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Oooh can you borrow one for me too?

 

Another pair of in-ears, Philips again, this time SHE3800BL/00. As with my last pair of Philips, these are absolutely fantastic (the bass is incredible) and they were only £5.50 in Tesco, reduced from £15 or thereabouts.

 

PS4 thumbstick for my Dreamcast Controller. It's a perfect fit, without modification. It's for use on a PS4, but it's an Xbox One style Concave Thumbstick.

 

And thanks to Steam Sale: Fallout 4 to play on it. Aww yess

 

I got four of these. I already have one, so am replacing all of the other fans in my rig with these.



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And my first set of Planar Magnetic

 

Zenza Bronica SQ-A with Zenzanon-S 80mm f/2.8
Took a bit of a gamble and got it really cheap because the film back was broken (they're pretty failure-prone). I'm really happy I managed to fix it. There were two different issues inside, neither of which I found described or documented online, but I figured out the mechanism, took it apart and now it works perfectly again (ran a test roll through it 10 times).

It's a really cool camera. I also have some folding medium format cameras which are obviously lighter and more compact, but I never liked the fiddliness of manually advancing the film (looking through the little window at numbers), and remembering whether or not you've already exposed a frame. I was also considering a TLR, but then this bargain came up and I couldn't refuse.

 

Steel Battalion controller first gen (green buttons) and Xbox to USB cable for it. Looking to play some Hawken and Elite: Dangerous with it. HOTAS systems cost the same, this is cooler.

 

What are you going to use the third pedal to control?

Still, that is

 

Been wanting this since I got my 2DS and the price was finally right for me to buy:

 

Two bicycles - one for each twin...
Yeah, children are expensive. I hope they prove to be worth the investment in the future.

 

Why didn't you go for a tandem?

 

Genius!

I wonder if it's too late to return them... (the bikes, not the twins).

 

SUPERMICRO X8DTN+F

New server to replace the Dell 2950. This will be my new FreeNas box which will be great so get to shift my H700 raid card and few other bits i have sat around.

 

You know there's a lot of AAA titles you can use it on, thanks to people writing a 64-bit driver for it, right? https://github.com/TylorF/SteelBattalionWindows64

It takes some configuring for each game, but the immersion factor is unbeatable. I plan to mod mine to match the style of Elite: Dangerous, as well as relabel all the keys to match their new functions so I don't accidentally hit self destruct instead of toggling chat.

 

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A carry-on sized rucksack divided like a suitcase (and weighing only 700g) for avoiding Ryanair hold luggage fees.

 

There is widespread support on Linux for it too.