sundvor
I upgraded my UPS to a sine interactive unit to minimise the risk of it dying to bad power while the market is so crazy...
If I'm over that when passing a speed camera in Victoria, AUS, I'll be pinged with a decent fine to arrive shortly.
Imagine if instead of a chime I got fined every single time, everywhere? All this new monitoring makes it a bit like that, at an extreme. I don't want to live in such a society.
Deleted all the partitions and did a 100% clean install (multi boot Win11/Fedora), and it's suddenly what feels like 2-4x as fast. Made sure to disable some of the Copilot and Internet content in search menu rubbish etc with a few registry tweaks (yay for having admin access to get rid of the bloat/junk).
Fedora/Wayland/Plasma still feels faster though - I just had some issues getting my video to work properly across all of Teams and Zoom.
There's no central management of these records that I'm aware of though.
Absolutely love my Unifi setup, recently upgraded my USG to the UXG as the old was EOL and not performant enough for gigabit routing with SPI.
It's a great camera in automatic mode most of the time, but not for that scenario.
I actually bought the boxed edition of PageStream with my paper boy money, even though I was just a high school student at the time. That's how much into it I was. :-)
(The skillsets picked up from this along with Assembly on the Amiga transitioned reasonably well into a career of web development and software engineering.)
It could easily turn into your most expensive bag ever.
All food items simply _must_ be declared. There's two lines, so join the "something to declare" one. You'll be waved through after a quick inspection, or asked to surrender any offending items. Super easy. The declare line is often quicker as well.
(He has no desire to start drinking etc early or at all at this point.)
Long term health impacts are high, as someone in my 50s I'm certainly doing better for my choice. And yes, not making stupid decisions under influence also cannot be underestimated.
At barely any power consumption whatsoever. (Compared to Intel CPUs at the time of release).
I've actively shopped for low latency RAM - within reasons, but have paid good premiums especially in DDR4 days. For DDR5, there can be surprisingly little price wise to differentiate e.g. CL30 or CL32, so whilst it may not offer the greatest of differences, if you're already paying e.g. $350 (AUD) for a kit at CL32 the improved latency might just be $20 more at the same speed.
(I see that things have moved on a bit from last September when I did my last upgrade; now we have CL32 at higher speeds, so maybe that's the go to now.)
Currently sporting this - G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo RGB Black 64GB (2x32GB) PC5-48000 (6000MHz) with a 7800x3d.
Previous kit was G.Skill Trident Z Neo RGB 32GB (2x16GB), PC4-28800 (3600MHz) DDR4, 16-16-16-36 [X2, eventually, for 64 total] with, you guessed it, the 5800x3d, from the 3900xt - my son loves it.
The resolution and size just nails it, and my favourite feature is the warm backlighting for reading at night. Battery lasts forever, and I can just put it on my Samsung phone stand for wireless charging once in a blue moon - not once have I run out of battery.
I fall asleep so easily to this, currently on the Eisenhorn 40k Omnibus book - and a 184 week reading streak.
I used to be excited about new Kindle releases, have had one since the mammoth DXG - but no more, I'm good now with this, so don't see myself forking out $400 AUD for the new one (with a leather cover).
Also bought one (also a SE) for my son, with a different colour magnetic leather cover. :-)
Having read (well, listened to) Attia's excellent OUTLIVE, I've reversed my own (slowly turned bad) trajectory by switching my diet to the basics - all home made meals, making my own breads, lots of milk and eggs, meats (not in excess), exclusively extra virgin oil and pure butter in my cooking (zero blends/veg oil etc), and not buying any (sugar) snacks - combined with exercise. Oh and no alcohol for the past few years either - sacrifices had to be made. :-)
Luckily my own kids are showing zero signs of obesity, they are very healthy.
I saw more grossly obese people at that airport in the first ten minutes than I had back home in probably the previous year. It really stood out to me.
It must be your general dietary makeup and lifestyle. All that corn syrup. Also, I don't see any reason why it would have gotten better since then.
Just calling a spade a spade from an outsider's perspective..
It really depends on you and the activity levels.
I used to ride to and from work - and I would ride hard, a solid 1.5 hour of riding every single workday. Yet this just caused me to gain weight as my appetite just shot through the roof. This new drug would have been SO good for me back then.
These days I find it easier to control my weight with regular strength exercise vs riding, as I tend to go too hard on the riding which causes me to feel famished. And then the control is just hard.
However when I just do (Olympic barbell) weights, a bacon, egg and onion + cheese omelette in real butter and EVOO does the trick to break my IF then, along with a WPI/milk shake- I get stronger and also lose weight. No need to keep eating. However, I'll then do cardio a couple of times per week which tends to undo the weight progress; I guess the real trick would be to stop doing the hard intervals I love on the Kickr, but going slow on the bike is nearly impossible for me. :-)
Fast forward 9 months, and I'm now using my Galaxy Ultra watch to monitor my blood pressure, and I've been able to reverse hyper tension thanks in part to how much of an improvement it has made when it comes to quickly getting the pressure reading.
Compared to the Omron I calibrate it against, it's a far better experience. It's also a huge step up in performance over the 6 Classic that I upgraded from. That one would have a failed reading 3 times out of 4, whereas the Ultra gets it right just about every single time.
The biggest pain is the monthly calibration process, seriously it feels like if I bat an eyelid, or not have the cuff on with just the right tightness, or just have the arm at a slightly different angle, or just get anxious about this whole thing, the Omron (a modern unit with built in Bluetooth etc) will give a different reading. When I get the process done right, however, the Galaxy will return readings that are very close to the Omron both systolic and diastolic - and then it's a month until next time.
Being able to quickly and easily get my blood pressure in a number of different situations made a huge change in my motivation to get it under control; I primarily focused on diet and exercise. I ran/run the test several times per day, and learned so much from it. Absolutely love my Ultra watch, it looks gorgeous and performs amazing in general as well.
Fwiw I'd regularly see values like 140-155 over 90, now I'm typically around 120 over 80 give or take.
Sometimes people are up in arms "where's my next version" (eg when adaptive headlights was introduced), yet Tesla prioritise a safe, slow roll out. Sometimes the updates fail (and get resolved individually), but never on a global scale. (None experienced myself, as a TM3 owner on the "advanced" update preference).
I understand the premise of Crowdstrike's model is to have up to date protection everywhere but clearly they didn't think this through enough times, if at all.