What hardware are you using, Gud? I've been thinking of upgrading myself.

I just upgraded to a Ryzen 9 3900X which is a 12 core processor. Since I already had an AM4 socket motherboard (X390 chipset)all I had to do is pop in the new processor.

Ah, I've been looking at a whole new build with a Ryzen 7 2700X.

Go with a 3000 series if possible, the architecture is much improved.

Good to know!

Anybody know anything about setting up really basic Selenium tests to run in Travis CI? I have students submitting some very basic typescript projects where they essentially uses textboxes, buttons, and divs to send input and output back and forth, and I want to automatically check if they've satisfied requirements on GitHub. I'm pretty sure I know how to set up the Selenium tests locally, but am having trouble figuring out if I can do it on Travis (I have an educational plan so should have free access to a lot of Enterprise features).

Here's an article about the Ryzen 3000 series.

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The new Ryzen 3000 chips mark the first "big" leap for AMD since they introduced their first Ryzen processors a bit over two years ago. Unlike last year's Ryzen 2000 series, which was a more minor refresh and brought some tweaks to the microarchitecture and process node, this year's Ryzen 3000 is a major upgrade for both CPU architecture as well as on the manufacturing node.

I went from a Ryzen 7 1700X to a Ryzen 9 3900X and I expected it to be faster, but it's been 'holy sh*t' faster. And that's just from swapping out the CPU, same motherboard, same memory, same everything.

OK, you've convinced me!

I've been working some on learning Rust. It's a pretty cool language, but there's definitely a learning curve. I'm writing a command line version of solitaire with it as a learning project.

I would love some advice on what to do with my music collection. I have 50+ GB of music in my iTunes library, much of it ripped or ahemmed from places. I have an iPod Classic which also contains all of that music, but which no longer updates from my Macbook. My Macbook has bluetooth but for some reason won't recognize the bluetooth adaptor I bought for my little stereo.

As a result, this is how I listen to my own music: plug in the iPod to the aux cable on the stereo. If I want to listen to other music, I stream Google Play Music (the free version) from my phone to the bluetooth adaptor for the stereo.

However this mechanism will only work until my iPod stops working, and there's no way for me to add music to my library in such a way that all systems can access it.

So I think I will have to go on the Cloud? So I can stream, at least to my phone? But I was looking and it looks like Amazon and Google both have pretty expensive monthly costs just to host my music ($10/month). This place has some good recommendations but I don't know, I've never heard of it. I have so much in the Google ecosystem I'd like to stay out of it if I can...

Does anyone have any advice other than "get another laptop with properly working bluetooth"?