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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • I can kind of answer this question. For a year, I worked at a big box store where you can “save big money”. They had periodic training and one of the modules was on their store card.
    The question was, “Why do we want people to have our card?”
    I replied, “Because we don’t have to pay the standard processing fees.”
    “No, it’s because of loyalty. If they have a [big box store] card, then they’re much more likely to spend their money here instead of [competitor].”


  • I’m a 3 monitor person as well. 34" ultrawide as my main with two 24" widescreens side-to-side immediately above it. I use it for work and personal use.
    Ultrawide has my main programs for work: internet browsers and job specific programs get about 60% of the real estate on the left, while pdf’s, and other less essential programs go to the right 40% of the screen.
    The top left monitor gets Teams, Excel docs, or auxiliary browsers.
    Top right gets email and media (YouTube, Spotify, etc) or any overfill if I’m dealing with a particularly cluttered job.

    For personal, ultrawide is obviously used for games, movies, etc, while top left has task manager, MSI Afterburner, and Throttlestop (I run a laptop). And the top right has Discord.




  • I carry a pair on me at all times, too. And it’s a bigger help than one might realize.
    If someone is sensitive to loud noises or particular sounds, earplugs can help prevent them from being overstimulated by those sounds. If I enter a loud bar, I put them in. If I have to be around loud or crying kids, I put them in. Loud college party or hockey game? Ear plugs. Crowded fair? Ear plugs.
    They allow me to stay in social situations that I would otherwise have to leave. It makes much more sense for me to put my plugs in than to expect kids to be quiet all the time. Or for everyone at a party to be respectful just for me.







  • Adam Young, the guy behind Owl City has made albums under different names, including his own. One of the bands is Port Blue; he made an almost purely instrumental (only vocals are the first few seconds of the second track) album called The Airship. It feels rather experimental, but I use it to calm down. The other works are under his own name: Apollo 11, Project Excelsior, and Voyager 1.

    All are well made and they tell a story through the instrumental music. Would recommend.

    If I’m looking to maximize my relaxation, then it’s hard to go wrong with Sleepy Fish. Chill beats all the way.

    If you want acoustic guitar playing that you probably never experienced before, then check out Alan Gogoll. Love his stuff. Always nice to listen to. His song Mulberry Mouse is a favorite of mine.

    Aether also has a few instrumental albums. Eshajori is a very melancholic feeling album. Gives me a lonely, empty feeling, but I love it all the same.

    In a completely different direction, but you could check out The Glitch Mob. Definitely electronic, but I wouldn’t say EDM.

    That’s all I have on my phone at the moment. Hopefully these are good starts.


  • I think upgrading to a 6600 would be a good choice. That will net you a sizable jump in performance for the price. According to TechPowerUp, the 6600 is about 70% better than the 1060 6GB. If you were to upgrade anything else, I would say the power supply. Paired with the 8700 and 6600, yours will be perfectly fine. But if you were to upgrade to, say, a 3080 or above, then a beefier supply would be required.

    Edit: The 6600 only runs on 8 PCIe lanes instead of the regular 16. This isn’t an issue with newer hardware, but since your CPU doesn’t support PCIe Gen 4 speeds (only Gen 3), you may experience lower performance. Idk if it will be significant. Mostly because 8 PCIe Gen 3 lanes should be enough to not bottleneck the 6600. I believe Hardware Unboxed, Gamer’s Nexus, or another channel tested that, but I’m on mobile and don’t feel like searching for it.


  • I gave to them once or twice before the pandemic showed up. It was something I wanted to do, but never could since I was never financially able to.
    I stopped once I found an article showing that Wikipedia is not hurting for money at all, yet they kept groveling for money. I think it also said the CEO/owner was keeping a lot of the money for themself which I was not a fan of.