• CIPWTTKT&GC V43 - WHERE IS MY THINKPAD?
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[QUOTE=Matt2468rv;52238961]Well, I do take really good care of my things and my 2011 ASUS G73SW (around $1800 at the time) held up all these years so I'm not too worried about durability. I just need something maxed out for under $2100 so it'll last me 5 or 6 years again. Also not a fan of having more than one computer, hence the reason for a gaming laptop. But I do want to use it as a "desktop" when I'm home. If it's Thunderbolt 3 I could just get a vertical laptop stand and use [URL="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01FKTZLBS"]this thing[/URL] to connect 3 displays, a keyboard and a mouse, right? Then it's dockable with just one cable?[/QUOTE] I mean, yeah, but an Alienware 13 ($1449 w/ 7700hq, GTX1060) + Graphics Amplifier ($170) + desktop GTX1070 ($400) = $2019. Similar story with the 15. The two you linked would be $2078, weighs 8 pounds on the go instead of 5, doesn't have on-site warranty support or a later-upgradable external graphics card. (As mentioned above, it's also perfectly feasible to get even thinner / lighter with similar power and price by just buying an XPS 15 / Razer Blade / etc now and a Thunderbolt 3 external GPU enclosure later, though)
[QUOTE=fishyfish777;52239089]I mean, yeah, but an Alienware 13 ($1449 w/ 7700hq, GTX1060) + Graphics Amplifier ($170) + desktop GTX1070 ($400) = $2019. Similar story with the 15. The two you linked would be $2078, weighs 8 pounds on the go instead of 5, doesn't have on-site warranty support or a later-upgradable external graphics card. (As mentioned above, it's also perfectly feasible to get even thinner / lighter with similar power and price by just buying an XPS 15 / Razer Blade / etc now and a Thunderbolt 3 external GPU enclosure later, though)[/QUOTE] I guess I'm not really interested in any kind of external graphics amplifier (until maybe a few years down the road when I'd need it). I'd rather have all my power wherever I go. I do music and video production quite a bit, as well as VR stuff. 7700HQ cpu and GTX1070 gpu seem to be the best combo in my price range. I mainly want Thunderbolt 3 to have a single docking connection for when I'm at home and want to use it as a "desktop" with 3 monitors and external keyboard and mouse. The [URL="https://www.amazon.com/Acer-Predator-Gaming-GTX1070-G9-593-71EH/dp/B01MR2WT9P"]laptop I listed[/URL] seems to be the current best option for those three things, unless you know of another one that's cheaper?
[QUOTE=LennyPenny;52236747]I wish unlimited mobile internet stuff for consumers even existed in germany lol[/QUOTE] I wish the lobbyists hadn't kneecapped the EU roaming regulation. [quote]Individual abuse by customers. Roam like at home is designed for travellers. Operators can check usage patterns to avoid abuse based on the above-mentioned indicators.[/quote] [I]mate the "abuse" of getting the best plan available in any EU country, no matter which EU country you live in, is the bloody point[/I]
[QUOTE=Snickerdoodle;52238584][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/hfdHzhF.png[/IMG] These poor fucking kids man[/QUOTE] Burn it all down and start over
[QUOTE=Matt2468rv;52239158]I mainly want Thunderbolt 3 to have a single docking connection for when I'm at home and want to use it as a "desktop" with 3 monitors and external keyboard and mouse. The [URL="https://www.amazon.com/Acer-Predator-Gaming-GTX1070-G9-593-71EH/dp/B01MR2WT9P"]laptop I listed[/URL] seems to be the current best option for those three things, unless you know of another one that's cheaper?[/QUOTE] I do this right now with my laptop, it works. However, I'm using an OEM Thunderbolt 3 dock which works alright.
Huh. Looks like Windows nuked my Teredo adapter.
If I get this support job, can you all recommend a good option for those Lenovo laptops? Primarily it'd be a stream companion. But also to do work remotely from home. Any options like pre-upgraded. Probably $450-500 is my limit. I don't know much about them besides it's a meme. But I don't want a gamer laptop.
do any of you guys play arma 3 here? does sandy bridge still hold up
My first experience with VR video was taking 50 episodes of random hentai and just putting it into a giant VR sphere. It sounds like a mall. With occasional anime and sploosh sounds Do you think God stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he's created
Fucking hell GMail, you make me confused. Got an email reply from an inquiry service, they replied to my [email]name@gmail.com[/email]. When I replied, it sent it out of my [email]username@gmail.com[/email] email instead by default. I sent one from my named one again, just in case, but that was still 2 extra clicks I didn't expect to do. Another fun thing. Today I woke up, woke my PC from sleep and 15min later I noticed that 2 screens connected to the GPU shut down but the one on IGP was still up, all windows went there etc. Weird, GPU drivers did what they had to do but IGP was broken. Didn't think much of it, but the GPU woke up and everything went back to normal. So then I finally got out of bed and went to the computer. I noticed how the Rainmeter equalizer is really slow and laggy and then I got a BSOD. Tried pressing the power button, PC didn't boot up, fans for 2 seconds and then off again. Popped the side panel, saw the CPU cooler not attached to the top two holes. Noice. If I had screwable proper mounts, everything would be fine, but I went cheap and my Hyper TX3 didn't come with these, I only had the dumb intel push things that don't work so well on heavier CPU coolers.
[QUOTE=gman003-main;52237429]Does anyone else feel like Google is starting to suck as an actual search engine? I need to use Chrome to do automated HTML->PDF conversion. A recent-ish update brought support for headless mode and other stuff, including a "--print-to-pdf" option. I wanted to go look up some documentation on it, find out what it uses as the page size and where it puts the file. You cannot find that information anywhere. A search for `chrome --print-to-pdf` brings up page after page of old extensions to let you manually save a page as PDF (which is now built-in), because it decides it's equivalent to `chrome print to pdf`. Quotes doesn't help - `chrome "--print-to-pdf"` does the same thing. Limiting it to only results from the last year gets rid of the completely obsolete cruft, but replaces it with the feature request and bug-tracker posts about the feature, and a page that simply tells you that you invoke it as "chrome --headless --disable-gpu --print-to-pdf <url>", which doesn't really help. I got so frustrated I even tried using Bing. No dice. I can't even manage to find a comprehensive list of Chrome command-line flags, it only brings up a "Ten Secret Chrome Command Lines That Will Blow Your Mind" clickbait article that seems to have been reposted on a million sites.[/QUOTE] I know I am late but: Wouldn't --print-to-pdf be interpreted as "NOT print-to-pdf" or something like that? As in "Do not include print-to-pdf in results". Or would the 'minus' be interpreted as a dash instead when used in a quoted query such as the one you wrote: `chrome --print-to-pdf`?
[QUOTE=drblah;52239940]I know I am late but: Wouldn't --print-to-pdf be interpreted as "NOT print-to-pdf" or something like that? As in "Do not include print-to-pdf in results". Or would the 'minus' be interpreted as a dash instead when used in a quoted query such as the one you wrote: `chrome --print-to-pdf`?[/QUOTE] I thought that, but it did include a lot of results with "print" and "pdf" in the results, and even one with the literal string "--print-to-pdf", so apparently they don't do negation anymore (at least in certain contexts).
[QUOTE=garychencool;52239549]I do this right now with my laptop, it works. However, I'm using an OEM Thunderbolt 3 dock which works alright.[/QUOTE] Isn't Thunderbolt 3 a standard that should ensure any dock works, OEM or not? I'm not sure Acer even makes their own Thunderbolt dock. But I definitely want it to work docked with multiple monitors.
[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;52240124]Duckduckgo is superior to Google in almost every way[/QUOTE] i've switched to using duckduckgo for 99% of my searching and sometimes when i'm searching for something known, it's not in the results at all one example: search for "chrome extension source viewer" (without quotes), the link i want is the very first one on [url=https://www.google.com/#q=chrome+extension+source+viewer]google[/url] but it's nowhere to be seen on [url=https://duckduckgo.com/?q=chrome+extension+source+viewer]duckduckgo[/url] this makes me wonder how many search results that i didn't already know of were hidden from me i have safe search turned off to see if it'd unhide some missing results but i don't think it's working
[QUOTE=gman003-main;52239954]I thought that, but it did include a lot of results with "print" and "pdf" in the results, and even one with the literal string "--print-to-pdf", so apparently they don't do negation anymore (at least in certain contexts).[/QUOTE] https://www.google.ch/search?q="chrome"+"headless"+"--print-to-pdf" Seemed to point me to [url]https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=603559[/url] in the first result. And the comment below seemed to have an example: [quote] The command is chrome --headless --print-to-pdf="path/to/pdf" [url]https://your_url[/url] or chrome --headless --remote-debugging-port=9222 [url]https://your_url[/url] and then send the Page.printToPDF devtools command to get the pdf base64 data. [/quote] Google is "ok" for most searches I do. My small html startpage I made years ago lets me switch between making queries to Google, DuckDuckGo and WolframAlpha [t]http://i.imgur.com/nFAJyCw.png[/t] which is pretty convenient.
[QUOTE=Matt2468rv;52239982]Isn't Thunderbolt 3 a standard that should ensure any dock works, OEM or not? I'm not sure Acer even makes their own Thunderbolt dock. But I definitely want it to work docked with multiple monitors.[/QUOTE] Yes and no, some docks (such as the Dell Thunderbolt 3 Dock) can charge the laptop via the Thunderbolt 3 cable. However it only mainly supports Dell laptops and not others. The one from HP comes with this power/Thunderbolt 3 combo cable that serves power and Thunderbolt 3 connection, and is for some HP laptops. But for the most part, you should be able to connect any Thunderbolt 3 device with another.
[img]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C__fwIcUMAEJLEk.jpg[/img] Fuck. Now how do I read my email?
Waiting for the blockchain would certainly be a lifelong adventure.
Watched most of AMD's financial analyst stream, throwing so much shade at Intel it's hilarious. One socket Epyc system beating a two-socket Intel system running the most common Xeons on the market. [editline]17th May 2017[/editline] Google I/O keynote in like a bit over an hour by the way. [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2VF8tmLFHw[/url]
[QUOTE=garychencool;52240253]Yes and no, some docks (such as the Dell Thunderbolt 3 Dock) can charge the laptop via the Thunderbolt 3 cable. However it only mainly supports Dell laptops and not others. The one from HP comes with this power/Thunderbolt 3 combo cable that serves power and Thunderbolt 3 connection, and is for some HP laptops. But for the most part, you should be able to connect any Thunderbolt 3 device with another.[/QUOTE] Good to know, thanks! I'd be surprised if the Acer laptop I linked could be powered by Thunderbolt 3 given its a power hungry gaming laptop, but I wouldn't really mind power + thunderbolt for docking. Just so long as it supports multiple monitors through one Thunderbolt connection with a 3rd party dock.
[QUOTE=Matt2468rv;52240450]Good to know, thanks! I'd be surprised if the Acer laptop I linked could be powered by Thunderbolt 3 given its a power hungry gaming laptop, but I wouldn't really mind power + thunderbolt for docking. Just so long as it supports multiple monitors through one Thunderbolt connection with a 3rd party dock.[/QUOTE] You can pull 100W over Thunderbolt 3 using USB-PD, so depends on how much it actually needs.
[QUOTE=kaukassus;52240179] Google is "ok" for most searches I do. My small html startpage I made years ago lets me switch between making queries to Google, DuckDuckGo and WolframAlpha [t]http://i.imgur.com/nFAJyCw.png[/t] which is pretty convenient.[/QUOTE] My default search engine is bing but if I'm not happy with the results, the search parameters are nice and neat, so I can just replace 'bing' with 'google' in the address bar Otherwise I have several sites to search from my input, it's parameter based [t]https://tenryuu.blob.core.windows.net/astrid/17-05-18_01-10-55.png[/t]
[QUOTE=Brt5470;52239723]If I get this support job, can you all recommend a good option for those Lenovo laptops? Primarily it'd be a stream companion. But also to do work remotely from home. Any options like pre-upgraded. Probably $450-500 is my limit. I don't know much about them besides it's a meme. But I don't want a gamer laptop.[/QUOTE] What exactly would you be doing on the stream companion laptop?
[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;52240521]What exactly would you be doing on the stream companion laptop?[/QUOTE] reading irc
[QUOTE=Brt5470;52239723]If I get this support job, can you all recommend a good option for those Lenovo laptops? Primarily it'd be a stream companion. But also to do work remotely from home. Any options like pre-upgraded. Probably $450-500 is my limit. I don't know much about them besides it's a meme. But I don't want a gamer laptop.[/QUOTE] When you say Lenovo laptop are you talking Thinkpad meme laptop or one of Lenovo's newer offerings? A T420/T430 with the 1600x900 screen and Nvidia graphics can be had for cheap. [url]http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lenovo-T430-i7-3520-GPU-NVIDIA-5400-SSD-256-8GB-RAM-LCD-1600X900-games4-/122380513738?hash=item1c7e7271ca:g:FRYAAOSw-0xYgJh2[/url] There's probably cheaper but that one is fairly loaded.
T430 or X220 or X230 are my go-to's. And there's definitely cheaper, you can get them around $150, though that one does have all the bells and whistles as you said. I don't see any particular reason to get a T420 over a T430 except it might be slightly cheaper. I only got an X220 over and X230 for Hackintosh compatibility and the better keyboard.
Why the hell did Google schedule the YouTube stream for 24 minutes ago if they're not going to start streaming then? Genius. Edit: Literally as I hit post, the stream starts.
[QUOTE=Matt2468rv;52240450]Good to know, thanks! I'd be surprised if the Acer laptop I linked could be powered by Thunderbolt 3 given its a power hungry gaming laptop, but I wouldn't really mind power + thunderbolt for docking. Just so long as it supports multiple monitors through one Thunderbolt connection with a 3rd party dock.[/QUOTE] It depends on if the dock supports charging stuff and if the laptop will support it too. The Dell Thunderbolt Dock comes with a 240W charger for it and can supported laptops at up to 130W. The rest of the watts from the charger for the dock powers other stuff on the dock. I tried connecting the Dell Dock to a MSI gaming laptop and for whatever reason, it wouldn't accept 3 video outs. It would only properly do 2, and when you plugged in the 3rd one, it would limit it to a lower resolution or something like that. It was weird and didn't have an issue with the XPS 15 I plugged into it later.
I should have checked I/O schedule before worrying about stream starts, they scheduled the beginning of the stream an hour before keynote. Keynote in 6 minutes.
What sized font would y'all recommend for a roughly 3 inch 320x240 screen? I want to fit as many characters as possible (by rowsxcolumns) while still being readable at roughly the distance you'd look at your keyboard at from your desk.
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