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If you have problems with nerves, and lots of players do - as Squishy calls it, "panicking" - I have discovered after some time that it is helpful to think of some other activity you've mastered that requires smooth and fine motor control.

For me, that is drawing a perfect figure 8. If I notice I'm getting tense - and quite possibly made a panicky screw-up - I visualize drawing perfect figure 8s and what that feels like to my hands/fingers, and they calm right down. The inputs we want aren't jerky; they're smooooth, just like your play and rotation should be. If you never practiced any art/penmanship, maybe there's something else that will work for you.

If you are a newer player, focus

I recently bought a 3990X TR system. Yes, I do have some uses for all those cores, but it also feels like being a part of history.

After decades of processors primarily competing on single-threaded performance, and core counts typically remaining in the single digits, AMD's 64-core processors - while still not cheap - have put incredible power within reach of the budgets of a large number of people.

And where do they go from here? 128 cores, 256, more? At 512 cores, with SMT the processor will cross the 1,000 thread mark. Perhaps 20 years from now, core counts will be in the tens of thousands, maybe even millions.

Software and programming languages will no longer be able to avoid providin

Windows drivers - to my knowledge - are not currently available for the custom hardware System76 includes with the system. This includes the fan controllers.

So unless I am missing something, if you want to boot any other OS on the system, you need to unplug the fans from the custom hardware, and plug them into the motherboard to avoid having the system overheat.

Why dual boot? My goal is to be able to run Windows in a VM, under the PopOS host. But to really make this functional, aside from the configuration itself, I need a KVM, and the one I want is backordered with dependencies on China getting back to work.

So in the meantime, dual-boot seemed like a good option. The machine seemed re

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I was really disappointed at first because my system had seemed DOA, but it turned out it's just the power button - there's something going on with that, which I'll need to get some support help for next week.

However, with some help from u/fowwow below, I got it running using the hidden interior power button. Aside from needing to take the case off to turn it on for now, it's otherwise running great.

My hope had been that it could reduce what was a 30 min workload down to about 5-7 minutes. I have yet to replicate the exact conditions for that test - I'm going to wait and make sure I'm not going to have to send it in to System76 or something to fix the power button issue befor

we can take stock of our actions as a species. We are on the brink of hell, and it was brought upon us by our species' desire to taste blood, and gnaw muscle tissue from bone.

This new coronavirus, potentially more deadly than the Spanish flu, should not come as a surprise to anyone. If it wasn't this particuar one, at this particular time, something like this was coming soon nonetheless - nature's punishment if you will for thousands of years of unnatural manipulation and cruelty on the part of humans.

So now, as we potentially face our inevitable end, will we repent for our crimes against nature by manipulating the whole cycle of life and death for other species into an economic game? Or

I'm becoming more comfortable with it, but riding on the plastic while lane splitting still feels a bit unsettled/squirrely even in dry weather. Is there a type of tire that may handle it better?

Also, for those of you that split on the freeways frequently, do you usually try to avoid riding over the reflectors between the lanes, or just basically ignore them? I've been generally trying to avoid them.

The complaint against the current model is that it's heavy and a bit unwieldy with a high center of gravity. Personally, I at least find it much better looking than the GS.

What upgrades are you expecting from Triumph out of the 2021 model that is apparently currently in the testing phase? I hope the streamlined look of the tank on the new bike - and maybe an attempt to lower that COG - doesn't mean a reduced fuel capacity/range.

I ordered a Thelio Major with a 3990x, 256 GB of RAM, dual 2 and 4 TB NVMe SSDs, and a 5700 XT. I'll probably add a RTX 3000 series for Windows to use with GPU passthrough when they become available this summer.

In the meantime, the 3990X's 128 threads @ 3.45 GHz will be a nearly 6x increase in total Ghz over my existing 24-thread 3.2 max turbo 2687W v4 Xeon. Which is currently maxed out because I'm building.

The NVMe drives are fast even by SSD standards, but I also plan on using some of that RAM to experiment with a RAM disk, to see if it makes a difference with that monster of a CPU to help keep all those cores fed.

This should really speed up my ability to get work done. Lots of bu

It's the explosion in cost of those three things in particular that are the root of most Americans' economic problems. With very low unemployment, everybody should be having a good time of it right now, and in virtually every other area they are. But those three things are dragging us down.

Focus by Democrats on those issues highlights the problems, but their solutions suck - they aren't really solutions at all.

For housing, forcing developers to build low-income units and making it harder for landlords to evict existing tenants who can't pay market rents is not really addressing the problem. It's picking a few winners, and leaving everybody else to be a loser.

The real fixes to that prob

I'm considering getting a System76 Thelio Major with a 3990X. I've always wanted a Linux machine, but in the past have always run into a hardware issue here or there with my various systems that ended up preventing me from keeping it as a primary OS. (I don't mind the learning process; I just don't have a lot of time for it these days.)

To avoid having to make changes after-the-fact, is there a recommended/preferred GPU configuration for setting up GPU passthrough under PopOS? (What GPU for the host, and what GPU to pass-through to the VM?)

And for those who have such a setup running, what sort of percentage of overhead/performance loss can typically be expected for CPU/GPU/IO?

what characteristics have you found are most important in a bike to put a smile on your face, and make you feel like a kid again?

For example, from watching moto reviews, it seems like bikes with a lot of torque are most likely to elicit hysterical child-like giggling out of otherwise relatively stodgy personalities.

My bike is great, but decidedly not a stupid-laugh inducing bike, and I think maybe I could use some of that in my life.

With the US population continuing to grow, there really is no realistic room to continue to accommodate NIMBYs who would like to see housing development remain the same as it was at a time when there were half or fewer as many people living in the US as there are now.

Cities with burgeoning populations, and that cannot expand outward, need to expand upward to provide housing for their poulations. Zoning that prevents it is backward and excessively selfish, driving large portions of local residents into homelessness by necessity.

What is it going to take to get rid of the NIMBYs? Does the US actually have to wait until they die off?

I think this problem could be solved through policy by ge

It seems that in America, right and wrong are often not defined by what you did, but what you did or didn't get away with.

Did you do some stupid things as a teenager? If you got caught and/or someone happened to get hurt, you were a bad kid - perhaps even found guilty of murder if you were the boys who threw a log off the edge of a cliff at the wrong time/place in a park. If you didn't and escaped unscathed - even if it was a close call - it's just something to laugh and reminisce about when you're older.

Did you do drugs? If you got away with it, you can become President of the US like Obama and Bush Jr. If you got caught, you're a dirty criminal and convicted felon headed for a life of

Just taking a pretty ordinary right turn. I guess I hadn't been riding as far from the bike's limits as I thought.

I don't have any chickenstrips on my front tire, but the back does still have smaller ones on both sides. I guess that's just how it's supposed to be then.

Styling:

• I think the all-black version is the best looking of the group.
• Not having a beak is a positive - nobody else seems to be willing to forego it.
• Vehicles' appearance is judged based on what sort of living creature they appear to be - headlights are the eyes, etc. A single wide cyclops eye in the front typically isn't as cool as two angled, angry-predator eyes.

Power:

• Harley is shooting for 145HP with 90lb/ft of torque. As long as it isn't overly heavy, these are very respectable numbers and more than adequate to make it a fast bike.

Ergonomics:

• That seat looks mighty flat; makes me wonder what it will feel like to sit on.

Weight:

• A lot of people are afraid it's going