PriorityMotif
@PriorityMotif@lemmy.world
- Comment on Question: To replace or attempt fix 2 days ago:
To start with I would put it back to stock.
- Comment on Whats the best use for 75 dollars? 4 days ago:
This is what I do. I recently bought 3x rx480 graphics cards for $90 total and 3x office PCs for $150 total and sold for $450 total. You just have to watch for deals.
I also made !flipping@lemmy.world for this kind of stuff, but it’s basically dead as lemmy is mostly anti capitalism and sees flipping as dirty.
- Comment on What is the cheapest console to get and collect for that still holds up? 5 days ago:
Nintendo DS lite is cheap and good. You can get them from Japan off of eBay and get colors that are Japan exclusive. Sometimes you can buy them as ‘not working’ and it just needs a battery or just the buttons need to be cleaned. Just don’t buy one that needs a new top screen as they’re hard to replace and cost too much compared to just buying a different one. You can get flash carts for them for cheap and load every game onto an SD card.
- Comment on RAM and SSD prices are still climbing—here’s our best advice for PC builders 1 week ago:
One thing I’ve run into is not performance with old hardware but missing features from the CPU/GPU. Think of tpm 2.0 requirements for Windows 11. There’s other obscure instruction sets that newer games and programs require such as resizeable bar if you want to run a local llm.
- Comment on ICE Contracts Company Making Bounty Hunter AI Agents 1 week ago:
The government already knows where most of these people are. They’re just grifting and terrorizing people.
- Comment on Selling my old printer, looking for feedback 1 week ago:
I bought a used V3 with 3 rolls of filament for $60 USD. Creality sells refirbs on their eBay page. I would go with half of whatever that is.
- Comment on Google's latest reason to give them $14/month: "Watch in faster playback speeds with Premium" 1 week ago:
I usually just skip to the part where he reveals the price of the amazingly cheap sbc, then click off when it’s definitely not cheap.
- Comment on Google's latest reason to give them $14/month: "Watch in faster playback speeds with Premium" 1 week ago:
If you’re watching lectures from someone who talks really slow.
- Comment on Why make 250GB m.2 disks instead of 1TB 1 week ago:
You can make a ventoy drive with multiple isos on it. I have a 120gb sata SSD with USB adapter full of various isos.
- Comment on UK campaigners condemn ‘creepy’ digital billboards that can track viewers’ responses 2 weeks ago:
Can’t wait for them to start pairing digital billboards with license plate cameras so you get personalized ai generated ads with your dead grandma in them on your way to work.
- Comment on Are people buying refurb pcs just to strip out the DDR 4 ram with the current price hikes on new ram? 3 weeks ago:
I wonder if people don’t realize that running ai models requires high amounts of vram compared to system ram. They also might not realize that there is a ram chip shortage which doesn’t necessarily mean ram sticks themselves. FOMO will likely drive up the prices more than anything.
- Comment on Are people buying refurb pcs just to strip out the DDR 4 ram with the current price hikes on new ram? 3 weeks ago:
The used market is always like that with the old top of the line stuff. If you look at old high end cpus the highest spec is always super high in price even though it’s not as good as something newer you could get for a lower price. People just see higher number = better so they go for more cores and higher clock speeds. I’ll bet you couldn’t notice the difference between two sticks of 16gb vs 4 sticks of lower end 8gb ddr4. I’m seeing that the rgb sticks are quite a bit higher in price. I’ve seen that if I build a pc with old components and throw it in a glass case with cheap rgb lights that I get a lot of responses immediately. I have to wait a lot longer to sell a plain looking business pc even when it’s higher specs and newer.
- Comment on Are people buying refurb pcs just to strip out the DDR 4 ram with the current price hikes on new ram? 3 weeks ago:
Isn’t new ram ddr5 and ddr4 is old? I bought 3 i5-6500 machines with 16gb of ddr4 for $55/each and slapped in $30 rx480 GPs and been selling them for $150/each.
- Comment on I haven't seen anyone talking about the Anycubic Kobra s1 Max. 350mm3, 350c nozzle, active chamber heating. 3 weeks ago:
Kobra neo, a cheap printer to begin with. The y axis rail is extruded aluminum. Where they drilled the holes in the middle to attach it to the frame it pushed the aluminum out by a few thousands. Adjusting the carriage is either really tight in the middle of the rail or loose on the ends. The bed was also bent when I got it (common issue). I bent it back and added bed adjusters because otherwise the auto need leveling just couldn’t compensate. It broke a y belt (common issue). It still has issues printing. I cannot get it to print petg at all even though the same roll of filament will work fine on another printer. All in all I wish I never bought the thing due to their poor quality control. It still prints PLA good enough so I keep it around because I wouldn’t get anything if I try to sell it.
- Comment on I haven't seen anyone talking about the Anycubic Kobra s1 Max. 350mm3, 350c nozzle, active chamber heating. 3 weeks ago:
After having had an Anycubic printer, I would be extremely hesitant to buy one based on the quality of the one I have.
- Comment on The Xbox 360 came out 20 years ago 4 weeks ago:
At the time it would have been worth it to pick up a lot of games over an expensive pc. I’m not sure I would go out of my way to buy one today since most of the good games are on pc and can play on a pc without a gpu. If you find one for $20 at a garage sale then I would probably get it if you’re into collecting games.
- Comment on The Xbox 360 came out 20 years ago 4 weeks ago:
I’m so glad that he showed some games that aren’t shooters/sports or pc games. I found there’s a combo Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts / Viva Pinata that I decided to pick up. I’ve had a 360 collecting dust that I picked up cheap years ago and never really played it. I’ll probably pick up a few more games for it if I find them for cheap.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to retrogaming@lemmy.world | 55 comments
- Comment on What's a good high wattage soldering iron? 4 weeks ago:
That’s genius
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to askelectronics@discuss.tchncs.de | 7 comments
- Comment on Is self-hosting becoming too gatekept by power users? 1 month ago:
I wouldn’t equate installing proxmox on an old pc to open heart surgery. It’s pretty basic stuff and you can follow guides on how to install services in a container or vm. People are interested in things like pihole, home assistant, arr stacks, nas, and better control over their network. It’s definitely not rocket surgery.
- Comment on Looking to buy a cheap but best first 3d printer. Ender3 V3, CR-10 SE, or something else? 1 month ago:
I picked up a used ender 3 V3 se off of marketplace for $60 and had to repair it. Since then it’s been printing 10x better than my anycubic kobra neo. I think it comes down to slicer profiles in orca slicer. The ender 3 was a wildly popular printer compared to the kobra. Cheap printers cut corners but can still print good. If you’re not mechanically inclined then don’t get a cheap printer.
- Comment on Self hosted secret santa app? 1 month ago:
You could use a math trade software. Instead of putting in items just have everyone select each other’s names. Or you could just do a math trade where everyone enters an item and then everything gets randomly traded somewhat like a white elephant but anonymized.
github.com/chrisokasaki/TradeMaximizer
- Comment on OpenAI signs $38 billion compute deal with Amazon, partnering with cloud leader for first time 1 month ago:
Yesterday there was an article stating that Microsoft has more hardware in inventory than they can actually power on.
- Comment on Reddit’s CEO Debuts As A Billionaire 20 Years After Cofounding The Company 1 month ago:
A billion rubles? The company has been allowing outside actors to manipulate the platform since at least 2016. No way they let them do that for free.
- Comment on I added a filament sensor today. 1 month ago:
I bought it from their official eBay store it’s cheaper there than on Amazon
- Comment on I added a filament sensor today. 1 month ago:
That’s weird, there’s different kinds of sensors, some are just a basic switch and others are optical sensors and then there’s some that are a wheel that sense movement. My guess is that you have an optical sensor.
- Comment on I added a filament sensor today. 1 month ago:
It pauses the print and waits for you to replace the filament so you could use up small rolls. It would also stop if the filament breaks, depending on where it breaks of course.
- Submitted 1 month ago to 3dprinting@lemmy.world | 9 comments
- Comment on Being asked "Have you gotten the tour yet" upon entering a house for the first time is the adult equivelent of the kids asking: "Do you want to see my room?" 2 months ago:
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