The I Miss the Old Days Complaint Thread
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Strangely I checked out Edge and yes I do have the thumbnails in Edge even though I don't have them in Chrome. I hardly ever use Edge so I hadn't seen them before.
new hard drive arrive. The old hard drive is so slow it is reading files at 10 megabytes per second if I'm luck. gonna take a long time to copy my runtime library to the new drive.
...nothing here in Portland as most of it fell to the north as well as the Cascades and east of the mountains. Will be old but dry until the Sunday with a snow/rain mix that turns to all snow on Tuesday night through Thursday accumulating to about 5 - 6" (which is enough to being the city to a halt), After that it gets above freezing and turns to icy cold rain for the Yule Holiday.
The really big snows are down in the Sierras of California where they received upwards of 5' of the white stuff.
Of course in a week things can change one way or the other. Stay tuned.
...I also am on Chrome and have Daz Deals yet they don't show up for me on the product library
Product Library on my work computer (Chrome) looks like this;
Hmmm... very interesting. Very much like me, "old and dry", but changes in the weather doesn't solve it.
Non-complaint: Hmmm..., perhaps nuclear fusion is now only 29 years away.
2 mega-Joules in, 3 mega-Joules out
Still lots of problems, but at least there is a needle in the haystack.
I feel that with fusion or other limitless energy solutions, the only real barrier that stands against these things coming to fruition is mankind... too many people with a vested interest in keeping things as they are.
Could you imagine what would happen if someone made a breakthrough that actually enabled fusion reactors to work in practical application right now?
If it was last night, we'd still be decades away from seeing any because there are too many entities out there that would fight tooth and nail to prevent it from seeing the light of day in their lifetimes... it happened with whale oil in the 1800s, it happened with coal in the 1920s and onward, I don't think I have to mention the current aversion to alternative energy sources posed by established industries... it's almost stupid-funny that we live in a universe awash in energy sources and yet we pursue mostly, almost exclusively the ones with the narrowest gains and most limited availability.
But on the plus side these possible new energy sources do provide a great opportunity for illustrators and animators to create thrilling "artist's concepts" for articles and publications about what a halfway logical civilization might do if it could see beyond the tip of its nose.
Yes... I'm still pissed that nobody is taking my Hot Pockets perpetual energy solution seriously...
For anyone who missed that illustration when I originally posted it (and I'd like to point out that I gave this technology away for free, for the good of mankind), Hot Pockets Perpetual Energy (HPPE) is a technology that involves heating a pastry shelled Pizza or Philly Cheesesteak based core using microwave radiation (powered either by a wind turbine or solar collectors) until it reaches an internal temperature of 90,032° F/ 50,000° C* (approximately 3 minutes in a 1000 watt oven at sea level), the Hot Pocket is then placed in a thermal containment unit and allowed to disparate its heat naturally until it's safe enough to be consumed (60-100 years depending on filling... Pizza filling averages about 100 years).
The energy from the Hot Pocket superheats water pipes running through the chamber, creating steam which drives a turbine, much the same way a conventional nuclear reactor core generates power, only without the risk of radioactive meltdown, or as in the case of Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) the possibility of getting molten salts on your carpet.
The average daily output from a Hot Pocket core is approximately 1.6 megawatts, which is generally enough to power over 800 rural homes or 1 crypto rig for 15 minutes.
Over time the output will decrease, but not significantly as Hot Pocket cores hold a relatively constant stable temperature until they plateau and then instantly reach thermal collapse and go cold.
When spent, the core is easily disposed of in a conventional rubbish bin or consumed with a small chaser of 30 mL Bismuth Subsalicylate (Pepto Bismol or generic equivalent), unlike current nuclear waste which needs to be buried in a desert or dumped in the ocean, often resulting in mutant squid monsters... Worth noting is the fact that a hundred year old Hot Pocket is no less unsafe to consume than a "fresh" one as the materials its constructed from are just as dangerous fresh as a century later... and technically you might not even have to dispose of it at all as you could probably reheat it indefinitely.
I know the argument is it's technically not "perpetual" energy like Fusion or Radioactive Mutant Guinea Pig Power, but neither are those energy sources technically because eventually fusion will need replenishment and the RMGP will eventually escape and destroy a sizeable metropolitan area before being defeated by a spunky 12 year old and their friendly mystical flying turtle monster, so that's just semantics, especially given the prospect of probably thousands of years of half-life for the HP core.
It's truly frustrating.
* 90,032°F/ 50,000°C = 1.00°HP (Hot Pocket degrees are measured in decimal increments).
I got a compliant! I took a Covid test and the results came back positive. I was wanting to get my hair done today.
at least most my Christmas shopping is done. I still have some prints to pick up at CVS. Maybe I can sing "one day my prints will come!" To cheer me up?
ooh I could do e-cards this year instead of getting cards to mail. maybe I can take the time to use DS to render it? I wonder if I have any 3D letters to use.
Get well soon.
Thank you! Maybe I can do an instacart order to get bottled water and snacks?
Sorry to hear you got "The Covid"... It kind of sucks, but hopefully you'll be fit as a ferret in no time...
I like the "prints", it made me smile while I was eating one of those little sweet pickles from dollar tree and I nearly dropped it... also I probably shouldn't eat like a reptile as food tends to fall out easily that way...
That reminds me... I probably should work on my holiday cards too... here are some of my choices...
I'm not sure which one conveys the holiday spirit the most effectively... maybe if I wait a while longer... it's always best to wait for the last moment and then rush to send out the holiday cards and give up halfway through because it's already February.
Guess what? My brother has Covid also! What fun?
..joy /s. Take care and get well soon.
Maybe the annual membership will be on sale by time I get some funds into my account?
It's based on the window size. I see it on my 4k monitor, but don't see it on my tablet. :(
It the browser window size is too small on my big monitor, the previews go away.
I have a 28" 4K monitor. Still not working. I didn't try going full screen with it, though. But it didn't need that before.
Dana
Nope, even going full screen didn't work.
Dana
Dang, thats a lot :(
Any way you can buy just the OS itself? Or is a total computer replacement the only way?
Aaaah Win7, you had a good run. Someday 10'll be in the same boat sigh....
Unrelated: New 'plaint myself, the rain in this scene I tried to make ended up being barely visible in the IPP and then vanished from the final render entirely - I have no idea why... So I just post-worked it in, and it turned out a lot better too xD So, just a half complaint I guess :)
Also, the flare/bloom on the game console is way too strong. Will need to address that~
(Irrelevant, but somewhat based on a dream I had years ago, where a dinosaur was roaming around in our neighborhood one night and I wanted to go out and meet it xD)
Humm, maybe I did something wrong? It's working fine this time :O
Maybe it reset to frame 0 or something when I rendered it that one time, that's my best guess :D
No longer working in Chrome either...
...the MB I have (X58 chipset) is over 11 years old so it's BIOS is totally out of date (and that's with the last update I could get for it) it wouldn't recognise the 3060 that I purchased. All I was able to get was a standard VGA output (the CPU, a Xeon 5660 does not have integrated graphics) The expansion slots are also PCIe 2.0, so that also may have something to do with it. I'm also still currently working with DDR3 memory as well. Yeah, the system's old but has been dependable and reliable (part of which I attribute to Windows7) To move to W11 I need a fairly up to date MB with TPM 2.0
Why W11? Why not as W10 22H2 (Home and Pro) will only have1 year 6 months to go before security support is dropped. As W11 is only on it' first release may as well buy a little more time 11 Isn't as "perfect" as 7 was in my book, but better than 10 particularly as they got rid of a few annoying things and I can do away with more of what I don't need or want through administrator and Workgroup mode (only in the Pro Edition).
The actual cost comes to about 1,165$ with an OEM of 11 Pro as I miscalculated on a few things and changed a couple components.
The final upgrade will be built on an ASUS TUF Gaming X570+ AM4 MB, A Ryzen 5900X 12 core CPU, 128 GB Corsair Vengeance DDR4 3200 memory, and a Be Quiet Dark Rock Pro 4 CPU Cooler. Am still using the current drives, PSU, RTX 3060 and old case. Hoping I'll eventually come across a 24 GB 3090 or A5000 (that is where the 128 GB of memory comes in).
I hope you realize that windows in a boat, below the waterline, are a problem.
That's why you make them out of Enameled Glass! Guaranteed up to 1,000 meters or when facing down leviathan class lifeforms.
Old MB, served you well for so long!
Huh, I'm somewhat out of the loop with what Win11's like other than my desktop says "not eligible for an upgrade", though I swear it said it was a while back. Laptop says it is but the thing's just a glorified second monitor to me so it really doesn't matter there. Sounds like you got a nice plan though for hardware, that's the same CPU I got on me desktop too :D
Starting to sort through some of the stuff I've bought and assembling them into Libraries to draw from quicker in the future.
Alchemist's Apothecary - not in the shop anymore, and there's not even bump maps! Whew, that's old. I suppose its more than replaced by newer fancier things, but the more the merrier I think - I can make new textures for it in Substance or using existing materials I have. But there's something fun about using old content too!
Sorting stuff is a pain, for someone as disorganized as I am :'D
Part of me wants to go with the old D|S/Poser structure, where its like Props -> [Specific Pack], or there's the newer Smart Content way Props -> Electrical/Furnishing/Machinery/etc... I think it might be easier on me if I'd move on to the newer versions of Cinema4D though; the revamped Asset Browser can deal with multiple sub-folders a lot easier, with its keywords system. Still stubbornly sitting on 23 though, with the outdated Content Browser. They renamed a lot of stuff and changed the interface a bunch, and I keep thinking it'd be too much of a pain to have to re-learn things even if there's a lot of benefit in the newer versions too ^^;
They did put up an article showing the name changes in R25 though... Less fumbling around in the dark that way!
Alright, so I came across this problem once with ... Traveling Wizard props I think? Where the files in D|S all just had a <!> on them and they would not load into scenes... It fixed when I reinstalled the product but now I'm getting it with another product and reinstalling isn't doing anything :(
How did you install?
Through D|S itself, in the Install tab. It shows up only under the "Lost and Found" section.
I noticed though that in the content tab while its uninstalled, if I click 'Refresh' it'll come up with a <!> icon as well, until I click on it again which makes it go back to the product's icon.