Nerdy Awesome shit you bought!

[Yaka]

for me pa who didnt want "some thing finicky" like a droid phone or ios phone, just wanted a phone with a decent cam for pics and vids with the possibility of video chat. the large icons and contactless charging pulled it for em. jut hope i can deleate shit that they dont want from the phone

 

[TdC]

I bought a hypnocube. I has a video, but as Deebs has a small willy and is too cheap to pay for bandwidth that my 60 second 1920x1280 1200 MB video needs, I can't upload it. Boo, hiss, etc

 

[Billargh]

I want one.

 

[TdC]

it's awesome. I've been staring at it for the past 20 mins lol

 

[DaGaffer]

Hypnotoad says, "don't buy Hypnocube"

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Hnnnngg want 8cube

 

[TdC]

yeah me too, though the 4x4x4 is awesome enough

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Looking at the pictures, it's like the inbred stepchild of the two. :/

 

[Wazzerphuk]

We’re currently looking at the 8Cube Kit for $850, and the finished version for $2400.

lulwut?

 

[TdC]

it's a finickey thing to make tbh... also the 4x4x4 = 64 leds and the 8x8x8 = 512, so like three orders of magnitude as finickey?

 

[Billargh]

You have to make it yourself? Bah!

 

[TdC]

you can get a kit, or pay to have some oppressed child in a developing country who has two cum-laude degrees solder one together for you.

 

[Billargh]

Anything I can do to keep people in a job!

 

[Wazzerphuk]

it's a finickey thing to make tbh... also the 4x4x4 = 64 leds and the 8x8x8 = 512, so like three orders of magnitude as finickey?

OK, you buy me it then. Sorted.

 

[TdC]

If I bought one I'd keep it I'll let you lick my 4x4x4 though

 

[Aoami]

My dad just bought this:
http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/tv-dvd...h-hw-f550-wireless-soundbar-21324812-pdt.html

Very nice tv, excellent picture. I set it up for him, and the best bit was when i didn't plug in the analog aerial and he spent ages trying to work out how there was still a picture on the tv.

 

[dysfunction]

Just bought this:

http://www.box.co.uk/Product/Id/1341681

Been wanting one for a while now.
And its a bargain too!

 

[MYstIC G]

Just bought this:

http://www.box.co.uk/Product/Id/1341681

Been wanting one for a while now.
And its a bargain too!

Good buy, my N36L has served me well and its the older version. Be sure to max out the RAM would be my only advice.

 

[dysfunction]

Good buy, my N36L has served me well and its the older version. Be sure to max out the RAM would be my only advice.

Will do! And now all I have to do is decide on what os to put on it! Too many to choose!

 

[Yaka]

freenass and the most mem you can get

 

[MYstIC G]

freenass and the most mem you can get

This. FreeNAS basically means you have a NAS and can run an isolated FreeBSD install on that NAS which allows you to run basically anything server-ish you like.

 

[TdC]

just to let you guys know how slow I am to accept new tech... Someone gave me a Media Market gift cert so I cashed in and bought a tiny Lacie 1TB USB3 external drive and an equally tiny GP 4000mA power pack for my phone.

I can burn through my HTC One X in less than a day (meh) and the power pack should charge it about three times over so that's certainly going with me on holidays and such. As to the drive, the speed of it is such that I store star pics to stack on the drive so the stacker program is basically limited by the processing power of my CPU rather than the speed of my NAS...which is "slow" compared to the 300 MB/s caching power of the hdd. Ah well.

 

[Hawkwind]

Just ordered a Synology two disk NAS. Something to play with in the summer whilst the family is back in the UK.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1389517282&pf_rd_i=507846

Will pick it up when in the US next week. Intention is to stream video and audio to families various tablets and also a WD Live box connected to the main screen.

 

[TdC]

that's one minor version up from mine. must say I'm well pleased with it. Enjoy!

 

[DaGaffer]

I've got one of those as well. 'tis excellent so far. I actually use an RPi to stream to the main telly and an android stick for the secondary telly. Surprisingly the RPi seems to be able to handle 1080p without a hitch, although I'm definitely seeing a bit of slowdown of my XBMC menus (I'm at about 600 movies and thousands of tv episodes).

 

[MYstIC G]

I've got one of those as well. 'tis excellent so far. I actually use an RPi to stream to the main telly and an android stick for the secondary telly. Surprisingly the RPi seems to be able to handle 1080p without a hitch, although I'm definitely seeing a bit of slowdown of my XBMC menus (I'm at about 600 movies and thousands of tv episodes).

Have you turned off the RSS news ticker? That kills the RPi when its running XBMC because it constantly uses CPU time when its on display or not.

 

[DaGaffer]

Have you turned off the RSS news ticker? That kills the RPi when its running XBMC because it constantly uses CPU time when its on display or not.

I'll check. I certainly never switched it on, but it may be a default.

 

[MYstIC G]

I'll check. I certainly never switched it on, but it may be a default.

Yeah it is normally on by default.

 

[soze]

I remember a nice man pointing that out to me and making my RPi useable again

 

[ECA]

Picked up a R9 280x DirectCU2 top. Holy fuck.

Got 2 monitors open, game running, stream going, 20% fans and 44 degrees and quiet as fuck.

Soooo happy with it.