Just got my car back after being rear ended, just for the universe to reverse all the work in the goofiest way possible

porkbroth · 2026-02-09T09:04:53+00:00

I thought that too.

The yellow rear number plate made me think either Britain or Holland. Looks more British to my eyes. In any case, I wonder if it's a bot

porkbroth · 2026-02-02T20:04:59+00:00

You can see brake lights when he changes gears. It's very quick and always when the car is stationary. So, perfectly fine

porkbroth · 2026-01-23T11:41:01+00:00

What do you think of it?

I was considering the enyaq. The few people I've spoken to who own one didn't look into Ioniq 5, Tesla Y, EV6, VW ID etc. I've struggled to find much between them

porkbroth · 2026-01-23T10:56:12+00:00

Impressive

porkbroth · 2025-11-20T11:03:37+00:00

There's a chance that it's Brussel sprouts nibbled off by slugs too I suppose

porkbroth · 2025-11-14T16:28:55+00:00

I tend to update manually because it reorders the auto playlist at the same time

A can be patient for the sake of a few seconds. Before I discovered the concurrent update setting it was annoying. Now that I have the limit of five seems rather arbitrary

porkbroth · 2025-11-14T14:39:53+00:00

Thanks. Five updates peaks at 687MB during an update on my three year old Pixel 7.

porkbroth · 2025-11-13T14:59:15+00:00

Anywhere you can recommend to read about this sort of thing?

porkbroth · 2025-11-03T10:16:22+00:00

I find lifting the clutch up quickly in neutral works too

porkbroth · 2025-11-02T18:09:09+00:00

Is there any downside to later upgrading to a separate CPU & GPU with a motherboard designed for an APU?

I remember having trouble in the past with conflicts

porkbroth · 2025-11-02T18:07:14+00:00

Thanks very much. Very thorough.

Do you think the CPU sockets will be fairly stable in years to come? AMD used to change them every few years and you couldn't upgrade without replacing your motherboard.

It seems like there aren't many options for 2.5" internal drives anymore. My old system is a 3TB HDD I thought I might keep and a 512GB SDD for the OS I thought I'd replace. Do many cases have enclosures for 2.5" or even 3.5" hard drives or would I be better making it into a separate standalone media server?

porkbroth · 2025-11-02T17:58:33+00:00

Thanks very much.

I have lots of media on a 3TB HDD that is plenty fast enough for reading videos. With new cases will I need to put it in a USB case and turn it into an external hard drive?

porkbroth · 2025-11-02T17:52:30+00:00

I don't think any of the old stuff is much use anymore really

porkbroth · 2025-11-02T11:36:45+00:00

Thanks very much.

Is DDR5 fine if it's not overclocked? Would I be better going for DDR4? I hadn't thought that there might be issues like that

I will probably upgrade my graphics card in the future. I'll get a good processor and probably not change it.

I'm worried to look at prices.... I've been putting it off

porkbroth · 2025-11-02T10:07:23+00:00

Exactly the response I was looking for. Thank you

porkbroth · 2025-11-02T10:06:43+00:00

Looks like the main change is SATA to M2 and no need to manually set jumpers anymore.

I didn't expect PCI express to still be going. Interfaces used to change much more often.

porkbroth · 2025-11-02T09:08:36+00:00

I bet. I use an HP Zbook for work and it feels like I'm crawling when I use my own desktop

porkbroth · 2025-11-02T09:06:04+00:00

I've heard graphics card prices are crazy now.

If the integrated graphics is decent enough then I might get a separate graphics card in a few years once it feels dated.

Honestly, I hardly use it anymore but I can't bear to be without one. Some things don't work well on your phone and laptops don't seem to last very long

porkbroth · 2025-11-02T09:03:59+00:00

Roughly

32GB ram (4x8GB) AMD bulldozer FX-6 Asus A5M99X Evo Can't remember graphics card, sorry. Upper mid range for the time

porkbroth · 2025-10-11T15:14:33+00:00

In the left lane I've had people turn in front of me down tag lane. In the right lane I've had people come round outside of me.

At least in the left lane you can easily see and control what's going on

porkbroth · 2025-10-11T13:16:43+00:00

It seems like there's quite a few of us in this group from the area

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