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Finally i cleaned up a little at my parents and can show you my complete collection!
None of them is really in a "display"-Mode as they are just stuffed together until i have enough space at my place to really show them off. 
 
56k Warining - HUGE Pics ahead!
 
 
 
 
 
 
Thanks for reading guys! i'll make sure to update once i have pics of everything!

CaseLabs.... it's dead...

A Platinum 3776 in UEF.

I like having a graphing calculator that I can use for bracketed math equations, a regular Windows calculator just won't do. My old Casio's screen failed so I picked a TI-92 up for less than $20 on eBay. It's not in hand yet but on the way.
 
 
 

Just to preface, I'm 19, so we're very different generations.  I guess what keeps me excited is the amount of things to learn and explore.
 
I've been into the PC game for about 2 years and I'm yet to explore it all, the evolutionary nature of technology keeps me on my feet to learn all about it and dive deeper into it as a hobby. Unfortunately PC hardware gets expensive so I've only been able to watch from the rafters.
I think the fact that I have it as a hobby is in itself enough to keep me excited, I love seeing what new ideas and innovations companies come up with, whether it be mobile devices, laptops, desktops, keyboards, peripherals, or in some cases, software.

Well if they were both black you'd have to guess and check to see which one is left and right which would be a pain

This would solve the problem since you'd be taking the unbalanced stereo signal and splitting it into two unbalanced mono cables that the mixer can understand, so yes it would work, but there's no real benefit to doing this over the RCA setup you already had.  As for the labels, red and white are more conventional but it's just to signify right and left. 

1/4" is just the name for the plug, like RCA, XLR, etc.  The connector itself doesn't have any inherent impact on quality.  The wire might, if it's of a poor quality and very long, but generally these fears are overblown when it comes to a consumer home setup.  Where it comes into play is recording studios and on stage where minimizing noise is more important, particularly because the runs can be 20+ ft long with ease.  One way this is done is using balanced connections.  The requires that the output and input both are producing and expecting a balanced signal.  You can't mix unbalanced and balanced.  Balanced means splitting the signal in half, inverting one of them, and then sending it over a 3 connector cable, then at the other end, one is re-inverted, and they are added back together.  This has the effect that any noise picked up along the way is effectively cancelled out.  A traditional 2 wire unbalanced connection has no means of doing this.
 
If you are using consumer grade sound equipment, like your monitor, for a source, it is only going to be able to provide an unbalanced output.  That means that if you want to run it into the mixer, you must connect it into an unbalanced port.  This means either using the RCA, which are inherently and unavoidable unbalanced, or splitting it into two TS 1/4" plugs that each go into one of your mono channels, and then panning them left and right.  If you take a TRS 1/4" that could carry either unbalanced stereo, like what your monitor produces, and plug it into the mixer which is expecting balanced mono, you'll get the effect I described above.

This is sounding more and more like I'm right, that you're sending an unbalanced stereo TRS cable into a port that expects balanced mono.  In such an event, the two channels, when played simultaneously, will cancel each other, resulting in you only hearing what's on the left or right, and none of what would have been centred.  Additionally, if you were to play only one channel or the other, it would likely sound normal.

yes I think it's the monitor. cable doesn't matter in fact most audio gear usues RCA BOth my speaker amp , headphone amp, as well as my DAC uses RCA.  what I would say you do is you use the on board. as the DAC on that would be better than your monitor's. a dac is a digital to analog converter. your phone, an mp3 player, your pc, your monitor has a DAC what it does it takes the digital signal from your pc or your HDMI cable and makes it analog which is the signal  your speakers can read and output. 

Me when meeting someone  
 

New wallet.
 

More waiting for CPU and case.
 
CPU: 3950X Case: Lian Li TU150

Something I've been waiting to buy for a couple of years now:


I got a Blu-ray drive! Which is, to say, outside of my brothers' Xbox Ones and my older brother's PS4, is the very first Blu-ray drive in the house.

Fujinon 50-140 f/2.8 R LM OIS
 
Damn thing costs $1500 but hell, it's a sweet ass piece of kit.

 

Had more money than I usually do this month so I decided to preorder this thing.
 

 
I got it with Choc White switches, btw. I wanna try out a clicky switch.

There's a computer trade show-like gig going on in my neck of the woods, so I'd made my way there with my bud to check it out. Had no intention to buy anything as I'd already finished my Ryzen build and was in need of no additional parts. Made the mistake of walking over to the Creative booth to try out the new SXFI Theater headphone and was pretty impressed with the sound. The had a bundled offer for the SXFI Theater and Outlier Gold for about 209USD (converted from local $). I liked the SXFI Theater sound and since I'd always intended to get a truly wireless IEM, I figured, "Why the heck not?!". The earpads were provided free as a gift....
 
The RGB mousepad cost me just 18USD (again, converted from local $) so I grabbed it as well, I've not heard of Redragon, but their mech keyboards and mice seemed decent enough. My only regret is that I'd not grabbed a second pad as a spare as I like the RGB light show.

Man, I'm nervous af but I really hope he says yes for a dinner after exams. ??

I imagine there's a root casue for almost all the glitches we're seeing recently. It cannot be a coincidence we're all experiencing abnormal glitches at the same time. 

New desk riser. About 10 inches wider than my previous one so it really helps with desk realestate.
also, WTF AMAZON. This the box they ship it in vs the size of the box inside. Wasteful much?

Mom came back to live with us for 2 years. Stress has increased due to that. She's an anti-trans conservative, but we also don't get along on many apolitical levels.
 
Dropped a "friend" few days ago. Don't feel like having friends who think I'm delusional.
 
Preparing for incoming recession. Going to ask for more hours to shore up net worth. It's a little trickier than that but not going to get into that right now.

For the love of god, WHY?

My uh... latest purchase is..

Finally an upgrade