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humbert

Hey Shadow,

Your point is perfectly clear. It makes no sense having a high paying job you like and living in a situation that becomes more intolerable by the day. Something needs to be done, the sooner the better.

I am shocked at the price of apartments in Dublin. Believe me, here for that price you could literally buy a mansion (not kidding)! Even in Miami Beach you could buy a luxury condo located right on the tropical Atlantic Ocean, assuming it's what you like.

As usual, a smart guy like you always weighs all the options. From what I'm seeing your plan sounds perfect. I suggest you talk to your employers and explain the situation. Based on what you're telling me there's a better than average chance they'll help you out.

Go forward with your plan and best of luck to you.

scarface

We are in April and yet, it's currently snowing here, in the Hauts de Seine.
If the snow is sticking, I'll take some photos.

Shadow.97

Ramadan mubarak to all our Muslim friends on the forum :)

humbert

Quote from: scarface on April 01, 2022, 09:34 AMWe are in April and yet, it's currently snowing here, in the Hauts de Seine.
If the snow is sticking, I'll take some photos.

How I envy you! Daytime temps here are already 32° to 34°C. If I had a wish it would be to live in a place where I would never need A/C.

Daniil

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Quote from: scarface on April 01, 2022, 09:34 AMWe are in April and yet, it's currently snowing here, in the Hauts de Seine.
If the snow is sticking, I'll take some photo
Oh, I'm understand you, friend. Here in St.Petersburg was about -8C at Thursday.

BTW, it's very funny to play a computer games about cold places made by guys from southern regions. This winter I with my gf played "Subnautica:Below Zero". It was "very cold" in the game, temp indicator in GUI shown "insane" 0°C, and in-game notifications said that it is "extremely weather conditions"... And at outside was -23°C, and we played snowballs and went to museums.

Quote from: humbert on April 03, 2022, 05:26 AMHow I envy you! Daytime temps here are already 32° to 34°C. If I had a wish it would be to live in a place where I would never need A/C.
32°C it's very hot, for me! Last summer here in St.Petersburg it was up to 27°C, and that was insane in the city without A/C. Buildings here are not intended for warm weather, and that's also very humid here in city. Probably, in Texas, where is much more dry, it's easier to endure this heat.

Quote from: Shadow.97 on March 26, 2022, 11:03 PMBeen thinking more and more to quit my job and move back to Sweden. It's fascinating how much energy it takes to go through with it and actually start process.
What is your job, dear friend?
You see, I think I must warn you against too fast solutions of this question. Life sometimes is hard, ans dometimes you think that maybe it's better to drop all this, and get back to home and restarting all... But in many cases it's not so good solution. I was in a such situation some times. Think twice - is the trouble in your work or in you self?

I understand that sometimes in such situation all solutions are inoptimal, specially if to think about far consequences . I repeating, I was in such situations. Solutions I made was always acceptable, but always inoptimal. For example, my finance troubles today caused by a situation like your, which was three years ago.

Also, about prices for an apartments you mentioned... That's horrible. We heared here in Russia that english landlords and estate sellers are impudent, but that's over any bounds! It's not normal to pay 350kE for an apartment. Prices is Sweden looks (for me) much more normal. Here in Russia we can buy an 2-3 rooms apartment in St.Petersburg for about 12 000 000 R, it's very close to prices you mentioned for Sweden. (We have much smaller salary than in Europe, that's why we, en masse, have troubles with new real estate. But despite of this, people buy estate, using hypotec).

Quote from: humbert on March 26, 2022, 05:06 AMDo you guys REALLY know what's going on in Ukraine -- or at least what the "prohibited" press is saying? I'm asking because I recall at one time you said Ukraine had nuclear weapons and that Javelins were ineffective against Russian tanks. This is pure Putin propaganda. If Ukraine had nukes the time to use them is when you're under attack, otherwise why have them at all? Also, at last report Putin has lost 549 tanks to the Javelins -- not even counting those where the tank crew surrendered because they were hungry and had frostbite. Ukraine has so many captured Russian weapons that Zelensky the other day joked that Russia had become one of Ukraine's major weapon suppliers!
I didn't say that Ukraine have nukes. I said that they can make it in a some years, and that's a truth (I'm surprised why they didn't create nukes earlier!) Also, Javelines are ineffective against russian tanks. Do you know how Javelin's homing system works? I know, I can explain it for you. And I can say that this is an old piece of crap hardware from 80-s. It's a kind of "true american weapons" - infinitely expensive, very knowledge-intensive and with very dubious efficiency.
549 tanks is a normal losses count for such kind of a conflict. Let's be impartial. Our military at 25.03.2022 reported about 1351 killed and 3825 injured russian soldiers. That looks a bit understatement, probably losses are 15-20 percents higher. (1351+3825)x1.2 equals ~6211 casualities overall. Tank forces are about 1/3 of russian military overall (in fact, part of tank forces are much bigger, but we should understand , that not everyone in tank forces are crew - most of them are technicans, drivers of supply vechicles, and so on). So, 6211/3=2070 casualtites in tank forces. Now, typical russian tank have a 3 mens in a crew. So, 2070/3 is ~690. So, 549 destroyed tanks looks very probale count (most probable number is about 659). An this is normal for this scale of warfighting. Don't forget, russian military have 10 000 tanks only on european theater, and Ukraine have second (by size) military force in Europe after France.

Quote from: humbert on March 26, 2022, 05:06 AMThere is confusion on the definition of "destroyed". I believe it means the total obliteration of a country where it can never again recover. Despite everything that happened, Vietnam was nowhere near destruction (as I define it). Just 3 years after the war with the USA ended they were able to mount an offensive against Cambodia, and took Phnom Penh in less than 3 months.
Oh, well, OK. In that case we can't say that even Germany or USSR in WWII were "destroyed" - at 1951 german's BMW made their first after-war car, and at 1957 (just in 13 years!) USSR sent to space first Sputnik.
In that case, take a look at numbers. Total death count in civilians in Vietnam war is 1 326 494-3 447 494 men. I.e., about 2 millions of people, about 5% of population! And that's only a civilians! With military losses it'd be about 7% of population. To compare: USSR lost 11.7 % in WWII, Germany lost 10%. That was a losses in a most ferocious war in history. You can see yourself, that in percents, loss count for Vietnam is close to percentage of losses in WWII.
Why I raise this all? I just want to say, that US have no rights to blame Russia for this invasion. US politicans are same bitches as ours. They, historically, very often decided to cut lives of innocent peoples, just because of their paranoia, political and economical interests. In this they are no difference to Putin.

humbert

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Despite what you said regarding javelins and other stuff, the hard fact is this: Putin has lost this war. 1½ months after an invasion that was supposed to take 48 hours, Ukraine is still holding -- and getting stronger. I am constantly reading reports from MANY news sources that Russian tanks and planes are being destroyed left and right. The morale of Russian soldiers is horrendous. They are low on fuel and food. There are constant desertions. Putin has lost (at last count) 6 generals. If the weapons Ukrainians are using don't work, then how do you account for all this? Putin has lost this war. Please don't say this is propaganda, the only one saying the contrary is Russia's Putin-controlled news media.

Putin had absolutely NO right to invade a democratic, sovereign nation such as Ukraine. His plan was to remove a democratically elected president and install a puppet. This war was totally unnecessary, Russia was NEVER in any danger. Then again despots always do this when either they're in trouble or they want to expand their leadership. And yes, I agree Americans aren't perfect. But Putin is MUCH WORSE. Keep something else in mind: ALL despots of any nationality equate loyalty to the dictator  to loyalty to the nation. Don't fall for this trap. The enemy here is Putin, not the Russian people.
 
BTW, one of the Russian generals was killed because he was using a regular cell phone. Ukrainians immediately triangulated his location and sent their troops in. He and his staff were all killed. A surviving captured Russian soldier, during interrogation, was asked why was the Russian communication system not used. He answered "because it wasn't working"!

Shadow.97

My c: drive is has gotten bad blocks(corruption). 3% bad blocks. 60gb in total. I'm assuming thats how it works, as it is a 2tb SSD. Samsung PM9A1. (OEM version of 980 Pro, retails for 12% lower price than 980 pro)

Lord, it's a pain in the *** to deal with.
Running "Roadkil's Unstoppable copier" to copy a .vhdx virtual harddrive that is ever so slightly corrupt. (5.29MB of 22.392GB so far, of 290gb. 4MB/s. Approx 21h ETA), Most things are backed up, but some things just can not be easily be backed up on a regular schedule.

I've got an RMA accepted by the retailer Caseking.de. So just doing my backups before sending the drive over.
Reinstalled windows on my old samsung 960 500gb ssd. I'm happy I had that laying around barely used.


I recommend you all to scan your drives every ~6 months with HDDSCAN(butterfly test) or HDTUNE on default setting. As well as checking Smart values.



Tool links:
https://www.roadkil.net/listing.php/C1/Data%20Recovery (force copy corrupt files)
https://hddscan.com/
http://www.hdtune.com/download.html (scroll down to free version)
https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm (Can help if your drive is not spinning up/not showing up in windows)
https://crystalmark.info/en/download/ (standard/zip is recommended, just to check smart values in a nicer GUI than hddscan/hdtune)

Daniil

Quote from: Shadow.97 on April 22, 2022, 03:03 AMLord, it's a pain in the *** to deal with.
Running "Roadkil's Unstoppable copier" to copy a .vhdx virtual harddrive that is ever so slightly corrupt. (5.29MB of 22.392GB so far, of 290gb. 4MB/s. Approx 21h ETA), Most things are backed up, but some things just can not be easily be backed up on a regular schedule.
Don't turn off your PC until the end of all backup operations. Every power-offs in that case increases chance to destroy all of your data. Good that you have backups.

scarface

Quote from: Shadow.97 on April 22, 2022, 03:03 AMMy c: drive is has gotten bad blocks(corruption). 3% bad blocks. 60gb in total. I'm assuming thats how it works, as it is a 2tb SSD. Samsung PM9A1. (OEM version of 980 Pro, retails for 12% lower price than 980 pro)
The last time I broke a SSD, it was in June 2019. I spilt a beer can on it...

Quote from: Shadow.97 on April 22, 2022, 03:03 AMTool links:
https://www.roadkil.net/listing.php/C1/Data%20Recovery (force copy corrupt files)
https://hddscan.com/
http://www.hdtune.com/download.html (scroll down to free version)
https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm (Can help if your drive is not spinning up/not showing up in windows)
https://crystalmark.info/en/download/ (standard/zip is recommended, just to check smart values in a nicer GUI than hddscan/hdtune)
In case you need to install some of these programs, I made an AIO installer.
Link: https://mega.nz/file/dNtFkQID#Iyc-NVozA7IlUJyyQZRzSp0i6TKU_WxF3t04_6G_mqw

Shadow.97

Quote from: scarface on April 23, 2022, 01:58 AM
Quote from: Shadow.97 on April 22, 2022, 03:03 AMMy c: drive is has gotten bad blocks(corruption). 3% bad blocks. 60gb in total. I'm assuming thats how it works, as it is a 2tb SSD. Samsung PM9A1. (OEM version of 980 Pro, retails for 12% lower price than 980 pro)
The last time I broke a SSD, it was in June 2019. I spilt a beer can on it...

Quote from: Shadow.97 on April 22, 2022, 03:03 AMTool links:
https://www.roadkil.net/listing.php/C1/Data%20Recovery (force copy corrupt files)
https://hddscan.com/
http://www.hdtune.com/download.html (scroll down to free version)
https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm (Can help if your drive is not spinning up/not showing up in windows)
https://crystalmark.info/en/download/ (standard/zip is recommended, just to check smart values in a nicer GUI than hddscan/hdtune)
In case you need to install some of these programs, I made an AIO installer.
Link: https://mega.nz/file/dNtFkQID#Iyc-NVozA7IlUJyyQZRzSp0i6TKU_WxF3t04_6G_mqw
I've had 3 ssd's break.

One I got used from a shady person for €10. (corsair 120gb).
One was a portable ssd from Intenso, that was honestly just 2 usb sticks slapped together. (2 memory cells, no cache).
Now thirdly, this "premium"-oem branded ssd.
First ssd died for no reason, second one died due to having issues being reformatted.
Third for no reason.
I've only ever had two HDDs fail throughout my entire life. So it kind of does surprise me of my bad luck with SSDs.
Luckily no data has been lost from the SSDs. Sadly from the very first HDD there was 300GB lost data, mostly family pictures. Harddrive got lost after I brought it to schools IT for data recovery.