've been up all night so I'm probably not the most coherent. I put in "sudo systemctl status ufw" and it spits this out: (I get this after rebooting and vpn is not open, while vpn is open, and after I close vpn) (out of curiosity, I got the exact same message on my other machine running Mint 21.1 MATE. On my other machine, I also tried "sudo ufw status verbose" and and it spits out "status: active" even when the VPN is on, so my other machine does not have this issue; status of ufw is always active. I don't know why it's different on this machine)

Status: "inactive" It wants me to manually enable ufw after closing the VPN.

Ok, I've made some progress. You're right. So, what appears to be happening is that ufw firewall turns on on system startup like it's supposed to. However, I use a VPN, which disables ufw (presumably using iptables instead). However, when I turn off my VPN, it doesn't turn ufw back on (it used to, but now it doesn't)

I'm having trouble with a recent upgrade to Linux Mint 21.1 MATE. I noticed that the ufw firewall is always turned off; even if I turn it back on, it will turn itself back off. History: I went to the GUI for ufw and noticed it was toggled off, so I toggled it on. However, a little later, I checked again and it was turned off. I've attached a screenshot of my adventures in the terminal, but nothing seems to be working. I even tired a clean install of the OS itself, and it didn't fix the issue (I'm not having this issue on any other machines running 21.1 MATE. Any ideas? I just want my firewall to be on! ***Edit: SOLUTION: I just went back to 20.3 and I don't have this problem anymore. Couldn't figure it out in 21.1.

It's this kind of corporate crap that leads me to intentionally be a generation behind. Got a Ryzen 5000 series CPU and an RX 6000 card for a bargain right when the new stuff was coming out.

I think having a bike computer and then a separate heart rate monitor would probably make more sense.

I just noticed he wants a heart rate monitor. For an all in one with HR, that'll cost you. It probably makes more sense to get a stand alone heart rate monitor and an inexpensive basic computer.

Since when do you "own" an apple product?

Mine's too big to fit on my desk, so I have it sitting on top of a cardboard box about 30cm off the floor so that the power supply isn't sucking up dust off the carpet.

Simple: trade amongst themselves. Extreme wealth inequality is actually the standard throughout human history. I could see them walling themselves off from the rest of the world and letting us rot, Elysium style.

CGP Grey did a great video addressing that question. In short, we can either crate a utopia where robots do all our work for us and we can do whatever we want, or it'll result in a select few having access to luxury beyond your wildest imagination while 99% of the human population lives in abject poverty. Gee, I wonder which one is more likely?

Welcome to the economy of the future. Humans need not apply.