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Jdietz

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  1. As usual units and levels all over the place.

    MilliSievert and MicroSievert per hour or per year.

     

    85.83 microSieverts per hour is quite a bit higher than background, but not dangerous in the short run (weeks) unless ingesting (which will be uncomfortable being needles and all) or sleeping on top of a bunch of them for a prolonged period.

     

    Natural radiation in milliSieverts/year (1 mSv = 1,000 microSieverts):

    Radiation source World[2] US[3] Japan[4] Remark
    Inhalation of air 1.26 2.28 0.40 mainly from radon, depends on indoor accumulation
    Ingestion of food & water 0.29 0.28 0.40 (K-40, C-14, etc.)
    Terrestrial radiation from ground 0.48 0.21 0.40 depends on soil and building material
    Cosmic radiation from space 0.39 0.33 0.30 depends on altitude
    sub total (natural) 2.40 3.10 1.50 sizeable population groups receive 10–20 mSv

     

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Background_radiation

  2. XPlane 11 is mostly CPU bound. It doesn't multi-thread very well (but we wait for v12 to start fixing that).

    So multi-core at this point doesn't help as much as pure unadulterated clock speed.

    I would recommend a Windows machine with at least an Nvidia 1060, 16GB RAM (32 if you can), and the fastest clocked processor you can find (i7-7820X or something)

    (oh and if you like your scenery make sure to get a seriously big SSD drive)

     

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  3. Well at least the yellow won't dry out, it's used to embed identifying information in everything you print. (now you know why it refuses to print black only if the color is out)

     

    To prevent drying out, leave the printer switched on (standby) and it'll take care of the drying out by itself.

    Printing a color test print once a month or so will be good.

     

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