Kane was trying to win the ball, going for a 50-50, over-zealous, not filthy

Robertson just lost his temper, a shocking ‘challenge’, obvious intent to hurt

It’s the cynical taking-one-for-the-team fouls to break up an attack that really piss me off

Also, is Obstruction still in the rule book?

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Caveat: Haven’t used myself – work in IT for a Uni – but Guru3d itself is a long-standing site

COYS !
Just saying

Pfizer 2 just 3 days ago: sore arm. nothing else
Pfizer 1 back at end of Feb: couldn’t sleep for 3 days, severe fatigue like I’ve never had before, confused/anxious which was just plain odd: I *know* the microwave needs the door shut to work! Couldn’t concentrate at all, brain whizzing with odd flashbacks. Immediately followed by getting Shingles needing meds. Had that before but only very mild. Arthritis may be relevant.

@jambourgie

I saw Alex Higgins play at the Crucible back around ’79/80. The crowd couldn’t smoke in the auditorium but the players could; Alex sparks one up and does half the cig in his first toke then exhales a huge cloud up into the rooflights with all the nicotine fiends in the audience leaning forward to get a sniff.

Went to the bar at the interval. Higgins rocks up to the players hatch at the back of the bar; he ordered 3 triple vodkas, downed one then took two back to the table.

That CyberPower spec’d above ain’t a bad choice for that money. Buying a similar box is the only way to get get a high-end graphics card at the moment and for the forseeable….

A 2070 got me 60+ fps on a 4k monitor; Dirt Rally 2 at highish settings.

A curved widescreen monitor is much better for driving games though and less pixels (3840 or 2560 x1440) doesn’t need quite so much graphics grunt.

Driving game; got a wheel/pedals/shifter/handbrake in the budget?

Work and play

@kryton657

You’re forgiven.

@irc

Vostoks…. Hmmmmmm, only got 1 of them

so far…

Damn

Kryton, I’m disappointed. Only 10? Two years since you started this thread and poured petrol on my own addiction; much worse since lockdown with my Ebay watch list being mostly

watches…

Latest acquisition was a Chronologica carbon-cased diver which looked well cool in photos online but sadly looks like plastic in real life

Nth watches anyone?

https://nthwatches.com/

More NH35/Miyots but they got the name right

yeah, nice Gecko’ that. Partial to names in italics, always looks classier. Got a Sumo 001 with italicised Automatic, the later ones just look cheap to me.

@DrP – Check with DELL. Latest I can see is a G3 3500 (2020 model) with 3000mhz RAM, earlier ones had 2666. Changed with BIOS updates maybe? Try CPU-Z to see how fast the memory actually runs? Note that you can also add Intel Optane *memory* – just used for caching – on G3s which may confuse the issue

“It can take up to 2 x 32gig…”

Specs suggest not….

DELL G3 specs…..You need a pair of sticks, 3200 will probably work but may cost more, 2 x 16 looks like the max

Slots: Two SODIMM

Type: Dual-channel DDR4

Speed: 2666MHz

Configurations supported:

Per memory module slot: 4 GB, 8 GB, and 16 GB

Total memory: 4 GB, 8 GB, 12 GB, 16 GB, and 32 GB

I actually bought the lamp @Kcal links to above. Quite happy with it – and cheaper when bought – but the thing is usb-powered which isn’t mentioned in the blurb

Painey nails it.

Virgin box in modem mode. Cable to a separate router – put in middle of property for best location and experiment with that – then mesh, etc if you need it

Back to the ‘handball’ stuff. I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry watching Eric Dier trying to block and/or tackle with his hands behind his back yesterday

‘Nice’ Tudor Pelagios on the bay, does say ‘not original Tudor’ in the desc and feedback/other items looks like a regular seller. I don’t get it, dodgy, out of copyright ‘homage’, what gives?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Gentlemens-Tudor-Pelagos-Automatic-Blue-dial-watch-in-perfect-condition/264946988343

https://www.tudorwatch.com/en/watches/pelagos/m25600tb-0001

Bought a pair of Q Acoustics 3010i for the home office and very happy with them. Couldn’t find a better price than Amazon at the time.

I liked his desk! lack of trees in the city….

Why are all these desks rectangular? Anyone made anything more ergonomic? Small rooms, utilising corners?

Spent all my working life using desks provided by someone else and getting worse over the years – hot-desking anyone? – so the last thing I want is to reproduce the old office style environment.

Somafunk: room looks great – apart from the worktop, a piece of real wood would have been better – but why are your speakers so close together, not even on the ends of the shelf?

Fingerbang: reckon that’ll look good.

@slowol

Thanks. Yeah, cheap structural ply 18mm, £37 a sheet. Was going to go with 2 layers till I realised how heavy it is so just added a double-edge for looks and to strengthen. Pot luck with the board quality, the underside has some bad knothole gaps. Edges were better than I expected though with only tiny filling needed. A lot of sanding then Danish oil with wire wool between coats to get the finish.
The missing curved bit hangs underneath as a cable tidy. Chromed legs off the bay do the job but a little lightweight, should have spent more there but desk is wedged into a corner so not a big issue.

Need a plan for the second sheet now….

Sanded and 1st coat of oil, getting the hang of image upload now 😉

The desktop being shaped

Recent projects now finished

+1 on 18mm 8×4 ply being heavy, struggled to move 1 on my own this week

Missed the monitor model in the OP. I own the same monitor – Samsung LU32H850UMUXEN. The monitor is NOT the problem.

HEVC extensions – as P-Jay says – plus a discrete graphics card is the only way to get 4K Netflix on a PC. The graphics driver contains the required HDCP software. Use CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-D in Netflix to see streaming details though the trailers/intros can be HD

Prime still on HD.

Youtube 4k is fine though…

@Kato
Ta, got the Alkin today.

@Blazin-saddles
Apols for the gazump

Memo to self: check here b4 ebay…

A comfy office/gaming chair. Badly needed as back killing me. 3rd week of WFH, 8 hour days of IT support on ageing dining chair. Hoping my Dirt Rally times will improve too! Seen the new Colin McRae season? ‘kin hard

Huawei’s Phone Clone app should be on the new phone. Get it from the App store for the old one

Done

Virgin here too, SH3 used in modem mode, working well with an ASUS RT-AC68U AC1900 (approx. £140) router. The ASUS was an upgrade on a 3-yr old TP_Link and made a lot of difference to wi-fi quality but location of the router is key.

A software only solution; Mouse Without Borders

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/garage/profiles/mouse-without-borders/

Takes a bit of setting up, not sure if it works on Win 10

High Life: Matthew Stokoe

“Soaked in such graphic detail that the pages smell, Matthew Stokoe’s High Life is the sickest revision of the California crime novel, ever”

I like a bit of noir but..

Banana phone?

Once you’ve built your submarine see below for usage instructions

I Told You…

£50 since birth, £40k for 3 months during house upgrade a few years back: nowt, nada, zilch