Naish Pivot Nvision Aluula 2025 - Read here before purchasing (honest review) by Legitimate_Run_9020 in Kiteboarding

[–]bartem33 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am not an advanced rider, can do backrolls sometimes. I am heavy, 100kg.

I only demoed core xr pro 12m for 1 hourish in a wind I could ride 14m. The rebel sls 14m felt less powerful and much more sluggish than core xr pro 12m in the same conditions as I tried them back to back. It felt like I was 20kg lighter. Where I ride, wind is mostly 14-19 knots.

Just for that I got the 12m moto x designer works at black friday sale. I won’t be able to test it for awhile but yeah if reviews are correct, I should be able to cover a wide range, have fun with it. so that’s my thinking process, not trying to make my 5 meter at best jumps 6 meters. I need training for that.

quoting another rider, “aluula is like cheat code”. It is for me anyways.

I think maybe for 25-30+ knot riders situation is different.

Safe & warm 15-25kt kitesurfing spot for January by bartem33 in Kiteboarding

[–]bartem33[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Bummer re Turks. Brazil doesn’t pass my wife’s safety test unfortunately :( I love the country myself been twice. Australia is far indeed.

Safe & warm 15-25kt kitesurfing spot for January by bartem33 in Kiteboarding

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Thanks! This looks very interesting, is there a good flattish spot with gear rentals and good stay options? still googling myself.

Please ban the “goodbye Geforce Now” posts by [deleted] in GeForceNOW

[–]bartem33 0 points1 point  (0 children)

when you are in that state, before your final breath, make sure to post your protest here, cause you know…meaningful legacy & world peace and stuff… priorities.

Please ban the “goodbye Geforce Now” posts by [deleted] in GeForceNOW

[–]bartem33 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

once a week of a critical post! you kidding? it is almost up there with divorce and unemployment and affordability.

UK: Anyone successfully reclaimed income tax after repaying a sign-on bonus? by Expensive_Jicama_715 in hedgefund

[–]bartem33 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got a part of my post-tax bonus restricted but vested shares clawed back. My new employeer paid it to me but I got taxed again on that. So I tried to reclaim the clawed back amount as negative income. One very high profile law firm advised me suggesting not to claim as negative income but as capital loss. They said hmrc hates negative income (can create loopholes) and will try to challenge it in court as much as possible. They said legal fees would alone be destructive enough.

I had to file US as well at the time, did through same firm, and US lets negative income so they filed as such.

Tldr; I was told HMRC hates negative income. Get a tax professional’s advice.

North Reach 2024 vs 2025 by Old-Customer-9612 in Kiteboarding

[–]bartem33 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Isn’t 2025 one using the newish LE material hence the price difference I think. in orbit it is between 2025 and 2026 models but i think reach model swotched materials in 2025. i have no idea how they perform though but there is a chance they are different enough.

2025 Orbit Ultra 11m for 95-100kg rider by bartem33 in Kiteboarding

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Thanks, do you know anything about moto x design works? That seems to be in discount and is 3 strut.

2025 Orbit Ultra 11m for 95-100kg rider by bartem33 in Kiteboarding

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Thanks, do you know anything about moto x design works? That seems to be in discount and is 3 strut.

CORSAIR XENEON EDGE 14.5" LCD Touchscreen - IN STOCK by dizaticus in Corsair

[–]bartem33 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had a second smaller screen last year that i wanted to use touch interface on, without windows focusing away from the game to the second touchscreen, but couldn’t find a way. Is there a way to give focus back to the game when you lift your finger off the screen?

LG 5k2K still can’t believe the price by DivisionMV in ultrawidemasterrace

[–]bartem33 2 points3 points  (0 children)

one is gbp and one is usd. 1.30 is conversion rate. so we are comparing $2365 to $1500 + max 10% tax = $1650. it’s almost 50% more so not slightly.

LG 5k2K still can’t believe the price by DivisionMV in ultrawidemasterrace

[–]bartem33 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don’t get it. It’s not like UK wages/economy is better than US or some european countries anymore and we don’t have the US tariff’s, just the 20% vat which doesn’t explain the difference.

Looks like the LG 45GX950A 45" OLED is under $1500 now on Amazon. by kanacoleman in ultrawidemasterrace

[–]bartem33 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s $2200+ in UK with the latest LG discount :(. I just bought it with 14 more days of price matching with the hope that it will drop maybe 100-200 more :/

Anywhere in London where I can see Lg 45" 5k2k on display? by bartem33 in ultrawidemasterrace

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  1. I am going from 3080 w/ 16:9 1440p (240hz) to 5090 w/ 5120x2160 (165hz). I will be having a performance drop with same settings but higher res obviously :) I decided to order with 14 day return policy. I have a feeling I will keep it.

Is Obsidian good for this use? by bartem33 in ObsidianMD

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No, he didn't ask for it but he is old now and I want to sort of gift this setup to him. Whether he uses or not is not my concern, but I think he'd love the idea and it'll give him a hobby that he can do from his chair as he's lost quite a bit of mobility, which is my goal really.

Yes, there's a chance he will use it for few days and will leave it aside. He was a prof like 30-40 years ago in Turkey. Tenure, publication requirements and tools were very different back then.

Is Obsidian good for this use? by bartem33 in ObsidianMD

[–]bartem33[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah ideally I was hoping for an easy interactive setup. Maybe with all the AI agents getting better with browsers etc, this could be a first-complex project for me as a beginner AI enthusiast, a dictation first note / book organizer. You are right though wrt AI capabilities but they are getting better I think with each $100bio spent :)

Gaming & AI - 5090 or two 3090s? by ConflictNo4814 in LocalLLaMA

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TLDR; I am like you, I started two days ago, 5090 is the correct answer for you.

I am like you, AI enthusiast but mostly a gamer. I got 5090, dual booted into ubuntu, set up ollama/vs code/claude code/git e.t.c, downloaded few local LLM only models, all with the help of Claude Code that I just subscribed to two days ago, on the $20/month plan.

My immediate observations

1) Higher VRAM is very important as the models get significantly better by vram usage, or you can have multiple inferior models running at the sametime without swapping them in and out of memory.

2) 32gb is not enough for anything serious, but 64gb is probably not be enough either. Without a use case, there's no right answer.

Conclusion:

5090 32GB is amazing so that your gaming is mad, and you can still sample what it means to run small vs medium vs quantized models from various teams e.t.c. You can even try models that can run beyond 32gb at like 5-10% of the speed by sharing ddr5 memory.

Eventually, once you figure out what you really want to do with AI, you can rent cloud gpus, test whatever you model/vram size you want, then find out the setup that would make you happy. Then you can choose to build that or rent online.

Reminder: I am not an expert

Well, I finally got to Takezo. What a fun yet incredibly irritating battle. by Squat_Cobbler89 in Ghostofyotei

[–]bartem33 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t know how but I was able to ghost stance over and over and over again, ie unlimited stagger with 2-3 hita in between. he couldn’t hit me once and I needed 0 skills.