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  1. Gradually putting my desk setup together and I'm almost there. Now I'm at the 'what audio?' stage. Looking for a speaker setup for somewhere between £100 and £200. The tricky bit is my room layout. As you can see from my incredible MS paint skills the layout of my room is going to make a speaker setup that works for both the TV and my desk quite difficult. Currently have a cheap logitech speaker setup on my desk and then just use the TV's internal audio. Neither of which is a good solution. So the goal is a speaker setup within the above budget that fits in the room below and is appropriate for both movie/anime watching on lazy sunday mornings in bed and for PC use. Whether this is 2 separate speaker systems or a joint one, idk. Maybe a sound bar for the TV + bookshelfs for the desk? I do mild gaming but more often I listen to music (generic rock bs) while writing code so I want a speaker system that can produce a good sound at lower background-listening volumes. Bonus points: - Recommend me a better headset combination than ATH AD-700X + Antlion ModMic, if it costs less more can be spent on speaker setup. - My bathroom is the otherside of the wall my bed is against. Crazy solution in which I put a cable through the wall into a bathroom speaker system for tunes in the shower. (believe this is unrealistic but might as well ask in case anyone has done similar). Failing this just any appropriate bathroom speaker setup.
  2. I have looked at the LG G6 but from what I can tell the audio is surprisingly not as great when compared to the V20 and it's just too big. The BQ Aquaris X looks like it might be a purely upgraded M5 but there is no specs for it's audio chips ANYWHERE. Literally unfindable and there's a grand total of 1 review in english. The ZTE Axon 7 mini on the other hand... looks good. Really good. Gonna dig into that more, ideally I need to find a shop somewhere that'll let me plug my headphones into it and a few others and have a listen. I don't really care about budget tbh, £800 I guess would be my limit but I'd aim to get it on contract.
  3. BQ Aquaris M5 looking like the best thing I've seen so far but it's old.
  4. Looking for a new smart phone, but no matter where I look the only have decent phones I can find are generally the size of a smaller aircraft carrier or have abominable audio or battery-life or break the second you look at them funny. Why is it that hard for manufacturers to put together a phone with half decent audio without it being a fragile phablet that dies in like 2 hours if I have the audacity to open google maps. What I'm using it for: - AUDIO - Browsing & messaging - Google maps What I need: - Audio as close to something like an LG V20 as I can get. - Battery as good as possible. Currently have a Z3 compact and wouldn't want anything with worse battery than this which I generally find perfectly adequate. - Can survive being dropped onto carpet from about 2 meters. (looking at you galaxy s8 -_-) - Easy to use one-handed while standing on a moving tram for 2 hours every day. - Storage or sd card slot enough that I can get at least 64gb on there. I have a large music collection and I dislike the cloud. What I'd prefer but willing to give up: - Camera... I've coped with potato cams before and it sucks but it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make. - The smaller the better. - Fast charging. What I don't give a crap about: - Screen, hell I'd take a 480p screen if it meant the phone was smaller. 1440p HDR on a smartphone? Literally do not understand how anyone can consider that worth the battery loss. - Processing power. Can it open google maps and facebook? Yes? Then it's enough. What I've found so far: BG Aquaris (but don't know which one on the line-up I'd go for)
  5. If it comes to this I'll probably just bite the bullet and buy a lian-li. It is a beautiful case afterall.
  6. http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/products-model.aspx?id=C_00002971 This is the best solution I've found so far but I still don't like it being open air. PC on some sort of above-the-desk riser would work but I feel it'd just end up looking ugly.
  7. I do like those cases quite a lot. But SO expensive. They're going to be my back-up if I can't find anything better. I've also found the thermal take one but the open-air one is gonna get dusty and the one with panels... idk. it's an option.
  8. Code academy is a decent place to start. w3 schools is amazing as a reference while doing so for any web stuff.
  9. Yeah the 1700 is not going to give me the fps I'd get out of a 7700k and I know a 1080ti is overkill and I'd probably be completely fine with a 1070. But I can afford a 1080ti and a 144hz 1440p monitor will actually benefit from the better card. But if I'm running 3 VMs at the same time as compiling. I need ALL the threads I can get. Only reason I'm not going for something ridiculous like a 6950k or 1800X is the price/performance ratio drops through the floor when going for something like that. Where as picking up a cheaper 14 core xeon or the like will sink any gaming I want to do through the floor fps wise. I don't need to justify my choice but eh. Did anyway since you brought it up. And it's very very very early stages right now but when it's somewhat playable I'll probably post about it on here. Think rts/turn based combination like rome-tw and the like campaign maps. But then set it in space, add an economy, blow up the scale to galaxy-wide and throw in both space rts battles as well as groud rts battles and you get a general gist.
  10. I'd like to start with a quick introduction about me. I'm a programmer by profession and hobby (getting to do your hobby for a living is amazing), a casual gamer of the creative genres. Factorio/re-assembly etc... and am currently building a game of that genre myself. I've recently acquired a new house so I've got a blank canvas to work with in terms of interior design. My master bedroom upstairs is essentially a double-room. The end room I'm going to be building a huge corner desk and above that desk I'm going to be putting the below computer with a 3 monitor setup (not sure what yet, open to recommendations but most likely a central 1440p 27in+ 1440hz display with 2 side 1080p 60hz 24in+ displays.) There will also be a wall-mounted TV in the adjoining room viewable from my bed that the same computer will be hooked up to. Probably a 40in 1080p 60hz panel. I want to wall mount a computer of the following specs: 32GB Ram clocked as fast as is possible (ryzen loves it's ram). R7 1700 (ideally over clocked to 3.8/3.9). GTX 1080ti. SM961 (basically a 960 pro). 2x 2TB WD Black 3.5in drives. The quietest PSU I can get that runs all this efficiently as possible. Problems I want to overcome: I want to wall mount it. I don't want to break the bank. I want it to be discrete in appearance (gonna cable manage the CRAP out of this). I want dust filters on everything. I want it to be as close to silent as possible. Part 2 of the problem: I want a 'hub' of some description on/in/underneath my desk. This hub so to speak will contain: A Blu-ray read/write disk drive. Hot-swappable 3'5in bays, ideally 3, 2 would be enough. If the above WD drives are to be mounted in here then I'd need 5/4 slots. (I often repair PC's for friends/family, the ability to hook up their HDDs easily for recovery and the like is the intended purpose, as well as I often pre-build linux machines on drives for servers). At least 5 USB ports, at least 2 of which are 3.0. At least 1 fast-charging USB port. At least 1 USB type-C. Some sort of AMP+DAC and appropriate jacks for a pair of ATH-ADG1's. A pair of speaker solutions, one for while sat at the desk another for watching netflix/movies etc from bed with easy switching between the speakers/headset ideally without unplugging anything. So to some up. I'm basically building my dream bedroom/studio/cinema etc and I'm here for advice on wall-mounting solutions and a desk-hub for the wall-mounted PC. N.B. Accidentally posted this in the wrong board previously sorry!
  11. For games: YouTube - the coding train and go through all his P5.js/processing tutorials Then download Unity and go through it's tutorials. It uses C# and JavaScript which, oh look, you just learnt.
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  13. This is a really really really bad idea. And also (thankfully) impossible. You cannot send email just from pure HTML you need access to a server-side language. The only way I can think of doing this would be to have an email server set-up. And use javascript to send an AJAX call to that server which responded by sending the email. I don't know if tumblr allows you to embed javascript into your page but it stands to reason it probably does. HTML: <button onclick="sendEmail()"></button> JAVASCRIPT: var sendEmail = function() { var params_string = ... //username etc goes here var http = new XMLHttpRequest(); http.open('GET',"www.emailserver.com/api/email?"+params_string, true) http.send().then(function(response){ ... //give feedback to user probably a good idea. }) } I will warn you that this is a REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY bad idea and needs proper implementation in the form of rate-limiting and only allowing users to send x emails each etc.
  14. I'd like to start with a quick introduction about me. I'm a programmer by profession and hobby (getting to do your hobby for a living is amazing), a casual gamer of the creative genres. Factorio/re-assembly etc... and am currently building a game of that genre myself. I've recently acquired a new house so I've got a blank canvas to work with in terms of interior design. My master bedroom upstairs is essentially a double-room. The end room I'm going to be building a huge corner desk and above that desk I'm going to be putting the below computer with a 3 monitor setup (not sure what yet, open to recommendations but most likely a central 1440p 27in+ 1440hz display with 2 side 1080p 60hz 24in+ displays.) There will also be a wall-mounted TV in the adjoining room viewable from my bed that the same computer will be hooked up to. Probably a 40in 1080p 60hz panel. I want to wall mount a computer of the following specs: 32GB Ram clocked as fast as is possible (ryzen loves it's ram). R7 1700 (ideally over clocked to 3.8/3.9). GTX 1080ti. SM961 (basically a 960 pro). 2x 2TB WD Black 3.5in drives. The quietest PSU I can get that runs all this efficiently as possible. Problems I want to overcome: I want to wall mount it. I don't want to break the bank. I want it to be discrete in appearance (gonna cable manage the CRAP out of this). I want dust filters on everything. I want it to be as close to silent as possible. Part 2 of the problem: I want a 'hub' of some description on/in/underneath my desk. This hub so to speak will contain: A Blu-ray read/write disk drive. Hot-swappable 3'5in bays, ideally 3, 2 would be enough. If the above WD drives are to be mounted in here then I'd need 5/4 slots. (I often repair PC's for friends/family, the ability to hook up their HDDs easily for recovery and the like is the intended purpose, as well as I often pre-build linux machines on drives for servers). At least 5 USB ports, at least 2 of which are 3.0. At least 1 fast-charging USB port. At least 1 USB type-C. Some sort of AMP+DAC and appropriate jacks for a pair of ATH-ADG1's. A pair of speaker solutions, one for while sat at the desk another for watching netflix/movies etc from bed with easy switching between the speakers/headset ideally without unplugging anything. So to some up. I'm basically building my dream bedroom/studio/cinema etc and I'm here for advice on wall-mounting solutions and a desk-hub for the wall-mounted PC.
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