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I can understand the Photoshop needs but never had that Chrome issue. Matching ram isn’t such a black art any more, but if you stick to a well known brand and non extreme specs it shouldn’t be too much of an issue getting exactly the same. I’d imagine the Hyper Fury will be relevant for a few years yet.

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Managed to get an Ocado slot for Sunday.

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Personally I think 8GB is enough unless you have specific needs.

I would put the £40 towards an NVMe Gen3x4 drive as that’s the next bit of kit that makes the most difference. The Adata XPG SX are the best buys.

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No sign over this side of the Bristol channel.

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Those stories have started already on the news this morning (forget which channel).

Where the hell would we buy them from any way?

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I always have a look at CCLs motherboard bundles to see what’s possible and tweak from there if necessary.

£180 gets you an A320 motherboard, a Ryzen 3 3200G 3.6GHz and 8GB of HyperX DDR4.

The motherboard is the weak point, it’s fine for office machines and has the M2 slot but a B450 would be better. Good news is the £20 left in the budget makes this possible, although an extra tenner widens the choice a lot.

£240 spent at E-Buyer gets you into Ryzen 5 6 core  /12 thread territory

• AMD Ryzen 5 2600 AM4 Processor with Wraith Stealth Cooler
• MSI B450M PRO-VDH MAX
• HyperX FURY 8GB (1x8GB) 2400MHz DDR4

 

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The PPE scandal rumbles on. The blame game will start in earnest in a week or two.

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Not one of mine, taken by a mate last night and put on FB. If it’s clear tonight (doubtful) it’s odds on he’ll take some more.

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So now we know what BoJo isn’t suffering with, and some idiot mentioned telephone contact again, which still begs the question why is he in ICU?

I don’t favour the “precautionary” idea, I can’t imagine they would waste a bed. He doesn’t need an ICU bed for the oxygen delivery he’s on, so what else can an ICU bed provide? Other organ failure treatments springs to mind.

As usual with evasive politicians we’ll have to take notice of what isn’t said and what is dodged. I still wouldn’t be surprised if it’s all a lie and he is far worse. Whatever, I have been in ICU as a patient and I find it hard to believe anyone would be thinking of doing anything from there never mind run a country.

My guess is he is far worse than we’ve been lead to believe. The alternative is he’s wasting a bed and I find that hard to countenance.

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They’re dropping like flies, Michael Gove just got the full 14 days.

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All this tests “as a precaution”, hospitalisation “as a precaution”, ICU to be near a ventilator “as a precaution”. Absolute bollocks I feel, he is obviously seriously ill. Why they can’t admit it I can’t fathom, the country should not collapse in a heap without him.

But if he was still at the wheel why had his nominated deputy not spoken to him for 2 days? How can he know the plans “the prime minister instructed us to deliver”?

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There’s plenty of online butchers out there.

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As we keep telling the in-laws, let the young uns do the shopping. Their house is groaning under the weight of food – their neighbours are very good and the street is organised – but MIL keeps finding excuses to go out to get something they don’t really need.

I think until, God forbid, someone you know falls ill it doesn’t quite sink home unless you’ve seen the Sky News coverage from inside a Lombardy hospital ‘Everyone dies alone’. This is what rammed it home to me more than any statistics. Never mind the Govt infomercials, they should be replaced by this. The longer documentary from the area about the social impact is compelling watching too.

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My favoured #2 summer #4 winter is becoming fashionable 😎

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Re the nurse, that makes sense.

It would be interesting to see Google take London out and show it separately. I suspect the results would be very different for London vs the rest especially on the commuting stats. Bristol is pretty much a ghost town even in the rush hour, the scenes from the tube stations are quite appalling.

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Will do.

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But Bristol ISN’T a hot spot and neither is the commuter belt around it (where I live), which where most commuters come from, not South Wales. Chepstow and the M4 corridor to Newport is the main area for live in South Wales work in Bristol people, not the Valleys.

South Gloucestershire, which is my area and home to major manufacturers like BAE, Airbus, Rolls Royce etc. and is the transport hub of north to south and east to west (M4-M5 and the rail lines) is even less. So I’m afraid the wealth thing doesn’t stack up at all in our area, nor does the commuter theory.

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“The major red zones seem to equate to areas of wealth where people took overseas holidays during February”

That doesn’t really explain South Wales and The Valleys especially. You would have thought Bristol would be a hot spot and it isn’t, yet similarly sized Sheffield is 5x has many.

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Never let a good crisis go to waste. I see Brexit negotiations are still in full swing with Mr Gove taking time off from our health planning  to organise the precise details of an additional economic shock. Still they can then blame the virus and not the ideology. I believe the idea is that the EU will be detracted, desperate and Barnierless and so will roll over.

Whenever there is a crisis of any sort our civil liberties always take a step backwards “for the common good” to be reviewed later…

 

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Gloat away, no problems with that here. It clearly shows how infectious this is and how the Govt have not been following their own instructions.

TBH I am fully expecting to catch this at some time, I just hope that’s at the time the NHS can cope with it.

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