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[Bitter]

35 minutes ago, linkboy said:

 

I work for a T-Mobile here in the US, and Samsung has a reward program for cellular employees.

 

I had saved up over 35k points from doing the trainings, and that was enough to get a $250 off discount code.

 

I wasn't planning on getting a SSD, but there really wasn't anything I need (I'm good on my phone, watch, and earbuds), and I saw the hard drive was on sale at $280, so I took advantage of that discount code.

[FIXXX]

9 hours ago, linkboy said:

 

I work for a T-Mobile here in the US, and Samsung has a reward program for cellular employees.

 

I had saved up over 35k points from doing the trainings, and that was enough to get a $250 off discount code.

 

I wasn't planning on getting a SSD, but there really wasn't anything I need (I'm good on my phone, watch, and earbuds), and I saw the hard drive was on sale at $280, so I took advantage of that discount code.

[FlyingPotato_is_taken]

Such a beautiful case at an competitive price.

Lian Li A3 + 3d-printed front panel

 

Far more exciting:

Decided to measure the PC power supply to finally answer the $500 and counting question of what the hell is going on.

MSI blames Corsair.

Corsair indirectly blames MSI.

 

 

Bunch of SMA adapter, current shunt and extension cable shall do it.

 

 

 

 

[GoliathTheMouse]

It's warming up in my area so I sat outside playing deadlink with the new dbrand decal!

[Rarity]

picked this up , a usb stick for "homework"  and another Macross kit 

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[Kyle2907]

Bought a new laptop because my old one drop to the ground and killed the battery

 

MSI Raider GE68HX Gaming Laptop 16

 

[atxcyclist]

A shiny rebuilt alternator for my old beater. I got 20 years out of the original since buying the car new, so I got my money’s worth out of it.

I also have been prepping to repaint the hood, doing dent repair and etc., so I have a bunch of supplies for that on the way.

[FIXXX]

On 3/11/2025 at 6:49 PM, Rarity said:

picked this up , a usb stick for "homework"  and another Macross kit 

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NERD ALERT

[Bitter]

$15 Orbic hot spot to install and run RayHunter.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet-rayhunter-new-open-source-tool-eff-detect-cellular-spying

[Kilrah]

 

 

Gonna need some service/repair but maybe i'll finally have a nixie calculator

[Bitter]

1 hour ago, Kilrah said:

 

 

Gonna need some service/repair but maybe i'll finally have a nixie calculator

Cathodes won't be the only thing excited when you get it working.

[Kilrah]

Hopefully not too much damage... these are known for problems because Toshiba used 200V rated caps that get 204V across them all the time, they eventually fail and blow the extremely uncommon display driver ICs 

 

Someone's been in there before but only on the power supply section, the offending caps were not replaced so it may be too late.... Ordered some and will replace before powering it. Some diodes they'd be likely to blow look shorted too. At least the transformer looks fine even though it leaked some potting compound.

 

My place smells like old electronics now...

 

[WhitetailAni]

Titanium PowerBook G4. Top spec variant of the Onyx, except it doesn't have the CD-RW.

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667 MHz G4, 512MB of RAM. Originally had a 30GB hard drive, but it died after I accidentally kicked the machine. So now it has a Crucial MX500 1TB until I find a more appropriate drive to put in (since this model can only see and use up to 128GB) - but it was my only spare.

 

A small part of the hinge is broken as you can see, but it still functions fine and it'll be fixable once I get around to acquiring some parts.

Battery is also unfortunately dead, and the DVD-ROM sounds VERY unhappy, but I'm quite happy with the purchase since it came with the 65w Apple official charger.

Currently dual boots 10.4.11 and 10.1.5.

 

And all for $25!

[Sir Asvald]

 

 

[FIXXX]

Got a pair of Maxxis HP6 summer tires. One of my original ones blew so I had to find a replacement and since using a non-matching set of same-axis tires is not advisable - had to get two.

 

Well, at least the remaining tire will serve as a spare. Thread is very similar and physical specs are the same.

 

 

anvelope 205/60R16 Maxxis HP6 Premitra 92V TL

[linkboy]

I didn't buy it, but my wife got me a HiFi Walker H2 Digital Audio Player for my birthday

 

I'm wanting to cut down on how much I use my phone (and the algorithms that come with it) and moving back to an offline player plays into that. I like that it supports both Bluetooth and wired headphones, so I have the choice of what I want to use.

 

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I ended up flashing Rockbox on it since the stock firmware is god-awful unusable. The downside is that Rockbox currently doesn't support Bluetooth on the H2, so it's down the rabbit-hole to find a good pair of IEMs.

[Kilrah]

A $1 set of old music players

 

[SquirrelChunk]

4 hours ago, Kilrah said:

A $1 set of old music players

 

some of those old MP3 players have hdds in them

[Bitter]

The pink and 2 blue ones might have 1.8" drives.

[SquirrelChunk]

4 hours ago, Bitter said:

The pink and 2 blue ones might have 1.8" drives.

early ipods did too iirc?

[Kilrah]

8 hours ago, SimplyChunk said:

some of those old MP3 players have hdds in them

Yeah too  small for that, all flash. Samsung one's from 2006, 1GB flash. The blue MpMans are 2007, 4GB flash, the USB stick is 256MB as was common then, around 2003-2004 I'd guess.

The Samsung's by far the more "polished" one but they all play music just fine. 

 

The one with the missing screen cover is really very mangled but I swapped its cleaner D-pad into the other, that one was in good shape other than that.

 

[Rarity]

3 hours ago, SimplyChunk said:

early ipods did too iirc?

yup they did , after that , the later versions went solid state memory already .. i had one of the 30gb model with the touch pad and another one (i think was the video playing one with a color screen) both of them were hdd based ...

[flibberdipper]

4 hours ago, Rarity said:

yup they did , after that , the later versions went solid state memory already .. i had one of the 30gb model with the touch pad and another one (i think was the video playing one with a color screen) both of them were hdd based ...

Oh hey I have one of those. Still works great too.

[X-System]

Bought a used Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Xtreme (I will receive a used Core i7-8700K for this motherboard)

 

 

 

I will be able to surf the net at 8 Gbps because my ISP tells me that my house is eligible for 8 Gbps (currently I am at 1 Gbps). This motherboard has a built-in 10 Gb Ethernet port

[Bitter]

I had a Gigabeat with a HDD, it could play Doom and watch movies on the tiniest screen