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[CommanderAlex]

In case you were wondering what I did in wood shop, this was my senior year (3rd possible semester and the last unfortunately) while I was there. @sub68

 

I bought a piece of 3/4" 4' x 8' cabinet grade plywood from Home Depot for around $40. The hardwoods and softwoods (only pine for the legs underneath) was around $80 or so. The desktop space measures 3' x 5' and those black circles you see are holes in the table for cable management, where I have a tunnel underneath the desk running the whole length under the legs (about 4'). I did have the plans but for some reason, my teacher took all the folders we had our information in at the end of the semester (he probably wanted those plans to begin with). The middle piece of plywood is from the same plywood sheet underneath the hardwood surrounding the edges, which consist of Oak, Maple, and American Cherry. 

[Senzelian]

20 hours ago, Dr0y said:

How do you like it ? ... any strange thing with the microphone sound cutting when you talk to someone like for the pixel 3a ?

I have not had that happen with the 3a XL that I had and also not with the 5.
Tho I've only had one phone call so far on the 5.

 

Overall I'm happy with it. It's exactly what I expected, but nothing more.

• Camera performance is really good, but nothing special. It's not as groundbreaking anymore as it was with the Pixel 3.
• It feels very responsive and the shape and weight feel good.
• The Screen is solid, with good colors, no blue-ish tint and the sound quality is decent.
• I like the plastic back, because of its durability and the rear fingerprint sensor, which is ridiculously good this time.
• Battery life is good. It gets me through ~ 40hrs without any power saving modes (including 8 hrs of sleep). It's basically dead as soon as I go to sleep on the second day, so I just plug it in every morning for half an hour. It's not the fastest charging at just 18w, but that gets me an additional 30-40% and then the device is almost full again.

So yeah I'm quite happy with it.

 

If I have to critique something, then it's not because of the phone itself, but because of Google's software. The phone can become really unresponsive when looking at photos in the camera-app instead of Google Fotos. I've experienced the same on my Pixel 3a XL. Also YouTube seems to have a bug, where half the time it doesn't let you zoom in on the video to fill the display with the entire content. I haven't had that on the Pixel 3a. But I assume that both of those can be resolved with software updates, tho I don't think Google will fix the first issue.

 

btw.: I specifically didn't use the phrase "I love XYZ about the device", because I think it's ridiculous to say that. It's a product. If you love a product, get help.

[Sousuke]

On 11/1/2020 at 2:19 PM, Sinsue said:

Can't go wrong with Fractal - got a Define C as my main case. They all look super sleek. Good find

Thanks, Also has amazing cable management which I attempted to use, I'm no expert at this but here's my build inside the R4.

 

[CommanderAlex]

25 minutes ago, Sousuke said:

Thanks, Also has amazing cable management which I attempted to use, I'm no expert at this but here's my build inside the R4.

 

Love the optical drive! Lets party likes its 2006!

[sub68]

7 minutes ago, CommanderAlex said:

Love the optical drive! Lets party likes its 2006!

I use optical drives to rip audio off cds

[CommanderAlex]

Just now, sub68 said:

I use optical drives to rip audio off cds

Oh yeah I was joking, I have two in my system, ones a DVD combo and the other is a Blu-Ray player. I plan on using the Blu-Ray player soon when I get my Spider-Man Blu-Ray collection later today when I have the time outside of studying for school. I'm also looking at external enclosures since the new case I am getting won't have the ability to store a 5.25" drive. 

[sub68]

19 minutes ago, CommanderAlex said:

Oh yeah I was joking, I have two in my system, ones a DVD combo and the other is a Blu-Ray player. I plan on using the Blu-Ray player soon when I get my Spider-Man Blu-Ray collection later today when I have the time outside of studying for school. I'm also looking at external enclosures since the new case I am getting won't have the ability to store a 5.25" drive. 

My old windows machine I use sometimes as a tv pc and it has a dvd drive and a blu ray

[WkdPaul]

19 hours ago, sub68 said:

*snip*

Bought those from Canadian Tire, they didn't last 1 year

 

My new gloves are cheap motorcycle leather gloves I bought in China, 4 pairs for the same price as this one. So far, they have lasted longer (over 1 year and I'm still on my first pair).

[sub68]

1 hour ago, wkdpaul said:

Bought those from Canadian Tire, they didn't last 1 year

 

My new gloves are cheap motorcycle leather gloves I bought in China, 4 pairs for the same price as this one. So far, they have lasted longer (over 1 year and I'm still on my first pair).

Guess it depends on your usage.

But I love using mechanix gloves because the dextarty

[IkeaGnome]

22 hours ago, sub68 said:

Very nice I where glasses with gloves so I am full protected

Meanwhile I catch myself at home grinding and welding in a tshirt and Mechanix gloves. Doing the 'ole eye squint. 

[Devilish]

So the previous motherboard I bought for my build got broken (very long story lol) instead of waiting to get a new one I just went ahead and bought a more spendy board and am going to give the new one I'll get to my S/O for their build

 

 

also another nvme since it was like 33 dollars off and my stupid bird brain couldnt resist

 

(hey atleast I get payed friday )

[DrMacintosh]

I got a deck box as well as a 11 units to bring my Axis and Allies War at Sea collection up to 100 units. 

 

[sub68]

2 hours ago, Voluspa said:

Meanwhile I catch myself at home grinding and welding in a tshirt and Mechanix gloves. Doing the 'ole eye squint. 

I do mowing with mechanix gloves and IEM's with no safety glasses

[sub68]

33 minutes ago, Grumpy Old Man said:

Decent gloves are an important thing. I tried the Mechanix gloves with a bad experience. The service life of the gloves was about 4-6 months. Then I bought HWI gloves. Even after four years, the gloves are completely intact and in excellent condition. No wonder NYPD use HWI gloves. Below are pictures of Combat gloves and Winter cut resistant gloves.

well it comes to personal preference I use mechanix gloves on everything biking to working under a car.

but thanks for the recommendation for my next pair of gloves.

my last pair of mechanix gloves lasted me though 3 years

[Bitter]

1 hour ago, Grumpy Old Man said:

Decent gloves are an important thing. I tried the Mechanix gloves with a bad experience. The service life of the gloves was about 4-6 months. Then I bought HWI gloves. Even after four years, the gloves are completely intact and in excellent condition. No wonder NYPD use HWI gloves. Below are pictures of Combat gloves and Winter cut resistant gloves.

 

Combat gloves

 

 

 

Winter cut resistant

 

 

Hows their sizing run? I've been told I have the hands and wrists of a gynecologist.

[captain_to_fire]

The days of WiFi dead spots are gone 

[Bitter]

6 hours ago, Grumpy Old Man said:

Depending on the glove, but usually XS to XXL.
See web page ---> https://hwigear.com/shop/

I meant do they run on the small or large side like how different brands of pants and shoes fit different even if tagged the same "size".

[Sousuke]

22 hours ago, CommanderAlex said:

Love the optical drive! Lets party likes its 2006!

Got to! I've used the Blu-Ray RW drive for a while for small data backups (Larger backups go on LTO4 Tapes) and to just generally burn CDs,DVDs for my older systems. Did have it connected via USB3 but thought if I had the bay to use, may as well use it! If it had the ability to have a Floppy Disk Drive, id probs have one installed as well!

 

[CommanderAlex]

3 minutes ago, Sousuke said:

Got to! I've used the Blu-Ray RW drive for a while for small data backups (Larger backups go on LTO4 Tapes) and to just generally burn CDs,DVDs for my older systems. Did have it connected via USB3 but thought if I had the bay to use, may as well use it! If it had the ability to have a Floppy Disk Drive, id probs have one installed as well!

 

The only time I really use mine is for DVDs (Got the James Bond collection and now Spider-Man came yesterday) and installing Windows 10. I would use a USB drive but it seems complicated when I have a disk that I can just use to install Windows since I already have the drive and not go the extra step of creating an ISO for a USB installer. 

[Kilrah]

Or just download the ISO straight from MS without using the media creation tool, just need to fake the browser id to say you're not running windows and you get the direct ISO download.

[CommanderAlex]

40 minutes ago, Benji said:

You do know that you can even make that work without doing an ISO first? My Lenovo recovery medium (16GB or so in size, lol) also didn't come as an ISO and I can make that in a bootable drive without it being an ISO. Even if you just have the Windows files from the ISO extracted to a folder it works.

 

13 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

Or just download the ISO straight from MS without using the media creation tool, just need to fake the browser id to say you're not running windows and you get the direct ISO download.

Oh wow, didn't even know that. That's the only reason other than watching DVDs I still have an optical drive in my case, but planning on getting a new case whenever they get production started (Dune Pro in the next couple of weeks). 

[sub68]

my moondrop cable came

[MadAnt250]

Just bought my first flagship graphics card. Well... Maybe not the newest but it is still pretty good.

I had to clean the dust out of it, here it is cleaned.

And yes, that is an OG Tamiya Hornet.

[CommanderAlex]

18 minutes ago, MadAnt250 said:

Just bought my first flagship graphics card. Well... Maybe not the newest but it is still pretty good.

I had to clean the dust out of it, here it is cleaned.

And yes, that is an OG Tamiya Hornet.

Hope you didn't spend too much on the card but otherwise a great collector item if you are into that sort of thing. 

[MadAnt250]

Just now, CommanderAlex said:

Hope you didn't spend too much on the card but otherwise a great collector item if you are into that sort of thing.

Lol, the pricing of new cards sucks, and last gen RTX cards are way overpriced. For what I do this should work fine.