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Can't create a new post it seems... the UI is bugged to where the message body field is like one character width wide lol. I was going to post about how it's been over a year since anyones posted on here, and how I'm STILL rocking this first gen Ryzen 7 build. I just might pull the trigger this year...

So it's likely I won't be building any time soon.... again.... ugh lol Part of me wants to build just to build. The other part of me knows this setup is more than adequate. Why? I just got a new job and courtesy of that two laptops. Yes. I need TWO laptops to do my work (company A got bought by comp...

haha, this is a horrible time due to the shortages.. You'd probably ideally want something like a Ryzen 5700X, RTX 3080, and a Samsung 980 Pro, I imagine. The near-future will turn awkward since there will be a transition period to DDR5... where the rule of thumb there is it'll be a couple years be...

Closing in on 3 years now on this current build (August of 2017) and well... I've been wanting to replace it a while. AMD's first generation Ryzen chips (mines an R7 1700X) just wasn't a fully mature platform and while it got better... it never really got to what I'd call mature. Eh. And Intels offe...

I've been mostly "the same". My software engineering gig has been work remote since day one back in 2014, so nothing new there. My part time job that I've had since 2012 did get somewhat affected. Even though they were considered essential, they depended on a business for supplies that was...

For sure.... I'm torn between waiting of the next (and last I think) desktop AM4 processor or the first of their next gen socket (AM5?) My experience with the first Ryzen gen processor hasn't be "great" (although certainly not terrible) but my memory wouldn't run full speed and it is more ...

So updates.... got a promotion to SE 2 and... a "raise" but IMO pretty small one. Also a decent jump in terms of the job description and what's expected, but that's fine. It's all stuff I'm capable of and I wanted / needed the title more than anything in terms of my career. Side gig going ...

I agree, I'll probably leave the stock panel alone. It's "good enough".

I'll probably spend just as much time using external displays as I do with the built in display.

So I bought a new to me Thinkpad T480 to replace my T520. Battery life was terrible, and it was heading on almost 10 years old. The T480 feels a bit "cheap" but it does have the internal 24 whr battery and option for up to a 72whr battery. They claim up to 15 hours battery life is possible...

I'm totally fine with a more "relaxed" environment, but to be truthful at times moral is so poor that I really struggle to get a meaningful amount done. That's since gotten better (side gig) but yeah... I'm not quite where I could be this far in due to that lack of drive. Stagnant salary a...

I think at the end of the day, I just need to sit closer. In general I'm usually a minimum of 24" from the screens to nearly 36". If I were to cut that down to 18" (as I lean in now towards my screen) it becomes a lot more bearable. My current desk sucks. I need a new desk that allows...

I now realize my work machine is actually server 2008 lol, so based upon Windows 7's really awful update system that bloats up stupid fast, consumes tons of resources, and keeps like uncompressed super big versions of all the updates apparently necessary if you ever want to remove an update? Uggh. I...

It's kinda ridiculous yeah lol, but eh. A bigger instance would help, for sure. The biggest problems is that my server 2012 install is BLOATED as all hell with windows "stuff". The windows folder is like 130+ GB! Those update files be runnin rampant! So occasionally my "SSD" will...

The amazon machine is painful... especially now that we are implementing more code analysis rule sets in the one .NET MVC5 app I focus on.... a local build takes as long as five min to finish and a deployment build can take as long as 15 min. Quite annoying as I do a lot of diagnostical / bug fixing...

Only 4 months later... :) They fixed a lot of the "memory" issues in the second generation of the Ryzen chips. Even still, I'm not compelled to upgrade. This machine handles my needs entirely which includes near zero gaming, audio work, or video work. The programming work I'm doing happens...