Literally on fire right now. 🔥

Thanks, OP.

I’m just about crying, but it’s good to feel - shows how much they matter.

Some of yall just need to stop with your “cable maintenence” and “airflow” or you’re gonna give the rest of us a complex. 😁

A number of these setups are tight. I’ll post my janky ass “comm closet” when I get home later.

Edit: (1) Fanless MiniPC running pfsense (2.5gbe); (2) 8 port dumb switch; (3) modem; (4) 8 bay NAS running OMV; (5) random USB HDD.

HD audio pass through ended up being reason I went with the shield pro. But it’s not “cheap” at ~$200 per unit. I still think that’s cheaper than a dedicated mini PC or something though (was really the only other option I saw for TrueHD).

Nvidia shields with an alternate home screen have been a good solution for me? TV isn’t connected to the network directly, just to the shield.

I’ve got RetroArch, Plex, Spotify on each of them - that sort of stuff.

If this is OC then OP is amazing. It’s a goddamn salt mine in here. ❤️

People are generally ignorant and stupid.

Neat, huh?

Jesus Fucking Christ, can they please just let Jurassic Park die?

I loved the original but this new shit… No gracias.

Yeah that seems pretty on point (espresso maker).

Is it really a midlife crisis when you’re just buying the toys you ways wanted because you can finally afford it?

I built a ridiculous computer with RGB everything a few months back… It’s dumb as hell but I always wanted one and at this point why not?

Feels aren’t reals.

Fuck those people - I hope they die “sleep soundly forever” first. 👍

But of course they’ll probably shit out a dozen children the rest of us have to support instead.

Yay humanity.

This lady is a national treasure. My kids get free books each month because of her charity.

Fuck that shit.

I simply became too erect at the thought of you eventually circling back to this thread and had to stop.

Still. So. Hard.

Edit: Omg he won’t stop. Keep going!

Fuck everything about Microsoft products. The different licenses are a nightmare, the programs are shit, and “FUCK YOU FOR TRYING TO INSTALL A PROGRAM OR USE LOCAL STORAGE” seems to be the default.

Also I don’t trust them not to be spying on users. But sure, every government job I’ve had we used the products.

Dianne Mott Davidson’s books.

Don’t get me wrong, I loved them as a kid, and it was a nice way to transition to “adult” books but not really my speed anymore and I imagine if I went back I’d think they were “bad.”

Netflix decides to fill my recommendations with a bunch of boob service thumbnails.

I agree with this so hard. There are anime shows I’d love to watch with my wife but the ridiculous amount of “fan service” even those seem to have makes it a nonstarter.

I specifically remember liking Rainbow Six around the same time and I liked his books until he started tag teaming with other authors which was probably around 2000?

Based on that I imagine his books from 1986-2000 are “similar” enough.

But it usually doesn’t get over 70C in game, so I’m not going to mess with it.

So not an Intel build then?

I’m just salty as fuck that my last build randomly temp spikes for no goddamn reason that I can discern (and I just so happen to have one of the newer chips folks are complaining about).

I recall liking it, but I read it in like the 5th grade so my standards were low (before that I’d been reading my mom’s terrible ‘caterer turned detective’ novels).

I enjoyed Clancy for a long time after that but at this point I aim more towards militaristic speculative fiction.