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    L0n3gr3yw0lf reacted to bezza... in Tips (and thermal paste) to cool down a laptop.   
    my advise is not to use liquid metal. before you open it try and rase the rear of the laptop (if the vents are there) do this with a book or somthing to give the vents more space to breath
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    L0n3gr3yw0lf reacted to bezza... in Tips (and thermal paste) to cool down a laptop.   
    dont use liquid metal. not worth the risk. also if the gpu is at 65 degrees under load (which is great for a laptpo) you are fine and have no need to do anything. cooling it more will not give u more performance
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    L0n3gr3yw0lf reacted to elsandosgrande in Looking for Linux on touch screen and specialised notebooks   
    Oh, also, my personal recommendation is to use Wayland if you're using GNOME, unless you need to record the screen or something similar, as it has no screen tearing. KDE's implementation is still rough around the edges, but it is better than the X11 session on my laptop (I cannot comprehend why I get screen tearing on X11; KWin used to crash on my laptop when trying to use OpenGL in the X11 session up until something like August, but never from my Kubuntu LiveUSB, which is even more perplexing). Here's a useful link: https://wayland.freedesktop.org/. The Wikipedia article is good as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_(display_server_protocol).
     
    Since it is still a "your mileage may vary" kind of situation at times, some people are still quite against it. Not many, but they exist. Also, only Wayland supports touchpad swipe gestures natively, so there you go.
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    L0n3gr3yw0lf got a reaction from elsandosgrande in Looking for Linux on touch screen and specialised notebooks   
    Thanks, I will try to test a few desktop environments and see what works and what doesn't. One beautiful thing about the Linux community is how fast and responsive it can be to solving issues kernel level (compared to Windows) and making changes.
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    L0n3gr3yw0lf reacted to elsandosgrande in Looking for Linux on touch screen and specialised notebooks   
    My laptop is a 2016 mid-range Pavilion, so I have no personal experience with what you are asking about, but my guess would be that type C Thunderbolt is working well enough to have its own entry in GNOME Settings and KDE System Settings. As for OLED, my guess is that it works just as well as on Android, as Android uses the Linux kernel and Android phones with (AM)OLED screens have been out since at least 2014 (Samsung Galaxy S4).
     
    When I was referring to the "freshness" of the laptop, I was thinking of the smaller secondary display, not the primary touch display. From what I've heard, touch works pretty well with most desktop environments, like GNOME and KDE.
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    L0n3gr3yw0lf reacted to elsandosgrande in Looking for Linux on touch screen and specialised notebooks   
    Well, as my laptop does not have a touchscreen, let alone two, I cannot attest to the touch functionality in Linux, but, given the "freshness" of the laptop, my money is on rolling-release distributions, like Arch, having the best support for such functionality (I am personally on Gentoo). With that in mind, Arch is not newbie-friendly. Manjaro tries and, from what I've heard, succeeds most of the time, it is still working from a distro which is not suited for new users (Manjaro is based on Arch Linux). Ubuntu and Linux Mint are very good in terms of newbie-friendliness, but they do not have the latest package (in case of Mint and Ubuntu LTS, not by a long shot).
    If I were you, I would first try a LiveUSB with Ubuntu 19.10 and see if the experience is sufficient. If not, decide if the compromise is worth it until you get comfortable with Linux.
     
    Regarding your second question, common recommendations for Photoshop are GIMP and Krita, though people have varying opinions on the two, while I've heard that Darktable is Lightroom's counterpart (as you can tell, I am not familiar with Lightroom, as I do not know what it does, but have Darktable installed). Other than that, I don't know what to say.
     
    Good luck and have a good night!
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    L0n3gr3yw0lf reacted to vanished in Looking for external backup and storage   
    Sounds like you just need a HDD large enough to hold all your data and a compatible USB 3 enclosure.  For redundancy, either get two of those, or one plus the cloud solution.
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    L0n3gr3yw0lf reacted to vanished in Looking for external backup and storage   
    Depends how automatic it needs to be.  The most automatic would be to have an enclosure that lets you run two drives in RAID 1, but that's going to cost more and probably isn't necessary.  If you have two enclosures that are identical in contents and hardware, the backup script or whatever you run for one, you'll simply then do again on the other.  It would barely be any extra work imo.
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    L0n3gr3yw0lf reacted to vanished in Looking for external backup and storage   
    RPi4 has USB 3 and gigabit ethernet iirc, which would allow you to connect at a respectable (though not completely unbottlenecked) speed.  A Rpi3 has only 100 Mbit ethernet and USB 2.0 so I wouldn't rely on it for anything like this.
     
    Linux or Windows should allow you to automate the process with the command line, but I like doing backups manually so I can run a dry run and review what it's planning to do.  This lets you spot problems, like files that changed which shouldn't have, etc. and is part of the benefit of having an offline backup (something that isn't just synced at all times like Google Drive or RAID).
     
    I believe OneDrive has the best value, at least it did last I checked.  Particularly if you're mainly a Windows user its integration is fantastic.
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    L0n3gr3yw0lf got a reaction from r2724r16 in I’m running out of OSes   
    I have never had such a bad time in my like like the past week (with the last 48 hours in particular) with using my computer, and I have been using PCs almost exclusively since my first one back in 1997.
     
    (I will try to be brief how I ended up in this state. I haven’t refreshed/reinstalled my Windows 10 in about a year and the performance was getting pretty bad so I decided to reinstall it with a fresh format of my 256GB M.2 main SSD, it went fine, reinstalled all my software and games as well, spent a day and a half on this last weekend. Come to 2 days ago, took my PC to my friends house (on the outskirts of the town, pretty much countryside to be honest) because I’m babysitting 2 puppers while the owners are on holiday for 2 weeks. I try to connect to their WiFi (the only internet access they have, this will come about later in the story) but all of a sudden my Windows 10 WiFi/Network Button has disappeared and so did any way to connect to WiFi (i have tried everything I could find, yes I have gone deep into Share & Network settings, drivers reinstall, etc) and they only way to fix it was to reset Windows 10. So I lose all my software and games ... again. Spent an entire day trying to fix that issue and then reinstalling only the most important software and World of Tanks.
     
    At that point it was evening and I really needed to blow off some steam, so I power up World of a Tanks, activate a few boosters and I try to blow some shit up ... after an hour ... no go. Windows Delivery Optimisation thought it was a brilliant idea to download at full speed “something”. Don’t know what it was, Windows 10 had all the updates installed and it was the latest version (according to Windows itself as well as current Windows version state after a quick Google Search). After one hour of downloading over 30GB and using the entire bandwidth I just gave up waiting and went on Google searching to a way to kill Delivery Optimisation. Spent the entire night (went to bed at 2 AM) trying literally everything I could to stop and deactivate the service, only to resurface after reboot. Did the same on the home WiFi as well as my cellular (unlimited) data tether. I went to bed pissed.
     
    Woke up this morning and decided I had enough of Windows 10. I’m going to go back to Windows 7 (a first in about 8 years). So I make a Windows 7 USB stick and start the installation process ... till I found out directly that Windows 7 doesn’t speak M.2 format and doesn’t even see my ADATA SPG 8200 SSD (in BIOS it works just fine). Back to Google search for the next 4 hours ... so I try to install Windows 7 on my SATA SSD so I can clone that installation to the M.2 drive. Well good news stops to where the cloning software cant make a recovery USB stick of my only USB stick with me. So I can’t clone it within Windows 7 because Windows 7 doesn’t speak M.2 (with or without SATA and Intel Z97 drivers installed). So fuck Windows 7 then ... I’m switching to Linux (at this point my blood pressure was visible through he veins of my face and hands).
     
    So I download Linux Mint Cinnamon version on the USB stick and manage to install it on the M.2 SSD with no issues. I start up Linux and low and behold ... WiFi doesn’t work. (Insert rage swearing for about 10 minutes). Apparently my TP Link AC600 WiFi USB doesn’t speak native Linux. So I calm down and go on the internet and try to download a driver ... try ... apparently I need to compile my own installer, bloody brilliant ... 5 minutes later I get only errors, can’t get past Step One: Sudo Make. So I go on the internet again and see alternatives: almost everywhere I go I see the same advice: connect with Ethernet to get the stuff you need to make the device work. Really? So I’m stuck with 2 access points that work only wirelessly and an OS that doesn’t do all hat much without internet connection ( needs to “sudo get” the shit out of everything) and a useless USB WiFi dongle that’s basically dead, in the country side with no neighbours to lend a wired connection on my holiday. (Insert 15 minutes of constant rage). This was half an hour ago.
     
    Now my only option is, you will never guess anyone has every said this: Help me Windows 8.1 ... you are my only hope. (The top 3 most hated OS after Windows ME and Windows Vista). 
     
    So why Windows 8.1? Well Windows 7 doesn’t work on M.2, Windows 10 eats the shit out of my limited speed WiFi tether connection (not just here but back at my place too, my only internet connection I can have is my 3 cellular data), Linux still doesn’t play well with compatibility and needs internet to be 100% working (at least in my case). The only OS missing is Hackintosh’s Mac OS but then again: you need a Apple computer to be able to install a Mac OS (if I had that then I wouldn’t need to do a Hackintosh). So now I’m waiting for the download of Windows 8.1 ISO to be able to use the bloody computer. I’m so lucky my friends left their laptop home so at least I can make another Windows installation USB or else I would be stuck.
     
    My Lightroom backlog is stuck at over 4000 unfinished pictures and I already wasted 2 days of my 2 weeks holiday basically doing nothing but boil my nerves.
     
    And this hole situation really puts a dent in my future decisions because my PC is getting old now:
    Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SLI, 32GB Hyper X 1866MHz, Intel Core i7 4770K 4.5 OC on 240 AIO, R9 Nano, ADATA SPG 8200 256GB M.2 NVME, WD Blue 1TB SATA, 1 TB Hitachi and 1TB Toshiba 2.5” HDD, 500W Bronze Silverstone SFX, Thermaltake Core P3.
     
    I am looking for a replacement but I’m really tired of Windows 10 shenanigans to make another PC, would like to go portable but Intel is pulling it’s 14nm so hard now that the laptops just can’t keep up with the heat and the TDP from cramming more cores at slower and slower frequencies (i7 9750H is slower then i7 8750H, I mean seriously they released a lower base clock and a lower boost clock CPU). While my main usage is photo editing I still love playing games (I can’t wait for Doom Eternal) but on laptops the RTX 2070 and 2080 are so expensive, I was thinking of eGPU but even with the bigger cost overhead ... you get one tier lower performance from what you paid on the GPU because if the 4x lanes.
     
    I though Linux might be a solution to Windows 10 but again, the compatibility issues with Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop and DNG Converter AND big name games (like Doom Eternal or World of Tanks). I’m just tired of having to jump so many hoops just to get stuff done. I wouldn’t even mind switching to alternative photo editions WITH some time to do that but there’s so much to jump over and over.
     
    Then there’s Mac OS and Apple devices. The only other platform that is supported for Adobe suite ... but a shitshow for gaming. Top it off with insane prices per performance/components/value, no upgradability (of significant usefulness), encrypted storage that is non user replaceable, and again prices: over 2000£ for a barely midrange GPU, RAM upgrades that only know square factor costs, same with internal storage. Besides Linux only Apple has a more reasonable approach to user data usage and privacy.
     
    For the first time in 24 years I’m at a complete lost at what I should do and I always kept myself up to date informed on PC and laptop options over the years. The state of OSes just boggles my mind to be honest. Microsoft turning Windows into a service and doing some of the worst stuff I ever seen on the backstage. Apple becoming the Jesus of user privacy in an age where everyone wants everything from you (attention, data, money, hype, etc) but will cost you your soul (if you are poor), a valuable organ (if you are healthy enough) or at least 2000-2500£ for something more then just meh performance. Linux getting better and better ... but like going sideways in keeping up with the other 2 in terms of compatibility. SteamOS and Valve support is getting better and yet big developer/publishers are still going like: Linux? Meh
     
    So after installing Windows 8.1 happily find out that AMD has not released in update Radeon driver since 2017 ... brilliant ... Windows 10 driver would not detect my R9 Nano, so I try Windows 7 driver, which funnily enough its up to date, and it worked. Good news right ? Finally got my PC working? 
     
    No.
     
    Adobe Creative Cloud with all of its apps do not work, install or even let you download on Windows 8.1 (but they do work on Windows 7 and Windows 10 ... wink wink).
     
    So there goes another holiday day gone with nothing done. My options for tomorrow are as fallows:
     
    1) Windows 10 and get my bandwidth strangled to death my stupid services that cannot be stop
     
    2) Windows 8.1 which is unable to run anything, like literally anything (and I though Microsoft couldn’t make the worst OS ever made ... worse)
     
    3) Windows 7 that doesn’t know what M.2 NVME is so there goes my pretty pennies SSD out the window (no pun intended?)
     
    4) Windows XP? Really? Seriously?
     
    5) Linux ... if I can find an Ethernet plug out in the middle of nowhere ... or manage to find a WiFi USB dongle that works out of the box with Linux Distroes
     
    6) OS X ... there’s an apple tree in the garden ... maybe I can download a OS X installer from it
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    L0n3gr3yw0lf reacted to Oalei in I have a bit of a weird question about AIOs   
    120mm AIO is not really worth it just get air cooler last longer and probably will perform better
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    L0n3gr3yw0lf reacted to Flying Sausages in I have a bit of a weird question about AIOs   
    It can last a few years. Air cooler last longer than AIO. Go with air cooler, man.
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    L0n3gr3yw0lf reacted to LukeSavenije in Looking for a Mid-Range GPU   
    I'd get a better psu and the 1080 (or a 1070 ti if you can find it cheaper)
     
    to list a couple cases
    meshify c mini
    focus g mini
    nr400
    define c mini
    280x
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    L0n3gr3yw0lf reacted to Origami Cactus in Looking for a Mid-Range GPU   
    Out of all your options VEGA 64 seems the best, or if you dare go used, then the gtx 1080's.
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