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[FmPhenom]

GRILL GRATE for my kamado joe jr and big joe to cook these 18 lb (each) unbutchered ribeyes

[GOTSpectrum]

A little upgrade to get me ready for video editing

 

 

[Avocado Diaboli]

My partner pestered me to order her some books, so I went through my own wishlist and bought myself a bunch of stuff as well. Plus, that recent thread about Philip K. Dick made me realize I didn't own the collected short stories beyond the first one.

 

 

I particularly love this cover of "The Iron Dream", from the hilarious misspelling of "Adolf" to the image of him riding a futuristic motorcycle. I'm curious if the novel is as good as the premise implies.

[demonix00]

I bought a wireless trackball.

[Velcade]

28 minutes ago, Avocado Diaboli said:

 

That's a lot of Dick!

[IPD]

I've only read 3 of the 5 HHG2G books.  Was meaning to get around to the last 2, but my kindle broke years ago--and never got back into it.

[soldier_ph]

Valve Steamdeck Docking Station:

Once again @AluminiumTechwas down to purchase it for me since Switzerland isn't blessed by Valve, at least not for their Hardware.

 

My Steamdeck picked the Dock right up after plugging it in and prompted me for the newest update:

Wait a second ! Two Steamdecks !?!

You can actually slide the Steamdeck to which ever edge of the device you want and it stays perfectly balanced on the Dock.

 

Updating the Dock:

I grabbed my second HDMI 2.1 Cable from Club3D from the Storage, routed it through the TV Cabinet and made some space:

I had to play around a bit in the Display settings on the Steam Deck to figure out how to set the correct resolution and Refresh Rate for the External Display. Unfortunately I can only run my "4K" TV at 1920x1080 but @120Hz when outputting from the Steamdeck. 

 

Also took advantage of the Singles day Sale. Never played a Far Cry Game so I hope at least one of these is actually good:

[Virus__]

A replacement cheap eBay battery for my 2014 MacBook Air, it got good reviews & it was the closest to OEM spec I could find.

 

And some beers from my mates brewery

[8tg]

More rare CDs

Ritual of the… by Molemen

Fucked Up Friends by Tobacco 

[OhioYJ]

64 GB of Ram for my NAS (it only had 16 GB before). Now have to decide what to do with the other 16 GB, it's not quite the same timings as any of my other kits. May throw it in another machine anyways and see what happens.

 

 

The V2 GN coasters showed up too... I know wrong forum, but I really do like these coasters:

 

[FmPhenom]

1 hour ago, OhioYJ said:

64 GB of Ram for my NAS (it only had 16 GB before). Now have to decide what to do with the other 16 GB, it's not quite the same timings as any of my other kits. May throw it in another machine anyways and see what happens.

 

 

The V2 GN coasters showed up too... I know wrong forum, but I really do like these coasters:

 

Nice coasters. 

[Donut417]

On 11/11/2022 at 8:37 PM, soldier_ph said:

I had to play around a bit in the Display settings on the Steam Deck to figure out how to set the correct resolution and Refresh Rate for the External Display. Unfortunately I can only run my "4K" TV at 1920x1080 but @120Hz when outputting from the Steamdeck.

Thats for posting this. I kinda wondered how it would work on a 4K TV. Im waiting for my bonus in December and I think Im going to pick up a deck and dock. My friend has one and pretty much said its worth it. I can think of a few ways I could use the deck. 

[-CLASSIFIED-]

smol  wireless keeb , thought id try this asus falchion nx red so far its good but the keylayout is throwing me off hella hard 

[Ravendarat]

Home theatre upgrade coming up soon, ordered 28 banana plugs off Aliexpress. I work in an AV store and get dealer cost and I still for 28 off Ali for the same price I pay for 4 from my store. Some stuff just always will be cheaper from china lol.

[8tg]

A motherboard with 8 ram slots

i cannot see myself not owning this

so I got one

it’ll be here in a few weeks

[CommanderAlex]

4 minutes ago, 8tg said:

A motherboard with 8 ram slots

i cannot see myself not owning this

~Snipped~

so I got one

~Snipped~

it’ll be here in a few weeks

Still keeping my X299 board around if I ever want to mess with my 9800X I got for it. 

[demonix00]

3 hours ago, 8tg said:

A motherboard with 8 ram slots

i cannot see myself not owning this

so I got one

it’ll be here in a few weeks

Ah yes, one of those boards that had support for both DDR2 and DDR3 RAM but you could only use one type.

[sub68]

New mechanical pencil.

[CommanderAlex]

3 hours ago, sub68 said:

New mechanical pencil.

~Snipped~

I have the same one!!! But in silver. 

[sub68]

8 minutes ago, CommanderAlex said:

I have the same one!!! But in silver. 

I love it I had its plastic cousin, really like how it writes

[CommanderAlex]

9 hours ago, sub68 said:

I love it I had its plastic cousin, really like how it writes

I decided to try out 0.5mm lead after using 0.7mm for the longest time for schoolwork and the problem with 0.7 is when it gets a "flat spot" on one side of the lead that makes writing very thick. 0.5mm is pretty decent and I didn't want some BIC 0.5mm to use and this pencil feels like quality. I still have boxes of Ticonderoga pencils that I probably should use...

[Guest]

It ain't much but... It's what's cheap, available, and the least terrible from what's there. 

Spoiler

 

[8tg]

Somehow this got from Slovakia to USA in like 2 days but ok, I’ll roll with it

 

northbridge Heatsink got a little crunchy but it’s fine 

[Guest]

16 minutes ago, 8tg said:

Somehow this got from Slovakia to USA in like 2 days but ok, I’ll roll with it

 

northbridge Heatsink got a little crunchy but it’s fine 

Hookup 8 sata hdd and a DVD player

[wasab]

I brought a z fold 4

 

I managed to get a $870 discount trading in my 4 year old oneplus 6 and a $250 refurbrished note 20 i brought off ebay. net trade in is 870-250=620. Added in educational discount and $300 black friday off 512gb model, the net cost after taxes comes out to be 900ish.

 

I also took advantage of samsung 0% apr financing to pay over 36 months. I couldve brought it outright but with 8% inflation per year, i am literally shorting the American dollars by financing it while keeping the money i wouldve otherwise spent immediately in a high yield savings account to earn interest. Credit is actually a good thing if you know how to use it properly.