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[da_fox2279]

Legendary comic creator George Perez has announced that he has inoperable colon cancer, has 6 months to live

Damn... this hurts. I grew up reading Perez. He was and still is one of my favorite artists. I am so sorry I never had the opportunity to meet him in person.

 

[seitora]

Lava lamps are still pretty cool imo. After a few years of not having one, I set a lava lamp up again. I'm sort of a weirdo in that when it's dark out, I don't usually turn my room lights on when watching TV, playing video games, or just generally using my PC. So it does help provide some extra mood lighting, particularly in the winter time when I'm getting down to only 8 hours of daylight.

 

[PCHeintz72]

It is practical as well... after all, if you are going with the lights only when absolutely needed, you likely have lower electric bills.

 

[Ringmaster]

It's too bad you couldn't go one step further, and use an LED bulb, since it wouldn't let the lamp work properly. I've got a glitter lamp from my teen years serving the same mood light purpose.

 

[BtML]

Welp, got my 3rd shot of Pfizer today. Arm is a bit sore, but that's about it.

 

[seitora]

Booster shot get!

 

[seitora]

Update: That booster shot knocked me right goddamn out. First time in years I had to phone in sick for a shift. I think I ran just about the entire gamut of symptoms except for myocarditis: muscle pains, nausea, exhaustion, hypersensitivity, chills, and overheating (those last two sometimes at the same time!).

That hypersensitivity was really weird. It was enough that I would drink water and even feel the coldness of the water in my stomach a lot more vividly.

 

[AoMythology]

Update: That booster shot knocked me right goddamn out. First time in years I had to phone in sick for a shift. I think I ran just about the entire gamut of symptoms except for myocarditis: muscle pains, nausea, exhaustion, hypersensitivity, chills, and overheating (those last two sometimes at the same time!).

That hypersensitivity was really weird. It was enough that I would drink water and even feel the coldness of the water in my stomach a lot more vividly.

Which vaccine was it? Moderna? Pfizer?

 

[seitora]

Moderna, which I got for all three. My first one had no real side effects. My second one only really hit me 36 hours later, with some heavy exhaustion (I slept something like 10 hours off a night shift, which is unheard of for me).

 

[AoMythology]

Moderna, which I got for all three. My first one had no real side effects. My second one only really hit me 36 hours later, with some heavy exhaustion (I slept something like 10 hours off a night shift, which is unheard of for me).

I got Pfizer in all.

On the first jab, somewhat major pain in my upper arm and no other side-effects. On the second one, barely any pain, but exhaustion hit me hard the next evening, needing to beg off a family outing to go to sleep very early.

The third one had no real side-effects on me, only some pain in my upper arm again, slightly greater than in my second jab but much less than in the first. Of course, it might have been the nurse, who (while still skilled) didn't quite manage the flawless syringe-insertion that I got the other two times.

 

[PCHeintz72]

Update: That booster shot knocked me right goddamn out. First time in years I had to phone in sick for a shift. I think I ran just about the entire gamut of symptoms except for myocarditis: muscle pains, nausea, exhaustion, hypersensitivity, chills, and overheating (those last two sometimes at the same time!).

That hypersensitivity was really weird. It was enough that I would drink water and even feel the coldness of the water in my stomach a lot more vividly.

I wonder... didn't you only get the second shot in November... if so, it was too soon for the booster... which makes me wonder if that was a contributing part of the issues you had.

In my own case, the doctor specifically asked if it had been over 6 months before allowing me to get it. I actually had 6 1/2 months between 2nd shot and booster.

I know they were saying for those whom got the J&J one shot they recommended 2 months or more, but everyone else should have waited 6 months at least.

EDIT: My mistake, looks like it was flu, not covid vaccination you got. When did you get the initial shots?

 

[seitora]

EDIT: My mistake, looks like it was flu, not covid vaccination you got. When did you get the initial shots?

My initial shots were June and July, so this booster was basically exactly 6 months later, minus a day or two.

 

[AoMythology]

I got them in June and (early) July too, so, 5 ½ months, since I got the booster shot in late December.

 

[seitora]

Only just halfway through shift and already at 10k steps. Not because it's busy but because I push myself to walk around lots at work. OT pay to exercise is the best!

 

[chronodekar]

I spent the past week (or more) binge-reading My Hero Academia fanfics. Some good ones, some bad ones. All in all - fun stuff. It's reached the point, where I think I've exhausted a decent chunk of them that I need to catch up on the source material. i.e. I've only watched the first season of the show. Not yet decided if I should read the manga or continue with the anime, but well, that's where I am now.

:thinking: I really should write up my opinions on the different stories I read, but my mind is feeling like goop now - all mushed up.

-chronodekar

 

[seitora]

I came back to work after days off to find out one of my coworkers, who works my exact position, broke some bones. My position is something that requires on-site coverage 24/7, so it's not just a matter of working from home or simply having one less person. It means more OT! And fortunately, in the part of the year where I get very little of and could use some more.

Making lots of OT money and being too busy to spend it, here's a perfect emoticon

 

[MastaofBitches]

So I feel like a complete mug. Bought a new Lenovo T7 PC off Ebay, £1500, with an RTX 3080 and an i7-10700K. Only problem is only 16gb of RAM, and about 500gb of storage.

I figured it wouldn't be an issue, I could just swap in the RAM and extra storage from my old PC, no problem. Except, there's no expansion bay for hard drives and the RAM isn't compatible. I could, possibly, swap the graphics cards around instead, but I have no idea how to do that to a processor, besides which this PC's much quieter, and doesn't have the wi-fi issues my old one did.

Reckon it's worth taking both PC's down to get a professional to look at them?

 

[mgsaintz]

What are the specs for your old PC and is the Lenovo sporting DDR4 RAM? Most RAM on recent desktop computers would be DDR3, DDR4 is slow to be adopted with the shortage; it's kind of hard to imagine a PC sill around with DDR2.

 

[PCHeintz72]

Well... the HD if there are no empty internal bays you can buy a external USB 3 housing for it.

For the ram... is your complaint system ram or graphics card and ram... the two are not really the same. Per one article I read on the Lenovo T7 (article was for model 34ImZ5), at least some models have PCIe 3.0x1 and PCIe 3.0x expansion slots... but I don't know if that applies to yours specifically since you gave no model number. If so, you could just bypass the one on the MB and get a expansion card based solution.

Expansion Slots
Three PCIe 3.0 x1•
Two PCIe 3.0 x16•
Three M.2 slots (one for WLAN, two for SSD)

 

[MastaofBitches]

What are the specs for your old PC and is the Lenovo sporting DDR4 RAM? Most RAM on recent desktop computers would be DDR3, DDR4 is slow to be adopted with the shortage; it's kind of hard to imagine a PC sill around with DDR2.

According to what I believe to be the Amazon listing, it's DDR4. Here.

Well... the HD if there are no empty internal bays you can buy a external USB 3 housing for it.

Is that really safe for installing programs and games though?

For the ram... is your complaint system ram or graphics card and ram... the two are not really the same. Per one article I read on the Lenovo T7 (article was for model 34ImZ5), at least some models have PCIe 3.0x1 and PCIe 3.0x expansion slots... but I don't know if that applies to yours specifically since you gave no model number. If so, you could just bypass the one on the MB and get a expansion card based solution.

It's mostly because according to this video you need specific RAM, or you can't use it properly.

 

[mgsaintz]

If it's DDR4 then you're more than likely not be able to use your old RAM which shouldn't be an issue since it will probably run faster, for the HDD the best bet would be to get an external but if you want to make the most of that machine I suggest making use of the M.2 slots and put in 2 decent size NVMe cards.

 

[PCHeintz72]

Regarding the HD...

Not really sure what you mean by safe as I''ve used external storage for a long time, in fact the backbone of my house is two Raid5 NAS devices, which are just fancy housings for external storage. You would not need anything near that fancy.

I'm assuming this is a SATA drive. If you have a USB 3 port, and get a simple USB 3 housing, then it should be good enough for programs... there might be a small delay in games, but that would depend on the game and just how much it accesses the drive. On the other hand, if you have USB 2, you do not wan to go this route for running games and programs, though it is good for raw storage and backup purposes.

 

[MastaofBitches]

Not really sure what you mean by safe as I''ve used external storage for a long time, in fact the backbone of my house is two Raid5 NAS devices, which are just fancy housings for external storage. You would not need anything near that fancy.

By safe, I mean my old machine would occasionally fail to register the external HD for a minute or two, and I'm concerned as to what would happen if I was in the middle of a game and that happened.

 

[PCHeintz72]

By safe, I mean my old machine would occasionally fail to register the external HD for a minute or two, and I'm concerned as to what would happen if I was in the middle of a game and that happened.

That is not normal. Not in my own experience. Normally even if the drive shuts down due to power saving it should have come back far faster than a minute or two. If there was either a issue in configuration, or drivers, then I suppose that could cause that.

Though I would only set up something like this to run games if the USB port and USB case for the HD were both USB 3, not USB 2. USB 2 might be fine for applications, or storage/backup,, but I would not trust its response time for games.

One other cavat if you do this, you should not expect that game or program to run from any system you attach the drive to, just the one actually installed on. That is due to fact it would not be properly configured to run the game or program unless the game or program in question is meant to be run in portable situations..

 

[mgsaintz]

As PCHeintz said I wouldn't install anything into an external drive it's primarily for storage, it was why I suggested picking up a 1 or 2 TB NVMe and use that to install games, it run much better and faster than it would on HDD.