u/Maelink_

Dear all,

I’m looking to move to a gaming PC, the budget is £2k.

Looking to play games in high quality.

I’ve seen a few people say we should bank this deal and build for the next lot of IA. This won’t work this time.

We were told, we need to bank and build. “Labour are too strong” “labour won’t back down”, “we need to wait till labour are weaker, bank and build”. And you know what, at the time you could see the point, labour had swept the general elections and were in the ascendancy.

But now…..

They’re squandering their political lead and losing seats up and down the country. They’re facing internal tumolt w two leadership grabs, one from our very own health secretary. labour are weak, and instead of facing this weakness with strength and demanding a strong offer, the current leadership are showing weakness.

THIS was the the time we’ve been waiting for, this is where we need to show strength and conviction. Instead we’re being meek and mild. We’re going to bank and build…

What better opportunity are you going to have to make your point!!!!!

Bank and build for what??? build for an even weaker political party? Please…

Incoming F1s I hope you’re enjoying your electives and or resting knowing that you’ve passed your exams.

Enjoy these next few weeks prior to F1, they’re your last long summer holidays😭.

The purpose of this post is to explain the pay aspect of this deal to you (incoming F1s), so you have a more informed approach when it comes to voting on whether to accept or reject the deal.

The analogy is this.

You need to think of a ladder, with 5 rungs of the ladder (F1,F2, CT1/2, etc etc), and it’s x height. This ladder represents our pay over the training years.

What this deal does is it adds more rungs to the ladder. Therefore there is a perception of a pay rise relative to each position. WHAT IT FAILS TO DO, is substantially increase the total height of this ladder (i.e x). Therefore presenting it as a pay rise is in my eyes deceptive.

I’ve been mulling over how to explain the “pay raise” to colleagues who are less chronically online and or on top of new BMA output.

I think I’ve finally realised a nice way to explain it.

In order to understand the pay aspect of this deal.

You need to think of a ladder, with 5 rungs of the ladder (F1,F2, CT1/2, etc etc), and it’s x height. This ladder represents our pay over the training years.

What this deal does is it adds more rungs to the ladder. Therefore there is a perception of a pay rise relative to each position. WHAT IT FAILS TO DO, is substantially increase the total height of this ladder (i.e x). Therefore presenting it as a pay rise is in my eyes deceptive.

I’ve realised I want a PC primarily to play TW Med, and I don’t really need a 2-2.5K PC w an RTX 5080 right now. So instead I just want to add a GPU to the existing household PC.

This is the PC: https://www.currys.co.uk/products/lenovo-ideacentre-desktop-pc-intel-core-i7-1-tb-ssd-grey-10284260.html.

Maybe add a RTX 4060 or 4070. (What would the AMD alternative be, because these cards just have 8GB vram, would 6750XT work?)

But I’m not sure if the Lenovo OEM build would prevent that.

Has anyone had experience with this, and failing that what are the things I should check before deciding and buying the GPU.