The Very-Many-Questions-Not-Worth-Their-Own-Thread Thread XL

[MaryKB]

I'd suggest getting a plane ticket out of there.

 

[Kyriakos]

Let me show you the sample of the price and the spec that I can reach easily.

A 344.21 Euro laptop (sold 60, reviewed 30, rating 4.9)

Microprocessor : AMD Ryzen 3 3200U (2.6 GHz base frequency, up to 3.5 GHz burst frequency, 5 MB cache, 2 cores)
Memory, standard : 8GB DDR4-2400 SDRAM
Video graphics : AMD Radeon Vega 3 Graphics
Hard drive : 1 TB 5400 rpm SATA
Display : 14" diagonal HD SVA BrightView WLED-backlit (1366 x 768)
Keyboard : Full-size island-style

A 270.08 Euro laptop (sold 83, reviewed 43, rating 4.6)

Toshiba Tecra Z50A

Corei5 4310u ( 2.6 GHz ) Haswell
RAM 8GB DDR3L
Harddisk 500GB
VGA INTEL HD 4400
VGA GT730 Nvidia 1GB DDR3
Full HD 1920x1080
WEBCAM
HDMI
Keyboard Backlit ( Keyboard Nyala )
Wi-Fi
Screen Led 15.6 inch Wide

A 166 Euro Laptop (sold 1101, 491 reviewd, 4.8 rating)

INTEL CORE i5 3320M 2.60GHz UP TO 3.3GH
- RAM 8GB DDR3
- VGA INTEL HD 4000
- 2 PORT USB 3.0

The problem is that this computer already has a 3.5 Gz dual core.
It just has nothing as a video card, which means it can't run anything requiring serious 3d (which I need for 3d modeling programs, not for games).
Which is why I was wondering if I could actually buy a card and have it installed.
Not that Ram is great either (3GB).

 

[cardgame]

dual core will also choke on modeling programs, most likely. along with the low RAM.

 

[Kyriakos]

dual core will also choke on modeling programs, most likely. along with the low RAM.

That doesn't matter when the gfx card can't even use modern 3d handling systems. I am stuck with Blender from 2 years ago and can't even use the latest game-creating software.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

That doesn't matter when the gfx card can't even use modern 3d handling systems. I am stuck with Blender from 2 years ago and can't even use the latest game-creating software.

Right but adding a graphics card is not going to fix the CPU, which will still bottleneck the system and basically make any new graphics card irrelevant.

 

[Kyriakos]

Right but adding a graphics card is not going to fix the CPU, which will still bottleneck the system and basically make any new graphics card irrelevant.

But going by haroon's list, it seems most <400 euros PCs have a slower CPU than 3,5GZ.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

They are probably quad cores.

 

[H4run]

But going by haroon's list, it seems most <400 euros PCs have a slower CPU than 3,5GZ.

They are core i my friend above quadcore (am i right?). Dual core, quadcore, core 2 duo, core i 3, core i 5 then core i 7. So the anount of the ghz possibly mutliply by x

 

[The_J]

Since gold, jewels and foreign currency are very hard to obtain, our list is

All types, including silver? What about watches (or smartwatches, but that'd lose money faster)?

Gasoline? High % liquor?

 

[Synobun]

Gas goes bad. Liquor will be useful for the post-apoc stage.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

…that you couldn't just make like a tree, rematerialise in Canada and become Synsensa's roommate, because of various impediments that shall not be mentioned for the sake of brevity.

Leaving the country's not an option. What to spend money on?

I'd suggest getting a plane ticket out of there.

 

[Birdjaguar]

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[Takhisis]

Get a bidet.

I already have one, and its maintenance is part of the miscellaneous home improvements.

I'd suggest getting a plane ticket out of there.

Not possible. Even if flights in and out of the country were allowed, it's still not possible.

Spoiler :

This is a government that, like so many other populist demagogues, regardless of their declaimed discourse, set the house on fire to see us through the first chills of winter, and they directly consider democracy, accountability and checks and balances to be incompatible with growth, development and progress. And they'd rather spread it. Cuba found a failed coup inflictor in Hugo Chávez and ideologised him. Then Chávez used the oil boom to illegally finance allied campaigns in neighbouring countries. Venezuelans fled here. Now they are fleeing again. If I flee I'll just have to flee again in a decade or two whenever they've next destabilised another country after consolidating here. If I'm going to fight (by voting, by demonstrating, etc.) I'd rather do it here.

The government is already being called out by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Greenpeace, etc. And its would-be new handlers in technototalitarian China are already pillaging the place, protests by locals as well as Global Fishing Watch notwithstanding.

All types, including silver? What about watches (or smartwatches, but that'd lose money faster)?

Gasoline? High % liquor?

Gasoline will spoil and I don't have a car; liquor, better not and for jewelry and so on a) I don't have that kind of money and b) the government's watching.

 

[MaryKB]

In that case, stock up on non-perishable food

 

[Takhisis]

Eh, actually the history of the current would-be dynasty is one of near-constant defeats. But they deal so much damage along the way that the price the country pays is too high. For once they've been struck with disaster without any publicly-held assets to privatise, central bank reserves to sell off, or any commodity boom. Historically they've failed to seize the media, militarise police, expropriate industries or landholdings, or completely colonise the justice system. They're Chávez wannabes, and if we resist them long enough they'll end up in prison for corruption and murder.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Do any of you regularly use Twitch to create videos?

 

[MaryKB]

Do any of you regularly use Twitch to create videos?

I have a coworker who does. He gets paid by sponsers, and he met his girlfriend through his channel.

 

[Gorbles]

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I'd forgotten about this excellent site, thanks!

(consider this an emphatic +1 for anyone reading)

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

can the human brain run out of hard drive space?

 

[Ajidica]

can the human brain run out of hard drive space?

Answering that question would require we understand how memory works, which we really don't understand.