The Bort thread 🔦

[wolfgirl42]

@ToyKeeper

I keep, uh … pretty detailed logs. Like, detailed enough to know what I had for breakfast, and that I spent only 2 minutes and 55 seconds on BLF that day.

How much do you spend on “updating logs” per day? As any developer of high-scale applications will tell you, “logging isn’t free”.

Also, when it comes to version check, I usually take a video on my phone, then I can watch it back and pause and go back a few seconds without having to sit through the entire versioncheck string each time.

[ToyKeeper]

@Bort

My guess is the small head, triple LEDs and low temperature setting is making it throttle within 10 seconds.

Hmm… not sure what’s going on there. The tempcheck mode might shed some light on it though, since it shows what temperature the MCU is measuring. There could be heat inside which isn’t perceptible on the outside, maybe. Basically, run the light until it ramps like halfway down, then turn it off and quickly go into tempcheck mode. It should blink out a number for how hot it thinks it is.

If I understand correctly, this model is also just not capable of maintaining very high output. But you should be able to increase that somewhat by setting a higher temperature limit. The default is 45 C (or 24 C higher than whatever factory reset measured)… but it can be raised up to 70 C. It might be worth setting the limit to 55 or 60 C to see what happens.

@wolfgirl42

How much do you spend on “updating logs” per day?

Almost everything is automatic, generated as a side effect of regular activities. I wouldn’t bother if it actually required effort. There are chat logs, email history, a thing which logs URLs visited, a thing which logs X11 activity, etc… Then if I need info about what I did, I can just look it up.

For example, let’s say I wanted to know how much time I spent on March 5th on this forum, and also watching videos…

> xact report 2023-03-05 BudgetLight videos
===== 2023-03-05 00:00:00 .. 2023-03-06 00:00:00 =====
Active 8h37m23s / 24h
    4h39m17s "BudgetLight"
    3h58m06s videos
Passive 3h01m25s / 24h
    2h51m25s videos
       9m59s "BudgetLight"
Keypresses 18130 / 24h
       17139 "BudgetLight"
         991 videos
Clicks 856 / 24h
         780 "BudgetLight"
          76 videos
Mouse Wheel 11925 / 24h
       11464 "BudgetLight"
         461 videos
> xact graph 2023-03-05 BudgetLight videos

Data like this comes in handy pretty frequently.

[wolfgirl42]

That’s really impressive. I have a Grafana dashboard that tracks a few important life variables and alerts on them and I tend to run a fairly reasonable part of my life with cronjobs and scripts and stuff, but I don’t have anything for how I spend my time.

[Bort (BortyMcBortface)]

@Mandrake50

@Bort

I need more basic instructions unfortunately.

Check this video out. You will need to find the section, but he shows you how to do it. This is for Andruil 2, but he has one for Andruil 1 too.

To which video are you referring?

Also i have not given up on this issue but have not been able to get to it lately.

[Mandrake50]

Anduril 2 explained - detailed manual through all the functions and settings of the UI

This one is for A2… he also has on on A1 which he links.

[Bort (BortyMcBortface)]

Been a while since @Bort posted in the Bort thread. Enjoy these silly vids:

The Simpsons Rapmaster 2000 (homer the vigilante)

THE SIMPSONS mention 'Free Laserium'

[Bort (BortyMcBortface)]

The Simpsons - Homer calls Japan

Am I too late for the 4:30 Auto-Giro?

The Simpsons - IRS Burger

[Bort (BortyMcBortface)]

Abe Simpson - Union Buster (The Axios Interview)

[Bort (BortyMcBortface)]

BTW i recently bought and built a new computer, 12700K, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD
Still on the old computer till i get around to transferring my files to the new computer.

[raccoon]

Congrats!
I still want to build my first PC, but it’s going to be a while before that happens.

[Bort (BortyMcBortface)]

@raccoon

Congrats!
I still want to build my first PC, but it’s going to be a while before that happens.

I thought you did build your computer?

[raccoon]

Nope, not yet.
I’ve been getting my PCs from CyberPowerPC, where I can choose many components, but when I build my own PC, I’ll have the ultimate selection of parts to choose from.

[Bort (BortyMcBortface)]

@raccoon

Nope, not yet.
I’ve been getting my PCs from CyberPowerPC, where I can choose many components, but when I build my own PC, I’ll have the ultimate selection of parts to choose from.

What is your current computer?

[raccoon]

This is pretty close to my current PC, but I have 32GB of nice RAM instead of 8GB of mediocre RAM and I have a slightly different case:
https://pcpartpicker.com/user/jawzo/saved/#view=LFjyxr

[Bort (BortyMcBortface)]

@raccoon

This is pretty close to my current PC, but I have 32GB of nice RAM instead of 8GB of mediocre RAM:
https://pcpartpicker.com/user/jawzo/saved/#view=LFjyxr

Thats a good computer.
You bought the parts and they built it or they sell packages that you chose from?

[raccoon]

@Bort

Thats a good computer.
You bought the parts and they built it or they sell packages that you chose from?

They sell packages, and you have limited choices for each component.

[Bort (BortyMcBortface)]

@raccoon

@Bort

Thats a good computer.
You bought the parts and they built it or they sell packages that you chose from?

They sell packages, and you have limited choices for each component.

Interesting.
While i have built most of my computers i did watch this since the current rig is over a decade old and some things have changed slightly:

How to build a PC, the last guide you'll ever need!

[raccoon]

Here’s the PC that I want to build, but I’m going to switch some components with my current PC.
(I’ll have one PC in my room, and another PC in the living room.)
https://pcpartpicker.com/user/jawzo/saved/#view=62P38d

[Bort (BortyMcBortface)]

@raccoon

Here’s the PC that I want to build, but I’m going to switch some components with my current PC.
(I’ll have one PC in my room, and another PC in the living room.)
https://pcpartpicker.com/user/jawzo/saved/#view=62P38d

Looks good, the chip is 7% faster than mine but 29% higher cost. I was actually going to go for this but figured i might as well save almost $100 Canadian and give up 7%.
https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-12700K-vs-Intel-Core-i5-13600KF/4119vsm1950757

[raccoon]

Hmm…
The prices might be different in the U.S. vs in Canada.
Looks like the 13600KF is only $4 more expensive according to your link.

EDIT:
Nevermind.
I’m interested in the KF version, and you have the K version.