The My Bucket's Got a Hole In It Complaint thread
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lets doo the time warp againnn, its a jump to the left ...
Time warps are apparently very obvious to some people. Just ask Salvador Dali' (oh, wait..., he's dead... nevermind.)
I see it now!
Dana
i have to take my trash out to the bins, but its 37°F when did i turn into such a wimp
is that the horse with no name?
Complaint: I still haven't received my 3rd stimulus deposit ($1400).
Anybody else on SS in the same boat?
Non-complaint: Wheee... my doctor sent me money!
Refund for a procedure which needed no co-payment. Yay! I'm $5 richer.
Complaint: My 3 foot USB-C extension cable arrived in the mail today. The cable that was going to resolve my problem with testing my new internal USB-C adapter that plugged into the motherboard and ran to one of the backpanel slots. Well, it don't.
Non-complaint: Wheee... now I get to get on my hands & knees (a task much harder than it used to be), unplug a zillion cables from my computer, heft the overly heavy box onto my workbench (a task more dangerous than it used to be), remove the covers, investigate the connections and connectivity of the interior cable. Wheee... all sorts of geekish fun.
nft induced apathy.
i'd like to get a new writing desk, too. i use a 48" folding table.
Latest word is that we should receive them by April 7...maybe.
I hope it comes soon, my various wish lists are burning a hole in my computer.
Complaint: Reading Pavilion of Women. I usually love this sort of thing. There's lots of insight into Chinese culture and life in the 1930s. It's historical and exotic and filled with details on day-to-day life for these people. But the depiction of the MC as cold and aloof isn't likable to me, the love interest annoys me, the same adjectives are used over and over again, the babies all pee on the floor or in bushes, if you go to your friend's house you're expected to tip the servants, people eat until they throw up, and when a concubine threatens to kill herself, it's the damage this would do to house honor that comes to MC's mind, not compassion for the girl as a human being. I know life is and has been harsh, but rarely has a historical novel grossed me out and made me frown so much. (Usually, I avoid depressing and gross things, but there was no indication this book would fall under those categories from the store page)
I'm still going to read it, if only to better understand Chinese culture at that time. But if the author uses the word "pretty" one more time I'm going to scream!
Non-complaint: Wheee... my USB-C motherboard adapter, and internal cable, and external cable and USB-C thumbdrive all work as originally envisioned. Yay!
All it took was getting on my knees, unplugging a zillion cables, hefting an overly heavy tower onto my workbench, removing the sides, unplugging the motherboard connection of the adapter, examining closely (really closely... with magnifying glass and strong lights..., those connections are TINY!!!) and finding the keying (not at all obvious) of the socket, and inserting the plug the right way ( not knowing whether or not I had it plugged in the correct way, or fully, originally), testing the native USB-C connector, and testing the external cable with the native socket, then testing the new backpanel USB-C socket, and verifying that yes, indeedy, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. Happy, happy, joy, joy!
Then replacing the sides, hefting the overly heavy tower back into its position under the desk, getting back on my knees and replugging a zillion cables. (*sigh*). Nerd fun all done. Time for supper and a shot of Apricot brandy, and an evening vegging out in front of the TV watching old "Poirot", Agatha Cristie mysteries.
is 'Intel Core i7-10700 Processor, 8-Core, 2.90 GHz base frequency, up to 4.8 GHz' fast?
dunno. fighting the urge.
for the same amount i could get 4 bottles of j.w.blue
new desktop or booze, either would bring happiness
I think if a book makes you feel like this, it's not doing it's job properly, which is to entertain and enlighten you. Seems it's doing neither really. Throw it down! Bad book!
Non-complaint: I really love love LOVE this thread. Keeps me company when I can't sleep, all your weird / funny / thoughtful posts. Am happy to know thaz there's people with brains like that out there. Well, sleep tight now, or have a lovely day, whatever your timezone is. Thanks.
Yes, that is fast. I just upgraded my CPU to one of those and my memory to 32GB and it really makes a difference. The viewport is so much smoother and faster and even when renders fall back to cpu they are not that slow. I only have a 1060TI with 6GB VRAM so my renders fall back to CPU a lot and this has made it so much better. My CPU stays at only 20% when rendering and I can watch movies and surf the web and play video games while it goes.
Agreed.
That happens to be exactly what I have in my DAZing machine.
CPU: Intel: Core i7-10700, 2.9GHz base freq., 4.8GHz turbo, 8-core 16-thread. Heating during rendering has not yet been a problem, but I have a monster of a CPU cooler.
I think I overdid it on the CPU cooler.
I really haven't watched the turbo speeds, but have noticed it being up around 4GHz a couple times. I don't know what causes it to go into turbo mode. If I get curious (or frustrated) someday I may look into it, but for now, it's fast enough.
Motherboard is an Asus: Prime Z-490-A.
RAM is Corsair: Vengeance 3200, 2x16GB, CL16. (monster CPU cooler precludes using all 4 slots)
Graphics Processor isn't super, but is an MSI: NVIDIA GTX-1660, 6GB card.
Storage is two Samsung: 970 EVO Plus NVMe-SSD's (500GB & 1TB) for OS & programs. One Corsair: 1TB SATA-SSD for data. And two 2TB WD-Black HD's for redundant backups. Plus two USB3 external drives (4TB & 6TB) for archival space.
Power supply is Corsair: RMx-850w. Probably didn't need that much power. A 650 would probably have been OK.
All in all, I'm very happy with it. Much faster than what I had previously. (But then again, a couple monkeys with crayons would have been better.)
3Delight zips through renders. IRay, does quite nicely for small scenes.
will be worth it if it can unthrottle my carrara frames to a 30 frames per second.
without sacrificing the pbr extra maps.
i;ve decided i should force myself to wait on it for 2 weeks. if i cant stop thinking about it, its true love.
Complaint... sort of... I dunno... maybe... ?
I got an email from DAZ saying a post of mine which was a response to a post that no longer exists was removed from a thread I'm pretty sure I never posted in...
So... either...
Dang, that's sucks.
or..
Thank you DAZ mods for stopping evil alternate universe me from posting nonsense in threads I don't visit...
I think.
I don't actually care.
I just hate it when alternate universe me does stuff I get blamed for or gets credit for something cool I did... that guy is so annoying and his goatee is so cheesy!
Actually, I'm kinda jealous of his stupid goatee because mine is stupidly mottled grey and brown in the lousiest pattern imaginable, so I can't really do a goatee anymore, which was my evil me signature facial hair style for most of the late 90s - early 00s.
Cheesy bastard... he probably dyes it.
Maybe I should dye mine too... should I used shoe polish like that vampire guy did when he melted on TV?
Do they make goatee dye?... I know I'll ask that in a store and the clerk won't really listen to what I asked them and they'll bring me goat dye and I'll feel obligated to buy it because they're an idiot, and then I'll be like "really,how different is goat fur and my beard hair?" and then I'll try it and find out the answer is "very" and I'll have nobody to blame but myself... but mostly alternate universe me.
Also I'm wondering if DAZ maybe NFTed my not me post and sold it for millions of Bitdoubloons to pay for their big naked pizza party in Tahiti or wherever big naked pizza parties are popular... I'm not saying everyone at DAZ headquarters is into naked pizza parties, but the joke is on them because alternate universe me is nowhere as funny as me, and that post is pretty much worthless, so they'll just have to get naked at their local pizzeria instead... (which if I'm not mistaken is Settebello's Neapolitan Pizzeria and Naked Pizza Party Fun House)... if they are in fact intending to use all those Bitdoubloons to buy naked pizza...
All this pizza talk is making me want pizza now...
Anyway, so that's what happened before and now that I've shared this with whoever was bored enough to read this, I'm going to go eat dinner or something.
Finally my 12 core beast has left the building. Now I am gonna be hitting f5 on the tracking page every ten minutes till it's here lol.....
12??? faint, thud
i'm seeing a hp envy hexacore for 600. would leave me some whiskey money.
I think AMD is a bit cheaper than others, but the 570 mobo and the cpu was ~1200 maple dollars after tax tax tax was added.
...yep, received my monthly benefit deposit Friday, but no 1,400$ yet. Thought it would come through within a day of the regular payment as that happened with the first 1,200$ one.
...yeah, love to clear that past due balance with the power utility.
...Non Complaint: Well had a very nice stretch of spring-like, if not almost summery weather the last four days. Today was supposed to be overcast and around 60° but for once they got it wrong in a good way as it was sunny and (in the local 'hood) made it to 70° today.
The "official" high at the airport wasn't as warm but then all that is out there are aeroplanes and coyotes.
decisions
i been methodically saving my poser and ds content to carrara.
i could buy a couple external drives to save the original content, or just delete it all.
i dont imagine ever rendering in poser or ds again. i think if i moved on from carrara, i'd go to Unity.
Wheee... an audience!
Welcome to the party. Great for what ails you.