Glenn Berry

This is funny, but sad and scary too.

ICE is very much like the SA was in Nazi Germany right now.

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Thanks! I was very happy to find that Yamaha M-80 on FB Marketplace for an amazing price. It is in almost pristine cosmetic condition too.

Nancy Wilson and Cannonball Adderley playing on a Denon DCD-1290 CD player going into a Carver C-1 Sonic Holography Preamplifier and then to a Yamaha Natural Sound Stereo Power Amplifier.

This is a great album!

I recently acquired a 1984 Yamaha M-80 Natural Sound Stereo Power Amplifier.

The 1984 MSRP was $950. It weighs 51 lbs and has 250 WPC at 8 ohms.

New toy that I need to learn how to use!

Hameg HM5010 Spectrum Analyzer.

This is pretty funny and on point

Very nice FB Marketplace find! A Sony CDP-XA20ES Compact Disc Player.

This was made from 1998-2000. It was one down from the TOTL ES model and it had an MSRP of $700.

It works perfectly, and is in excellent cosmetic condition. It was an early birthday present for me.

Such an idiot, just parroting Trump's misconceptions about solar power for an audience of one (Trump).

He acts like he has never heard of utility-scale (or even residential) battery storage.

My Dad used to love David Brooks, who he thought was a reasonable, "thinking man's" compassionate conservative...

This is so bad. Such a self-own by the Trump Regime. But this is part of the Project 2025 plan.

Not to mention driving the golf cart on the fairway or green (and so close to the ball) seems like a bad thing. It also minimizes what little exercise Trump gets from golfing

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There is also a small "Gen-Z" card (which comes with the motherboard) up near the DIMM slots that has one PCIe 5.0 M.2 slot and one PCIe 4.0 M.2 slot, both running at x4.

I favor using my PCIe lanes for storage rather than the GPU. Only having x8 for the GPU is not a problem for me.

This motherboard only has two M.2 slots that are actually on the motherboard. They both support PCIe 5.0 and are connected directly to the CPU.

There is a PCIe 5.0 AIC with one M.2 slot (which comes with the motherboard) that is in the 2nd PCIe slot, running at x4

I am. My motherboard supports a total of five M.2 slots. Four are PCIe 5.0 and one is PCIe 4.0.

If you use all five M.2 slots, the primary PCIe slot (for the GPU) goes down to x8 instead of x16.

The same as you are looking at. The 4TB Samsung 9100 PRO

My "old" Corsair 7000D Airflow case.

FRAME 4000D RS Modular Mid-Tower PC Case - White The CORSAIR FRAME 4000D RS is a fully-modular and spacious mid-tower PC case featuring InfiniRail™ Fan Mounting System and compatible with reverse connector motherboards.

No maintenance with AIO CPU coolers, beyond occasionally redoing the CPU thermal paste. If the AIO gets very old, you might want to replace the liquid.

If I was building an all-new system, I like the Corsair FRAME 4000D RS (which can hold a 360mm AIO radiator).

www.corsair.com/us/en/p/pc-c...

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I have the older Arctic Liquid Freezer II 420 (which requires a pretty large case).

This is what I would get now: amzn.to/4lXYlZP

Two of these G.Skill Trident kits.

F5-6400J3239F48GX2-TZ5RK

www.microcenter.com/product/6682...

I'm one BIOS version behind the latest version. Getting XMP/EXPO running stable used to be more of a challenge with older BIOS versions.

ASUS now has the X870E version of that motherboard.

ROG CROSSHAIR X670E EXTREME | Motherboards | ROG United States Designed for the broadest range of demanding fans, the ROG Crosshair X670E Extreme features 20 + 2 power stages, DDR5 support, five M.2 slots, ROG Gen-Z.2, a USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 front-panel connector with...

It is an older, but high-end ASUS ROG Crosshair X670E Extreme with a PowerColor Radeon RX 7900 XTX.

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That motherboard lets me have four M.2 PCIe 5.0 NVMe and one M.2 PCIe 4.0 NVMe (with the primary PCIe slot running at x8). It also has a 10GbE Aquantia NIC.

Switching over to a new work laptop is a PIA. But it is nice to have a better machine when you are done.

I bumped up the RAM to 192GB a few days ago, with four DDR5-6400 DIMMs running at XMP speeds. It has been pretty stable so far.

This is pretty funny, and I think it is a direct and effective message that younger people will appreciate.

I'm so tired of the old, sclerotic, cowardly Democratic "leadership" and campaign consultant class ignoring or attacking Mamdani.

Yet another stupid move by the Trump Regime.

Discouraging international tourism and business travel to the United States is so incredibly shortsighted and self-defeating.

Starting to hail

A storm is coming

Yes. You do have to periodically run (and maintain) generators that burn fossil fuels.

Gasoline goes bad, even with fuel stabilizer. Diesel fuel also will go bad, but it will last longer than gasoline. Propane does not go bad.

I know some folks who have buried large propane tanks.