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I had a very similar system, but with an old R9 380, and upgraded to a 5700x and 64GB RAM. I picked up an RTX 3060 too. Now, I agree with your doubts - the upgrades didn't make much difference for day to day usage, and did feel like a waste sometimes. However, I like to take photos, and was using Photoshop with the AI features (before I realised how shit they are), and the upgrades made a huge difference.
My older games were mostly running smoothly with everything set on the highest graphics settings anyway, but now run perfectly even with half a dozen Firefox windows full of family tree research tabs open. I've played games while Firefox is using 32GB without issue. Minecraft can run at around 1,000 fps, which means that I can turn the settings up or have lots of mods installed.
I bought another motherboard and built the old parts into a computer for my kid, which is more powerful than my media server. The media server has about a dozen different Docker containers running things like the Arr suite, Immich, Navidrome, and a few others. I've got two small Minecraft servers and a magic mirror running on it too. I'm using these to learn more about Linux and networking, and generally improve my knowledge.
You'll enjoy the upgrades, and will have to do them eventually anyway, so you might as well enjoy them now 😁
I've tried a sling type camera bag on the bike, and it was a pain in the arse. It wasn't heavy enough to risk my balance, but it kept sliding around and trying to settle under my elbow. It was quite distracting and annoying. I don't bother with it now, and just put the whole lot in my rucksack instead.
Fate Cycle - Sins of the Past by Randolph Lalonde. I'm a huge fan of his sci fi and fantasy books, but hadn't got around to this one as it's not part of one of his other series. I'm really enjoying it so far, but it's longer than I expected, and more complicated, which is a nice change.
I've got the latest in his space opera universe queued up next, Rogue Chase. It's the third in a short series, set in his Spinward Fringe universe, and I'm really looking forward to it.
I've just set up KOReader with a few books, and will be setting up Calibre to feed it books too, so have a few options for when I finish these :)
If, as others have said, programming languages count, I'd go for Cobol. As I understand it, lots of big banks still run on it, so there's good money to be made. It would probably help me to learn other programming languages too.
If it had to be a human language, I'd be tempted to go for Russian or Arabic because of the potential threats, so translation opportunities, or Welsh. I'm Welsh, but really struggle with learning Welsh, especially when compared to French and Spanish.
A lot of the trips from things like cruise ships are organised, so a bus load of people will turn up somewhere all at once. Lots of places will have multiple cruises arriving at around the same time, and will have other organised trips too. If the toilets weren't designed for that many people at once, you'll get long queues, as well as needing more cleaning and maintenance.
You could build more toilets and hire more staff, but the money has to come from somewhere. Depending on the area, there might not be anything there that generates money either.
Yep. I've said this before, but I don't understand how a community that only provides links to external communities is supposed to help Lemmy grow, as opposed to taking people away 🤷🏻♂️
It works in Voyager on Android if I tap the image, but it's static in the thread.
Oh, it's my time to shine! 😁
Some of this is quite gruesome, so don't read it if you're squeamish.
I've got a serious health issue that's lead to lots of other health problems. As you can probably imagine, I've been in pain quite a few times.
Years ago, before I found out about my health issues, I'd been out drinking with friends, and one had taken his shiny new bmx with him. I thought it was a good idea to have a go, but promptly fell off and landed on my elbow. I took a deep gouge out of the side of the joint, and it wouldn't heal properly. About a month later, at an outdoor music festival, some dipshit had rollerblades attached to his rucksack and managed to swing the whole thing into my elbow, bursting the wound open. That one hurt quite a bit.
I went to the dentist once with a cracked tooth. The dentist didn't realise that it was infected, and tried to pull it out. They assumed that the anaesthetic wasn't working, so gave me more and tried again. Four times. On the bright side, I went back to work afterwards, not realising that I was high as a kite 😆
Since I've been ill, I've had some interesting ones too.
I had a kidney biopsy that went wrong. A biopsy is taken by cutting a small hole above the kidney as you're lying down, inserting a 'gun' that grabs a small piece of the kidney, then closing the hole. Because of the risk of bleeding, you have to lie still for eight hours. I've had a few biopsies, so after a few hours I knew something was wrong. My back and my lower abdomen were burning and in lots of pain, so I called the nurse. There was a feeling like I needed to pee really badly, like past the point of bursting, but I couldn't, and it kept coming and going. Eventually I managed to go, but it was agonising, and I passed something solid. The doctor came and gave me a mild sedative and I was catheterised. It turned out that they nicked the kidney during the biopsy, and it bled into my bladder. My bladder was then blocked by blood clots that only had one way out.
My favourite one though was the 'helpful' doctor.
When I found out about my illness, it's because I was in a seriously bad way. I had multiple organ failure, and was put into a coma. When I came out of the coma, I had several different lines going into my body where they had been giving me things like meds and fluids. One of the lines went into the right side of my neck but was due to be changed. This is where the helpful doctor came in.
He brought a colleague with him to show him how the procedure worked, so explained everything as he was doing it. He told the other doctor that changing the line is quite straightforward, and explained that you have the option to give the patient some anaesthetic injections to make it less painful. He then explained that as it's mainly removing and replacing some stitches, giving the anaesthetic would actually mean giving more injections and needles than just doing the stitches directly, and would be more painful. Then proceeded to cut into my neck with a scalpel.
Apparently he'd forgotten that cutting would be more painful than a needle...
I really enjoy reading, but I can't picture a scene, or what characters look like. It can be a bit confusing at times, but doesn't usually take away from the enjoyment.
As an example, my favourite sci fi author Randolph Lalonde (great independent author, buy his books 👍) had a scene in a recent book where some characters had a shootout in a warehouse that held several spaceships. The ships were all at least a few metres long, so the warehouse was huge. In my head, everything was centred on a small area around the characters, and I could sort of picture them being within a few feet of each other.
I couldn't picture any details, it was as if he had written that 'the man stood near the woman, and pointed the gun towards the crates', even though the scene was well written with good descriptions. My brain couldn't translate the description into a layout in my head.
I still really enjoyed the scene, but every now and then it was as if my brain realised that things should be further apart, or one character should be taller than another, for example.
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