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True. Some of these components are about 6 years old, and not to sound like an old fart, AKA @Santaman (
), but they really don't make them like they used to.
), but they really don't make them like they used to.
True. Some of these components are about 6 years old, and not to sound like an old fart, AKA @Santaman (
My last one was bought around mid 2019 so yeah I think it's due now to change over might even up the wattage a bit. Current one is a Coolermaster V650
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I recommend Newegg's wattage calculator, as it seems to be the most consistent when compared with others. Plus, it can help you find the matching power supply for a pretty good price. Newegg is how I'm getting some of my replacement parts. Thank goodness for Zip.
But not cheap if shipping to Australia. I think I'll buy local in a brick and mortar store, just to clarify I have purchased from them before and found it more expensive then going local for the same items which I should have done.
I have been researching laptops and want something to use while traveling to watch movies but not many if at all models with built in dvd drives for movie watching on a budget. I just want a decent budget machine to take on long rides so you can kill a couple of hours.
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Just for you folks, I'm posting the desktop image of my dinghy. Don't let the 4 GB of RAM fool you, she's slow as hell, and that's on Linux Mint 21.2 using XFCE.
Good point. I keep forgetting not everyone has subsidized shipping like the US tends to get because most companies are either based here or do frequent business here.
Also, it's getting harder to find laptops with DVD drives. When I rebuild this system, I'm not including my DVD drive, for example, because I just don't use it anymore. If I truly need to read or author a CD or DVD, I have an external DVD burner I keep in the closet. That's how rare it has become for me to do that. I deal mostly in USB sticks and converting my movies to MP4/MKV format for ease of transport.
I hope you find something really good, though, if you're shopping local.
Good point. I keep forgetting not everyone has subsidized shipping like the US tends to get because most companies are either based here or do frequent business here.
Also, it's getting harder to find laptops with DVD drives. When I rebuild this system, I'm not including my DVD drive, for example, because I just don't use it anymore. If I truly need to read or author a CD or DVD, I have an external DVD burner I keep in the closet. That's how rare it has become for me to do that. I deal mostly in USB sticks and converting my movies to MP4/MKV format for ease of transport.
I hope you find something really good, though, if you're shopping local.
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I'm glad you have the options! I'd love to shop local more often, especially when I'm in a pinch and need a part now and not 3 to 7 days from now. Unfortunately, I live out in the middle of nowhere, and the one PC repair shop that was here moved out last year. That means the nearest electronics store is about 20 miles away.
Amazon is kind of a love/hate kind of thing for me as a result. I can get my PC parts, as well as my necessary medical supplies from them, and they make it that way on purpose, of course. Shopping local, as you do, is the right way to go.
One of my friends suggested I open my own computer repair store to take up the slack, but it requires a lot of money, good credit, and being able to weather the very frequent days where business is dead, because around here, businesses are dead unless you're a pizza place or a Dollar General.
I'm glad you have the options! I'd love to shop local more often, especially when I'm in a pinch and need a part now and not 3 to 7 days from now. Unfortunately, I live out in the middle of nowhere, and the one PC repair shop that was here moved out last year. That means the nearest electronics store is about 20 miles away.
Amazon is kind of a love/hate kind of thing for me as a result. I can get my PC parts, as well as my necessary medical supplies from them, and they make it that way on purpose, of course. Shopping local, as you do, is the right way to go.
One of my friends suggested I open my own computer repair store to take up the slack, but it requires a lot of money, good credit, and being able to weather the very frequent days where business is dead, because around here, businesses are dead unless you're a pizza place or a Dollar General.
Also handling the customer complaints, and you will get them regardless of doing a good job or not
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I never got customer complaints when I ran my PC repair business. *pulls on suspenders*
Seriously, I always did a thorough job, always picked the best hardware when recommending something to a customer, while doing my best to keep the total cost down so they weren't paying out the ear for a solid PC. I, uh, was a victim of my own success.
I never got customer complaints when I ran my PC repair business. *pulls on suspenders*
Seriously, I always did a thorough job, always picked the best hardware when recommending something to a customer, while doing my best to keep the total cost down so they weren't paying out the ear for a solid PC. I, uh, was a victim of my own success.
Consider yourself lucky. I have seen people complain even when people have done the very best they can do and do a good job.
You can do some interesting things with Cinnamon panels if you're willing to get your hands dirty with the CSS. The workspace switcher at top, however, defied every attempt I made, except for widening the buttons, to style it any differently.
Linux Mint One Ring Edition by Allyn Gibson, on Flickr
Linux Mint One Ring Edition by Allyn Gibson, on Flickr
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That is a sharp theme! I love it! Nice work!You can do some interesting things with Cinnamon panels if you're willing to get your hands dirty with the CSS. The workspace switcher at top, however, defied every attempt I made, except for widening the buttons, to style it any differently.
Thanks! Mint has nice aesthetics to start with, and it didn't take a lot of work.
I created what, in my WordPress days, I'd call a "child theme." In other words, I created a Mint-Y-Dark-Sand folder in ~/.themes, then created a cinnamon folder in that, and created a cinnamon.css file. Cinnamon will load my file instead of the system's file, so my CSS file loads the system's CSS file, and then I adjust the descriptors and definitions I want to change.
My cinnamon.css file looks like this:
Top panel is 40px. Left panel is 60px and is set to Hide Intelligently. I had to account for the top panel when centering the left panel, which is why the margin-top and margin-bottom values are different.
Honestly, I was only playing around with it to see what would happen -- I was working on a project at work with CSS buttons and I wondered if Cinnamon's CSS parser could handle it -- and I really like it.
I created what, in my WordPress days, I'd call a "child theme." In other words, I created a Mint-Y-Dark-Sand folder in ~/.themes, then created a cinnamon folder in that, and created a cinnamon.css file. Cinnamon will load my file instead of the system's file, so my CSS file loads the system's CSS file, and then I adjust the descriptors and definitions I want to change.
My cinnamon.css file looks like this:
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@import url("/usr/share/themes/Mint-Y-Dark-Sand/cinnamon/cinnamon.css");
.panel-top {
margin-left: 240px;
margin-right: 240px;
background-color: rgba(48, 49, 48, 0); }
.panel-top .panelLeft,
.panel-top .panelRight {
background-color: rgba(197, 160, 124, 0.67);
text-align: center;
border-radius: 8px;
padding-top: 2px;
padding-bottom: 2px;
margin-top: 6px;
margin-bottom: 6px; }
.panel-top .panelLeft {
padding-left: 4px; }
.panel-top .panelRight {
padding-right: 4px; }
.workspace-button { width: 40px; }
.panel-left {
margin-top: 80px;
margin-bottom: 120px;
padding-top: 8px;
padding-bottom: 8px;
border-radius: 10px; }Top panel is 40px. Left panel is 60px and is set to Hide Intelligently. I had to account for the top panel when centering the left panel, which is why the margin-top and margin-bottom values are different.
Honestly, I was only playing around with it to see what would happen -- I was working on a project at work with CSS buttons and I wondered if Cinnamon's CSS parser could handle it -- and I really like it.
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It's a very clean look. I dabbled with Cinnamon's CSS a few times, and I never really liked the outcomes, so good on you for making it look very nice. Cinnamon is flexible, and I would have chosen it over XFCE here, except it's very polished, and is a little more RAM heavy than XFCE, and even with XFCE this little Intel processor, never really meant for something other than a basic mobile phone methinks, struggles to keep up.Thanks! Mint has nice aesthetics to start with, and it didn't take a lot of work.
I created what, in my WordPress days, I'd call a "child theme." In other words, I created a Mint-Y-Dark-Sand folder in ~/.themes, then created a cinnamon folder in that, and created a cinnamon.css file. Cinnamon will load my file instead of the system's file, so my CSS file loads the system's CSS file, and then I adjust the descriptors and definitions I want to change.
My cinnamon.css file looks like this:
Code:@import url("/usr/share/themes/Mint-Y-Dark-Sand/cinnamon/cinnamon.css"); .panel-top { margin-left: 240px; margin-right: 240px; background-color: rgba(48, 49, 48, 0); } .panel-top .panelLeft, .panel-top .panelRight { background-color: rgba(197, 160, 124, 0.67); text-align: center; border-radius: 8px; padding-top: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 6px; } .panel-top .panelLeft { padding-left: 4px; } .panel-top .panelRight { padding-right: 4px; } .workspace-button { width: 40px; } .panel-left { margin-top: 80px; margin-bottom: 120px; padding-top: 8px; padding-bottom: 8px; border-radius: 10px; }
Top panel is 40px. Left panel is 60px and is set to Hide Intelligently. I had to account for the top panel when centering the left panel, which is why the margin-top and margin-bottom values are different.
Honestly, I was only playing around with it to see what would happen -- I was working on a project at work with CSS buttons and I wondered if Cinnamon's CSS parser could handle it -- and I really like it.
You should upload your theme to Gnome-looks if you haven't already. I see people posting some truly awful themes like they just slapped some colors together for something different, but yours would probably be very popular because it's genuinely well done and integrates well into the overall look of Cinnamon.
Hmm, decent not too expensive PSU.. Seasonic B12 -G12 series, solid and no thrills of frills the B means it's not modular and the G version means it's a modular version so a little more expensive but both seem to be good.
https://cultists.network/140/psu-tier-list/
^^ That's a really good way to sort out PSU's
https://cultists.network/140/psu-tier-list/
^^ That's a really good way to sort out PSU's
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I ended up getting a Thermaltake Smart 700 80-White. It's all I could afford, and still gave me the power I needed. I looked at the list and it says Thermaltake Smart series should be avoided, so I'm going to have to cross my fingers on this one and hope everything works.
Also, it arrived today and this thing is heavy as hell.
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As long as it can last me about 6 months, that will give me time to save up for a better PSU. :/
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I do like the Seasonics I saw. Apparently, they're incredibly dependable, and very responsive to power demands. So I'll likely spend the next 6 months or so saving up for one. I'll be running an AMD Ryzen 5 5600 and an AMD RX 6600, two SSDs, and 4 16GB DDR4 RAM slots, so I should be okay until then.Yes, that will be fine, just do a Voodoo dance and prey to the eternal gods of the blue screen every time you switch it on..
