Other What currently makes your life awesome?

Fifth? That's Silicon, right?

 

Big snowflakes

 

Who's upset them this time?

 

Nobody I don't think, looks like they're having a lovely gangbang outside

 

Added me to the other half's car insurance earlier. We paid annually, so any additional premium would need to be paid up front.

Cost us a grand total of £8.67. That'll do.

There are some industrial estates nearby, so I can slap on some L plates and get used to driving a car before I book some professional lessons. Hopefully it won't take much before I book the test.

 

Book test NOW, my nephew has just had to wait months for his test. You've just got to get used to "car" as you already know "bike".

 

I've thought about this. I know there's a waiting list, but I'm gonna wait until I'm ready for the test, even if it means waiting a few months extra. I'd rather take the test when I'm confident (or an instructor is confident) that I can pass it than fail the test and have to wait months again before I can book another.

I doubt there'll be much of an issue, I passed the bike test with zero faults even though I thought I'd totally shafted it. But I'm 41 and still don't have a car licence, I've waited this long so another few months makes absolutely no difference to me!

 

I booked mine in February last year, the earliest they had at the time was October. My instructor saw that I was ready earlier and was able to swap my test date with another of their students who needed more time. So, that is always an option. I think you can also postpone your own test if you give the DVSA more than a weeks notice.

 

pics/videos or it never happened

 

It lives! Automated CI/CD build & deployment pipeline and everything!



Still not quite ready yet though, I need to learn how to customise the theme template(s). I want to have just a header image instead of text overlaid on top of an image, like the old wordpress site I'm moving from:



So I've turned off the header image for now. Need to do me some learnin' about Hugo, CSS, etc.

EDIT: By jove, I think I've got it... Bit of poking around with the Inspector in Developer Tools found the offending elements... Override the theme's header file with my own customised copy which omits the elements which render the h1 and h2 text, remove the class on the parent div which was "darkening" the header image...

Problem now is that this "featured image" I'm using as the header cascades to all posts, so they all have the header image as a preview...



I'm sure I can find a "creative" way to solve that...

 

Re-built my ARC test bench around an AM5 platform (sold my "old" 12700K / Z690 / DDR4 platform). Main reason was to take advantage of drop in CPU upgrades into the future.

Went for the cheapest B650 / 7600 bundle Scan had which has a Gigabyte board (they seem to be better when it comes to memory sub timings, at least in the more entry level area). Ended up with the Gigabyte B650 Gaming X and Ryzen 7600 for £379*. Dropped in some Vengeance DDR5 6000C36 (tighter sub timings than the C32 Flare X I was looking at) and it ******* flies. I haven't spent any time in the bios yet (EXPO not yet enabled) but the CPU is already boosting to 5.15Ghz in multi core workloads (Steam downloading, Xbox installing and Windows updates in progress) and is barely breaking a sweat. Coming from the 12700K (@5.3) I was expecting some sort of difference, but honestly outside of multi core CB R23 I can't tell. If anything it actually feels snappier in use.

No doubt it will be slower in multi core workloads but for its purpose it will be perfect. Hope to drop in a 3D model in the future once the prices comes down a bit / more availability.

*I know this isn't particularly cheap but for AM5 it isn't too bad.

 

Yes, yes I can.





PS, the Amiga 600 is fine btw - it got recapped and re-instated back to full working order. In fact it even got a new home, it's now owned by someone who will get far more use out of it than I did.

 

Not bad little tablet, not bad....



i9 12900H in the Flow Z13 with a 95w PL2 sustained for 80 seconds. Topped out at 89c on the CPU during the test which isn't too bad considering the overall size (Liquid metal & a vapour chamber certainly helps!).

Stock is mid 14k for this chip.

Isn't going to win any awards for fastest laptop chip, especially not with the new 13980HX and 7945HX smashing through the 30k mark, but for its class it is doing pretty well. Trounces the ~13,500 my Legion scores with its 5800H @ 4.2Ghz sustained.

 

Cool.

Although that just made me think that in a few years time, as they come marching over the hill, there'll be someone saying "look, I know that bot, it's Gary from Skynet"

 

Or "crappy built this one! You can tell by the limp!".

 

We (not so) accidentally moved to France!

 

I'm sure you're just gutted about that accident!

Enjoy the Frenching!

 

Bonne santé, you deserve it!