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Mike.Gibson
Ace Cruncher England Joined: Aug 23, 2007 Post Count: 12594 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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What have you and/or your families been doing to help in the crisis, apart from crunching?
My son, MD of Edumaker Limited organised a group of fellow 3D printers to make face shields for the NHS in UK. The premises were provided by Cisco Systems in Reading. Nearly 9000 were produced before the project finished. A substantial portion of those went to the Royal Berkshire Hospital, but also to doctors, dentists and carers. Personally, I have been stuck at home crunching and gardening as we are in the Extremely Vulnerable category. Mike |
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highwind
Advanced Cruncher Joined: Aug 22, 2009 Post Count: 56 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I have built a new computer and get rid of a 11 years old i7-980 machine.
This old machine has been crunching non-stop for the last decade 24/7 and as of late, the machine constantly rebooted itself and probably a sign that it is on its way out. My new machine is going to be the Ryzen 3700X. I am going to put in together this weekend and make it a dedicated machine for COVID-19. |
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Mike.Gibson
Ace Cruncher England Joined: Aug 23, 2007 Post Count: 12594 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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That has done well!
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jackielan2000
Advanced Cruncher China Joined: Dec 31, 2005 Post Count: 115 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Personally, I have been stuck at home crunching and gardening as we are in the Extremely Vulnerable category. This is the only opportunity of contributing to the society by doing nothing but staying at home. You are probably not going to find a second chance in your life time. 
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ThreadRipper
Veteran Cruncher Sweden Joined: Apr 26, 2007 Post Count: 1324 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I am staying at home, working from home. Installed LineageOS custom ROM onto an LG G3 and G4 which now run WCG 24/7. Also added an Asus FonePad, an old Motorola phone and an LG V20,
----------------------------------------Would like to upgrade a couple of PCs too, but the uncertain work/economic situation and the way the Pandemic is handled here makes it hard to take the financial risk at this time unfortunately. However I added an HTPC with an AMD 7850K to crunch Covid 24/7. HOwever since it may overheat sitting under the TV in an enclosed shelf from three sides I can only run 2/4 of the cores. But it's something at least. Good job everyone for all your contributions! EDIT: Since some time ago (before COVID-19) I also run 4 BananaPI M3 single board computers and they are all switched over to COVID project now.  Join The International Team: https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/viewTeamInfo.do?teamId=CK9RP1BKX1 AMD TR2990WX @ PBO, 64GB Quad 3200MHz 14-17-17-17-1T, RX6900XT @ Stock AMD 3800X @ PBO AMD 2700X @ 4GHz [Edit 1 times, last edit by ThreadRipper at Jun 12, 2020 8:49:05 PM] |
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otter549
Cruncher Joined: Jun 13, 2010 Post Count: 2 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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In addition to staying home and crunching, I donated some boxes of disposable gloves to a local police department.
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hiimebm
Senior Cruncher United States Joined: Oct 19, 2014 Post Count: 305 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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New rig (9400f, 16GB, RX 570), put the old one (G4600, 12GB, GTX 1050 + old GT 710 x1) on 24/7 OPN.
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cjslman
Master Cruncher Mexico Joined: Nov 23, 2004 Post Count: 2082 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Like everybody else, I've been stuck in the house since mid March. Fortunately, I can work from home. The garden is looking much better than other years and I've setup an additional rig (Windows tablet) for crunching OPN1. Also have a to-do list longer than my arm
----------------------------------------. Hopefully will get a cat door installed in the kitchen door  . Hang in there and luck to all.CJSL Crunching faster than Captain Crunch... |
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Jack007
Master Cruncher CANADA Joined: Feb 25, 2005 Post Count: 1604 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Well I sent my mom money in jan, knowing this was coming, to fill her freezer with food.
----------------------------------------I then had to 'yell' (NOT REALLY) at her to not wait for sales and fill her damn freezer. she did, she stayed home. i bought a freezer and filled it, and of COURSE been crunching the covid. coincidentally got solar at this time. but that's the long term goal of protecting the world. my town of 28,000 has 18 reported cases of covid, 18 resolved. a month ago 18 cases 12 resolved. so we are good, but saw some serious lapses of physical distancing lately at stores.... tourism this summer could make a mess out of things.  |
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Tamagoch
Cruncher Ukraine Joined: Jul 21, 2007 Post Count: 35 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Apart from crunching...
I discovered myself well prepared to lockdown since I don't like outside activities too much and I cannot go crazy of that because it seems normal to me. My lifestyle now appears was always pandemic optimized and this time it proves to be effective not only for health but for business as well. It was a great boost to my business as a Laptop/PC repair service made in a home lab. A lot of people from neighborhood have been switched to a remote job and I was close to them to help with device setup, parts replacement and almost any other way of tech support. I was saving them from going far from home for issue solving but I was in contact with too much people everyday. That was risk. But I know it is much smaller risk that medics got for all this time. Being a 'technical medic' is the best I was able to do in this situation - it gave money for my family, respect for my skills and a personal pleasure of making a really good job ) It's a dangerous wish but I wish that we going to have some periods of lockdown at least twice a year )) Stay safe. Take care of yourself and your family. I believe we're able to survive this. And I still have a lot of work to do - that keeps me motivated and happy. |
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