The anti-vaxxers will grab at any straw and promote any con artist who seems to support their delusions.

CBS News and Crooks & Liars covered this latest assault on families with autistic children. I know people in that situation and am not amused by what they do and the lies they spread.

Rather than worrying about quacks you should watch Sarah Cooper’s works: How to Medical and How to Grief. They are the only way to listen to Trump. May she live long and prosper!

Seems Fauchi isn’t at all non-complicit after all (this video was quickly banned on YT):

[edited to confuse bots]

Come on, it was a righteous hit by the cat. There was probable cause. 😉

You’re right – we need to support the businesses we like to help them stay alive. We had a preview of what happens when the Well From Hell spewed oil all over our beaches and destroyed the summer 10 years ago. We lost several long time businesses that couldn’t survive on local customers because so many locals were unemployed. I do what I can, including buying stamps I don’t really need to support the Postal Service that is in trouble.

The lack of innovation is the result of taking advice from the Wall Street “analists” who want companies to squeeze every last penny out of products and customers. Most of what is claimed as “R&D” turns out to be Marketing, not actual product improvement. Intel just stopped providing the quality that I saw from AMD. For the same price the specifications told the tale.

You’re right, I think I spend almost as much time uninstalling one or another update every month, as installing worthwhile updates. It’s ridiculous given that I have a single a bland single-user system that doesn’t ever approach its limits. If I was administrating a large network of Win 10 boxes it would drive nuts.

Yes, I don’t like Intel simply because they gave up innovating and decided they could make a lot more money treating customers as stupid cash cow’s. Sadly, AMD weren’t even competing for several years. But that’s changed now, the shoe is definitely on the other foot. 😀 But I am sure it will likely be a case of Intel & AMD swapping places every 5-10 years or so. 🤷‍♂️🙄 One advantage AMD have now is that most of the major notebook & console manufacturers have moved to AMD.

We had our first sunny day in more than a week! So I did laundry & went out to the local park with an almost empty cafe nearby & spent some money I’m sure they needed on my usual double-shot cappuccino & a nice toasted roast veg foccaccia they make & a wonderful pastry my GP/Dietician would frown at (and I don’t care!) Got a 2nd coffee I didn’t really need, but I left a nice tip again. Te owner looked a bit surprised (she was there on her own), but smiled. I think I’ll go back there tomorrow. I can’t help much in other ways anywhere, but I can help them a bit.

I’ll do one last check of the system after dinner & set up W10 etc. We’ll see how that goes! 🤷‍♂️🙄 I’ve decided to use the W10 Enterprise 2019 LTSC (Long Term Service Chanel) based on the v1809 build 17763.1012 rather than the recent W10 Pro v1909 build 18363.628 as I had problems with the newer version as have other people according to various tech forums. At least I know the LTSC edition won’t be messed up with updates every other week!

Your training as an engineer is obvious in your write ups on equipment. It is nice when people do that so that when you are dealing with a piece of hardware you know what to expect when you pop the top.

Yes, with the dollar amounts involved, it is always better to approach things well-rested. I just bought the new iPhone SE and waited until I had the case for it before doing anything. It has the newest A13 processor and a slightly larger screen, but both the front and back are glass. The back is glass to make it work with wireless charging. I got $50US off as an upgrade with my wireless provider, but ended up paying for a memory upgrade that I didn’t need and a color I’m in fond of to get one now. They just came out and at $400US from Apple for the 64GB models, people are buying them to replace their old phones.

As always, what are your primary uses? After you ascertain that, you build for the best solution for that use. You use more CPU/GPU processing than I do so you put you effort there. I go for high speed storage for data base operations. Latency is very important for gaming, especially for multi-player. In the ancient days of dial-up or a satellite connection you were often declared dead the same time the threat appeared on the screen. DSL wasn’t much better.

I gave up on Intel years ago. I used their gear when I didn’t have a choice. They let monopoly go to their head and stopped innovating. If I build another box, I’ll use AMD again. The only Intel box I have is a used Dell that I bought because it had Win-XP on it and I needed that operating system for some ancient software I wrote in the 1980s for a friend who still used it.

The dog had it coming. 😆

https://twitter.com/Classclown66/status/1257033342043725827

I decided to take some time off and just relax this weekend. The system isn’t going anywhere and given I’ve waited 3 months already, it won’t kill me! Plus, all things considered right now, rushing it is just stupid. I’ve spent a lot on this system and destroying something by being an idiot doesn’t appeal to me! I have to say it was a bit difficult to just switch off and relax yesterday, but was easier today.

Just catching up on some YT tech vid’s (Intel just announced their *NEW* 10th Gen CPU’s (more like 6/7/8/9.5 Gen since not a lot has actually changed, as usual). They put back the hyper-threading they disabled in several CPU’s in their stack to force people to buy there more expensive high-end parts. They figured out that all that did was force people to move to AMD. Also added a couple cores to their top end parts. They still haven’t learned that using *marketing tricks* (lying) to an audience that has a clue, isn’t a good idea. I watch them for their amusement value! Oh, it also requires a new chip-set & therefore new Motherboards.🤷‍♂️🙄

I’ll double check everything tomorrow (Tuesday) and install W10. Linux is working fine, but it doesn’t have the insane issues W10 does with s/w or h/w upgrades. I did manage to tweak the new RAM so it quite decent timings & low latencies (for this type of DDR4 DRAM). Running at 3,200MHz @ 13-13-13-24-1T (from 14-14-14-36-2T) with a small voltage bump, 1.35V to 1.40V. It doesn’t seem like much, but using a Linux test suite, it reduced the latency by 4.2ms which in several uses for me is significant.

I finally got around to updating my System build on Overclock, coincidentally 1 year since my last update. My comments for individual parts and spec’s are in the “component details” link on each part.

Kryten42’s 6700K Gaming-Multimedia Test Build

Oh! Speaking of YouTube, and remembering how much you like Walmart 🤭 It seems they have decided to sell their own branded Gaming PC’s. The title is a bit of a giveaway! 😉
Walmart Gaming PC: How to Do Everything Wrong

Watching Fauci I sometime wonder if he considers politicians to be another form of disease vector, an E. coli variant, or something else found in manure. 😈

Windows just sucks. They make the boot sectors targets and offer no real protection. If they get corrupted a complete rebuild is your only option. Every other major OS lets you fix things, but not M$. In MS-DOS you just needed to copy off your programs and data, then reformat and copy everything back on. But not in Windows, no, you have to go through reinstalling. Then you have to patch Windows after you rebuild the drive. It’s a waste of time, and after you get older there are a lot of things you want to do other than watch hourglasses spin or fake propellers turn. If a Windows machine crashes anymore it becomes a Linux machine.

Wow, man, you really did some serious basic training cleaning on that machine! That should be good for a while.

This thread will close soon, so a last update. 😉 😀

Well, as I expected, this install isn’t going smoothly. Win10 being it’s usual PITA!! I forgot that W10 put’s 2 small hidden petitions on the boot drive. I installed a new W10 on the boot petition and the first boot immediately gave me the BSOD! Took most of the day Wednesday on my Tablet to sort out the probably issue. I didn’t want to wipe & fresh install as I have a lot of s/w that would be a real pain to reinstall (Like Steam, Origin Access & uPlay for my games). But it looked like there was no choice. So I spent half of yesterday and today moving all the related games & other data to another drive so I could do a complete reformat & delete the old W10 partitions. According to the Steam app, it still has about 2.6 hours to go. Moving 1.2 TB of files from an SSD to a HDD takes awhile, plus I decided to spend the time rearranging the files on my drives, which I’d been putting off when I updated my SSD’s earlier this year (did I mention that?🤔 Not sure.) I updated my Steam profile with all the new H/W details:
https://steamcommunity.com/id/Kryten42/

With luck, I may be up and running tomorrow.🙄🤷‍♂️

have I mentioned how much I truly HATE Windoze & M$?!

Apart from that, I did get to strip the case down and give it a good clean! Even got an anti-static spray and sprayed the filters, radiator, case surfaces & wiped the fan blades. Looks like new! It did take a few hours. I also tested the card with Linux & it seems fine, so that’s good. 😀

I hope everything is going smoothly for you Bryan! Take care m8. 👋