The Official Status Thread
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@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
STATUS I ran into three Swifties while out for my morning coffee.
I don't do "out" or "coffee", so I am am curious how a Swiftie is identified.
Easy, they're not wearing any weeb wear.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Can't use an M2 SSD with a heat sink in this thing.
The (plastic) case is te heet steenk!
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
STATUS I ran into three Swifties while out for my morning coffee. I feel this is @topspin's fault.
I, for one, am not leaving the house and only recently learned what a Taylor Swift is.
I was out and away on vacation the days Swift visited my city.
Coincidence; but why let facts get in the way of a good story.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith Unfuckingbelievable. Can't use an M2 SSD with a heat sink in this thing. Case won't close. Would've been nice to know, Intel.
Edit: Fortunately I also bought a SATA SSD for the system drive so I can at least try to fight through basic setup while I wait for different M2 SSD.
I have two M.2 SSDs in my desktop machine, one with built-in heatsink and one without (which needs the heatsink that came with the mobo). I suspect one only really needs the heatsinks if yooneu has a write-heavy workload... but I'm not going to chance it.
Fortunately, I also have masses of space in the case. I've made that particular mistake before, long ago...
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
I was out and away on vacation the days Swift visited my city.
You didn't miss much. It's just the normie version of that indie band called ObjectiveC.
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@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
STATUS I ran into three Swifties while out for my morning coffee.
I don't do "out" or "coffee", so I am am curious how a Swiftie is identified.
They started talking to me and the barista.
status I had great plans to stay indoors today and the rain has just confirmed I was right too.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
STATUS I ran into three Swifties while out for my morning coffee.
I don't do "out" or "coffee", so I am am curious how a Swiftie is identified.
They started talking to me and the barista.
status I had great plans to stay indoors today and the rain has just confirmed I was right too.
Perfect weather for the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV, which has a free trial that includes the entirety of A Realm Reborn AND the award-winning Heavensward and Stormblood expansions up to level 70 with no restrictions on playtime!
</copypasta>
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Status:
: Counting down to gay death.
: wasn’t that 10 years ago?
:Also, I’ve been using the 🫃 emoji to mean “I’ve been eating way too much cake for my fat ass”. No ragrets.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith Unfuckingbelievable. Can't use an M2 SSD with a heat sink in this thing. Case won't close. Would've been nice to know, Intel.
Edit: Fortunately I also bought a SATA SSD for the system drive so I can at least try to fight through basic setup while I wait for different M2 SSD.
I have two M.2 SSDs in my desktop machine, one with built-in heatsink and one without (which needs the heatsink that came with the mobo). I suspect one only really needs the heatsinks if yooneu has a write-heavy workload... but I'm not going to chance it.
Fortunately, I also have masses of space in the case. I've made that particular mistake before, long ago...
The first M.2 drive I ever bought had a heatsink on it. This caused a problem because the M.2 connector is right next to the slot with the video card it in, and the drive won't go into the mobo M.2 connector because the heatsink hits the video card fan.
So I bought a card on Ebay that has an M.2 connector on it and plugs into a PCI slot. Worked fine with no noticeable performance impact (seemed just as fast as the SATA SSD I was using previously).
Have since replaced it with a non-heatsink drive. Seems fine.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Can't use an M2 SSD with a heat sink in this thing.
The (plastic) case is te heet steenk!
If the case is aluminum then that probably is the answer. Should be enough of a heatsink that putting a thermal pad between it and the SSD would work
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
this Assembly kit comes with
status: oh shit I seem to be missing a baggie of parts! Well, that puts a large dampener on this assembly program....
status: phew! It was a case of upside-down disrecognition. Construction is proceeding as expected.
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@dkf What's worse is that it looks removable but it's not. There are screws but it's also glued. Even if it weren't, those screws go into a rail that would block the case with or without the heat sink.
Then there's the expansion panel options. The board has two spare USB2 headers and a non-drive M2 port. The only combination I can't get is what I want, USB2 and audio mic/out. But I can get:
- two USB2
- two USB2 and one USB3
- two USB2 and wireless antenna
- two USB2 and RJ45 (duplicate)
- one USB3 and audio out
- a bunch of ugly-as-sin replacement lids that make the expansion panel moot
So I ordered the one with wireless and obviated the wireless adapter I already bought. Guess it'll be a backup for another machine.
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status what do Germans get up to on their birthdays? Hopefully not Taylor Swift concerts.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
this Assembly kit comes with
status: oh shit I seem to be missing a baggie of parts! Well, that puts a large dampener on this assembly program....
status: phew! It was a case of upside-down disrecognition. Construction is proceeding as expected.
status: fucking hell! I didn't realize one of the parts did not have the holes threaded.
Now pondering how to extract a tiny stripped screw so I can tap that hole (and the others around it).
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
the one with wireless and obviated the wireless adapter
Placing bet: they just put a card in the M.2 slot.
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@Zenith: I'm curious about why you specifically want USB 2 instead of USB 3, but at the same time I'm afraid to ask.
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Updated Thunderbird from version 91 to the latest, 115.
Didn't want to, but TB 91's handling of OAuth2 is broken. Works on some mail servers but not others. I've stayed with TB91 because the UX of all the newer versions is complete shit.
Spent half a day trying to wrangle TB into something usable and that doesn't annoy the fuck out of me.. I don't understand why these assholes can't just fix the things that need fixing and leave everything else alone.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith: I'm curious about why you specifically want USB 2 instead of USB 3, but at the same time I'm afraid to ask.
He wants his mouse to let him know it can go faster if plugged into a 3 port.
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@Zerosquare Windows 7. I thought we covered this already?
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Status: Awesome mood today.
It's summer, so just the time for the A/C to konk out. You know, after having paid to have it fixed almost exactly a year ago. Turns out antifreeze was low. Car starts up, air starts to cool, then my mom closes the door and the fan shuts off entirely. Look under the hood again, big plastic cover for the fan is cracked. It's leaning on a wheel with a belt, which was probably causing the slight whine I've been hearing. The crack must've been there for about a week. That's when I heard this "clank" noise, like some flat piece of metal fell off, after backing out of my driveway but could never find anything on the road. So I get to drive home with no fan...but I can still feel some small amount of cold air, even with the A/C off, so the freon (or whatever) is probably leaking. Hopefully it'll pass inspection without a working fan because I have to drop the car off to have some door rust fixed right after the inspection (it's the 3rd, everywhere will be closed the 4th, weekend is 6th and 7th, and rust shop is expecting it the 8th....for a week at least - no idea why they think it'll take that long with the parts already ordered and presumably there by now but I'm too tired of this shit to ask).
And that's why I'm thinking of taking on a 3rd job. I'll either be rich or dead. Either way, none of this shit will be my problem anymore.
(Edit: this is on top of a ton of other shit that's not going right lately)
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
rust shop
no idea why they think it'll take that long
Rust isn't known for its compile speed
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@Applied-Mediocrity Plus you have to endure the sound of geese.
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Status: I woke up too early this morning and couldn't fall asleep again. Now it's time for work, but I can't stay awake.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Now it's time for work, but I can't stay awake.
feels in having to stop the MSQ at a key juncture for sleep
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Status: Well, that was
Flash drives showed up today so I downloaded a FreeBSD image to try loading on the NUC. Rufus tried to format the flash drive and failed. It then popped up a Windows dialog that also failed. Keep in mind the flash drive was just fine before this. Now Explorer acts loopy when it's plugged in and it's only recognized enough to read that A) it exists and B) has a product name.