Nerdy Awesome shit you bought!

[Tom]

I happen to think the cheap lights should be banned in this country, that we should go down the German route and demand that bikes can only have stvzo lighting fitted. But there's no real chance of that happening tbh.

It is incredibly annoying when you're on a dark path and someone with a cheapo light completely blinds you

 

[smurkin]

I fitted these on my lawnmower nice and bright - I haven't tried mowing in the dark yet or taken her down any dark paths


View: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01AWDL9YU/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

[Scouse]

I happen to think the cheap lights should be banned in this country, that we should go down the German route and demand that bikes can only have stvzo lighting fitted. But there's no real chance of that happening tbh.

Good - don't want to have to spend £300/pop on breakable items when I can spend £20.

It is incredibly annoying when you're on a dark path and someone with a cheapo light completely blinds you

True. But I don't use them on the roads. Offroad? Meh - I want all the light I can get (but point 'em downwards sharply if it's like a walking path or something).

 

[Tom]

Good - don't want to have to spend £300/pop on breakable items when I can spend £20.

There's nothing inherently expensive about good light design, you just need LEDs that can't be seen directly, a reflector to bounce the light in the right direction, and perhaps a projector lens to give greater focus.

Busch & Muller Ixon Core front light

Mine is pretty expensive because I bought the best one I could find.

 

[Scouse]

There's nothing inherently expensive about good light design, you just need LEDs that can't be seen directly, a reflector to bounce the light in the right direction, and perhaps a projector lens to give greater focus.

Meh - that's for commuting.

I'm talking about coming down this stuff at night:

View: https://youtu.be/3oUEv_wpQiw?t=58

 

[old.user4556]

A proper nerdy piece of equipment has been bought:

THC 22 HDCP Converter | Accessories|THC 22 HDCP Converter from Triax

Basically, ultra HD content needs HDCP 2.2 in order to pass 4K HDR content - pain in the fucking ass if you've spent fortunes on equipment that only has HDCP 1.4 (TV's, AV Receivers, etc.). I picked up Apple TV 4k which is superb, but my AV receiver only supports HDCP 1.4 and thus downsamples all 4k content to 1080p. This little box takes HDCP 2.2 and "masks" the HDCP 1.4 component allowing it to pass through the 4k content properly. Instead of burning £500+ on a new AV receiver, this little box at £65 fixes the problem.

 

[ECA]

@Big G Shows you that the hardware/cables/bandwidth isn't an issue, it's a MPAA/etc scumming.

 

[old.user4556]

@Big G Shows you that the hardware/cables/bandwidth isn't an issue, it's a MPAA/etc scumming.

Yep, total fucking money grab. Cunts.

 

[Bodhi]

picked up Apple TV 4k

Serves you right.

 

[Zarjazz]

I am partial to this kind of stuff, a different kind of tech. Nerdy? Maybe. Awesome? I think so.

 

[Exioce]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE8tATPge7o


Intrigued after watching this, I downloaded nicehash, the marketplace for selling and buying computer power for cryptocurrency mining.

End result, my gaming PC could generate an estimated £1.08 profit per day, after power costs are factored in.
Could see this being a solid idea if you have a multi-GPU setup, some old cards lying around, or ultra low energy costs. Barely worth it for the rest of us though.

 

[caLLous]

Honestly, I wouldn't base any decisions off of that muppet's content but yes it's still profitable, especially if you hold onto what you mine (or the equivalent BTC rewards you get through Nicehash) with the hope that its value increases in the future. Bitcoin is a toxic community right now and the general feeling outside of their little bubble is that Ethereum is going to be the dominant blockchain within the next 2 years, because it does so much more than Bitcoin's can or ever will...


Anyway, tl;dr: yes it's still profitable.

 

[caLLous]

Also, Nicehash is good for a set and forget set up, it will run benchmarks on whatever hardware you present it with and will automatically switch between coins depending on what's profitable. It will also use your CPU if you want it to (to mine Monero, for example). Whatever you mine, it pays you in Bitcoin.

Me, I'm all about Ethereum so I mine it directly (through a pool) and get paid in it.

 

[Scouse]

Me, I'm all about Ethereum so I mine it directly (through a pool) and get paid in it.

If you want ethereum why not mine zcash or zen and convert to ethereum - you'll earn it faster as they're more profitable coins atm...

 

[caLLous]

1) Zcash isn't more profitable (I'm 100% AMD which still do great on Ethereum but not so good on Equihash compared to Nvidia).
2) The price of ETH is going to take a bump up this week (it's all but inevitable at this point - famous last words), making it more expensive to buy with the Zcash that I'd receive = less Ethereum in the long run.
3) To support the Ethereum network.

 

[Scouse]

2) The price of ETH is going to take a bump up this week (it's all but inevitable at this point - famous last words)

What makes you say that @caLLous?

 

[MYstIC G]

1) Zcash isn't more profitable (I'm 100% AMD which still do great on Ethereum but not so good on Equihash compared to Nvidia).
2) The price of ETH is going to take a bump up this week (it's all but inevitable at this point - famous last words), making it more expensive to buy with the Zcash that I'd receive = less Ethereum in the long run.
3) To support the Ethereum network.

What makes you say that @caLLous?

Ethereum breaks the $400 barrier to hit an all-time high

 

[Moriath]

Just bought a switch with zelda and mario odyssey.

Time to see what every one has been talking about

 

[caLLous]

Ethereum breaks the $400 barrier to hit an all-time high

Set a new all time high of $488, it's come back down to earth a bit now ($~464 as I type this) but Bitcoin's gone on a bit of a charge ($9100+).

 

[Scouse]

Set a new all time high of $488, it's come back down to earth a bit now ($~464 as I type this) but Bitcoin's gone on a bit of a charge ($9100+).

Bought a little bit of eth not that long ago. May swich my mining rigs over as it's going to be more profitable short term. Pleased with the btc price tho - and my mate's going to be over the moon about that - he'll be able to pay both his mortgages off

 

[caLLous]

It's probably going to go over $10k over the next few days.

 

[Zarjazz]

At some point its going to crash ... right?

 

[Wij]

At some point its going to crash ... right?

Ponzi schemes tend to do that.

 

[caLLous]

The feeling is that there'll be a pretty severe correction after it hits $10k which will probably drag all of the others down a couple of notches with it. Ethereum will come out of the other side stronger, though.

 

[Bodhi]

Finally got round to start ripping all our 400+ DVD's to my Home Server over Xmas after we had a slight DVD Location Emergency (We were having a Die Hard marathon and couldn't find Die Hard with a Vengeance), and very quickly came across two issues which were making the process even more painful than it should be:

1) My old PC is taking about 2 Hours a disk to convert stuff to MP4, it's a Phenom X2 and I am such a power user ont he Desktop, this is the first time I've run out of oomph.
2) I've run out of space on the server. Always going to happen as it only has 1Tb in there spread across 3 drives, but happened much quicker then expected.

So to remedy this I have ordered........a new (old) CPU. My mobo appears to go up to the Phenom X6, but they are still £££ (over £100 for a 5+ year old CPU), so I found a Phenom X4 955 for £40 on Amazon. Should be here by the end of the week, then the sheer brute force of this desktop will be feared around the land.

Then to go in the spare HDD bay in my server I've ordered
View: https://www.amazon.co.uk/WD-TB-Enterprise-Hard-Drive/dp/B01IY9USY6/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1514914367&sr=8-4&keywords=wd+gold
Slightly more than the WD Reds, but 7200 rpm and the other WD Enterprise drives I've had have been solid.

 

[Moriath]

If you got the dvd why dont you download them from torrent. Save a lot of time if you got ok do speed tbh

 

[MYstIC G]

Finally got round to start ripping all our 400+ DVD's to my Home Server over Xmas after we had a slight DVD Location Emergency (We were having a Die Hard marathon and couldn't find Die Hard with a Vengeance), and very quickly came across two issues which were making the process even more painful than it should be:

1) My old PC is taking about 2 Hours a disk to convert stuff to MP4, it's a Phenom X2 and I am such a power user ont he Desktop, this is the first time I've run out of oomph.
2) I've run out of space on the server. Always going to happen as it only has 1Tb in there spread across 3 drives, but happened much quicker then expected.

So to remedy this I have ordered........a new (old) CPU. My mobo appears to go up to the Phenom X6, but they are still £££ (over £100 for a 5+ year old CPU), so I found a Phenom X4 955 for £40 on Amazon. Should be here by the end of the week, then the sheer brute force of this desktop will be feared around the land.

Then to go in the spare HDD bay in my server I've ordered
View: https://www.amazon.co.uk/WD-TB-Enterprise-Hard-Drive/dp/B01IY9USY6/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1514914367&sr=8-4&keywords=wd+gold
Slightly more than the WD Reds, but 7200 rpm and the other WD Enterprise drives I've had have been solid.

1TB drive?

 

[Wij]

If you got the dvd why dont you download them from torrent. Save a lot of time if you got ok do speed tbh

Your ISP will send you letters if you do that.

 

[Moriath]

Your ISP will send you letters if you do that.

I never had any letters.

 

[Bodhi]

1TB drive?

Yep, doubling the capacity of the server

Also have never bothered with RAID, just have a local and offsite copy of all my stuff. Anything critical is in a Cloud somewhere, and if I lose anything else there will be a another copy on the network somewhere.