The TPU UK Clubhouse

[Tatty_Two]

Yeah I have a NVMe for my games and a dedicated SSD for OS, I only have 3 or 4 games installed at any time so in all 1.5TB of storage is more than enough for me.

 

[FoulOnWhite]

I have a dedicated 4TB sn850x for steam, 500gb gen4 for OS, and a 2TB sn850x for switch roms and other games. All my stored videos etc are on the external USB3 4tb spinner. I have a lot of space on the 4TB steam drive so maybe i don't need such a big drive for it.

 

[mechtech]

Yeah, tell me about it. £32 a month for 35 Mbps max in the middle of England when my parents get 500+ Mbps for literally half of this price in a medium-sized Hungarian town? Ridiculous.

Where does all this money even go? Not for network infrastructure upgrades, that's for sure.

lol that's pretty bad, but not too bad.

Cheapest in northern Ontario is about $65/mo (CAD$) for 100/10........but when I say northern Ontario that means about 750km-ish from a major city like Ottawa or Toronto, and 7 months of the year the ground is frozen. There are better deals per Mb closer to cities, but alas there is nothing less than 100 if you wanted/needed something on the very inexpensive side.

edit - i think the Can Gov passed some laws not long ago regarding something to do with internet...........seems to be some deals (for new customers)

https://www.eastlink.ca/internet

 

[FreedomEclipse]

out of morbid curiosity. Does anyone perhaps have a half decent 12v 5A power brick?

The one I use for my modem packed up and I dont trust the china prime ones off amazon. Netgear says their adapters are rated to 18w but bonus if yours can pull more as i use my router to charge bicycle lights from its USB port (dont ask. Its just very convenient for me) as well as run a laptop cooler that sits underneath it

 

[lexluthermiester]

i use my router to charge bicycle lights from its USB port (dont ask. Its just very convenient for me)

Stop doing that. Get a dedicated charger.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Stop doing that. Get a dedicated charger.

Why? The charger I was using was rated to 60w while the stock charger was 18w

Plenty of power

 

[Panther_Seraphin]

Why? The charger I was using was rated to 60w while the stock charger was 18w

Plenty of power

and yet it packed up....

 

[FreedomEclipse]

and yet it packed up....

It was a china special charger

I think I bought it in 2019. Cost me a £10 back then but now its £16 and to be fair my router is also quite dated now so maybe its best to buy a new router instead. I dont trust china specials when it comes to chargers today.

Would you call 5years of 24/7 use a poor lifespan?

 

[lexluthermiester]

Would you call 5years of 24/7 use a poor lifespan?

Ok, that's fair. Still batteries(or devices containing them) should have their own dedicated chargers.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

bicycle lights are hardly going to pull megawatts when charging. These are the small LED ones that are normally fully charged in 1 or 2 hrs. Cant be any worse than plugging a USB stick into the USB socket on this router.

 

[Panther_Seraphin]

bicycle lights are hardly going to pull megawatts when charging. These are the small LED ones that are normally fully charged in 1 or 2 hrs. Cant be any worse than plugging a USB stick into the USB socket on this router.

With the things like GaN chargers becoming more ubiquitous I would much rather get a dedicated USB-A/USB-C Charger and then a dedicated feed to the router.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

With the things like GaN chargers becoming more ubiquitous I would much rather get a dedicated USB-A/USB-C Charger and then a dedicated feed to the router.

I have one. Normally Id plug the lights into my computer for charging but since the router is on that side of the room with some bike stuff. I charge there.

 

[the54thvoid]

I'm not a birder, but they make better pics than grey skies. Notably - today was a blue sky.

A Parakeet in Glasgow's east end. Go figure.

Being noisy, probably because this fella was in the open space adjacent to the trees.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

I'm not a birder, but they make better pics than grey skies. Notably - today was a blue sky.

A Parakeet in Glasgow's east end. Go figure.

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Being noisy, probably because this fella was in the open space adjacent to the trees.

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We have absolute flocks of the green ones down this end too. Not enough aggressive seagulls showing them whose boss.

No idea how they survive the cold but they always somehow do.

 

[Space Lynx]

I'm not a birder, but they make better pics than grey skies. Notably - today was a blue sky.

A Parakeet in Glasgow's east end. Go figure.

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Being noisy, probably because this fella was in the open space adjacent to the trees.

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I love bird watching, thanks for sharing this! I have done professional bird watching in Finland/Ireland, not in England yet though. I think birds are fascinating.

It's amazing how smart some species are. I did not know Scotland had wild parakeets. Pretty neat. Small town England all I ever is pigeons, its sad, I don't mind pigeons, but I like a bit of diversity. In small town where I live in USA, I have seen blue jays, red cardinals, yellow finches, hummingbirds, and the list goes on. Not sure what happened to England, or of pigeons just bullied the other species to death... but its really strange how similar sized towns are so different in bird variety. Or maybe I just live in a lucky area.

 

[FoulOnWhite]

We put bird feeders out, but the bloody grey squirrels keep destroying them trying to get the bird feed that's in them. We see a fair few tits in our garden, great and blue i think. During winter we get some lovely robins and others we have not yet identified too.

 

[the54thvoid]

I should say - that was meant to go in the photography clubhouse.

 

[Space Lynx]

We put bird feeders out, but the bloody grey squirrels keep destroying them trying to get the bird feed that's in them. We see a fair few tits in our garden, great and blue i think. During winter we get some lovely robins and others we have not yet identified too.

yeah the gray squirrels killed all the red squirrels, and last year I think the remaining red squirrels in Wales all got wiped out by a virus or something. it's pretty sad, because red squirrels are really curious and interesting creatures compared to the grays.

 

[FoulOnWhite]

yeah the gray squirrels killed all the red squirrels, and last year I think the remaining red squirrels in Wales all got wiped out by a virus or something. it's pretty sad, because red squirrels are really curious and interesting creatures compared to the grays.

I got a feeder that sticks on the window, the grey tried to get at it, so i put grease on the window frame, was the funniest thing i have ever seen watching the grey trying to get at the feeder. don't know how he is gonna get the possibly toxic grease off his fur though.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

I love bird watching, thanks for sharing this! I have done professional bird watching in Finland/Ireland, not in England yet though. I think birds are fascinating.

It's amazing how smart some species are. I did not know Scotland had wild parakeets. Pretty neat. Small town England all I ever is pigeons, its sad, I don't mind pigeons, but I like a bit of diversity. In small town where I live in USA, I have seen blue jays, red cardinals, yellow finches, hummingbirds, and the list goes on. Not sure what happened to England, or of pigeons just bullied the other species to death... but its really strange how similar sized towns are so different in bird variety. Or maybe I just live in a lucky area.

There have actually been Kingfishers in our garden. Super rare to see them here as the nearest river/canal is about half a mile away. We've also had a few visits from sparrow hawks and wood pigeons which are basically flying bowling balls with wings.

Rest is just regular garden variety birds blue tits, sparrows, robins and finches. We did have a family or two of magpies nesting in the area that would make a proper racket even at 3-4am occasionally but they have moved on now thankfully.

 

[Space Lynx]

There have actually been Kingfishers in our garden. Super rare to see them here as the nearest river/canal is about half a mile away. We've also had a few visits from sparrow hawks and wood pigeons which are basically flying bowling balls with wings.

Rest is just regular garden variety birds blue tits, sparrows, robins and finches. We did have a family or two of magpies nesting in the area that would make a proper racket even at 3-4am occasionally but they have moved on now thankfully.

There is a forest next to where my friends lived in 2022, so it is possible the birds simply aren't interested in humans when they have a protected forest to chill out in, that probably does explain it.

I have seen the wood pigeons, there are lots of them. I told my friend that if England ever hits a famine since it imports like 80% of its food supply, wood pigeons will probably be the first bird to be hunted to extinction lol cause they are so meaty... don't become friends with the wood pigeons, that's all I'm saying

 

[FoulOnWhite]

There is a forest next to where my friends lived in 2022, so it is possible the birds simply aren't interested in humans when they have a protected forest to chill out in, that probably does explain it.

I have seen the wood pigeons, there are lots of them. I told my friend that if England ever hits a famine since it imports like 80% of its food supply, wood pigeons will probably be the first bird to be hunted to extinction lol cause they are so meaty... don't become friends with the wood pigeons, that's all I'm saying

The bloody noise they make is annoying at 6 in the morning though. hu hoo hu, hu hoo hu. they don't seem to get bored doing it either.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

There is a forest next to where my friends lived in 2022, so it is possible the birds simply aren't interested in humans when they have a protected forest to chill out in, that probably does explain it.

I have seen the wood pigeons, there are lots of them. I told my friend that if England ever hits a famine since it imports like 80% of its food supply, wood pigeons will probably be the first bird to be hunted to extinction lol cause they are so meaty... don't become friends with the wood pigeons, that's all I'm saying

There is an old turkish guy at the bottom of my road that goes hunting for them, He'll come back with a load of pheasants and wood pigeons. Not sure where he goes to hunt them but he's not in jail for owning a firearm and not dead from eating pigeon so it must be in the countryside somewhere he goes. Regular pigeons probably not the safest to eat.

 

[Space Lynx]

There is an old turkish guy at the bottom of my road that goes hunting for them, He'll come back with a load of pheasants and wood pigeons. Not sure where he goes to hunt them but he's not in jail for owning a firearm and not dead from eating pigeon so it must be in the countryside somewhere he goes. Regular pigeons probably not the safest to eat.

that's one way to get around food inflation prices I guess, lmao

edit: I hope is ammo doesn't have any lead in it

 

[Count von Schwalbe]

that's one way to get around food inflation prices I guess, lmao

edit: I hope is ammo doesn't have any lead in it

Modern game shot shells often use steel or bismuth, or at least plated (copper/nickel) shot.