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SmokeMe · Nov 11, 2021

I bought the last/ only 2 he had.

Fabler2 · Nov 12, 2021

Bought this keyboard for my daughter's Xbox series S for Christmas. These consoles are getting more like PCs! The price hurt though

jvickers · Nov 12, 2021

Fabler2 said:
Bought this keyboard for my daughter's Xbox series S for Christmas. These consoles are getting more like PCs! The price hurt though

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No doubt the price hurt with that inflation. I read that the prices and things will continue to go up until past Christmas. Case in point: I looked at a Rosewill computer case (no pun intended) I bought 2 years ago to see if there was access to the bottom of the motherboard. It looked more expensive than I remember. Come to find out, that same case costs something like 52% more than when I bought it!

So, if you're going to get things, shop around for them as soon as you can because prices will like keep increasing.

BunnyJ · Nov 12, 2021

Dru2 said:
Thanks. I have a couple of photos I was asked doing a metal print, but they want something larger than 8 x 12.

I was thinking about doing a 17 x 22 print of this on Epson's Matallic paper, but I didn't like to look of the paper on a smaller test print....
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I just printed it on a matte paper and it came out great. Just need to get it framed. Or sold and they can frame themselves :)

That is very nice and I like it a lot!
I worked on this one today.. it's a pic I found via Google and I heavily modified it. It's 8x12 use it if you like

https://flic.kr/p/2mJn9yy

PerpetualCycle · Nov 12, 2021

BunnyJ said:
That is very nice and I like it a lot!
I worked on this one today.. it's a pic I found via Google and I heavily modified it. It's 8x12 use it if you like

https://flic.kr/p/2mJn9yy

Nice job. Looks great and I bet it will really stand out on metal.

BunnyJ · Nov 12, 2021

geneo said:
Nice job. Looks great and I bet it will really stand out on metal.

I think it will... I just have to put in the order now.

PerpetualCycle · Nov 15, 2021

geneo said:
Roborock S4 Max robotic vacuum. Pretty neat - uses LIDAR to map the house. Will see how it does.

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Got it and did fiirst cleaning with it today. Worked pretty good. Mapped out my house, created some no-go zones for rug tassles, etc. Kinda slick, will need to see how reliable it is over time. Her name is Electra. LOL.

Winuser · Nov 17, 2021

I just reserved a HP laptop from Micro Center for my sister-n-law. HP 15-dw3013dx 15.6" Laptop Computer Refurbished - Silver; Intel Core i3 11th Gen 1115G4 3.0 Processor; 8GB DDR4-2666 - Micro Center. I wanted to wait to take her there Saturday but they only had two left. They will hold it until the end of the day Saturday. I think her old laptop has a short where the power adapter plugs in. Three weeks ago, the plug on the adapter melted on the end that plugs into the laptop. She got a replacement adapter from Walmart and now the laptop won't power on. She said the power light on the laptop doesn't even come on. It's several years old and I can't see her wasting any money on it.

jvickers · Nov 17, 2021

Winuser said:
I just reserved a HP laptop from Micro Center for my sister-n-law. HP 15-dw3013dx 15.6" Laptop Computer Refurbished - Silver; Intel Core i3 11th Gen 1115G4 3.0 Processor; 8GB DDR4-2666 - Micro Center. I wanted to wait to take her there Saturday but they only had two left. They will hold it until the end of the day Saturday. I think her old laptop has a short where the power adapter plugs in. Three weeks ago, the plug on the adapter melted on the end that plugs into the laptop. She got a replacement adapter from Walmart and now the laptop won't power on. She said the power light on the laptop doesn't even come on. It's several years old and I can't see her wasting any money on it.

That's a great price.

Winuser · Nov 17, 2021

jvickers said:
That's a great price.

For her use it will be perfect. I was trying to find her an inexpensive laptop that was worth buying. There were a couple of others but I suggested this one because it has a touch screen. She prefers a touch screen over a mouse. She mostly uses her laptop for E-mail, some internet and for playing Microsoft games. If she wants, I will upgrade it from Windows S.

jvickers · Nov 17, 2021

Winuser said:
For her use it will be perfect. I was trying to find her an inexpensive laptop that was worth buying. There were a couple of others but I suggested this one because it has a touch screen. She prefers a touch screen over a mouse. She mostly uses her laptop for E-mail, some internet and for playing Microsoft games. If she wants, I will upgrade it from Windows S.

That's a perfect laptop for her since she has limited use of it. Good find!

Fabler2 · Nov 18, 2021

Winuser said:
For her use it will be perfect. I was trying to find her an inexpensive laptop that was worth buying. There were a couple of others but I suggested this one because it has a touch screen. She prefers a touch screen over a mouse. She mostly uses her laptop for E-mail, some internet and for playing Microsoft games. If she wants, I will upgrade it from Windows S.

Nice machine for the price. I would get rid of S mode just to be able to install Macrium.

BunnyJ · Nov 18, 2021

Winuser said:
I just reserved a HP laptop from Micro Center for my sister-n-law. HP 15-dw3013dx 15.6" Laptop Computer Refurbished - Silver; Intel Core i3 11th Gen 1115G4 3.0 Processor; 8GB DDR4-2666 - Micro Center. I wanted to wait to take her there Saturday but they only had two left. They will hold it until the end of the day Saturday. I think her old laptop has a short where the power adapter plugs in. Three weeks ago, the plug on the adapter melted on the end that plugs into the laptop. She got a replacement adapter from Walmart and now the laptop won't power on. She said the power light on the laptop doesn't even come on. It's several years old and I can't see her wasting any money on it.

Nice and it has an SSD.

jvickers · Nov 20, 2021

A little late night shopping. I bought two items:

This USB-C female to female adapter

And this cool USB-C/USB 3.1 128GB SanDisk flash drive.

This is all to prepare for my drive swap project I'll have this Winter break.

Edwin · Nov 20, 2021

Just droolin again...

Edwin · Nov 20, 2021

... problem is, I can't find em locally!
I just wanna put them on my head for 5 minutes!!!

jvickers · Nov 20, 2021

Edwin said:
... problem is, I can't find em locally!
I just wanna put them on my head for 5 minutes!!!

Yeah, I imagine you'd have to go to a high-end audio shop to get them. No going to Walmart for these...

Fabler2 · Nov 21, 2021

For backing up second laptop.

jvickers · Nov 21, 2021

Fabler2 said:
For backing up second laptop.

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Very nice. I might get something like that next if I keep killing my external SSDs. Not sure how that's happening, but it is!

jvickers · Nov 21, 2021

Well, since my really nice SanDisk backup drive got killed by what I believe to be an overpowered USB-C port I'll never use again, I decided to copy @Fabler2 and go with something I could easily swap SSDs from. So, here's what I purchased (with the wife's blessing):

The SK Hynix SSD was on sale with $35.99 being knocked off it. So, I figured I'd go with that. Maybe this one will live longer! These will be here Tuesday.

(SanDisk drive, R.I.P.

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