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[CommanderAlex]

Got jealous of @Kilrah's nice find of a TI-89 Titanium lol. 

 

Found this with the original packaging except for the USB cable for $34. In really decent shape but just needs the battery compartment cleaned as one of the alkaline batteries leaked and replace the backup battery. I really like the build quality more over my TI-84 Plus CE and gonna try to daily drive it and learn more about CAS. 

[Virus__]

Well. I just got myself a 2023 15 inch M2 MacBook Air..

 

 

[atxcyclist]

21 hours ago, Virus__ said:

Well. I just got myself a 2023 15 inch M2 MacBook Air..

 

That's a very nice machine. I've been rocking an M2 touchbar Pro as my portable for a little over a year now, and I couldn't be happier. The battery life doing daily tasks is amazing.

[Donut417]

 

Amazon started sales early. Just some minor upgrades. 

[WildDagwood]

CPU: i5-13500

HSF: BeQuiet Dark Rock 4 Canceled and debating another choice. One of the main benefits to air cooling is they don't really die (replace the fan/paste as needed) but this has a custom 135mm fan, making keeping it going long-term more difficult.

MB: Asus Pro WS W680M-Ace

RAM: 2x Kingston KSM48E40BD8KM-32HM

SSD1: 1TB Samsung 990 Pro

SSD2: 1TB Samsung 990 Pro (w/ heatsink)

PSU: FSP Hydro PTM X Pro 850W (absolute overkill for what's in it right now, I know, but the price made sense)

Case: Node 804

Fans: 6x BeQuiet Silent Wings 4 (High-Speed, 2500 RPM variant)

 

I was originally going for the NH-U12S and NF-A12 Chromax Black for the HSF and fans but the BeQuiet stuff went on sale and seemed like solid alternatives for the price. Used the savings to bump my RAM and still came out under the original cost.

 

Waiting to see if a UPS and WD Red Plus 14 TB drives go on sale for Black Friday and the build should be complete after buying a couple of them (for the time being).

[Rarity]

well a dashcam ,new casing for the old note 8 , gamebit for opening the n64(mine`s a jap unit , need to mod the cart slot to play english games) and a latte ..

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[SimplyChunk]

Been given this by a guy at my shooting club....

 

 

It's got a 900mm F length and a 60mm D length (whatever the D is)

 

All seems to be there with a few odds and sods in a box too.  I'm hoping to get an adapter to mount my 100D to it for some lovely shots of the moon.

 

Christ knows where I'll keep it in the mean time....but Free is free

[SimplyChunk]

Also bought a bog standard Xbox Series X/S controller in carbon black.  £44 quid from EE.

 

I'm sick of paying more than double for Elite controllers and them not lasting any longer than standard ones  

 

 

Feels really good in the hands.  I like the micro texturing all over back and on the triggers and bumpers

[soldier_ph]

3x Inline USB 3.0 A to A 2.5m extension Cables (am slowly starting to buy things for the new Desk setup), 3x Lexar Play MicroSD Cards 1TB (72 CHF for 1 so I couldn't say no, I bought 3 instead of just two thanks to it being on Sale on Amazon) and to replace the Ear Pads on my 3 year old Sony WH-1000XM4s: The creatively named: "Replacement Ear Pads Compatible with Sony WH-1000XM4 Headphones, Headset Ear Pads Replacement Parts (Black)" by the brand "Joysog"

 

Ah yes, unlimited Power & Data:

 

5TB of MicroSD Card Storage for my whole Steam Library for the Steamdeck. The gaming experience has been great so far on the Deck with having the Games installed directly on the MicroSD Cards, so far only had to move GTA V to the internal M.2 1TB SSD in my Deck because it was taking even longer to load lol. "SD" of course stands for Steamdeck:

 

Neatly organized, as always.

 

What the old Ear Pads looked like:

 

The Insides:

 

And the new fresh Ear Pads installed, just like new:

 

Luckily only needed my trusty iFixit Spudger to unclip the old Ear Pads. Tho it took some research to find good replacement Ear Pads which weren't horrendously priced, had decent reviews and were available for purchase and shipped to Switzerland. If Fairphone can make the ANC on their Fairbuds XL as good as the XM4s one day, then I can see myself upgrading to the Fairbuds XL gen 2 or 3 one day. Because they are not only extremely easy to repair but also have official replacement parts available through their own Website which makes it a lot easier.

[Ravendarat]

Paid off all $33,000 of my credit card debt today, does that count as a purchase?

[SimplyChunk]

Kioxia 128GB USB3.2 Gen 1 stick

 

got this to make one master install drive for all my (and friends/family's) computers.   Now i just got to remember the program people use to make those drives  

[Skyesgaming]

4 minutes ago, SimplyChunk said:

Kioxia 128GB USB3.2 Gen 1 stick

Is a big boy usb

[Kilrah]

28 minutes ago, SimplyChunk said:

 Now i just got to remember the program people use to make those drives  

Probably Ventoy

[Bitter]

48 minutes ago, SimplyChunk said:

Kioxia 128GB USB3.2 Gen 1 stick

 

got this to make one master install drive for all my (and friends/family's) computers.   Now i just got to remember the program people use to make those drives  

Hows the speeds over time with large writes?

Ventoy is probably what you're looking for?

[flibberdipper]

Got some more little dudes to go with the yellow duck a friend gave me.

[SimplyChunk]

46 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

Probably Ventoy

Ventoy is the one

26 minutes ago, Bitter said:

Hows the speeds over time with large writes?

Ventoy is probably what you're looking for?

 

Copying an MKV using my front USB ports

[Bitter]

31 minutes ago, SimplyChunk said:

Ventoy is the one

 

Copying an MKV using my front USB ports

Typical cheap flash trash, fills the cache at decent speed then falls on it's face to 2.0 speeds to the actual flash memory on it. Lame. Reads good tho, yeah?

[SimplyChunk]

48 minutes ago, Bitter said:

Typical cheap flash trash, fills the cache at decent speed then falls on it's face to 2.0 speeds to the actual flash memory on it. Lame. Reads good tho, yeah?

Yeah reads are good.  To a GEN 4 3 NVMe at least:

 

(had to do this twice cause I wasn't quick enough with snipping tool  )

[FlyingPotato_is_taken]

Some 7€/kg PLA (incl. shipping + tax).

Slightly annoying that you need to place multiple 10kg orders.

 

[Thaldor]

It's nice to get new toys for yourself in change of always getting stuff for the company.

- Facebook Quest 3 128GB
- Club3D 5m active USB-C USB3.2 Gen.2 cable

- 1m USB-C USB3.2 Gen.2 extension to get the port from behind the PC to the front

- Club3D USB-C angled adapter kit

- Otterbox 65W dual USB-C charger

 

Now the kicker. Only Quest 3 128GB and official Link cable would have costed 699€ in total without shipping, but people don't like things and you get customer returns and when you know what you need you can get some savings, like all of that costed me "only" 630,40€ with shipping.

 

And yes, now I was ready to sell my soul to the Facebook, mostly because Quest 3 is more AR-headset than VR and costs a lot less than the competition in there and most likely actually works unlike most of the competition.

[rice guru]

Wasn't convinced to get a steam deck until the OLED came out 

[GOTSpectrum]

New motherboard to replace my X370 board, I recently upgraded to a 5950x, NEW SSD and RAM and although it runs fine in the board I have, I wanted to upgrade so I could give away my old board+CPU+RAM+SSD and my old Quadro to a friend who had a break in at home where many things were stolen including their computer. 

 

A Ryzen 1700, 16GB ram, X370 board, a quadro P4000 and a 500GB SSD should get them pretty close to a functioning PC. I was going to give them one of my old monitors but it's DVI and the Quadro only has DPs on it. 

 

Honestly I'm kinda glad they can get some use, I'm trying to clear out some of my hoarded stuff and most of the time I can't be arsed with trying to sell something, then having to deal with people low balling, sorting out packaging and posting and all that. For the hardware I have not in use, it's not worth the time and effort. 

[Skyesgaming]

I got some new cat toys! 

They are actually wand replacements, but my cats usually end up destroying the wand (by biting the string until the feather snaps off) and usually run off with the feather. So I just got it mostly for the feather toy. I gave them one to play with. 

Smokey is loving it. Hoping to save the rest of them for Christmas (long as she doesn't destroy what she got today by then). I love it when my girls are happy. 

Free cat picture too (kind of), she was curious about what I got her. 

 

[soldier_ph]

I like Steam Sales a lot V3:

[Kilrah]

First watercooling for me... 

RGB hub was missing in the box and the main screw bag was opened and closed with tape so probably a return but sold as new,. complained and ended up getting it for about half price or $55ish, great deal since I don't care about the RGB anyway. Handles a nice sustained 310W, compared to about 220 for the old NH-D14. Quite a bit of that is due to the improved airflow from the extra fans, but that was expected/kind of the goal and... at this price the cooler pretty much came for free with the fans 

And yes, I'm finally going to install something to hold that GPU tomorrow...