Coconut Monkey Cornerclub

[BeardyHat]

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.



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.

The PC still sounds like a helluva deal. I don't think I could upgrade just the parts in my PC for that amount.

You guys all make me feel like a social butterfly. I text with my friends almost every day and have been doing well making the effort to at least get online with them twice a month. Also seen my nearest friend in person twice this month and will be seeing a further away one at the end of the month to do some work on my project he's been helping me with. Then seen another friend at least twice this month as well!

My wife is still my best friend, but I think I'd go a little insane without my other relationships. I kind of lost my close relationships with them for awhile when I was heavily into smoking weed; I got super insular and isolated myself from them at the time, though several of them very quite deep into Heroin at the time, so we all kind of lost ourselves.

In brighter news, next Saturday I'll finally be reinstalling my engine in my project car with the help of one of the aforementioned friends. I removed the motor 6 years ago, in December 2019, which means the car has been sitting in my garage, immobile, longer than I've had my second child.

There's still a lot of work to be done after this, but it'll now be much easier to make little bits of progress and the finish line is in sight; assuming I've put the engine back together correctly anyway... 🤣

 

[Colif]

My keyboard died tonight... I really am running out of spares now.

Entire weekend I was lucky I had spares.
spare PC
Spare monitor (to use two PC in different locations)
Spare mouse/keyboard.
spare table to put them on.

though some of these spares are being used on mum's PC. In fact, all of them are. Only as she is getting my old PC. It was in here last night... it doesn't feel old. It had more ram than this one did last night. It felt fast in comparison.

Being restricted to 1 stick of 16gb is worse than having 16gb dual channel. Dual channel gives CPU 2x the access to data. One stick is ... I seen all the videos showing what difference two compared to one makes.
Start up was sit there and think about it. It made me not want to use it... that bad.

Back to normal now, I see I use 49% of my virtual memory without trying so having half of that space was seriously annoying

anyway... hopefully that doesn't happen again.

If I didn't resist throwing things away I wouldn't be sitting here typing on a Corsair keyboard

All these things trying to stop me doing homework. Lucky no one is chasing me but I do need to get up to date again.

 

[Zed Clampet]

This explains your mental state!

Jokes aside, no idea how you did that.

Well, it's just different kids. Different kids act differently, especially at younger ages.

This will be hard for most parents to believe, but my kids never fought or argued after they got out of the toddler years. They never threw tantrums. When we would wander around Walmart, even the toy section, they never asked for anything. Every now and then (only a handful of times), one of them would play a joke on me and secretly put something in the cart, but they always broke out laughing when we got to the register, and I started to pull everything out. Sometimes, just depending on what it was, I would go ahead and buy it for them.

There was one time, only one time, when we went to a store (Walgreens) when I thought they got out of hand (they were playing and acting goofy), and I very forcefully told them to sit in the floor near the registers and not to make a sound, and that's what they did. After I paid, I told them they could get up, and that was the end of it.

Multiple times at restaurants we had other customers come to our table and tell us they were amazed by how well our kids behaved.

We just got very lucky to have calm kids. Either that or they were terrified of me. Not sure which, to be honest.

 

[Zed Clampet]

@Pifanjr congrats on the PC! Now you just need one for your daughter. Don't get her a laptop. When my kids were small I bought them both gaming laptops and it was a bit of a disaster. You have to be careful with laptops, and kids just can't consistently pull that off (neither can my wife--can't tell you how many screens she's broken through the years).

@Colif I ended up getting a total of 3 keyboards while doing my build. I actually gave one of them to my wife yesterday. She was excited because it lit up haha

 

[Colif]

i already used the brand I bought, so I hope I like it. Its version 2, which was released one year after I got mine... just watch, version 3 comes out soon...
Its a smaller variant of the one I had already, but they changed color scheme and I couldn't get the same one... so I went all white as its easier to read the keycaps. One thing I wanted to continue.
It has improvements that mine lacked.
RGB on my last one was crap, the software was garbage. This one works with Signalrgb which also works with my motherboard... if I link motherboard to GPU via a cable I could use it to control all my RGB... which sure beats the software that I use for both of them now.

I didn't buy it for the RGB, its just nice it is better now.
Compared to this Corsair keyboard I am using now, its really quiet.

 

[Zed Clampet]

i already used the brand I bought, so I hope I like it. Its version 2, which was released one year after I got mine... just watch, version 3 comes out soon...
Its a smaller variant of the one I had already, but they changed color scheme and I couldn't get the same one... so I went all white as its easier to read the keycaps. One thing I wanted to continue.
It has improvements that mine lacked.
RGB on my last one was crap, the software was garbage. This one works with Signalrgb which also works with my motherboard... if I link motherboard to GPU via a cable I could use it to control all my RGB... which sure beats the software that I use for both of them now.

I didn't buy it for the RGB, its just nice it is better now.
Compared to this Corsair keyboard I am using now, its really quiet.

One thing I learned after doing this was that how much your hardware parts add up to is definitely not what you end up spending.

 

[Colif]

there are always hidden costs.

In the last two weeks I thought
I needed new fans - nope, they just needed to be slowed down. Still sitting on
22c on cores
32c on package
31c on nvme
27c on GPU

I only ever seen cooler on a I5 4690k in winter when I had turned PC on middle of the night. That is sort of cheating but it was 16c
22c on a CPU with 2x the cores and hyper threading is impressive and making me feel cold. Or maybe fact its 2c outside is doing that.

trying to find ram sticks: Ordered some 2 weeks before rest of parts just to have shop turn around and say they can't supply them. I find it deceptive to say you have something when you really don't. I cancelled that order and got other sticks but less capacity compared to the ones I wanted. Now I am wondering if they are okay still. Updating BIOS today might give them best chance. So far they worked fine.

two sticks is better than one... looks better too.
glad they both same color tonight

The keyboard was showing signs it was a problem before I upgraded. I only recognize it now.
Windows could see it on bluetooth but it couldn't see windows on this PC.. the charge cable would sometimes not work.
it had started to show a red charge light which is supposedly saying battery is dead but it was always plugged in.

I don't count it as part of upgrade as I normally upgrade the parts like mouse/keyboard whenever they die, not when I get a new PC.
I should buy a new power board though as its due.

Case sucks to carry, its too tall. I moved it closer to door in room to make it easier to put down.

 

[Zloth]

@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.

Sorry, I was going on about two things at once: FPS in a big battle and visual spam. I posted the CoV video because of the visual spam. When dozens of people are all shooting off their fancy spells/powers/ammo at the same time, it starts turning into a big, flashing mess of color. Framerate wasn't bad for six people, though it sure tanked in the Hamidon raid with 50. I'm sure the engine wasn't really designed for that.

 

[Pifanjr]

I'm setting up the new PC I bought today. I probably should have done a benchmark first, but instead I started by downloading the two games my wife has been playing the most lately, World of Warcraft and Rimworld. However, when I started the download of Rimworld in Steam, I noticed a bar saying it was transferring the save files from another computer in the network. I had no idea Steam had that feature, but it's pretty neat. It goes up to 400 MB/s over WiFi, which is a lot faster than the 60 MB/s I'm getting while downloading World of Warcraft on Battle.net.

 

[Zed Clampet]

I'm setting up the new PC I bought today. I probably should have done a benchmark first, but instead I started by downloading the two games my wife has been playing the most lately, World of Warcraft and Rimworld. However, when I started the download of Rimworld in Steam, I noticed a bar saying it was transferring the save files from another computer in the network. I had no idea Steam had that feature, but it's pretty neat. It goes up to 400 MB/s over WiFi, which is a lot faster than the 60 MB/s I'm getting while downloading World of Warcraft on Battle.net.

Some day, just for kicks, you should try streaming a game from one computer to another (using Steam). It works amazingly well. That's what I'm doing with my bedroom laptop at night, just streaming from the desktop. It's significantly better at streaming games than Moonlight, but I use Moonlight to access the desktop, basically everything else, and it does great with that.

 

[BeardyHat]

Well, it's just different kids. Different kids act differently, especially at younger ages.

This will be hard for most parents to believe, but my kids never fought or argued after they got out of the toddler years. They never threw tantrums. When we would wander around Walmart, even the toy section, they never asked for anything. Every now and then (only a handful of times), one of them would play a joke on me and secretly put something in the cart, but they always broke out laughing when we got to the register, and I started to pull everything out. Sometimes, just depending on what it was, I would go ahead and buy it for them.

There was one time, only one time, when we went to a store (Walgreens) when I thought they got out of hand (they were playing and acting goofy), and I very forcefully told them to sit in the floor near the registers and not to make a sound, and that's what they did. After I paid, I told them they could get up, and that was the end of it.

Multiple times at restaurants we had other customers come to our table and tell us they were amazed by how well our kids behaved.

We just got very lucky to have calm kids. Either that or they were terrified of me. Not sure which, to be honest.

You definitely did. My kids aren't bad by any means, but they're both boys and they feed off reach others every and they just act like manic apes sometimes.

We take them to restaurants on occasion, but we usually set our timelimit to 45 minutes, because that's about as long as they can really sit still. We did manage like 2 hours at Benihana the other week, which was better than we could have ever imagined.

Weirdly, per your other comment and in spite of the fact that they're destructive little creatures, the old laptop that they use for gaming has stood up pretty well. My youngest did manage to press the touchpad too hard and broke a clip that held it in place, but I opened it up and hot glued everything back into place and it works great.

The fact that it survives still might be testament to the fact that they know if they break it, not only will Dad be mad, but they won't be getting another one and they'll be back to sharing one PC again.

I'm setting up the new PC I bought today. I probably should have done a benchmark first, but instead I started by downloading the two games my wife has been playing the most lately, World of Warcraft and Rimworld. However, when I started the download of Rimworld in Steam, I noticed a bar saying it was transferring the save files from another computer in the network. I had no idea Steam had that feature, but it's pretty neat. It goes up to 400 MB/s over WiFi, which is a lot faster than the 60 MB/s I'm getting while downloading World of Warcraft on Battle.net.

Transferring over the network is wonderful! A couple of times a year I start approaching my bandwidth limit, so it's super helpful to have that as an option.

I do need to update my Wi-Fi though and get some more access points around my house, but running network cables is kind of intimidating.

 

[Zed Clampet]

You definitely did. My kids aren't bad by any means, but they're both boys and they feed off reach others every and they just act like manic apes sometimes.

We take them to restaurants on occasion, but we usually set our timelimit to 45 minutes, because that's about as long as they can really sit still. We did manage like 2 hours at Benihana the other week, which was better than we could have ever imagined.

Weirdly, per your other comment and in spite of the fact that they're destructive little creatures, the old laptop that they use for gaming has stood up pretty well. My youngest did manage to press the touchpad too hard and broke a clip that held it in place, but I opened it up and hot glued everything back into place and it works great.

The fact that it survives still might be testament to the fact that they know if they break it, not only will Dad be mad, but they won't be getting another one and they'll be back to sharing one PC again.



Transferring over the network is wonderful! A couple of times a year I start approaching my bandwidth limit, so it's super helpful to have that as an option.

I do need to update my Wi-Fi though and get some more access points around my house, but running network cables is kind of intimidating.

I know how brothers are. I've had many fights through the years with mine.

As for breaking the laptops, after breaking those screens, my daughter didn't break anymore. I probably didn't (I know I didn't) emphasize how fragile the screens were. Guido, however, was still mangling laptops as recently as about 5 years ago, but he's completely turned a new leaf now. He had to overcome his mother's breaking crap jeans. She breaks every.single.thing. She's broken the interior of the refrigerator door twice and one of the drawers. She broke the paper arm of the printer. She broke the cabinet in the upstairs bathroom. She's broken a lawn tractor and two push mowers. She actually broke MY ALIENWARE laptop...Wait here, I'm going to go get my full list

I am not kidding in any way when I tell you the following. My wife and I don't generally tell each other what to do, but she is forbidden from getting anywhere near my PC and laptop in the living room. I sit in the corner, so there's no reason for her to be over there. I told her if I accidentally leave the lamp on that she should find me and ask me to turn it off or just leave it on (because I'm in the corner, you have to step between my PC and my chair to get to the lamp). I used to be out of town a lot and she would turn on/off that lamp every day. She systematically kicked the USB and power cables out so often that the USB ports on the motherboard became useless, and I had to put a new DC connector into the laptop. She also knocked the laptop into the floor on numerous occasions. When the last USB port went (and my attempts to straighten things out and get it working again failed) that was it for the laptop). You are more repair savvy than I am. You probably would have gotten them working again some way.

 

[Pifanjr]

A friend of mine recommended running a benchmark on the new PC to see if everything was functioning correctly, so I did. But the benchmark claimed my CPU frequency was really low and suggested I look in the bios for something like a turbo mode.

So I went into the bios and saw a handy preset button to set it to a high performance mode and after clicking through the warning, my screen went black. I waited a bit, but nothing changed. I tried restarting, but still only got a black screen.

By now I was starting to sweat, but I figured I should be able to reset the bios by taking the little battery out of the motherboard. So I tried to carefully pry it out and it suddenly dropped down into the case, in the covered section where all the PSU cables are. So I had to unscrew the PSU and slide it out as far as I could to get to the battery, which took a bit of effort but I managed.

Luckily when I put it back in and turned the PC back on it worked. I didn't expect to get so intimate with its innards so quickly, but it all worked out.
The benchmark came back good too, so that was nice. Everything was either as good as expected or (significantly) better than expected, despite still having the same warning about the CPU frequency being low.