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Wrap it in a blanket, and slot it down in the footwell behind the seat... or strap it in with the seatbelt. You just need something padded/soft to help absorb any bumps along the way.

Now you are trying to redefine what a 'backup' is... a backup in it's simplest form is a direct copy of the other. I was being a little pedantic, yet what I said was completely true... and now you're trying to move the goalposts to suit your 'specific' narrower requirement of 'backup' that agrees with your side of the debate.

technically, a mirrored array is a backup of the other drive... But I've had an array fail and never got any kind of warning or notification that it had failed... by the time we noticed it was too late to rebuild the array. So I replaced the array with a single SSD and a 2TB, and scheduled a regular backup. (this was on my folks PC years ago). Back then cloud backup wasn't really a big thing and was really expensive especially if trying to back up more than 5-10gb.

I was considering upgrading my mediaserver and using my current gaming rig parts on that and buying new 3xxx and X570 for my gaming rig... But I might do a temp upgrade and simply convert my mediaserver over to windows 10 as Windows 7 it's currently on is EOL in Jan... and wait for Ryzen 4xxx series CPU's and X670 chipset... as that will most likely be the last release on the AM4 platform and we'll see AM4+ in 2021... Which is what AMD normally do with their platforms. Doesn't really make sense to buy 3xxx now they've announced Zen3 4xxx series in early 2020 and a jump from 2xxx to 3xxx isn't a big enough upgrade to make economical sense... it was purely about upgrading the mediaserver because windows 7 is end of life and that system is getting really old... It doesn't 'need' to be all latest and greatest. So when I go Zen 3 4xxx series... that's a 2gen jump rather than one.

Linus would just do a 'faux break in' to his studio and steal a load of tech to 'build' his system and claim the victory... We all know what a cheat he is and how he hates to lose.

They already get these things sponsored.. latest one was what... Honey? So costs are pretty much covered by the sponsorship deal... I think they should go really big for the 10th anniversary year... Send Linus Vs Luke to the UK or EU... no prebuilts give them £400 €350 and they have to get everything inc all peripherals... it has to be a complete build and 'safety' tested so that they can be donated to a local charity at the end of it. Points should be awarded for cost vs performance as well as how good it looks... So run tests that can rate the CPU, GPU and any hard drives individually instead of just running a game benchmark or synthetic benchmarking suites... and combine the results so you have both synthetic and real world tests. Gaming tests should involve a timed run though a level, as well as FPS so that it can't be skewed by a more skilful player as was the case in this current SYW. but points deducted for any RGB crap.

As opposed to Linus buying prebuilts... I guess you could argue that at least he had to mod PSU's to work with them... But prebuilt is prebuilt

I've still got my fridge freezer that I bought back in 2003, still going strong. My stove/oven is from 2006. I've still got a Wii from around 2007, doesn't get used much any more though. My mediaserver is based on the AMD FX platform from around 2010 onwards... although this current iteration of it was built around 2013 and had minor upgrades over the last 6yrs. My controller for my gaming PC is from 2010 and still works perfectly. My tablet is the nVidia Shield K1 from circa 2016 But I think my current oldest piece of tech is a food processor that my mum gave me, it's hers from the late 70's or early 80's and still works. I'm pretty sure some of the wiring in my house dates back to the 1950's.

To be honest, the only reason I bought this house was because I couldn't stand living in my old place any longer after my partner died... It was only a 1 bed apartment but quite large and had a small garden. I was able to sell that right before the crash happened and I moved back to my folks for a while whilst I looked for a new place. Then the crash hit and everything went to crap... No one was selling as house prices crashed and left everyone in neg equity. I kept looking at houses that required 20-30k spending on them to make them liveable. people were getting repossessed and trashing their houses when the left... or starting reno work and running out of money when they realised they couldn't afford to finish and make a profit... weeks turned into months, which turned in a year before I found this one. It was in need of minor work to make it liveable... some decorating, flooring, a new back door and some minor plumbing and electrical work. But it meant after I'd paid of my old mortgage and took what was left... I only needed to borrow 30k to finance this one... an absolute steal... even in spite of the work needed. I spent about 6 weeks getting it ready and moved in... it's a couple of towns over from where I grew up... but I needed a fresh start... then the following year my dads health got worse and his parkinsons turned into dementia as well... I ended up giving up work at the end of 2010 to help my mum care for him... We'd lost my brother a few years earlier and my sister lived further away and had her own business... Made sense for me to do it... So for the next 6yrs or so, I struggled by... repairs and renovations kept getting pushed back. I'd do minor things but was basically treading water and keeping on top of regular maintenance... So when my dad passed late 2016... I was able to get back to looking for work... which took a while as employers don;t like a 6yr gap in your work history, even when you explain why. It took about 18 months for me to get back to a position where I had a reasonable amount of savings... and I had a few windows replaced and was starting demo work on the spare bedroom when the roof sprang a leak... it wasn't going to last another winter. So it got replaced and the spare room was placed on hold again... then I had to replace the car.. and back it was pushed once more... I did some minor jobs as money was saved... finally bought a nice new oak dining room table and chairs after years of a wobbly hand me down table my Aunt bought in the early 80's. Built a new gaming PC, bought a new 4K TV... and back the reno got pushed once more. But next year... that spare room WILL be done.

It's a 3 bed mid terrace town house, footprint is about 45 square meters, and roughly 85 in total. During the spring/summer/autumn I hardly use any gas at all and my average gas bill is £10-20... but the heating gets turned back on around late Oct until March/April and if we have a cold winter I can easily do £100 a month in gas alone. To combat that I've moved my wireless thermostat to halfway up the stairs... So the rooms I hardly use downstairs are a little colder... I've got a fire in the lounge I can put on for 20 mins to warm the room up if needed and that will keep it cosy for hours. The kitchen is a cold room anyway if not cooking because it's very long and only has a single radiator at the dining room end. I do most of my lounging around upstairs in my office which is a small room 3m x 3m and only needs a very small radiator that's positioned about 2ft from where I sit... My PC and monitors put out a fair bit of warmth too. So it's the warmest room in the house. If I get cold... I put a jumper on... but the house is warm enough, the roof space is well insulated and only front/rear walls are outside ones... the only section of my house that is lacking insulation is the porch extension that needs the walls doing... roof is fine. So that's got 3 outside walls on it. It's just me here most of the time, I tend to visit others more often that come here... I'm still renovating and it's taking longer than planned as I keep finding crappy DIY from previous owners that has to be fixed before I can actually improve things properly. I've just pulled an old 1000mm cabinet in the kitchen replaced it with a 300mm unit, so I can squeeze a dishwasher in that my sister gave me (she moved, new home has one built in). I've been living on my own for over 20yrs and it's my first dishwasher. I still need a new kitchen and a new bathroom... what I have is functional but not pretty... but those rooms are the most expensive and I would have done the bathroom and one bedroom last year. But discovered I had to replace the entire roof... so there goes close to £6k, followed a couple of months later by needing to replace thee car which swallowed the rest of it. So 18 months later, I'm just getting myself back in a position to be able to do another room... I had new fencing done at the front that cost me £1600 last month. But these are the pitfalls of owning an older home... Mine was built in the early 50's when materials were scarce after WWII, so corners were cut and shitty DIYers did more damage than good. On the bright side... I paid about 40% under market value for the house in 09 due to the crash and the worthless previous owners defaulting on their mortgage... I've actually met them (although they don't know it) and they really are worthless people. So my house has improved about 120% over what I paid in the last 10 and a bit years and my mortgage only has 4yrs left to run on it. When that's done... I can literally dump any extra 4k into my savings each year to finish the house. isn't DIY fun. No... it isn't.

and you use about 5x as much to get the same result. I did read something many years ago about how thermodynamics works when heating with gas/electric and the end result was very similar.

It's not really a fair comparison though. I now cook on electric and the only gas I use is for my central heating boiler... My bills have remained pretty much static over the last few years at around £70 a month... What I've done is switch to more efficient ways of cooking. I've used my main oven once in 5yrs, I have a microwave convection, grill which cooks quicker and better than the oven (which cost me a fortune when I bought it 12yrs ago)... and recently I bought an air fryer... That thing can cook simple foods quicker than it takes my oven to warm up to temp. So I'm using less leccy... hence the cost of my bills going up, but being brought down by more efficient use as well as more efficient bulbs and more efficient tech.

Hardly surprising... old Musky rarely has an original idea... he simply takes things other people think of and puts them out there for others to try and figure out... then claims credit for 'his idea'.

I thought it was Ryzen 2xxx series that were 3200mhz rated... with the first gen only being a little more than the stock 2133mhz. Even then it can often be a bit of a lottery... my R5 2600X on an Aorus Pro B450 won't run my 3200mhz Corsair Vengeance stable at anything over 3000mhz.

OK, so I don't know if this would fall under a motherboard issue, or a peripheral one. I've got a Gigabyte Aorus Pro B450 board, and a Corsair Straife keyboard. The motherboard has the gigabyte dual bios, and suffers from the common and well know issue of randomly falling back onto the backup bios... Trust me, if I'd have know about that I wouldn't have bought it. Now I've managed to work around it over the last 10 months or so because it's random and all I have to do is when it falls back to the backup... which flags it up as a reset bios. I just load the saved profile save and exit... Takes a few seconds and the PC still loads quicker than my old one did. But the bios is now out of sync, so one is on F42a and the other is F42f... So I'm obviously wanting to flash the backup bios to match... The last time it randomly reset I didn't have my flash drive handy and so simply loaded the saved settings and rebooted. A few days later I decide to flash the bios... except now every time I start up the PC... it's loading windows before the keyboard is detected... so I can't hit del to enter the bios. I plugged in another older USB keyboard and the same issue. The keyboard doesn't start responding until after windows starts to load. I'm out of keyboards to test, so is there any other kind of tip/trick to try and get into the bios... other than randomly waiting for it to fall over back to the other bios again.

When I sell something on ebay, I take pictures of it to show all sides and if there is/isn't any damage/marks/scratches and so forth... what I also do is use an ultraviolet marker pen to make some discreet markings on it. The buyer will only be able to see those if they have an ultraviolet light. I've had buyers try to rip me off, one tried sending back a broken item identical to mine... they figured they could swap it... So once it's been returned and I've got the tracking number.. I wait until I can confirm it's in the couriers system and then I inform the seller that I sure hope they sent back the right one with the ultraviolet markings on... if they made a mistake that's understandable but anything else would be fraud and I'd have to get the police involved. Oh what's that... you've decided to cancel your claim... I wonder why that would happen.

AMD really impressed me with their new Ryzen line up, I was still stuck on the FX line of CPU (my mediaserver still runs an FX8350@4.4ghz)... but aside from that... I can't honestly think of anything that impressive this year. Most tech is stagnating, with very minor incremental improvements.. either a little faster, or a little more efficient... Prices have dropped on some items. I picked up a 27" 144hz gaming monitor for around half the price they were a year or two ago (in the black friday sales of course). The only other electrical item I've bought that impressed me this year was my air fryer... that thing is awesome. Cooks food in a fraction of the time of the oven, uses less power and needs no added oils. I got a small 2.5lt one for £30 and use it all the time now. My electric bills have dropped slightly as a result.

Vinyl skinning is not a concept invented by d-brand... they could only sue if the designs on the vinyl sheets were original art owned by them.

Re battery strawman... c'mon now you're just being ridiculous. the market will only bear what the consumer will tolerate. Apple are genius marketeers (that was Jobs only real talent) and have convinced the easily led and gullible that their items are the only must have fashion accessories you need to be cool and trendy... Now I'm not having a pop at all apple owners, just the extreme fanboi saddo's. I know people who use apple stuff because they find IOS easy to navigate and use and have struggled with android OS in the past. I'm not gonna bash anyone for having a preference based on the actual tech and ease of use arguments... but if you buy them in an attempt to see more cool, well off and trendy that you are... fair game in my book. So if the battery only lasted a short period.. well shorter than it already does... the push back would be huge... So I'll compromise and modify my statement to say 'Apple only do anything to make a profit providing the pushback from consumers isn't greater than the profit loss from sales' The magnetic USB charging leads... got them for both my phone and tablet, my mum liked them, so I got her some and then my sister spotted them and go some her self. they lessen the wear and tear on a charging socket, thus extending it's lifespan... the only downside I've found is that not all are created equal and some can't use fast charging and others can't be used as data cables when hooked up to a PC. Mine and my families can do fast charging but not data. I was actually going to order some more.. but the company selling them on Amazon no longer have stock and other similar ones appear to have minor differences in the pin layout or shape of the magnetic tip. Including the magnetic charging ability within a device... now that would be a smart move... but it would also be just another example of apple taking some one elses idea and trying to claim ownership/invention of it... just like they've done with everything else.

I've still got a Microsoft Multimedia Keyboard 1.0A from circa 2001-2002 that's still going strong... It got relegated from my gaming system about 5yrs ago after over a decade of constant use and is now hooked up to my mediaserver. You can strip it down, remove the top half... and then literally run it through the shower to clean it up and get all of the crap out of it... leave it by a radiator for a few hrs to dry properly and reassemble... Looks like new again. The keycaps haven't faded, the membrane hasn't failed and the contacts underneath are still in perfect order. Considering the price I paid for it new some 17yrs ago probably puts it on par with some of the more expensive keyboards around today... I've definitely got my moneys worth out of it... The original MS 5 button Intellimouse that I bought at the same time... also still going strong, and I gave it to my mum a few months ago to replace her wireless MS intellimouse piece of garbage. I'd have to say that those are the 2 single best value for money tech related items I have ever bought... 17yrs or so later and still working as good as the day they were purchased. I also have another MS wireless intellimouse from circa 2002-2003 time that's going strong... that's the one I currently use on my mediaserver after I discovered it in the back of a drawer having a clean out in the summer... It probably got put there during my last house move in 2009.

Upgraded my triple monitor setup from 2x Acer 27" (75hz 1440p) and 1x 24" BenQ (60hz 1080p in portrait) to dump the BenQ and added an AOC Curved 27" (144hz, 1440p). Then I bought a new 2019 nVidia Shield TV Pro, and a mini 128GB USB3 flash drive for expanded storage on my existing Shield TV, and some electric socket timers so that my xmas tree lights and some lamps switch on/off at random times within a specified time frame (set the timer to start at say 5pm and off at 1am, and it will randomly start stop within 30 mins, either side of that time) so I can make the house look in use over the holidays whilst I'm away sipping scotch by a roaring fire, or in the hot tub... please snow.. I've always wanted to sit in a hot tub in a snowy landscape on xmas day. I also had a new hand built fence put up outside my house... that was very expensive but makes my property look so much better, will look even better in the spring when I do some gardening and planting. Then I was given a dishwasher for the kitchen by my sister as she was moving home and their new place had an integrated one.. So I ripped out a 1000mm base unit, fitted a 300mm one and plumbed it in... never done any plumbing before and had to adjust some pipework, fit a new dual waste pipe adapter and a cold water Y splitter... But it all works and a £300 dishwasher was free and so far it's cost me about £90 for the smaller cabinet and plumbing parts... Now I have to go out and buy a load of new cutlery as mine isn't suitable for a dishwasher and grab some extra cups/plates and other bits and pieces... Because it's a large 12 place dishwasher and with it just being little old me at home most of the time... I quite literally don't have enough stuff to fill it fully without running out of things to eat and drink from. So I figure another £100 or so for all that... gonna splurge on some nice quality stuff (white of course because that goes with anything, patterns and colours can become redundant if you change other colours in a house). But even after all that... still cheaper than buying a brand new dishwasher myself (which would still involve all of the extras anyway). Doesn't make my kitchen look any better as it needs redoing properly... but that's a few yrs down the road as I plan on doing the whole of the downstairs, knocking down walls, re jigging rooms, taking out old chimney breast as well as a whole new kitchen, electrical and plumbing work... which is gonna cost about £15k... and it's gonna take me a couple of years to save up that without stopping me buying anything else or treating myself to little things here and there (games, toys, trips out and so forth) All of my xmas shopping has been done, wrapped and put in pretty like xmas bags for everyone... I've got a little bonus coming this month (only £180) with another bonus in Jan (around £700)... So I'm going to be browsing the sales over the next few weeks for stuff that I know I won't be getting over xmas... Maybe the odd game on Steam or GOG if it takes my fancy. But in Jan.. I've got the quandry of do I rebuild my media server or not. It's running windows 7 Pro and that OS is EOL in Jan... but I really hate Win10 on my new system and have to mess around locking it down so that updates are on my terms, no shitty MS account and all of the telemetry crippled as well as MS store, cortana and so forth. If I decide to rebuild.. I repurpose my current build (B450, R5 2600X, 32GB DDR4 3200mhz) for that and buy some new shiny for me... X570 (because no B550 boards are out yet), 3900X and I've already got 32GB DDR4 3200mhz sat in the draw as I had 64GB already and only ended up using 32GB in this one. It's been a great few weeks... sadly... those kinds of splurges are kinda rare.

The only reason apple do anything, is to increase profit... they've seen that phone sales are slowing so they need to recoup that profit in other areas. So they remove the headphone jack so they can sell you wireless headphones at 5x the normal price for lower quality sound. So if any one is actually surprised that they're going to remove the charging port so they can sell you a separate wireless charging pad at 5x the price for slower charging... so that next year they can sell you the even more expensive twice as fast wireless charging pad.... oh and none of these wireless charging pads follow any current standard, so you can't just buy any old cheaper charging pad... so if there's any one left who is still surprised by any of these please raise your hand,... because I found the gullible card you dropped.

I simply don't think you can apply a 'black or white' solution to an issue that is neither.... and I'm sure that some one, some where... will take offence at my use of 'black or white' in this context.

yeah, we have drifted and the US free speech has been dragged into it... and I've used UK examples and laws regarding hate speech which also don't apply. So it all comes down to a cultural difference issue really... and there's never going to be agreement on it.

Do you not see the contradiction in those two statements? This happened in Canada... your free speech argument and constitution is invalid, as are my hate speech law references for things in the UK. So once again.. what we have here is a difference of opinion based on cultural differences between what is deemed acceptable in our two countries. You're adamant that free speech triumphs over everything, and we believe that there are limits that apply. We're never going to agree on that... we've been brought up with different views and laws on the issue.