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Cut your expenses.
 
You have two jobs it's not an income problem.

computers and gaming. 
 
other than that, im a sleeping aficionado. 
 
i don't like guns, they shouldn't be owned by civilians. 

"Find a job you enjoy and you'll never have to work a day in your life."

Amazing journey! Looking forward is the only way in life, as long as you give yourself the time to grow and evelop, your life will be great.
 
As Rocky once said, it ain't about how hard you hit, it's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.

Thank you Linus and all the members of Linus Media Group and Linus Tech Tips.
 
About a year and a half ago I was planning my suicide after being used twice against my will.  After some friends showed concern, I checked myself into a hospital.  After the discharge I was still depressed and often layed around after work doing nothing, but the one thing I would do is watch YouTube, specifically Linus Tech Tips and it's sister channels, EEV Blog, the 8-Bit Guy, Chris Fix, Cody's Lab, LGR, Metal Jesus, RetroManCave, Modern Vintage Gamer, the Modern Rogue, and Voultar.  All of you helped me carry-on everyday because I had at least something to look forward to everyday, whether it was new material or something I had to catch up with, there was something.
 
I am doing much better now.  I do have my bad days but I don't consider suicide as a valid option now.
 
Thank you.

It's coincidental you mention taxi because my dad whom is an Über took me to work today.
I did have my music in as per usual but it was nice being in a different environment from the usual bus.
 
When I'm on the bus, I usually either stare out the scenery, or am on my phone, no in-between.

Most important thing for me is HOW I wake up. Which is why I have "Lemmino ft. Veela - An Apology" set as an alarm on my phone for years now. It's starts super chill, rain sound and piano and then it kicks in into a melodic vocal part after like 20-30 seconds. Which means I always already easily wake up to the super chill part and if I by some weird reason wouldn't, louder vocal part later would for sure. Feels less stressful than full on beeping or some shocking melody to literally kick you off the bed...

The only way I can make work mornings more enjoyable is by calling in sick.

Not that I do that often at all, but still, it's the only way.

Exactly. 
You're right. The UK isn't as safe as it used to be. The main cause of this is that the police service just doesn't work anymore.
When my house got broken into last year it took the police 7 hours to arrive. It's stupid.
Might not be the best idea to joke about that but alright..
It might be the bus. Public transport isn't nice by any means. Buses are always really depressing for me.
What you could do is take a taxi to work one day and see if you feel better going in a taxi rather than on the bus.
If you don't feel any better going in a taxi then just distract yourself on the bus.
Usually when I'm on the bus I'll either check social media or call one of my friends.
Talking to friends helps with my anxiety when I'm on the bus, especially when the bus is quite full. It distracts me from most of the crowds and noise.

You could make a status update to ask for opinions, it's on your own profile so it's easy to keep up with.

wow, you're a terrible person

Radeon 7 status doesn't matter, what matters is Navi, because that is the performance being speculated. If it's not high enough it's another dead end which nobody actually wants. Navi could be great, Navi could be bad, Navi in some way could effect Radeon 7 but that is the thing that actually doesn't matter. Radeon 7 is only being used as a measuring stick.

can it really be considered delayed if the only release dates we had were rumour.   It's kinda like saying a nasa launch was delayed because some bloke down the pub said he thought it should have happened the week earlier on his day off.

I wonder what will come first Navi or Windows October Update.

At least this gives them more time to iron out driver bugs with Gamer's Nexus for the next product launch
 
<laugh track plays in the background>

Get an Arctic Freezer 33 eSports ONE instead.
 
Why? Because I've never heard of LC-Power before.

Introduction
From June 2014 to September 2017 the graphics card in my system was the GTX 770, which I've talked about a fair amount here and here.
 
In August 2017 I wanted to buy the new Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus. It turned out that the GTX 770's measely 2GB of VRAM in a Vulkan title and the lack of optimizations due to being quite old at that point meant that performance was absolutely unplayable and within 30 minutes I applied to have the game refunded using Steam Refunds. Ultimately, this experience finally convinced me I needed to buy a new GPU as previously I had wanted to buy one but couldn't justify it.
Later on in September 2017 due to me leaving Hong Kong to go to Uni in the UK I ended up selling most of my PC parts and ultimately decided in January 2018 that I wanted to buy a new PC.
 
I was determined not to buy Nvidia because of my awful experiences with Nvidia drivers with my 770 in the last few months of using it. I wanted an AMD card. Unfortunately for me the mining craze was still very much alive in early 2018 and after careful consideration I decided to buy an RX 480 8GB at a ludicrous asking price of £320. It was actually a really nice card other than the excessive heat and noise due to being a blower reference card. I put up with the noise and heat for a while but in August 2018 I decided I wanted to sell my reference 480 and buy a much better 480. I ended up with a seller refurbished Sapphire Nitro+ RX 480 8GB and bought it for £199 on eBay. I was able to sell my reference RX 480 8GB but at substantial loss and I came to terms with the fact that I'd never get that money back.
 
I really liked my Sapphire Nitro+ RX 480 8GB. It was the perfect RX 480 8GB. But gaming had moved on and some video games were pushing the envelope of graphics too hard and also the increasing number of unoptimized PC titles meant that in some games my 480 delivered a mediocre experience. In December 2018 I decided I wanted to buy a new graphics card. Either the upcoming rumored at the time Navi based RX 3080 with the rumored performance of an RX Vega 56 or buying a Vega 56.
 
In January 2019 I made the decision to purchase an RX Vega 56 after realizing that any potential GPUs being shown off at CES would be many months away at best. By a stroke of luck I was unintentionally correct as AMD announced the Radeon VII, a $699 RTX 2080 competitor, instead of the Navi series.
 
Before I sold my Nitro+ 480 8GB I wanted to benchmark it to compare it to my current RX Vega 56 so I do have comparisons to it in most games and synthetic benchmarks I've chosen. In several synthetic tests I have results from my GTX 770 as well for a 3 way comparison.
 
 
Testing notes
 
The test system is my main PC with an R7 1700X Stock, MSI X370 Gaming Pro Carbon Motherboard, 16GB DDR4-3200 (2x 8GB), Corsair RM850i PSU, and Corsair H100i V2 CPU cooler.
 
The performance numbers for my RX 480 are from my Sapphire Nitro+ RX 480 8GB with AMD Radeon Software Adrenaline Edition 18.11.2 . My RX Vega 56 card is an Asus ROG Strix triple fan that I bought from @ChewToy! and is running AMD Radeon Software Adrenaline 2019 Edition 19.1.2 although at the time of posting the latest version is 19.2.1 . I didn't switch to the new version when it came out as I had already done a large amount of testing before and wanted to be consistent across all the games and tests.
 
Between changing GPUs the drivers were freshly removed using DDU, display driver uninstaller (a 3rd party program which is good for removing gpu drivers), with a new version downloaded from AMD's website and installed.
 
Both were on Windows 10 Version 1809 X64 with no real difference between them in the software side. During testing I closed all applications that weren't required for benchmarking.
 
Performance information in most games was recorded by FRAPS except in games using DX12 or Vulkan. In games using DX12 or Vulkan, the built in benchmarking tool was used which provided performance information.
 
Some games were tested using Virtual Super Resolution. It's basically AMD's version of allowing upscaling to higher than native resolutions. In those cases I have specified if it has been used and what resolution it was tested at. I did also decide to test some synthetics as well.
 
I may add more game benchmark results at a later date if I have time.
 
List of games tested (Year it was released) and notes:
Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation (2016) Battlefield 4 (2013) - Actual gameplay of first story checkpoint F1 2015 (2014) For Honor (2016) Grid Autosport (2014) GTA V PC (2015) - Actual gameplay of first story mission Metro 2033 Redux (2014) Metro: Last Light Redux (2014) Middle Earth: Shadow Of Mordor (2014) Tomb Raider (2013) Rise of The Tomb Raider (2015) Watch_Dogs 2 (2016) - Actual gameplay - I have found some issues with the benchmark results so I'll be re-doing the Vega 56 benchmarking for it.  
List of Synthetic Benchmarks tested
3DMark Firestrike 3DMark Firestrike Extreme 3DMark Timespy 3DMark Timespy Extreme Folding at Home Benchmark  
Benchmark charts
 
Gaming Benchmarks

 
Synthetic Benchmarks
 
I'll re-add Watch Dogs 2 results once I'm satisfied the re-tested benchmark results are indicative of actual gameplay performance.
 
Conclusion
Overall then is the Vega 56 a good upgrade from someone around an RX 480 level of performance? I would say hell yeah. It's a major improvement in performance and the only thing holding it back is prices although prices have gotten a lot better recently. If you can get one near MSRP or buy one used for cheaper then it's definitely worth it. I'll be doing more testing on my Vega 56 in the future. Sorry I rushed this a bit.
 
I'm going to update this with the synthetic performance and more benchmarks later so check back on this thread in the future for updates.
 
Definitely am thrilled with my purchase and I would buy a Vega 56 again if given the same situation.
 
Thanks for checking this out .

i dont see how its rude? 
 
and if your really desperate then im sure they'd be understanding

So wait for a sale and don't curse people out because they give you a genuine answer to your question 

@LinusTech YOU SEXIST PIG
 
 

Well i don't know the details but i do know this.
Recently LTT decided to no longer work with a third party to get merch to viewers.
They basically buy right now a bunch of t-shirts in bulk and work with an ex-employee from NCIX that has a shipping business right now to get LTT shirts to customers.
 
Before they used companies like teespring that basically took care of the printing and shipping, which allowed them to offer t-shirts in much more sizes, including male/female specific ones.
 
Today a majority of viewers is male, so most t-shirts they sell are bought by males. Thing is that females are in such a minority it's probably not worth it to hold a stock of female t-shirts as well because they now need to be sure they sell all their stock. And because there are quite a few designs and sizes it's going to be a LOT more difficult to manage female t-shirt inventory.

Maybe when the LTT store is more mature (it's only a few weeks/months old) they might decide to also get some female t-shirt stock. But for now i assume they don't have any because the demand is a lot lower than male t-shirts and too risky atm to get some stock, or maybe it's planned in the future, i dunno.
 
The facts are this:
Only a small amount of viewers are female.
Only a small amount of viewers buy merch.
A small amount of a small amount is a very small amount.
 
How small, i don't know, i don't have the numbers, but it's not too far fetched that it's such a small amount it's not worth their time and effort right now.

No license required 

Ride a motorbicycle. 
 
You end up looking forward to waking up. 
 
EDIT: On a more serious note, have you actually looked at learning to drive? Or is it a finance thing
 
Buses are depressing 

I have a rather different strategy than most here.
 
I dislike mornings. I'm a night owl and have never enjoyed getting up early.
 
So I minimize the amount of time I need to be awake in the morning in preparation for work.
 
I get up with just enough time to shower and dress and get out the door. I don't often eat breakfast, but when I do, I just eat it at work (granted, not something everyone can do). Takes me about 30 minutes in the morning from the time I wake up to the time I walk out the door.
 
It works for me, but everyone is different. My fiancee, for example, prefers to get up at like 6 AM, even if she doesn't need to leave until 9 AM.

My mornings consist of waking up at 5:00am, watching some news still about 5:30. Taking the dog for a walk till around 6:00. Shave and shower. Then eat breakfast and watch some ESPN until work.
 
Best way to make the mornings work is to find something that keeps you productive. It's the best time for it since mostly everyone is asleep and you don't have to worry about phone calls/texts/emails that early