EPTThat's not to say you can't move one while it's running if done gently, but why would you need to?
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Craton
United States17303 Posts
That's not to say you can't move one while it's running if done gently, but why would you need to? | ||
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Karis Vas Ryaar
United States4396 Posts
On March 08 2015 06:46 Craton wrote: It's better not to. Hard drives would be the biggest potential issue. That's not to say you can't move one while it's running if done gently, but why would you need to? I needed to plug in the hdmi cable that ran to my tv in another room and didn't want to turn the computer all the way off. It's set up in a spot where there's not a ton of room behind it and its much easier to rotate it. | ||
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Craton
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Karis Vas Ryaar
United States4396 Posts
On March 08 2015 08:35 Craton wrote: Turning it or sliding it a little should be alright, just do it gently. k thanks. | ||
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Cyro
United Kingdom20345 Posts
.wav is uncompressed, lossless and quite widely supported, so it's a safe bet to use. Afterwards you can convert to FLAC and keep the same lossless quality, but cut file size around in half (so like 100MB for 10 minutes of audio for example) If you're looking to compress stuff, there's a bunch of different formats to use to cut quality in mostly ways that are hard to notice (to get the file size down a lot), but some devices like ipods and phones might have limited support for the better ones, while PC generally just plays whatever with little or no setup as long as you have a decent media player (i use vlc a lot) | ||
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Karis Vas Ryaar
United States4396 Posts
On March 09 2015 08:27 Cyro wrote: Depending on what exactly is done with it, maybe yes. CD's use lossless audio as far as i know. If it's going to a lot of formats like mp3, it'd have to be encoded. Even if it's already on the cd as mp3, it might get re-encoded (i have not done any cd ripping before) .wav is uncompressed, lossless and quite widely supported, so it's a safe bet to use. Afterwards you can convert to FLAC and keep the same lossless quality, but cut file size around in half (so like 100MB for 10 minutes of audio for example) If you're looking to compress stuff, there's a bunch of different formats to use to cut quality in mostly ways that are hard to notice (to get the file size down a lot), but some devices like ipods and phones might have limited support for the better ones, while PC generally just plays whatever with little or no setup as long as you have a decent media player (i use vlc a lot) okay thanks | ||
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Incognoto
France10239 Posts
after that, it might be placebo, unless you have really high end equipment i think | ||
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Karis Vas Ryaar
United States4396 Posts
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Cyro
United Kingdom20345 Posts
On March 09 2015 15:41 Incognoto wrote: i've hear from an audiophile friend of mine that mp3 at higher bitrates isn't far off from lossless. say 320 kbps instead of 192 or something after that, it might be placebo, unless you have really high end equipment i think Sure, if you encode from a lossless source to 320kbit mp3 it's damn good quality - but if you encode multiple times or across formats like mp3 to aac back to mp3, even at 320kbit you'd see a lot of quality loss. It's best to keep a lossless source for that reason. mp3 is pretty bad these days anyway, IDK why most people still use it aside from support on old devices etc. Other formats can get better quality at lower bitrates~ On March 09 2015 15:50 Karis Vas Ryaar wrote: one more question. whats the highest resolution way to get screenshots of your desktop? is there one. I currently alternate between snippet and the photoscape screenshot one. high resolution is kinda the wrong term, when you press the print screen button on keyboard your whole screen resolution will be saved to clipboard, you can then ctrl+v it into an image editing program and save in a good file format. I use PNG all of the time for screenshots because it's lossless and the file sizes are not very big usually | ||
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Incognoto
France10239 Posts
I built my parents an HTPC some time ago, with a nice sound card and a good sound system, Nirvana at 320 kbit is great. I still buy my music today, if I can. Having a physical set of CDs is really nice | ||
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Craton
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Djzapz
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I currently use pushbullet which allows me to send messages and links, so it's not but not perfect. Does such a solution exist? I can use google sync to actually browse my desktop's active tabs from my phone but that takes a few clicks. I'd like to have one page I select pop on top of everything else. Importantly, I would like to be able to do this from the first device, so if I'm leaving my computer I hit a button and when I open up my phone and boot up Chrome it's that page that pops up. I don't know if that makes sense. I'd also like to do that with video files that I'm watching on my phone and are being streamed from my PC while keeping the same timestamp but that's probably in the future. | ||
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Incognoto
France10239 Posts
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/L2mVFqD.png) in that picture, the big spikes show twitch working normally, when it gets all flat, twitch lags. thoughts, anyone? when i go to imgur to look at some pictures, all the things are loaded perfectly fine so i'm a bit confused. | ||
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Cyro
United Kingdom20345 Posts
It would load quite highly (5mbit+ network load) and then drop off to 0kb/s from Twitch for big periods of time. Freeze, jump back up to loading my net to like 90% for like 10 seconds, then back to 2% etc | ||
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Karis Vas Ryaar
United States4396 Posts
or to rephrase the question. I'm fixing my computer area to try to get better posture and I'm not sure If I need to get one of those slide out trays or not | ||
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Incognoto
France10239 Posts
On March 10 2015 14:58 Cyro wrote: That's what happened to me when i had awful connectivity to twitch and couldn't watch streams for like 2 years out of the last 5 (issues between twitch servers and data reaching you, sometimes 0.5mbit stream would lag and freeze constantly, other times i could watch two 3mbit streams simultaneously - while available bandwidth, pings etc were unchanged to other servers) It would load quite highly (5mbit+ network load) and then drop off to 0kb/s from Twitch for big periods of time. Freeze, jump back up to loading my net to like 90% for like 10 seconds, then back to 2% etc yeah sounds about right, though during the morning mostly maybe it's all the muricans stealing all the bandwidth | ||
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Cyro
United Kingdom20345 Posts
On March 11 2015 05:19 Karis Vas Ryaar wrote: how much higher should a keyboard be above your waste? or to rephrase the question. I'm fixing my computer area to try to get better posture and I'm not sure If I need to get one of those slide out trays or not It's Waist* (: The surface with your keyboard on should be approximately at elbow level. Reaching a little bit down is probably alright, reaching up is bad. I'm not a fan at all of keyboard trays. | ||
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Karis Vas Ryaar
United States4396 Posts
On March 11 2015 05:55 Cyro wrote: It's Waist* (: The surface with your keyboard on should be approximately at elbow level. Reaching a little bit down is probably alright, reaching up is bad. I'm not a fan at all of keyboard trays. k thanks. Now I just need to figure out what I'm going to do since I'm at a really high desk. I'm probably going to need to get a chair that goes higher (or at least one with adjustable arm rests) thanks a lot yeah I don't like keyboard trays either but I'm trying to figure out what the lesser of the evils is at this point | ||
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Craton
United States17303 Posts
Usually I end up both too high for the tray and too low for the desk at the same time. I really hate keyboard trays. Anyway, I think Cyro is right on the ergonomic portion. You basically want your arm/wrist in a neutral position, meaning not being bent to one side or another. Most people use a mouse grip that ends up with their wrist bent upwards and the more your arm is above the elbow the more you'll end up pressing down on the butt of your wrist. I still end up resting a bit on the butt of my wrist even when my forearm is lower than my elbow, though. I believe the most ergonomic position for a mouse is actually 90 degrees clockwise to how you hold a standard mouse (picture reaching out to pick up a cup). I use a trackball at work and occasionally on my desktop because I find it easier on my wrist (I likely have RSI and suffer from wrist pain in my right hand). | ||
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