Azdeus

Got called to my boss' office today out of the blue, turns out I was due for a salary discussion. It was nice to hear that I was performing well above expectations, but it feels pretty pointless since I'm unionized, and they don't dole out increases by performance, they just give everyone a flat equal part, no matter what you do. Which really irks me. Sure, the idea behind it is good since people don't stay for any length in the company, but it also means that the company and the union bleed any talent away. Oh well, atleast the complaints about the longhaired hardass has mostly died down alot. My boss doesn't recieve weekly calls of complaint about me yelling at drivers.

Same over here, the cold itself didn't shut down anything Edit; It would lower production in windfarms though due to icing Swedish article; https://www.smhi.se/nyhetsarkiv/isbelaggning-bromsar-vindkraft-1.168598?l=null

Rehydrating with Moscow Mules? Here's your gold man-card. 🎟

*Raises hand* I'm hearing impaired, so I was taught this in school. Video over here; https://www.teckensprak.com/siffror1.html Okay, three for you, and eight for me, looks about right

I honestly don't mind spending 40 minutes driving to work, what I really mind is that it costs me 300€ in just petrol.

So, today was Fettisdagen here, so I had myself a semla. And like a gift from heaven, Max Miller who hosts the channel Tasting History made this;

I need to keep warm! A 300W card plus 200-ish W cpu going full tilt can raise the temperature a fair bit around my computer Folding at Home FTW

Damn, we had a storm a bunch of years ago that left me without power for 3 days, 1 hour short of having free electricity for a month, but there was still mobile phone service. I imagine that if something like that was to happen around here today, the only people left alive around here would be me and my mother. Take care!

I wasn't joking when I said that my choice of GPU was affected by heating

Ouch, yeah, there are many things I envy americans, but your infrastructure generally ain't one of them. I can usually rely on my internet connection, but power does come and go through windstorms. I usually leave a little bit of a flow of warm and cold water somewhere in the house to prevent things like this. Temperatures has risen about 15 degrees over here, we're around 0 degrees during the day and maybe 2 degrees cold during the nights. We've got some snowfall that's supposed to come in, between 5 and 15 cms, followed by rainfall and +7C. It's been lovely having a bright white world, but it's going to be grey and boring again soon.

I doubt it'll make you feel better, but I'm jealous

Well, the lake is surrounded by sand till with some dirt ontop, and it's in a "water protection area", so you're not allowed to pollute anything around here. My grandparents were advocates for things like that, and heavilly involved in politics, they were very protective of the lakes waters. The municipality tests the waters biannually, and they haven't "limed" the lake in decades. I believe I have to move the ejector(I don't know if this is really the right reminology. I've got a pump in my house that pumps water through a long hose down to the lake where an "ejector" creates the suction and brings fresh water up through a different hose.) actually, me and my father relocated it to a deeper point in the lake a few years ago, and shortly after that the water got bad. It might be that the ice grabbed the buoy and tipped the stand that it was attached to. Or, as you say, a more dense filter. We actually looked into a RO filter a long time ago, but the company refused to sell it to us unless they made the installation themselves, and we didn't want to cough up the ludicrous amounts of money they asked.

Probably, I've got a filter similar to this, but the funny thing is that the water is always clear, even if I let it sit for a good day or so there won't be any sediments at the bottom.

I've got problems drinking normal tap water, it just tastes "wrong" to me. Ok, during the summer months the water tends to taste.. mucky? I guess I'd call it.

I can't believe they didn't add some Ennio Morricone to that

You do realize that your stomach acids will re-acidify that water immediately? You should save that money for beer instead =D Probably better than your tapwater though. I'm spoiled in that I can just get pretty much perfect water from the lake here, just filter away the bigger things like dirt and I'm good to go.

I'd sort of like that MSI X570 Tomahawk, if it didn't have that wifi there, they're one of the few manufacturers that place the chip-fan away from the GPU, which I like, but as Bart says, MSI are kinda dickish

Very much this. I shaved quite a bit of my bill by getting heat exchangers.

Haha, sorry ^^

I'm looking greedilly at the abundance of 5800X's, but I can't decide on motherboard. This vexes me.

There's some debate about exactly how old the house is, but the official papers says it's from 1799. The roof is new, but there's only so much the roof can do when the four walls don't really hold up.

Yeah, everything I have runs on electricity here, water pump, heating, water heating, I've also got electricity keeping my water pipes from freezing. I've got two heatpumps, both are set to 23 degrees, not that it reaches above 18C, so they're almost constantly working. 16000 kronor, or thereabout. For the last months period I used 4003KWh. Edit; I think, Vattenfalls site gives me headache if I'm not pumped full of coffee Keep in mind, my house is on a stone foundation with holes in it to prevent rot, the floorboards are insulated by their thickness basically on the bottom floor, if there's wind you can feel it around your feet.

My mother has similar braces, but hers extend to the entire bottom of her hand

Oh, and to keep to the theme; https://www.ar.admin.ch/en/armasuisse-wissenschaft-und-technologie-w-t/home.detail.news.html/ar-internet/news-2018/news-w-t/lethalmicrodrones.html

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