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[IPD]

13 minutes ago, WickedThunder86 said:

Not a purchase but our family adopted a cat yesterday 

 

[WhitetailAni]

The iPhone 4S is fixed and complete!

Spoiler

It's running iOS 9.2.1, is a 16GB black model, and yes I dumped blobs. It contains parts from three different 16GB 4S's:

Oscar's (living)

Todd's (dead)

mwalker's (unknown)

Oscar donated screws and a SIM tray, Todd donated everything but a logic board, battery, and a few screws, and mwalker donated a logic board and a battery. It's fully functional, and has an untethered jailbreak via jailbreak.me and BetterHomeDepot. Works well.

I'm considering making it an ice cream sandwich phone (make the back the opposite color of what the screen is) and buying a white back, but not yet

[sub68]

2 minutes ago, FakeKGB said:

It contains parts from three different 16GB 4S's:

reminds me of my current iphone 6s

[dogwitch]

3 hours ago, IPD said:

Really makes you wonder why Samsung will be charging ~$2,000 for the 55" Odyssey Ark.  Granted, I'm still gonna probably buy one--because the market has gone to shit and nobody makes anything I actually want.  But still.  Jesus tapdancing Christ. 

on last part how so?

[spwath]

Bought a few keyboards

[Beerzerker]

23 hours ago, Virus__ said:

I could imagine, with something as large as that. Can't say i'd ever feel confident enough to do that kind of shit.

It's not a matter of confidence, it's more like that "Special kind of crazy" it takes and yes, it does take a certain kind of person to do it because it's so dangerous in the first place.

As for my new chip, it's doing great under my IceGiant cooler - Temps are good and working like a charm.

[Kilrah]

A beautiful Sony D-303 discman, from the time where a portable CD player was a satisfying all-metal 400gr piece with that gorgeous amber screen backlight.

Sold as defective, wouldn't play discs, but a couple hours and some adjustments got that sorted. Unfortunately won't take battery power so I'll have to try and fix that too, but being able to run it from DC in is already great. Sounds excellent, that was apparently renowned for having one of the best DACs/headphone amps at the time of release 31 years ago in 91. Bonus points for the optical out.

 

 

 

 

[IPD]

14 hours ago, dogwitch said:

on last part how so?

Curved, 16:9, 40"+ panels.  And something ideally 2000-3000r.  And obviously 2160p.

 

Instead, the market has a fetish for putting curved on useless 24" panels (where it make no difference at all) and making 49" panels are are height-wise, HALF of a 55" 16:9.

[Moonzy]

Bought some lamb to try out the sous vide machine

 

 

Spoiler because Ramadan

Spoiler

Going for medium rare

Sealed with rosemary and butter

Pan seared it for flavor and rendered the fat

 

Plating

Scrambled egg, Lamb, spaghetti, and creamed pak choi (no spinach lmao)

 

It became medium well, probably because I didnt use high heat when searing so it cooked the insides slightly more

 

Overall, I rate this meal 6/10, much to improve

 

[Kilrah]

The ELV station is soldering/desoldering, desoldering is swappable for hot air but flow too low to be useful on anything but the tiniest thing. Great for the other 2 though. 

For portable use I've got a TS80/pinecil that's just fine. 

 

All that stuff that was purchased over 10+ years as needs came and I tend to nail the "getting stuff that's good enough but not overkill" compromise pretty good. Not going to just buy the whole pro line workbench when I can get something that costs a third and will do just fine for my purposes, I'd rather get an extra tool that will be occasionally useful even if not really justifiable otherwise.

 

Basically the more I'm going to need from it the higher end I go, and I have a bunch of almost-junk that's still good enough for the one time a year I'll use it.

 

Also most of it needed to be portable / able to travel abroad with

[Valso]

Latest hardware purchase was a 4TB hybrid HDD by Western Digital (Blue), 2-3 months ago.

Latest software purchase was Forza Horizon 4 about a week ago and in two weeks I'm buying Forza 5 as well.

[BetteBalterZen]

Full Svive D1 Racing rig + Philips 346B1C

And my old G27, hehe

[8tg]

Complete C64, with power supplies, maganox monitor, floppy drive, original Atari joystick, dot matrix printer and a ton of software

only flaw is the monitor power button has failed and you have to hold it, but that’s an easy fix 

[demonix00]

2 hours ago, 8tg said:

Complete C64, with power supplies, maganox monitor, floppy drive, original Atari joystick, dot matrix printer and a ton of software

only flaw is the monitor power button has failed and you have to hold it, but that’s an easy fix 

One other thing you have to do is either get a power saver or a more modern power supply as those original C64 power supplies are prone to fail and send the wrong voltages to the system frying one or more chips in the process.

[kasugatei]

Usually used for rope access, however I am wondering if someone here could guess why did I buy this

[sub68]

3 minutes ago, Niksa said:

Usually used for rope access, however I am wondering if someone here could guess why did I buy this

using as a handle for rope

[kasugatei]

11 hours ago, sub68 said:

using as a handle for rope

Not even close xD

[sub68]

3 minutes ago, Niksa said:

Not even close xD

ok, just took a shot, I know these are rope descender (and expensive)

[SimplyChunk]

11 hours ago, Niksa said:

Usually used for rope access, however I am wondering if someone here could guess why did I buy this

Digging the dirt out from under your nails?

[kasugatei]

1 hour ago, sub68 said:

ok, just took a shot, I know these are rope descender (and expensive)

Yes, it’s a descender, but also a fall arrest device which means it can easily go up the rope and brake when going down or taking a fall. That makes it ideal for solo climbing where I can rig the rope from the top and securely climb up and do the climbing practice while climbing partners are unavailable. In climbing world that technique is called top rope solo. 

[sub68]

34 minutes ago, Niksa said:

Yes, it’s a descender, but also a fall arrest device which means it can easily go up the rope and brake when going down or taking a fall. That makes it ideal for solo climbing where I can rig the rope from the top and securely climb up and do the climbing practice while climbing partners are unavailable. In climbing world that technique is called top rope solo. 

Yeah I noticed it was a solo descender but what are you going to do.

[Bitter]

17 hours ago, Niksa said:

Usually used for rope access, however I am wondering if someone here could guess why did I buy this

For things which should not be discussed in polite company. Probably.

[Bitter]

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/msi-pro-22xt-10m-aio-21-5-led-intel-pentium-g6400-4gb-ram-64gb-ssd-500gb-hdd-win10pro-multitouch-fhd-webcam-black/6439317.p?skuId=6439317

 

Got one of these almost brand new for $200 shipped+tax. Obviously needs more RAM and storage but I think I did alright. Perky enough CPU for normal stuff.

[SimplyChunk]

Put the payment down for a Umarex Walther CP88 Competition.  I already have one but it's quite old now so been bought a new one for my 40th.  I pick it up on Thursday i'll post pics then

[Donut417]

Bought some pretzels and Jerky from Jerky.com. I should have it in about 2 days. Jerky.com has a good variety of Jerky incase you're like me and sick of that Jack Links crap.