I have quite a few stupid ideas. I know that other people have, but I've never really known what question to ask. And so I created a thread. Here's my most recent stupid idea. Spoiler: Backstory A few months ago a purchased an entry-level gaming pc. It was a huge jump in performance from my previous setup, which had been a mid-range work laptop. If I remember correctly, I purchased the laptop in late 2016 as a replacement for a clunky desktop that could barley run gridmap at 15 frames per second. That desktop, however, was not my first. The first computer that I ever truly owned was a slightly modified Dell Inspiron 518. It had been upgraded with 3GB of fantastically slow and bulky DDR2 ram, and the video card was different, too. Instead of the original ATI Radeon HD 3450, it had been replaced with something quite different that didn't even use a PCIe interface. It ran Windows Vista, which is in my opinion one of the worst operating systems. It crashed frequently, and to make matters worse it was permanantly stuck on the classic theme due to something that my dad had done when it had been his work computer. Basically, it was clunky, unintuitive, and had a hideous interface. One of the things thst I most used it for was RoR. My dad had given it to me in 2010, and I immediately tried to find out something that it could do acceptably, besides word processing. It was in this way that I first learned about soft body physics. The computer somehow managed to drag itself along until mid 2016, when its motherboard was fried by a power surge. Needless to say, I was not upset. So how does this become a stupid idea? Earlier, I had mentioned that my old computer had an ancient video card that didn't use a PCIe interface. It just so happens that my current setup has a motherboard with several slots that should accept this GPU. So, goodbye RX560 and hello ShitCard 2000. What could possibly go wrong? Really, I just want to see how badly I can ruin my performance. Of course, seeing as how the computer was killed by a power surge it's likely that the card won't work at all. This makes it even more stupid. Here are a few pictures of both computers. I don't know why I still have the old one sitting out in the garage.
Vista isn't inherently awful, it's just it was ahead of it's time with too much visual wow factor that dragged down older machines. Vista was for the Core 2 Duo revolution, not the Pentium 3/4 PC's of yester-year. You could have fixed the classic theme issue with reinstalling it, might make it faster. But the fastest OS right now is Windows 10 [startup] but if you have Windows 7 then you can beat it by instead of shutting down, hibernating. Which is what Windows 10 does.
Alright, fine. My opinions toward this are far from unbiased. Also, the processor on the machine wasn't a pentium. It was an intel core 2 quad, one of the few original components on the machine. Also, when my dad gave me the computer he didn't bother to clean out the hard drive, which was full of crap and also relatively small. Of course, I was also too lazy to clean it. Is it possible that that impacted the speed? Anyway, that's not the point. I didn't mean for this to be an arguments anout old versions of windows, I'm curious about some of other people's most idiotic ideas.
Since this thread is titled "stupid ideas" I might as well share one: Almost everything I've done in BeamNG
Building an open-source mainframe. Phase I is the main monkey business -- the CPF, or Central Processing Facility. This system has sixteen logical EM/64T processors and an Nvidia vector coprocessor (that is to say, it is a gaming-style computer with a 16-thread Ryzen 7 and a GTX 1080 Ti). 13 TFLOP/s. Phase II will be the installation of an Infiniband card into the CPF, as well as the construction and configuration of the first I/O Channel Server. The IOCS is a small system with another Infiniband card, as well as twelve PCI-E 3.0 x1 slots and four SATA 3 ports (its motherboard was designed for Bitcoin mining). This system provides the CPF with a programmable interface to the outside world, as well as managing job entry and accounting. It has a crap-ton of Ethernet and USB ports. The purpose is to free up the CPF for heavy computing tasks. Phase III will be the development of a heavy-duty Web terminal system, designed to allow the IOCS to handle thousands of concurrent logons from around the world. In theory it is possible to configure the job spooling subsystem to use multiple CPFs. The system will occupy two ATX cases. Its friendly name is Living Room Labs System-2112... but who will use it?
Recently I looked into buying a roof rack and carrier for my Prius. I go camping with my mom and dad a fair amount, so a bit of storage is nice. I had made a decision on what model to buy, and was about to make the purchase when I remembered that I drive a Prius. If you can't understand why a roof carrier is a stupid idea, I'll explain. First of all, the roofline on a Prius is curved for the purpose of aerodynamics, so it's awkward to install a roof rack in the first place. If you do manage to succeed, however, a roof rack will have a rather unfortunate impact on gas mileage, which is why I bought the Prius in the first place.
Okay, before anything else I should probably explain. I collect typewriters as a hobby. About a year ago, I purchased an IBM correcting Selectric II, which had been used at a bank for about 15 years. Quite heavily. Evidently it had not been serviced frequently, as the original plastic drive gear, as well as the insulation foam, was still present. For some reason, I expected it to work properly for more than a year. Needless to say, it didn't. If you don't understand why this is stupid, just look up a picture of the mechanics of an IBM Selectric. Absolutely everything is mechanical.
It does, because then doing normal stuff like copying files to the hard drive will cause big fragmentation and etc. Best to keep your hard drive less than full, above 85-90% issues occur
Run a defrag, and boom, no issues, it literally shouldn't effect runtime performance the way people seem to assume it does at all, half the time the slowdown people see on older pcs is nothing to do with hard drive being full, they've just gained a ton of background crap --- Post updated --- Alternatively get an SSD, where fragmentation doesn't impact it anyway and again, boom, no difference of drive is full or empty. Your drive funnily enough only impacts disk based tasks
SSD gets sketchy when full too, write speeds fall off a cliff as TRIM doesn't work properly. Hard to explain but I think it is because it runs out of free blocks, so when you want to write to it, you have to wait for it to erase the block then write to it instead of writing to an empty block. Hard-drive defragmentation speed drops off a cliff beyond 95% disk capacity usage. Remember in Windows XP? It always said to free up 15% of space for it to work properly. But yeah the crap that gets installed is more significant, and usually after uninstalling all of the stuff it will still run poorly because there is a lot of legacy left. So best to keep your install fresh.
how dare you (jk) This is kind of off-topic, but could anyone recommend a good steering wheel with an H-shifter? Highest I can go is $75.
i want to take an american compact car. rice the exterior to the max. and attach a semi truck turbo to the engine. although that turbo would destroy it within minutes
I agree with both of you to a certain extent. I would quite happily buy a Mazda RX8 if I hadn't settled on my Prius. However, older rotaries, like the Cosmo, are totaly unreliable. However, me being me, I'd probably also buy a Cosmo if I didn't already have a car.
