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It’s not the herp, it’s the derp.

As long as I tense my jaw, I guess, but it’s kinda awkward for me. I kinda have to pop my jaw down and hold it. I feel I’m making a silly face when I do it, so I’m not holding it long.

Wait a minute. If I hold my jaw right, I do get a very short rumbling apart from my breath. Is that what you guys mean?

I do this thing where I pop my ears (like when pressure changes from altitude) and then it’s like I’m hearing my breathing inside of my sinuses or something. When I breathe this way, it effectively blocks conversations I don’t want to overhear. Do other people do this, or am I odd?

Aren’t those guys kinda anti-federalist, except where it benefits them?

I, also, am hip and with it. Witness my funky fresh lingo and in-your-face attitude, home skillet.

I wish I had seen your comment earlier. You said it better than I did just now.

I haven’t watched the show, but reading your comment about the shopkeepers, the “problem” appears to be that they MAY be lesbians and they exist. That existence and possibility might be a trigger is sad to me. The hateful folks say it’s about homosexuality being shoved in their face, but, really, it’s a total rejection at the heart of their beliefs. It’s why when activists talk about the dangers of this bigotry, we ought to listen, because the existence or mere possibility of gay people being a problem for some people is only a short step away from the solution for those people being elimination.

Star Control I and II

Medieval II Total War (except that diplomacy was a joke)

Civ III was great, but Alpha Centauri may have been the best 4x game ever.

If someone wanted to purchase this legal weed, say, in South Carolina, is there a guide somewhere indicating what is legally available in that jurisdiction?

Asking for a friend…

And now I’m blind. Thanks!

I liked Google+, mostly because it wasn’t Facebook, I guess.

The setting for the IGPU is on some sort of dynamic setting that indicates it will scale as needed, up to 4 GB and beyond, so I left it. If forcing a value is better, I can absolutely do that. Do you think I still need to set a value?

Thanks, bro. You’ve been a help through the whole ordeal. I did get it working by doing a clean reset. It took forever. Once I got Windows working, I went back and enabled xmp profile 1. I’m not brave enough to try anything else right now 😂

Overall, aside from the windows issue, I’m happy with it. The SSD is a Patriot P300, which is apparently okay but no frills. The motherboard is an MSI B450M-Pro Max II–which is limited to two slots for RAM, but I was expecting that since it was advertised as machine at 64 GB. The RAM is Patriot Viper of some variety at 3600 MHz. The case and power supply appear to be MSI, as well.

The CPU appears to be the reported Ryzen 5 5600G.

A lot of the components are not top tier, but it does appear to have room for upgrades within reason as prices drop.

I was surprised by the packaging, btw. There was a shipping box, then a box within that with a few components like power cord, keyboard and mouse, and a USB wireless adapter separated from the final box containing the actual PC, with bubble wrap strategically placed throughout.

Also, the cables are all neatly managed.

I wonder if the OS issue was a bad install or something I did. It’s fully activated with the reset, so they did at least have a valid key. I saw some indications that UEFI settings or secure boot settings may have an effect. I don’t know.

One last question: is it worth it to download the MSI utility software? I don’t want to add bloatware, but if it does have useful features so I don’t have to boot to bios for overclocking or fiddling with fans, RAM, or whatever else, that might be nice. I just don’t know.

Thanks again for your input. I feel like I need you to mail me an invoice 😁

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Thanks for the heads up. I’m learning a lot about modern PC’s from my research, and this tracks with what I’ve been learning–it’s cool to realize I understand what you’re talking about. I have been enjoying this more than I expected. I’m seriously considering starting to look for old PC’s to play with for myself and maybe build a new one some day.

It should let me set the RAM to the highest speed it will handle, right? If I’m remembering right, that ought to be around 3200 or 3600 MHz for DDR 4, right?

Any other BIOS settings I should check when I fire it up?

I guess what I want is a suggestion for a good history of the labor movement.

Wrapping that cable around an AT-AT’s legs at the Battle of Hoth is something I’ll always remember from those games.