Last year, around the start of the pandemic, I built a PC for myself.
Over time, my setup grew to encompass an ultrawide monitor, and a bunch of USB peripherals, so here’s everything appended to the original table.
The total cost went up, now it’s exactly SGD 2297 (previously: 1297.10):
Part Price GPU MSI GTX 1650 SUPER VENTUS XS OC 4GB 259 CPU AMD Ryzen 3 3300X 181 HSF Stock 0 MotherBoard MSI B450M MORTAR MAX 180 RAM Corsair VENGEANCE PRO 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4-3200MHZ 252 HDD None 0 SSD Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus (500 GB) 199 Power Supply Corsair VS650 80 PLUS 92 Case Cooler Master Silencio S600 134.
Preamble I believe many other Singaporean families are in a similar situation, and I’m publishing this story not to name and shame anyone, but to raise awareness and perhaps kickstart an honest-to-goodness conversation about the red tape we’ve encountered thus far.
Email #1 My family wrote in to complain feedback about our inability to select a date – any entry date, for that matter – when applying for our incoming domestic helper to serve her stay home notice.
COVID-19-related lockdowns, have, to say the least, put a damper on spirits. I’m going to (try to) post more frequently, not necessarily technical topics that no one will read, probably random photos, or media I’m stealing from Reddit – with a credit whenever possible.
Here’s the 1st one, a shot of the sky at Marina Barrage, a popular kite-flying venue, and if you’ll squint a bit, you can even see the moon:
Previously, I needed to extract multiple ranges from a big PDF.
Now I want to use pdftk to combine two PDFs into a single file in order to support a claim, and this worked for me:
pdftk A=foo.pdf B=bar.pdf cat A1 B3 output baz.pdf
YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AwdkGKmZ0I.
M1 is an SoC - system on a chip with a unified memory architecture:
8-core CPU: 4 performance/efficiency cores each:
This performance gulf seems to be the case for graphics as well, with an (up to) 8-core GPU.
Also, there’s a 16-core Neural Engine.
On security:
Universal App: x86_64 and arm64 binaries in a single .app/, falling back to use Rosetta 2 if there is no compatible binary.
Following How to create a bootable USB drive for macOS X El Capitan:
$ sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/UBUNTU\ 20_0 --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app Password: Ready to start. To continue we need to erase the disk at /Volumes/UBUNTU 20_0. If you wish to continue type (Y) then press return: y Erasing Disk: 0%... 10%... 20%... 30%...100%... Copying installer files to disk... Copy complete. Making disk bootable.