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  1. Hiew
    Maintenance complete. Let me know if anything needs some extra care 🙂
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    The hosting provider has stated that it was a rare occurrence and will not happen again. That remains to be seen. Up until this point I haven't noticed any downtime at all, and they claim a 100% uptime SLA. Any amount of downtime is unacceptable for me, therefore if this happens again we're going to have to jump ship.
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    My firm recently purchased two GE76 12UGS-033CA adding to their apparent love of MSI laptops. Our current inventory of MSI Raiders: 1x GE75 Raider 10SFS 3x GE76 Raider 11UG 2x GP66 Raider 11UH 2x GE76 Raider 12UGS Now while this isn't my first choice for an office setting with the main workload being CAD/renders, our team seems to like them. I haven't had any time to mess around with these yet, but some of them will be due for a maintenance appointment with me.
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    I'm at a loss here since I don't seem to understand and want to fix the issue for you. The small images do not appear bigger to me and do not scale up. They're the same pixel density and dimensions as the copy I have on my computer. I have two monitors: one 1440p and one 1080p scaling is at 100%. Please try changing your windows scaling to 100% as this may resolve the odd behaviour you're seeing? I figure its either that or the maximum displayed image inline which is 1000x750. If you click on the image it will show the full size if it fits on your screen, then click on it again and it will display without scaling down.
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    Interesting, that's some odd behaviour to me. As far as I can tell, the forum software will only change the size of large images. When composing your posts, you may double-click on the image to resize it. Tree picture below is 4928 x 3264 2.8 mb I can take the same uploaded photo and resize it in post
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    They're actually legible now with minor compression artifacts when you zoom in. I can remove compression all-together, but that can generally speaking be a poor decision for web content. I'm looking at adding a module that would allow a media gallery and downloads as well. Still not sure about those yet.
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    I hear image quality settings have been quite a pain for many when uploaded, this was due to large dimension images being resized to 1200 x 1200 while keeping the same image dimension ratios. This primarily affected full desktop screenshots with text being blurry, unreadable, and quite frankly disgusting...which is not acceptable for something I admin! 😉 To remedy this, I've changed the image dimensions to unlimited as a trial period for all members while I monitor the impact on the server. I don't expect this to be much of an issue at our current size, however high quality image files may need to be limited in the future. Maybe something like 16:9 ratio (1920x1080) instead of 1:1 as before. All members have a storage limit of 50mb total for the time being, I'm working on setting up donations to allow for much larger storage limits amongst other things. I've also removed the "maximum storage per submission" setting which previously constrained users to something like 5mb per post. Please feel free to create a topic under https://notebooktalk.net/forum/114-internal-announcement-discussion/ if needed!
  8. Hiew
    The transfer from efgxt.net to NotebookTalk.net has concluded. ALL links and bookmarks that previously had efgxt.net will correctly redirect to notebooktalk.net. If there are any issues please let one of the admins know.
  9. Hiew
    NotebookTalk.net finally resolves to the new server. I'm going to lock the forums tomorrow at around 18:00 MDT. I'll give a notice 1 hour prior.
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    The ball is rolling now, there was a problem preventing the DNS to propagate to the new server.
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    As I'm sure many of you have noticed notebooktalk.net wasn't directed to the new server. I'm currently working on this and should be resolved as soon as the new server gets propagated. With this in mind I'll have to shut down the forum (efgxt.net), transfer the database to the new server, enable notebooktalk.net as the new main domain, and redirect efgxt.net to notebooktalk.net. I'm planning on doing this once DNS is fully propagated (usually 24-72 hrs from this post) and I will give a 12-24 hour announcement on efgxt.net before this happens. This will most likely going to go through on Saturday the 26th after 8 MDT. This also leads me to say sorry about the lack of communication on my part, though@Recieverhas been filling in some of the gaps. I've been quite busy with work, I've taken on a new role with a ton on my plate. I've finally caught up with work and will be making more changes and improvements once the website is fully transitioned to the new domain.
  12. Hiew
    https://www.whatsmydns.net/#NS/notebooktalk.net For some reason they're propagating at a snails pace. It's been a good four days now.
  13. Hiew
    Yeah this is definitely not intended behaviour and is extremely annoying. I'll have some time tomorrow to go over these issues and will follow up! edit: This may also be due to the cache needing to be rebuilt for older posts.
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    I can't get over the myriad of problems and regressions I've noticed and @Aaron44126 outlined in the OP. The first Thing I had to do was install ElevenClock
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    When it comes to running a virtual machine host on Windows I'm quite a big fan of using VMware. VMware player will do nearly everything you need to have a responsive client with little to no configuration. There's a feature comparison of player/workstation here: https://www.vmware.com/ca/products/workstation-player.html you miss out of some features like network types and snapshots. My experience with Virtualbox has been mixed, usually decent aside from 3d acceleration support which I've had quite a few problems that i just didn't care to dive in to. For my daily drive distro i use Manjaro gnome. I found that the "non-free" installation works amazingly well out of the box for nvidia cards and updates easily. Arch's AUR is crazy powerful, I find its probably the best option out there when it comes to using "3rd party software" (anything not included in the official repositories). Manjaro is also rolling release which is great if you're looking for the latest and greatest packages but also comes with some downfalls. I personally think Manjaro is the most complete and "out of the box" ready to use distro out there. When deciding your distro consider which package manager you want: pacman/pamac (Arch/Manjaro) apt/.deb (debian (Ubuntu, Mint) yum/.rpm/dnf (Fedora/RHEL/CentOS) There's other package managers but these are the main 3 Desktop Environments (DE) I would consider to use Gnome (GTK based) is OK, and what I'm personally using right now but the philosophy behind it leaves me wanting to substitute and tweak things until its working the way I want it to work. I suppose its along the lines of a mac user "it just works" but in reality i find it lacking power user features. KDE (kde qt based) is almost the opposite philosophy and my "favourite" DE. Full of features, eyecandy, and nearly everything can be customized to your liking. Its actually also very lightweight on resources surprisingly. The only reason I'm not using it is games don't seem to like it as much as gnome with my current hardware. Nvidia 3070 w/ 1440p 144hz main monitor 1080p 60hz second monitor. XFCE (GTK based) I found is good alternative to gnome for low powered systems, but again needs a lot of customizing to get it looking and working the way I want. I'll use it for running simple "one task" machine. It feels to me like the UI is dated though and I always find myself wanting to run KDE or Gnome. Cinnamon (Linux mint's fork of gnome 2), Mate (another fork of gnome 2), Budgie, LXDE, LXQT, I3 | I honestly don't care too much for these or they're best suited for a specific workload (check out i3) though cinnamon is a great alternative to gnome and definitely worth looking at. For me the distro I'd pick boil down to this: Desktop/Daily driver: Manjaro (doesn't have .exe-like files like .dep/.rpm, usually anything found in those flavours can be compiled from source or added through the AUR (which you can optionally view/edit source code before adding) Linux Mint (not a fan of .deb files as they're harder to manage (remove/delete/modify) if you don't know where to look, plus you have to trust the person to not put anything damaging to your system in it. Fedora (not a fan of .rpm files for the same reason) Although Debian/RHEL based distros are most widely supported by proprietary software developers by .deb/.rpm packages, AUR has many of those packages available there. Server/Web server: Ubuntu CentOS however Redhat recently announced they're switching to a rolling release distro CentOS Stream there are some major changes happening on this front and is splintering users into many different flavours unfortunately. Theres some alternatives for CentOS already, however its yet to be seen which one will be the spiritual successor. AlmaLinux Rocky Linux I don't know If I even answered the question... I'd just use Manjaro KDE 😛 I've added links to all the underlined items to help with your own research too. EDIT: as a side note you can also use distro agnostic programs: Flatpak, snap packages, and appimages to run programs not in their respective distro's repositories. These also come with their own pros and cons.
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    As per these posts, the current setting is to "lazy load" the images (as you scroll to them they load). This setting is to save on bandwidth for mobile users, low bandwidth users, and the server. Since bandwidth isn't much of an issue for the server (we haven't even hit 0.01% of our cap) I'll toggle this setting off for the moment to see how it performs for everyone. @Mr. Fox@Rage Set@Reciever
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    Right, the old function allowed you to press shift-enter for a normal line break. I've personally just dealt with it but I think you're right in saying it might be better this way. Again, sorry about that! Though you were quick to notice and change your posts. 🤣
  18. Hiew
    Apologies, I didn't think it would affect posts retroactively! Quite annoying.. Its quite easy to change if you would like me to revert it, but since you've fixed your posts I don't really want to go through that again.
  19. Hiew
    Without allowing the thread to get derailed here, Markdown is on the feature requests since CKeditor no longer has a maintained markup plugin. In the meantime BBCode and rich text editing will have to suffice. As much as I'd love for IPB to be perfect it isn't, however phpbb and other forum software didn't fit the bill for the reasons outlined in my post above.
  20. Hiew
    If you add functionality you need to find a way to maintain it. If you then find the dev is no longer updating and would like to remove this functionality you also have to ensure it won't break other functions of the forum. Anyway I'm not arguing the point anymore as this is no longer productive, and is now wasting my time. Quite frankly it seems you're just here to argue rather than help.
  21. Hiew
    phpBB is quite frankly FAR from "a lot better" than invision. phpBB is great, and its open source which is also great, but that comes with a few caveats like not having a professionally developed software with people that will answer in a very timely manner if there's a problem, regular updates, and a complete suite of software we don't need to tinker with. (What happens if one of the many plugins we would need to use is no longer updated?) I've spent countless hours in the past using all sorts of open source software (I daily drive linux, and will always use open source software where there's merit). I'm not about to spend hours on the back-end getting it to where IPB is stock, keep in mind this is something I do in my free time... invision does indeed support markdown and is quite easy to add as well. https://ckeditor.com/cke4/addon/markdown Anyway, it seems like instead of complaining or saying I like X forum better it would reflect better on yourself to do some research and maybe ask for it instead? 🤷‍♂️
  22. Hiew
    I'd like to say, if there are other ideas still floating around they're always going to be considered, but we're pretty much at the point where we need to lean into a name and stick with it. I'm trying not to put too much weight in, however I like the idea of the main domain not being tied to solely notebooks so we can attract many others to the forum as well. I would prefer if categories could be tied to different domains however I'm not entirely sure this is possible quite yet. Subdomains linking to sections of the forum have been a thought of mine as well. efgxt is very much "meaningless" but The "XT" portion was originally inserted to abbreviate extended technology, it was originally purchased for the purpose of being used for a couple servers (subdomains pointing to servers). I do think its fairly easy to say, type, and to remember as well. SEO optimization can be done no matter the main domain, we've got the others currently using a 301 redirect which is SEO friendly as well. The good thing about efgxt.net is since it is such a unique name its not really competing for top place. But once again, efgxt is not a very descriptive name for newcomers. EDIT: We can always have another round (or two) to hash things out, but ultimately a decision at least needs to start.
  23. Hiew
    Keep in mind that whatever we don't choose as the main domain will be forwarded to the main domain. If there's any other suggestions please PM me or @Reciever for us to register and add to the list.
  24. Hiew
    We've applied a number of spam prevention measures in the background that will check against a number of different conditions as well as "invisible captcha" since I hate trying to guess what letters/traffic lights/sidewalks/trucks etc are the correct ones to pick.
  25. Hiew
    In the future I'm sure it wont be hard to add an actual button next to submit reply or something like they used to have! I completely agree with the oversimplification of things too. Removing functionality for a 'clean' look isn't something I enjoy, you can bet I'll be testing moving elements around on the page.
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