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[Deebs]

Sure if you include suburban areas that really should be a part of the city.

I'm talking more about surrounding towns and villages.

One of my sisters lives in a little town on the outskirts of Leicester. The main city is definitely not mainly white.

 

[Scouse]

Sure if you include suburban areas that really should be a part of the city.

I'm talking more about surrounding towns and villages.

So you mean Leicestershire's very white if you exclude the bits with the brown people in then.

Don't worry - the brown people are slowly doing what the white people have done - plenty move out of the city when they do well for themselves, so white rural Leicestershire is changing, and it's culture along with it.

Not that I care mind. But clearly some do.

 

[Gwadien]

One of my sisters lives in a little town on the outskirts of Leicester. The main city is definitely not mainly white.

Yeah.. That's what I said? Whites are a minority.

So you mean Leicestershire's very white if you exclude the bits with the brown people in then.

Don't worry - the brown people are slowly doing what the white people have done - plenty move out of the city when they do well for themselves, so white rural Leicestershire is changing, and it's culture along with it.

Not that I care mind. But clearly some do.

You seem to post lots got someone that doesn't care.

To clarify I thought it was what Gaffer was talking about with his Yorkshire and somewhere else comment because they're famously ethnic minority areas, but it appears I was wrong and therefore irrelevant.

But no, you're still wrong (I mean I live here but perhaps you do know more.) Very small amounts of ethic minorities are moving out to rural Leicestershire, theres a few exceptions but 'making it' is certainly a suburban thing. Probably due to the racism faced in more rural areas in Leicestershire which the UoLeicester recently did a study into.

But what do I know, oh and also of course I don't care.

 

[Scouse]

But no, you're still wrong (I mean I live here but perhaps you do know more.) Very small amounts of ethic minorities are moving out to rural Leicestershire, theres a few exceptions but 'making it' is certainly a suburban thing. Probably due to the racism faced in more rural areas in Leicestershire which the UoLeicester recently did a study into.

I said very slowly. The move into rural areas by ethnic minorities is a very slow thing. But then the move into North Wales by people who've done well is also a slow thing if we're not talking second home owners. But I'd wager it's at the same rate.

Yes, there'll be a higher level of racial intolerance in rural areas - anywhere where people aren't living side-by-side with ethnic minorities that's going to happen. But the vast majority of rural inhabitants are nice, normal people - and racism still exists in town centres. The determiner is wealth. Not a lot of asians are going to move to a shit house in the country (not a lot of people are, never mind asians). So it's nicer houses that will be slowly getting bought up by people who prefer a later-years rural life.

To clarify I thought it was what Gaffer was talking about with his Yorkshire and somewhere else comment because they're famously ethnic minority areas, but it appears I was wrong and therefore irrelevant.

Yorkshire and the West Midlands are again asian in the cities - not the country. They're the same makeup as Leicestershire. And it's the same deal there - the better-off ones who can afford a rural lifestyle (and don't mind the tradeoffs that come with not being in the city) do so. And I daresay they do so at pretty much the same rate that white folk do.

Racism isn't the determining factor of people moving out. Wealth is.

To bring it back to your "people who know how to navigate the system" point - would you not see asian families in those stats? The well-off ones are so education-focussed it's ridiculous. Any advantage they can take they will. I've got two really good friends who are first generation immigrants from India, their kids are doing spectacularly well. This weekend was the send-off for one of their kids to Cambridge to be a doctor.

 

[Deebs]

As you know I have been playing with Home Assistant and my solar install, on advice I have been searching for specific integrations/addons and whilst doing that I noticed this one:



Someone wrote a fucking bin collection addon for HA? Why? When I need to know when to put the bins out I just look out of the window and see what the neighbours have done

 

[DaGaffer]

As you know I have been playing with Home Assistant and my solar install, on advice I have been searching for specific integrations/addons and whilst doing that I noticed this one:

View attachment 50847

Someone wrote a fucking bin collection addon for HA? Why? When I need to know when to put the bins out I just look out of the window and see what the neighbours have done

We have different bin pickups in alternate weeks and there are two different collection companies, so this kind of thing would be useful over here.

 

[Scouse]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAyiMsA-GEE

 

[Bodhi]

We've got Deform, too. They have already scrapped anything that sounds like net-zero.

Good on them.

 

[Bodhi]

 

[MYstIC G]

As you know I have been playing with Home Assistant and my solar install, on advice I have been searching for specific integrations/addons and whilst doing that I noticed this one:

View attachment 50847

Someone wrote a fucking bin collection addon for HA? Why? When I need to know when to put the bins out I just look out of the window and see what the neighbours have done

Not everyone is tall enough to see it of windows T, no names mentioned

 

[Ctuchik]

I went down to the basement and i found this.. pretty sure it was my first Nvidia card.

 

[SilverHood]

I went down to the basement and i found this.. pretty sure it was my first Nvidia card.

What did you use before? ATI cards? I had a GeForce2 MX400 that came with our Fujitsu, so that doesn't really count. I remember buying myself a GeForce4 Ti4600 for my first totally home built PC in 2002, and it was such a monster in terms of raw performance compared to anything I'd had before.

 

[Deebs]

What did you use before? ATI cards? I had a GeForce2 MX400 that came with our Fujitsu, so that doesn't really count. I remember buying myself a GeForce4 Ti4600 for my first totally home built PC in 2002, and it was such a monster in terms of raw performance compared to anything I'd had before.

Hah, I had the voodoo 3dx card, christ just looked it up, came out in 1996. I might still have it somewhere in the loft.

 

[Raven]

I had a bunch of cards in the early days, but the one that stands out was the mighty Radeon 9800

ATI Radeon 9800 Specs

ATI R350, 325 MHz, 8 Pixel Shaders, 4 Vertex Shaders, 8 TMUs, 8 ROPs, 128 MB DDR, 290 MHz, 256 bit

www.techpowerup.com

Coupled with this badboy

AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Specs

Barton, 1 Cores, 1 Threads, 1833 MHz, 68 W

www.techpowerup.com

The first PC I fully built myself. I got married in 2002, my now brother-in-law helped me build my first PC, previous I was a peasant. While it's nice and simple these days, and a PC can be put together and working in less than an hour, I used to enjoy PC build nights, a bunch of us, in a room, spending all evening getting the thing working.

Tempted to do a little side project and get a ~2002 PC up and running, might get myself a beige case, to finish off the look.

 

[legowizardguy]

Hah, I had the voodoo 3dx card, christ just looked it up, came out in 1996. I might still have it somewhere in the loft.

did you run SLI because didn't 3dfx pioneer the technology?

 

[legowizardguy]

what was everyones favourite graphics card design ever personally always loved the older ATI cards, nvidia founders edition up until 2018 and evga's designs

 

[legowizardguy]

whats everyones current battlestations as well

 

[Deebs]

did you run SLI because didn't 3dfx pioneer the technology?

yes I did, with a short ribbon connector.

 

[legowizardguy]

yes I did, with a short ribbon connector.

quad, triple or dual

 

[legowizardguy]

ngl, scaling with 4 way SLI was give or take some users had micro stutter issues but that was the limitation of SLI. btw did anyone run crossfire

 

[Raven]

whats everyones current battlestations as well

AMD 5800X3D 64gb of ram, RTX 5080 graphics card, recent upgrade from a 3080, I will update the rest in ~18 months. I've got myself into a nice cycle where I upgrade the motherboard/processor/ram one 18m cycle, and the graphics card the next, spreads the cost.

 

[legowizardguy]

AMD 5800X3D 64gb of ram, RTX 5080 graphics card, recent upgrade from a 3080, I will update the rest in ~18 months. I've got myself into a nice cycle where I upgrade the motherboard/processor/ram one 18m cycle, and the graphics card the next, spreads the cost.

AM4 for the win. I am running a 4080 Super, i7 14700KF which is basically going to die soon. hows ur 5080? oh and 32gb ram at 6000mhz i think?

 

[Raven]

Pretty solid so far, but there aren't that many AAA games that are any good at the moment. Mostly playing 7 days to die on it, which is an awfully compiled mess...but a lot of fun.

Came with a borderlands 4 key, which is OK, would probably be miffed if I paid for it.

Going to start another Cyberpunk play through this weekend, to really push it.

 

[SilverHood]

I have a Ryzen 7 3700X paired with a RTX 2080 Super. It's just about holding on for modern games, but as I mainly play older or indy games, I haven't felt the need to upgrade too much. It's been used 12+ hours a day since I built it during the pandemic, so it's likely going to die soon. Hoping it lasts until January when I get my bonus and tax refunds.

As for looks, the 970 GTX was amazing in the looks department for the time.

 

[legowizardguy]

I have a Ryzen 7 3700X paired with a RTX 2080 Super. It's just about holding on for modern games, but as I mainly play older or indy games, I haven't felt the need to upgrade too much. It's been used 12+ hours a day since I built it during the pandemic, so it's likely going to die soon. Hoping it lasts until January when I get my bonus and tax refunds.

As for looks, the 970 GTX was amazing in the looks department for the time.

yeah especially the blower cards also your system has tons of upgrade path lol

 

[Tom]

I'm still on a VESA Local Bus gfx card with my SB16 and Waveblaster add on.