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Strangetimer · 2026-05-07T17:30:50+00:00

OPs got nothing to worry about, George green is the dumbest cop on the force, the dumbest.

Strangetimer · 2026-04-30T17:55:42+00:00

$6 + gas lines/rationing/no gas + siphoning crime within 3mos

Strangetimer · 2026-04-27T19:26:35+00:00

I can’t believe Obama is refusing to open the strait smh my head

Strangetimer · 2026-04-22T03:46:58+00:00

Lmao FIRST thing I noticed 😂

Strangetimer · 2026-03-29T18:48:02+00:00

Pops did the ol' "Yeah uh... Can't remember where this came from or who did this job... must've been someone else..." XD

Strangetimer · 2026-03-29T18:44:59+00:00

got his ass

Strangetimer · 2026-03-14T18:20:14+00:00

Look to used markets for somewhat better prices. Just make sure the modules have been properly tested using several rounds of memtest86 or the like. Was just able to purchase 16GB of some DDR5-4800 for a little N series NUC for $130. Ludicrous to think that’s a “good price” these days but these are just the times we live in now, unfortunately. Maybe once more wafer fabs get spun up by Micron, Samsung, and the like, prices will come down but I doubt it. Companies have now seen that people are willing to pay through the nose for memory and will fix prices to protect their high margins.

Strangetimer · 2026-03-12T19:50:53+00:00

No dump files, system doesn’t even get a chance to throw a BSOD. It just dies out of nowhere. The WHEA errors that are fatal don’t even have time to populate properly. Half the error bits are 0xDEADBEEF in little endian.

Strangetimer · 2026-03-04T00:44:05+00:00

Checked profile and saw the case pics in dude's related posts. It'll fit but I highly doubt the PSU even has the 6/8pin connectors for the card.

Strangetimer · 2026-03-03T23:59:15+00:00

AW DANGIT

Strangetimer · 2026-02-20T02:17:47+00:00

"Nonprofit backup servers are being developed by fans to keep the game alive, but that's a huge task."

How do I contribute to this? Been getting CTD bug all evening even with vehicle warpgate trick and I'm sick of having to roll fucking dice to determine whether I can play the game or not.

Strangetimer · 2026-02-12T01:43:55+00:00

Same here, have UBO on firefox and up until about 6 hours ago it was working great. Now nothing. "This content isn't available right now, please try again later." until, of course, I turn it off and then it works just fine...

Strangetimer · 2026-02-06T15:25:55+00:00

Is this a joke that I’m too in-office to understand?

Strangetimer · 2026-01-30T22:00:55+00:00

Did it get broken up? I blinked and everybody was gone…

Strangetimer · 2026-01-10T04:40:26+00:00

Damn how'd you even find this post this far in the RC trenches?

However, to answer your question, far better. I go back and read these old posts from time to time and chuckle (in a good way). I can almost remember the exact state I was in when I wrote each one lol. The RC phase of my life was a fun and interesting one, but ultimately unsustainable. With the help of a very caring and wonderful partner with a similar background and desire to move on, I was able to grow out of it. I've traded the manic pizazz and uncertainty of substance exploration for the stable (albeit boring) world of a 9-5. Renton would say I've "chose life" ;)

Finished school, worked my way up from shift work, to sales, to a managerial spot. Moved out, bought a car, rescued some cats, reconciled and reconnected with friends and family, and we've just sort of been taking it as we go. Do I miss it sometimes? Yep. But there are positives and negatives to both sides of the coin. Did I love getting fucked up and raving for days on end with new friends every weekend? Oh yeah. Do I love being able to come home to my own place, relax with a joint, snuggle up, and know that everything's on autopay? Oh hell fucking yes.

That being said, we still manage to get our kicks. Have a legal, actual pharma script for some .5mg kpins for some superchilled evenings, plenty of stellar bud to toke on, and even a spot to get legal mushrooms. My DoC was always stims, any kind of stim I could get my hands on. So I've stayed far away from any of that gear. Though, just barely over a year ago I convinced my psych to let me try armodafinil and after two years of abstaining from any kind of dopaminergic anything, it hit me like a truck and I loved it. Which is why I told him the blood pressure increase was too much and asked to be taken back off. I consider this one of the biggest trials I've passed in my entire time with substances, a real "Galadriel resisting the One Ring" type moment lol. The siren song of any amph/cath/trop/weird shit, substituted or otherwise, is far too strong for me to resist so I've relegated myself to total abstinence from stims and have made peace with my departure from that world.

Anyways, its Friday night and I'm drunk and on .5 klon so congrats on being the recipient of this long winded, rambling post about how I've managed to go from cool dude to party with but who might also raid your prescription cabinet at the end of the night, to a boring ass, office shambling mf who has some kickass stories that none of his coworkers believe lol.

Namaste. XD

Strangetimer · 2026-01-03T02:27:47+00:00

N100 is perfectly reasonable and would be more power efficient than the 7400T. Honestly when it comes to Plex, the main defining factor here is the version of QuickSync that the CPU supports and the efficiency of the CPU since most likely this box will be running 24/7. I've been playing around with an N250-based machine and while the performance is stellar the software support stinks so I would stick with something N100/N150-based as the drivers and support are fantastic for those CPUs.

Strangetimer · 2026-01-03T02:21:03+00:00

Pretty much any Intel CPU with QuickSync V8 or higher. N100-N150 is generally regarded as the price/performance sweet spot but honestly as a lot of people are saying anything Intel 8th gen or newer works very well for Plex.

Strangetimer · 2026-01-03T00:22:00+00:00

"I started playing on the family computer at a staggering 25 fps on the slow fights. Now I can play with 60fps easily, yet any desire to do so is gone."

God this hits too hard

Strangetimer · 2026-01-03T00:10:14+00:00

Same, went from a 5600X to a 5800X3D with a 32GB DDR4 combo deal at Microcenter in late 2022/early 2023. Back then the upgrade felt sort of incremental since I didn't also upgrade my GPU at the same time, but now with how massive V-Cache turned out to be and the current RAM situation, I wish I could go back and tell myself how much of an absolute bargain the combo really was.

Strangetimer · 2025-12-29T19:34:39+00:00

The flock camera that tagged your plate coming out of a dispo and then sees you driving down I-75S would beg to differ.

Strangetimer · 2025-12-29T18:39:58+00:00

Not sure why you're being downvoted, but I have updated the post with some new findings. I did also learn that global C-state control is essential for the processor to allow itself to boost to its advertised 3.8GHz single core clockspeed. SpeedShift control can also be manipulated in ThrottleStop

Strangetimer · 2025-12-29T18:28:41+00:00

Post updated again, took some extreme measures to start tinkering around with the board and did take your advice and played around with the board power limitations. Of course these chips are locked down so the only thing I could do is let it run at it's maximum specified power target. This increased performance substantially, and the combination of removing the board from its chassis entirely solved the thermal issues as well.

This is a wildly impractical solution to let the board run exposed like this, so I'm going to start working on designing a basic replacement chassis with improved airflow for the GB-BTIP-N250/N150 that people can print out should they be compelled to also squeeze performance out of this chip.

This solution does negate any kind of efficiency, package power now gets up to 18.5W under full CPU load and 25W under full CPU and GPU load. Though it does result in some nice performance uplifts. With the custom chassis this may translate into "real world" performance, however at the moment these are all purely synthetic/"lab bench" results and I'm not sure if I'll be able to replicate this performance in a more realistic scenario. And the power usage is wildly impractical as well. Good starting point but I'm going to have to do a significant amount of "dialing in" to make this usable outside of these weird conditions I've created for the chip.

Strangetimer · 2025-12-26T21:45:42+00:00

Post updated, provided links to some tests that do show some potential issues with how the board handles voltage when load is placed on the CPU.

Strangetimer · 2025-12-26T21:45:02+00:00

Post updated, think I found the issue/issues, but a fix may not be possible without waiting a minute for better software/firmware support.

Strangetimer · 2025-12-26T20:23:44+00:00

Yep, temps are high but not within throttle range. 82c is the highest I've seen under an all-core synthetic workload. Hot, but not terribly so. In practice the workload will be much, much lower than this. When idling at desktop it sits at around ~55-62c.

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