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[TVwazhere]

5 minutes ago, Beef Boss said:

they do heat up rooms very well.

Pffffft, I have Folding rigs for heat!

[Reytime]

Great quality keyboard and love the linear switches. The feel of it goes well with my G502 mouse.

[Valentyn]

4 hours ago, TVwazhere said:

From what I'm told, Dyson's are pretty loud. Let me know what you think.

It can be loud over setting 6. 10 is a massive no go.

Although my office is rather small, and I don't need it over setting 3. Which means it's inaudible compared to my computer fans.
It's also right next to one of the workstations, so when I use that I only need setting 2 to get that nice cool breeze over me.

So far the filter has helped with the hay fever, which is a big plus for me as well. Also one of the cats likes it, and likes the breeze; while the trouble maker thinks it's satan and avoids the place now.

[Beef Boss]

New knifeeee this one has been a long time coming, don't know why I waited so long...

Here's the other one I bought, but broke an hour later

[XR6]

I bought an Opinel N°08 Carbon about 2 weeks ago.

First impressions: It's brilliant. It's a really high quality knife and it's just a pleasure to use. When I use it I forget I paid just £8.60 for it because it feels like I should've paid at least £30 for this, if not more. It's all metal and wood, no plastic anywhere. If you're looking for an affordable knife, I'd recommend it.

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Also, I bought a Pentium 4 PC (it's a prebuilt, nothing particularly special). I'll edit this post once it arrives tomorrow, as I'll have pictures then. I'll also add a picture of the Opinel tomorrow.

[Nup]

Opinel make really great knives.

[Beef Boss]

1 hour ago, XR6 said:

I bought an Opinel N°08 Carbon about 2 weeks ago.

First impressions: It's brilliant. It's a really high quality knife and it's just a pleasure to use. When I use it I forget I paid just £8.60 for it because it feels like I should've paid at least £30 for this, if not more. It's all metal and wood, no plastic anywhere. If you're looking for an affordable knife, I'd recommend it.

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Also, I bought a Pentium 4 PC (it's a prebuilt, nothing particularly special). I'll edit this post once it arrives tomorrow, as I'll have pictures then. I'll also add a picture of the Opinel tomorrow.

I'd love to get a carbone one and do a patina on it... Also would love to get another maxamet or higher carbon percentage blade and do a patina... Spyderco knives are a great bang for the buck too. I paid $110 for mine, s30v solid metal liners with G10 and the ball bearing lock...

[demonix00]

Wireless controller to not have a rats nest of cables coming from the front of my super retro trio (although the other two would have to be BT and come from thje 8-bit do line as retro-bit doesn't have any wireless NES and SNES controllers).

[jasonvp]

On 4/9/2020 at 11:20 PM, Lady Fitzgerald said:

That is NOT a monkey wrench. It is a pipe wrench, sometimes called a Stillson. A pipe wrench has serrated jaws and the movable jaw is design to be able to flex a little so it will tighten down on a pipe or pipe fitting.

 

 

I know.  I thought it was silly.  Never mind.

 

Unfortunately I failed in my endeavor to repair my Aeron chair.  I used the sledge hammer as prescribed and got the main cylinder out of the base of the chair.  No problem.  But no matter what I did with that wrench, there was no way I could free the seat part from the same cylinder.  It's just not happening.  And I destroyed the cylinder trying, so the chair is basically toast.   

 

The chair is 17 years old, so it doesn't owe anyone anything.  That's one of the wonderful things about super-expensive chairs like the Aeron: they're very comfortable and supportive.  And they last for-fricken-ever, too.  Assuming you don't do something to destroy them like I did.  Dammit.

 

 

[jasonvp]

15 hours ago, Beef Boss said:

New knifeeee this one has been a long time coming, don't know why I waited so long...

That's not very knife of you...

 

Nice Spyderco.  I was carrying one around for years until I decided to switch over to Kershaw.  I generally like the Kershaw opening mechanisms a bit more than I do the Spyderco ones.  Either way, great piece of steel.

[Beef Boss]

48 minutes ago, jasonvp said:

That's not very knife of you...

 

Nice Spyderco.  I was carrying one around for years until I decided to switch over to Kershaw.  I generally like the Kershaw opening mechanisms a bit more than I do the Spyderco ones.  Either way, great piece of steel.

Yeah.. I have three Zero tolerances. Never really tried Kershaw but I'm sure it's a little similar.

[seanondemand]

On 4/14/2020 at 5:05 AM, jasonvp said:

I know.  I thought it was silly.  Never mind.

 

Unfortunately I failed in my endeavor to repair my Aeron chair.  I used the sledge hammer as prescribed and got the main cylinder out of the base of the chair.  No problem.  But no matter what I did with that wrench, there was no way I could free the seat part from the same cylinder.  It's just not happening.  And I destroyed the cylinder trying, so the chair is basically toast.   

 

The chair is 17 years old, so it doesn't owe anyone anything.  That's one of the wonderful things about super-expensive chairs like the Aeron: they're very comfortable and supportive.  And they last for-fricken-ever, too.  Assuming you don't do something to destroy them like I did.  Dammit.

 

 

I just got my (used) Aeron and couldn’t be happier, hopefully your next one holds up just as long!

[Guest]

Recent purchase dump.

 

 

[MattBoxer]

Got my first high refresh rate display today, an AOC Q27G2U I brought it back at the start of march but cause of le human malware it rocked up today. 75hz was good but 1440p at 144hz is smooth; I'm feeling the slight ipc and single core slow down of my ryzen 1700 as only some games can reach 144hz also maybe the maxing out of my 1070ti too :/.

 

For being VA it's a pretty good monitor, there is ghosting but in games it's not that noticeable 

 

Edit: also for being G-sync compatible, it works but flickers when menus dip down to low fps. Could be a driver problem though.

 

[jasonvp]

4 hours ago, seanondemand said:

I just got my (used) Aeron and couldn’t be happier, hopefully your next one holds up just as long!

I expect it will, but I won't have it until mid-May.  New one, ordered specific to my needs, right from HM.

[WkdPaul]

Damn it !!!

 

Bought a G433 on Amazon, didn't realized it was OOS before I checked out ! (It was in stock when I put it in my cart)

 

 

[soldier_ph]

5 minutes ago, wkdpaul said:

Damn it !!!

 

Bought a G433 on Amazon, didn't realized it was OOS before I checked out ! (It was in stock when I put it in my cart)

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What is OOS ? 

[WkdPaul]

1 minute ago, Pascal... said:

What is OOS ? 

Out Of Stock

 

Sorry, I'm browsing RedFlagDeals too much!

[Falkentyne]

Fractal Design 7 XL with solid black side panel (muh RGB), Seasonic PX-1000, Arctic Liquid Freezer II 360 (muh RGB)

[soldier_ph]

OMG YES ! It's Finally here !!!

Nintendo Switch Lite Skin in Black Swarm with the Orange logo and Tempered glass Screen protector.

If you've seen Linus's review on the Switch Lite then you know why I choose these skins, lol.

 

For the drawing I simply wanted a Portrait of Linus but dbrand being the awesome memers that they are have absolutely out done themselves and delivered this masterpiece.

 

@LinusTech @Schnoz 

 

Edit: And here's the final product:

https://linustechtips.com/main/profile/367767-pascal/?status=261822&type=status

Edited April 18, 2020 by Pascal...

[Lady Fitzgerald]

23 hours ago, wkdpaul said:

Damn it !!!

 

Bought a G433 on Amazon, didn't realized it was OOS before I checked out ! (It was in stock when I put it in my cart)

 

 

It make not be out of stock. Amazon has been delaying "nonessential" deliveries to bexpidte the back log of the "essential" intems faster. I ordered an external BluRay drive that's in stock but will not ship until May 14 (mutter, mutter, mumble, mumble).

[WkdPaul]

@Lady Fitzgerald nah, Amazon.ca shows it out of stock and the rest of my order was shipped already

[Tech_Dreamer]

1 hour ago, Pascal... said:

OMG YES ! It's Finally here !!!

For the drawing I simply wanted a Portrait of Linus but dbrand being the awesome memers that they are have absolutely out done themselves and delivered this masterpiece.

 

@LinusTech @Schnoz 

This is too good lol. 

[williamcll]

I bought an 500GB SSD, however

 

[PlayStation 2]

Another 8GB of RAM wouldn't kill my laptop, would it?

 

I was also looking for rainbow striped underwear and uhhhh...

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07T4FN4RN