zipkag

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[–] zipkag@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I would like to know where you could reasonably buy a blue whale. That would be amazing.

[–] zipkag@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah, that's good advice. I actually knew the book had something to do with that. But after the first chapter or two, I did go back and need to review some of that, as it's been a while since I've taken a philosophy class. And I'm glad I did because some of the chapters I've read now I think made a bit more sense with that fresh on my mind.

[–] zipkag@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I have been reading Anathema by Neal Stephenson. I'm about a fourth of the way through and it's been great. I've read two or three of his other books which I've really enjoyed. Cryptonomicon became one of my favorite books. But so far this has been up there as something that may top that, it's been pretty good so far. I hope it ends well.

[–] zipkag@lemmy.world 25 points 6 months ago

Not exactly the same, but suggests probably it would not turn out well. https://thebrain.mcgill.ca/flash/capsules/histoire_bleu06.html

[–] zipkag@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'd love it you'd name a few. I like games you can get lost in for hours and always looking for others I may have missed.

[–] zipkag@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

My father went to high school with someone whose last name was Butts. His parents named him Harold and called him, and thus his friends called him, Harry. I always kind of thought it was a tall tale until my father showed me his high school yearbook one day And there was a picture of Harry Butts.

I always kind of wanted to meet this man and his wife and ask her if he lived up to his name.

[–] zipkag@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I'll enter for God of War, I watched a few YouTube videos of it with my son and it looked fun and a good story. Thanks for this idea, it's fun. Good luck to everyone.

Something that made me happy this year: my son tested into advanced math placement at school and I still can't get over how amazed I am with the poor genes I passed in to him. Couldn't be more proud as it was something he wanted and of his own choosing spent extra time practicing math. Don't know how I lucked out, but he's pretty impressive to me

[–] zipkag@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I tried so many, eventually landed on trilium. It's not perfect by any means, but it ticks the most boxes for my needs

[–] zipkag@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

This is probably not true. The concept of this phrase but referring to family is probably a modern confusion. There is no clear evidence it means it was really referencing ties to friends. Although I wish it did. Here's some further reading from others also looking for a clearer reference.

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/147902/is-the-alleged-original-meaning-of-the-phrase-blood-is-thicker-than-water-real

[–] zipkag@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I love trilium, I can self host. Doesn't have user support so I host two instances for me and wife. We then use mealie for recipes. It's worked really well

[–] zipkag@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Trilium notes. Not perfect, but the best of many I've tried for my needs.

[–] zipkag@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I use backblaze B2. I use duplicity to create a local encrypted backup of daily and then monthly incremental backups that are stored on a separate hard drive as a local backup. I then sync that with backblaze every night. It's worked like a treat. Gives me my primary data, a local backup on a separate drive and then an off-site backup. And actually my primary data and my local backups are both on ZFS raidz2 drives, so I can even have drives fail and be okay.

I used to use glacier, but the backblaze interface and uploading scripts were just so much easier to use, and the price was comparable if not maybe just slightly cheaper, I can't remember exact. I think duplicity also has a front end, duplicati that some people use, but I've never used it.

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new GPU advice (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by zipkag@lemmy.world to c/buildapc@lemmy.world
 

Sadly, my 980 TI just blew up. I took it apart and I think it's one of the VRAM has totally burned out, there's a big old black mark and burning smells. So unfortunately I need a new GPU.

I've always had NVIDIA in the past, but I'm willing to do AMD. I principally run Linux, but do dual boot for some Windows gaming. I do need VR support for my index. I've never done ray tracing, think it might be fun to try but not necessary.

It's been a long time since I bought a GPU, so I'm not super up to date on everything right now, so I'm hoping for some advice. I was hoping to wait another year or two before upgrading, but I guess I need something now. I have a 6700k processor on Asus Maximus hero viii.

Honestly I probably just want to replace something roughly compatible to what I had, but maybe it is time to just upgrade to something much better. Usually I try to buy a decent GPU so it can last for many years instead of frequently upgrading. So I'm torn if I should just get something old and uses that would work for a year or two, or if I should now just bite the bullet and buy a upper mid to lower top tier GPU now. If I had to I could stretch a budget into the 1500 usd range, but it really bothers me that cards have been getting getting that expensive so I would prefer to keep it down more in 200-800 range. I have 1440p monitor, but I'm also ok with 1080 gaming.

I'd appreciate any thoughts, or advice from those more up-to-date on recent GPUs. Thanks

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