Photos Latest Purchases Thread: v2.0

The Pink Plinker, it has a certain appeal.

 

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After much (much, much deliberation and consultation of Reddit threads), I decided to pull the trigger on this particular pair of headphones, which arrived today. Super comfy, and clearly of very high quality. Not sure they are worth all of almost £200 (I got them at auction for £129), but they be very nice indeed. Sadly, not bright pink, but I'm happy to compromise.

 

I've used a blanket for the last two years on my seat and as my birthday is soon I've decided to treat myself to a seat cover for my gaming chair.

 

I didnt need a controller but i mean look at it !!! They also did it where the gold was black but it just popped more on this

 

Old fire tablet was stolen by my latest ex, so bought another one. Also 50% off so why not. Makes reading e-books easier on the go (read: can hold this thing with one hand)



About 450 good books on the thing now, custom formatted by yours truly

 

I've been meaning to get into audio books for years but still never have.

 

Lots of stuff booked for my Christmas and new years in the US! Went a bit mad and booked first class plane tickets out there! Few days in New York, then Christmas in New Haven, then to an airb&b in Vermont for a week! After the utterly insane year I've had it'll be amazing to get away!

 

@Voice is a good bugger. Straight up text to speech with few quirks: bit monotone and will read page numbers etc

 

A 4-pack of Moto Tags (They're Motorola's version of Airtags, but work on Android phones)

EDIT - And some new walking shoes for my trip. "Breaking in" has already begun.

 

We have ordered a pair of Framework 13 laptops for my wife and me.

We will let you know what they are like when they arrive!

 

Nice one, I am really impressed with what Framework have achieved, 3 sorts of laptop and an amazing SFF desktop.
The desktop is obviously not as modular because of its system constraints, and is not cheap, but still has plenty of Framework DNA .
I look forward to hear how you get on with them

 

I must admit I did not think that they would last as long as they have, but clearly they are getting some traction in the market.

Although they are a bit expensive for their spec, I hope the repairability will make up for it. My wife and I have gone through a number of laptops over the last decade because they failed for dumb reasons: power socket broke, power plug broke, screen hinge broke, the letter A key snapped off, a screen developed dead pixels (once) or cracked (twice), batteries needed changing (four times). And I'm not rough on my hardware. Each incident required disproportionally expensive or unobtainable replacement parts and/or complex surgery to fix. It all adds up in the end, and it is wasteful.

My next mobile will probably be repairable also, although my Nokia XR20 is rolling with the punches nicely. The Fairphone looks OK, but the HMD Skyline is remarkably sleek, well specced, cheap and repairable too.

 

Oh this one passed me by. What did they they do? I saw Omarchy and hyprland in general and figured it wasn’t for me anyway but would definitely avoid if they are taking a right turn.

edit bit of googling found me this eventually, can’t believe something like this was so hard to find relatively speaking, and even then it was just about how it’s worrisome that Vaxry was banned https://drewdevault.com/2023/09/17/Hyprland-toxicity.html

 

My other half is a Twitch Partner and got there largely under streaming ungodly amounts of Sims 4. When they announced that Trump-in-law was buying it with the aid of his “lovely” Saudi backers bribers grifters influence-peddling-shitbags friends she similarly went no cash for fash. Which I wholeheartedly agree with and love that shortened saying.

 

Well, that's disappointing to hear. Is there any corner of the computer world that has not been infected by fash misogynists?!?