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@kistaro Cards right now..

So thoughts after a month of owning my current blade 15"

I love everything about except the fan management. It is fucking terrible. MSI came out of the box with amazing fan management, overclocking, downclocking and hardware control software.

By comparision Synapse is terri-bad. Especially since it does not let you set fan profiles. The automatic fan control lets the laptop get very warm before turning them to max rpm until cool and then shutting them down..

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The long term reviews were surprisingly positive that I could dig up aside from some very specific issues with windows trying to install the wrong wireless drivers (Which I experienced after the doing a rollup update)

Two weeks ago I started having random gpu related BSODs and crashes. I was in the process of RMAing the unit when the support tech suggested I roll my drivers back to pre 4.17 with DDU and suddenly the crashing stopped. Apparently this a problem with all of the MAX-Q

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I bought the MSI G65 and loved everything about it except the keyboard and trackpad... two weeks in I was still making typos I couldn't explain, the keys would rapidly stop accepting input until I clicked back into a window and the trackpad was... infuriating. After two weeks I accepted I wasn't going to adapt or work around those problems. Otherwise it is a brilliant laptop.

I started the return on it and bought a late 2018 razerblade advanced 15"

tbc..

@kistaro I loved my 2n gen razerblade 14" for the first 3 years I owned it, then the battery died and I couldn't find a replacement.. then one fan died and finally a month and half ago the second died.

I had been doing research and shopping around, settled originally on either a Max-Q 1060 MSI G65 Stealth Thin or reluctantly a Razerblade 15" Advanced with Max-Q 1060 .

Asus's offerings were kinda lacking, expensive or had a numpad on a 15" laptop (ewww for me).

tbc..

@kistaro Ugh.. :(

I had to deal with Max Q razerblade being murdered by latest Nvida drivers.

OMG fucking gods... these lamb seekh kababs are amazing... with a red-brown hot curry gravy like sauce, carmelized onions and bellpeppers with some grilled lime slices.

Just spicy enough that my nose is a little wet.. and mmm.. great blend of spices, cilantro, ocassion chunk of fennel.. I'd take a photo but I kinda of devoured them..

Excellent job..Naan & Curry (The garlic naan and lamb kadai were also really tasty)

I'm becoming less and less enchanted with Safeway's delivery and pickup serivces.

Last delivery order had some really wierd substitutions.. like LET ME SUB 1.5lbs of meat for the 3.5-4.5lb pack you ordered.. on 3 different items (boneless porkchops, "country style" ribs and porkloin) literally ruining my meal plans for the evening and the next two days...

Today the pick up service mixed up half of my order with a person that drove off with their car half loaded so the dude scrambled to get all her stuff in after flagging her down at a stop sign. Somehow he loaded the dry goods totes with all the snack foods for our household on it. They were so busy I didn't really get a chance to check every thing until I got home and found a lot missing.

At least they are refunding us... but ugh... no tasty snack foods... and I really don't want to go in a safeway on friday afternoon... it is always hellicaously busy.

words and typos... missing words welp.. I'm sure that sorta makes sense.. mostly.

Wee.... this weekend is the last weekend I'll work in theory. Had my final review with my current manager which was pretty much what you would expect since I'm one week from my last day on his team and 11 days from my promotion and transfer to an SRE role being official.

Everyone seems to think I'll be able to handle this new role well... both my current team and my new team. But I'm seriously nervous. I've been coasting in my current position for a while because of burnout thanks to my shitty schedule and shear amount of interrupt drive work that our oncall hotseat generates (Most of my current team works 1-2 of these a week.. and 1 weekend a month until a month ago I worked 4 one week and 6 the following week on a two week rotation).

Now my transfer and promotion has been real... instead of like.. a thing maybe at some nebulous day in the future.

Even got an off the record mention of what was submitted to HR for my pay increase.. was about what I was hoping for.. around 15%. Will put me in the bottom rung for a public cloud SRE in the bay area.. which is okay, since I'm an AWS neophite joining a team of 2 with a combined 19 years of experience doing things in AWS.

Just... so much new stuff and I'm like... super worried about fucking it up... or failing to meet the seemingly huge expectations everyone seems to have... Fucking imposter syndroming hardcore.

@Oneironott Fat dragon tails are the best

@Thaminga @kistaro @Oneironott Oh my... yes.. that is good stuff...

@kistaro Work.. I can manage.. strangers I can manage.. like I can talk with and get people to talk to me for hours without them realizing time has gone by. I just.. feel like.. before all the bad shit that happened at early part of this decade I could just.. easily slip into friendships and acquaintances. Now that feels.. disconnected? Some of my oldest friends and relationships just feel gone.. or like I'm there because I was there back in the day and I'm missing the connections I had..

Bleh... feeling really alone and out of place today.. like I don't know where I fit in..anywhere.. or if I'm just some artifact of a different time in various social circles.

@kistaro Ugh... my gaming rig is Windows 10 Pro/Ubuntu dual boot because proton kinda sucks. new laptop shipped with Windows 10 home... and ew... ew I need to fix it...

Welp... old manager can't spare me until the 4th...

So instead I'll just be in the office a lot more and crosstraining during days I'm not on pagerduty..

@mawr Yeah, that sounds like a good plan!

With the number of short interrupt outages and a few long outages we had here I wish that was an option.

Ooof... just got out of a meeting with my soon to be manager and new team leader. Transition date went from May 6th.. to Monday in theory.. but that does not jive with conversation I had with my current manager earlier today!

Hngg.. being up at 9am and in the office around 9:30am on Monday is gonna be rough since I'm working 1pm-8pm on Friday..