Re: Re: Windows 11
By: Roc to MRO on Sun Nov 14 2021 01:06 pm

using old stuff just doesnt pan out.

My own experience is that reusing is fine, if and only if:
- Decent case (positive air flow, filters, not an oven).
- Good PSU (By the popular "psu tier list", tier 2 at worst).

I have found these two points make the difference between "hardware breaks, eventually" and "hardware doesn't break, ever".

My family (extended) is all using old parts, and so far (~10 year) no issues.

i'm talking about giving stuff to people. go ahead and put old stuff together for yourself.
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On 10/20/2021 7:13 AM, ARELOR wrote to MATTHEW MUNSON:

My policy is not to upgrade my hardware just because some shinny software appeared over the horizon. Specially if I don't need the new software. Most often I can't justify the expense.

I mean I am running on junk hardware from 2007 and I am more productive than a
lot of people running the newest cool thing on the newest cool hardware.

I am thinking just getting a 1tb SSD stick for my desktop and just enjoy my ryzen box for
another 3-4 years. PC Gaming is becoming way too expensive.

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Re: RE: Windows 11
By: MATTHEW MUNSON to ARELOR on Fri Nov 05 2021 07:42 pm

On 10/20/2021 7:13 AM, ARELOR wrote to MATTHEW MUNSON:

My policy is not to upgrade my hardware just because some shinny software appear
over the horizon. Specially if I don't need the new software. Most often I can't
justify the expense.

I mean I am running on junk hardware from 2007 and I am more productive than a
lot of people running the newest cool thing on the newest cool hardware.

I am thinking just getting a 1tb SSD stick for my desktop and just enjoy my ryzen b
for
another 3-4 years. PC Gaming is becoming way too expensive.

You could do worse than that.

You can play a lot of cool old games with junkyard computers. Experience the full
power of DOS games! Hell you can even play the original Diablo using FOSS engines on
pretty low end hardware.

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Re: Re: Windows 11
By: DaiTengu to paulie420 on Fri Oct 29 2021 10:15:09

I'm pretty familiar with WINE. The ham radio applications I use on Windows don't have an equivelant counterpart under Linux, and are too complex for WINE to deal with, with serial connections audio cabling and whatnot.

What ham apps are you running in Windows?

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On 12/1/2021 1:32 PM, ARELOR wrote to MATTHEW MUNSON:

You could do worse than that.

You can play a lot of cool old games with junkyard computers. Experience the full
power of DOS games! Hell you can even play the original Diablo using FOSS engines on
pretty low end hardware.

Yeah, I think I am getting burned out of gaming. There is a huge backlog of unplayed
games I have. Its a first world collectors burden.
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Re: RE: Windows 11
By: MATTHEW MUNSON to ARELOR on Mon Dec 20 2021 10:19 pm

pretty low end hardware.

Yeah, I think I am getting burned out of gaming. There is a huge backlog of unplayed
games I have. Its a first world collectors burden.

must be nice. i work so much i don't have time for playing games.

do you have a full time job?
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Re: Re: Windows 11
By: Joe Phigan to DaiTengu on Sat Dec 11 2021 12:15 pm

I'm pretty familiar with WINE. The ham radio applications I use on
Windows don't have an equivelant counterpart under Linux, and are too
complex for WINE to deal with, with serial connections audio cabling
and whatnot.

What ham apps are you running in Windows?

Win4Icom, ACLog (N3FJP's logging software), Winlink + VARA, Ham Radio Deluxe (mostly for the digital mode stuff), various stuff for digital modes (YSF, Wires-X DMR and D-Star) Occasionally I use CW Skimmer.

Those are the ones that are strictly limited to Windows. other stuff I run is WSJT-X and/or JTDX, fldigi from time to time, and GridTracker. These all have native linux binaries.

DaiTengu

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Re: RE: Windows 11
By: MATTHEW MUNSON to ARELOR on Mon Dec 20 2021 10:19 pm

Yeah, I think I am getting burned out of gaming. There is a huge backlog of unplayed games I have. Its a first world collectors burden.

Yeah, tell me about it.

https://steamdb.info/calculator/76561197960380065/?cc=us

DaiTengu

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must be nice. i work so much i don't have time for playing games.

do you have a full time job?

Yes, I have been employed except for some down time between jobs.

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Re: Re: Windows 11
By: MATT MUNSON to MRO on Wed Dec 29 2021 02:35 pm

must be nice. i work so much i don't have time for playing games.

do you have a full time job?

Yes, I have been employed except for some down time between jobs.

i dont know how you have time to do that gaming.
arent you old like me?

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