I think I’m literally dying. The dog is investigating me with great worry. I have tears rolling down my face and I can barely catch my breath.

Maybe look into a BC-250 build. Basically a binned PS5 chip but you can overclock it to make back some of the performance.

https://elektricm.github.io/amd-bc250-docs/

That or i got a fairly recent office PC that had an AMD 8700G and 32 GB of DDR5 on ebay for 400 bucks. Slapped in a 9060xt and its a sub 800 dollar build. Didn’t do enough research though and found out the 8700 only has 8 PCIE lanes even though bios and specs list x16. Oh well, it performs well enough for now.

I used to a lot as a kid. It was pretty much the only way to get some more obscure games.

I pretty much stopped in the mid 2000s except for some collectors editions of games that I was 99% sure were going to be great Halo3, Fallout3, New Vegas etc. I still do the same thing now with the odd switch collectors edition xenoblade chronicles, the final fantasy pixel remasters, unicorn overlord but those were games I was 99% sure would be finished at launch.

The rest of the time I wait a year or so until the game is half priced and finished.

Who uses a sock? Cumrag or GTFO.

Wash once a week, replace as needed which is probably 10 years or so. Then they become dog towels.

Its a minisforum hx90g. Its got a pretty beefy cooler and two decently big fans. I never hear it under my desk or on the TV stand.

My coworkers think I like building computers because I tinker with so much stuff, but no that doesn’t seem super exciting to me anymore. I have mini PC with a laptop CPU and GPU in it. I like it quiet, small and power efficient. It is feeling long in the tooth these days but I haven’t seen something with enough of an upgrade to be worth it.

Recently picked up a used office PC to throw a GPU into. Mostly because ram is so expensive and it cost less than buying ram itself but also because I’m lazy and don’t really care about PC building.

Look into volumio to make a whole home music streaming solution. You can buy various pi Hats to get better DACs than the internal pi one.

1970 called and it wants its color back.

This is a great question that is relevant for me this week. Been trying to set up a wireguard vpn and found I need a DDNS. Lots of good answers to look into in the comments. Thanks everyone.

This is democracy manifest.

They’ve gotten too much shit actually renamed though. Denali, Gulf of Mexico, sort of the Department of Defense, Institute of peace.

They aren’t gonna get anynone government contolled stuff renamed unless the owner is a real MAGA brown noser. The NFL isn’t gonna do shit he wants. The owners have hated him since the 80s.

Not really, I don’t even know how you cheat in modern games. Retro games I’ll put in codes if they are built into the game but not game genie/ game shark codes.

I got no problem what you do in single player games though, you do you. I don’t play online multiplayer anymore but you suck if you cheat online.

Maybe stuff from middle school - sophmore year of high school. By junior and senior year I definitely evolved my musical taste. Definitely bands I still listen to somewhat frequently like Pavement, Wilco and Yo La Tengo as well as stuff i haven’t heard in 20 years but doesn’t make me cringe like Deathcab for Cutie, Taking Back Sunday and Brand New. On the other hand middle school self loving My Chemical Romance (super early in their career) yeah that makes me cringe and I would not enjoy whatso ever today.

After 15 years of android I cannot get used to my work iphone. Everything about it is wrong.

I got three different playa phones. One for each part-time shorty.

But I really have a work phone that they pay for because I am absolutely not putting any work shit on my phone. No teams, no outlook, no workday, no authenticators, no emergency alerts. I think a guy who got fired was using it as a playa phone or porn phone. My boss said his data use was always maxed out and everyone else used roughly 1-2 GB.

I only take it home on weekends on the rare case i want to check an email or request time off through workday. It does come in handy while camping/road tripping. I charge it up and turn it off then toss it in the glovebox as an emergency phone.

We used to have pagers as recently as 2022 which seems way more sketchy for the time but i miss them. Always worked, only got important notifications, smaller.

It also feels more about submission to me than a joke about homosexuality. When regular people hook up or are in a relationship it doesn’t seem like submissive act but between two powerful men it does.

What are you talking about. It has nothing to do with the speaker being too close to your ear, its because they were an awful design. Regular earbuds get the driver just as close and are still made, but arent very popular. The style has trended more towards in ear monitors because they seal your ear canal and get better bass. Due to the sealing IEMs are probably worse for your ears if you crank the volume but you probably don’t need to crank them as loud since they provide some passive noise cancellation.

Headphones are absolutely fine. I tend to crank music and have 0 loss in hearing over the last 10 years (we get annual hearing tests at work for OSHA). I do have a significant hearing loss in one ear but that is genetics and hasn’t gotten worse in 3 decades of using headphones.

Just don’t turn it up so loud it hurts, and once you find an initial good volume don’t turn it up later. You acclimate to the sound level so it seems quieter.

Second Harvest.