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    PixelPol reacted to Chris Pratt in How low does cryptocurrency need to go for it to become unprofitable to mine? (I'm still using a GTX780 6gb with a ryzen 5 3600)   
    If you're hoping for some magic point where mining is not profitable and all the miners just get out the game and dump their cards, that's not going to happen. Even when it falls like this, it's still tens of thousands of dollars more than it was worth a couple of years ago. In other words, it's still profitable, and it would pretty make take the complete crash of all cryptocurrency to change that.
     
    Miners taking cards is an overblown problem anyways. Sure, that contributes to demand, but the issue is and has been supply, and specifically enough supply to meet unprecedented demand. That demand is coming from far more facets than just mining.
     
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    PixelPol reacted to TheReal-BKM in House burned down, gaming career over   
    Update for anyone who cares: 
     
    The insurance inspection have determined it was some sort of electrical fault up in the loft (or attic) that has cause this fire. So much was destroyed that they can’t determine anything more. The current running theory is there was some kind of rodent that has freyed some wire.. who knows. 
     
    We have had so much support from family and friends. We have been housed for the time being. Everyone has been so generous. 
     
    The insurance also seems to be quite cooperative, and I believe they will pay out enough to cover all of the losses. 
     
    I have purchased a Lenovo Legion 5 laptop that was on a pretty awesome sale in my local area that is going to serve me perfectly. It’s not the same as my previous desktop, but I am absolutely happy with it and it’s performance. Whenever we get settled back into the house I am planning on designing a new setup with an external monitor that connects to the laptop. 
     
    I am also heading to the house sometime in the next few days to see if there are any of my Pop figures that are salvageable, so fingers crossed 🤞 
     
    Thanks to everyone for their messages of support. 
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    PixelPol reacted to Action_Johnson in House burned down, gaming career over   
    You can rebuild a computer and find a new home. You can't replace family. I've been in situations like this before where you lose everything and as awful as it is in the moment (and it is awful), you can sleep well at night knowing your loved ones are still around. 
     
    It could have been worse, you can and will rebuild and everything will be OK. 
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    PixelPol reacted to cmndr in House burned down, gaming career over   
    You might want to get in touch with a lawyer. I suspect that if it's anything like the US, there will be people willing to work on contingency (i.e. they take ~30% of whatever extra they get you).
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    PixelPol reacted to cmndr in Disabled Designer Looking For Help   
    "Boss, let's assume I work at $10/hour for 2000 hours a year" - That's $20k you'd be paying as a lower bound. [you can adjust this higher for your pay and note that he's paying taxes and insurance on top of this]

    The computer that I'm currently using is slow. There are times where I spent 30+ minutes waiting for files to open when it should be much less. If the current system costs us 1 hour a week of lost productivity, it's usually more, that's a $500 value per year, lost. It's more than an hour so think of it like $1000 or more [scale this as needed]"



    For what it's worth, the first place I would look into would be the RAM. 2x8GB sticks might cost around $50ish.
    https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Desktop-Hardware-and-Upgrade-Questions/Upgrading-RAM/td-p/8221762

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    You can also find half-decent refurbished budget systems on Amazon for around $150ish (think 3rd or 4th gen i5, 8GB RAM, etc.) that can be upgraded with an SSD ($80ish for 1TB) and 16GB RAM ($50ish for 24GB total) for $250 total plus a dash of labor - if you need more memory, then something like a 32GB optane stick and a pcie to m.2 adapter cost around $40ish. A 4K monitor can be had for $250-300ish.
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    PixelPol reacted to Musty in Free and/or Open-source Alternatives to many Common Programs   
    Just wanted to say thanks for leading me to FreeCAD. Exactly what I was looking for.
     
    Never bookmarked a thread faster 😅
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    PixelPol reacted to MultiGamerClub in Post Linus Memes Here! << -Original thread has returned   
    Im not even sure why i have this on my pc but.. I just have so im gonna drop it here.. Just dont ask.

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    PixelPol got a reaction from SSI Jake in Useful Software Megathread   
    X-Mouse Button Control. Is extremely useful for me: I replace all shortcuts, combined or not with mouse and pen buttons/wheel, and even really complex combinations. This way, I have all applications using the shortcuts, mouse wheel, zoom, pan, etc, just the way I want. Free tool.
    It is not something I'd qualify as "just good to have", as with one application, it literally allows me its use for my work, and it is a quite main application in my workflow :
    https://www.highrez.co.uk/downloads/XMouseButtonControl.htm
     
    My best area of expertise, the stuff I know better is digital painting, and drawing (comics, realistic, everything), so I am maybe able to expand it here for you all. Digital paint tools, quite affordable, too, in personal order of preference :

    Clip Studio Paint . The pro version, 49 $, is way enough. I'll buy the EX in the next 60% discount (around twice a year), though. This is an absolute MUST for any comic artist. I am even using it to make digital painting, covers. GUI very good, familiar to most :
    https://www.clipstudio.net/en
     
    Rebelle 3  (more expensive of the bunch, yet dirty cheap (89 $), and the best watercolor simulation ON EARTH ) This is mostly for pure digital painting, in a very natural, traditional way. Outstanding simulation of several types of media.  :
    https://www.escapemotions.com/products/rebelle/index.php

    Art Rage, 79$ ( An absolute jewel, a great digital painting tool able for many traditional painting media simulation, and you can configure also with a photoshop-like interface)
    https://www.artrage.com
     
    Paintstorm Studio ( I only set it the last because I hate licensing per machine, linked to the hardware needing a mail back and force if change the machine, etc, and also, as text tool is not strong, and too GPU focused, the canvas can't be as big as the print resolution I need for my larger works) :  
    https://www.paintstormstudio.com/es/index.html   (19 US $ !!!   still, very, very good application. )
     
     
    In what is video editing, Davinci Resolve was mentioned, for a Premiere / After Effects alternative, but I believe was not linked : https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/
     
    Wings 3D for a free efficient modeler (not a full 3D package like Blender. For Blender, I recommend strongly to start with the 2.8 beta: Much better and easier.  ). http://wings3d.com
     
    EDIT: LOL... how could I forget... and was not added by anyone, surprisingly... Serif's Affinity, all apps are available in Windows, Mac and iOS ( iPad Pro). But am only referring the price for Windows desktops :
     
    - Affinity Photo :  A tool that can be used, till an extent as a Photoshop. But no subscription, and extremely affordable, somewhere around 50 $ or euros (is long ago since I purchased these). https://affinity.serif.com/es/photo/
     
    - Affinity Designer.  A tool you can use to use instead of Illustrator. I truly love it, like I like Photo a lot as well. Same price, 50. Same deal (only purchase, no subscription)  https://affinity.serif.com/es/designer/
     
    - Affinity Publisher.  Is a tool in the line of functionality of InDesign / Quark Xpress. Not adding the link, as is only yet in free beta stage. You can download it to get a taste of it. But will be much better once fully released.  Same price.All idem in the purchasing side of it.  or well, why not... just don't make any commercial use yet... as it's lacking final functionality + stability :  https://affinity.serif.com/es/publisher/
     
    And from another company, Photoline, 59 euros, a tool very efficient for image editing, not my fav in GUI, but still, with functionality no other tool has, in certain details :    https://www.pl32.com/
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    PixelPol reacted to soldier_ph in Post Linus Memes Here! << -Original thread has returned   
    Linus Crack Tips 🧑‍🍳🥳
     
     
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    PixelPol reacted to Jedimaster99 in 3900x vs 9900k Base Supported RAM Speeds?   
    This system makes a lot more sense than the 9900k. You have all around better performance for a better price with Ryzen, and (2x8GB/4x8GB) of 3600mhz CL16 (CL17/CL18 doesn't kill ya) is the best priced RAM for the performance. 
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    PixelPol reacted to SpikeSpiegel in Post Linus Memes Here! << -Original thread has returned   
    Tae Kwon Do can do some awesome flips and kicks.  Comparing to both is almost the same
     
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    PixelPol reacted to minibois in Post Linus Memes Here! << -Original thread has returned   
    Is this Taekwondo? Looks more like breakdancing, which Linus is probably more familiar with  
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    PixelPol reacted to Tech_Dreamer in Post Linus Memes Here! << -Original thread has returned   
    : CRAZED EMPLOYEE ATTACKS & ASSAULTS HIS BOSS IN HIS OFFICE.
     

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    PixelPol reacted to fredrichnietze in Post Linus Memes Here! << -Original thread has returned   
    oc and inb4 "we hired her but had to wait 90 days" 

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    PixelPol reacted to Tech_Dreamer in Post Linus Memes Here! << -Original thread has returned   
    JAYZ2CENTS REACTION ON SEEING LINUS RETIREMENT VIDEO THUMBNAIL
     

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    PixelPol reacted to Tech_Dreamer in Post Linus Memes Here! << -Original thread has returned   
    For 10 Million Dollahs.

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    PixelPol reacted to Dash Lambda in What's a good alarm clock program?   
    You see, I can get used to any alarm sound, and I've found that as I cycle through alarms on my phone each successive one gets less and less effective.
    So, I use my PC to blast the 8-bit Parasprite Polka loud enough to wake a normal person up clear across the house, two feet from my face.
     
    My phone can't normally do that.
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    PixelPol got a reaction from Ben17 in Hire Madison!!!   
    And take responsibility, deal well with pressure, and provide always, tho that goes implicit in the "work ethic" mention.
    Haha.  That's probably one of the most wanted skills in my profile... they wouldn't need to look further in my career ?.  Prolly if I'd write like that to HRs in the letter, they'd be able to imagine how beautiful my spaghetti code would be, full of redundant and nested loops... Luckily for the universe, I don't code   (last time I mentioned HTML/CSS as 'coding', provoked an eyebrow strain to certain someone).
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    PixelPol got a reaction from Ben17 in Hire Madison!!!   
    Actually... Is not the usual thing, but sometimes one gets contracted if the sum of skills on a number of matters is fine even if not covering everything required (BTW, in the LTT graphic design offer, what is requested is very spot-on, and no nonsense there, but in MANY companies' job offers it is requested way too many things, also from other profiles (like coding in python to a graphic designer, or asking a coder to be able to model in 3D, that's stupidity, but happens), so, one needs not to be scared of that), or even just if specially excel in one matter, even if not covering a bunch of others. I believe I've learnt entire profiles at companies. And  there's the internship possibility. I was once at a company where we were like 5 contracted for experience and stuff, but after some months, the company needed massive work force for coding and admin, and took like 20 internships, and a number of those ended working fully employed at the company or went to other places, finding better paid contracts. Most were students of last years, tho IT careers. But none had experience, and most of them could not really code. At small businesses (3 to 20 workers) is way more likely to happen. Not everything is Google and Silicon Valley in this world...My first company in 95 did pick this grunt 'cause I could draw, and the second because I could handle Photoshop. All I mean is, you never know. She said she handles Blender, and probably she also uses Photoshop or something similar. With that you might get into some jobs already.
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    PixelPol got a reaction from amdorintel in Hire Madison!!!   
    And take responsibility, deal well with pressure, and provide always, tho that goes implicit in the "work ethic" mention.
    Haha.  That's probably one of the most wanted skills in my profile... they wouldn't need to look further in my career ?.  Prolly if I'd write like that to HRs in the letter, they'd be able to imagine how beautiful my spaghetti code would be, full of redundant and nested loops... Luckily for the universe, I don't code   (last time I mentioned HTML/CSS as 'coding', provoked an eyebrow strain to certain someone).
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