Things you recently bought or got

[Sethtimus Prime]

Lots of Pi houses!

Where did you get the GPi case?

 

[shaunj66]

Where did you get the GPi case?

From Retroflag themselves for review purposes!

 

[Sethtimus Prime]

From Retroflag themselves for review purposes!

That's a pretty good haul. I should review things...

 

[Stwert]

Not got it yet, but after watching the WWDC Keynote, I told the wife my next Mac Pro would probably cost over 30 grand.

She said if I spent that on a computer we’d be getting a divorce.....

...... Anybody know when the pre-orders start?

 

[Skelletonike]

Just nabbed Gundam Breaker 3 Break Edition for the Vita since it was dirt cheap on a Play Asia sale.

 

[dragonblood9999]

Won a ebay auction for a brown Japanese DSI LL for $10 shipped. From what the listing said, it works but its scuffed on the bottom and there's stickers on it. Will be taking it apart to clean any maybe paint, not sure yet

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[Joe88]

Replacement ear pads/cups for my pair of rf sony headphones, old ones dry rotted since they were 15 years old

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

Snagged an auction last night for a Toshiba Portege Z30-A for only $60. Has some i5 4xxx CPU, either 4GB or 8GB of RAM, and if my research is right either a 128GB or a 256GB mSATA SSD. Not too bad, for the specs of it. Only thing wrong with it is the SSD has a password on it, but I should be able to clear that pretty easily. If not, at worst I'll just have to finally pull apart my busted Surface Pro 2 and steal the one that's in there.

Will probably upgrade it to 8GB of RAM if need be and use it as my work laptop over the Asus U31SD I have now, which will be a nice improvement (only has an i3 2130m and a GT 520M, which even an HD 4400 beats out)

Well, got this on Tuesday and it's been kind of a shit experience so far lol. Specs of the thing weren't bad, had an i5 4300U, 8GB of RAM, and a 128GB mSATA SSD, which for $60 is a great deal. But it's got problems

First, the BIOS had a Supervisor password on it. Since it's Toshiba, who's apparently really good at securing their hardware, it's impossible to clear this BIOS password for the most part, cuz it's stored on the EEPROM with the BIOS and then on another chip as well (and there's no CMOS to clear, that I can see on the mobo anyways). It could probably be cleared by flashing a clean BIOS dump to the EEPROM, but I have neither the tools nor the BIOS dump to even flash it so that's dead.

Unfortunately, because of these things, I couldn't boot from the SSD (since the HDD/SSD password), and I couldn't boot directly via USB as the boot menu was disabled. So I pulled the 64GB mSATA SSD from my dead Surface Pro 2, plugged that in...and found that Legacy boot was enabled, so no UEFI, and USB booting was last in the boot priority, apparently, with Network boot enabled and in a higher priority. So it'd just keep resetting the network boot and wouldn't boot from USB at all when an SSD was plugged in. So I setup Serva, and was finally able to successfully install Windows 10 via network install, slapped another 4GB stick of DDR3 in it to bring it up to 12GB, and everything was all fine and peachy. It was pretty quick, thanks to the SSD, had excellent cooling despite it's teeny cooler (stayed a frosty 66C when running Cinebench, with 4 threads running at 2.6GHz stable), and was pretty quiet...

Until about 12 hours later, when it shat itself and now refuses to post

So, tl;dr, I ordered a replacement motherboard for this laptop series, which is identical hardware except for the CPU which is an i7 4600U, and (assuming the listing was correct) has no BIOS password.

 

[dragonblood9999]

Ordered a midnight blue PS4 controller on Amazon it was on sale because PlayStation days of play sale.

Not that I needed it. I usually really take care of my controllers. In 25 plus years of playing video games I think I've only had two controllers that are broken. One of them was a Microsoft Sidewinder controller Cable became Frayed right where it enters the controller. The second one I believe was a used PS2 controller.


So now with this one I'll have 5 PS4 controllers. I have an original black one, original camo( AKA The Cow controller according to my nephew's), one of the new black controllers, a sexy silver one and now the midnight blue.


I did have a wave blue controller, I traded it in with my PS4 when I was upgrading to a pro. The reason why I trade the blue one in was because the original black one has been modified


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[Shadow#1]

Ordered a midnight blue PS4 controller on Amazon it was on sale because PlayStation days of play sale.

Not that I needed it. I usually really take care of my controllers. In 20 plus years of playing video games I think I've only had two controllers that are broken. One of them was a Microsoft Sidewinder controller Cable became Frayed right where it enters the controller. The second one I believe was a used PS2 controller.


So now with this one I'll have 5 PS4 controllers. I have an original black one, original camo( AKA The Cow controller according to my nephew's), one of the new black controllers, a sexy silver one and now the midnight blue.


I did have a wave blue controller, I traded it in with my PS4 when I was upgrading to a pro. The reason why I trade the blue one in was because the original black one has been modified


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Pics?

 

[dragonblood9999]

Pics?

Dont have it yet. Will have it on Saturday.

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[DinohScene]

As a follow up on me S10+!
I obtained something new today : D

 

[Deleted User]

I'm gonna get a Wii U soonTM. Idk which set it'll be, i know that i will get two HDs with 500gb and a sdcard of 16/64GB.

 

[Joe88]

And some replacement batteries for the headset

 

[Shadow#1]

Replacement ear pads/cups for my pair of rf sony headphones, old ones dry rotted since they were 15 years old

Exact model of headsets these r?

 

[Joe88]

Exact model of headsets these r?

MDR-RF970RK

 

[150ccToEasy]

i collect nerf guns lol pretty sweet sweet

 

[chrisman02]

i collect nerf guns lol pretty sweet sweet

I collect real guns. Debating picking up a 10/22 takedown this weekend, and maybe get a "cheap" silencer (Silencer can be $100, but the tax stamp is always $200. Grr.) so I can plink in the woods without bothering the neighbors down the road - and take care of these darn chipmunks and squirrels that keep digging holes along the foundation, making water run in easier.

 

[slaphappygamer]

The dark cookies, I left them on the top rack a bit longer than needed. Pretty dry. Nothing a bit of milk can’t fix.

 

[shaunj66]

I bought a little companion for Sonic!