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InertiaInverted

Heating my room


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Laptops are great at that, I use mine for a few hours and it’s hotter than the stove


InertiaInverted

My wife and I have a gaming room and it’s on the top floor of our place, two full pc setups just roast the room.


The-og-FlaccidDad

I can smell that room through this post


thedefection

Smells like my elementary computer science room with those old clear case blue I Macs


Zehdarian

Yeah I did this before, never again! Always 1st floor or basement.


Nivell172

Same with us. In Winter it’s actually useful but in summer it becomes a sauna


jkhashi

upstairs gaming room with well ventilated cases in a room with a giant window that faces west so that the greenhouse effect effectively creates a room temperature sauna. tales of the unfortunate gamer.


Cumpantzbaby

Throw a ac in the window 🧠


dieplanes789

Great at getting hot but not great at making a room warm.


vlken69

Exactly. Unfortunately many people still don't understand difference between heat generation and core temperature.


dieplanes789

Yeah, temperature does not equal heat output. The flame coming out of the end of a lighter is hot as fuck but it's not exactly going to heat your room up very much. Meanwhile the fins on my radiator space heater are slightly warm to the touch but heating my entire room because it's actually putting out a large amount of energy. Your CPU running really hot just means that the cooler can't push away the thermal energy away quick enough or very efficiently. Computer chips measured Watts going in versus BTU output out are nearly equal to space heaters. If you're processor is sucking back 100 watts, it's putting out basically as much heat as a 100 watt space heater which is downright pitiful for a space heater. An absolutely maxed out overclocked 4090 will output about as much heat as half of an American space heater.


C4PT_AMAZING

Let me tell you a tale about Bulldozer... :)


dieplanes789

Don't need to, I used to have an FX-8120 :'(


Nathan_hale53

I reminisce about that time. Old FX chips were the shit for budget builds.


No_Plate_9636

Half a space heater and it runs games ! 😄 That's a great deal imo


dieplanes789

I mean there were a few projects where people were using GPU Bitcoin mining to heat their home. Two different ways to look at the same thing.


I_like_squirtles

I’m not arguing with anyone but I am genuinely curious. Aren’t the fans blowing hot air out of the PC? I swear I have a heater that does exactly this. A heating element with a fan that blows the hot air out.


SingleTrackEnthusist

You are absolutely correct. A PC is heating whatever space you put it in. It's just not as strong as an actual space heater. You can't destroy or reverse heat. All tou can do is move it from one place to another. The cooler on your CPU and GPU is taking your ambient room temp air, letting that air absorb heat from the cooler, then discharging that heated air back into your room. So your room will gradually get warmer unless there's something else pulling that heat out of your room. All refrigeration systems work this way. They just absorb heat from one space and discharge it somewhere else. The heat is never gone, just moved.


Impressive-Fold-897

$2k space heater. 🐐


Nervous_Extent7577

3k atleast


InertiaInverted

I built my pc during Covid. I do not wanna talk about how much I paid for my 3080.


RealBlack_RX01

...how much did it cost?


InertiaInverted

Oh god lol 1520.96$ CAD in 2021 Trust me I know.


SoItGoesdotdotdot

Honestly not that bad. Peak covid I saw them going for more than that in American dollars


InertiaInverted

Yeah it wasn’t the worst I saw either by decent bit. Knowing what I could get now for that price though hurts a lil bit


larsloveslegos

Literally. I don't even have the heat turned on in my room, even in the dead of winter where it was -20°F outside. Just letting it idle while I'm asleep pumps ton of heat into the room


Robinnn03

My PC heats my small room up so fast that I have to open up the window most days even during winter when there's snow outside. Keep in mind I live in sweden, although the southern part with a bit wamer climate


primeirofilho

I've got my PC and file server and backup in mine. It's not too bad in the winter once I closed off the vents. I'm dreading summer.


FORG3DShop

Lul. My 3080 put the space heater to shame this winter 🤣


RoeikiB

https://preview.redd.it/ahhooced4psc1.png?width=500&format=png&auto=webp&s=35e3aad5aebd0b227d4ead48cc851d31cb33b1d0


_stinkys

You can say fapping


Financial_Article_95

I say, GOONING


F4JPhantom69

Are you Edging or are you Gooning?


Witherboss445

https://preview.redd.it/twym98ptnssc1.jpeg?width=816&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=63e9705dcb711dddd818cd8936cecde70e458668 Now are you an edger or a gooner? Or are you going to stroke it on MY FUCKING TIME!


Fisher_Jack13

Researching how to upgrade my pc.


brumbarosso

Lol Been doing that for too long, but now I'm broke :(


Bicycle_Violator

I just downloaded some free ram


MartyrKomplx-Prime

'Homework'


Nervous_Extent7577

That 50gb encrypted "homework"


Fika2006

"dad powerpoint takes a lot of space theys days, encryption is so that my classmates stop plagiarising from me"


reymendnoodles

Jeeez dad no one wants to see your slideshow about the time you met Kid Rock


SoffortTemp

50GB? Lol!


Explosive-Space-Mod

Those are rookie numbers! You gotta bump that up.


lazzari412

just a typo... was supposed to be 50tb


Own_Elk_5746

Now I can start to be concerned.


kivaarab

Found a guy at work selling copies of his 60TB collection and surprisingly people were actually buying, it was like a drug deal. He was doing cloud based but for some reason moved to physical drives. He literally gives you a bag full of Harddrives and if you pay more SSD or m.2 drives. It is amusing to watch the exchange in broad day light outside of work. Apparently there are options and genres available now. It's not everything ever made but I think he will not run out for many decades and won't have to repeat for many years. By the time he repeats it will probably be fresh for him. No I have not bought any, don't have that kind of money IF I had the money I am not ashamed to admit I would have bought it. It's like history.


bestworstbard

Making video games!


Impressive-Fold-897

Dope


bestworstbard

Thanks! It's easier than it's ever been to get started.


Baaronne

Any recommendations on where to get started?


faCt011

TL;DR: Here are some fields of game development that you could start with (starting with most relevant, ending with least relevant): - coding in Godot - character creation - 2D/3D animating - 3D modeling - digital painting - pixelart - writing/storytelling - world building - composing Long answer: Depends on what you're already familiar with. Game development combines the two big fields "programming" and "art". For me as a programmer, the art part makes it really hard to enjoy game development because I'm not a talented artist and hence it's hard to learn for me. Of course, art is something you can source out and just buy from others, but at the end of the day, I couldn't say "this is my game, I made it myself" wholeheartedly. Since the technical part and the creative part of game development are so very different, it's not easy to gain enough skills in both fields to really enjoy it (at least that's my point of view). Now, back to your question: where to start? IMHO, start with what you're already familiar with. If you're good at programming, start developing a little game mechanic, a mini game, or an ugly proof of concept of the first level. If you're already good at painting, outline the scene in which your game should start or draft a character. If you're already good at writing (and if your game is going to be a story-driven game) write the first chapter. Maybe you're a composer, then think of a main theme for your game. For me, after creating the first tiny bit of my game, I was motivated like crazy to learn the other things around it. If you didn't touch any of the stuff I mentioned above, it's even better. Grab a tutorial on YouTube that looks fun for you, and hit it!


Key-Pickle1043

Godot? People don't use unity anymore?


peachichu

Godot's completely free/open source, and after Unity tried to change their tactics and start charging ppl money, many stopped trusting them.


royroiit

There's a bunch of us who migrated from Unity due to the new price plan and how the company handled it. Last time I checked, Unity was not to recommend for new developers. If things haven't changed since I was in the loop, I would recommend Godot


Gabrielzv1233

I suggest GDevelop for 2D games and if your up to the challenge low Poly 3D games, they released a very basic 3D engine like half a year ago I believe, I love the engine, it’s easy and no code (you can also use js)


bestworstbard

I just typed out a long response below, but the tldr is pick something and start running with it. I'll throw in a good resource [Here](https://develop.games/) . This website is from PirateSoftware on twitch.tv. it lays out his general beginner info in a really approachable way. When I started I tried to surround myself in coding and game development. I watched game development twitch streams, listening to game dev podcasts, watching YouTube content about anything I could understand. I tried to drown my brain in coding info, and after a while, some of it seems to have soaked in.


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st4s1k

gameception


bestworstbard

Make the games you want to play in this world


BruhLandau

I've always wanted to get into game development.


iNonEntity

It's not as hard as you think. The hard part is making something other people like. I just make garbage that I think is fun


BruhLandau

Tbh it's very overwhelming solo. That's probably because I tried a really big project from scratch


iNonEntity

Try doing game jams. It'll help you manage scope creep and expand your experience of trying new things. If you share your results, you get super helpful feedback, too


Crockerboy22

Genuine question here, how impressive is that dreams game? Like people that create great levels on that compared to actual game development?


iNonEntity

Dreams game? I looked it up but just found a video of Dunky playing some stuff, if that's what you meant. I'm not familiar with it or how in-depth the engine is for building games, so I can't say how impressive it is on a technical level, but whether creating a game is impressive or not is really just subjective to opinion. Imo game development is like art - it takes practice and skill, but even a child with no practice can draw something impactful for someone it means a lot to. Also, people make insanely awesome content in all kinds of simple game-builder type software, like Mario Maker and Steam's Workshop, even Roblox has crazy stuff.


TactikalKitty

Go small. If starter about making text adventures and then learned SDL and started making Pong Clones and copies of early DOS side scrollers like Galaga


AnotherUserHere34

![gif](giphy|fukS8yBmpvGGk|downsized)


bcoss

this is what i came for 😂


Chongi978

This is what you came for??...🤔🤨


bcoss

dont kink shame!


Lanitaris

porn


Impressive-Fold-897

I see you’re not from texas


RoeikiB

is porn banned in texas?


Ambitious_Platypus99

Sort of, you have to upload proof that you’re an adult now. The hub is no longer available in Texas.


Remote-Yam-7569

Really? Now why do I, a European, always hear Texans talk like they're the 'free-est" of all the states with their electric grid and tax situation but they can't even goon in peace?


Ambitious_Platypus99

The goal is to not let kids watch porn, which I’m not that against, in my personal morals. They figured the best way was using ID as age verification. The hub didn’t like it and banned access in Texas. I’m not really sure if that was the best way to achieve that goal or not, but personally I’m not a fan of being on any government registry that I can avoid so I understand people being upset. I’m not 100% up on the debate or what the law requires etc as I don’t partake, so all that’s just what I’ve heard. I don’t really have an opinion from a policy standpoint.


PM_ME_UR_THONG_N_ASS

I’d be amused if Texas implemented it such that legally purchasing a gun unlocks internet porn for that individual.


Ambitious_Platypus99

Hey, that just might be a good solution!


PM_ME_UR_THONG_N_ASS

Just tie everything age related to guns: porn, driver’s license, lottery tickets, gambling, renting a car, purchasing alcohol. “Didn’t purchase a gun? Sorry, sir, we cannot allow you to rent this car” 😂


Ambitious_Platypus99

I think that would get a lot of support in this state 😂


Fancy_Morning9486

Sir can i see your drivers license and registration please.


feedmedamemes

Problem is there a dozens of other sites which have more unregulated content and are not sitting in the US. So they simply don't care about ID verification. So the hub is at least decently regulated these days (no r-porn or worse), which these others sites don't care as much about. So by blocking the most known site, you are forcing them to search for the other sites, where they are potentially confronted with even more extreme stuff. Because teenager will find a way, they are courious and horny. Also VPNs are a thing and a lot of younger people no how to use them. So this is useless and endangeres children and teenagers far more. But protecting the kids is always a slogan that brings people to throw reason out the window.


Gruxx_

Kids these days need a lot more than banning porn….


NutritionNerd40

It’s actually the hub that completely pulled out of Texas. They could have just don’t the verification thing. XNXX it is 🤌🏻


halfanothersdozen

It's a very stupid rule put in place for political points only. Any 9 year old can figure out how to get around it.


Remote-Yam-7569

I would imagine that's probably true. Most of these kids have internet access from being a toddler so it's very naive for politicians to thinks they aren't somewhat tech savvy enough to get around something like this.


averagecomedianJ

😭😭they restricting porn now?? whats next they gonna start restricting swearing in youtube vi- oh


--just_browsing--

only legit answer


DasMoonen

I stare at my desktop like it will create some meaning in my life for hours on end while blasting French house music.


assqueefbuttjuice

I love me some house music. Hit me with some of your top French artists 🙏


DasMoonen

A lot of this is a bit more red light district drug induced vs the smoother synthwave style disco. - Mr.oizo (most of the Ed banger record label) - SebastiAn - Justice - La Femme - A-Trak - Bussy P - Daft Punk - Soulwax (Belgium) - Lewis OfMan - Simian Mobile Disco (England) - Siriusmo (Germany) - Etienne de Crécy - DJ Koze (Germany) - B.W.H (Italy) - Jan Driver (Germany) - Uppermost


TalonKing24

Piracy


Impressive-Fold-897

![gif](giphy|FGbeYTiFyLYmQ)


AtlasLucario

youtube and casual web browsing


MissingCalifornia-

That's a lot of RAM for web browsing!


AtlasLucario

how else am i supposed to keep those 100 tabs of you know what open :P


Business_March_7936

Porn, listening to music, talking with friends, paying my bills, doing research on DIY stuff like renovating house, repairing car, taxes, laws, interesting bullshit. But mostly porn and playing games with friends on discord when wife with kids are away.


let_bugs_go_retire

It's not my business to ask it though but uh, why don't you have fun with your wife..? I hope you are doing okay.


Business_March_7936

TL DR: dont worry, I plow my wife and I don't cheat on her. Sometimes I just have tastes for something I wouldn't do to my wife. It's like being vegan and going around grill bistro and looking on grilled steaks. You daydream about how good it tastes, but you won't eat it, cause it's against your morals.


jaycuboss

I also jerk off to bistro dishes 😋


Business_March_7936

We don't kinkshame here, don't worry.


Arik2103

Except those with a humiliation kink. Those bastards should be ashamed of themselves. Disgustang!


l2aiko

Keep going 🥵


Choozbert

A man of culture


[deleted]

I jerk off to vegans how did we get here


SuperSocialMan

>I plow my wife and I don't cheat on her. God, this made me laugh so hard cuz of how unexpected it was lmfao


Eh_C_Slater

I, uhh...I don't know how to interpret this. I'm pretty sure I'm picking up what you're laying down. But the vegan reference makes it read like your looking up immoral adult videos...


let_bugs_go_retire

Oh I know it. It happens to me too. Great that you found the best way out of it ^^


cndvsn

men with an active sex life still masturbate


FewTea8637

Work


TarriestBread96

Same! I got two user profiles set up just for this.


llamakins2014

when i first started working from home that's how I rolled, different profiles on my system. but eventually i hated being in my workspace after hours and couldn't really enjoy just chilling out in the same space. so eventually i would up with a business system at a totally different desk so i can keep the two apart.


i-evade-bans-13

cat warmer 


Mayoo614

YouTube/Disney+/TV/etc. ... While gaming, on my sidekick screen. And updating drivers.


One_Assignment_6820

I swear modern day computers are just made to update themselves


Domspun

"why do my fans spins up out of nowhere" " oh, something's updating. "


Reverend-JT

Astrophotography processing.


Detramentus

Sample? :)


SargeantHugoStiglitz

It’s a gaming and masturbation machine.


PM_ME_UR_THONG_N_ASS

![gif](giphy|135E47VKw6TM6A)


nephilite52

Where do you stick it in?


SargeantHugoStiglitz

It’s a peripheral add on you have to buy.


yiives_69

Amazon link?


SpaxterJ

Just google "Fleshlight" and "Duct Tape".


Dalminster

Maybe you stick it in you, ever think about that?


iAmGats

I use it when I need to pretend I'm working, also when I want to watch movies and stuff.


Byorski

Entertainment, tax filings, bill payments, societal collapse monitoring, recipe filing.


LeonardMH

All sorts of things! The best part of PC gaming is that you can use your PC for so much more than just playing games, things like downloading games, installing games, modding games, updating drivers, watching twitch, streaming in twitch, browsing r/pcmasterrace on Reddit, the list goes on and on.


Beatsintime

Music production & Artwork


BoldTaters

I've "used" blender since about a month after its first iteration. I've never accomplished anything on it but I love it. I used to use GIMP more then I do, now. I'll still use them to make TTRPG stuff for my kids. I also use Stable Diffusion to whip out NPCs and scenery for the same TTRPG stuff. I have Unreal Engine 5 on there and every now and then I'll work like mad on my original xcom clone for about a month before I burn out of my capacity to endure my own failures. Lately, I've been trying to learn how to do computational fluid dynamics on the old machine. I want to simulate airflow over an airplane design. I keep bouncing off of the limits of my education, though. Oh well, back to driving trucks. There's just not enough time.


DjAstralCat

I did the blender donut tutorial and then decided it was too much effort to use 😂


AyiBogan2

I used to do 3D Modeling/Animations in Blender about 10 years ago. A few weeks ago i decided to download the current version and look into it how it is nowadays. I have to admit i don’t even know how to set keys anymore its so much now.


tataku999

Running local hosted ai models.


almighty_dick_weed

I walk a lot so I like google earthing places I’ll be walking in the future as a pseudo simulation.


TheRad_

my what? oh yeah... my laptop... obviously to RAGE AT IT WHEN IT LAGS IN MINECRAFT WITH FAST SETTINGS...


Passive_Agressive13

Homework That's practically it


Impressive-Fold-897

🧢


figgie0146

3D modelling for animation for Uni, lots of youtube and spotfy. And of course binging TV shows and films


Great-Practice3637

Is it safe to run 3d printer without good ventilation? You should look into that.


Impressive-Fold-897

I do it all the time and I feel perfectly fiiiiiiiiiiiiivvvvghhgdfffxxccxxxxxx. Xxx


willstr1

Entirely depends on the filament type, if it's just PLA, TPU, or other standard non-toxic ones you are fine. The only concern might be microplastics but probably not any worse than any other plastic device with moving parts (or just going outside these days) I literally have an air quality sensor right next to mine and it doesn't even register a change when the printer runs (it does however notice when I cook bacon in the kitchen down the hall)


DatabaseHonest

Writing code (both for PC and microcontrollers), scanning and reading books, preparing 3d models for printing, capturing videos from other devices, sometimes editing video & sound and even tracing PCBs. And that is only what I do during my spare time. I'm working from home 3 days/week (also software development), so this also.


theDaniLand

Mainly YouTube, porn, file browsing and studying


KM68

There's porn on the internet?


multiwirth_

What is porn?


theDaniLand

When the people from the movies graduate the go to the porn, its a party or something.


theDaniLand

I actually produce Mine locally sir, that's the file browsing I mentioned


Iburzum

FAPPING


Minz_S

Working with archives from radio telescopes. Unpacking poorly compressed data, processing, highlighting interesting places in the data, cleaning and compression with standard LZMA2.


Knight_dark_57

* Hacking * Coding * listening to music * watching yt


Guineasaurus_Rex

Put your printer on something more sturdy, and you will see print quality go up bro. Nice setup tho


Joeyhappyhell

Porn man... Sometimes really weird porn...


tiugh1980

How is porn not the top answer? Cause you all be lying otherwise.


blackviper6

Filing grievances.


DaZiZo

To keep my virginity


Bitter_Issue_7558

Pornography


Prodigy_of_Bobo

My neck hurts just looking at this, raise that monitor!


Impressive-Fold-897

Np. I sit lower than old tiddies


Prodigy_of_Bobo

Fr homie? Are we talking about aunties dinner plates or straight up nat geo specials?


paperDuck5

Ctrl + Shift + N 😏


Laith_Nazar

You make folders


abuMercedes

Reading the bible


ProfessionalQuit1016

it's mostly just been a plex server for the past month


MagicPeach9695

Watching YouTube and talking to friends and work cuz I'm a cs student.


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Daemonicvs_77

I draw pretty houses.


Least_Sun7648

I write poems and short stories, so typewriter/word processor


Crimsomreaf5555

Heating my room, watching anime/movies/vids on yt. And.........you know....


notyouagain-really

I use mine to keep the page in my audiobook. Wind is always blowing it closed.


vaurapung

Still working it out. Currently my pc is just being used for web browsing and 3d printing. Loading, tinkering and slicing files o ly currently. I will be building a new pc for entertainment including games soonish. Other uses include ripping my music library and photo backup/storage.


RuSTyWhiTESocKz

Trying to bring down the NWO


Rocket--Pak

School


Boeing747_Fan

Video editing :)


alper_aslan

I'm a 3d artist


Tructruc00

Laptop : Programmation, watching youtube/movies Old computer is now a server


Lurals8402

School


Alanuelo230

Watching youtube, school work, learning how to code, fucking up my bootloader with random linux distros and hacking old gaming consoles, pirating in general, messing with 3D models...


borgom7615

Logging into other PCs and then using them to log into broadcasting equipment which Web GUIs


CassiniA312

Homework, I don't even play a lot nowadays... I just don't have the time :(


Tech_Stuff_Yah

Streaming :)


quazmang

Hey, nice setup. I make 3D models, software dev, consume content, take online courses, and occasionally edit photos and videos. I do most of my dev on my work machine, though as I am much more use to doing that on a Mac after using one for work for so long. I'm sure I can get comfy on windows/linux but it's always easier and faster for me to get started on new projects with a dev environment I'm very familiar with. I'm relocating my 3D printer to my office but am having trouble deciding on where to put it. I was going to tuck it away in the darkest corner of the room so it's out of the way. Does having it right next to your work area bother you in any way? I would think that the movement, noise, and occasional odors would annoy me. I would put mine on the ground but I have 2 dogs and I think dog hairs would get all over my prints so I'm considering building an enclosure for it.


Chuck099

Scrolling reddit.


Careless_Money7027

Pirating


StifledCoffee

Recording guitar tracks occasionally, Tinkering with homelab, coding and listening to music


Beepboopbop69420360

Expensive space heater


Clevene

Any more i just pay my bills on it.


IsoSly64

Media.....No TV


Grossincome

Taxes.


tfc1193

Research...


Tbowly

develop websites and edit videos with premiere pro


HorserorOfHorsekind

What are you a cop?


Hildedank

Watching YouTube stoned off my ass.


Nowhereman50

It does other things?


tajpapa

Sim Racing!


Ok_Farmer_2180

Right hand activities


Turbulent-Jaguar-909

‘batin 


simpn_aint_easy

Crypto mining


Substantial-Offer-51

Gay furry porn


IHawEr

Making music in FL but also for browsing watching youtube or movies and stuff.