Other What's ruining your life right now?

Ok... but that's not my fault!

TBH I don't mind Bluetooth headphones, I quite like not having cables dragging everywhere and these days you can get amazing battery life. I started using Bluetooth headphones about 10 years ago, with a really uncomfortable set of Motorola things. They've come a long way since then...

Of course my phone still has a 3.5mm jack, and so do many others on the market...

Apple dropped it so they could make phones thinner and slightly reduce their BOM cost by offloading the DAC to an external device.

 

Parents! Well more specifically my dad!

Recently I had to buy a new graphics card, because my dad told me the 980Ti that he had was not working and he needed a new card, I didn't have the time to test it or even do anything at the time, so me being decent to him gave him my 1080Ti and I got myself a 2080Ti win win for both of us.

Fast forward to last night and he shouts me, and says "come look the 1080Ti is doing the same, it's dead" which I thought was odd because it's been working fine for weeks I thought.

Get's to his pc and looks and he was complaining that his games were running really poor, if it ran the games and didn't reboot almost instantly.

I thought something not right here, so I install OCCT and crank it up to check the temps on the CPU and WOW within seconds up to 99c, and then the pc reboots.

I asked him "How have you not told me about this sooner, and how have you been using it?", he said "I've been putting a large desktop fan near the back door and one at the side of the pc blowing the cold air inside the case"

I told my mum to cover her ears and close her eyes I didn't want he to hear or see what I was about to do, she laughed and said give him a good slap round the head.

One big shouting at, followed by stripping his pc down and finding no TIM on the CPU and the CPU cooler slightly loose, re-build it and hey presto what do you know it's working fine!

Not only that but I have a I7 950 in an Asus Motherboard sat in a cupboard, which I was going to test last night with a bunch of mixed ram stick's as well, get's the board out of the cupboard and look and he has broke the little clips on the bottom, of the stupidly designed Intel stock cooler.

So when payday rolls around, I need to get a cheap cooler that will work with socket 1366 as the NH-D15 that I have sat on a shelf won't work with it without, buying a mounting kit which I cannot find anywhere in stock for less than £40 , so it's either go and get something like the Hyper 212 Evo or go the whole hog and get a NH-D15 run all the test's and then throw it on Ebay.

 

Yes indeed, but that doesn't need to be of the same quality level that's needed to drive headphones. However good the phone speakers might be they're not going to sound as good as headphones, so they can use cheaper components to drive the speakers.

EDIT: That penny-pinching matters when you're producing millions and millions of units.

 

Shame, really. I thought I could rage against you now.

Yeah, and that is as stupid as is "0.1mm thinner ultrabook!" with worse battery life and/or overheating components and/or soldered batteries and hardware.

Economies of scale work.

 

Cauda equina syndrome.....My foot and back sore today.

 

My wife has just been told that she MAY be being made redundant. She has been put on 30 days leave and been given all the details of the package that she would receive so we are pretty sure that it is going ahead. Unless she can get another job within the period that her payout will cover we are screwed. We barely make it month to month due to her having been out of work for a year a while back and having to build up a loan and credit cards to get by, we do not have those options open to us this time as we are still buried paying those off.

We have already had to cut down BIG TIME on what we can spend and it feels like each month we have to cut back on a little again. I have spent almost nothing on my hobbies for the past year or two, at least nothing like I should be able to spend, given our combined wages. We are able to eat out maybe once or twice a month (if that).

Without her wage coming in there is no way that we can manage on mine alone, not anymore.

Currently not the best time for a 50 year old non-British woman to be looking for work, even if she does speak 4 languages...

 

Pointless meeting lived up to its billing, but it did finish early. I dashed back to Portsmouth in record time to catch the 3pm ferry. At the terminal the ferry is filling up fast, but the chap with high viz keeps waving cars through one and two at a time. This is looking very promising... I roll my car forward - I'm now at the front of the queue... I'm staring at him with pleading puppy dog eyes "I just wanna go home". Oh, wait, he answers his radio...

Bollocks! Gotta sit here for another bloody hour.

#piggedoff

 

It's been a full hour, so my question is: are you at last on a ferry? Or have you cracked out the puppy dog eyes again in an attempt to charm the ferry?

 

Yep, I broke out the kindle and the hour flew by.

I'm back on the island, at home, kettle on and kids pestering me for money.

 

#BankofDad takes yet another battering...
My eldest has messaged to say that his phone is dying, may or may not be repairable; great!
In other better news (probably belongs elsewhere), my £30 on Gumtree last night for 2 random HP desktop PCs was well spent.
One has an i3 3220 and the other an i3 4130; newer than expected, and USB 3 too.

 

Tell them they'll be able to earn money fruit picking or helping old folks go to the toilet this time next year.

 

You 'orrible git. I'm not that old.

 

Old enough to ask for money they're old enough to earn it.

Back in my day we'd be working while still in the womb, tiny fingers are good for intricate work like putting bubbles in spirit levels.

Edit: i'm not that old either and most of my memories are lies

 

And, small enough to go up a chimney.

 

My Dad is visiting for a week to help me renovate the living room, it's torn apart and he has fallen ill with comedy timing. I'm now plastering away like a madman to try and keep on track

 

I just realised that this is me, and I don't like it...

Or nothing. Do that. Best value cooler bar none, I've used so many.

 

Had a member of the forum @WarrenJ send me a pm, they have a Titan Fenrir which they don't want anything for, and don't even want postage for it so going to be using that.

Then once I have tested everything, if I put the board, cpu and ram up on here for sale as a bundle I will include the cooler for no charge.

Pay it forward is all they asked so I will do that.

 

And people say this community ain't what it used to be.