Random Thoughts - Part Deux [NO POLITICS]

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Clipdat

I wonder if she has any problems with things getting slippery sweaty damp and nasty in her BRZ? (Photo shamelessly stolen from the thread in the BRZ photo subforum)

Back in the day, I would have liked to take a ride with her to find out ......


humfrz

[spike021]

Originally Posted by humfrz

I'd suggest that you just use 409 or something like that to clean off whatever slimy stuff is coating your steering wheel. You may need to follow up with an antibiotic soap, depending where your hands were when you got them all "sticky".

Next, lather and scrub your hands with Lava soap, followed by an alcohol rinse then use a mild antibacterial soap.

There ya go ..........


humfrz

Haha, that's not terrible advice! But I've also had the same issue with it since I bought the car, so I'm not sure it's a direct consequence of sticky/greasy hands, though I'm sure that's a contributing factor.

Originally Posted by Spuds

Driving gloves. Seriously, they help a lot. Recommend something ventilated and without fingertips.

Any particular brand/glove you'd recommend?

Originally Posted by FirstWinter

Yeah I would try cleaning it first like humfrz said. Or maybe it's your hands then get some lotion. I don't like covers personally. I would rather have a replacement steering wheel or get it customized with alcantara from somewhere like SWEIDIT. I don't think alcantara would be good for my use though. Maybe one day when I retire the car and save it only for weekends and track days.

Yeah, I don't think I want to do anything fancy for it and I've heard SWEIDIT can be super pricey. Just trying to find a way to give it a bit more texture.

[spike021]

Originally Posted by Clipdat

This. Clean your wheel, and then clean your smarmy jam hands and stop driving after eating poutine.

Maybe the 17 steering wheel material is different, but I've never found my 13 wheel to be in any way slick or slippery.

Lol I didn't even have my car when I had the poutine! You know this!

I prefer the texture of the 13-16's wheel/ It's definitely different, I'll show you..in fact, I'm pretty sure I actually have shown you before.

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by cdrazic93

YAY bitcoin is dropping, now I can build a PC! /s

I took advantage of the dip in November to upgrade mine. Damn I hate crypto currency...

[MrFisty]

Originally Posted by cdrazic93

YAY bitcoin is dropping, now I can build a PC! /s

Originally Posted by Spuds

I took advantage of the dip in November to upgrade mine. Damn I hate crypto currency...

How is bitcoin affecting the price of PC parts?

I don't study bitcoin closely nor am I a PC enthusiast, but I'm curious.

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by spike021

Any particular brand/glove you'd recommend?

Mine were a gift and don't have any branding on them. I know they are sheep leather though. I recall it was some company based in California from the tag that's now long gone.

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by MrFisty

How is bitcoin affecting the price of PC parts?

I don't study bitcoin closely nor am I a PC enthusiast, but I'm curious.

Bitcoin and other crypto currency have value because they are very time and energy consuming to generate ('mine'). When crypto is up, more people want to make more mining rigs, which means demand for parts particularly useful for mining goes up. In many cases, that's high-end graphics cards. Being specifically designed to do vector math very quickly, they can be repurposed to do the math necessary for mining a coin.

Graphics cards are the most important and usually most expensive component of a gaming PC. They have been at a 50+% markup for the past several months. Makes a $600-700 card go for $1k plus.

[MrFisty]

Originally Posted by Spuds

Bitcoin and other crypto currency have value because they are very time and energy consuming to generate ('mine'). When crypto is up, more people want to make more mining rigs, which means demand for parts particularly useful for mining goes up. In many cases, that's high-end graphics cards. Being specifically designed to do vector math very quickly, they can be repurposed to do the math necessary for mining a coin.

Graphics cards are the most important and usually most expensive component of a gaming PC. They have been at a 50+% markup for the past several months. Makes a $600-700 card go for $1k plus.

Huh. I never underststood what was meant by bitcoing mining.

So with a good PC you can just generate bitcoin?

Edit:
Tell me more. I got a credit card. I'll spend $500 on this antminer thing if it just sits around the house and generates cash.

[finch1750]

Originally Posted by FirstWinter

Yeah I would try cleaning it first like humfrz said. Or maybe it's your hands then get some lotion. I don't like covers personally. I would rather have a replacement steering wheel or get it customized with alcantara from somewhere like SWEIDIT. I don't think alcantara would be good for my use though. Maybe one day when I retire the car and save it only for weekends and track days.

Yeah, I have a wheel with alcantara like material (might be alcantara but don't remember exactly) that I got thanks to the forums. It was already used but now the material is pretty shiny and matted. Sucks that there is no good way to clean alcantara from what I have looked at besides maybe a microfiber cloth. Still nicer then my OEM wheel that was peeling though.

[HunterGreene]

[HunterGreene]

Originally Posted by MrFisty

Huh. I never underststood what was meant by bitcoing mining.

So with a good PC you can just generate bitcoin?

Edit:
Tell me more. I got a credit card. I'll spend $500 on this antminer thing if it just sits around the house and generates cash.

I've been watching this since December when it went to $19k USD for a bitcoin...and today its just around $7k (had to edit this amount a few times since I started writing this post, for example), although that literally changes every minute.

So if you are looking to mine Bitcoin itself, there's a couple caveats: First, there are a finite amount of BC that can be mined, as designed by the creators of the currency. Ceiling is 21 million BC, with around 16.8 million mined so far. If you were to seriously consider mining going forward, there are smaller crypto-currencies on the market already (Litecoin, Ethereum, etc) that arent as popular or as valuable, but who knows what the next big crypto cash will be. A good article that lists some of the "big players" can be found HERE.

Second, it can take a while to generate one piece of bitcoin or other crypto cash, due to the technology and coding that goes into creating a "coin." Depends on how much GPU (Graphics processing units) you have running the computations. I have heard of serious "miners" with multiple "mining rigs" that don't have to use their furnace to heat their house during the winter due to all the heat that is being given off by their computers. But, if you want the worldwide number, about one BC is being generated every 10 minutes, and there are thousands and thousands of people mining on a 24 hour basis.

Well, thats a heck of a "Hey, I'm back!" post.

[Leonardo]

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Yep, those are shelves of computers. Is that Mark is his trademark grey hoodie?

[Cole]

Originally Posted by MrFisty

Huh. I never underststood what was meant by bitcoing mining.

So with a good PC you can just generate bitcoin?

Edit:
Tell me more. I got a credit card. I'll spend $500 on this antminer thing if it just sits around the house and generates cash.

The antminer isn't a great idea. ASIC systems, depending on lead times (some places are 2-3 months) it could be outdated as hell by the time you receive it. I'm not sure if it's antminer specifically, but there's definitely more than a few vendors who have crazy long lead times.

Edit: So what I'm saying is that buying a shit ton of overpriced GPUs is the way to do it, providing you're getting enough horsepower to get a quick return on your money. Which, at this point, highly unlikely.

For example, my GTX 1070 can make about 5 dollars per day, after electricity costs are accounted for. At that rate, I'm looking at nearly 180 days to start making a profit, by that time though, crypto could have changed from proof of work to proof of stake

Second edit: That 5 dollars per day is also based on my card being run for 24 hours per day, rendering it useless for my intended purpose, which is gaming

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by MrFisty

Huh. I never underststood what was meant by bitcoing mining.

So with a good PC you can just generate bitcoin?

Edit:
Tell me more. I got a credit card. I'll spend $500 on this antminer thing if it just sits around the house and generates cash.

No. Crypto is dumb. When the primary upwards driver of value is instability, it is not a good currency. Useless waste of energy.