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[lorenzo]

Why not just go with Harpo Marx?

Harpo Marx wasn't a silent-era actor (he only did one silent film, I think) -- he was just a silent actor.

Or Marcel Marceau?

He did speak in of the greatest gags from Mel Brooks' Silent Movie!

Spoiler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhhS13sk7eg

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[Laura Hunt]

Google’s not helping.

Any silent era actors who never spoken on film? Most of the famous ones eventually acted in ‘talkies’ but I want to know if there is a well-known example of a silent era actor who’s voice was never recorded for film.

Rodolfo Valentino.

[heltenjon]

Or Marcel Marceau?

He did speak in of the greatest gags from Mel Brooks' Silent Movie!

Agreed, that's the funniest part of that movie!  And he talks in Barbarella. But he's most famous for pantomime and silence. (Otherwise the gag wouldn't work.)

[Khris]

Got a dumb question for you guys (about graphics adapters and chance):

I bought a GTX 970 in 2015 and it has been a great investment ever since. However since mid-August or so I experienced intermittent BSODs, sometimes a minute after turning on the PC, sometimes during playing a recent AAA 3D game. Windows always came back with BCCode 116, which definitely points to the graphics card.
I also got extreme jerkiness occasionally in 3D heavy games, or one could see big black bars during the desktop refreshing.

Anyways, it was probably dying, so I ordered a 1660 Super on Monday. It came yesterday. And since Monday, my 970 has been working perfectly fine. No crashes, no jerkiness, no black bars, just doing a perfectly fine job. I did move my PC right before that, so maybe it wasn't 100% inside the PCI slot...? I dunno.

Do I

a) just replace my current one, because it didn't get magically fixed and will still die soon
b) keep the new one but don't replace the old one yet, forgoing my chance to return the 1660?
c) return the 1660 so I get back my â,¬225 and hope for the best?
d) all of the above?

Has somebody experienced something similar?

[Cassiebsg]

I would probably return it, if you can get all your money back.

If the 970 then dies again, then order a new one again. Since price for computer stuff keeps dropping and new better ones come out all the time, chances are that you either get the 1660 cheaper at a later occasion or buy a better card for the same price. 

[Khris]

Thanks Cassie, I guess you're right; I was just hoping to somehow avoid the hassle of returning it. Oh well

[Cassiebsg]

Well, you can always avoid it... but maybe it can get annoying having it sitting there and missing value while you have no use for it.

[cat]

I'm looking for a Doodle alternative. There are many out there, but I'm looking for one that is free, without registration, easy to use and supports time zones. I recently tried the one from TU Dresden (https://dud-poll.inf.tu-dresden.de/) which is without ads and privacy friendly, but not so pretty.

Do you have any recommendations?

[Stupot]

@cat Have you tried https://strawpoll.com/? They look pretty straightforward and seem to allow for time zones.

[cat]

Thanks, I'll take a look.

[eri0o]

I usually use https://www.mentimeter.com/

But privacy friendly is not a thing there I think.

[cat]

Mentimeter requires an account. Strawpoll requires an account if you want to have admin rights on your poll. In earlier doodle versions this was possible just with an admin link.

I'll try https://xoyondo.com now.