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redm posted:all of my tech is in poor shape because i always try to fix it with balled fists of rage try a shoe covered foot sometime use a rubber base as you would for a tuning fork BirryJoru fucked around with this message at 05:05 on Jul 12, 2016 |
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I killed my first car, does that count? I was a dumb kid and got sold a 1985 AMC/Renault Alliant. It was the perfect abstraction of shoddy tech made into corporeal form. I hated that loving car, and was glad when I finally killed it and sold the corpse to a junkyard for $100 as scrap metal. It was a terrible loving car.
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Jul 12, 2016 05:08
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CaptainSarcastic posted:I killed my first car, does that count? I was a dumb kid and got sold a 1985 AMC/Renault Alliant. It was the perfect abstraction of shoddy tech made into corporeal form. I hated that loving car, and was glad when I finally killed it and sold the corpse to a junkyard for $100 as scrap metal. It was a terrible loving car. totally counts tech = technology
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Jul 12, 2016 05:16
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I just love the color temperature with these old CFL bulbs. LED lights are just naturally flatter with no true intra-red vibrancy. And sure LEDs don't start leaking toxic mercury vapor in the middle of the night because of ancient Chinese assembly line curses, but is that really such a high price to pay for bringing such beauty and grace into our lives? Absolutely not! CFL for light! CFL for life!
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Jul 12, 2016 05:36
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i have lots of dumb poo poo cause im always ordering dumb poo poo from china
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Jul 12, 2016 05:39
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I own a MacBook Air I've never used for anything I had a vague idea I could do some freelance work on the side at one point and just haven't
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Jul 12, 2016 05:43
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Why yes, I DO want crushed ice even though I specifically selected "cubed." You know best, refrigerator.
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Jul 12, 2016 05:43
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I bought a playstation 4 because I wanted to play bloodborne and I attempted to fool myself by saying "once i get it i'm sure i'll find other games i want to play on it" but there aren't really any so i have a 300 dollar bloodborne machine basically
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Jul 12, 2016 05:50
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I paid five dollars for my cell phone about six years ago or so, the battery still lasts over a week and it texts so I'm keeping it. I'd like to try pokemon go, seems like it'd be fun to do with my dog, at least the folks playing it are friendly  CJacobs posted:I bought a playstation 4 because I wanted to play bloodborne and I attempted to fool myself by saying "once i get it i'm sure i'll find other games i want to play on it" but there aren't really any so i have a 300 dollar bloodborne machine basically I've got a splatoon box myself, I really ought to get some games for it, especially since the final splatfest is happening this month.
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Jul 12, 2016 05:55
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made fire not that hot hot enough to cook
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Jul 12, 2016 05:55
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I have owned a Lenovo D10 workstation for years and years. It weighs a ton and sounds like a jet engine when I turn it on. The only real upgrades I have done to it is 10 TB of external hard drives, added a couple USB 3.0 cards, and set up an 8 GB RAM Drive to install my most used programs on. I justify keeping it because for what I use it for (photoshop, encoding, this forum, buying poo poo on amazon, word) it still works fine. I suppose I could get a new one. I still have the description from when I bought it. •Unit Dimensions: •19.4 x 8.1 x 22.5-inches (H x W x D) Enjoy high performance computing with this Lenovo ThinkStation D10 Dual Xeon 2.33 GHz Tower! With two Intel Xeon E5410 2.33 GHz quad-core processors and 32 GB of DDR2 RAM, the ThinkStation D10 provides the power you need to get things done quickly and easily! Store your files on two 73 GB 15,000 RPM SAS hard drives. Connect to a network with two Intel 82563EB Gigabit Ethernet LAN ports. Load software and access DVD and CD media with the DVD-ROM drive. The NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600 768 MB PCI Express video card features two DVI-I and S-Video ports for connecting multiple monitors. With PCI Express, PCI-X and PCI slots, there's plenty of room to expand. Add the operating system of choice and connect the peripherals! Order your Lenovo ThinkStation D10 Dual Xeon E5410 2.33 GHz Tower System today! Features/Specifications: •Lenovo ThinkStation D10 Dual Xeon E5410 2.33 GHz Tower System •General Features: •No Operating System! •Tower form factor •Two (2) Xeon E5410 2.33 GHz quad-core processors •1333 MHz bus speed, 12 MB L2 Cache, Intel Virtualization Technology (VT-x), Intel 64, Idle States, Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology, Intel Demand Based Switching, Thermal Monitoring Technologies, Execute Disable Bit •Intel 5400A chipset •32 GB DDR2 PC2-5300 Fully Buffered RAM (supports up to 64 GB) •Two (2) 73 GB 15,000 RPM SAS hard hard drives •DVD-ROM SATA drive •No floppy drive •NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600 768 MB PCI Express video card •Integrated audio •Integrated Intel 82563EB Gigabit Ethernet LAN •Rack mountable •Motherboard Features: •Two (2) PCI Express x16 slots (one occupied by video card) •Two (2) PCI Express x4 slots (x8 mechanical) (one occupied by video card) •Video card requires two expansion slots •Two (2) PCI-X slots •One (1) PCI slot •Five (6) SATA connectors •Five (5) SAS connectors •Eight (8) 240-pin DDR2 DIMM sockets •Rear I/O Ports: •Two (2) PS/2 ports •One (1) 9-pin serial port •One (1) SPDIF optical in port •One (1) SPDIF optical out port •Two (2) DVI-I ports (on video card) •One (1) S-Video TV-out port (on video card) •Four (4) USB ports •Six (6) Audio 3.5 mm jacks •One (1) RJ-45 Ethernet jack •Case Features: •Three (3) 5.25-inch external drive bays •One (1) 3.5-inch external drive bay •Five (5) 3.5-inch internal drive bays •1000-watt power supply (100 - 240V, 15A, 50/60Hz)
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Jul 12, 2016 05:56
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the wheel never stops rolling guaranteed
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Jul 12, 2016 06:01
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I only need to listen to one album when I'm away from my computer anyway, and this way it kinda forces me to really listen to the music, y'know? It's like the layers of an onion.
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Jul 12, 2016 06:22
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I bought a Sony Vaio Pro 13 because I wanted a laptop that was really light and thin. It's light and thin alright, but it feels about as solid as a sheet of tinfoil, and because it's so thin, it's undercooled, so the fan runs constantly and the CPU throttles down on any sustained load. Now I use a 5 year old Dell Latitude I pulled out of the electronics recycling as my main laptop. I own a Zune HD. No excuses for that, because that is loving awesome.
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Jul 12, 2016 13:04
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It's "vintage."
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Jul 12, 2016 13:12
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CaptainSarcastic posted:I killed my first car, does that count? I was a dumb kid and got sold a 1985 AMC/Renault Alliant. It was the perfect abstraction of shoddy tech made into corporeal form. I hated that loving car, and was glad when I finally killed it and sold the corpse to a junkyard for $100 as scrap metal. It was a terrible loving car. Same except it was a '95 Jetta. It knew I was trying to kill it and tried to kill me first by refusing to switch gears a couple of times on the way to the junkyard.
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Jul 12, 2016 13:13
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redm posted:all of my tech is in poor shape because i always try to fix it with balled fists of rage Is there any other way to fix something?
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Jul 12, 2016 14:12
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ANIME IS BLOOD posted:suits my needs Perfect post.
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Jul 12, 2016 14:14
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Bought/upgraded/built several different htpcs over the years, along with upgrades to the libraries for my media. It got the job done but the setup was never intuitive enough for friends or family to use easily. For awhile one of the HTPCs was my Surface Pro 4 with a long hdmi cable that I would hook up every time we wanted to watch something in the living room (we only get like 3 channels over the air antenna, anything else we watch is through the internet.) Finally said gently caress it last week, bought a $35 roku stick and downloaded Plex. Easily beats the crap out of everything I've set up over the years. Also my Surface Pro 4 is great but I rarely use the stylus anymore and probably should have just bought a much cheaper laptop. Bought it shortly after release, paid full price, etc. My post is more along the lines of "look at all the money I've wasted on tech over the years" thanks for reading god bless
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Jul 12, 2016 14:41
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i got a lime green game boy color for christmas 2001, and the buttons don't work but it's otherwise in good condition and i feel like it can probably be fixed also i keep my 4+ year old broken-screened laptop because it can at least be hooked up to the tv to be usable...
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Jul 12, 2016 14:50
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I bought a really lovely underpowered $100 HP tablet that ran webOS because "hey I can just root it and install Android". I did and it ran like poo poo and crashed all the time but I was still smarter than all those tech illiterates who spent money on an actual good tablet and just couldn't be bothered to cobble together some barely working pile of trash.
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Jul 12, 2016 14:58
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I have a capt Toshiba Satellite laptop that is outdated, buggy and absolutely refuses to burn a DVD. I can't bear to part with it because it was my dad's and he died a couple years ago when, for stupid reasons, we weren't talking. I'd probably get another laptop if I didn't use my tablet for most things, but keeping his wallpaper and goofy conspiracy theory text files feels like a link to him. That's my justification. I also have a ps4, but I actually enjoy it and get plenty of use out of it.
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Jul 12, 2016 16:03
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i dont buy poo poo OP
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Jul 12, 2016 16:44
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I have a "land line". It's VOIP and costs $2.37 a month.criscodisco posted:. I like my PS4 a lot. I haven't owned a PS since PS1 and this has been a fun toy to play with.
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Jul 12, 2016 16:46
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Oh and I have a dreamcast. Had to get a hdmi box thingy to even hook it to my TV. I keep it for Sega Bass Fishing.
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Jul 12, 2016 17:05
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The Fuzzy Hulk posted:Oh and I have a dreamcast. Had to get a hdmi box thingy to even hook it to my TV. I keep it for Sega Bass Fishing. You can download all the games for free - all the copy protection was built into the discs themselves (some proprietary format that I think you used to use DiscJuggler to write) so it's piss-easy to just burn and play discs no mod chips or loading discs or softmods or anything required
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Jul 12, 2016 17:13
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I had a Blackberry Z10 and a Windows phone (two of them!) I also have this toshiba libretto that I have always intended on fixing and never did. welp
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Jul 12, 2016 17:16
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Tubes let you hear your music like never before.
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Jul 12, 2016 17:27
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 I'm using a Lenovo IdeaPad U510. It works fine with a monitor plugged in. I don't need a portable computer now that I'm finished college. I use a USB keyboard and mouse. The fan gets very loud, but I wear headphones much of the time anyhow. The desktop computer stopped working in May, but it keeps the laptop off my desk, so it's still useful.
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Jul 12, 2016 17:32
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paco650 posted:BONUS PURCHASE: I bought a smartwatch for like $15 and all it does is annoy me. It sometimes tells me about an email 2-5 times, often after I've already dismissed the alert. It's supposed to have a world clock and the weather, but both features worked exactly one time before mysteriously loving off forever. It still tells the time though, and doesn't look like an embarassing tech bro device like google glass or apple watch, so I give it a solid 4.20/10 you paid money to add your pulse and blood pressure to the list of things logged in a server lol
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Jul 12, 2016 17:32
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Everywhere I go I still carry around a Creative Zen Vision M mp3 player that I bought in 2005. It has a bass boost and full 7-band EQ that even makes earbuds sound like pure gold. It's only 30GB and feels like a brick in my pocket, but I've tried iPods, Zunes and every other off-brand player and they all sound like complete rear end compared to my beloved ZVM. 
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Jul 12, 2016 17:41
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I've got the old ipod with the wheel, they don't make them anymore. I like the wheel so I'm not gonna upgrade or I'll find another one with a wheel.
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Jul 12, 2016 17:43
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ghlbtsk posted:Everywhere I go I still carry around a Creative Zen Vision M mp3 player that I bought in 2005. I used to have one of these, it owned
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Jul 12, 2016 17:43
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i own a hand-me-down Discman because i just outright prefer CDs to iTunes. something about physically handling a CD is very satisfying. it probably also has twice the battery life at my iPod, which is great for travel.
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Jul 12, 2016 21:03
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I paid five hundred dollars for a machine that gives me spankings.
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Jul 12, 2016 21:50
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what the gently caress are you clowns doing to my thread!? now I gotta think of excuses for all of you who just buy garbage uh A: dropped on head as baby 2: parents were heavy drug users D: child of divorce
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Jul 13, 2016 00:42
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BirryJoru posted:what the gently caress are you clowns doing to my thread!? thread bad, so what
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Jul 13, 2016 00:46
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my co.puter is hp I bought it at walmart
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Jul 13, 2016 00:51
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A steam powered dildo.
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Jul 13, 2016 01:01
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BirryJoru posted:what the gently caress are you clowns doing to my thread!? 2 and D, with 2 being a heavy contribution to the purchase of that Jetta.
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Jul 13, 2016 01:11
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