if turning on your computer doesn’t produce a fucking rainbow barf of light, you’re doing it wrong
next you’ll tell me you don’t even have a case with a side-window
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I’ve never had a dedicated computer room. Its always been my bedroom or dorm room. And…I got real tired of all those lights, any time I wanted to leave the PC on at night for downloads or something.
So nowadays, no lights, no windows!
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i might just get that aoc thing that was a meme a few months back and an arm so i can bin the grotesque mount
i did this
it’s nice, massive after using a really bad old beat up tn for a few months and a mid 00s dell previous
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also i moaned about all these things being gamershit but am in awe at the 90s graphics card box vibes from this
smooth
game
play
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play
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SMOOTU
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you’re all laughing now but guy is going to have 144hz shoved into his eyes and realize that his life is beginning anew
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Has apple fixed their boxes yet?
8 years is the longest I’ve had a computer but it’s showing it’s age. got to close tabs all the time if I ever want to run a game, the mouse freezes for a second every now and then, playing video files they take forever to start, music stutters now and then, it’s been trying to do some windows update for months that just gets stuck in a bootloop with a “page fault in non paged area” or “kmode exception not handled” error until it undoes the update, etc. trying to play red dead online takes me back to the years of always trying to play modern stuff with a computer a couple years out of date growing up
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mine’s turning 7 if you don’t count the GPU or 2 of the SSDs and it’s fit as a fiddle but I’ve had to do so much maintenance over the years because I cannot live my life with even one stuck package manager and it’s becoming clear that I’ll need to like delid my 3570k which I’ll never ever do for this overclock to not kill it one day
I still don’t want to build again until like 2022 - 2024
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my plan is to get a 2060 or whatever is equivalent when the 1060 starts to chug
and yeah growing up with stuff that was obsolete after a few months having a midrange gpu last over three years and counting is nice
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Nvidia 7nm will probably be pretty compelling
Intel 7nm should be too if it ever shows up
anyway I’m basically still reserving judgment until games that I want to play won’t run on four cores and I guess I could always get a PS5 to buy time in that department if I wanted
think I’m gonna track down a Toshiba T1950 series to add to my vintage collection, they were made at like the last possible time to have relatively fast 486DX2s and not be unpleasantly large but still ship with only DOS and not have any kind of pointing device unless you connect an external mouse so they’re just beautiful miniature keyboard terminals
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I love the trackballs you could get for that era of laptop.
never been a trackball person though I am somewhat partial to the proto-multitouch scroll buttons on Pentium III-era thinkpads (albeit I never liked the mouse nub in the first place so it’s only a small consolation). generally speaking I don’t think any laptops had really great pointing devices before G4 Macs.
As a mild, hot-take/counterpoint I will contest that no laptop has a truly good pointing device, merely “adequate” ones for when attaching an external mouse isn’t feasible
(die touchpads)
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it took like 5+ years for most pc touchpads to be even slightly as good as mid 2000s macs (much like the OS, that was apple’s longest period of unequivocal superiority by far) and I’m still horrified when I see someone clicking to scroll
you definitely can’t play a first person game on a touchpad and I don’t think that’s ever going to change but at this point it’s otherwise a wash
I’ve never used a touchpad that I liked. The Asus laptop that has the touchpad to the right of the keyboard looks interesting though. One of the things I hate about laptop touchpads is their placement.
current apple touchpads are really good, especially if you spend a few dollars on bettertouchtools. I was messing around with my friend’s XPS yesterday, and while that laptop otherwise makes me feel some type of way, the touchpad still feels like a toy compared to a macbook.
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