@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@melvinsilva said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@melvinsilva said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Need to Buy a Phone, require to use it to do Full HD Videos and Photos,

options are:

• Redmi Note 8 Pro
• Redmi Note 8 Lite
• Redmi Note 9 Pro
• Redmi Note 8 Lite
• Redmi Note 10 Pro
• Redmi Note 8 Lite
• Huawei P30 Lite
• Huawei P40 Lite

What your comments are?

Note: No Apple or Samsung interested.

No Redmi here. Don't know them at all. Huawei should be amazing, but no Google Apps on it, which can be a negative. but for a camera, you can't beat it, and a great vendor. OnePlus looks really good. And Xiami.

Huawei announced end of products for this Sept 15th. So that is not a good choice now. Too Sad.

You mean for the older models? They are the world's top phone maker now, so unlikely to be going anywhere.

Yeah I am going to get their Mate40 as soon as it becomes available and it will replace my Mate9 which is still going strong and works flawlessly.

@pmoncho said in Need an intervention::

@jmoore said in Need an intervention::

@popester said in Need an intervention::

Am I the only person that has ADD so bad that you start a million projects and never finish any of them? If you have overcome something like this, what was the secret?............................ SQUIRREL!!!!!

We don't ever overcome it. We just search for tools to better list it(documentation) so we can always see how much we will never finish

WIP list is mighty long.

Sadly, I have lists of lists, in Tdoist lol

@jt1001001 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Think I'm going to put shared mailboxes up there on my hate list along with printers; not sure yet which I hate more

Shared mailboxes lol

Loving my ap pro, I have reception 5 houses down from mine. Wife cant complain about her wifi now!

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

So the Dept went a bought 1600 new servers, with 3 x 1.2TB in RAID 5.
What do you think about that!

Dang thats a heck of a shopping trip

@nadnerB Its like Force of Will and Timewalk all in one

@pmoncho said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender The XPS are nice, but I doubt I would ever use the "tablet" function.

Then buy the laptop version.

XPS 15 is pretty sweet.

Just wondering if others purchase warranties or not? While many of us could fix normal issues, I always tell normal users to purchase it but I normally limit myself to basic just because I don't want to have to deal with finding parts if they are needed.

Yeah I have always used a physics analogy for this. There is the concept of entropy in the universe. It is mostly constant. If something gains then something else loses. It is the same for warranties lol.

@JaredBusch said in Non-IT News Thread:

High-fidelity record of Earth's climate history puts current changes in context

Scientists have compiled a continuous, high-fidelity record of variations in Earth's climate extending 66 million years into the past. The record reveals four distinctive climate states, which the researchers dubbed Hothouse, Warmhouse, Coolhouse, and Icehouse. These major climate states persisted for millions and sometimes tens of millions of years, and within each one the climate shows rhythmic variations corresponding to changes in Earth's orbit around the sun.

That is very interesting. I have long thought that humans aren't affecting the climate as much as we thought. I am sure we are a little. However, we really can't be sure how much until we have more data from the Sun. The Sun has solar cycles that it goes through. Some are shorter like every 9-10 years I think. There are longer ones though that are still being measured, such as hundreds or thousands of years long. These solar cycles have decreased periods of electromagnetism at their beginnings and increased levels at the end of the cycles. So what this means is that at the beginning more radiation (which is light in the various spectrums and ultimately heat) is getting to us from the Sun and warming the planet up and creating the hothouse effect. This eventually reverses and has the opposite effect where it corresponds to the icehouse effect because less radiation is getting through the magnetic field of the Sun.

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

crazy and counter-intuitive is true without doing even 30 seconds of research that it took to come up with solid research on it

Well this is the hard part. Astrophysicists don't even know what causes the Sun's magnetism for sure or how its internals work, or the effect dust clouds have, or how solar winds affect our atmosphere, or the effect of the Sun's rotation on everything around it. There are way too many variables to say for sure one way or the other.

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

But wait, didn't we just determine that you'd not looked into this at all yet and hadn't done even cursory research on the subject? Something is off here.

You determined this yes. It never came from me. I am just modest in what I say about myself. I have read and studied, astronomy, calculus physics 1 and 2, modern physics, computational physics, and astrophysics. I'll be the first to admit I don't know a lot. the more I study the less I realize I know about anything.

I also never said I was not aware of research that has been put out. I have read about this for a long time and I also talk to friends that are professors and a couple others that work in physics fields. Is anyone truly qualified to give an opinion on any of this? I am not sure. One thing I have gleaned from my many discussions of this and other topics is that media that have strong opinions on things usually have financial reasons behind it because not enough data has been collected for a long enough period of time. I tend to believe that. It makes no sense to be as absolutely sure of anything as we are with as little as we know about anything in our galaxy. I am just saying its my opinion that it isn't entirely accurate and there are probably financial reason behind so many people pushing the same thing. Money is about the only thing that truly unites people unfortunately.

Was listening to some Final Fantasy piano pieces earlier while driving to work.