Recent Posts

Pages:  [1] 2 3 4 5 6 ... 10 »
1
Off Topic / Re: Gaming PC Parts discussion thread.
« Last post by tp4tissue on Wed, 04 June 2025, 12:17:18 »
Best selling PC on Temu

STG-aub brand.

i7 4770
16gb ram
512gb ssd
AMD RX 580
6 RGB fans
Case
RGB alu-block heatsink (doesn't look like heatpipe).


Together this is about $150 worth of parts.  Price is $360+ free shipping.

That GPU if (New) would probably be a mining salvaged card, meaning they desoldered the gpu/ram, reball, new board.
2
Off Topic / Re: Make Drump King?
« Last post by chyros on Wed, 04 June 2025, 12:02:59 »
People are not interested in hard solutions. They'd much rather stick their head in the ground and pretend nothing is going on. Rationality is not a factor here.

If it gets bad enough that even the biggest, most stubborn people really can't deny anymore that we're all gonna die, we might gain enough momentum to get something done. The question is whether it's too late by then or not.
3
Off Topic / Re: Gaming PC Parts discussion thread.
« Last post by tp4tissue on Wed, 04 June 2025, 11:44:20 »
WTH are you guys buying on TEMU?

Tp4 has only bought 2 heatsinks in the 3 years it's been out.


4
Keyboards / Re: Unpopular Keyboard Opinions
« Last post by Mandan on Wed, 04 June 2025, 11:41:21 »
Many keyboards are dished.  IBM did that with the Model F and M, with the idea that business typists (their market) were typing in proper clerical desks or a typing stand that held the board a few inches above the thighs.    A lot of "proper typing" and key positioning has the implicit assumption that the user's forearms are free to move in all directions.  The most common modern arrangement is "forearms on the table", which limits mobility, particularly between the bottom and top rows.  Using the top row often requires bending the wrists back, wheres it is a simple finger motion on a low-positioned keyboard.

Keyboards don't need to be dished.  Many modern keyboards aren't, and work just fine.  Particularly laptops.

Frankly, I'd love to get a board that was curved up in the middle, so the top row would be *down*
5
Off Topic / Re: dey'gon'git'Drumph'dis'tine'o'no?
« Last post by tp4tissue on Wed, 04 June 2025, 11:39:51 »
Tp4's superior capacity for joy
You are right.
Somehow I have missed your expressions of joy.

Most of Tp4's material is sarcastic, but based on real world stats and deep comprehension of the intricacies of the Torment Nexus which represent our capitalist economy.
6
Off Topic / Re: dey'gon'git'Drumph'dis'tine'o'no?
« Last post by fohat.digs on Wed, 04 June 2025, 11:35:34 »

Tp4's superior capacity for joy


You are right.
Somehow I have missed your expressions of joy.
7
Keyboards / Re: Unicomp Model M Right Shift Key Issue
« Last post by Mandan on Wed, 04 June 2025, 11:31:41 »
The early IBM Model Ms used bent wire stabilizers instead of the post-and-guide setup.  They have a noticeably better feel than the post-and-guide type.

The wire stabilizers were on both Shift keys, Enter, and the keypad Enter and + keys.  You can also swap the Model F wire-stabilized Shift keys onto an M.

The barrel plates for all of my later Ms still had the (unused) hooks for the early keys, but they're all fairly early Ms.  If you decide to try wire-stabilized keys, pop a Shift key off and make sure the barrel plate has the hooks; I've never personally seen one that didn't, but if IBM (Lenovo, Unicomp, etc) ever replaced their tooling later in production, I don't see why they would go through the trouble of providing them if they weren't using wire-stabilized keys any more.

I bought a tiny bottle of "bicycle dry chain lube" that I use on the posts of the boards I have that use them.  Most of the dry lubes are runny like water; I recomment putting the lube on a Q-Tip or makeup swab and rubbing that on the post to prevent a mess.  More lube isn't necessarily better lube.
8
Off Topic / Re: dey'gon'git'Drumph'dis'tine'o'no?
« Last post by tp4tissue on Wed, 04 June 2025, 11:30:35 »
You guys are Ruining Tacos.
9
Group Buys and Preorders / Re: [GB] Rukia - polycarb - round 2
« Last post by jtangjt on Wed, 04 June 2025, 11:17:58 »
bump

where is rukia
10
Off Topic / Make Drump King?
« Last post by tp4tissue on Wed, 04 June 2025, 11:04:41 »
The conundrum is this. We're at 430 ppm, 500 is doomsday, according to liberal scientists.

OK, ppm growth is accelerating rapidly.  We've got, 20-28 years till 500ppm. THAT's it, this is mankind's Last 2-3 decades to make any difference.



So, what has ultimately FUNDED-democratic-liberalism and its massive inefficiencies (in governance/decision cost). The truth is, CHEAP OIL, the things Liberals absolutely hate.  Democracies are hugely hugely inefficient at "fast" decision making.  Solving bigger problems require higher lvls of autocracy.   Solving bigger problems in less than 30 years, require  Dictatorship.

Tp4 is putting forth the argument that, while a Drump-Dictatorship would destroy life-styles/civil-ideology for the American middle class, there's probably NO WAY America can come together for meaningful long term decision making in the democratic experiment's current form.

Then, when cheap-oil inevitably ends, well, we'll be back to Autocracy anyway, but too late on the 30 year window.

It's impossible to pass bills, GOOD OR BAD in the current system, within the TIME-constraint. 



Now, you might ask, Tp4, why can't we have Emperor Bernie Sanders. Corporations rule America, they'd probably kill him by day 30.  If Drump is KING, we're not relying on Drump's decision making to mitigate climate change, we're relying on the Corporation's interest in self-preservation, no business to be done on a Dead-Planet.

Let the corporations rule, self-interest might actually save what's left,  Whereas ARGUING about what-to-do will kneecap decision making for the forseeable future.

Past performance, (look at our snail's pace history), is the best predictor of future behavior.

Where's our highspeed rail, where're our solar panels, how come we barely have electric cars. Major Civic projects have proven to only be possible under Near-autocratic conditions + Slavery.

Most of "America's" historically significant large civics were done under pressing conditions/war like/autocratic/planned economy/yield-curve-control



Thoguhts?
Pages:  [1] 2 3 4 5 6 ... 10 »