Toner is cheaper if you have a laser black only, lots of pages per refill.
At work I’ve installed 10 color inkjet epson L6460 printers 2-3 years ago and most of them I still haven’t refilled.
They come with 2 bottles of black ink and one of everything else, last forever, will print after 4 months unused if you do a print head cleaning (a few times in a row) and the Epson brand bottles are 8 - 12 bucks each.
For home use a cheaper Ecotank would probably serve you just as well.
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Trump’s “Board of Peace” is intended as basically official world police and several countries have signed up for it because they want to actively enforce “peace” towards anyone they disagree with.
The UN will never succeed in anything useful unless their resolutions carry economic or military weight.
Definitely. I’d also check to buy used if the price is right.
If you’re into fun technology stuff, a raspberry pi can be a million different things for you.
In Greece they all seem to own or work at big stores that sell randomly branded clothing and low to OK quality tools, fishing gear, cooking pots, gardening stuff and a myriad of random electronic devices like flashlights, LED strips, chargers, selfie sticks etc, all sold dirt cheap.
Some of them learn the language at some point, but most don’t. They don’t seem to even hang out amongst themselves, it’s seemingly isolated families here and there.
They keep to their own and bother no one.
Just go to the house of any cyber security worker, or any sysadmin / IT worker and tell me how many internet connected smart devices you find.
The “S” in IoT stands for Security.
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Windows Update. If the thing was off for a while, expect windows update to cripple it until it’s satisfied.
Slow boot drive. If it’s an older SSD it might be kicking the bucket soon. Also, if your boot drive is over 90% usage you’ll definitely feel it.
RAM issues. Download RAMMon (free RAM checking tool) and let us know what you see
Thermals. If your CPU hits 90+ degrees then it’ll have to throttle down to save itself. Cleaning the dust helps a lot with that because dust is an insulator and traps heat in.
It’s not always the utilization percentage that tells the whole story.
You’re a bit out of luck as far as upgrades go for that platform, but if you have 1 stick of RAM and get another one you’ll feel a difference.
Step 1. Create 2 reddit accounts
Step 2. Post the question in the builds sub
Step 3. Answer it yourself with whatever you think is best. Make sure you’re very confident it’s the best solution and nobody could come up with a better one
Step 4. Rejoice at the flock of tryhards that will down vote your reply to hell while fighting each other for the actual best answer
Step 5. Choose whichever comment wins.
Edit: but to answer your question: The stuttering while opening applications isn’t from that GPU. It can game mostly fine at 1080p medium to low.
Either you need more RAM (16gb minimum these days) or your CPU is showing its age first, which I’m gonna guess is an Intel i5 4000 series or maybe 7000 series.
Post the rest of the specs and we can all fight each other for the best answer here.
I would try going for it again with a bit less zoom in perhaps, about 500 frames for stacking and I’d keep the ISO at or below 3200 for an older camera, but 6400 is fine.
Make sure to save in RAW and lock the white balance.
As for better focusing, I found a 3D printing service near me and had them print me a Bahtinov mask for a couple of bucks, there’s a website that designs one for you and gives you a 3D printable file. You can also order one from Amazon for about 10 USD, generally pretty cheap.
Good luck!
It appears to be slightly out of focus maybe?
Still, it’s a great start! What did you use to photograph it?
The pandemic, Maduro, something about Brexit and Nigel Farage, Elon Musk, Tim Cook, Bezos and Jensen Huang, Jewish space lasers, Netanyahu, bitcoin, Kim Jong Un, Xi Jinping, Modi, Julian Assange and Kim Dotcom.
Check each channel individually. Are the noise levels and shapes different for red, green and blue?
Try longer exposures, your mount can do 30 sec easily with a 300mm lens, even without guiding.
Also, go through your subs and remove anything that looks out of the ordinary. Better to have 600 good subs than 1200 with bad ones in the mix. Look for clouds and condensation mostly.
This sort of noise increases the closer to the horizon the target gets. Stay above 30 degrees if possible.
Check if your white balance is set to auto, if it is set it to something fixed.
Lastly, judging by the end result you should try a less aggressive stretch, especially for the background. You can make a mask of the nebulous part, stretch it a lot and then use it as a luminance and saturation mask over a copy layer that has a neutralized, darker background.
There’s lots of good signal in there, give it a go
Thank you!
I did upgrade my mount and improved my editing workflow, but I think there’s quite a bit more detail I can squeeze out without changing anything, just having more patience and better preparation.
Thank you!
I was quite pleased with the first result, but this latest one made me realize my hours of preparing and learning have paid off.
Will revisit in the future to see how much further I can take it!
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The internet is still relatively new. The generations that don’t understand it still govern.
I think the millennials will be its last hope, because they remember the world without it, were young enough to understand it when it became popular and aren’t yet old enough to have forgotten how much more fun it used to be.
If that nostalgia finds its way into meaningful regulations, it’d be nice.
If you think the human race as a collective organism, the internet is the nervous system. Suddenly we have eyes to see and ears to hear, we feel pain through it, we form collective thoughts and organize actions.
We have collective intrusive thoughts and impulses, we store our memories there and we train it to anticipate and predict using prior knowledge and reasoning, as we do.
We need to take care of it and feed it correct information or it’ll become erratic and stagnant.
I predict it’ll be splintered into pieces and from them something new will emerge.
Tech in general is peaking in performance and and so it must differentiate in features to be competitive