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Went back to Goose red bird from the capitol theater I posted here not long ago. Damn! that jam is EPIC! The first medicine I tried was great. That one is on the "to get again" list, No pain in my body, great "vibey" chill but not flatlined. wonderful stuff. Here is another goose tune that is awesome. This band is Fantastic!

Dont have a way to test space engine do you?

Leading into this! after a couple of hours!

So this showed up today! So I am getting ready to go to my music room, tun on my amp, and jam out to this....ALL AFTEROON!

I am hoping before years end, Steam has every game available for linux. If that happens we are gonzo from windows. As it stands right now, that's the stopping point for us as a family. I am going to be taking the old SSD from this laptop and putting garuda on it to try.

When I build new systems for us, I will be using the 14th gen. It sucks that all the laptops I would be interested in have the AMD HX 365/370 chips in them. All across the board, intel beats them except for lightroom workloads which I don't use.

Ok. perfect. 14900k would be my choice too. For my workflow intel is way better than amd, plus I am just an intel user for years. I am on 10th and 11th gen processors and they still work perfectly for me. would love to have a 14th gen with ARC graphics for video work but it's not needed right now.

Nothing any of the big mega corps create is safe. The only truly safe OS at this point is Linux. That being said, we are sort of stuck for the time being until Steam OS gets their emulation completely sorted so my son can play space engine without any issues at all.

Tracking my goodies. They left kelona on Thursday, got scanned in Calgary yesterday morning. Next scan will be St.John's through the air freight. another day and it will be here. can't wait. In preparation...and groove....

I installed win 11 using Rufus on my wifes dell pc. It works great, gets updates etc, but it's still on 23H2, my system is on 24H2. Can this be pushed through without having to re install the OS again?

I just placed a big order for 70g of "medicine" so I am celebrating some pain free days with this deadly tune! My dream job would be to be the band photographer for either Phish or Goose. So many possibilities there.

Just has to be in the right setting. Being in Nova Scotia at peggy's cove by the lighthouse, or at the Citadel, they are very euphoric because of the setting. In your home, or something like that, YAH they would grate on my nerves too. ha ha.

This has been a thing for years. I agree, but a simple setup with rufus and away we go. I did it on two of our systems without issue.

Agreed. Hearing them play live in the Halifax citadel in Nova Scotia, is amazing. I have photos of the person playing the bagpipes at both the Citadel and in Peggy's Cove. Just part of the experience.

I have been a creative content creator for years now in both video and photo, as well creating graphics, writing stories, how tos etc. I have been trying all of the photo/video software (besides adobe as they are satan). I have settled on a couple of different programs because they are lightweight and you don't need stupid expensive systems to run them on. For photo work I mainly use Affinity Photo. This software is straight forward, easy to use and don't make your images look "processed". just like a digital darkroom should. For more "creative" edits I am using Corel Paint shop pro ultimate. This software is awesome. It is super light so you can easily run it on older hardware, and it includes the right amount of AI for this type of work. Best part it can use photoshop plug ins, LUTs etc without issue. For video editing I use Pinnacle Studio Ultimate. Again, this software does everything the "big boys" can do, but in a very lightweight way. Only needing a decent spec computer to run it on. I chose this because of the availability of quick sync for my laptop, and how it has all of the features that premiere or Davinci has. For Graphic work I use Affinity Designer. I have created numerous graphics for our clothing business which we are finally getting off the ground, and it's easy and straight forward. For publishing and writing, I use a combination of word and Affinity Publisher depending on what's needed. Word needs no introduction and Affinity publisher is easy to use, I can take graphics and images from Photo and designer and merge easily into publisher to use without issues and it makes creating things fast and easy. For our new podcast/vlogcast, I have a Behringer audio interface, mixer, mics, headphones going to my laptop via USB-C then into Audacity. Free is great. It has everything I need to make our recordings sound really professional and dialed in. I am an audiophile so crisp clear audio is a must for anything we produce. I will be renting the "studio" to others in the area who want a podcast/vlogcast produced as well. The mixer has 6 channels on it so I have one set for me, one for my wife Kelly, and the other 4 will be the "others" who use our system. Mine and Kellys are not touched. I have photos of the settings incase one gets bumped during setup etc. All software mentioned is buy once, cry once or free. I refuse to pay subs anymore for software. I got rid of luminar Neo because of the subscription fee for it. And the prices adobe charges for their entire suite is bonkers. Hope this gives some insight to people who may want affordable great software to create!

Anyone?

Well almost a week since my bowl surgery, I am sitting at home, cannot do any consumables since I don't want to cough. ha ha. But here is a mind blowing, face melting performance for Ya'll. I really just stumbled on this and HOLY POOP. My favorite group now!

I have two different ad blockers on my iPad and neither block ads in Youtube via edge. Many other websites are brutal as well. My laptop with edge and ublock is great.

I am going into surgery tomorrow, it better work good while im in there. I am not happy that ad blocking do not work in Edge on my iPad but it works on every other device I own. I am going to have to deal with it as it's going to be the only device I have with me while recovering. So it's going to be my tv, magazine and what not when im in recovery. Hopefully im only in there 3 or 4 days and then I will be home where I can use my laptops again.

Nailed it for sure. Both the chargers I had were 2 prong. One was the apple charger though. But 100 percent grounding now that I think about it. And the hotel probably didn't help matters either.

I was away with my family this weekend and took my laptop with me. So I plug in the notebook for the night after using it for awhile and have this funny "sensation" when I was charinging it on the right hand side of the machine where my wrist stays. Like tingly sensation but not quite. In order to feel it you have to move your finger across the notebook. So I pulled out the charger and it stopped. I then tried with a otterbox USB C charging block and apple cord I have to charging both our phones at the same time. That charging solution produced the same "sensation". I get back home and plug into the original charging block and cable and low and behold, no "sensation". Can anyone give any reasons why two other chargers would do this and one does not? I have another dell laptop charger in my office I have to try as well.

Picked up my iPad because we are going out of town for the weekend and I like taking some goodies with me. Turned it on and it froze on the settings app for like 35 seconds, then it froze on the Home Screen for another 20 seconds. It’s a 10th gen iPad so it has enough power to run it no problem so I would assume being it’s just one year old. I thought iPadOS was supposed to be light and snappy all the time.

Well. In a major turn of events, we are downsizing our home. My wife and I will be sharing an office space now. So what we are doing is going to have two of the same setups for the new office. Same desk, same chairs same monitor. Different keyboards and pcs. I am going to be keeping my Dell XPS for the foreseeable future to do my work. I am going to get Kelly a new mini PC for her desk. She's going to have the pink Logitech Keyboard and mouse to complement her Logitech mouse pad she already has. I am going to have the "space grey" Logitech setup for my desk. We are both going to get the 40 inch Alogic ultrawides. Hers will be silver and again, mine space gray. I think we are going with large sit/stand desks and good quality chairs. I will have to get a multiple printer, scanner stand for my photo printer and scanner and our Multifunction unit for general duties. Everything is about compacting space to a way more reasonable level. Right now we have two offices and they are both huge. But with that comes insane living expenses. So chopping our house, property and expenses in half will make it way easier for us to retire when we want. If we did stay here, I would be working forever. Moving to the new smaller property we can retire in 10 years and have just basic living expenses.

Forgot to quote so you see it. If you were building a system today what CPU would you use?