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[juandeag2k]

Microsoft store game pass

[Ithanul]

Got stuck for a bit with crappy store bought coffee.  (Peets...yeah, never again buying that brand)

 

Found a local coffee place that was still open with restricted hours.  So, nab about an one pound bag.

 

 

[Speakerator]

13 hours ago, Ithanul said:

Got stuck for a bit with crappy store bought coffee.  (Peets...yeah, never again buying that brand)

 

Found a local coffee place that was still open with restricted hours.  So, nab about an one pound bag.

 

I can smell that picture... *.*

[soldier_ph]

Just some necessity items and a hair dryer specifically bought for the dbrand skin application on the Switch Lite:

Everything has arrived except for the Hair dryer and the LogiLink Screenwipes, those two are gonna arrive tomorrow. 

 

I don't wanna use one of the Hair dryers we already have because that would be disgusting and this one was dirt cheap anyways.

[GamerDude]

Got two pairs of earpads for my Grado GS1000 as the original Grado pads were disintegrating before my eyes. Ordered two pairs, a larger GS/PS10000 series compatible ones and a pair of smaller SR series compatible ones. Decided to try the latter first.....

[kokakolia]

On 4/6/2020 at 8:47 PM, Ithanul said:

Got stuck for a bit with crappy store bought coffee.  (Peets...yeah, never again buying that brand)

 

Found a local coffee place that was still open with restricted hours.  So, nab about an one pound bag.

 

 

It must have been expensive! North Americans jack the price up for "artisanal" goods. I remember spending $20 for a pound of beans in Alberta... It was barely worth it, but still worth it. Going to Tim's 10 times would have costed the same but the coffee would have been half as good. 

 

Now that I'm in France I pay 1/3 the price for specialty beans. And I know I store brand which sells specialty coffee for half as much. And it's *almost as good. It just lacks that overwhelming chocolaty fruity punch you get from the top shelf stuff. 

[Ithanul]

4 hours ago, kokakolia said:

It must have been expensive! North Americans jack the price up for "artisanal" goods. I remember spending $20 for a pound of beans in Alberta... It was barely worth it, but still worth it. Going to Tim's 10 times would have costed the same but the coffee would have been half as good. 

 

Now that I'm in France I pay 1/3 the price for specialty beans. And I know I store brand which sells specialty coffee for half as much. And it's *almost as good. It just lacks that overwhelming chocolaty fruity punch you get from the top shelf stuff. 

Expensive?  The whole bag was only 14 bucks (Florida, no tax on food and similar).

 

I don't really consider that expensive to myself.    And on base, there are some whole bean brands that can be had for around 8-10 bucks for a pound. 

 

A 1/2 pound last me a good whole month, so comes out to around six to seven bucks a month for coffee. 

[kokakolia]

1 hour ago, Ithanul said:

Expensive?  The whole bag was only 14 bucks (Florida, no tax on food and similar).

 

I don't really consider that expensive to myself.    And on base, there are some whole bean brands that can be had for around 8-10 bucks for a pound. 

 

A 1/2 pound last me a good whole month, so comes out to around six to seven bucks a month for coffee. 

8 bucks a pound is darn good price! 14 is quite expensive. But if you drink so little coffee then it's dirt cheap LOL

[Ja Krispie]

Picking up a HDD for some plex server upgrades, along with a book

[TVwazhere]

Pre order  

I'm not even a fan of the design tbh (I think most of them are pretty meh or bleh) but proceeds go to help research COVID-19, and it's a F@H shirt. I'm kinda into that....

[Volbet]

I didn't bother to take glamour shots of all the boxes, but here's my new PC:

I couldn't really wait until 2028.

 

For the curious, it's an AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2920X running a modest overclock at 4.15GHZ, a NVIDIA RTX 2070 Super, 64GB of Corsair RAM, an MSi SLI Plus X399 motherboard and a Samsung EVO Plus 1tb NVME SSD. 

All of it housed in an NZXT H710 case.

 

Overall I'm very pleased with it so far. The only thing giving me issues is the RAM, which doesn't seem to like running at its rated speed. Some manual dialing might help that. 

 

Edit: Well, it wasn't the RAM. It was a corrupted Windows installation. 

[TVwazhere]

8 minutes ago, Volbet said:

I didn't bother to take glamour shots of all the boxes, but here's by new PC:

-snip-

The curious it's an AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2920X running a modest overclock of 4.15GHZ, a NVIDIA RTX 2070 Super, 64GB of Corsair RAM an MSi SLI Plus X399 motherboard and a Samsung EVO Plus 1tb NVME SSD. 

All of it housed in an NZXT H710 case.

 

Overall I'm very pleased with it so far. The only thing giving me issues is the RAM, which doesn't seem to like running at its rated speed. Some manual dialing might help that. 

Now get to Folding@Home  

[PhantomJaguarr]

Time to learn some Photoshop from scratch for digital art. New hobby to help keep me occupied. 

 

 

@Deli

Edited April 8, 2020 by PhantomJaguar77

[Deli]

1 minute ago, PhantomJaguar77 said:

Time to learn sine Photoshop from scratch for digital art.

Is it the large or medium size model?

[PhantomJaguarr]

1 minute ago, Deli said:

Is it the large or medium size model?

Medium. Drove up to Best Buy and they put it in my trunk lol.

[Deli]

Just now, PhantomJaguar77 said:

Medium. Drove up to Best Buy and they put it in my trunk lol.

I'm unsure if the medium size is large enough. Would you give some feedback after you try it? And how hard to learn the hand-eye coordination with it.

[Ithanul]

4 hours ago, kokakolia said:

8 bucks a pound is darn good price! 14 is quite expensive. But if you drink so little coffee then it's dirt cheap LOL

I don't drink a whole lot of coffee.  Actually just got into coffee this year after someone advise me to try brewing coffee with a moka pot.  So, now I'm enjoying coffee that I brew using one of those.

 

And yeah, still way cheaper than say going to Starbucks every day. 

[Letgomyleghoe]

Found these cool little tinny hair dryers, they sync up with my iPhone for some reason

[Whiro]

My latest purchases. I’ll not mention what my misses bought last few days, will run out of space in here hahaha 

[GrockleTD]

just realized i actually have pictures of what i bought for once: EVGA GTX 780 Hydro copper (PCB shot, but whatevs)

[Valentyn]

Decided to buy my first bottle of alcohol in over a deacde. The Distilleries here are making these now to help.

 

[Windows9]

Got my lenovo M81 for only £30

Specs : 120GB SSD, I3-2120 

[jasonvp]

 

It was Jason, in the kitchen, with a monkey wrench!

 

I have a 17 year old Aeron chair that needs repair; the gas piston has finally died.  Getting the original one out of the chair is a combination of big ass wrench, and a sledge hammer.  I already own the sledge, just needed the wrench.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

1 hour ago, jasonvp said:

 

It was Jason, in the kitchen, with a monkey wrench!

 

I have a 17 year old Aeron chair that needs repair; the gas piston has finally died.  Getting the original one out of the chair is a combination of big ass wrench, and a sledge hammer.  I already own the sledge, just needed the wrench.

 

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.

 

A monkey wrench is similar but the jaws are usually smooth and the movable jaw doesn't flex like a Stillson's will. It's an early version of an adjustable open end wrench (often called a Crescent wrench) designed for use with square nuts and bolt heads. A monkey wrench will contact on only three flats of a square nut or bolt head whereas an adjustable open end wrench contacts four flats of a hex nut.

 

 

 

[Valentyn]

Got myself this to help in the office. It's already 25 degrees in here, and it's only Spring in Ireland. Should help with the heat of the PCs folding, while I work and hopefully with the hay fever also.