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I'm sorry to be the one telling you, but I think your tower might be a bit on the FATTY side!
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Woooah, the heat seems to be getting me today. I glanced at this topic title: https://forums.pcgamer.com/threads/optical-or-stereo.148957/#post-414209, and I thought it said "Getting Stoned" (Monthy Python *cough*) I was like "waaait a minute!", we don't allow talk about erm...stones on the forums.🤦♂️🤦♂️
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it was born out of necessity but it makes it easier to see parts. All white means it all merges into itself, it can be hard to tell where the case ends and motherboard begins. I actually wish I had more black parts now.
it doesn't help that some of the black you see inside the case is actually shadows. I can't not have the ones caused by cables coming from rear of the case. So I may replace the power cables with custom ones next year, and can choose up to two colours, so might make those B/W and lean into it further.
I just realised the two black lines at front of case are actually holes as I took some hard drive cages out, I wonder if the cages filled the gaps.
Yep, they did, I had wondered about those lines, I hadn't thought of fact they might be related to the hdd cages. It doesn't help that most of the photos of the case online were angled in such a way I couldn't tell if the black lines were holes or not until I took glass off.
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No, she's just an Amazon, towering nearly as tall as my desk with her sitting on a glass 3 1/2" monitor stand that fits her perfectly. Also has an Arctic Liquid Freezer II 420 AIO cooling her. She runs cool, quiet and clean. Every time I've vacuumed her filters the one under the PSU doesn't even have any dust in it.I'm sorry to be the one telling you, but I think your tower might be a bit on the FATTY side!
I highly recommend the stand for anyone that puts their tower on the floor. It's a nice looking one and very easy to dust by just sliding a dust rag between it and the case.
Amazon has a great Prime Day deal on a similar product at about what I paid for mine. Not sure if the quality is the same though. Just the fact that it uses 1/4" thick tempered safety glass vs 3/8" thick plate glass makes me leery.
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I have to admit, her Wonder Woman movies are a guilty pleasure of mine!Ahh, I think I know what type of Amazon you are referring to
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Yikes! We don't have a "scary" emoji button, so I just "liked" instead, but it just feels inappropriate...Not having a great brain day. Apparently I was completely out of it and decided it would be a good idea to take 80 units of fast-acting insulin and go to sleep. I've done some other curious things lately without knowing it due to extreme insomnia, but the insulin thing is flat out dangerous. Luckily, I only slept for a little less than an hour, and when I woke up I experienced something very few people will ever experience, with every cell of my body screaming for food. It's a level of hunger that is hard to describe, as your body thinks, rightfully, that it is about to slip into a coma and die if it doesn't get food immediately. I keep a bottle of grape flavored sugar tablets by the bed, and when your body is running dangerously low on energy, these tablets taste like they came straight from the hand of God, otherworldly and supernaturally divine. They only have 3g of sugar per tablet, so I put a few in my mouth, chewed them up, and then held them in my mouth for a few minutes before swallowing. This way the sugar gets absorbed directly to the blood stream instead of having to travel through your digestive system first. My head cleared up pretty quickly, and I was no longer in danger, but my body takes awhile to come to grips with that, so it was still screaming for food, and so I went down to the fridge and helped myself to some leftover pizza.
I helped them move twice, but told them no longer. They have to hire movers now, because they can't bare to part with all their garbage. They once embarrassed me early on in my relationship with my wife (then girlfriend), when I got her three brothers to pitch in and help move my parents. My parents had packed literally nothing and I think expected my brothers in law to do all that for them or something.
Speaking of liquids on PC's, ages ago when I had one of these bad boys
which I still kind of miss (but in no way am I going to pay like $500 for a "new" one just to relive some nostalgia for a moment), I used to run it without the case cover. I went to move it one day and found what I'm pretty sure was milk spilled inside it, all over the Matrox video card. The thing still functioned great, but I never made that mistake again (just newer, dumber ones).
Today was my birthday and boy, what a disappointment. Nothing special about this one, only 41, but my niece and nephew were supposed to come over and babysit the kids so I could go out with my wife. Unfortunately, those allergies from my shed clean out turned out to be fullblown illness and now I've passed it along to my wife. I'm largely over it, but I slept poorly last night, as did my wife, so we canceled and will be rescheduling.
I'm just disappointed, as I was looking forward to it and instead, it turned in to pretty much a standard day with extra household work. No cake, no gifts (I mean, I already bought my own gifts, but my wife took them and was going to wrap them just for fun), nothing. Maybe I'm just whining, but I can't help but feel very let down. I know we'll reschedule everything, but it just sucks to be looking forward to a thing only to have it not end-up happening. I guess that's at least the worst of my problems.
But, the upside of today is that the kids went to their summer program and I focused on a random project that I really wanted to get going, which was getting a newer branch of DOSBOX working on my Steam Deck. I spent about 3-hours messing with config files, unable to get this game working and then went on an afternoon walk with my wife after lunch. During the walk, I had a little epiphany and when I sat down again, I solved my problem in five minutes and have been pretty happily playing Might & Magic 4 on my Deck since then.
I also discovered that the tournament I was intending to go to in August has finally been posted to the Convention website, so I get to sign-up for that. I ought to have painted today, as I have plenty to finish up before the tournament, but this project on the Steam Deck was way more fun...
Next week I need to get some maintenance items done on my van in preparation for a wedding road trip into the mountains. My van should handle it, especially after the maintenance, but I'll be bringing my tools with me anyway...
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If I remember correctly, the old towers could take a lot of damage. It was mainly dust that was the culprit of some systems getting fried. I attended a few LANs back in the 90s, or drove to friends' places to play together, and I know for certain I did not pack anything around them on the trip. All those vibrations and bumps on the road did not affect it, or at least not to the extent that I could notice while playing.
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Pretty warm out - low 90's (about 33C). I step outside and... it's sooooo hot! For about 5 minutes. Then I walk inside where the thermostat is set at 77 (25C) and it's cold!! Fine, put it up one degree.
Two hours later and I'm sweating slightly in 78F. So, I suppose I could go outside for five minutes, come back inside, and it will be cold again? I can cool off by getting hotter!?
Two hours later and I'm sweating slightly in 78F. So, I suppose I could go outside for five minutes, come back inside, and it will be cold again? I can cool off by getting hotter!?
Guilty? Why guilt.... OMG! You used the plural. Does that mean you're watching the one set in the... No. No, I shouldn't even speculate on such a thing from such flimsy evidence!I have to admit, her Wonder Woman movies are a guilty pleasure of mine!
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It's just that lovely little common phrase that's another way of saying having that much entertainment in one movie should be illegal, so I watched BOTH instead!Guilty? Why guilt.... OMG! You used the plural. Does that mean you're watching the one set in the... No. No, I shouldn't even speculate on such a thing from such flimsy evidence!
Truth be told I don't feel one bit guilty!
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I was sitting in my room and I heard something hit the roof... then start to walk around on it. We don't have any trees nearby so could only be one thing
Look outside
Lawn covered in Parrots
i didn't open blinds more as didn't want to disturb them.
Native here but cost a fortune everywhere else. Thats how things work.
I think they all gone now, buses probably disturbed their feeding.
its a good thing Emus can't fly, their wings are too short. They would have to be massive to support the bird... bird would have to be smaller to fly... it would be safer, less likely to start wars
Australia, where even the birds are nasty
Look outside
Lawn covered in Parrots
i didn't open blinds more as didn't want to disturb them.
Native here but cost a fortune everywhere else. Thats how things work.
I think they all gone now, buses probably disturbed their feeding.
its a good thing Emus can't fly, their wings are too short. They would have to be massive to support the bird... bird would have to be smaller to fly... it would be safer, less likely to start wars
Australia, where even the birds are nasty
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Happy belated birthday @BeardyHat!
@Colif, I can imagine the scenario of me visiting Australia and looking at that beautiful bird:
"Oh, what a lovely bird!"
Bird looks at me and makes a slight "growl."
"Huh, that is weird."
Bird runs towards me.
"Oh, hello there...."
The bird plunges at me
"Jesus, I just wanted to look at you!"
Bird: Gaaaaawk, Gawwwwwwk!
"Closes eyes and plays dead."
Bird: Uses both feet to shovel dirt in my face and runs away.
Or, perhaps I should use this advice from the net:
"Cassowary safety; if attacked or threatened, always get a buddy to help you. That way, you only have to outrun your buddy."
@Colif, I can imagine the scenario of me visiting Australia and looking at that beautiful bird:
"Oh, what a lovely bird!"
Bird looks at me and makes a slight "growl."
"Huh, that is weird."
Bird runs towards me.
"Oh, hello there...."
The bird plunges at me
"Jesus, I just wanted to look at you!"
Bird: Gaaaaawk, Gawwwwwwk!
"Closes eyes and plays dead."
Bird: Uses both feet to shovel dirt in my face and runs away.
Or, perhaps I should use this advice from the net:
"Cassowary safety; if attacked or threatened, always get a buddy to help you. That way, you only have to outrun your buddy."
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I found out we don't have the world's most venomous spider here, so at least that is something... it lives in Brazil so many of you are closer to it than I am (even maybe those that live in Europe, would be close). We make up for it having most of the venomous spiders I think.
Lucky most of the wildlife that is dangerous isn't found in cities (spiders/snakes not included) and most Australians sane enough not to go too far outside of the cities or leave the coastal areas. Still have to be careful.
The last two days I haven't been able to stay awake past 6pm. I wanted to break out of pattern as waking at 4am on a cold morning when heater won't come on for 2 hours isn't fun. Hopefully I won't repeat it tomorrow now. Hard for me to keep normal hours.
Lucky most of the wildlife that is dangerous isn't found in cities (spiders/snakes not included) and most Australians sane enough not to go too far outside of the cities or leave the coastal areas. Still have to be careful.
The last two days I haven't been able to stay awake past 6pm. I wanted to break out of pattern as waking at 4am on a cold morning when heater won't come on for 2 hours isn't fun. Hopefully I won't repeat it tomorrow now. Hard for me to keep normal hours.
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We don't have any dangerous spiders in Norway, but we do have dangerous high prices on food.
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I feel like you must be lying. Even your mammals are venomous...
I'm toasted as well, though it's my own fault. Been staying-up too late (11pm, whoa now) and getting up around 6:30 to get the kids to their summer program, so I've just been generally tired.
Today, I'm a bit hungover, which means I slept poorly as well. Friend came over for wargames last night and as we were wrapping up about 11 (unfinished game, but I think I would have won) a lost little Shih Tzu came wandering up and into my garage where we were playing.
Seemed scared, so I gave it some food and water, tried to figure out what to do about it and eventually put it in my cat carrier and down in my basement for the night. Now it's just chilling next to me on the couch this morning. I'll probably take it over to the animal shelter and see if it has a microchip with the owners information, since it has no tags.
Not sure what happens from there, but if no one claims it, I'd adopt it and give it to my parents, probably. Not sure they want a dog, but they do like them and it's a perfect size for them...
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Initial report on the India plane crash is that one of the co-pilots cut off the fuel to the engines. The fuel was turned back on, but it takes too long for the engines to get going again. They do not know if this was an accident or intentional. Pilots say that it would be impossible to mistake the fuel cut-offs for anything else, so it sounds like it may have been a suicide/mass murder
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Finally got started on the work I've been needing to do on my van. My only goal for today was to clean-up my garage (put away all my wargaming stuff from Friday), pull my van in and get it up on jackstands to prepare for the work. I ended-up going a little bit further and pulling off the airbox and the throttle body, then cleaning the new throttle body I received before I left for Chicago.
Long story short, I've done this job before, but I'm fairly certain I damaged my idle air control sensor when I did this before; I had sprayed some throttle body cleaner in there by mistake, not realizing it was in the way and since I put things back together, the car is rough when I turn it off and it looks like my gas mileage has dropped quite a bit. So I've got a new one, which came with a "new" throttle body from the junkyard, which is actually for the bigger engine they put in my van, so it's a few millimeters larger. I'm hoping to see a little bit of increased power and maybe if I'm lucky, some better gas mileage, but we'll see.
I also needed to get it up on stands because I need to service the transmission. Need to drop the pan, replace the filter and the fluid, which will be an easy, if messy job. I'm hoping to get it in tip top shape for a 4-hour road trip into the mountains at the end of the month. It should make it, but I'm doing what I can to make sure it's good before we go and of course, I'll pack my tools with me just in case. We could take our Honda Fit, but it's just not as comfortable for the long trip. And I suppose it'll be a good shakedown run for my van, as I'll probably be taking it to Chicago again in like September or October and then I'll be quite far away from home if something happens...
Long story short, I've done this job before, but I'm fairly certain I damaged my idle air control sensor when I did this before; I had sprayed some throttle body cleaner in there by mistake, not realizing it was in the way and since I put things back together, the car is rough when I turn it off and it looks like my gas mileage has dropped quite a bit. So I've got a new one, which came with a "new" throttle body from the junkyard, which is actually for the bigger engine they put in my van, so it's a few millimeters larger. I'm hoping to see a little bit of increased power and maybe if I'm lucky, some better gas mileage, but we'll see.
I also needed to get it up on stands because I need to service the transmission. Need to drop the pan, replace the filter and the fluid, which will be an easy, if messy job. I'm hoping to get it in tip top shape for a 4-hour road trip into the mountains at the end of the month. It should make it, but I'm doing what I can to make sure it's good before we go and of course, I'll pack my tools with me just in case. We could take our Honda Fit, but it's just not as comfortable for the long trip. And I suppose it'll be a good shakedown run for my van, as I'll probably be taking it to Chicago again in like September or October and then I'll be quite far away from home if something happens...
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Looked at my grill today as well. I was trying to use it yesterday, brand new tank of propane and it wouldn't light; after many attempts resetting the Regulator, it still refused, so I ended-up baking my skewers instead.
So in looking at it today, I still wasn't able to resolve the issue, so I'm assuming the Regulator is boned, which makes sense, given I've had the grill for...10-ish years? And it was my Sister-In-Laws before that for I don't know how many.
Anyway, I decided I'm going to go through it and refurbish it, as it's in a pretty sorry state as is. The igniters haven't worked for years, the little guards over the flame's have rusted away into nothing and now the Regulator thing. Looked on Amazon and I can get all the replacement parts I need for about $60, so when I have some time here, I'm going to take it apart, scrub it and clean it up really well and then put the new parts in. Hopefully everything will work well after that.
I desperately need it, given we don't have AC and it's regularly been 95-100*f+ here lately, so it's nice not to have to heat-up the kitchen with the stove and the oven.
So in looking at it today, I still wasn't able to resolve the issue, so I'm assuming the Regulator is boned, which makes sense, given I've had the grill for...10-ish years? And it was my Sister-In-Laws before that for I don't know how many.
Anyway, I decided I'm going to go through it and refurbish it, as it's in a pretty sorry state as is. The igniters haven't worked for years, the little guards over the flame's have rusted away into nothing and now the Regulator thing. Looked on Amazon and I can get all the replacement parts I need for about $60, so when I have some time here, I'm going to take it apart, scrub it and clean it up really well and then put the new parts in. Hopefully everything will work well after that.
I desperately need it, given we don't have AC and it's regularly been 95-100*f+ here lately, so it's nice not to have to heat-up the kitchen with the stove and the oven.
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Thought I'd share my favorite floss. I guess it is kind of a strange thing, but I have been hunting for the perfect dental floss for years. This one is perfect, so much that I bought like 20 of them, just in case they ever went out. Good taste, strong, and gets the job done with little to no shredding. In other words, it is perfect!
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EKULF RiserFloss blister - Ekulf
EKULF Riser®Floss dental floss is a thread that fits you who have larger or different sized gaps between your teeth. The thread expands upon friction so that it adjusts to the gap.
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If the floss doesn't snap in half when you've got 3-5 tooth gaps to go, you're doing it wrong.
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God, almost half the political stories MSN feeds me in Windows are either grossly misinterpreted in a way designed to get more clicks, or they are just flat out fake news. Internet ad revenue has killed journalism.
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