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1 hour ago, Jackbenimble said:

I have worked with Filipinos for 17 years and nothing you can say in their defence alters the fact that their spelling and grammar is dreadful. 

 

Hartman's law of prescriptivist retaliation, a variation of Muphry's law: "Any article or statement about correct grammar, punctuation, or spelling is bound to contain at least one eror [sic]."

8 hours ago, nglodnig said:

Exercise yes I do minimum half hour bicycling every day but keeping the brain active is a major if not THE major key.

 

Can't solely rely on that. Organics & metabolism come too strongly into play. This recently:

 

https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2024/04/18/JNEUROSCI.2059-23.2024
 

Although memory normally declines with age, some older people may have memory performance similar to that of people 30 years younger, and this phenomenon is often conceptualised as superageing

 

I know, as I'm sure others do as well, intelligent, educated folks w/ active brains who nevertheless suffered cognitive decline all the way into dementia. Sometimes you can point to some obvious factors. Smoking & drinking, for example.

 

So the resistance has to be made on multiple fronts.

 

Get all the numbers good w/o meds, though we have a lot medication fans here:

 

 

And the HbA1C 5.7 or less, normal BP and HR, normal BMI or waist/height ratio.

 

Exercise, as noted, very helpful:

 

 

Creatine known good:

 

Creatine Supplementation and Brain Health

 

A couple of others to consider: ginkgo biloba and lion's mane. 

 

Other than that, a nutrient-rich diet. Hit the polyphenols:

 

Dietary polyphenols have been observed to protect the brain against such cellular alteration through the modulation of neuronal function against endogenous neurotoxins and inhibition of glial-induced neuroinflammation.

     --https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3372091/

 

You know, dark chocolate, tea, coffee, berries, red wine.

 

Some extra anti-oxidants might be helpful, but you'll never know, having no clone to act as a control subject.

 

And, yup, a brain needs exercise too. Video games, readily available.

 

Video games show potential in improving key aspects of memory in older adults

 

I suspect, w/o any real evidence, that the intensity of the game is a positive factor, just as it is with exercise and muscle building.

 

6 hours ago, NONG CHOK said:

I strictly walk on the right side so I can see the coming traffic. I prefer that than having those cretins coming up behind me.

 

More important, the ongoing traffic can see the cretin coming up ahead of them and prepare to dodge. Even one cretin can create havoc among the unwary.

19 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Therefore, I will just humor you, this one time, and never again, by uploading the photos you requested.

 

That's a start. The first photo will perhaps need a decryption key. No doubt you'll eventually learn how correctly to upload photos here, amidst blathering and gratuitous youtube links. But lack of such skill also reinforces pre-existing doubt your PC building skills, though it's only LEGO. Better frequent https://reddit.com/r/buildapc/ for useful advice and suggestions.

 

Now, most builders don't leave their precious component boxes out on a walkway exposed to the elements. Rather, they proudly collect them inside over in the corner of a room. So then they won't inadvertently lose a component or forget to install it, the latter with mysterious, possibly unpleasant consequences. For example, this lady, as shown in the bottom left corner:

 

 

 

On 5/9/2024 at 12:09 PM, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   Could have been a bucket of ice cold water that killed him ?

 

Bacterial meningitis from the filthy water, probably. Can cause death within hours. Same as what done in Jeff Beck.

 

The Authorities wouldn't want it publicized, for obvious reason.

 

21 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Since this is not for casual use, and needed for daily work, I had thought, perhaps mistakenly, that I would be better served using the STABLE version instead of the rolling update version, or whatever they call it.

 

But, you see,

 

21 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Stability, IMHO, is often overrated.

 

Tumbleweed is in fact quite stable and commonly used as a daily driver. Since, with OpenSUSE, you'd format / as btrfs, you can easily roll back using snapper; or, of course, Timeshift.

 

Moreover, you can also start now using the new OpenSUSE Slowroll version, ahead of Leap and slightly behind the rolling release Tumbleweed for more assured stability.

 

Finally, you can just switch to Fedora KDE. Version 40, out RIGHT NOW, includes a later version of the kernel, 6.8, than will Leap 15.6. Fedora's updated twice as often as Leap, so is even more cutting edge, needed to get the most out of your imagined supercomputer. VERY stable & useable. So you use dnf instead of zypper, no big deal, and dnf has a lot of appreciative fans. KDE is KDE. Plasma.

 

No doubt, for the little you really need, you could use most any Linux distro. MX Linux, one of THE most stable out there, based on Debian LTS, has a KDE spin. Lot of nice extra tools, too. Theme it like OpenSUSE and you'd hardly know the difference, except apt substitutes for zypper.

 

32 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

I might share a photo, or two. But, nothing to look at.  Just boxes of components.

 

Oh, for now you can just share a pic of your boxes, trivial, no reason not to. Common practice on computer forums by posters anticipating their builds. Let's see those.

 

22 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

I intend to use a Gen 3 CPU, which will be able to benefit from the newer kernel in offered by Leap 15.6.

 

But you can simply use OpenSUSE Tumbleweed NOW and get an even newer kernel, 6.8.1, duh.

 

Besides, you've dithered for months buying parts. Spent what--a month?--on the case. Never been in any rush. So think of another part to dither over. Better fan? Add-in card?

 

22 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

I am not willing to download and install the RC because I know that there will be problems, and I have too many problems in my life, these days, to fool around with the RC release.

 

Oh, but

 

19 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Stability, IMHO, is often overrated.

 

Walk the walk, man. Enough w/ the BS.

 

22 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

am wondering what I can do to hasten the public release date of the final Leap15.6

 

Nothing. It's not in development now but in public beta testing. Public. Thereafter there'll be bug fixing.

 

And you know that. You merely want an excuse for the usual blathering.

 

22 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

I don't really mind, too much, first installing 15.5, and then upgrading.  However, in the past, I have found that upgrading (versus doing a new and clean install), is not quite as good.  I always try to do NEW INSTALLS, whenever possible.

 

So after using 15.5 you can install 15.6 from the .iso. No need to upgrade.

 

Let's see REAL pics of your supposed new computer, not just product images. It's actually just a fantasy, no?

 

I'll leave it that. Normally I have you blocked, but this was good for a laugh.

 

 

On 5/7/2024 at 11:09 AM, Gandtee said:

Has anyone submitted a computer printed TM7 that's in black ink to Jomtien Immigration and its been accepted?

 

Yeah, been doing it for years, no problem. I sign prominently w/ a blue fountain pen.

 

@Confusciousalways jumps into these threads to troll about his rogue IO and spread FUD. How much is true, or how much he'd pis*ed off the IO already, we'll never know. In any case, pay no attention to that outlier.

1 hour ago, wensiensheng said:

Participating in Songkran festivities and it’s only being reported NOW?

 

Seems that after all the medical reports, autopsy, and other paperwork the relatives finally realized there was the matter of the funeral & disposition of the remains. The GoFundMe is NOW active, so publicity needed to rake in the cash.

 

'Course, cremation and scattering of ashes can be arranged quite inexpensively here in Thailand, a country he'd loved. I once knew an old Brit adamant that's what he wanted for himself; that's what he got, too.   

 

 

2 hours ago, Pattaya57 said:

First off, how do you know they're burned out and have run out of cash? There are many people here that have a load of retirement cash but still sit in bars buying 60 baht beer so you might think they're scraping by....

 

True. The topic is just one of the OP's constant attempts, complete with fictional incidents, to feel superior and enjoy schadenfreude.

8 minutes ago, champers said:

My better half told me - she has a business accross from HR on 2nd Rd. I will chastise her for not taking pics. 

They were here for Cobra Gold too, less than 12 months ago. Huge queues for the ATM at 7/11. I saw that with my own eyes.

 

If so, the strict rules against liaisons with prostitutes still are in effect, so I doubt much activity will be going on for our members to w*nk over. Female service members will be along, for good or ill, rather dicey since the Tailhook scandal.

Just now, champers said:

They are being despatched at the Hard Rock hotel in a fleet of coaches. Officers to Avani. ( all as per usual).

 

Heard that rumor during Cobra Gold. Then none reportedly seen there. Let's have the evidence.

56 minutes ago, newbee2022 said:

High time of business....for certain girls😂

No.

1 minute ago, Danderman123 said:

If you believe Tara Reade, you are really far gone.

 

Or if you believe E. Jean Carroll. But you ignored the point, of course. Where's her day in court?

 

2 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

So why couldn't the Republicans in Congress pin a crime on Biden?

 

Disingenuous feigning ignorance. Stonewalling, and they don't have a sufficient majority. Couldn't even get Mayorkas. The DOJ itself can't, or rather won't, prosecute that "sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”

 

So I'll leave you with the last word, as you're really just trolling.

 

34 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

How did Beria's dictum work out for Joe Biden?

 

Working great w/ regard to lawfare against Trump. And great for him, too, since he's protected by the leftists in power. No prosecution for him for willful retention and revelation of classified documents, hee hee. No prosecution for him and Hunter for suppressing the truth about the laptop before, and after, the election. Tara Reade's credible allegation of sexual assault ignored, swept under the carpet. Etc., etc.

15 hours ago, charleskerins said:

Senate panel finds Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. election

 

LOL. When's Schiff gonna present that definitive evidence he claimed to have? Won't answer questions about that now.

 

Senate panel! 🤣 You poor guy.

59 minutes ago, The Fugitive said:

I was considering buying a tablet with a SIM slot.

 

Plenty of those around. Do a search.

51 minutes ago, john donson said:

what do you guys store on that? 

 

For most in need of larger capacity, media files probably take up the most space. Some of us, notably the non-hipsters among us, find little worth streaming. Movies or series we like may not be available in the future anywhere, let alone currently streamed. To watch them again in the future, they have to be stored. Really hi-res movies good for display on large 4K screens represent large files indeed.

Years ago I looked into getting a .th domain name but found them far more expensive than just a .com. Didn't need one anyway, so abandoned the idea.

3 hours ago, observer90210 said:

Those fine ladies back in the US will soon be contracting itchy private parts when their boys are back home.

 

No.

33 minutes ago, charleskerins said:

What hoax?  legit presidents campaign manager don't share voting data with Russian intelligence agencies.  Traitors do.

 

Nope. Mueller and Durham already investigated exhaustively. Despite all the spin, quibbles, and gaslighting by leftists since then, if there were really anything more, Garland would have jumped on it like a dog on a bone. Sorry, big disappointment, but the political vendetta continues.🙂 

 

I guess we're going to be subjected to a barrage of these fictional stories now.

1 minute ago, charleskerins said:

Hmmm why was the post removed?

 

You got me. 🙂 I dare not question.