It's been suggested, in another thread, that there should be a thread, for those times when something is not life ruining or awesome, just meh. So, yer t'is.
I've just made a soda scone, which came out alright, maybe a bit meh? Tastes ok but too stodgy, reading the BBC Good Food comments, everyone is slating it for having too much buttermilk. I'm inclined to agree.
Finishing the washing up only to venture in to my sons room to find a pile of washing up from yesterday, or possibly even the day before.... piss: boiled!
This is a good thing and a bad thing combining to make a meh thing: I've just bought a new-to-me laptop on 'ere for cheap-like, with a Ryzen 5 5600H in it. I've only given it a quick test, but for a sample workload spanning only four cores (cryptsetup benchmark)... it's outperforming my desktop. The desktop's 2700X pulls ahead in all-core workloads, 'cos it's 8C16T, but still. Hadn't thought things had moved on quite that far!
Yup, its surpring, My daughters handheld lightweight mobile 7840u out performs my highend full fat 5950x in single core perf (just) whilst only pulling 28w for the whole system I win in multicore tests of course as I am 16/32 vs 8/16 but blimey Zen cores just go from strength to strength with each gen. Geekbench 6 comparison, not the best benchmark, just easy, but still, obviously a full fat 7xxx would murder my 5950x.
I'd like to think so but she's a rugby player and does more training than me so I don't want to test it
Hows the integrated GPU on the 7840U? I've been thinking of adding a painting/animating machine to the TV downstairs (so I can truly drive my family insane) but Clip Studio needs a decent amount of GPU accelaration. Most mini PC's just curl up cry when presented with more than a couple of seconds of frames...
Best iGPU around despite the fact AMD seem unable to ship a driver for it. if you get it in a mini PC with a 78/7940 etc it'll clock up to 3GHz I know nothing about clip studio though and whether it'd accelerate that but it is pretty good at games etc. (for its power of course) if clip studio is accelerated with RDNA3 hardware you should be golden If there's some form of benchmark etc that is representative I'd happily give it a bash.
remember that handheld chip is running off battery with a crap cooler and low power limits as its a toy, so it has handicapped performance, with all cores running its doing less than 3Ghz, let loose with desktop TDPs those single and multicore numbers for an 8/16 7xxx chip would be ~30-40% higher. Zen 4 is such a leap over 5xxx, it is silly, you really do need an upgrade Makes the 5xxx feel a little Meh
Having a certain mod ban me for saying the word boobs in a comment and banning me for 24 hours despite being on here 17 years and never being banned before? And having been here longer than most of the mods too... Considering everyone openly swears on here/shares questionable nsfw content/opinions/politics (along with a dedicated NSFW thread) and many people make sex jokes, what makes it justified to ban me for saying "boobs are good" when talking about a photo suggestion in a thread to someone I'm friends with? A bit pathetic, no? I didn't realize this was a child friendly/family forum considering it never has been/nor that woke/locked down that we can't have a laugh? When as mentioned everyone says what they say on here freely and no one seems to get upset about anything... Considering we're what 99.9% older blokes I don't see the problem? Surely an inbox message would have been sufficient... It clearly was a personal attack, I received the most childish reasoning on the ban when I went to login as well... If we're going to be that strict how about enforcing those rules to everyone and not being selective/biased... Or better still just don't do it at all and leave the forum how it's always been for 20 years? 1 Rule for 1...
It was me. I'm the mod. You were banned for 24 hours for posting an off-topic, offensive message in someone's For Sale thread. Specifically, when they said they would get pictures added, you cracked wise about them being better if "they have boobs" in them. There are additional rules in the Marketplace. You know this. I've told you this. The ban also came on the back of *multiple* warnings and content deletions, including your off-putting habit of posting GIFs of Scarlett Johansson everywhere you can. It's creepy. Stop it. I'm surprised you're not aware, being a 17-year veteran, but this is a family-friendly forum. Most swearwords are automatically filtered in ****ing fact. Read the rules. Follow the rules. Keep your ScarJo obsession for Private Time. Shouldn't be hard, right?
Tbh I just looked up the post and if I thought you were 14 I'd have just rolled my eyes and deleted it, but the fact that we're "99.9% older blokes" here just makes it creepy and icky IMO
'icky' and I'm 14? you sound like a little girl? How is us as blokes talking about boobs creepy. Sorry for being straight and liking naked women, jesus.
It's not an obssession it's a joke shared amongst people I'm mates with on here. Talk about selective hearing/opinions. Do you really think as a grown man I've got a 'obsession' on a famous person, no I just think she's a good actress/seems likable from what I've seen of her in things like first we feast and she's fit... Big deal. Jesus man, calm down? So it offends you that she's attractive and that I post funny gifs that Adidan finds amusing of ScarJo cause he thinks she's hot too? I didn't realise pictures of women fully clothed were illegal... Are women banned in your house then...
Yeah, like that. Creepy. I'm having lunch at the mo', but I'll arrange a week off for you when I'm back in the office. Maybe then you can keep it in your pants long enough to post like a grown-up. There's only one of us getting het up here, and it ain't me. See you in a week, when hopefully you'll have mellowed out some.
This is why we can't have nice things, I was quite looking forward to cheering up a little bit and using this....
Sure they're great and all, but I guess I've grown out of the phase where I sit around with my mates talking about boobs and naked women. Probably not long after I was 14. I think, appropriately, this makes it a "meh" thing, in fact.
