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#21

Computer Affairs / Re: Help me buy a computer for...

Last post by Norgy - Today at 06:13:48 AM

I would say they all offer good value for money (with prices being what they are nowadays).

I've had 32 GB RAM or more since 2010, but RAM isn't the amazing fix it once was.

The RTX 5060 will keep quiet and cool and nVidia still are better with drivers than AMD. What I might change, is a 2TB m.2 drive instead.
Just to point out this: The RTX 5060 will not manage 4k/UHD. Which will go a long way towards saving on a monitor. 1080p ones are reasonably cheap.

A minor niggle is the air cooling, I am not up to date on how warm the I5s run nowadays, but air cooling might be a bit noisy.

#22

Off the Record / Re: What are your favorite Chr...

Last post by Norgy - Today at 06:03:42 AM

I don't think I'd listen to a Christmas album. At Christmas I'm generally listening to very much non Christmassy songs as since Halloween I've heard more than enough Christmas songs.

 

Yes, that's why I don't listen to Christmas music at all until two weeks before Christmas.  Even US Thanksgiving (fourth Thursday in November) is too soon for me.

The early kick-off for Christmas was in October here in Norway. When December comes, we are already in a state of full Yuletide attrition, trying to hold on until the cavalry arrives around the 27th or 28th.
This year, I went for a few days to a Christmas market in continental Europe. Krakow, to be more specific. It is a huge one on the old medieval market square. I think I managed to spend 50 Zloty, the equivalent of 12-13 Euros on a kielbasa.
I needed a break from the christmassing and catholicising, so we went and found Oscar Schindler's old factory and walked through the old Jewish quarter. Very little remains after the uprising in 1943-44.

What I did like, was the Poles caroling. Not that I understand any Polish, but they were festive. Maybe overdoing it a bit.

#23

Computer Affairs / Help me buy a computer for my ...

Last post by Threviel - Today at 05:44:01 AM

So, my kid has saved for a computer for a good while and has saved up about 19k SEK, which is aboutish 1.9k €.

I have had a Mac since 2008, I don't know much about modern computers. I'm looking into a pre-built computer during this years holiday sales, hoping to spend max 12-13k on the computer and then he'll have something left for keyboard, bluetooth headset, monitor and games.

He's 12 right now and has no concept of graphics or frame rate and so far most of his friends have hand me downs so I think any new computer will be ok in his mind. What I'm looking for is something upgradeable, it does not have to have 32 Gb RAM right now, or the best GPU, but I want to be able for the kid to upgrade it in three years or so if he wants to. So more important with a good motherboard and processor than the best GPU.

So, is this okish?

https://www.webhallen.com/se/product/386209-Webhallen-Config-Core-i5-14400F-RTX-5060-16GB-1TB-Win-11

https://www.webhallen.com/se/product/390071-Webhallen-Config-Core-i5-14400F-RTX-5060-16GB-1TB-Win-11

Or would this more costly one be more bang for the buck?

https://www.webhallen.com/se/product/386212-Webhallen-Config-Core-R5-7500F-RTX-5060Ti-16GB-32GB-2TB-Win-11

#24

Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic

Last post by Tamas - Today at 04:40:16 AM

Hungarian already uses milliárd for a thousand million but it didn't help making people care about all the EU grants being stolen from them. :p

No matter what you call them, these amounts are simply beyond the scale of an everyday life. Probably we don't fully grasp it either, just think that we do.

#25

Off the Record / Re: TV/Movies Megathread

Last post by Sheilbh - December 24, 2025, 09:36:34 PM

Re-watched Margin Call - very good film, better than I remembered. Although I think they could have done more with Demi Moore.

[dwarf]

#26

Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic

Last post by grumbler - December 24, 2025, 08:49:32 PM

An excellent Sky at Night programme interviewing Clyde Tombaugh abou this discovery of the dwarf planet Pluto:
The Man Who Discovered A Planet

FTFY

Neil deGrasse Tyson had a funny built where he pointed out that any aliens trying to follow the Voyager plaques to find Earth will pass the Solar System by because the plaque shows nine planets and the Solar System only has eight.

#27

Off the Record / Re: What are your favorite Chr...

Last post by viper37 - December 24, 2025, 08:12:39 PM

It's from 2017.

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mwxYt2faIgTrBxXJdqdE5chqyi2-OK4Po&si=oHb3JbkRQbzdW4sJ

Merci

Grandpa loved this:
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=PACe9k-tPJU

#28

Off the Record / Re: Facebook Follies of Friend...

Last post by viper37 - December 24, 2025, 08:10:28 PM

You already forgot those events? 

#29

Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic

Last post by mongers - December 24, 2025, 08:10:25 PM

An excellent Sky at Night programme interviewing Clyde Tombaugh abou this discovery of the planet Pluto:
The Man Who Discovered A Planet

#30

Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic

Last post by Sheilbh - December 24, 2025, 04:10:55 PM

Traditionally, and for longer in the UK, a million was a though thousand, a billion a million millions, a trillion a billion billions, etc.  That led to some very awkwardly long numbers, though, so the French, and later the US, adopted the power of three system where everything above a thousand was a multiple of a thousand.  That only became the international norm post-WW2.

I once had to some work from Indian sources and I was (and still am) absolutely bamboozled by lakhs and crores