What tech did you buy today?

2016-07-03 06:46:58

#8476

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +1,971|3876|London, England

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:
what's the deal the removable sim card?

Oh, I meant SD card. I bought the note 4 instead of the 5 because I can remove the back cover and swap out the battery and SD card. Instead of paying for more internal memory I bought a 128 gb SD card I can swap between phones when I upgrade.

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat

2016-07-03 06:49:46

#8477

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +1,971|3876|London, England

_j5689_ wrote:
How is the reception with T-Mobile? I've always wondered about switching to them once I got my own plan. But AT&T has good coverage everywhere

Ok in cities, trash outside of them. I switched to Verizon about 4 years ago and it's much more reliable.

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat

2017-03-22 11:15:39

#8478

KEN-JENNINGS: I am all that is MOD!; +2,812|5150|949

i ordered a raspberry pi off amazon, along with a power adapter and some SNES controllers. Everything arrived except the Pi, and I couldn't wait so I went to Frys and bought one. I installed retropie and now I have a pretty sweet emulator.

So far I've only loaded: Zelda, Punch Out, Metroid, Bubble Bobble, Excitebike, Marios 1-3, and Megaman. For SNES I've loaded Aladdin, Mario Kart, Starfox, Street Fighter 2.

I need good games to add. SNES and NES to start.

2017-03-22 11:31:19

#8479

SuperJail Warden: Member; +227|2237

Might as well had bought an Nintendo Switch

2017-03-22 11:42:51

#8480

KEN-JENNINGS: I am all that is MOD!; +2,812|5150|949

why? This cost me $75 out the door, and I can play multiple systems. Nintendo Switch is like $300 and you are limited in the games you can play. Plus I can always just swap out the micro SD and use the Pi as a media center or other things.

2017-03-23 03:42:19

#8481

tazz.: oz.; +1,311|4692|Sydney | ♥

Nice emulator, lots of fun

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2017-03-23 13:21:14

#8482

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +1,971|3876|London, England

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:
i ordered a raspberry pi off amazon, along with a power adapter and some SNES controllers. Everything arrived except the Pi, and I couldn't wait so I went to Frys and bought one. I installed retropie and now I have a pretty sweet emulator.

So far I've only loaded: Zelda, Punch Out, Metroid, Bubble Bobble, Excitebike, Marios 1-3, and Megaman. For SNES I've loaded Aladdin, Mario Kart, Starfox, Street Fighter 2.

I need good games to add. SNES and NES to start.

Secret of Mana if you like RPGs

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat

2017-03-24 09:28:25

#8483

KEN-JENNINGS: I am all that is MOD!; +2,812|5150|949

I beat Mega Man 2 last night. Took me about 2 hours or so. Funny how much you remember as a result of playing a game over and over during your childhood.

2017-06-01 03:41:18

#8484

Dilbert_X: The X stands for; +1,648|4624|eXtreme to the maX

NVidia Quadro K620
My AMD 8570 seems to be having trouble, crashing the PC, maybe this'll fix it.
Also I wanted to try a Quadro card for CAD.

Epstein didn't kill himself

2017-06-03 17:22:23

#8485

SuperJail Warden: Member; +227|2237

Why are workstation video cards like the Quadro so much smaller than gaming GPUs yet still cost the same? Are you just paying for the specialized drivers?

2017-06-03 21:25:40

#8486

Dilbert_X: The X stands for; +1,648|4624|eXtreme to the maX

Don't know really, sales volumes are lower, its a less competitive market, I don't know if the hardware is really different - I believe it is.
I do know that having an incompatible card is a world of shit, compatibility is 10x more important than speed.

We had an IT guy who was mentally ill and delighted in fucking the place up. He put half the staff on Outlook, the other half on Thunderbird which made for a world of trouble. That's when he wasn't repairing things using replacement parts he knew to be broken and hoarding working parts for no clear reason.
He built my PC for me, I told him to get a Quadro card, failing that an Nvidia gaming card as they generally seem to work, failing that an AMD CAD card, so obviously he went with an AMD gaming card which has never been right.

Epstein didn't kill himself

2017-06-03 22:55:47

#8487

SuperJail Warden: Member; +227|2237

I like the way your old IT guy operated.

2017-06-29 18:49:46

#8488

SuperJail Warden: Member; +227|2237

Bought a Nvidia 1050 4GB. Has about 5% more power over the card I "upgraded" from. Fucking bitcoin miners.

2017-06-30 15:45:27

#8489

KEN-JENNINGS: I am all that is MOD!; +2,812|5150|949

friend has one. had nothing but problems. On RMA #3

2017-07-02 18:10:41

#8490

SuperJail Warden: Member; +227|2237

it is a evga one. they usually have good quality

2017-07-03 05:32:20

#8491

Dilbert_X: The X stands for; +1,648|4624|eXtreme to the maX

SuperJail Warden wrote:
I like the way your old IT guy operated.

He was a motherfucker. One of my colleagues is like Dr Spock, mild mannered, super smart, very hard worker.
He needed a very specific PC built from old parts, some of our machines are old and will only work with a specific build.
The IT guy put together a PC, promised it was good and handed it over. My colleague had endless trouble with it, lost hours of work and eventually stripped it down himself. He pulled the heatsink off the CPU and written across the CPU in marker pen - "Faulty".
He asked the IT guy WTF he thought he was doing wasting his time with a machine which he knew was faulty - "I thought it might work this time" "Based on what?" "Oh, nothing"
My colleague was so angry he had to take a day off work.

For some reason he hoarded good parts and would only give out crap. One time someone needed a new keyboard, the IT guy had a stack of brand new keyboards in boxes, but would only give the guy an already broken one.

Working with crazy motherfuckers is a motherfucker.

Last edited by Dilbert_X (2017-07-03 05:34:21)

Epstein didn't kill himself

2017-07-03 07:13:55

#8492

SuperJail Warden: Member; +227|2237

Whatever happened to him? Tell me how this story ends.

2017-07-04 01:14:58

#8493

Dilbert_X: The X stands for; +1,648|4624|eXtreme to the maX

He retired a couple of years ago, leaving a trail of mayhem and broken systems in his wake.
The new IT guy is slowly unscrambling it, he has a few more years to go.

At least I got a new PC, there were so many problems with the old one.

Epstein didn't kill himself

2018-05-28 22:49:07

#8494

Ultrafunkula: Hector: Ding, ding, ding, ding...; +1,974|4991|6 6 4 oh, I forget

A pile of fun stuff crammed in a case (which I find to be fugly and squeaky af).

-Cooler Master Mastercase H500P 2x 200mm tuuletin
-Asus Prime Z270-P 1151
-Intel Core i7-7700K 4,2ghz
-Kingston 16gb 2400MHZ DDR4 CL15 DIMM
-Chieftec 850W ATX12V 2.3 80+ bronze 14cm
-Adata Su800 m.2 2280 512gb ssd 3D NAND
-Seagate Desktop 7200 2tb hdd sata
-SilentiumPC Spartan 3 LT HE102

2018-06-03 13:43:03

#8495

SuperJail Warden: Member; +227|2237

No GPU

2018-06-07 05:40:16

#8496

Ultrafunkula: Hector: Ding, ding, ding, ding...; +1,974|4991|6 6 4 oh, I forget

Yup. Gotta go with my ye olde AMD Radeon R9 290X 4GB for a while until I have the cash to buy a new one.

2018-10-31 16:30:37

#8497

DesertFox-: The very model of a modern major general; +721|5203|United States of America

Bought a new computer to replace my current 7 year old model.

Corsair Carbide 270R case
ASUS Prime X470-Pro
AMD Ryzen 7 2700X
MSI GeForce GTX 1080 DirectX 12 GTX 1080 8GB 256-Bit GDDR5X
Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB)
EVGA Supernova 750 G3, 80 Plus Gold 750W
2 x Samsung 860 EVO 500GB 2.5 Inch SATA III Internal SSD

Topped off with a 24" ASUS HD 2ms monitor to replace my currently 11-year old Dell one.

2018-10-31 17:35:51

#8498

SuperJail Warden: Member; +227|2237

Very nice. Prebuilt? I just built a PC with that case and am very impressed by it.

I shudder to think how much you paid for that GPU.

2018-10-31 18:43:09

#8499

DesertFox-: The very model of a modern major general; +721|5203|United States of America

Not prebuilt. Prices have been on their way down, though. The trick is if you only buy components once in a decade, you don't remember what "good" price is.

2019-01-28 07:08:41

#8500

SuperJail Warden: Member; +227|2237

External blue ray drive. $99. Why are these things still so expensive?

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