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  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comtomemes@lemmy.worldLife of a PC gamer
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    6 days ago

    I’m so thankful that I didn’t buy into the 3000 series hype and just bought a 2060 Super the moment one became available at MSRP after the 3000s launched. Everyone said it was a waste paying that price for less performance, but I had a card and they still didn’t 4 months later.

    I’d say that the way around the shortages is to just not go for the latest and greatest new hardware, but that’s not really helpful for GPUs anymore anyway. Even the desirable last gen cards are still going for scalper prices.






  • I like to set calendar appointments 15 to 30 minutes before the end of my shift for “paperwork” or shit like that. Clear out some emails, close some tickets that I left open, update my notes, read work related news. My work pays for training, so I can also check out training courses to see what looks useful in that time.

    Still work, but not burning through tasks or todo list. Give myself time for the shit that ends up on the backburner when everything is a high priority.

    A reminder to wrap up what I’m working on if I’m “in the zone” and to give myself enough time to make notes and such so I don’t have to keep shit churning in my head outside of work.

    The most important thing is that I don’t look at the queue during that time. I don’t pick up any new work or start a new task. I try to enforce that almost an hour before ending my shift as I do high focus work where a single “task” can take over a hour.

    Had too many times getting home late to a frustrated wife and a concerned toddler, for shit that could have waited. And please believe me: it all could have waited. If it can’t wait, that means your manager hasn’t adequately staffed to fulfill the needs. Not your problem.



  • If you haven’t read the later books in the HitchHiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series, at one point it’s revealed that an ancient spacefaring society gathered up the most useless people they had (I think it was ad copy writers, telephone sanitizers, and hair stylists), shoved them in long haul spacecraft designed to crash land and destroy themselves entirely while safely delivering the passengers, disabled all internal controls, and pointed the craft at ancient earth.

    They unfortunately outbred the native neanderthals. This also completely broke the earth’s original purpose of being a giant biocomputer.






  • There’s also someone, or some people, clearly practicing their creative writing or something. Usually they make an account, post something weird to asklemmy or a similar community, and then delete it within 4 hours or so.

    Usually it’s a “stupid” or obvious question, with some vaguely contreversial twist. Like “My boyfriend has problems with how many guys I’ve fucked… but I also used to be a sex worker”. Stuff that’s within the realm of possible, but not particularly common, or where you’d expect the asker to already be aware of the answer/reason.

    They get a few hours of engagement, most of the time don’t engage in the comments, then delete the whole thing.