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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • Try to get ryzen 5600, it’s pretty good and goes cheap. 5500 should be mostly fine too, but it’s a little gimped on cache compared to 5600. Avoid cpus with G at the end, you don’t want/need to pay for integrated graphics.

    Second thing would be graphics card. Try to find used radeon 5700, 6600 or something similar. They will be faster and won’t be as power hungry = you won’t need new power supply.

    Also bigger ssd. Doesn’t need to be nvme, but having spinning drive for software is a pain these days. Sata SSD is fine.



  • It never really crossed my mind there’s even a possibility to not having something to read. Thinking about it a bit more, I see few reasons for my immediate thought.

    First I’m quite slow reader myself. I read rougly 10 books a year so I don’t burn through as many books as some other more avid readers.

    Second I read mostly SF/F and there’s just so many good books and series for people interested in this genre. And while not everything is perfect, I’m probably much more tolerant to some imperfections as a genre fan.

    Third, I read in my (non english) native tongue and while we’re definitely limited in quantity, it’s usually a bit of a filter so most of bad and trash books are excluded. Who would pay to translate and print shitty book anyway?

    We have two good local sites that helps. One is basically like “local goodreads”, the other is strictly SF/F fansite. Both have user ratings and reviews which help a lot. Also my best friend has similar taste in books, so we often recommend our findings to each other.



  • I’m not really movie guy, but I would add these myself:

    • Monty Python and the Holy Grail and/or Life of Brian - both are timeless classic if you’re into silly British humour
    • Pulp Fiction - one of my favourites, virtually every scene is memorable or legendary, good acting and very dark yer still funny
    • Apocalypse Now - for some strange reason I like movies about Vietnam war and this one is probably my top one (followed by Jacobs Ladder (very grim) and Platoon)
    • Shawshank Redemption - it’s recommended everywhere and I can’t argue with that, great touching movie (same goes for Forrest Gump)
    • The Crow (90s one) - one of the best noire/goth atmosphere in movies I’ve seen, great soundtrack too
    • Catch XXII (1970) - it’s absurd as it should be, book well made into movie