Coconut Monkey Cornerclub

[neogunhero]

Maybe farmers could just use genetic modification enhancing beta-carotene levels in cows’ milk. That or just get yellow cows?

Perhaps the cows have a strong love for turmeric and saffron in their food. Fancy!

 

[BeardyHat]

Did you know you can lubricate PC fans? I had no idea.

Keep ‘Em Spinning: How To Lubricate PC Fans - Overclockers

Wouldn't you like to be able to use a sleeve bearing fan and not have to worry about your CPU overheating? Read on to learn how to lubricate PC fans to do just that.

www.overclockers.com

I have this old (from 2018) laptop cooling pad that did service on an old laptop, which was acting as the driver of a TV. The laptop had a burnt out CPU fan (of course, it was a Razer. Crap laptops.), so I took the bottom case off and stuck this cooling pad under there and it did service 24/7 for like 4-years.

Anyway, the cooling pad has been in storage until I recently took it back out to help with my very hot new laptop. I'm not necessarily convinced it does anything, but propping up the laptop and/or getting it off my lap helps both with throttling and not burning the hell out of my legs.

But one of the fans in this cooling pad was a bit noisy and basically refused to spin, so today I figured I'd take the cooling pad apart and see if I could replace the fan with something else. Long story short, it doesn't appear that I can, but I looked into lubricating them and found the above article and it was shockingly easy. I have some oil I used for my RC car shocks and it took the fan from feeling very gritty and barely spinning to working flawlessly.

I had been investigating a new cooling pad (it still would be nice to have something more slim), but now that I've salvaged this one, I've saved us $30 (wow.) but more importantly, kept something out of the garbage, which I'm happy about.

Edit: Opening it up also allowed me to get the last of the spiderwebs in it, as well as thoroughly clean the fans with some IPA.

 

[Colif]

Occasionally we've mentioned the odd thing that cheese in the US is yellow. Turns out, it started in England in the 13th century. Cheese and butter made from milk that was taken during the summer when the cattle got all its food from grass was a golden yellow in color, but in winter it was white because they weren't getting the beta carotene from grass. People started to associate the yellow color with higher quality, so farmers started dying all their butter yellow, and later cheese was added to that. This practice was brought to the US and Kraft and a few others continue the practice, although much of the cheese in the store I go to is just white. Butter, on the other hand, is always yellow.

We don't do that here, our cheese is all over the place when it comes to colours. They fairly anal about food colourings here.

Colour and Cheese

COLOUR AND CHEESE There are three basics colours when it comes to cheese – white, yellow and orange and all the shades in between - mostly this is all about carotenoids in the milk.

www.ksfromagerie.au

 

[Pifanjr]

My parents dropped off another old PC last week and I finally had some time to start it up to see what's in it. It's a lot better than the other one:

i5-3470
No dedicated video card, only the integrated Intel HD Graphics 2500 with 32 mb VRAM.
4 GB DDR3 RAM
Kingston SUV400S37240G (240GB SSD)
Speakers somewhere inside of the case

The lack of a video card severely limits what this PC can do, but according to systemrequirementslab.com there are still 1400+ games it can run, among which Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and Sunless Skies, both of which I've been meaning to play.

Though my wife is now pushing for us to get a new PC because our current one can't handle the World of Warcraft raids she's trying to do, so once we have that we probably won't really have a use for this one.

 

[Colif]

At least its got an ssd
that alone makes it almost better than what mum has
hers was:

• I5 7400
• HD 630 IGPU
• 8gb ram
• 1tb hdd
• dead speakers

In theory it still works but I don't plan on ever turning it on again. Its too slow, start up scans run for 10 minutes. ugh

There isn't a massive difference between a I5 3470 and a I5 7400, yours is actually faster. Bigger chipsize and 5 years older. Mums might run a little cooler.

Intel were slow walking as why try when no one was competing. Ryzen was what we all needed really... I don't mean, we needed to buy them but Intel still be on 4 cores/8 threads max still without competition.

WOW's demands have grown a lot in 20 years. I killed a PC playing wow... pushing its GPU too high. Couldn't replace GPU after as it was AGP, and all the new cards were PCIe. Once I got new PC I wanted to play games that pushed it... and wow was many years away from a graphical upgrade at that point.

 

[Zed Clampet]

Making ugly people with Flux is harder than it sounds.

Finding pictures of ugly people for training is no problem (I have access to your Facebook), but when Flux takes a selection of ugly people and averages them together to create a new person, they all end up much better looking than the individual pictures.

I'm experimenting with finding people who have similar flaws in their appearances so that averaging won't get rid of it entirely.

I am free to faff about like this since I no longer have to pay anyone to run training

 

[Zed Clampet]

Do you ever look through the server rules on Discord, or the rules for subreddits, and look for holes in their policies.

Me: "Okay, they don't specifically mention transphobia and body shaming..."

 

[Pifanjr]

Do you ever look through the server rules on Discord, or the rules for subreddits, and look for holes in their policies.

Me: "Okay, they don't specifically mention transphobia and body shaming..."

I can't say I do.

 

[BeardyHat]

Not sure what happened to my local USPS Office (Actually, I do, but no politics and all), but the last two packages I've dropped off have had issues.

I sold a computer about two months or so ago and that package essentially became "lost" for several days. It was listed as just sitting at the PO for about a week until it suddenly updated that it was at its destination and ready to be delivered.

I finally sold my little X1 Nano earlier this week (for a bit less than I'd hoped, but it's fine), packing it up and shipping it yesterday. I dropped it off at the Post Office about 12:30pm and by 1pm, they'd marked it as "Delivered.", saying it had been picked-up at the desk.

Obviously this is wrong, but I did some Googling and it looks like this doesn't necessarily happen infrequently and it usually works-out, but I learned my lesson from the previous package and bought the full insurance for $6 or whatever it cost.

I'm sure it'll arrive to my Buyer without an issue, but it's still festering in the back of my mind as something I may end-up having to deal with. I'll definitely be going to a different Post Office in the future.

 

[Zed Clampet]

I can't say I do.

What amuses me is that so many people do it wrong. Everyone wants to avoid hate speech, but instead of saying "No hate speech", they start listing groups of people off the top of their head, which makes it seem like if someone isn't on the list then they are fair game.

Now sometimes they say "No hate speech" and then give what I assume are examples, which isn't necessary, but works. But if you skip the "no hate speech" part and just start typing, "No homophobia, no...." then you've just started making a hopeless list, and technically you shouldn't throw anyone out for anything not on that list unless you just say, "Anyone can be banned at the mod's discretion."

 

[Zloth]

Body shaming? On a forum!? That sounds non-trivial. Grammar shaming, however...

 

[Frag Maniac]

Just had to share this adorable background picture I saw on Bing tonight. It's a Julia butterfly perched on the nose of a Yellow-Spotted River Turtle in Ecuador. I imagined the butterfly saying, "What lovely yellow spots you have", while the turtle just gushed and fell in love.

 

[Pifanjr]

I got my vacation money in yesterday, so I spent today researching PC hardware and looking through second hand postings. I made a €520 bid on a desktop with an AMD 5800X3D and GeForce RTX 3070 with 64GB RAM and 2x 1TB SSDs. I'm currently the highest bid and the listing is now marked as "reserved", but I haven't had a message from the seller yet so I'm not entirely sure if I've got it yet.

 

[Zed Clampet]

I got my vacation money in yesterday, so I spent today researching PC hardware and looking through second hand postings. I made a €520 bid on a desktop with an AMD 5800X3D and GeForce RTX 3070 with 64GB RAM and 2x 1TB SSDs. I'm currently the highest bid and the listing is now marked as "reserved", but I haven't had a message from the seller yet so I'm not entirely sure if I've got it yet.

My best laptop is worse than that, and it plays everything well. It's got a 3070ti, but the laptop version has to be worse, I'd imagine, than the desktop 3070.

 

[Pifanjr]

My best laptop is worse than that, and it plays everything well. It's got a 3070ti, but the laptop version has to be worse, I'd imagine, than the desktop 3070.

The main question is how it does on 40 man World of Warcraft raids. Apparently those are notorious for tanking FPS even on modern hardware, but the large cache size of the x3D CPUs is supposedly amazing for WoW performance.

 

[Zed Clampet]

The main question is how it does on 40 man World of Warcraft raids. Apparently those are notorious for tanking FPS even on modern hardware, but the large cache size of the x3D CPUs is supposedly amazing for WoW performance.

Never done that, and I don't know enough to understand why it's a problem. I've been places with hundreds of players in the same area without a hitch, so that can't be it. But good luck and give us an update.

*****
Have you ever gotten so mad at a friend that you permanently cut ties with them? I'm 59 and have never done that, but my wife and daughter do it all the time. I'm pretty sure Guido has never done it. But my wife gets mad at the weirdest things. We can't use half the businesses in our part of town because my wife thinks they were rude to her. I can only think of one time (just because my memory is bad) where an employee was rude, and I didn't stop using the business. And I have to be extremely careful if I'm going to explain something to her or have any sort of criticism for her. I basically have to use an inappropriately happy tone of voice, otherwise she gets angry.

 

[Zloth]

Yeah, a raid can really crank. You've got 40 people all casting lots of powers, plus the buffs on them probably have some sort of reference, too. Everyone is wearing different clothing, too. Plus, the boss is going to be doing all sorts of nasty stuff as well.

The sad thing is that the computer is struggling to render a complete mess of special effects. I mean, wtf is going on here?

View: https://youtu.be/YLYg3ccM6AM

And that's just with a party of six! City of Heroes (villains in this case) is flashier than most, but 40 is still going to be a lot to render and a lot for the player to try to interpret.

 

[Pifanjr]

Yeah, a raid can really crank. You've got 40 people all casting lots of powers, plus the buffs on them probably have some sort of reference, too. Everyone is wearing different clothing, too. Plus, the boss is going to be doing all sorts of nasty stuff as well.

The sad thing is that the computer is struggling to render a complete mess of special effects. I mean, wtf is going on here?

View: https://youtu.be/YLYg3ccM6AM

And that's just with a party of six! City of Heroes (villains in this case) is flashier than most, but 40 is still going to be a lot to render and a lot for the player to try to interpret.

From what I understand one big problem in World of Warcraft is that the engine is just very old. Even with the improvements made on it through the years it very heavily relies on your CPU and doesn't fully use multithreading.

 

[Zed Clampet]

We didn't have problems in World's Adrift in a similar situation, but they had this special server tech that I don't remember the name of. Everyone in the game was in the same server. However, if there were too many ships and people on the same island, and I don't have a good guess as to how many that was because you, obviously, could only see your part of the island, then a massive storm would would start to form, and you only had a certain amount of time before it would start destroying everyone's ships, so everyone scrambled to take off and leave that island. I don't have any idea why it was easier on the servers to have everyone in the air around the island instead of actually being on the island, but apparently it was. But this was supposedly ground breaking server tech at the time, and WoW had already been going for ages.

@Zloth I can't count the number of times and games in which we had more than 6 people fighting, so I have no idea what the problem is with City of Heroes. There are FPS war games with a hundred or more people fighting each other at the same time, and in Ark, Atlas, World's Adrift and other survival multiplayer games, much larger groups than 6 fight each other all the time, spells and everything. And in V Rising, too, I've seen large factions fighting each other, and that game has very complex combat.

 

[BeardyHat]

Have you ever gotten so mad at a friend that you permanently cut ties with them? I'm 59 and have never done that, but my wife and daughter do it all the time. I'm pretty sure Guido has never done it. But my wife gets mad at the weirdest things. We can't use half the businesses in our part of town because my wife thinks they were rude to her. I can only think of one time (just because my memory is bad) where an employee was rude, and I didn't stop using the business. And I have to be extremely careful if I'm going to explain something to her or have any sort of criticism for her. I basically have to use an inappropriately happy tone of voice, otherwise she gets angry.

On the contrary, my wife is quick to call everyone a friend, where I'm very reticent to do so and have to know someone very intimately before I'm willing to give them such a title.

Otherwise, I've only ever cut off one friend and no longer regard them as such. However, said (ex)friend committed some fairly egregious crimes and is now in prison for almost 30-years, so I feel fairly justified.

 

[Zed Clampet]

On the contrary, my wife is quick to call everyone a friend, where I'm very reticent to do so and have to know someone very intimately before I'm willing to give them such a title.

Well, my wife makes friends very easily, but she dumps them just as easily. Meanwhile, I have one friend, and he lives in another state. But I have a lot of friends I neglected after my children were born. They just gave up on me after awhile. I never wanted to do anything without my kids. We never once had a babysitter.

 

[Colif]

Can I have the weekend back? I had plans this weekend and instead I spent most of it trying to fix PC problems.

Still waiting for that new PC feeling
shame the rgb program for my GPU and motherboards suck
Can't get their programs to agree but I can link GPU to motherboard and let one programs do it all. Lucky I have to cable still. Was still in the box GPU came in.

Need to really do homework tomorrow as I am behind now.

 

[Zed Clampet]

Four years ago this weekend my daughter was in The Crucible, the final test to become a US Marine. The Crucible lasts for 54 hours, involves sleep and food deprivation, and 48 miles of marching along with other tests like having to navigate with a compass, carrying other soldiers for miles, etc. The final test, while exhausted and starving, is a 9 mile march carrying a 50 pound backpack. Recruits have died during The Crucible.

My daughter had a bit of a disadvantage. She had fallen a good distance while repelling down a 50 foot tall building thanks to being pushed by her drill instructor while she was getting ready to go down. While falling, she grabbed onto the rope, but she couldn't entirely stop the fall. She hit the ground hard, her fingers almost completely severed by the rope, multiple bones in her right foot fractured. My daughter started The Crucible with her hands still bandaged and, unbeknownst to the Marine Corps, she had broken bones in her right foot. Yet she survived.

Several weeks later, now a full Marine, came the hardest moment of her life. The pain in her foot had become unbearable, so she went to the camp doctor. After examining her foot, the doctor told her she was going to be honorably discharged from the Corps. She called me as soon as she left the doctor, and I have never heard such anguish from anyone before or after. Her dream of fulfilling her duty as a US Marine was forever over. Others in the corps tried to console her. "Once a Marine, always a Marine" was a phrase she heard a lot.

It was with all this in mind that I was hardly worried when she said that she was doing a Park Ranger boot camp this week. I did experience a moment of concern when she told me she had to repel down a 150 foot cliff, but no one was going to push her off the top this time, so I figured she would be alright. And she was. My little Marine is now a Park Ranger.

 

[BeardyHat]

We never once had a babysitter.

This explains your mental state!

Jokes aside, no idea how you did that. My sister just took our kids for a one night sleepover this weekend and it was bliss; we walked to a restaurant Friday evening, which was lovely. Saturday morning we were able to lay in bed and just be quiet and chill. Compare to this morning where we were "encouraged" out of bed by the fighting and now there's a lot of screaming and crying because we won't let the 5 year old put LEGO in the bathroom sink.

Love em, but damn do they drive me absolutely nuts.

Can I have the weekend back? I had plans this weekend and instead I spent most of it trying to fix PC problems.

Still waiting for that new PC feeling
shame the rgb program for my GPU and motherboards suck
Can't get their programs to agree but I can link GPU to motherboard and let one programs do it all. Lucky I have to cable still. Was still in the box GPU came in.

Need to really do homework tomorrow as I am behind now.

It's nice to have a project, at least! Maybe that's just me.

 

[Pifanjr]

I got my vacation money in yesterday, so I spent today researching PC hardware and looking through second hand postings. I made a €520 bid on a desktop with an AMD 5800X3D and GeForce RTX 3070 with 64GB RAM and 2x 1TB SSDs. I'm currently the highest bid and the listing is now marked as "reserved", but I haven't had a message from the seller yet so I'm not entirely sure if I've got it yet.

I just picked it up. The seller apparently had another bid from another site for €600, but the seller got impatient because that buyer stopped responding and accepted my bid for €620.

Is it possible there was no other buyer and I just paid €100 more? Sure, but compared to other listings this was still an insanely good deal.

Have you ever gotten so mad at a friend that you permanently cut ties with them? I'm 59 and have never done that, but my wife and daughter do it all the time. I'm pretty sure Guido has never done it. But my wife gets mad at the weirdest things. We can't use half the businesses in our part of town because my wife thinks they were rude to her. I can only think of one time (just because my memory is bad) where an employee was rude, and I didn't stop using the business. And I have to be extremely careful if I'm going to explain something to her or have any sort of criticism for her. I basically have to use an inappropriately happy tone of voice, otherwise she gets angry.

In elementary school my friends cut me off because they were mad at me because they thought I had snitched on them (and I suppose I sort of did).

In high school I lost a friend because he started hanging out with another guy who was being a dick to me. I wasn't really mad at him though.

I've mostly lost contact with someone who we suspected of spiking another friend's drink during a party, which caused him to be hospitalised and have his stomach pumped. We used to hang out multiple times a week, now I occasionally catch up on Discord a few times a year.

I have cut off a friend because my wife didn't like him. It wasn't a particularly close friend and I mostly lost contact with him already, but he had randomly contacted me and I'd invited him over for board games. However, he was kind of a sore loser and just a bit of a pain in the ass during the game. It's not something that really bothers me, but my wife said afterwards that she would not play with him again and preferred not to see him anymore.

He contacted me once more a few weeks after that and tried to set a new date to see each other, but I just said I was busy and we did the "we'll definitely make plans some other time" and then never spoke again.

My wife has a lot more friendship drama, but then she spends a lot more time talking to people than I do. I talk to my friends a couple times a year, she spends multiple hours a day talking to hers.