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This Samsung Evo Plus 2TB NVME m.2 is so much faster than the (supposedly very fast) stock 500 GB SSD in my Razer Blade, it's like I bought a new computer or something. Games load in like less than half the time, if not even faster.

Not sure why, either, since they're both made by Samsung O_o

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Seems noticeably faster than my previous 500 GB SSD, which I didn't expect. I did a Crystal Disk Mark test on it. Previous SSD was about 2500 MB/sec read, this is 3400 MB/sec

That's quite an unexpected increase in speed considering it's the same brand

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Huh, I used the far simply Samsung Data Migration system, which was literally one single click, and literally everything works.

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Them: "Thimerosal has mercury in it, and mercury is a toxic metal no matter what"

Me: "That's not how compounds work. That's like saying table salt is an explosive metal and a gas so toxic it was literally banned from warfare"

Them: "Whatever, pharma shill"

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Go figure, turns out Samsung SSDs use special software and require Samsung's data migration software.

On the bright side, it's a whole lot easier to use, doesn't even have you bother with partition sizes

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Nevermind I'll try Samsung's software instead

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Anyone?

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I used Macrium and copied my 500 GB samsung NVME SSD to a 2 TB Samsung NVME SSD but when I tried to boot from it, it didn't work. I think I did all the sectors right.

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All the rest are $59.99 with free upgrades.

And only the $99.99 2K21 has a "free" upgrade to PS5/XSX

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De Evolution posted...

Probably.

As someone who literally assigns cause of death and reports it to the state, no.

And this kind of misinformation deliberately fosters distrust of medical professionals. Solely because we have the knowledge and experience to call Trump on his BS in ways that Redpillers find irritating.

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Patty_Fleur posted...

I wasn't born yet in 1989. How fucking old are you?

35

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HCQ doesn't work.

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I've played it since 1989 and I still get hooked every time

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RoadsterUFO posted...

Ah the classic, but Trump! card. Two things can be true. Trump holding rallies in a pandemic and mass gathering for protesting and rioting for social justice in a pandemic are both dumb as fuck lol.

Trump is the one whose deliberate messaging of downplaying the threat of COVID19 has enabled the public, especially in southern states, to act like nothing's wrong and treat mask-wearing like it's some kind of fucking Bill of Rights violation.

I spent nearly all of March asking why I couldn't get tests for any of the patients I was pretty sure had COVID19. All while, on TV, Trump is talking about how they have so many tests and the response is perfect. Then, Redpiller/QAnon types start spreading bullshit like #FilmYourHospital and deliberately claiming that doctors/hospitals were faking COVID19 cases for profit, and it started to spill over into actual GOP congressional candidates. Trump deliberately spread distrust about Fauci, when Fauci was basically the only one in government willing to adjust his views and recommendations based on the evidence as it became available.

Trump spent five fucking months not wearing a mask and insisting that his response was the greatest in history, while Fauci at least had the decency to adjust his views/recommendations as new information came out. Trump doubled and tripled down on hydroxychloroquine even when physicians (myself included) knew firsthand it wasn't working and could potentially endanger patients on QTc prolonging medications.

His messaging of indifference and disdain for medical/public health authorities was mirrored directly by his followers, and now the southern US is basically fucked.

I'm the one admitting these patients, and to be literally in a patient's room holding a phone to their ear so they can say goodbye to their daughter before they get intubated while, on TV, there are literally QAnon-type morons claiming it's all a hoax? It was absolutely appalling.

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RoadsterUFO posted...

Experts: Stay home, it could save lives!

*Mass rioting and protests over George Floyd begins.*

Experts: *crickets*

Meanwhile, Trump holds packed indoor rallies in cities having huge outbreaks, and has staff (who later tested positive for COVID19) literally remove signs and stickers recommending social distancing and mask-wearing.

But sure, keep up that false equivalency.

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Ruvan22 posted...

Again, which experts? And did they say "COVID doesn't exist if protesting" or "The risks are low"? For the third time, which public health experts said "rioting doesn't spread COVID"?
Also, from this last post-
1) Studies afterwards showed there was minimal spread. Do you believe those were wrong?
2) Why is it so important for you to assign significant spread to protests?

As someone who spent the better part of two decades indoctrinated into conservative propaganda, the answers are:

1) They literally believe that experts live in a bubble and don't understand how the "real world works." That somehow people with a decade or more of advanced education in a subject can have their worldview overturned by generalizations and straw man arguments.

2) They believe that the media's coverage of Republicans and Democrats is inherently unequal. This is actually true, however their response to this is to retreat to information echo chambers that, in any other country, would be considered straight-up partisan propaganda. Even with faced with objective proof that Trump or the GOP lied and/or directly spread misinformation and corruption, their first instinct is to find out what Sean Hannity or other rightwing commentator has to say as a retort.

3) They believe that isolated examples of Democrat/Liberal hypocrisy somehow makes them morally equivocal (or worse) than the blatant, disgusting misinformation-spewing corruption of the GOP.

It's brainwashing. Rightwing theology is a cult at this point.

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lww99 posted...

Exactly. Thats the point I was trying to make. Thanks!

Measles is the best example of the fallacy of low case fatality rates meaning a disease "isn't dangerous."

Anti-vaxxers love to post charts about how the CFR for measles dropped to 1 in 1,000 cases, and that the overall mortality rate dropped to 0.2 per 100,000 general population in the US.

Then they run for the hills when you ask them what 1-in-1,000 mortality means when the average number of recorded cases prior to the vaccine was 500,000 cases per year in the US, or when you ask them what 0.2 per 100,000 general population mortality is in a population of 330 million.

Because 500 dead children per year kinda makes their candlelight vigils for Timmy who had hives look a little embarrassing.

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A word about the protests -

Obviously, it's not good for the pandemic that a large number of people got together. However, with that said, the data is quite clear that COVID19 does not spread well outdoors. I think people should've been more responsible and considered the ramifications of perpetuating the spread of COVID19 before holding these gatherings, but it's disingenuous to suggest that the protests were anywhere near as significant as states reopening early. Not to mention southern states have a serious problem with not wearing masks in public.

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As someone with a Master of Public Health, here's my take:

When people say "mortality rate" what they actually mean is Case Fatality Rate, which is the number of deaths relative to the total number of cases - or, put simply, the probability of dying from COVID19 if you get it.

This is an inherently biased number because the people most likely to be tested are the people with more severe symptoms (the likelihood of being tested if you're asymptomatic is obviously quite low unless you're being screened for other reasons).

With that said, in the US there have been 3.4 million cases and 138,000 deaths, which yields a case fatality rate of about 4.1%. That's a ridiculously high number when you consider the total population of the US is over 300 million.

With that said, most likely at least half or more of cases have been undiagnosed, so the CFR is probably 2% or less. Nevertheless, that's still an absurdly high CFR for a disease as easily spread as COVID19 (the CFR of influenza is around 0.1%, and influenza has the advantage of seasonality)

The long and short of it is anyone who downplays COVID19 clearly doesn't understand epidemiology.


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Makeveli_lives posted...

November 17th. Must be the date for the new Xbox console as well because I believe I read that this is a launch title.

AC4 was a launch title for PS4 but the other versions launched the previous month.

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sauceje posted...

Embarrassed Nude Breton

Enraged Nord Booty

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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/white-house-seeks-discredit-fauci-amid-coronavirus-surge-n1233612

Bold strategy; let's see if it works out for him.

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Yes, and admittedly I actually thought their original argument was a bit optimistic. Thanks for the update, I didn't know that they had changed/adjusted their view.

It's always best to go with best evidence, even if it changes your mind.

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KStateKing17 posted...

Outside of the protests wasn't California doing pretty well until the last few weeks? It's the most populous state. It's expected that their count would be high. Republicans have been a lot more vocal about it being a hoax and not wanting to wear masks. The numbers could have been lower by the thousands if people would have taken the lockdowns and testing seriously.

The gross irresponsibility of Republicans during this crisis can be summarized with this one single fact:

The first time Donald Trump wore a mask in public was two days ago.


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After months of deliberate misinformation and downplaying the situation so they could "educate the experts," now the Redpillers want to play whataboutism.

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Texas and Florida's governors made a lot of noise about how they were boldly opening early and getting back to work. They made their early reopening deliberately political.

They (the governors) deserve to pay the political price for the gamble they made.

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California wasn't a darling to the Redpillers who desperately wanted to promote Texas and Florida closing late / reopening early as some kind of definitive proof that liberals trashed the economy over a hoax.


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Betsy DeVos is the literal worst, however I will point out that the American Academy of Pediatrics themselves recommend reopening K-12 schools because the objective data we've gathered suggests that not only is it safe, it may actually be more safe than children staying home, or at least be less dangerous than the economic and social impact of homeschooling on the workforce.

https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2020/07/08/peds.2020-004879

On the basis of these data, SARS-CoV-2 transmission in schools may be less important in community transmission than initially feared. This would be another manner by which SARS-CoV-2 differs drastically from influenza, for which school-based transmission is well recognized as a significant driver of epidemic disease and forms the basis for most evidence regarding school closures as public health strategy.11,12 Although 2 reports are far from definitive, the researchers provide early reassurance that school-based transmission could be a manageable problem, and school closures may not have to be a foregone conclusion, particularly for elementary schoolaged children who appear to be at the lowest risk of infection. Additional support comes from mathematical models, which find that school closures alone may be insufficient to halt epidemic spread13 and have modest overall impacts compared with broader, community-wide physical distancing measures.14
These data all suggest that children are not significant drivers of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is unclear why documented SARS-CoV-2 transmission from children to other children or adults is so infrequent

Almost 6 months into the pandemic, accumulating evidence and collective experience argue that children, particularly school-aged children, are far less important drivers of SARS-CoV-2 transmission than adults. Therefore, serious consideration should be paid toward strategies that allow schools to remain open, even during periods of COVID-19 spread. In doing so, we could minimize the potentially profound adverse social, developmental, and health costs that our children will continue to suffer until an effective treatment or vaccine can be developed and distributed or, failing that, until we reach herd immunity.

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eston posted...

Have you ever seen one of those CGI movies where it starts on Earth and then just keeps zooming further and further out to show the scale of the solar system, milky way, and so on? I always think about how fast the camera would have to be moving for that to even be possible. Real time would take centuries

At light speed it'd take 8 minutes just to reach the sun alone

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Even if you made a spacecraft that could travel at 99%+ the speed of light, it would still take over 100,000 years to travel from one end of the Milky Way to the other, and 2.5 million years to travel to Andromeda.

Proxima centauri, the closest star to the Solar System, is 4.2 freaking light years away.

Even if intelligent life exists in the universe, it's literally almost impossible for any of them to meet up unless wormholes are real - and even then, they likely result in causality paradoxes and require the existence of negative mass / negative energy, which probably doesn't exist anyway.

So yeah, thanks universe for being your stupid causality speed limit.

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Rocket: Robot on Wheels is the best Sucker Punch game, don't @ me

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Doom Eternal
Half-Life Alyx
FF7 Remake
Xenoblade Chronicles (honestly I don't think this one should count)

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monkmith posted...

seeing that there's a very strong mentality in this country that any government 'order' is tyranical and an overreach, no i doubt it.

It's actually a minor miracle that the GOP had similar vaccine mandate approval until the past half-decade or so.

But nope, now they're the antivax party. And the anti-mask party. And the anti public health party.


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LightHawKnight posted...

Thats cause Asian countries have a past history of wearing masks to help prevent spread and have the common decency to care about spreading germs to other people. Wonder if America will ever learn.

We uniquely have fostered a very large group of uneducated absolute morons who believe 100% that they know more than any expert in literally any subject.


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It's particularly interesting when people try to say this to me, considering I spend most of my day admitting all these cases

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CanuckCowboy posted...

I never even knew of these games till 2 came out on gamepass.

Its fun as hell.

They're really well made

The first game's story is way better than it has any right to be, too.

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eston posted...

I enjoyed the first two, but I thought it was weird how 2 was basically a completely different type of game. Still a fps, but where the first game was more of a Doom, the second one wanted to be Borderlands. Personally I like the first one better

I liked the first better too, but I still liked the second a lot

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Oh well, I'm still excited

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Isle of Armor sucks, but nothing compares to how pathetic they handled Apricorns

The only useful thing they did at all is make EV supplements dirt cheap and purchasable in stacks of 25 for 50% off in the dojo vending machine.

Combined with a near-infinite amount of money you can get from Digging Pa, you can easily train all of your Pokemon immediately

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Tyranthraxus posted...

Using NVMe drive as external completely ruins the point of having an NVMe drive in the first place FYI. You can probably walk out a bit richer by selling the old drive and buying a regular external HDD.

I'll probably just sell it


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Tyranthraxus posted...

If it's the same computer, yes. If it's not there a good chance your Mobo drivers are all fucked.

Note that cloning is different from copying / replicating / etc and sometimes people will use the words interchangeably. Use a clone tool like clonezilla. If you don't clone the MBR which only a cloning tool will do, then it definitely won't work.

My new SSD and the USB enclosure comes tomorrow

My setup is going from a Samsung NVME m.2 500 GB to a Samsung Pro Evo NVME m.2 2 TB

I got Macrium Reflect, which seems to be popular for free software to clone. Looks pretty easy to use too.

So I'm going to clone my internal SSD to the other one, increase the partition size of C:, then use my old SSD as an external drive

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pogo_rabid posted...

Yeah, it'll clone the partition, you just need to expand the partition afterwards

I'm using some software that lets you change partition size before you actually clone, but I assume as long as the contents of every partition remains the same it essentially works

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I assume someone here has at least done this before

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Yes. I also remember Heaven's Gate. Their website is actually still up because they paid for like 50 years of web hosting IIRC

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So I understand the concept of cloning, and partitions. I assume that when you upgrade to a larger hard drive, you need to resize the partition that contains the actually useful storage to include the extra space in the new hard drive.

The question I have is, once you clone a drive and partition it correctly, can you just put it in the computer and boot from it like it's the old hard drive?


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The previous two games (in the reboot series, at least) were amazing.


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Nvme pricing is bonkers

512 GB $80-$120
1 TB: $150ish
2 TB: $300-$400 (for good ones at least)
4 TB: $800+


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We know Pizzagate isn't real because a guy with a fucking assault rifle broke into the pizza parlor and opened the door everyone was convinced led to the basement and discovered it was a computer cabinet.

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