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blowfish posted:https://www.vizio.com/tvs/rseries/rs120b3.html lol vizio make a $130k TV Jesus you could buy a projector and make whatever size TV you want. Spend a few extra grand and you can get one powered by lasers. Or go insane and spend literally less than half as much on something you can light up the side of a building with EDIT welp looks like this is the year that 4K projectors come down in price Jimmy Carter fucked around with this message at 06:32 on Feb 4, 2017 |
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Axel Rhodes Scholar posted:potentially doxing myself but a few years ago a verge writer was dating a woman who i used to date and he would very unsubtlely MY GIRLFRIEND her into any pictures he had to insert into his articles so i'd be reading some perfectly innocuous yet tedious piece about, idk, hololenses, or whatever, and suddenly my ex appears in it scowling at me lol owned
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Feb 4, 2017 10:38
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Axel Rhodes Scholar posted:he would very unsubtlely MY GIRLFRIEND her into any pictures he had to insert into his articles as far as i remember that describes several reviewers it's almost like when you define your content as "hip and trendy lifestyle" you attract a bunch of writers desperate to prove they live that lifestyle lmao
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Feb 4, 2017 14:42
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Axel Rhodes Scholar posted:anyway the point of my story is i had sex once.
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carry on then posted:as far as i remember that describes several reviewers people who can't hack it as drug mules for vice settle for the verge
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Feb 4, 2017 16:06
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i sort of enjoy the weird mix of news on the verge v vif someone can explain to me why ars technica is now ars + cars + local uk morning paper though i would appreciate it
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:i sort of enjoy the weird mix of news on the verge v because nerds have ad blockers and dont generate $$$
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Feb 4, 2017 18:05
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:i sort of enjoy the weird mix of news on the verge v conde nasty wanted to make ars technical uk but also reuse the same content they're spending money for for ars usa
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Feb 4, 2017 18:30
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ars seems to be slightly confused while trying pretty hard to mold some sort of uncomfortable hip nerd aesthetic that combines science with fast cars with fast money along with boardgames that clicks with nothing n' nobody
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Feb 4, 2017 18:37
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tech journalism is floundering now that "tech" is so mainstream that the audience is everyone.
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Feb 4, 2017 18:48
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The Management posted:tech journalism is floundering now that "tech" is so mainstream that the audience is everyone. "let me tell you why this product won't succeed because it doesn't have upgradable ram, doesn't play ogg, doesn't run flash, doesn't let me root it, doesn't have a headphone jack" -- tech press 1999 to forever
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Feb 4, 2017 18:51
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ars has had it kinda rough though, losing good in depth writers like stokes and siracusa while only managing to pick up a couple verge-style clickbait writers and ron "six monitors to review phones" amadeo
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carry on then posted:ars has had it kinda rough though, losing good in depth writers like stokes and siracusa while only managing to pick up a couple verge-style clickbait writers and ron "six monitors to review phones" amadeo  lol
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Feb 4, 2017 19:01
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Bulgakov posted:ars seems to be slightly confused while trying pretty hard to mold some sort of uncomfortable hip nerd aesthetic that combines science with fast cars with fast money along with boardgames that clicks with nothing n' nobody it's basically the front page of reddit
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Feb 4, 2017 19:02
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aaaahahahahshabababahaha
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Feb 4, 2017 19:09
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hifi posted:it's basically the front page of reddit lol H.P. Hovercraft posted:aaaahahahahshabababahaha that pic & man truly cannot be ridiculed enough
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This is an amazingly cringey article, from the opening "lol sportsball I am supposedly technically apt but I don't understand how a car works" paragraph to the aforementioned six-monitor guy to the tedious lists of computer specs straight off of gamefaqs. ugh I used to read Ars Technica occasionally like 10 loving years ago, but like everything else on the Internet, the comment section was just so, so awful and full of the worst kind of horrible nerds and grognards that I needed to give it up
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Feb 4, 2017 19:21
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Bulgakov posted:ars seems to be slightly confused while trying pretty hard to mold some sort of uncomfortable hip nerd aesthetic that combines science with fast cars with fast money along with boardgames that clicks with nothing n' nobody can't really blame ars for that. people have been getting it wrong forever. in the early 2000s everyone was trying to portray nerds as flame shirt wearing limp bizkit fans playing crazy taxi and watching tony hawk do a 900
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Feb 4, 2017 19:24
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:aaaahahahahshabababahaha this is a kickass setup i love screens i wish i had 60. screens everywhere around me so when im posting and an important email arrives i can do a 360 and see it right away
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poty posted:this is a kickass setup i love screens i wish i had 60. screens everywhere around me so when im posting and an important email arrives i can do a 360 and see it right away i have three and it's great, even if they're all different resolutions
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Feb 4, 2017 20:33
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poty posted:this is a kickass setup i love screens i wish i had 60. screens everywhere around me so when im posting and an important email arrives i can do a 360 and see it right away i, too, wish for the most boring f451 future
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Sweevo posted:can't really blame ars for that. people have been getting it wrong forever. in the early 2000s everyone was trying to portray nerds as flame shirt wearing limp bizkit fans playing crazy taxi and watching tony hawk do a 900 I skipped work to go to the 99 xgames and saw tony hawk do the first 900 in competition
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Feb 4, 2017 21:22
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holy poo poo the writing in that piece is high school af
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Feb 5, 2017 00:04
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verge editor an idiot? more like verge idiot an editor
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George posted:holy poo poo the writing in that piece is high school af 2017_journalism.txt
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Feb 5, 2017 00:08
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past 2 tvs i bought i got with a single dead pixel that made them half price ftw
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Smythe posted:past 2 tvs i bought i got with a single dead pixel that made them half price ftw this is very bad for my 'tism
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i kinda want to get one of these to use as a monitor but idk it seems kinda silly
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kind of, yeah
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blowfish posted:https://www.vizio.com/tvs/rseries/rs120b3.html lol vizio make a $130k TV And its loving LCD lmao
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do projectors still need your room completely dark to not look like poo poo there's a pacific asian place by me that has a long wall with 3-4 projectors on it and they show naruto or whatever on them
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hifi posted:do projectors still need your room completely dark to not look like poo poo i wrote a zillion word post but it was boring so the answer is yeah, probably
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Sagebrush posted:I used to read Ars Technica occasionally like 10 loving years ago, but like everything else on the Internet, the comment section was just so, so awful and full of the worst kind of horrible nerds and grognards that I needed to give it up They ran that experiment where in a the middle of an article related to gun control, they put a line that said "If you've read this far, mention bananas in your comment". first bananas mention was on the third page of comments
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the only comments i read are hacker news ones but even then it's just been confirming my assumptions. i was going to post this earlier but i spaced on it, that dudes 8 monitor desk looks retarded, if you fullscreen a browser window on a non-laptop you don't deserve more than 1 monitor. that said bolting a pdu under your desk looks like a good idea. my trick for ideal browser width is to go to youtube (for some reason typing in "you" and pressing enter takes me to "youcancallme.al" but i can press tab to search youtube like normal, so i've seen paul simon - you can call me al something like 100 times this week) and then resize the window so it gives me the large video player. it's a little under 2/3rds of 1920 pixels. another fun fact is somehow i have a 2048x1152 monitor (plus the regular 1080p one). i dunno how that ever caught on.
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hifi posted:the only comments i read are hacker news ones but even then it's just been confirming my assumptions. hell yeah drinking if u aint and then typed that, then well glad you ain't my son
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i dont drink
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Feb 5, 2017 04:33
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hifi posted:i dont drink that's a mess of words otherwise. sad!
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like it ain't even a manic clear-headed mess of words worth a pass by a vice editor. shameful slop of english too busy to get rubbed n' tugged at a city overpass on its way to the municipal dump. gross
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I got a friend who writes for ars, mostly on zfs, or various network equipment they send him (recently did an article on various routers, and he hit me up going oh poo poo were you the one telling folks about mikrotik like 5 years back? I got some of their kit it looks like it'll break but it's cheaper, faster, and better than my homebrew bought it off alibaba shitbox). Also I bought a 43" 1080p TCL for my garage for like $250. Works for me, good set, disabled network as soon as I got it, don't give a gently caress about roku, just won't you do start up on the HDMI input instead of making me choose each time you shitbox tv.
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