Photos Latest Purchases Thread: v2.0

FFS… the turned up this evening, but the right ear is dead. The case claims it’s fully charged but won’t switch on, won’t pair, no LED to speak of

 

Was about to quote your previous post about those was interested in what they'd be like but looks like not so hot lol

 

Not a glowing recommendation so far. I’ve left them to charge for a bit more since they’ve not had the full 2 hours as per the instruction leaflet. But the left one was 86% and the right one was dead, so I don’t have high hopes.

Not sure whether I'll replace or return them... in my current grump about it I don't really want them any more, but also I'll probably come round to "just one of those things".

I'm presently faced with whether I try to cram the big boi airpods in, or purchase two overpriced lightning/usbc adaptors at the airport in the morning, or maybe dust off the Mojo and take that.

 

I always vote Airpods they're just so easy, I normally stuff the bra in my bag and wear them to save space .

 

Not today but Thursday

Nitrofurantion Mercury Pharma

Yay for kidney infections

 

Picture nab, just picked some up.

Always need it for cleaning CPUs but I need something for phone screen cleaning, getting some adhesive off the bathroom floor (hoiking out some trim around the shower I don't like) and umpteen other things it can be used for.

 

Starting to put together a build for my brother, so...

Basic-ass 550W Be Quiet! PSU



1TB Crucial P5 Plus



He's got a case I'll be recycling, I've already got some parts, and I've put in an offer with an eBay seller for a board/CPU/cooler/RAM combo.

Only thing left will be a GPU. I was tempted to go for a second-hand RX 6600 card... but the brand-new price isn't all that much more expensive than second hand: ~£200 vs ~£160-£170 respectively. Makes more sense to pay a bit extra and have the peace of mind of a warranty - unless of course someone here has a bargain 1080P GPU they want to sell me . The main use case for a dedicated GPU in the first place is for PS2 and Xbox 360 emulators; they don't need massive GPU power but the more headroom the better, and it'd be a nice bonus if it could actually play relatively modern games. He's a console gamer first and foremost, so 1080P with med-to-high settings at ~60FPS on PC is more than enough. Plus he's making do with a GTX 750Ti right now, so even an Intel A380 would be a massive upgrade

Be careful using that on phone screens! They're more duable than monitors, but you still run the risk of causing damage to coatings, etc, with isopropyl alcohol. The best thing is a microfibre cloth slightly dampened with plain water.

 

yup it’s good at everything tbh.

I was debating where to put this next post. I almost whined in the ruining thread for the first time in years but that wouldn’t have gotten me anywhere.

So I bought a freesat hd box for recording tv. I upgraded it with a 1tb ssd and it all worked great. Or so I thought.

Got it home and spent three hours wiring and fired it up “hard drive not initialised” ran an error check, got in, recordings gone. So it works fine until you turn it off then it doesn’t.

Found an upgraded bios file and put it on. In the end the upshot was I wasted 7 hours today messing with it. Tried 4 different hard drives (3 different ssds and a 1tb 3.5) and all the sodding same. Of course I forgot to bring the original drive home to clone but by 3pm I was super annoyed.

I then found out my android TV has a satellite tuner and apparently can record to a usb ssd. Plugged in the sammy 1tb, formatted it, then the problems started.

It found 1000 channels. Most of which are either encrypted or 8 duplicates of the same channels. I gave up removing channels at 400 and tried to record….”function not supported” by this time I was effing furious and had wasted 8 hours.

So I may have spunked £280 on a Humax Aura 4k with upscaler.

 

Thanks for the heads-up, was going to double check before doing it as I wasn't 100%

Was wondering if you could dilute it down, I tend to use a damp cloth but it's more to make something for my OH who insists on spraying her screen with kitchen cleaner and wiping it off with kitchen roll no matter how often I scream "nooooooo!"

 

Phones are usually ok, as they're sapphire glass or something like it (apart from folding ones, never use anything on those). Monitors however...

 

Yeah just don’t get it in the opening for the ear piece because they are usually glued in.

 

Years ago a friend of mine's misses, cleaned their CRT monitor's screen with furniture polish, left the screen looking blotchier than a dalmation! I offered to bring isopropanol next time I visited but, he didn't want to upset her...

 

Ironically, I need to give my old CRT monitor a good scrub with isopropyl alcohol to remove what remains of the anti-glare coating. It's failed over the years and you can see streaky marks and blotchy patches. I could disassemble it and try to peel or clean the tube directly, but I really don't like mucking about with those things; far easier to try and wear away the coating from the outside with IPA & microfibre cloths.

 

I quickly (and accidentally) removed the oleophobic coating from one of my Note 4s years ago using diluted IPA and have been very careful with what I use on my phones ever since. Best to date has been ScreenDr Professional from Currys but a damp microfibre cloth as suggested above is also pretty good.

 

Good to know.

I was in two minds especially as I know how good it is at removing grime.

 

A new mod, Smok Fortis in gentlemanly brown pleather, what for when I'm out and about, along with a chonking 21700 battery

 

Oooh, I could do with a new one. One that takes replaceable batteries, I hate sending old dead mods to the recycling centre/tip.

Are there any go to battery makers out there or is it pretty much any from the store? Speaking of which where did you pick it up from?

Here endeth all questions

 

New kitchen has been paid for.

Now just to sort the flooring, tiling, lighting, paint and finalise the fitting along with plenty of other things I'm sure we've forgotten