An i9 for a work PC? Seriously? What did they think you were going to do, compile massive amounts of code all day? Even my current CPU, an R5 4500, is probably overkill for basic office tasks (but it’s perfectly adequate for gaming on if you’re not interested in the latest AAA slop), and it’s truly a low-end part, but an i9 or R9 for basic office tasks is ridiculous.

There’s no Bidoof in this one, just a pair of Luvdisc kissing each other underwater.

That’s water they’re flying over. Not buttcheeks.

If I’m remembering this right it was maybe two, I didn’t count.

That’s why I consider that tagline, ‘The Land of the Free,’ to be the failed punchline of a bad joke now. It hasn’t meant anything since before Reagan took office at least.

Not Just Bikes.

NJB’s praise of their infrastructure would have me sold on them if I could actually flee the US.

Canon FD 70-210mm f4 adapted to an Olympus E-M5 at the time, and I also added a Kodachrome 200 film sim haldCLUT to it in RawTherapee.

Assuming such a ring exists, I could probably attach an M42-FD adapter ring to my current lens adapter (which is now being used with a Panasonic GF2 as the camera that snapped this pic has since died of a stuck shutter) and use M42 glass without having to get a new adapter, which the adapter used in this shot is a Fotasy FD-M4/3.

Hi, and thanks!

60sec long-exposure.

Thanks!

Lessee, as far as how they operate their site goes, they pretty much destroyed all third-party front-ends by locking their API down, content-wise it varies between being a crazy place and an outright cesspit.

Free speech and expression is one of the many previously-thought-to-be-inalienable rights that are in the current administration’s crosshairs. If I could flee this country for, say, the Netherlands, I’d do so in a heartbeat, unfortunately I can’t.

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Good luck trying to ban OSS next, which would criminalize basically everyone who’s ever used a browser that isn’t IE, everyone who’s ever used an Android phone or a Chromebook, everyone who’s ever used any modern audio or video codec as the bulk of those are OSS too, and would destroy both Big Data and the Cloud, both of which are primarily Linux-based, and send the US back to the web’s dark ages, as in going back to when BBSes were popular.

Also, since this bill punishes people by making them spend most of their lives in prison, how are they going to lock up everyone who’s ever used Chromium or Firefox browsers, for example, or everyone who’s ever used Android or ChromeOS, which is most of the country’s population at this point, should that ban extend to a general OSS ban? (this part was originally a reply but I moved it to the main post)

My current GPU has no RGB (PowerColor Fighter RX 6600), and I’m just using basic G.Skill Aegis RAM atm. Mainboard’s a PRIME B350-Plus which was updated to BIOS 6042 so it can take 4000-series and 5000-series CPUs.

Hopefully this trade war doesn’t devolve into an actual war…

I’d buy the new PC so that your own PC can actually be your own still and your work stuff can be relegated to that new PC.

There’s plenty of really good reason to not mix work and pleasure on your main PC, your employer or school effectively taking ownership of your main, personal system being one big one.

Optionally, I’d also just start looking for new work if you work for a BYOD place.

I could, there’s an option in the BIOS settings, I just don’t because my mainboard’s RGB is so low-key that it doesn’t really matter if I leave it on or not, and its default setting is to pulsate.

Still can, RGB is at a minimum in my PC, the only RGB currently at play is some pulsing lights on the mainboard which I choose to ignore as it’s not hurting anything.