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[Sprite]

Half purchase, half freebie. After 15 years of service at work, they saw to furnish me with £200 in gift cards. So seeing as these were £60 off I picked up a pair. I’d have preferred the Sony but can’t look a gifthorse in the mouth.

 

[Aerocoupe]

A very expensive piece of sticky paper.

 

[kolio]

A very expensive piece of sticky paper.
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$151 here in Illinois these days. What did that run you?

 

[Aerocoupe]

$151 here in Illinois these days. What did that run you?

$115. And I thought our stupid 'Wheel Tax' was bad, seems you have it worse.

 

[Fat Tyre]

Fat Tyre got some skinny tires.

 

[Shaun]

Fat Tyre got some skinny tires.

Nice, over here if didn't already know about the thread. 👍

 

[Fat Tyre]

Nice, over here if didn't already know about the thread. 👍

Thanks. I didn't know about it 👍.

 

[ROAD_DOGG33J]

Yay

 

[Spacegoat]

Some new shirts. Might end up giving the Star Wars one to my brother for his birthday. Well, maybe.

 

[W3H5]

MTB gloves for motorcycling? Why not.
Despite the pic, I bought them in person to try them on. Needless to say what they fit like…

These are my first full finger gloves. Ever. I’ve always ridden with half fingers because I like to pick my nose at the traffic lights.

 

[Sprite]

Some new merch. Picked up from Diggers Dozen.

Strata Records T & wool SnapBack. Came with a few stickers and a pin too.

 

[Joey D]

I'm not saying this is the greatest knife ever made, but it's definitely the greatest knife ever made.

It's a Boker Kalashnikov "Dessert Warrior" 2.5" automatic. It's a special edition made for Blade HQ and I love it. I've been trying to get one since they first dropped last November and I finally managed to snag one. Wish I could've gotten the 3.25" one, but it was sold out by the time I got to the website.

 

[Terronium-12]

Sprinkles, more sprinkles, even more sprinkles, and a blue blade

I've never owned a blade a day in my life, outside of a modeler's knife, but this has me very intrigued.

 

[Populuxe]

It’s Wednesday, so comics.

Those are all digital. This one is real wood pulp.

 

[Grayfox]

My old HP Probook 6470b is starting to really suffer.
It wont last more than 30min off charge on idle

So I got an new laptop.
A Asus Zenbok UM425UAZ-KI023T
14" 1920x1080
Ryzen 7 5700U
512GB 2230 NVMe SSD
16GB RAM
Windows10Home.

 

[W3H5]

My old HP Probook 6470b is starting to really suffer.
It wont last more than 30min off charge on idle

So I got an new laptop.
A Asus Zenbok UM425UAZ-KI023T
14" 1920x1080
Ryzen 7 5700U
512GB 2230 NVMe SSD
16GB RAM
Windows10Home.
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Windows 11 should be rolling out next month. Apparently it’s a free upgrade from 10.

 

[Grayfox]

Windows 11 should be rolling out next month. Apparently it’s a free upgrade from 10.

F windows.
More forced updates
The taskbar is reminiscent of GNOME3s taskbar.
I never liked GNOME3, i was a GNOME2 holdout.

But now I run Linux Mint

Frankly Windows 11 is kinda like Windows 10 Facelift.
Same crap under the hood, but with some tweaks done here and there.

All the functionality of Windows 11 could've been a Feature Update to Win10 and at least Microsoft would've been able to keep their word of "The Last Version of Windows", not to mention they would not have pissed off many people with this TPM2.0 crap and your 4 year old PC is not compatible crap.

 

[Brett]

My old HP Probook 6470b is starting to really suffer.
It wont last more than 30min off charge on idle

So I got an new laptop.
A Asus Zenbok UM425UAZ-KI023T
14" 1920x1080
Ryzen 7 5700U
512GB 2230 NVMe SSD
16GB RAM
Windows10Home.
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How does the Numpad on the track pad work?

 

[Grayfox]

How does the Numpad on the track pad work?

No clue, doesn't work under linux
Fine by me.

 

[Dylan]

I guess it’s not my latest purchase since I got them last month, but they’re for this weekend.

2 frontstretch tickets to this weekends Southern 500. And the truck race before it.

 

[phillgt2002]

Just bought a 20lb weighted blanket on Amazon (). I had a gift card from my birthday, so
I thought I'd finally get one after waiting.

Does anyone have any experience with weighted blankets? I generally have a hard time falling asleep.

 

[Team THRT Drift]

Library is slowly coming together. Temporarily using these two cubby holes in the wall as a library. I'm thinking of putting all the Canterbury Classics special editions in this coffee area and build a personal library upstairs.

 

[Omnis]

Scored a 2nd hand, but never-unwrapped Evnroll ER5v with a custom matte black shaft. Man, I love rich Asian people. I sank a putt from across the platform on the first time I picked this thing up at the PGA store, so I knew I had to have one. But I wasn't gonna pay $400 for a damn putter lol. That's more than my whole bag.

Anyway, my 2-ball fang mallet is all over the place and the grip is too small for my hands. Love that I got it for 100 bucks, but realized I couldn't pick the ball up once I got it and I knew it was only a matter of time before I went to a new putter.

 

[Populuxe]

I backed a Kickstarter for “Goodbye, Battle Princess Peony” by Mira Ong Chua. I got the book and several postcards and stickers in the mail today. It’s a yuri shoujo fantasy, and it’s wonderful.

I bought these effects pedals over the last few months. They’re from Billionaire by Danelectro. They came out in 2017, but you can still pick them up new. They’re also fairly cheap at around $80 each. This is the full set. I love how they sound.

 

[Rizla]

Bought a fully loaded Stratocaster body to go with the Fender Strat neck I have had laying around for years.

Needs a bit of work, swap out the pups & wiring harness & so on. Should make a nice wee Frankencaster.

 

[Valkyr1313]

Technically I didn't buy these. Was hooked up by Logitech and a group I'm doing a mentorship program through called Queer Women of Esports, but I got a nice Blue Yeti Nano mic (which I used to replace my old Blue Yeti) and a Logitech StreamCam camera which is absolutely fantastic

 

[Populuxe]

Wednesday means comic books. DC had a big sale over the Labor Day weekend at ComiXology, so I helped myself to the six graphic novels that cover Grant Morrison’s run on Doom Patrol back in the late-‘80s/early-‘90s. Normally $12.99 each, they were only $2.99 each.

 

[phillgt2002]

Snagged it off Craigslist for $60.

As if I need another thing. I'm having a very hard time enjoying Project Cars and Assetto Corsa with a pad, so I thought I'd go for one of the best budget racing wheels. I was going to go even cheaper by getting one of those Logitech MOMO things, but this is actually pretty good, and from what I hear, people still use them.

For $60, not bad. I've definitely spent that much on burritos in a month. I'll have to reduce the burrito budget to $0 to compensate

 

[Darla Starch]

I'll have to reduce the burrito budget to $0 to compensate

Famous last words.

 

[phillgt2002]

Famous last words.