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    mapegl got a reaction from avidgamer121 in Show off your latest purchases   
    During the time of the highest prices ever for used cars, my 20yo VW Golf died and I had to buy something. Decided to go with an older RAV4 and I am loving it so far. Not new, not fancy, but it is big enough for what I do and has a pretty powerful engine.
     
    Toyota RAV 4 AX30 with the 2.2 D-CAT 177hp
     

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    mapegl got a reaction from da na in Do you sometimes dislike the way technology is headed?   
    I want a smaller phone. All screens are getting bigger. I want a small pocketable device. I just "upgraded" to a pixel 7 from the 5 and I hate that it is bigger.
    That's a complaint I have had for years and it just gets worse.
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    mapegl got a reaction from SimplyChunk in Show off your latest purchases   
    I doubt they will ever be that nice to us. To be honest, I couldn't care less about Demon's Souls, but Bloodborne woud be pretty great. 

    And I just paid 8 bucks for a used copy and got a used PS4 just for that. After my playthrough, I will just give it back. 
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    mapegl reacted to SimplyChunk in Show off your latest purchases   
    Excellent.  Now you've finally bought that, Sony can release Demon's Souls and Bloodborne Twin pack on PC 😄 
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    mapegl got a reaction from SimplyChunk in Show off your latest purchases   
    Finally.
     
    😉
     

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    mapegl got a reaction from Skyesgaming in Show off your latest purchases   
    Finally.
     
    😉
     

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    mapegl got a reaction from soldier_ph in Show off your latest purchases   
    Finally.
     
    😉
     

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    mapegl reacted to soldier_ph in Show off your latest purchases   
    Antlion ModMic Wireless, bought the ModMic USB 3 years ago and it's great but since I want all Peripherals (so Keyboard, Mouse, Headphones and ModMic) to be Wireless for the Desk setup I bought it now. Once they'll finally come out with an Updated USB C Version I'll happily buy that but for now Micro B it is. So to charge the ModMic I got a Micro B Magnetic Breakaway Cable. Also already got the USB Hub, so that I can have the Hub via a USB extension Cable on the Desk and my Tower on the floor. The USB C to C cable is to be able to easily plug my Smartphone into my Desktop:

     
    Icy Box USB 3.0 Hub & Card reader, inLine USB 3.2 3m C to C Cable and the generic af cyoo Magnetic USB Charging & Data Transfer Cable.
     

     
    Icy Box being Cringe:


     
    This Card wasn't included with the Storage Devices Docking & Cloning station but I'm glad that they did include it here lol.
     


     
    Didn't actually know that they included a USB 2.0 extension Cable but that's definitely handy to have.

     
    Even though the ModMic Wireless came out "just" 5 years ago, the color of the Plastics look like it's much older.
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    mapegl got a reaction from SimplyChunk in Show off your latest purchases   
    A BigBig Won 100pro to connect my dualsense to any console I like. This is actually very handy to have and was cheaper (17€) than buying a new ps4 controller (50€), since I already had the dualsense.
     
    Got a used ps4 to finally play Bloodborne, but it came without a controller. 
     

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    mapegl got a reaction from soldier_ph in Show off your latest purchases   
    A BigBig Won 100pro to connect my dualsense to any console I like. This is actually very handy to have and was cheaper (17€) than buying a new ps4 controller (50€), since I already had the dualsense.
     
    Got a used ps4 to finally play Bloodborne, but it came without a controller. 
     

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    mapegl got a reaction from sub68 in Show off your latest purchases   
    A BigBig Won 100pro to connect my dualsense to any console I like. This is actually very handy to have and was cheaper (17€) than buying a new ps4 controller (50€), since I already had the dualsense.
     
    Got a used ps4 to finally play Bloodborne, but it came without a controller. 
     

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    mapegl reacted to Bitter in Show off your latest purchases   
    I don't doubt it, I just had some cheapo Dayton 6.5" bookshelf speakers laying around that fit on her desk. I'm sure with better speakers it would sound better, it's not high on the list of things that need upgrading, just adding a small powered sub somewhere would fill out the room and make it sound a lot better than better speakers. Other than the harsh tweeters and lack of anything below 80hz and overall bland flatness of the speakers well they sure do produce noises that are somewhat similar to the original noises.
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    mapegl got a reaction from SimplyChunk in Show off your latest purchases   
    I got myself a tiny amp for the living room to hide it in our small media console. Is it the greatest sound ever? No. Does it sound pretty good, especially for 46bucks? Very much so. 
    My old and large amp from the 90s still has more detail and will remain as my home theater amp in my man cave, but the misses wants less stuff in our living room and this totally works. Bluetooth works really well, sound is quite good actually and despite it only providing roughly 50watts to each speaker due to the power supply being too weak it gets loud enough for my taste. Fosi kinda (really only kinda) screws its customers here, however, it does say so on the product page on amazon so I guess that is ok, especially considering the price. You do have to read through that though and I didn't. I only checked the actual specs of the AMP itself. Oh well, I will keep it in this configuration for now, since that is more than enough to watch some tv and listen to a bit of music. 
     
    All in all, can absolutely recommend for about 50€. Get yourself some decent speakers for another 50 (people really throw old speakers out for cheap, despite amazing quality )and you have pretty great audio. 
     
     

     
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    mapegl got a reaction from sub68 in Show off your latest purchases   
    I got myself a tiny amp for the living room to hide it in our small media console. Is it the greatest sound ever? No. Does it sound pretty good, especially for 46bucks? Very much so. 
    My old and large amp from the 90s still has more detail and will remain as my home theater amp in my man cave, but the misses wants less stuff in our living room and this totally works. Bluetooth works really well, sound is quite good actually and despite it only providing roughly 50watts to each speaker due to the power supply being too weak it gets loud enough for my taste. Fosi kinda (really only kinda) screws its customers here, however, it does say so on the product page on amazon so I guess that is ok, especially considering the price. You do have to read through that though and I didn't. I only checked the actual specs of the AMP itself. Oh well, I will keep it in this configuration for now, since that is more than enough to watch some tv and listen to a bit of music. 
     
    All in all, can absolutely recommend for about 50€. Get yourself some decent speakers for another 50 (people really throw old speakers out for cheap, despite amazing quality )and you have pretty great audio. 
     
     

     
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    mapegl reacted to Mark Kaine in "low" fps in CS2 with R5 3600 + RX6700 1440p low settings   
    that can happen from time to time... why? idk either, probably bad optimization tbh ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 
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    mapegl got a reaction from Mark Kaine in "low" fps in CS2 with R5 3600 + RX6700 1440p low settings   
    I have no idea what happened, but I fired CS2 up again and now it is hovering around 200 fps....

    WHY????

    I changed nothing. I only checked IF there were any settings not set to performance, but they were. 

    Whatever the case may be, it works for me now. 
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    mapegl reacted to Tetras in "low" fps in CS2 with R5 3600 + RX6700 1440p low settings   
    Yeah, I would like to see that as well. Since there are some GPU ones out, I hope the CPU will follow, just like they did with Starfield.
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    mapegl got a reaction from Tetras in "low" fps in CS2 with R5 3600 + RX6700 1440p low settings   
    Thank you. The numbers are interesting, but they tested at higher settings (very high preset) than me and their minimum is way higher than mine...
     
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    mapegl reacted to Stahlmann in Show off your latest purchases   
    Having an easier time finding new keycaps won't do me much good if it fails at being a keyboard 😄
    I tried to use it anyway but using the ANSI US layout was just tedious when writing in German.
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    mapegl reacted to Lord Szechenyi in Goodbye Anthony, Welcome Emily!   
    Anthony comes out as Transgender.
     
    So let's all welcome Emily, I hope she doesn't get too camera shy, we'd still love to see you.
     
    (AND WE STILL WANT EMILY LINUX CHANNEL)
     
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    mapegl got a reaction from Tan3l6 in Show off your latest purchases   
    ISO -DE (German) Keychron V1 and a Keychron Aviator Cable. 
     

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    mapegl got a reaction from SimplyChunk in Show off your latest purchases   
    ISO -DE (German) Keychron V1 and a Keychron Aviator Cable. 
     

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    mapegl got a reaction from soldier_ph in Show off your latest purchases   
    ISO -DE (German) Keychron V1 and a Keychron Aviator Cable. 
     

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    mapegl reacted to SimplyChunk in Show off your latest purchases   
    Been on a Retro binge hoping to make some money off it..

     





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    mapegl reacted to da na in Do you sometimes dislike the way technology is headed?   
    I dislike how disposable everything feels in the tech world nowadays. As the price of devices lower and repairability is sacriced, computers get thrown in the garbage much faster. And with things like the practice of buying a new phone every year and that sort of thing...
    Many of the computers I use are perfectly good systems people have thrown out just because "Old puter need new" - they work absolutely fine and are fast enough for most people. In fact, I end up selling a ton of systems I've pulled out of the trash - it's sad how recent some of the stuff is. 12th gen Intel and Ryzen laptops... all completely functional. 
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