I think i have more Laserdiscs than Blu-rays

That’s wild. Mine posts just fine, though it was very particular about the ram. I had to re-seat most of the 8 sticks several times. And one time it posted with memory errors when I had a dirty cpu pad on cpu 0. But now, it boots perfect every time.

Do you leave yourself running for extended periods? This thing seems like a power hog. Ive got dual Xeon 5355’s, 120W each. The GTX 980TI is 250W, and I’ve heard those sticks of ram are 10W each. I have been turning it off when im not actively doing something on it.

Makes me feel all bum tickley inside.

What do you use yours for?

Actually, it’s a Precision 690! Same case, though I’m pretty sure. And yes, I do have the second CPU installed. Dual Xeon 5355’s! And 32GB of DDR2. And a GTX 980TI.

I’m using hardware encryption, i.e. my data is too heavy to be stolen. The manual actually recommends two people lift it.

I mean, I am aware of that. But 16k wouldn’t even cover my mortgage, let alone food and utilities. Adding up just the essentials, housing + food + electricity + natural gas + phone + water, I’m at 27k. Being in the US, I’d say car and health insurance are also necessities. So, you can easily add another 5k or 6k to that.

No idea. One coworker of mine said they made him, he was gone for a month.

Well, I could have just bought it. But it’s a 0% interest loan. Same thing I did with my other two luxury watches, and it’s almost done. Having a two year commitment to it definitely keeps me from looking at any more! I really like watches. It’s probably my last one for a long time, anyway. Kids are expensive. $8600 for a watch over two years is cheap compared to $15k a year just in childcare. That’s just one kid.

You can have a car for a lot less, but we have relatively new cars and I opted for a lot of insurance for my own peace of mind. If we had any public transit options, we could get by with one car for sure. But there is nothing here. There is a city bus system that primarily caters to the low income, which is a great start. But it really only goes to like, the grocery stores and the urgent cares. Nowhere near our daycare, and definitely way short of the 30 miles to my office. We also have a shuttle bus that you can call for, that’s only $3 a ride, but thats really just for the disabled and elderly. I’d say we have better transit than a lot of metropolitan cities I’ve been to, but obviously our society is completely car-centric.

I was thinking wrong. I was going off my salary rather than my take home. After taxes, health insurance, and retirement, it’s about $6k.

$1360 for my mortgage, which is really quite good as it’s only 3.25%. Im pretty stuck in my house with current interest rates. $516 for one of my cars. $343 for one of my watches. About $300-400 for electricity in the summer, $80 for natural gas. $368 for car insurance. $168 for phones. $87 for internet. And $309 on a loan for some renovations. $30 planned parenthood donation. Typically about $40/week for gas.

Amazon prime, Disney+, Spotify, Netflix, Paramount+. Idk what else. I guess the rest is just groceries, eating out, and hobbies.

That’s just the stuff I pay from my income, my wife and I never got joint bank accounts. She takes home about 3k, and she pays for our other car, which is $327, her student loan, which is $300, and childcare which is $295/week. Plus she puts money in the savings account.

This discussion is making me think about the number of subscriptions I have, and the amount of expendable income I waste.

I stopped using my hdmi adapter because it wasn’t looking as good as the component video. You got the 1920 to work? What version of OPL do you have? I might have to try it again!

My last job, I was an engineering team leader. They had me working so much, with different time zones, I was regularly working 70+ hour weeks. There was no time for vacation. So, I had weeks left at the end of the year. It would have gone poof. There was no carry-over. So, December 4th, I made myself go poof. That last paycheck was absolutely delicious. It was multiple paychecks worth. Suck it, old company.

What really sucks is that it was a German company, and the Germans got awesome perks like 35hr work weeks. Beer in the cantina for lunch. They were FORCED to take all their vacation. Instead of asked to cancel.

I have questions. How were you able to live for a year on 16K? Even if we disregard healthcare, that wouldn’t even cover my mortgage. Let alone food, or especially travel and fun. You Were able to afford a phone? Utilities? Did you have any extras, like streaming services? I’m guessing you have the luxury of public transportation, so I can understand no car payments or gas and maintenance costs.

Granted, I do live in the US. But I can’t imagine everything is that much more expensive here. £16K is like, $20K right now, I’d live for maybe 2 months on that.

I can just imagine him awkwardly leaning his head way in, with exaggerated kissy lips, and she gives him a brief peck. Then, they embrace. At one point, she says “ow!” And grabs her boob in surprise. He just says “sorry” as he looks to the camera and goes “can we… can we just cut that part?” He turns back to her, attempting another kiss, and she just pushes him away. She just hands him the diskette with the secret plans and asks him to leave. He asks if he can call her sometime, and if they could go out again. To which she just flatly replies with a curt “no” and shuts the door.

Now that you mention it, I’ve had mixed results forcing resolutions through OPL. But the factory ones you do with button combos always work great.

Oh, you can still get storage on the slim. I just did Gusse’s IDE resurrector on mine, but there is a better version out there now with much larger SD card support.

I played through Black for the first time this year on my old Fat with a sata hdd. How great was that game? It felt a generation ahead of its time, especially using the higher res display mode and the component video.

If you don’t already have a good controller solution, I highly recommend the Brook Wingman. I’m using mine with a Dual Shock 3 for the analog buttons (gotta have them for Ace Combat), but it supports so many controllers.

Every year, my company has a company-wide cornhole tournament at our all-employee bbq shindig. I entered it last year, assuming it was a casual fun thing and everyone there played once or twice a year, like me. I’m from two states away, and it really isn’t as big here. It was not casual. These people brought their own bags, some well over $100 a set. I was embarrassingly outclassed. Out in the first round. This year is corn hole and go karts. I’m going to try that instead this year.

My dad commuted 2.5 hours each way my entire childhood. All through the 90’s. It wasn’t until DSL got to my parent’s area in the 2010s and I was out of college that he could work a hybrid schedule. I couldn’t do it. I work 30min away, hybrid 2/5 of the time. It’s still more time than I want to soend in the car.

It gets to the end of the movie, and he says "OK, i think I’m ready to do this for real. It pans out to a huge set. The whole thing was just The Rehearsal for James to actually go on the mission.