Things you recently bought or got

[Veho]

I just get these for wife and knitting group
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They put these around the index finger and cant count quickly each stich of their crotchet knitting

So that's like some sort of knitting GPS? "At the next stitch, purl. Purl the next 20 stitches, then drop two. At the next stitch, knit. Dropped stitch, recalculating. Unravel two, then purl."

 

[impeeza]

So that's like some sort of knitting GPS? "At the next stitch, purl. Purl the next 20 stitches, then drop two. At the next stitch, knit. Dropped stitch, recalculating. Unravel two, then purl."

yeah

 

[Joe88]

Some new figures

 

[subcon959]

Probably won't play it much but couldn't resist for the collection..

 

[AncientBoi]

common cold, ptsd, covid n aids

Now I have 1 for pizza and 1 for tortillas

For duh

For electronics that use these, n toys

Another 1 for personal

And

 

[dragonblood9999]

My figures came yesterday. I also pre-ordered another chainsaw man figure, ordered 2 more gunpla kits and my copy of Disgaea 7 deluxe edition came last night.

 

[anjanimal]

Keeping the momentum

 

[rcpd]

An electrician. I’m good with electronics, not so good with wiring. Being color blind has a lot to do with it, but also that I’m pretty much terrified of voltages above 12 volts.

He was here most of the day yesterday changing out every breaker, the panel, and wiring to all the bedrooms. He will be back today to finish wiring the rest of the house.

Whole home renovations suck.

 

[RAHelllord]

I bought a few more minidiscs so I can put most of my CDs onto those to have them available portably.

And then I also got some new music to listen to in general.

Left one is an album for MS DOS. Comes with dosbox for modern systems but sadly audio stutters in there so playback is restricted to the raw wav files for now.

 

[shaunj66]

Should go nicely with my new PC parts coming tomorrow finally moving on from my 2015 build.

Got it used for a pretty good price. Ran furmark for an hour with no hiccups

 

[dragonblood9999]

Bought a azza 550w 80+ Bronze psu for my old pc. I also ordered a used AMD Athlon x4 860k. It's a. Fm2+ cpu that should work with my pc motherboard. If it doesn't, oh well, it was only $10.

Already installed the psu, and it seems to work great, definitely a lot better than the garbage 300w, no name 10 year old psu that was in the pc.

 

[Armadillo]

Got it used for a pretty good price. Ran furmark for an hour with no hiccups

New prices are such a joke still.

Gone down a little, but "not such a rip off as during covid" is not a high bar to clear. My 1070ti will have to live forever at this rate.

 

[RAHelllord]

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Should go nicely with my new PC parts coming tomorrow finally moving on from my 2015 build.

Got it used for a pretty good price. Ran furmark for an hour with no hiccups

Nice, I have a 3070 and it's a beast still. Considering it was used definitely take it apart and replace the thermal paste. Unless the seller specifically mentioned he's done that recently it's most likely going to be required and make it noticeably quieter. Any non-conductive thermal paste will do, too. You could also replace the thermal pads with something better while in there, but those usually last 5-10 years without degrading so they're nowhere near their own expiration date.

 

[SylverReZ]

I bought a few more minidiscs so I can put most of my CDs onto those to have them available portably.
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And then I also got some new music to listen to in general.
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Left one is an album for MS DOS. Comes with dosbox for modern systems but sadly audio stutters in there so playback is restricted to the raw wav files for now.

Very nice.

 

[RAHelllord]

Got more things, this time a box full of traditional east German Christmas treats:

Those are, from left to right, a 2lb Whiskey Stollen, a .5lb Bratapfel Stollen (baked cinnamon appel), a 1.5lb balls-to-wall Dresdner Stollen, and without a box a Bratapfel Striezel.

What's a Stollen? It's a traditional German fruit cake that started it's existence as a winter ration, baked during the close of the harvest season and using things like crushed almonds and raisins, they are such sugar dense fruit cakes that they stay fresh for the entire winter season. So they make excellent treats for dark age peasants during the long winter months, and they also double as a good emergency rations due to having ridiculous amounts of calories. These days they're just nice treats but still make for decent rations for winter hikes or similar.
The right most one is the most traditional of them, made with only premium ingredients because I want to see if it's actually worth spending more or if the cheaper ones are more bang for the buck. The whiskey and Bratapfel ones I got because I never had those flavors in Stollen before, and the Kentucky whiskey in particular sounds interesting. The Striezel is not quite a Stollen but very close, seems like the biggest difference to Stollen is that it's more like Brioche dough, and only lasts a couple weeks instead of 6 months.

Why did I get them before Halloween? Because they were sold out when I tried to get them last year during December. So this year I ordered them a little early so they wouldn't be all gone again.

 

[dragonblood9999]

Bought 2 boxes of ruffles chips for the "kids" for "Halloween". Each box has 40 small bags of chips.

 

[shaunj66]

To go with my 3070 from earlier. Time to build!

 

[Joe88]

Bought 2 boxes of ruffles chips for the "kids" for "Halloween". Each box has 40 small bags of chips.

Thats actually not a bad idea, bought 2x 40pk of the lays ones for $15 each, easier handing out a single bag than a bunch of small candy

 

[dragonblood9999]

Thats actually not a bad idea, bought 2x 40pk of the lays ones for $15 each, easier handing out a single bag than a bunch of small candy

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Yeah its definitely easier, 1 bag 1 kid.

 

[impeeza]

Thats actually not a bad idea, bought 2x 40pk of the lays ones for $15 each, easier handing out a single bag than a bunch of small candy

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Yeah its definitely easier, 1 bag 1 kid.

For you on USA that are small size bags but here these (1 oz) are the "normal" size bags, the normal ones for you are called "party size" here