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garius, to random
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RISHI: It's still pissing down out there. Are you sure about this?
PR GUY: Yes
RISHI: Why can't we use the press room?
PR GUY: Larry the cat's asleep in there
RISHI: We could wake him?
PR GUY:
RISHI:
PR GUY: No
RISHI:
PR GUY: Go knock em dead, champ
RISHI: Um. Okay

<walks out>

PR GUY: What a tit.

chrisjrn,
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@garius https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXatLOWjr-k

JonnyT,
@JonnyT@mastodon.me.uk avatar

@garius Amazing isn't it. How bad can you possibly be at this? Just astonishingly inept.

garius, to random
@garius@mastodon.me.uk avatar

Rebranding myself as an eco-friendly alternative to ChatGPT.

Ask me a question and I'll mansplain an answer to you, while consuming much less water and energy.

stux,
@stux@mstdn.social avatar

@garius hm let’s give it a wirl!

> How far away are the staaaaaaaars? 🫣

Lizette603_23,
@Lizette603_23@mastodon.social avatar

@garius THanks, had my fill over almost 75 years.

garius, to history
@garius@mastodon.me.uk avatar

Doing the final edits on my next tech column this lunchtime, and the real lesson in this one is just how badly IBM fucked up their PC business right from the start.

They never wanted it, and when they got it they were so keen to use it for managerial positioning that they fucked it all up.

garius, to gaming
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STREAM TIME!

Good news: Bult a new computer

Bad news: Apparently our Poland save never backed up to Steam cloud?! 😒

Oh well. Join me for plague, intrigue and shenanigans in Crusader Kings 3! https://twitch.tv/gariusthebrit

garius, to random
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Have had to read a lot of book reviews in academic journals this week for reasons.

Amazing how many of them can be summarised as:

"this book is factually accurate but also makes our area of study seem too interesting to normal people. Not recommended."

davecarter,
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@garius my favourite piece of reviewer feedback ever was 'this reads like popular journalism'.... We made it more difficult to read and they published it with no substantive revisions.

garius,
@garius@mastodon.me.uk avatar

@davecarter not surprised at all.

garius, to random
@garius@mastodon.me.uk avatar

And she's done.

garius,
@garius@mastodon.me.uk avatar

@cloudthethings pretty nice tbh. good inbuit cable management.

motherboard power socket needs plugging in before doing top cooler. got caught out by that, but that's it.

pieceofthepie,
@pieceofthepie@n8e.dev avatar

@garius that fractal case is lovely. Almost enough to have me get it to replace my perfectly cromulent Corsair 4000D

garius, to random
@garius@mastodon.me.uk avatar

Day two of the PC build.

Also known as disassembly day. The point where you redo a bunch of stuff, now you know it all works, to improve cable management.

garius, to random
@garius@mastodon.me.uk avatar

Well hello my friends. We meet again.

https://slate.com/culture/2024/05/creed-2024-concert-tour-cruise-summer-99-scott-stapp.html

WhyNotZoidberg,
@WhyNotZoidberg@topspicy.social avatar

@garius Wait so Creed were hated in America? Over here everyone had the same weird hatred for Nickelback.

garius, to random
@garius@mastodon.me.uk avatar

Best LEGAL way to buy knew Windows keys these days?

(Just in case my current one decides all the parts i'm putting in count as too much of a system change)

OliverUv,
@OliverUv@mastodon.social avatar

@garius I just changed everything except GPU and two SSD drives, and it still let me use the same old key. Had to re-activate as if I was using a new key though

garius,
@garius@mastodon.me.uk avatar

@OliverUv yeah, i'm changing ssd as well so suspect that's what will do me.

garius, to Cats
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Good morning from him.

garius, to random
@garius@mastodon.me.uk avatar

ME: I'm really, really torn on whether to just replace my motherboard or replatform to AM5. But that would mean I'd need a new case and all cases today are RGB messes designed for edgelord teens who-
FRACTAL DESIGNS <interrupting>: Hi

Kavus,
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@garius
Would you need a new case? I'd expect AM5 motherboards to come in the same standard ATX, mATX, etc. sizes, that should fit the same case. I could be wrong I suppose, but I haven't heard of any new standards for motherboard sizes.

That is a very nice case though.

garius,
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@Kavus technically no, but my old case is in a bad state.

garius, to random
@garius@mastodon.me.uk avatar

My "oh no I need a new motherboard" is gradually turning into "hmmm do i just say 'fuck it' and re-platform to AM5"

garius, to random
@garius@mastodon.me.uk avatar

Today's bit of computing history, and a hint of what's coming in my next tech history column.

This small article in the 8th June 1981 issue of Infoworld caused absolute panic in Microsoft and IBM.

Because it accurately predicted the release and details of the PC, 4 months before it became official

talexb,
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@garius InfoWorld was awesome. So much cool stuff was reported in that paper.

garius,
@garius@mastodon.me.uk avatar

@talexb loooooads of them scanned in and available on google books.

A fun way to occasionally lose an afternoon!

garius, to random
@garius@mastodon.me.uk avatar

Yeeeah.

After lots of possible failure point elimination yesterday, I think it's new motherboard time.

Tested different SSDs and RAM with fresh installs of Windows each time and fully up-to-date drivers. Issue of multiple BSODs, all memory access related, returns.

Dmp files not showing a program consistently causing the issue, either.

Couple that with a RAM stick randomly failing last week, and that increasingly says 'board issue' to me.

BernardSheppard,
@BernardSheppard@mastodon.au avatar

@garius the one thing that I would suggest checking - if you easily can - is the power supply. But a failing power supply, and failing power components on the motherboard will both have similar outcomes.

It sounds like you have tried everything else reasonably possible to try.

garius,
@garius@mastodon.me.uk avatar

@BernardSheppard yeah.

my thinking there is that if ii get a new motherboard/cpu and t's the PSU, well at least i ended up with useful upgrades.

whereas if i get a PSU first and it's the motherboard, i've ended up with a redundant PSU.

garius, to random
@garius@mastodon.me.uk avatar

Oh JOY. BSOD time on my main gaming box.

Any of my followers find joy in going through dmp files? Because I reckon this is a hardware issue... 😬

flameeyes,
@flameeyes@mastodon.social avatar

@garius not joy no, but check event viewer, it might have some info on which driver caused the exception

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