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I'm looking for a fantasy book I've read probably about 20 years ago. The main characters are westerners, a man and a woman, who survived a plane crash (?) in the South America jungle, in some hidden valley, the woman looses her finger (thumb?), she pees on it to disinfect the wound. They find a Chinese community (Zheng He expedition descendants?) living medieval Chinese life with all beliefs, cast system etc (i'm not sure). They (the Chinese) found some kind of a fungus (or maybe a herb?) that has some unique psychosomatic features, it's used extend the consciousness (like LSD), it's highly valued and connected with those people beliefs, it also enables body regeneration (if you really want to). That how the heroine regrows her finger. Chinese also have pet monkeys, that are very intelligent, they have a limited speech (one asks here master for a cookie) and reportedly use fire in the wilderness. The main characters live with this people for some time, plan to return to the civilization, they steal one of the monkeys to show them to the world. The monkey started to die of dehydration, they trying to five it water but it chokes, then a native explains them they don't drink water like we do, they just lick the droplets from their whiskers

Creatures were blind, used echolocation. There were different species who inhabited different depths, those on top knew about those who live near the bottom via tales from those beneath them etc. One dude had a stone from the bottom, there was a trade going on between those strata but they couldn't meed each other because of pressure difference. One time thee is a big noise coming from the ice, bunch of creatures gather wondering what it is, the drill appears, it's made of unknown to them material (metal). Dude with the stone uses it to "kill the beast"/cut the cable. People on Earth watch televised transmission from cameras on the drill, see the creatures and are amazed.

FOUND IT! It's Through the Roof of the World by Harry Turtledove

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I'm planning to upgrade my RX 6600, i found a nice offer for RX 6750 XT Reference card (pictured), that's apparently made by ~~XTX~~XFX, it's hard to find reviews for that specific variant, some customers reviews in item listings mention loud fans and coil whine but it's not prevalent, can anyone confirm that? is fan noise an effect of default fan curves? is coil whine really that problematic? i mean i have trouble hearing anything in sample recording, I'm 40, so maybe it's more noticeable for young people as higher frequencies often do?

UPDATE: got the card 2 weeks ago, just forgot to update, the coil buzz is definitely here, varies from game to game, the cooling issue is more problematic though, to the point i just lower the power limit or ingame settings to make it heat up less, but i think it'll get better in Fractal Ridge in few months;-)

maybe it's another Duolingo bullshit they push upon us or maybe a typical thing in Japanese? namely in phrases like けんさんは二年生ですか it could mean both "Is Ken a second year student?" and (according to duolingo) "are you a ~~second year student~~sophomore, Ken?" how do i know if it's directly addressing the person? which is which?

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I'm looking for a NAS OS, the hardware is 2bay Intel n100 machine (AOOSTAR R1), I want to run a RAID1 with few containers (syncthing, immich, jellyfin etc.) all of it to be configurable by web interface, tried some systems in a VM (hardware didn't arrive yet), casaos has nice 'app store', it's a nice docker wrapper, but it doesn't let me manage any kind of RAID (md, brfs, etc), openmediavault is ok for raid, but the containers aren't one click wonder like in other NAS OSes, TrueNAS SCALE seems to be an obvious choice, zfs is cool and everything but it uses kubernetes and it failed to deploy immich for example (100% CPU), i know its called SCALE but kube is a bit too complicated to me (IMO I'm 100% competent but i don't want to tinker), and there's... xpenology, this thing let's me install Synology's DSM and it's a breeze, it deployed immich right away though i had to do it with docker-compose.yml, but in web UI. Also let's say im in favor of xpenology... should i go bare metal or use it inside of proxmox? any pros and cons of both solutions?

anyone here has those? i'm kinda budget constrained, i need a quiet sfx psu, heard lian li one are kinda loud

anyone here has those? i'm kinda budget constrained, i need a quiet sfx psu, heard lian li one are kinda loud