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Pilot wrote: 28 Dec 2021 21:14
Chrill wrote: 28 Dec 2021 13:41
Redirect Left wrote: 28 Dec 2021 00:09 I have been enjoying the least stable internet of my life these past few days. I do hope all the kids finish downloading their new console & PC games that are like 150GB a pop these days...
I'm terribly sorry, I just got a new Xbox yesterday (the Series X!) so will definitely be installing a lot of games now :mrgreen:
Didn't get a new Xbox, but think I'll go buying and installing some games, just to upset some people :lol:
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i received a new patreon patron today!
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I was in Blackpool a few weekends ago, visiting the Blackpool Illuminations for the final time that year, always a great sight, its a shame in the morning they're all turned off and you're left with the stark bleakness of just... Blackpool.
However the weekend i was there it was basically foggy for the entire time, which gave me this really weird photo opportunity, as the famous Blackpool Tower cast its own shadow into the fog. Really was quite a breathtaking sight for the morning!
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This thread is still my second most proud achievement to date. Two brief years off half my age and still going strong!

My most proud achievement is obviously finding a woman to whom I can be annoying for the rest of my days. :P
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SkeedR wrote: 12 Jan 2022 21:54 This thread is still my second most proud achievement to date. Two brief years off half my age and still going strong!

My most proud achievement is obviously finding a woman to whom I can be annoying for the rest of my days. :P
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Question: how can you repeatedly fail an exam but still be able to drive a car? Doesn't really make sense when you think about it.
Take a look at: http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=74993
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i have more art than frames to frame them in :shock:
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Heh. I managed today's in just two steps - complete fluke!
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Come on, this is too easy :mrgreen:

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Hello again, here after so long, I forget.

Wait, who am I again?
Very much a retired regular poster..... If you can say that :mrgreen:
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Nawdic wrote: 25 Jan 2022 20:50 Hello again, here after so long, I forget.

Wait, who am I again?
I have 47407 reasons to reply to this.

Are you the user with most username changes? Most likely. :mrgreen:
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Chrill wrote: 26 Jan 2022 09:07
Nawdic wrote: 25 Jan 2022 20:50 Hello again, here after so long, I forget.

Wait, who am I again?
I have 47407 reasons to reply to this.

Are you the user with most username changes? Most likely. :mrgreen:
I think I have 73129 reasons to reply to this :lol:
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Torn between getting Business Fibre installed at my home address, or getting a good dedicated server from OVH/SoYouStart. Both about the same cost (around £70/€85/$95), but OVH has better upload, my upload here won't go above 50mbps, even if i can get download of up to 1gbps :( Althouh I guess, if its with OVH, they also are responsible when the hardware breaks instead of me going "hmm" for several hours for each fault.
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why won't ikea ship me the blahaj shark
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DrWho42 wrote: 27 Jan 2022 21:41 why won't ikea ship me the blahaj shark
Blåhaj is Swedish for "blue shark", but I guess you could work that one out.
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Redirect Left wrote: 27 Jan 2022 01:50 Torn between getting Business Fibre installed at my home address, or getting a good dedicated server from OVH/SoYouStart. Both about the same cost (around £70/€85/$95), but OVH has better upload, my upload here won't go above 50mbps, even if i can get download of up to 1gbps :( Althouh I guess, if its with OVH, they also are responsible when the hardware breaks instead of me going "hmm" for several hours for each fault.
Are you intending to run a server? Generally speaking, something hosted in a proper datacentre is going to have better connectivity (direct routing to many different ISPs and Internet exchanges, symmetric gigabit or even more). If you’re hosting things yourself, you’d maybe want to invest in a UPS (and hope you don’t have any lengthy power cuts).

Typically, we had another power cut this morning for a good few hours (helpfully just after I was banished to a room having tested positive for COVID this morning :() following today’s storms. When this happens, it seems I retain a mobile phone signal (suggesting a battery backup at the mast) but nothing actually works (a router or link down along the way perhaps?), which is frustrating.
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orudge wrote: 29 Jan 2022 19:11 Are you intending to run a server? Generally speaking, something hosted in a proper datacentre is going to have better connectivity (direct routing to many different ISPs and Internet exchanges, symmetric gigabit or even more). If you’re hosting things yourself, you’d maybe want to invest in a UPS (and hope you don’t have any lengthy power cuts).
Ah, this is something i had not considered, I'd only factored in the cost of the electric bill going up by the server hosted here. Definitely makes the offers by OVH/SoYouStart more tempting now. thankfully basically any offering is a cut above my current one, and it's insanely old Opteron which barely manages a single CSGO server at times. Looking for something with much more power and can do multiple servers and multiple games. But crikey, their offers are popular, things rarely available for the ones I am tempted by, and they need to be in Europe. I might just have to go nuts and get a 20+ thread server!
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Hetzner is worth a look, especially their auction servers.
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