What has brought you joy?
Companion to the last question :)
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Bought a refurbished Thinkpad T480s a year ago. It got me back into Linux on the desktop which brought a lot of joy into my computing life.
Xreal One Pro head-mounted display glasses. They’ve really changed how I watch TV shows and movies.
I’ve been curious about them in the past, what’s the quality of the picture on the?
AMD stock apparently 😂😂
Huh. I bought a few shares a month or two ago after being annoyed at nVidia. Wasn’t expecting to look at it today and see this. Wonder what happened.
This year/month/week/day/afternoon has been crazy!
I don’t know what’s happening. But, I’m not complaining 😊
The AI bubble blowers are running out of tech segments to inflate and have now set their sights on the CPU manufacturers. Intel has jumped like $80 a share in the last month or two
Noise cancelling headphones are incredible, using them in a noisy airport eliminated 80% of the discomfort of travelling
noisy *office
discomfort of *coworkers
(except you Sean, you’re okay)
mine hurt my ears after an hour. it doesn’t happen though when I turn the noise cancelling off.
Some noise canceling is better than others. If you get a chance to try another set, see if it still hurts
i’ve had three pairs, three brand. same effect.
i think the noise cancelling is just too loud on the airplane.
Yup. Autistic and noise cancelling headphones help me in all kinds of environments I wouldn’t be able to deal with otherwise. Including the airport!
I still need to find some good NC earbuds though. The Bose quiet comfort are fantastic but unfortunately known to stop working repeatedly (I’m about to get my 6th pair replaced through warranty over about 18 months!)
My over the ear earbuds, probably. I use them daily, they’re good for normal music or videos and they dampen sound and don’t fall off so I can drum with them in. It’s been a lot of fun just jamming to tunes.
I like the ones made of soft rubber. You can wear those for hours without discomfort.
over the ear
earbuds
They go in the ear like normal earbuds but they hook around the back of the ear so they don’t fall off when I’m drumming.
I see. I wouldn’t call that “over the ear” but I guess I can’t change the terminology of the headphone industry myself.
Steam Deck OLED has been pretty great. Also the HTC Vive VR headset, back in 2016.
I also bought the Vive back in `16. Can’t believe that was 10 years ago! I moved two years ago though and never set it back up. I figured at the time that Valve would have a new headset that didn’t require base stations soon. Finally coming this year, so if someone wants to buy an OG Vive…
Steam Deck, hands down. It rules being able to play PC games in bed with my partner by my side.
Its sooo gooood!
I thought about getting one but took to long to decide and now they are not available anymore :(
I was on the fence when it was first announced (just because i had heard the reports about steam machines back in the day) but when I found out you could open it up and upgrade the storage yourself I decided to bite the bullet.
I have never regretted the purchase. I immediately stopped gaming on my (Linux) desktop and have been gaming on the Steamdeck now (almost) exclusively for the past like 3 years. I’ve upgraded the storage (64GB to 512GB) and replaced the thumbsticks when the old ones fell apart.
Tl;dr: Agree! Steam Deck no regrets!
Noise-Cancelling Headphones…
not to mention any specific ones, just the general concept of it…
Everything sounds better, more immersive…
Also blocks out family arguments to varying degress of success depending on how much you spend on headphones…
Oh yea btw the first time I watched interstellar was on a cheap android phone with LCD 720p display using the phone speakers… 👀
On the other side of it, Bluetooth Speakers
Can sort of change the atmoshere of a room, feel slightly less “depressing”
Oh yea btw the first time I watched interstellar was on a cheap android phone with LCD 720p display using the phone speakers…
Yea I know. I saw Project Hail Mary in an IMAX theater a month ago… so different…
So immersive…
Also so loud…
My favorite thing was that quiet sequence and the light flashing sequence
spoiler
Where the astronaut guy (lol forgot the name already) was like about to die and Rocky went and saved him that sequence…
So epic
That was the first time I’ve been in a movie theater…
Also is this guy British? Lol, do British people talk like that. Its so funny to see them trying to be as insulting as possible while looking “professional” doing it. xD
My Fairphone 5, because it has allowed me to break free from Google and other big tech companies by letting me install whatever I want on it.
And my good old Thinkpad.
Yup I just got the FP6 and I am really happy with it.
Nice i have a fairphone 4. Such good phones!
i’m so annoyed cus i have one but aus put a law making sims not work on it anymore :<
As an avid Clone Hero player (Guitar Hero but for PC, essentially) this was such a huge upgrade to me from the Wii guitars I had been using for years.
Oooh nice!
Something I am very curious: how do the guitar controllers compare against each other? I’m saying this as someone who has been buying and reading up on quite a few rhythm game controllers (DDR/ITG, Taiko, more esoteric things) and knew of the whole slew of comparisons/tierlists between controllers… I knew close to nothing about Clone Hero controllers for high-level gameplay so
I’ve only ever used this one and the Wii guitars from World Tour. The CRKD is nicer because:
- support for many more devices without any special adapters (I used it on my Switch at one point)
- reactive LED lights
- quieter strum bar
- overall nicer design without a big wiimote-shaped hole
I play Clone Hero a lot but just casually, so I can’t really speak to anything about latency or stuff like that. I can at least say in all aspects it’s on-par or surpasses the Wii guitars.
I got a hacked SNES mini on eBay that was fully loaded with every ROM from Atari to the 32 bit systems.
I truly love my SNES mini. Mine is still going strong, but the NES mini is starting to have issues.
Portable battery powered bidet.
Gotta keep shit clean
Wait…
Does it have a water tank attached to it? I presume you fill it up at the sink before travelling down to brown town?
It does have a small water tank, but you hardly notice it. They’re pretty discreet.
Mine does. It’s a little cup that screws on. Some varieties allow you to screw on your average disposable plastic water bottle.
Do you carry around a separate water bottle for your taint cleaner, or do you just refill the one you have?
I have one at home. I couldn’t imagine traveling with one. That’s what wet/baby wipes are for.
I don’t use the water bottle kind. I might switch to one because it’s less unusual to be seen filling up a water bottle in public versus a tank or cup.
Mine is a cup that screws onto the device, and acts as a cover when not in use. It’s relatively compact, about the size of a flashlight. I keep it in my backpack or purse.
Samsung QD-OLED
Playstation 5
intel iMac
Garmin 955 Forerunner
Asioma Mx-2 power meter pedalsThis year I’m going to get an Acura Integra A-Spec Tech, reviews on it are stellar. Replacing a 12 year old Civic .
I am on the fence about getting a Switch 2. Never got a Switch because it wasn’t 4K and the games seemed meh.
About a decade ago I bought my first mechanical keyboard – tenkeyless with cherry mx red switches. The keys still feel like a dream to this day. I like 'em much better than rubber dome switches.
I don’t get mechanical keyboards. Every time I have tried one I find them to have too much key travel and to be way too noisy. I’ve always considered Apple’s keyboard the gold standard. I’m sure there is something to mechanical keyboards as they’re clearly really popular but I guess I’m just ignorant about that.
It’s true they are noisier. Even the quietest switches (reds) are noisier than rubber domes. That took me a bit to get used to.
As for key travel, 4mm is standard for most keys unless we’re talking about laptop keyboards. The difference is the force required at each point of depression.
I don’t like that big ‘hump’ membrane keys have to get started moving (lower left). My keyboard is linear (lower right) and it just makes more sense to my fingers. I also like that I can actuate keys halfway to bottoming out. Rubber domes usually bottom out right after actuation.
There are actually extremely silent mechanical keyboards now, much quieter than reds/blacks/browns. The silenced Realforce Topre keyboards (if you consider Topre “mechanical”) are much quieter than typical dome keyboards.
They do make short travel ones, and there are many different types, even quiet ones with dampers.
If you’re happy with your keyboard then it’s the best keyboard.
My old casio watch works after a decade of use.
My old kindle just got a new battery but its over 14+ years old.
And my CPAP is probably the thing that does the most work for me.
what model Kindle? I’ve always kept a few kindle 4s on hand as backups :D
only thing I don’t love about it is the microusb connector, I’ve dreamed of doing a type c conversion but it’s harrowing taking one apart
I think I either have a 4 or 5. Theres a website that has the batteries. NewPower99.com I got Amazon Kindle D01100 Battery Replacement Kit with Tools. Everything was mostly easy except the glue amazon used was HARD to get off the old battery! It was super stuck. Had to pry off the old battery and that could have gone bad. Risk of Spicy pillows. But it has many weeks worth of battery now.
Its my favorite ATM and its pretty old. I wish I could get another one OR get the screen replaced. I have a couple of spots on mine over the years of usage. I read on it almost every day. Its the only ebook reader that can work with ALL the text from https://wanderinginn.com/ . I bought the ebooks but my eyes hurt reading on the laptop for a long time. Plus I want a break from the same area of the house I work at. The new KOBO cant load more than 10MB of pure text. But the old kindle can!
I cant imagine transferring it to usb c. GL if you do decide to do it! I personally would get a small microusb to usb adapter and call it a day.
