Tbh, I’m super happy with the performance I’m getting. I did dig through my bios and found an old OC to 4.7 GHz that got me a few extra FPS on the low side.

I’m playing on my TV right now. My monitors are also over a decade old. I couldn’t run faster than 60 FPS right now even if I wanted to lol but I appreciate the thought.

But aside from ray tracing being off, I’m running 1080p at ultra settings perfectly fine. I’m just super stoked my ancient CPU can still run newer/more intense titles. It’s like being around in 2010 using a CPU from 1999. If you were using a Celeron that went in a slot, you probably weren’t running Windows 7, let alone Crysis lol

I actually dug in my BIOS and found a very old profile that I saved. So now I’m running at 4.7 GHz. I forgot I saved that. It does make her toasty though. But hey, who cares? These aren’t rare. Replacement cost is 50-70 bucks. Suppose I can swing that if I roast it to death lol

I mght have to play with RAM speeds. I unlocked the frame rate and was hitting 110 max. My TV only runs at 60 Hz so that’s where I’m leaving it. Still, the minimum was up to like 53 from 48. So it was still worth it.

I guess I didn’t get it across that I do already run Debian lol I love my Debian. It’s outdated, as is my '97 Honda. But like my '97 Honda, it just works every time. And I do use KDE. :) Ran GNOME for a long time and finally made the jump earlier this year. My customizations make it look and feel a lot like GNOME (because I really liked GNOME a lot), but with extra customizations that GNOME just wouldn’t let me do ootb. I like it so much. It doesn’t feel like Mac. It doesn’t feel like Windows. It’s totally its own thing. I love that.

My bad that it didn’t get across that I do use Debian lol I have been for a while now. I don’t mind dealing with outdated packages because it’s stable. Would a more up-to-date distro be more or less stable? I don’t know enough to comment on it, but with the stability issues I experienced in Windows (unrelated to the oc), I really wanted something that I could throw on there and leave alone for a few years.

I also drive a car from the 90s and I look at any IoT device with contempt. The refrigerator stays off my network.

But yeah, with the Win 10 EOL coming up, I wasn’t gonna upgrade because my machine really still does everything I want it to do. This was a bit more of a shit post. My PC didn’t hit 60 FPS in a game that it doesn’t even meet minimum spec for. Iirc, Cyberpunk requires at least a 7700K. Wasn’t looking for advice. Just messing around. ;)

The most I use my PC for outside of gaming is surfing the web, spreadsheets, and hosting files. Nice to have my own collection of movies to stream when the Internet goes down lol

I’m not implying that my PC running Debian is twice as fast as it was on Windows. I just really appreciate two things about it: 1) This CPU is still fast enough for what I want from it a decade later, and 2) That Linux was so much easier to learn than I ever anticipated. I guess it helps that I ran Ubuntu on various laptops for a decade before moving my gaming PC to a Linux distro.

Thank you! :)

My doctor even asked what my secret was. I said I cut down on the boredom eating. Now I just boredom “tend to shit around the house.” Seriously, I might clean or cut the lawn wrench on the cars to kill time. It feels good to get moving again.

I have the opposite problem. I think about food nearly all the time. It’s what got me up to 295 lbs.

I’m down to 260 today. Still got a long way to go, but I’m getting there. Getting medicated makes me feel so much more in control of my impulses. One of them being the impulse to eat all the time. Now, I don’t feel hungry nearly as often, and if I think about food, I consider whether I feel hungry, and if I don’t, I don’t eat.

Wait until you try bacon grease. Y’all are in for a real treat.

I use Debian. Does this mean I’m in the top 0.05% of Steam users?

Watch out. That’s how you create a Slackware user.

This is Astrid. About 1 year old. She always acts so neglected when we go out. Believe me, I spend multiple hours a night cuddling this one.

She just wants to lick my face.

Next up is Sherlock. He’s about 2½ years old. He has his Urban Canine Good Citizen making him a certified good boy.

This is Izzy. She’s just shy of 9 years old. We have had her since she was 4 weeks old. She’s running a little chunky, but she’s also extremely fluffy.

And finally, Thorin. He just turned 12. He was my wife’s cat before we met. He’s all the love of a dog with all the craziness of an orange cat. He doesn’t understand or respect the concept of “no.” He is a bottomless pit for attention. He knows how to open the blinds.

TIL Dick Van Dyke is still kicking. Good for Dick.

God, have I ever fucking been there. The worst feeling is when you think you’re getting things done…then it hits you that the last two hours of your life were a complete waste, and you weren’t even having fun while doing it.

Disassociation is the soundtrack of my childhood! Can’t get hurt if I’m watching someone else be abused, even if that someone else is me!

~yes I’ve been to therapy and working through disassociation is still a daily struggle thx~

My wife got me 8 TB about 3 or 4 years ago. It’s awesome. My Blu Ray library is on it and I still have 5 TB free

Far Cry 3 was absolutely a high point in the series. At least until the second half of the game. But the first half is incredible. The 2010s had some amazing video game villains. Vaas, Handsome Jack, Flowey, Father Comstock…hell, I’ll even throw in Andrew Ryan and GLaDOS.

I liked Far Cry 4 and 5. I’ll argue that Joseph Seed is the closest to a second Vaas the series has come. He’s not as melodramatic as Vaas, but he is a solid B- villain in my book. Pretty convincing, menacing, and rooted in his beliefs. Plus, I ran co-op a lot with my wife. So lots of good memories there.

Blue has always been a favorite of mine, but purple has really grown on me lately. Naturally, I love bluish purples.

Once you figure out that purple doesn’t actually exist it’s even neater. Purple and magenta are colors your brain makes up when it sees red and blue light at the same time.

Hi. I’ve been taking Adderall since November and have had something of a similar experience. It felt like an immediate change for me when I got started, but I still rely on lists and routines to get my stuff done.

I use an Excel workbook to track every email I receive. I can use it to mark emails with one of five levels of importance and whether I need to act as a result of getting it. I have another worksheet in that workbook where I keep track of my tasks, when they’re due, and how far along I am with completing them. I even have progress bars.

I could use tools in Outlook for all of this, I’m sure, but there’s something about adding a manual process that makes it feel like I’ve got some skin in the game and makes email feel more important.

But yeah, I absolutely must have lists and notes and whatnot. I don’t think I’ll ever not need my lists and notes. I don’t think that’s what the medicine is for. I think, for me, that it’s to poke me in the butt to use my lists and notes and stay on top of my tasks.

Essentially, if I don’t write it down, I’ll forget it. Taking my medicine makes gives me the motivation to write it down. That way, I have a better shot of remembering it.

And I also said routines. My house has three exterior doors. I have to pick just ONE to use every time I come and go. And I MUST unload my wallet, keys, and badge by the door each time I come home. Otherwise, I throw them wherever and freak out when I can’t find them the next morning. So using the same door every time makes it easier to remember to leave my stuff by it, especially when there’s a designated drop zone for that stuff.

Sorry. This got way longer than I wanted it to lol

They are, but I also set reminders on my work computer and my personal laptop. My laptop has my music on it so it sends sounds through my headphones. And my work computer pops a reminder box up

I’ve also got six reminders a day to check my email every 90 minutes. Otherwise, I’ll go several days without checking it.

Thank you! :)

I was already a no show for them two weeks ago. I really didn’t want to miss this one lol

It’s my personal philosophy that advice and suggestions are the same thing. Suggestions are not requirements.

Personally, if another person came to me seeking advice, I’d feel honored that they hold me in a regard high enough to consider how I’d act in a situation and apply it to theirs.

People who get angry when their advice is not used are just weird.

You either get busy living or get busy dying.

That quote has stuck with me for a long time.