Notices by Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io), page 73

@mike You've picked the wrong season, haven't you? Next time go to Antartica if you wanna see the sun all day in December!

@mike Have you been on vacation in the Arctic Circle?

Both shots were taken by a Samsung S22+ with minimal editing and without jacking up the saturation.

The sky was really that pink in real life... actually even more stunning in real life than an HDR picture could capture!

Is this other shot better?

I can't tell, but I like the composition of industrial and natural elements.

#photography #sunset

Yesterday evening I was biking back home when I saw this stunning sunset...

#Hawthorne #LosAngeles #California #Photography

Before someone wrongly concludes that these variants give lighter symptoms and are therefore less dangerous: I was fully vaccinated, including a second shot of the booster updated for the BA.4 & BA.5 variants one month ago.

Perhaps BQ.1 and XBB are less lethal, perhaps not... I have no idea at this point. We'll see from the data in a few weeks.

Meanwhile, please take precautions and avoid Christmas parties with your loved ones if you have any #COVID19 symptoms, no matter how light.

The new variants are called 22E.Omicron (aka BQ.1) and 22F Omicron (aka XBB).

https://covariants.org/variants/22E.Omicron
#covid #covid19 #omicron

@globalc Yes, I just saw that the new variants are just starting to appear now in Japan... and there's another big wave of infections... will it be bigger than the previous one?

Two new #COVID19 variants are gaining ground worldwide, replacing the previous Omicron variants:
https://covariants.org/per-country

OH OH OH! 🎅

I don't see a spike of cases here in #California:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/california-covid-cases.html

Is this being under-reported because, like me, many people don't even realize they're infected?

I'm just recovering from #Covid19.

My symptoms were light and sometimes disappearing, just to come back the next day.

Initially I got a negative antigen test so I thought I had "The Flu", and went to work a couple of days later. Without a second test, I wouldn't have realized I was still infectious.

One of my housemate got positive a few days after me.

Many of my coworkers are now sick, and it's not clear who passed it to whom. The supplies of covid tests ran out.

It's quite a wildfire...

My hometown flourished a dynasty of ruthless bankers!

@nicup @jayarava @SabinaKnight @philosophy @stancarey #florence #firenze #renaissance

@1lyaP But I didn't quite get your comment with "Hot?"...

Maybe...
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hot%20toy
🤔

@the_white_wolf Yeah, I heard that the RTX 4090 is a monstrous card 😂

This one has only 2 8-pin power connectors and a TDP of "only" 300 watts.

@1lyaP Why are you saying that I'm not interested? I read all the responses and occasionally follow up...

@tchx84 That's the idea, yeah!

@hayden Back in the say, I had a separate case for my SCSI peripherals! I had 3 hard drives, plus CD-ROM, CD-RW and tape drive.

A total of 6 devices on a long internal ribbon cable + external SCSI cable going to the back of my Amiga 4000.

#amiga #scsi #retrocomputing

@keadamander Intel of you want simple, cheap and low power. AMD if you're willing to spend $900 on a GPU, and possibly also upgrade the PSU and the case...

I used to think my old Radeon RX Vega 64 was ridiculously big, lol...

#RDNA3 #gpu #gaming #pc #RadeonRX7900

To avoid ripping off the PCI-E slot, this big-ass card comes with a so-called "Z support bar", which hooks up to *four* slots on the back of the case 🙄