A while back, I bought an LG OLED TV — no complaints at all. It’s big, it lazes the retinas, it looks nice even in the daylight. I have a Denon AVR home theatre receiver. For a long time, I had a Linux PC on an HDMI passthrough to the TV. It recently stopped working … Read more
Man, I’m bad at this. Last time in the PC-upgrading adventures, I apparently put an RTX 3090 in my main box, along with a Ryzen 9 5950X. I put 128GB of RAM in it, because why not? The final round of updates saw the addition of another 4TB SSD, mostly because the other 4TB HDD … Read more
Seriously though, your local Microcenter is worth the extra ‘cost’ in tax or whatever — it’s nice to be able to return stuff. That’s a convenience worth paying for. [Note that their prices are pretty consistently competitive with NewEgg these days anyway.] Anyway, it’s time for a new(er) setup. I wanted to try one of … Read more
It’s finally done! I FINALLY got rid of all of that leftover stuff from the old shop days, including the corpse of that monstrous HP 2500CP large-format dinosaur (it was fun while it lasted). I ‘upgraded’ the computer desk and put the displays on a VESA mount / arm setup to get them off the … Read more
Details and hardware of the re-re-constituted OMV Plex-o-tronic box on my network. Case: Fractal Design Node 804 Cube Case Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 CPU: AMD FX-6300 RAM: Crucial Ballistix Sport 16GB DDR3-1600 (PC3-12800) CL9 PSU: Corsair 500W CXMOD 80+BRZ ATX PSU Boot Drive: 60 GB OCZ Agility 3 (recycled from an old project) Data Drive: 2TB Seagate Barracuda … Read more
My on-and-off-again photography hobby might see more ‘on’ than ‘off’ this next year… It was long past time to replace the ol’ D70, and I found a spectacular deal on a refurbished D7100 before the holidays. I couldn’t not pull the shutter. I got a nice gift from Santa, too — a Sigma 10-20mm wide-angle … Read more
It’s been probably a month or so since I undertook this whole project to make my main PC rig quieter. The previous posts are QQ1, QQ2, and QQ3. It was pretty much a success — more than I had expected. The rig isn’t ‘silent,’ but that was not the goal. The goal was ‘quiet’ and … Read more
Eldritch Horror (bgg) seems to be the game-du-jour of my gaming crew as of late (even if we can’t finish a playthrough in one evening). EH has lots of fiddly counter bits, which, as of now, I’ve stored in ziplock bags of varying size. There are some better / nicer solutions. Well, it appears that my craft-fu … Read more