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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:I found this while looking for a different game's box art and I just feel like I need to leave this image somewhere. holy poo poo is that Ben Pack? 
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tallguysfree...does one normally pay for tall guy pics??
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Slippery posted:tallguysfree...does one normally pay for tall guy pics?? oh weird, didnt notice that watermark oh god, do not go to that site
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Feb 15, 2019 14:47
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LifeSunDeath posted:oh weird, didnt notice that watermark lol, The Internet in two lines
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Feb 15, 2019 14:52
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LifeSunDeath posted:oh weird, didnt notice that watermark oh my god what
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You Am I posted:
"Riva 128 GLQuake" is an aesthetic that is permanently burned into my mind
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You Am I posted:
Ugh, a Vibra 16, the *worst* SB card.
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LifeSunDeath posted:oh weird, didnt notice that watermark Fallom posted:oh my god what lmao what on earth
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Code Jockey posted:lmao what on earth what the christ
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Feb 15, 2019 23:48
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Pretend I posted that gif of Michael Bluth opening up that bag with the dead dove in it.
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Feb 16, 2019 00:01
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You people finally piqued my interest enough to go there. That certainly is a thing.
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I found out about that site from this Youtuber, who found himself there. He's a bit cringy, but not too badly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RePmU0lXehA E: Skip to 6:25. klafbang has a new favorite as of 00:20 on Feb 16, 2019 |
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JazzmasterCurious posted:Ugh, a Vibra 16, the *worst* SB card. I don't know, the AWE64 was a complete arse to work with DOS games back in the day.
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LifeSunDeath posted:holy poo poo is that Ben Pack? Both are insufferable idiots so sure
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Empress Brosephine posted:Both are insufferable idiots so sure aw man, naw.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:You people finally piqued my interest enough to go there. That certainly is a thing. It’s just pics of tall guys? Idgi
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Feb 16, 2019 01:02
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people are masturbating to it
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Grand Prize Winner posted:people are masturbating to it This is literally every picture ever posted on the internet
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big crush on Chad OMG posted:This is literally every picture ever posted on the internet Yeah, I was going to make a "rule 34" reference but it just seemed redundant.
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Feb 16, 2019 01:47
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Remember Readyboost? I tried it once on my workstation: 
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Mak0rz posted:sorry, away from... what exactly? This is some deep stuff right here. (Finally almost at the end of this amazing thread so time to  )
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Humphreys posted:Remember Readyboost? I remember it but I had never used it. Since you did (  ), did it do anything?
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Humphreys posted:Remember Readyboost? All of those drive were found in the parking lot.
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Cojawfee posted:Some russian guy gave me a bunch of free USB sticks, let's see what's on them. A company my spouse worked at would leave USBs around the office/parking lot that when plugged into the computer sent a note to IT to revoke your laptop and make you use a USB-less desktop until you took a mandatory retraining course
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Barudak posted:A company my spouse worked at would leave USBs around the office/parking lot that when plugged into the computer sent a note to IT to revoke your laptop and make you use a USB-less desktop until you took a mandatory retraining course On the one hand this makes me roll my eyes but y'know, that's actually some decent training Problem is gonna be when some rando picks it up and fires it up at home, then calls the police and there ends up being a front page story about company X leaving illegal hacking tools around
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Slippery posted:On the one hand this makes me roll my eyes but y'know, that's actually some decent training AFAIK it works because their office has software to manage USB access and is programmed to look for thumbdrives that are registered to trigger it. Im not sure but apparently when you plug it into another computer that doesnt have that software it doesnt do anything, its just a normal blank thumbdrive.
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Barudak posted:AFAIK it works because their office has software to manage USB access and is programmed to look for thumbdrives that are registered to trigger it. Im not sure but apparently when you plug it into another computer that doesnt have that software it doesnt do anything, its just a normal blank thumbdrive. Oh, copy, that makes way more sense.
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BattleMaster posted:I remember it but I had never used it. Readyboost did work, it was just that it was only really useful in very specific situations. (low ram + slow drive.) After it was on for a while it would cache a couple things that windows could use pretty often, usually small files scattered around the harddrive. Even though USB 2 was hella slow, it still had better seek speeds than waiting for an idle HDD to spin up and look for one small file or two. In modern PCs there's usually enough spare ram that windows just uses it to cache stuff, and even then it's not as noticable anymore thanks to SSDs being plentiful. It was primarily useful on garbage pcs with 512MB-1GB of ram, where they were so starved for memory they didn't have the budget to cache anything. (Of course, the performance you got also depended on how poo poo your old HDD was, or how fast the memory stick was.) It's the same principle as SSHDs and using Optane as a cache for a mechanical drive. Slapping a lot of tiny, often used files into a small cache can speed up a lot of processes.
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I still have a 7200rpm spinner but I make up for it by having a decent amount of RAM: Yes, I have a potato for a video card, but it's still better than using the Sandy Bridge integrated video. It's an eBay PC with an i5-2400 in it. The thing was $90 shipped with 4GB DDR3 1333 and a 500GB HDD included. It's a Dell Optiplex 990. I'm not much of a gamer but I do know having some sort of video card is better than letting the integrated video steal memory bandwidth. I took the 8GB DDR3 1333 from my old C2D E8400 PC and put it in this one, hence the 12GB. Edit: Purchase history in eBay:  Vanagoon has a new favorite as of 18:59 on Feb 16, 2019 |
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SubNat posted:Readyboost did work, it was just that it was only really useful in very specific situations. (low ram + slow drive.) Yeah it's funny, ReadyBoost actually helped my old poo poo laptop with 1gb of RAM in 2006 run just a little bit better back in the day. It only worked on some flash drives though, a lot of the cheaper ones weren't fast enough
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Vanagoon posted:I still have a 7200rpm spinner but I make up for it by having a decent amount of RAM: I have an Optiplex 960, and after I added some more ram and a new video card, it's been fine. I don't play many graphic intensive games, so it's worked out nicely, especially for a refurb I bought from Walmart.com.
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Randaconda posted:I have an Optiplex 960, and after I added some more ram and a new video card, it's been fine. I don't play many graphic intensive games, so it's worked out nicely, especially for a refurb I bought from Walmart.com. I like these corporate PCs, they do seem to be made less shittily than the consumer level stuff. My last desktop was an Optiplex 780 USFF:  I decided it was time for a slightly newer PC partly because this one was being defeated by Youtube's 1080p60 video. It came with an e7500 in it but I eBayed an e8400 for 4 dollars and some change a few years ago.
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Vanagoon posted:I like these corporate PCs, they do seem to be made less shittily than the consumer level stuff. My last desktop was an Optiplex 780 USFF: Yeah, I think most/all of the Optiplexes were for corporate use, everyone I've seen seems to have been made real sturdily.
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Randaconda posted:Yeah, I think most/all of the Optiplexes were for corporate use, everyone I've seen seems to have been made real sturdily. Yeah, Optiplex and Latitudes are Dell's corporate level desktops and laptops. Usually well built, but occasionally you'll come across a poo poo model
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Vanagoon, put a $22 Inland 120gb SSD in that Optiplex and realize how wrong you were about compensating with RAM.
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WithoutTheFezOn posted:Rack size DVD players aren’t heavy at all. They’re mostly empty space on the inside. Hell, I still listen to Groove Salad. I noticed that they just added a Groove Salad Classic which I guess plays more songs from back in the day?
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Barudak posted:AFAIK it works because their office has software to manage USB access and is programmed to look for thumbdrives that are registered to trigger it. Im not sure but apparently when you plug it into another computer that doesnt have that software it doesnt do anything, its just a normal blank thumbdrive. Yeah that's what I thought. Endpoint security, which has become really topical with GDPR and all. Which brings me to what I thought would be a tech relic: Local exclusion. When movies premiere the same time as in the US and we get them on Blu-ray when they're released there (it used to take months a few years ago) and that region coding thing is a thing of the past, why do some websites just cut access to European people? Like, once on a while when I follow a link from HN I get the "we can't show you this because GDPR" and I "you're based in the IS! Why do you care I'm from Europe?
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An old Optiplex with an i7-2700 is my Plex Server. Super cheap and will do multiple streams.
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