The Official Status Thread
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@Zenith I didn't read any previous post so I don't know the context, but modern CPUs have very advanced power management features and clock speed is all over the place if not under consistent load. But when it's 800MHz under load, that's thermal throttling, and reapplying thermal paste is a good idea.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith I didn't read any previous post so I don't know the context, but modern CPUs have very advanced power management features and clock speed is all over the place if not under consistent load. But when it's 800MHz under load, that's thermal throttling, and reapplying thermal paste is a good idea.
Well the issue is that the PC in the last few weeks has become ridiculously slow. It's difficult to keep RAM usage under 3GB and the page file is suddenly 9GB. The worst effects are with Chrome/Brave but it's difficult to tell precisely because the PC has tons of 2000-2014 era software on it that could actually run at lower clock/memory. I've run four different antivirus scans and they don't see to be finding anything that would explain the slowness. The only suspicious part to me is the page file business and how it keeps "forgetting" when I change the DNS.
Guess I'll try the thermal paste and order a replacement case fan while I'm at it.
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@Zenith first you might want to actually check temperature.
Edit: one other thing you might want to check is whether it's still intolerably slow in safe mode.
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@Gąska Says it runs on .NET 2.0 and above and immediately pops up a crash dialog telling me it needs .NET 4.5 :/
Edit: Slightly older version appears to run. Says the temperature is 36-37 degrees C with a max of 42 degrees C. Clock is constantly jumping 800-3200. GPU seems to be running twice as hot. I don't know if max is like a limit or a high water mark.
BRB, going to try safe mode. Forgot about that!
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Edit: one other thing you might want to check is whether it's still intolerably slow in safe mode.
Memory usage is still really high but the speed is back. Sadly I don't appear to get temperature data in safe mode.
I wonder if it's the antivirus going haywire again. I had a few times in the past where AVG would just grab 98% of the processor cycles until I found a way to kill it.
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@Zenith sounds like something is indeed acting up and it's not thermal throttling after all. Still, replacing thermal paste once every few decades isn't a bad idea.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Binge-bought a cheap mechanical keyboard. Arriving Wednesday.
I've been using it for a few days now and I absolutely love it. The keypresses feel so good compared to membranes. Best spacebar I've ever had - it has the exact same response in the center and at the very edge. No software configuration of RGB, but the 18 preset patterns and 9 color modes allow me to annoy my sister in over 100 unique ways! When I showed her the rainbow wave for the first time, she actually asked if I'm gay.
One of the best decisions in my life.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
the processor came up 2080mhz one time and 3200mhz like it's supposed to on subsequent attempts. I really don't know what's going on here that's suddenly such a problem.
Edit: 800mhz?!
Yeah, processors do that. This ain't your ancient processor era where CPUs always ran full tilt unless you pressed the Turbo button to limit the speed to 8 MHz.
I'm not sure that's the problem necessarily, unless it's constantly hanging out at 800MHz when you're trying to do heavy computing.
For example, see my personal PC hanging out at the same:
Yet I'm watching YouTube, running to VMs, Chrome, and several other things....
Actual Status: Pondering why the "Limit FPS" setting isn't working correctly on Memu...
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
When I showed her the rainbow wave for the first time, she actually asked if I'm gay.
Sometimes I forget that my keys are backlit. Then the lights get turned off and I remember again.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Binge-bought a cheap mechanical keyboard. Arriving Wednesday.
I've been using it for a few days now and I absolutely love it. The keypresses feel so good compared to membranes. Best spacebar I've ever had - it has the exact same response in the center and at the very edge. No software configuration of RGB, but the 18 preset patterns and 9 color modes allow me to annoy my sister in over 100 unique ways! When I showed her the rainbow wave for the first time, she actually asked if I'm gay.
One of the best decisions in my life.
Mechanical keyboards are nice. I even like the sound they make, feels home.
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Status: still stiff two days after climbing Helvellyn for the first (and possibly last) time. But I survived Striding Edge and positively enjoyed descending Swirral Edge, and even managed Catstycam on the way down.
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Correlation, not (necessarily) causation:
Saturdays: Tend to drink little or no caffeine
Sundays: Tend to have splitting headache
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
: “One-Day Shipping” means we'll ship it… one day.
Just got a notification this morning that it shipped and the delivery date is now Friday.
Motherfuckers. So "one-day shipping" means seven days, apparently.
I've posted this before , but one time I had this happen: I ordered some things, and they had a couple different shipping estimates. The regular free shipping was a few days out, and the one day shipping had a range between the next day and one week later. Optimistically, I picked the "one day" option, which resulted in me getting my shipment... six days later, which while not at the extremely long end of the upgraded shipping estimate, was outside the range of the original free shipment. :womp_wah:
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Binge-bought a cheap mechanical keyboard. Arriving Wednesday.
I've been using it for a few days now and I absolutely love it. The keypresses feel so good compared to membranes. Best spacebar I've ever had - it has the exact same response in the center and at the very edge. No software configuration of RGB, but the 18 preset patterns and 9 color modes allow me to annoy my sister in over 100 unique ways! When I showed her the rainbow wave for the first time, she actually asked if I'm gay.
One of the best decisions in my life.
I would recommend getting a set of key dampeners. They make the keys feel quite a bit nicer
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Correlation, not (necessarily) causation:
Saturdays: Tend to drink little or no caffeine
Sundays: Tend to have splitting headacheWhen I cut back my caffeine levels, yeah, causation.
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@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
feels home
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
AVG
:theres_your_problem:
Yeah, going into safe mode and killing it instantly fixed everything.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Yeah, going into safe mode and killing it instantly fixed everything.
Anti-Virus: Trying to prove, once for all, that the cure is worse than the disease.
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@dkf is this political commentary on current events?
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
is this political commentary
If you feel you have to interpret it as such, appropriate categories are
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Status: Warning: Unexpected dramatic temperature increase in core system.
WTF just happened and how can I get it to stop?
Secondary status: Apparently drenching myself in sweat. I shall stand in front of this fan now.
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Status: Idiots. Just saw a group of people walking down the very active, with bends obscuring the near distance railroad tracks (and not even light rail either, these are freight tracks) running near my apartment.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Yeah, going into safe mode and killing it instantly fixed everything.
Anti-Virus: Trying to prove, once for all, that the cure is worse than the disease.
AVG is a disease that you can put into remission but not actually cure. From the menu, "disable indefinitely" actually means "disable for three seconds." I deleted it from startup and disabled the services and it's fucking back. I question whether uninstalling would be enough or if I need to drive a stake through its heart too.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
people walking down the ... railroad tracks
"Hello, Mr. Darwin?"
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@HardwareGeek I'd rather they didn't get splattered on my car, which is right next to those tracks (about 5' away, where the parking spots are here).
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
I deleted it from startup and disabled the services and it's fucking back.
Of course it is. Modern antiviruses have like 5,000 different back doors to get into the system and keep themselves running (to defend against a virus doing exactly that).
Fully uninstalling it should fix it, however.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Yeah, going into safe mode and killing it instantly fixed everything.
Anti-Virus: Trying to prove, once for all, that the cure is worse than the disease.
AVG is a disease that you can put into remission but not actually cure. From the menu, "disable indefinitely" actually means "disable for three seconds." I deleted it from startup and disabled the services and it's fucking back. I question whether uninstalling would be enough or if I need to drive a stake through its heart too.
format c: /s
AVG was OK in the days of Windows XP but it went down the path of adding crapware to your system and occasionally detecting important system files had viruses. I switched to Microsoft's virus scanner and it has found just as many actual viruses as AVG did.
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Status out-of-context: Summary: Don’t have a mid-life-crisis
(https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/ricom/mid-life-crisis)
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status
problem: brain not working normal
proposed solution: add caffeine
execution: end up with cold water in coffee mug
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Status:
Reading through Nginx Beginner's Guide, trying to remember how to make fcgi forwarding happen again.
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FML
Today's work calendar has 5 meetings spanning 4 solid hours.
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
Friday ... seven days
That is you ordered on Friday, and get it on Friday? That's on the spot: on the same (week-)day.
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Body weight is at a local minimum. Clothes are loose again.
God, I miss real food.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Body weight is at a local minimum.
Everyone's body weight is at a local minimum every morning.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Body weight is at a local minimum.
Everyone's body weight is at a local minimum every morning.
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Webex uses the initials of the user as a default avatar.
It's unfortunate that this means the letters BS appear on my screen whenever my manager speaks.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Webex uses the initials of the user as a default avatar.
It's
unfortunatecompletely appropriate that this means the letters BS appear on my screen whenever my manager speaks.FTFY
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Today's work calendar has 5 meetings spanning 4 solid hours.
I guess it cheers me up that they're paying me almost $400 to listen to them drone on about how they're going to pay me for 2 more days of work to change an email address in a web app.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Today's work calendar has 5 meetings spanning 4 solid hours.
I guess it cheers me up that they're paying me almost $400 to listen to them drone on about how they're going to pay me for 2 more days of work to change an email address in a web app.
My painting supplies are right next to my work stuff. I'd pretend to pay attention but get lots of figures painted. And since mics are always muted in those things, it'd be really hard to tell I wasn't paying attention.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Today's work calendar has 5 meetings spanning 4 solid hours.
I guess it cheers me up that they're paying me almost $400 to listen to them drone on about how they're going to pay me for 2 more days of work to change an email address in a web app.
My painting supplies are right next to my work stuff. I'd pretend to pay attention but get lots of figures painted. And since mics are always muted in those things, it'd be really hard to tell I wasn't paying attention.
Back when we had these things in-person, I used to openly read my Learn Spanish textbook as a form of silent protest of pointless meetings.
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That's nothing. Bring your Nintendo DS.
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@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
Fully uninstalling it should fix it, however.
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Status: Needed just a handful of things from the supermarket. Shopped for like 10 minutes, got back out an realized I forgot to put up the "parking disc", because, well, it was just a few minutes. That's a fine of 30€ for shopping for about 10€.
But note, this wasn't public parking and an official fine by the city, that's the private parking lot of the supermarket which offers free parking like every supermarket does, but they have given up control of their parking lot to this "park and control" park-nazi company.I'm going to send in a request for "goodwill", because I bought something while I parked there, but I doubt it'll be accepted.
Since paying 40€ is an unacceptable price for the few things I bought, I think this leaves me no other choice than never shopping at this supermarket again, for the rest of my life. Which is a pity, I like it better than the others around.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
I forgot to put up the "parking disc", ... a fine of 30€ for shopping for about 10€.
Go by bike. You don't need a "parking disk" (yet).
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@topspin "Goodwill" is a good translation, but "parking disc" is odd. I kinda get what you're talking about from the context, I don't think I've ever heard the term used in English. "Parking pass" is common enough, and if it's circular, I guess you could call it a parking disc, but it's certainly not common, at least not in American English. And to require a parking pass, of any shape, at a supermarket is quite odd. Maybe in a dense urban area where free parking is nonexistent, but that would usually be done by having the store validate the ticket from the paid parking lot, not having a special pass you have to have obtained somehow before entering the store. And if you don't get your parking ticket validated, you just pay the regular parking fee; it's not a fine.