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How in the world do you outlaw an entirely digital and anonymous currency?
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Maybe they can't, but it's not going to stop them from trying. More of a deterrent than anything (Great Firewall of China etc.)
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everything China makes illegal is stuff they do most behind curtains, you know like

- 'internet porn is illegal?'

every guy will tell you with a straight face:

- 'of course!'

...while walking to the massage parlor

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Ji-L87 wrote:^ Related.

I went to a local electronics store to pick up a new phone. While queuing I saw a man at the counter with what looked like 3 or so 1080ti's and felt some weird kind of anger rising as I couldn't help give some annoyed glares in his general direction. Not too classy of me perhaps but the situation right now is so ridiculous.

I luckily picked up a 1070 the year of release, otherwise I would be fuming like everybody else.
My computer came with a 1080 in it, so I'm also good. I'm just upset that others who wish to upgrade to a 1080 card or something better are getting SOL.
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glued together electronics

Couple keys on a bluetooth keyboard died [seemed like the key matrix had a short, like six keys didn't work for whatever reason], got a replacement from the manufacturer. That bit was A-OK.
I did a post-mortem on the old keyboard since they didn't want me to send it back [hey, maybe I could try and fix it], and there were like five fucking layers of glue ensuring that you could not reasonably disassemble the thing and get anything useful. Sure as fuck couldn't check the traces on the matrix without tearing the thing in half.
I spent a bunch of time wiggling a flathead screwdriver to try to pry the thing apart... and then found a thin sheet of plastic was glued to the back of where the keys were, and I gave up any hope that I could fix it, assuming the problem was there.

At least I did get a new working keyboard, since it's only been like ten months or so.
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null1024 wrote:glued together electronics
Can I tempt you with our internet-famous Drakon Thread? :wink: (18+ only please)
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BIL wrote:
null1024 wrote:glued together electronics
Can I tempt you with our internet-famous Drakon Thread? :wink: (18+ only please)
Wew, I remember seeing that thread.
would be a liiiiitle bit pissed if I'd seen that my system had basically been cummed inside
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gameoverDude wrote: Is it wrong to wish Bitcoin would just fucking crash? Let those Bitcoin miners start crying when their efforts are all for naught.
Bitcoin hasn't used GPU hashing going on 5+ years now. It uses specialized ASICs.

Or is this akin to my granny calling everything videogame related "Nintendo"?
gameoverDude wrote:GPU manufacturers should try to limit the use of their products to gamers only.
Why would they even contemplate doing that? 1 sale = 1 sale. Or do you believe they're making cards "like, for the scene, man.."
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rancor wrote:
gameoverDude wrote: Is it wrong to wish Bitcoin would just fucking crash? Let those Bitcoin miners start crying when their efforts are all for naught.
Bitcoin hasn't used GPU hashing going on 5+ years now. It uses specialized ASICs.

Or is this akin to my granny calling everything videogame related "Nintendo"?
a lot of people honestly are trying to mine bitcoin with GPUs despite it being a dead-end
Of course, there are other cryptocurrencies that are still profitable to mine via GPU [like ethereum].
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Horrible fanart with a very funny idea idea or concept, and in contrast, amazing pixiv fanart with the same boring theme all around.
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why every stock photo of a laptop has a cup of coffee in it
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imo, the only good stock photo of a laptop is one from pornhub comments on stock photos.com!

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Man... the best site. Wish it was still updated.

My favorite will always be the one where the guy talks about spraying fruit juice on tits, then having gnats on the tits, then jacking off on the gnats. Classic.
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BIL wrote:imo, the only good stock photo of a laptop is one from pornhub comments on stock photos.com!
i remember that site.
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As a defense to the stock photos, I always have a cup of coffee beside me.
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My lack of knowledge and understanding of SEO and how to use and manage subdomains, redirections etc.
I wish I had learned that shit when I was still in my twenties because now I don't have the patience.
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rancor wrote:Why would they even contemplate doing that? 1 sale = 1 sale. Or do you believe they're making cards "like, for the scene, man.."
There is allegedly a high volume of warranty claims from miners, so that would be one motivation. Then when the difficulty is raised and a particular set of cards is no longer viable, there is a flood of used GPU product hitting the market all at once. That's got to have some negative effect on new sales.

Just a couple things I was thinking about that might motivate Nvidia and AMD.
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Xyga wrote:My lack of knowledge and understanding of SEO and how to use and manage subdomains, redirections etc.
I wish I had learned that shit when I was still in my twenties because now I don't have the patience.
If you'd learned it in your twenties, most of that would be useless by now. Hell, most of what you'd learn last year is probably useless by now.

SEO isn't too bad to figure out once you get the basics down though - Google is as interested in getting good results for the people searching as the people themselves. After all, that's how they stay on the top of their game.
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I'm not going to want a used card from a mining rig. Too many hours under load. Also, people are absolutely cooking those cards; miners don't give a crap about proper cooling.
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When people say Sodder instead of Solder. It's based on the word Solid... so yeah.

Just a minor thing, but it bugs me.
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Laptops or netbooks that you cannot boot from USB due to a flaw in the BIOS/UEFI... that can be fixed from within the OS... that got corrupted and needs to be reinstalled... and the only option is to do it from USB...
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radaxian91 wrote:When people say Sodder instead of Solder. It's based on the word Solid... so yeah.

Just a minor thing, but it bugs me.
I think this was a worthy first post for a new user.
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Sumez wrote:
radaxian91 wrote:When people say Sodder instead of Solder. It's based on the word Solid... so yeah.

Just a minor thing, but it bugs me.
I think this was a worthy first post for a new user.
Yes and I agree, annoys the shit out of me. It's got an "L" in the word ffs.
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A cursory Google search suggests that a long time ago the word did not have an L.
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Streams where the streamer spends most of his time talking to the chat and pauses the game every time he receives a donation, especially if it's one of those obnoxious long donation alerts. I want to see the game god fucking damnit.
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When no one shows up in chat to talk to me while I'm streaming :P
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Sumez wrote:What kind of Google are you using?

https://www.google.dk/search?ei=AVaFWtm ... +etymology
The same one but I google Pronunciation instead of Etymology. From what I'd gathered, the French "souder/soudure" would've been how it first showed up in English. I read somewhere else that the L reintroduced later, and not actually pronounced until even later. Other places mention various older English related words and spellings like "sawd" and "soder" etc.
Though really all that's probably not that important to how we pronounce it and instead it's more like how we can't be assed to say the L in "could", "half", etc :lol:
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As a non-native English speaker all of those bother me :P
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