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Bucket Joneses posted:It's amazing, that's what. Well, yes, I certainly am amazed...
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May 4, 2015 07:06
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Here is some of my desktop - I still need to: 1: Buy and install the innards 2: Buy a monitor 3: Resist or give in to the urge to paint the monitor 4: Put it on a desk      
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May 31, 2015 00:26
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Electric Bugaloo posted:Nice shirtless selfie dude on your case(?) Hahaha really - that looks like a topless guy? I guess I know the original photo - its a top-ful woman taking a selfie.
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May 31, 2015 04:59
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Electric Bugaloo posted:
Its my missus, taking a selfie while we were on holiday in Hawaii - I took the photo while she was taking the photo, and I think she is very pretty in the photo, so I stencilled her on my computer case  Making a stencil out of a photo was way way easier than I though it would be.Hughmoris posted:Yeah, I thought it was a topless dude, too. I don't think Ill tell her that haha - Is the stencil really that ambiguous?
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Jun 1, 2015 06:34
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Photex posted:why would you stencil a picture of your girlfriend on a computer case? Well, I wanted to stencil something - and I didn't want to do something really nerdy like mario or a band logo or something. I spent ages looking around for stencils or images that I could stencil, and when I saw the photo I thought it was cool looking. Also, its kinda complicated and really stretched my ability. I guess it is a little weird maybe, but I like how it turned out, and its better than some random person I don't know on there, and it reminds me of the time we went to Hawaii together and stood on lava flows and that's a good memory. I stencilled the gas mask on the other side, because I really like gas masks. There is a sense of futility with gas masks, and they are ominous - its a device that shouldn't need to exist (outside of fire fighters). Also, I like playing stalker so it fits that need to have something game related on the case without overtly stencilling the stalker logo. Laserface posted:If the internet has taught me anything, its that you should never post pictures of your girlfriend on the internet unless she is a solid 10. Agreed, but I thought gently caress it and took the risk. We are all adults here, and its not an overtly sexual pose. Also, its a stencil not a real life photo - its a little more abstract than a photo. Accretionist posted:From the thumbnail, it looked like a shirtless dude with 80s hair, but it looks fine in the full-size image so I'm sure it looks fine in real life phew! isndl posted:Looked like a dude to me too. After being told it's a woman and taking a longer look I can start to see the feminine features, but at a glance it's still more like a dude. I guess that is the nature of stencils - it really is a process of subtraction, removing features until there is just enough left to describe the scene. Perhaps I took away to much! I probably could have made sure the feminine features were more detailed, the face and boobs mainly I suppose. Its really hard, since its pretty subjective - I know her face, so that stencil looks like her to me. You don't know what she looks like, so you can only see what you can see. Thanks for the feedback  Next time I do some stencilling, I'll know where I can improve. Another improvement I could make is the actual process of getting the image onto the case - here is the process I followed:
Things I learnt:
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Jun 1, 2015 23:05
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TheresaJayne posted:ARE YOU MY MOMMY? Yep, I sure am. Now clean your teeth and go to bed - you've got school in the morning.
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Jun 2, 2015 07:15
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Wasabi the J posted:
Oooooooooooooh of course, the gas masks growing out of faces in ww2 era London - whoosh indeed.
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Jun 2, 2015 08:42
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Comatoast posted:A professional painter will tell you to do several light coats, like you mentioned, and then a final thick coat to dry for the night. The first couple coats act like sticky fingers that grab onto the final coat, or that's how the painter I knew described it. Who knows what is actually happening, but it works. Oh okay, that does make sense I guess I actually just painting my dvd drive face today, hopefully I'll be able to take and post pics tomorrow of my setup
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Jun 21, 2015 08:09
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Yay finally got everything set up nicely: Close up of the case with painted optical drive:  Where I sit when I use a controller:  Where I sit when I use a keyboard and mouse:  A close up of the monitor on the left - a reclaimed laptop monitor:  This is what I got:
I'll upgrade with an SSD later, when they get cheaper.
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Jun 22, 2015 03:32
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Wasabi the J posted:They're so loving cheap and the best thing you can do to your system. Stop being lazy/a cheapskate; you'll do it and wonder how you lived without them. That one is not cheap, its 1nzd per GB. I can get a one terabyte for 100nzd which is 10cents a GB. The performance for the cost just isn't worth it - and I am saying that as someone with a 128gb ssd in a chromebook (running Linux) and a 500gb Intel ssd in his work computer. It's not lazyness, nor is it being a cheapskate - its just not worth it.
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Jun 22, 2015 08:15
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TenementFunster posted:lol it's totally worth it Not in my situation it's not. Not every tool is appropriate for every situation.
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Jun 22, 2015 08:44
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doctorfrog posted:Eh, don't listen to 'em, they'll only get cheaper and you'll soon be tripping over them. I agree - apart from the cheap part, they are 10 times the price! At work i have scripts that do all sorts of things on the command line with git repos - changing the prompt to tell me all the relevant information - I can't do this with a spinning disk, just too slow. With an ssd its unnoticeable.
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Jun 22, 2015 08:52
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KingEup posted:Yes, because they are better. They are better, just not ten times better - they are not worth ten times the price to me. KingEup posted:By the way, what do you do that requires 16GB of ram yet no SSD? What ever the gently caress I want - you seem really interested in making sure I realise that I brought the wrong equipment for you and are also making the mistake that my requirements match yours. My machine performs great, and I don't sit there watching it boot every time I sit at it so I do not notice the lack of an ssd. Soon, ssds will be cheaper and It'll be worth it bit not at the moment. gently caress man even the xbone and ps4 don't come with ssds, nor do the majority of laptops I've seen for sale. I wouldn't call ssds a niche item like they were a year or two ago, but I would call them exactly essential either.
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Jun 22, 2015 10:07
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Wasabi the J posted:Applications load faster too, and you don't have to get rid of your mass storage devices either; it's not "replace every byte of disk space with flash," it's about putting your applications and operating system where they will spend less time sending your disks spinning and looking for sectors, and actually doing poo poo. Telling people that their subjective values are wrong because they don't align to yours is not advice, and the console comparison is apt since this is what this machine basically is - and I used similar reasoning when choosing components. Also, this is not a "judge my poo poo" thread - its a "post your desktops and also keep you epenis in your pants" thread.
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Jun 22, 2015 11:20
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TenementFunster posted:you're an idiot That's pretty mean, and it made me feel bad 
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Jun 22, 2015 22:03
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SamDabbers posted:
What's that thing under your left monitor with a light on it?
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Jun 23, 2015 03:33
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SamDabbers posted:Yep, it's a sound bar. The monitors have a mount point and built-in power supply for a sound bar. It's good enough for youtube videos and background music, and I have headphones for the rest. That's pretty cool actually!
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Jun 23, 2015 05:13
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OtherworldlyInvader posted:Do not be alarmed man of the past, I am talking to you from a distant location via what you may know of as "the information super highway." You appear to have fallen through an uncharted time rift, and are now trapped in the future year TWO-ZERO-ONE-FIVE C-E. Please remain calm, and avoid touching anything you encounter, you know not the terrible dangers which they undoubtedly possess. I have alerted the constabulary, they will arrive momentarily to return you to safely to the year of your lord, 2005 A.D. I've been informed that ssds are almost half the price in yanky land than they are here in Aotearoa and that may be why people think I am dumb for not getting one. For example: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00OBRE5UE/ref=twister_B00PRDMHLU?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1 Vs https://m.mightyape.co.nz/product/500GB-Samsung-850-EVO-SSD-540MB-Read520MB-Write/23000902 250nzd vs 420nzd. So yeah, in a way, I am from the past since our prices make it seem that way. At 250 I might have almost spent the extra cash. But not at 420, and I wanted to buy locally so I am covered by our nice consumer laws. Now, where did i park my delorean....
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Jun 23, 2015 10:56
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Magnus Praeda posted:Does synergy still break catastrophically if you take one of the computers away? I remember trying to run it between my desktop and my MacBook years ago and every time I took my laptop to work, I'd have to set it up again when I got home. No - its really good. I use it at work with 3 computers - one is a laptop which I take away each night.
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Sep 26, 2015 03:13
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I could not do without dualies at work, no way no how. I have 4 at the moment but one of them is a clock, because its on its way out and I like having a big JavaScript clock. At home I technically have dualies but one monitor is a hacked up repurposed laptop screen at 1280x800 that is a clock 95% of the time while I play games or watch videos on the normal monitor. If I am working at home though I use it for documentation. Previously, if i was working from home i'd just chucked my laptop on my desk with synergy for documentation.
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Dec 9, 2015 04:49
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ColHannibal posted:I debated a gladiator, I opted to build my own out of ikea parts. Butcher block can be had for super cheap in the ikea kitchen section. Why is that called a butcher's block? Every butcher's block I've ever seen is square and about 50cm deep, usually with a concave top although that's probably because of the cutting....
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Jun 23, 2016 09:51
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100% Dundee posted:Think that "butchers block" is just used a reference to that style with the layered blocks of wood. They make it in huge sections and you can cut it up if you want to make actual butcher blocks or use to make a table or counter top or whatever you want. Oh that makes sense
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Jun 24, 2016 03:15
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Yeah I have mine on a 10cm high stand under the desk but if I didn't have that I'd be putting it on the desk as well, mainly because of dust and cat hair and stuff like that.
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Jun 23, 2017 23:12
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pr0zac posted:Honest question, I'm confused why you're still on Windows 8.1. I did. I liked the UI.
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Jul 19, 2017 21:34
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Jerry Cotton posted:Once I get my camera in order I'm goint to post in this thread. I have a desk that has been used by a woman who has had three (or maybe four) comets named after her and it was made by a carpenter. She was a swell person. They say she "didn't talk in eleven languages" but she was like a grandmother to me. That's an interesting phrase - "didn't talk in eleven languages". What does it mean?
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Jan 14, 2019 07:20
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Since having to squeeze an extra office into our house in the corner of the bedroom quickly, I just used a dining room chair - and you know what? I don't miss a wheely bendy office chair one bit. This chair is surprisingly comfy. I made the desk out of spare ply and $9 legs. Those monitors are gonna be replaced with an ultrawide at some point - I prefer even one 2560x1080 over two 1920x1080 monitors.
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Jul 28, 2020 05:36
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colas posted:what's that on the wall? Its a print called "big five" by James Jean https://www.artsy.net/artwork/james-jean-big-five
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Jul 29, 2020 22:46
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I 100% think that one 21:9 2560x1080 monitor is better than 2 16:9 1920x1080 monitors, despite the fact that the former has less horizontal pixels than the latter. Its not very intuitive and I doubted it would be better until I used one. The lack of a bezel right in the middle just makes the smaller area way more usable. I will admit though its nice to have a monitor off to the side for utility reasons. This is my work setup, the little monitor off to the side (its a laptop) just plays videos or has documentation:  I have an identical monitor elsewhere in the house for my desktop pc for gaming and I miss a smaller offset a little bit but I only use that for gaming so whatevers. I do have a hacked up small laptop monitor I could use but the missus uses it all day for work so its not really my desk.
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Jul 1, 2021 01:06
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frogbs posted:Which model LG is that? LG 34WL500-B 34" 21:9 - it's the cheapest 21:9 that's not teeny tiny. It's very bare bones, it doesn't swap inputs automatically, it only has 2 HDMI in, it does have a headphone for audio over HDMI which is handy though. Haha no the head isn't closed at the bottom
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Jul 1, 2021 09:06
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Johnny Truant posted:that unfinished drywall and glass mannequin head are giving me weird vibes Yeah, we are doing renos at the mo and this area won't be even started for months....
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Jul 1, 2021 09:07
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frogbs posted:Thank you! How do you like using that vs a 24/27” 4K monitor, if you’ve used one before? I've not actually, I can only compare it to two similar sized 16x9's. I was considering getting a 4k of some sort but that monitor is used for gaming and I'd never use a 4k resolution, or my missus at work and she has dodgy eyesight.
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Jul 18, 2021 23:34
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Three Olives posted:I agree, there are much better uses. whats that oval thingy on the right of your desk?
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Sep 21, 2021 03:32
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TheMadMilkman posted:Yep. Totally misread that post. I worded it really wrong - I should have said "whats that oval thingy on the right SIDE of your desk?"
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Sep 21, 2021 23:33
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Three Olives posted:https://www.jbl.com/voice-activated-speaker/JBL+LINK+VIEW.html Not in NZ, its $500 south pacific pesos :/
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Sep 21, 2021 23:35
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Koskun posted:So you are wanting something so you can use a single mouse and keyboard on multiple computers? Synergy is still around, but it's paid only now. Microsoft has Mouse without Borders for free, and works great. synergy was forked and continues to be free and open source as barrier now: https://github.com/debauchee/barrier/releases
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Whoa 2008 this thread is oooooold
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