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Thanks, I love it, Melissa got it for me, we are enjoying season 3 of Picard this season a lot, just one episode left!

Returning from visiting in-laws, stopped to have dinner at Gasthaus in Peachland. Gasthaus on the Lake 🍺🍴🍔🌭

This is great!

😎Dinning here today…….The Landing Kitchen & Bar at Cove Resort. The Landing Kitchen + Bar

Nice Rick! Isn't it great just moving up in spec on your daily driver, even if I am purposely satisfied with my current hardware it IS admittedly nice once you've experienced even better hardware, I always feel even if I rarely will come close to using it to the full potential it's nice to know I CAN and when I do the performance with be smooth and snappy. Yeah I was perfectly happy to stick with my old rig from 2018 but it is our main hub for all our entertainment as well as my wife's Excel Office works etc, so we need something dependable so we agreed on a budget and the Legion PC and a couple additions (5TB external WD Black USB drive + 2TB WD Blue to fit internally to supplement the 1TB boot VNME all came in to just over $2000 CAD, almost $1000 CAD less then the maximum we agreed on of $3000, I knew the total including Tax/shipping etc only had to be under $3000 but because she was so generous (she is literally covering it) I wanted to not just max it out but, as is my nature, try to get value for money and balance price / performance as best I could. She was really happy with my final total, I really thought in the end I would have bought from NewEgg or Amazon but to my surprise, researching and comparing back and forth it was BEST BUY that provided this Legion PC for limited time sale of $500 off at $1499, for that spec here in Canada searching for a week it was the best I found, the ONLY bundles I found comparable were machines by MSI and of course going back to CyberPC like the last machines, thing is my only experience with MSI was like 15 years ago an MSI motherboard died and pretty much took everything with it so it soured me, could be they are great now, my be well rated but I just have this thing that sticks in my head when I have a bad experience with a brand so I was very wary, as for CyberPowerPC I was happy with the end result of the included motherboard and power supply we received as those tend to be the things Pre-built PC companies seem to cheap out on but it came with an Asus Motherboard and EVGA Power supply and has been great. During my research though for machine that had the spec in the price range I kept looking over the images of the motherboard (they never specify brand) and it just looked cheap and generic and sure enough I came across more recent comments and discussions basically saying that yeah outside of their most high end offering they had really started cheaping out on the motherboards so that was making me wary as well so when I spotted this Lenovo Legion at best buy with specs even better than the MSI / CypberPower offerings I felt if I didn't jump on that I'd regret it and so far very happy, ordered it and it all arrived together with free shipping within 2 DAYS! I was straight to work inspecting, setup, updates, testing, honestly most of the time consumption was from transferring files and all the tweaks and customizations to the OS the last couple days, but as of last night (or early this morning if I am specific 😏) I was satisfied enough with the current state that I did my first imaging of the OS, I image the OS on all my machines regularly (hard lessons from past experiences) but even more so during the stages of getting a new PC where I want it to be, with this first initial base image done regardless of what happens from here I can have a base image OS footprint to restore so at least I will be back at this point I been working on the past two days. Typically after that I tend to image the OS on the main desktop and Laptop a couple times a month on average usually after a big feature update or OS revision update I will test for a while and if I am confident create a new up to date image. I wont lie, it is some of the most frustrating way to spend my time in some aspects, when I am temporarily stumped or something does not go as expected yet at the same time very satisfying once I figure something out or get to the end of a goal I set for myself. As I mention one thing I love about the new machine being shorted then the old plastic tower is having more accessibility to the ports on the back, it is a smaller more compact sturdier metal case that feels a lot more premium. Funny enough, with the CyberPowerPC in the bedroom now on a shorter table as well it's side ways behind the monitor as that was the only way it would fit, I have total easy access to the backside of the machine now fixing the biggest gripe I had with it so it seems everything just came together and I am really happy about that as that is not how things tend to typically go for me so I appreciate it more when it does. Lastly, oh I do ramble on 😁😛just snapped those to show you, as I mentioned with the replaced CyberPowerPC in the bedroom location (excuse the Polar Bear, he had to go somewhere and my wife will never part with it as it was the first Christmas gift I ever got her the first Christmas we were dating, she just asked for nothing more than a little stuffed Teddy Bear so I could not help myself) it's nice having easy access to the ports on back (it was such a chore getting to them in it's living room location as the case is so big and awkward) this will come even more handy now because after all the file transfers etc, it is literally a hobby / tinkering machine I can do anything with, hell I can wipe it and put Linux on it, not saying I will, BUT I COULD 🤔🤷‍♂️Who knows? It's nice to have options. Maybe a dedicated retro emulation station 😛

Life is always surprising 🙂If someone told me a month ago I’d have reason to post in this thread again I would not have believed it. Buuuuuuuut…… Whelp, I know I am behind when it comes to modern gaming pc’s mostly because I play maybe 3-4 AAA GAMES a year if that, so I was not expecting to upgrade from our current machine anytime soon but due to certain events I wont detail, we have an upgrade, after setting up, testing, optimizing and seeing how it is for our typical tasks I am happy to say I am very happy and satisfied with the new addition. While by no means hardcore the CyberPC DESKTOP (Ryzen 5 1500x / Gtx 1060 6gb) has been relocated to the bedroom and is now my own personal tinkering and testing machine replaced with a new LENOVO LEGION T5 desktop (12th gen Intel Core i7-12700 / Nvidia RTX 3060ti 8gb) - So far it looks great, runs cool and quiet and I really prefer the shorter case allowing me easier access behind the machine etc. 😎😜 So my point finally, I decided to do one last USERBENCHMARK TEST on the slightly upgraded CyberPowerPC I posted about in this thread back in 2018 as well the results of the new Lenovo Legion that has replaced it. Guess I might have to play something with Ray tracing features or something the old 1060 Gpu might have struggled with 😝 User Benchmark last CyberPC results UserBenchmarks: Game 47%, Desk 79%, Work 41% CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1500X - 71.7% GPU: Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB - 57.2% SSD: Toshiba THNSNJ256G8NY 256GB - 92.2% HDD: WD Blue 1TB (2012) - 87.9% HDD: Toshiba MQ01ABD100V -63 1TB - 62.4% HDD: Toshiba DT01ACA300 3TB - 72.7% RAM: Unknown V02D4LF8GB5285282400 2x8GB - 87.2% MBD: Asus PRIME B350M-A User Benchmark Lenovo Legion results UserBenchmarks: Game 151%, Desk 113%, Work 167% CPU: Intel Core i7-12700 - 111.6% GPU: Nvidia RTX 3060-Ti - 134.4% SSD: Samsung MZVL21T0HCLR-00BL7 1TB - 485.5% SSD: WDC WDBNCE0020PNC 2TB - 116.3% RAM: Hynix HMCG66MEBUA081N 2x8GB - 129.2% MBD: Lenovo 90SU000TFZ

It’s only 15 Celsius or about 59 Fahrenheit, and it is quite rainy. That’s still not stopping us from heading out for our weekly outing and dining experience. Dinning out at @ Shanon Lake Golf 😎🧐🍔

Of course! All are welcome to participate and share their dining experiences, that was wonderful!

Well here is the thing, we totally stopped going out for over two years because of world situation etc, we just resumed not to long ago and go out once a week as a treat, for us it has been good for our mental health as my wife was going stir crazy and even myself who is heavily introverted, even I noticed a change in my overall mood once we started going out again, we use to quite a lot before we stopped but now we have a weekly outing we enjoy and look forward to. As for weight, well no problem there, you see I started intermittent fasting a few years back and it has been very effective along with some other dietary changes and so I am slimmer today than I was back in even like 2012 and still on track, going out once a week does nothing to change my intermittent fasting so I continue to slowly yet surely keep losing weight bit by bit. The financial cost of treating ourselves once a week has been well worth the mental change and outlook.

It was awesome! here are some bonus images from there.

Awesome place on west side - Crown&thieves 😎🍺🍴🍽️

Enjoying the vibe Bright Jenny Coffee

This weeks outing Lakesider Brewing 🍺😎

😎Pascal Blanché @pascalblanche New illustration: "Memories" #digitalart