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Noob has caught with TrK

he is one little sneaky guy

Yup. I am gonna leave you to it. Gonna sleep in like 5 minutes. Typing with one eye open right now

Spare us all!

A minute and I will hit the sack.

We will miss you while you are gone! Rest assured we'll tag you on any deals if they popup

Thanksa lot, dude. I guess there haven't been any GAs or deals since the first ones.

Yeah i havent seen any yet. I am hopng for a christmas day deal or something you never know when they may show up so we should always be ready for anything

Dustin might just wake up to 200 pages. Can't imagine the surprises that might bring.

Yeah hes going to have a rough time trying to find the double band width requests this time around. Hes gotta have some kind of system put together to find it. I suppose people can always send a direct message too after the 72 hours

Yah, there are always Firefox addons and stuff like that he could sue to filter them out. But, I have a feeling he does it manually.

thats a good point. Is there any that specifically work with this forum software?

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Cece is like, Dad why did you buy such an expensive laptop?

Babe its to gift our beloved xpress.

You get the Nitro, you ain't touching my Strix.

Next year maybe, we will have a Strix in the pool.

If business is good, maybe I'll upgrade and offer up my used one next year in some kinda of raffle. Would be easier to get a used model through customs I imagine!

What if I shipped it all torn apart, and the winner had to assemble it?

Tearing apart laptop? worst nightmare.

It's actually fairly easy to reassemble in most cases, unless you don't desolder anything.

I am bad at hardware soldered hardware.

Me as well. I try to stay away as much as possible, but recently I have taken an interest to it

You soldered anything recently?

Yup, a router and my Android box.

Router? what did you solder in that?

UART. It helps you get shell access to any device that supports it.

Hells yeah. What router /device is that? I UARTed mine to install OpenWrt on it.

I just bought an openWrt router, seemed like an easy route but not as fun

I do a lot of router mods, let me know if you ever need assistance.

Help me make my router a drone....... 😂😂😂

ha that would be nice. Chain drones together and setup wifi anywhere by using routers as switches

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I know it's not physical tech, but I once built a fully functional clock in Minecraft.

How did you do that?

Complex Engineering

Well, have never played Minecraft before. But, the functioning of the clock, did you code it in Java?

Oh, friend, no this is built with items in the vanilla/unmodded version of the game. With redstone you can make some crazy circuits, most people shy away from it though.

I haven't yet played Minecraft, but, doesn't seem easy to make a functional clock. Kudos.

Thank you! It was quite the undertaking, but I had a lot of fun doing it. If I still have the save file I'll get a screen recording from my Xbox.

Sure, do share it if you have it.

Found it, and it does function! I forgot I went back and switched from a complex solid state circuit to what is basically the Minecraft equivalent of, hm how do I explain, like a cylinder that is like an HDD but also like a punch card? You'll see in the video.

Sure, waiting for it.

Posting it again so you don't have to dig to find it.

And another example I did.

very thoughtful for you. Had to take some time to hunt that down in the thread im sure

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Cece is like, Dad why did you buy such an expensive laptop?

Babe its to gift our beloved xpress.

You get the Nitro, you ain't touching my Strix.

Next year maybe, we will have a Strix in the pool.

If business is good, maybe I'll upgrade and offer up my used one next year in some kinda of raffle. Would be easier to get a used model through customs I imagine!

What if I shipped it all torn apart, and the winner had to assemble it?

Tearing apart laptop? worst nightmare.

It's actually fairly easy to reassemble in most cases, unless you don't desolder anything.

As long as there is no soldering, that would make it way easier

I'll never buy something with soldered ram

MacBook? Mac mini? 😂😂😂

Nope. Thats why I prefer a PC. Most developers I've seen like the MacBook pro though. I do like the looks of it. But non upgradability is meh for me.

It's upgradable if you get the right tools, right replacement chips and a sure fire way to temper with OS core....

I think someone who has to work to earn, and spending on MacBook to work, will not have that much time to put that effort.

That's why we see more macs in garbage dump.....

Thats how Apple earns money.. selling new, dumping old.

Capitalism at it's peak....

and look how well its been working for them! they are true geniuses

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Well I beg to differ.... If spending a little can make them function better I jumps the gun....

Well, if they are like some old speakers, or some engines like that, I agree.

But not for these pcs. Latest cheap entry level one perform much better than old beasts. I don't think its worth the price, and the risk of more component failures. IMO

😂😂😂 Well it's works if it works

It works.. but is it worth the price is my question.

Depends on the pov...

I don't know. But repairing an old lappy is always risk, we don't know whats next.. I mean if its cheap to repair ok, but if the amount is somewhat considerable, adding more and investing in new one works better for me.

I follow the same even for mobiles.

yeah laptops and phone are much harder to repair than a simple PC

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Okay everyone. I am gonna get some sleep now. See you guys tomorrow.

Goodnight noob! We will miss you in your absence. Hurry back!

Woke up early again. My sleep schedule is all messed up.

Never a bad thing, eariler start gives you more time to do what you need to do

It does, but, I am not exactly a morning person.

I get it, I have never been able to adjust to mornings either. One day I'll get it figured out but that has always been the hardest part of adulting. Im not sure how others make it seem so easy. Maybe they are just better at hiding it

I guess, most people working on computers are night owls than sun loving people.

true, i fall into that cateogry as well

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TrK is so hyped now, he won't be leaving the first spot for anyone

Anyone hoping for the laptop needs to grab it from him, but, he's extremely competitive and that's understandable.

I'm here.

Go for it then..

Let's go go for it don't give up

Anybody who gave up- too soon. Take xpress' example. Learn from him.

Am i that much behind?

No, pardon me if I gave that impression. I was just talking about your spirit. Nothing can stop you from reaching that laptop, despite your busy schedule.

He's a professional at this, so he knows slow and steady wins the race.

I am like retired professional competing with young guys.. 🤣

Retiree making a re-entry. Cue music.

🤣🤣

Feeling like Dhoni?

Definitely not. 🤣

Maybe some CSK music will get you there.

Not a fan of IPL though. Basically stopped watching cricket after retirement of Dada. Fan of him since school.

Me too. Never been a fan of cricket my whole life (Yes, I was an anomaly among friends). But, still watched it for Sachin, Ganguly (Dada), Sehwag, Dravid, etc. and the gang. Since their retirement, I believe it has degraded.

I was a big fan of cricket as kid though. Used to play a lot. I had posters of Ganguly in my room. Everyday morning I woke up by looking at his poster.

And a pocket calender in my pocket with his pic.. those sweet memories..

Did you ever think about going pro?

Pro in what? playing cricket?

yeah! go pro in cricket!

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xpress7 is cataching up to TrK let's see what happens

Rooting for xrpress7 here! Lets keep this action exciting!

Thank you for the support.

let's goo xpress more power to you, just don't snatch my laptop

Express would look good with a shiney new laptop at their side

You are inspiring...

sed, ben thinks the laptop won't look good at my side

Because you already looks good. Better than laptop.

Are you turning down the laptop?

Nope. I am saying it looks good with me.

Let's get it

Well only one of you can get it!

The competition is only getting tougher for the top spot.

yeah you guys got quite the battle going on there. Im just trying to figure out how to land safely in my desired spot during your battle

Might have missed your reply. Did you also enter the RackNerd December GA I linked? A 75 inch TV to be won there as well.

I did! looks like the reply may have been missed. If I cant get it here, hopeful that i might be able to pick it up there. Who knows... if luck is on my side maybe i'll get 2 tvs! I do have more than 1 room in the house after all!

Awesome. TCL TVs have gotten better over time. Just make sure that you do research before you start using them though. Some of them have bad EMMCs. The solution is to never use the native Android/OS on them and instead use something like a Fire Stick.

I'll have to keep an eye out for a fire stick deal then to pair with my new telly

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@TrK has hit 1K comments. Congrats!!

Congrats @TrK! truely an achievement to be proud of!

Just another walk in the park for him.

You and him both! you guys are on fire! (but not literally, that would be bad)

LOL! Hells yeah. We motivate and inspire each other.

noob you are my #1 inspiration, dont know how you fly so high

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TrK is so hyped now, he won't be leaving the first spot for anyone

Anyone hoping for the laptop needs to grab it from him, but, he's extremely competitive and that's understandable.

I'm here.

Go for it then..

Let's go go for it don't give up

Anybody who gave up- too soon. Take xpress' example. Learn from him.

Am i that much behind?

No, pardon me if I gave that impression. I was just talking about your spirit. Nothing can stop you from reaching that laptop, despite your busy schedule.

He's a professional at this, so he knows slow and steady wins the race.

Absolutely. Consistency is key if you want the first prize.

Master. 🙇‍♂️

No consistency in real life though.

You'll get there.. we mature and tend to settle as we age.. or just get married.

Not ready to take that magic potion as an experiment yet.

You seeing anybody?

Nah, figuring out life for myself first.

All the best.. just go slowly. Listen to your brain, not heart.

Yah, another lesson I wish I had learned as a teenager itself.

We all same as teenagers. Always think with heart... the movies mislead us a lot.

The movies just show us what we want to believe as teeneagers. Too blind to the reality of the world

Exactly.. and teenagers feel like there is something worng with the real life

just a step until they get a deeper understanding in this thing we call life. Only experience can teach them

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Oh man, the further i go.. looks like i missed more than i thought! You guys had a party without me! Sad! Unlucky draw! There will be more!

More to come let's stick around 😁😁

yeah , i feel like i was almost caught up finally then you guys just ran on ahead again without me!

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Yah, I believe I had a similar setup. Only that they decided to get me Win 98 with it, not even XP.

Why 98? I got it with XP. I used to format the system everymonth and reinstall the OS, to increase the PERFORMANCE.. 🤣🤣

windows 98 was the best so i support that choice! no hating

Yup 98 was most succesful iirc. XP later made windows the most stable OS at that time. and also the looks were modern for that time.

what would you say about vista?

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Thought i would make my way to spot number 4 but it looks like its not going to happen before i check out

You have an entire month for that 😉

Thats true but a big commitment to make. Also I realized I dont need 4 but i need spot 3 for the telly! Oops

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oh wait let me share some domains i hold, securesitelabel, evy9, bizli, dmcaignoredvps, dealsfor.shop, ketli, etc a new addition is ximg

How much do you end up spending annually just on renewals?

Didnt ask me, but im at ~$50!

How many domains is that? And, do you earn enough from these domains to keep those domains and the hosting involved alive?

Who?

I think he is replying to all the old msgs.

Lol why, it just causes more confusion.

Exactly. It felt like two timelines happening at same time. .🤣🤣

And it causes more confusion...

I was confused actually, took me few minutes to realize.

Lol and it took me your comment to realise this....

Get with the times Trk! We got this figured out now

Dude so busy commenting, doesn't even have time to check his progress.

He is just giving all of it

Yup, he's practically living on the thread.

Have we been able to convince ourselves at this point that he is NOT an AI? I dont mean to bring that topic back if we have moved on though! Im jealous he can function so well with so little sleep

Oh, he's just had a lot of practice.

true i am finding that now!

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things really seem to die down here when noob is away eh? Why's it gotta be like that!

He is sleeping....

Yeah, we gotta find a way to keep the party going in his absence!

I am here though......

True that, 2 is a party and 3 is a crowd. Looks like Blazin is here to hang out too!

I will be going for sleep in a half an hour

well in that case, we better get this party going. We aint got much more time left!

Sure we can hype all we want before drop-dead for the day

Sounds good to me! BTW before I drop dead as well?

low on caffeine and i guess sleepy

The struggle is too real lol

maybe jumping into a big ice bath will do something!

i will catch cold quickly if i were to do that right now

Yah, sure shot way to get your body temperature high.

Kicks the body into over drive to stay warm really i guess?

No, I meant he was gonna catch a fever. Pardon me, should have made it clear.

Ah that makes more sense. Im sure theres also some sort of shock too in which your body would rapidly try to heat but i think the cold would ultimately start pulling head in that battle for equilibirum

Yah, body does try to do the opposite in order to maintain equilibrium. But, most times, it's not recommended.

In that case, i wont get it a try later today

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@TrK has hit 1K comments. Congrats!!

Congrats @TrK! truely an achievement to be proud of!

Just another walk in the park for him.

He's gonna be at 1st he said it, he'll do it

I have no doubts.

He deserves the laptop for his hardwork

SO does anyone who's ready to put the work in. As I say, may the best man win.

I'll say it again over and over. I am ok without the laptop! I would like that tv You guys and your battle for the top is making it tough! one day i'll make it though. I must not give up my hopes and dreams for they are all i have to keep me going

That's the RackNerd spirit of never giving it up. Believe me, you could get the TV. We are just 2+ days into the competition.

2 days out of many many more! I dont know if i could keep up with yall. All the Lappy folks keep on trying to keep me down

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I'm gonna take a break as these comments are flying in so fast it's legitimately overstimulating.

Take a break bro. I remember you haven't slept last night because of personal thing.

Likely why I am easily overstimmed, on duty tonight too.

Tonight too? how do you manage?

Like I do...... Who needs sleep anyways....

Don't want to talk about it, but he have health issues, and immune deseases get worse without sleep. Thats why I'm worried.

Well it's manageable if it's occasionally..... But continuously doing that is not good.....

May be. He doesn't like to talk about it in the festive mood anyway. So its conversation for another time.

Let's move forward, so how's been things at home? Especially with the daughter of Mr experience....

She scolded me yesterday for spending lots of time on LET and neglecting work.

Tell me something new 😁😁😁

Well scolding me is routine , so no surprise there.

You have already talked about her scolding you......

It happens daily.. so..

Lol, noob should get married soon so you guys can share these sentiments together....

and so that we may all take a table at the wedding! would be a good time!

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@TrK has hit 1K comments. Congrats!!

Congrats @TrK! truely an achievement to be proud of!

Just another walk in the park for him.

He's gonna be at 1st he said it, he'll do it

I have no doubts.

He deserves the laptop for his hardwork

SO does anyone who's ready to put the work in. As I say, may the best man win.

I'll say it again over and over. I am ok without the laptop! I would like that tv You guys and your battle for the top is making it tough! one day i'll make it though. I must not give up my hopes and dreams for they are all i have to keep me going

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TrK is so hyped now, he won't be leaving the first spot for anyone

Anyone hoping for the laptop needs to grab it from him, but, he's extremely competitive and that's understandable.

Yeah TrK is approaching this one with an all hands on deck approach. Clearly has his game face on and it shows. Truely a force to be reckoned with. Excited to see how this one endsup

Pretty sure either TrK or xpress will go home with the laptop.

Im rooting for them! You too noob! dont worry!

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I know it's not physical tech, but I once built a fully functional clock in Minecraft.

How did you do that?

Complex Engineering

Well, have never played Minecraft before. But, the functioning of the clock, did you code it in Java?

Oh, friend, no this is built with items in the vanilla/unmodded version of the game. With redstone you can make some crazy circuits, most people shy away from it though.

I haven't yet played Minecraft, but, doesn't seem easy to make a functional clock. Kudos.

Thank you! It was quite the undertaking, but I had a lot of fun doing it. If I still have the save file I'll get a screen recording from my Xbox.

Sure, do share it if you have it.

Found it, and it does function! I forgot I went back and switched from a complex solid state circuit to what is basically the Minecraft equivalent of, hm how do I explain, like a cylinder that is like an HDD but also like a punch card? You'll see in the video.

Sure, waiting for it.

Posting it again so you don't have to dig to find it.

And another example I did.

very thoughtful for you. Had to take some time to hunt that down in the thread im sure

I just re-wrote a new comment with my original image links, not a big deal.

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WE BATTLE AT DAWN!

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I don't play Fortnite 😔

You do now.

Dude, got any more interesting pictures to share?

Was just thinking it might be time for that! I'll see what I have to share tonight!

Sure, please tag me if you can.

Here's a good one I actually still have! My old Thinkpad 760E! Runs like new!

Is the IBM logoed rectangle a disk drive?

Yeah what is this thing? Zip or CD? Maybe its floppy of some sort? Judging the hardware i would lean towards it being a floppy drive

Iirc, floppy drive or CD drive.

ah yeah looks like he came back and mentioned it. Also a hot swapping bay

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oh wait let me share some domains i hold, securesitelabel, evy9, bizli, dmcaignoredvps, dealsfor.shop, ketli, etc a new addition is ximg

How much do you end up spending annually just on renewals?

Didnt ask me, but im at ~$50!

How many domains is that? And, do you earn enough from these domains to keep those domains and the hosting involved alive?

Who?

I think he is replying to all the old msgs.

Lol why, it just causes more confusion.

Exactly. It felt like two timelines happening at same time. .🤣🤣

And it causes more confusion...

I was confused actually, took me few minutes to realize.

Lol and it took me your comment to realise this....

Get with the times Trk! We got this figured out now

Dude so busy commenting, doesn't even have time to check his progress.

He is just giving all of it

Yup, he's practically living on the thread.

Have we been able to convince ourselves at this point that he is NOT an AI? I dont mean to bring that topic back if we have moved on though! Im jealous he can function so well with so little sleep

Oh, he's just had a lot of practice.

😂😂 Practice makes it perfect 😉

One day I hope to put in the practice so i can be like you. Get some time back in my day

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People are going to be on fire for the hype

They are. The whole thread's on fire.

Everything is on fire when racknerd does a giveaway

Yup, waiting for one. Let's hope there are Christmas specials.

Its not too late! Just a few hours left on christmas so we may see something awesome drop to close out the day. We can dream eh?

Yup, it's the RackNerd thread. Anything can happen at any time.

true and with a month to go lots of time for that anything

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You guys are going fast

Too much caffeine for everyone

i think thats what keeps the fingers so nimble for most everyone else

Tea does that to mee. Stilmulates my brain and body.

Nicotine and caffeine both are addictive by nature 😅😅

Nicotine I don't want to addict though

Irony you already are ......

Talking about trace levels?

I mean tea is addictive .........

I think i'm more accoiciated tea with home than the caffine in it. I dirnk it twice at home. But I don't drink tea at all, if I'm out of town.

things are always better at home, gives you the psychological cozy feeling too

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WE BATTLE AT DAWN!

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@xpress7

I don't play Fortnite 😔

You do now.

Dude, got any more interesting pictures to share?

Was just thinking it might be time for that! I'll see what I have to share tonight!

Sure, please tag me if you can.

Here's a good one I actually still have! My old Thinkpad 760E! Runs like new!

Is the IBM logoed rectangle a disk drive?

Yes! It has a hot swappable bay for either a floppy or CD-ROM drive, I think you can add another HDD too but I don't have the bay for it. It's still running on its original 2GB IBM HDD!

Throwback to times when IBM/ThinkPad made laptops that could withstand the end of worlds.

YEah nothing beats the durabliltiy of those old beasts. Now when I look at my laptop wrong i feel like it wants to implode on me or something.

LOL! Yah. ThinkPads were tanks back in the day. Even now, though better built than many others, still alck the durability they had a few decades ago.

yeah people still talk about them being durable but its nothing like the olden days.

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A computer store near me has this wall of motherboards, so cool.

Do I also see a few ancient GPUs towards the bottom right?

Good eye! I think kyou do! This stuff deserves to be in a tech museum! Maybe we can open it in my house

Yup, I recommended Blazin to start a virtual museum or something.

Whenever it opens i'll be on a flight out there to go take a look. I could look at that stuff all day

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You guys are going fast

Too much caffeine for everyone

i think thats what keeps the fingers so nimble for most everyone else

Tea does that to mee. Stilmulates my brain and body.

Nicotine and caffeine both are addictive by nature 😅😅

Nicotine I don't want to addict though

Irony you already are ......

Talking about trace levels?

I mean tea is addictive .........

I think i'm more accoiciated tea with home than the caffine in it. I dirnk it twice at home. But I don't drink tea at all, if I'm out of town.

What do you drink then? Beer?

I think he mentioned hes a bit more of a tea or bust kind of guy

Beniskickbutt

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@xpress7 said: You back in the IT business?

blazinhost coming in summer...........

Blazinservers sounds better, or even blazinspeed

Help me come up with a name!

My username is from way back, seems kinda silly now but hey I was a teenager, and now I just keep it for consistency.

Do you want "host" in the name?

I'm not even sure yet, haven't gotten anywhere near that point but I suppose having a name ahead of time would be good.

How do you plan to sell shared hosting amidst such low prices?

May be friends and local community?

That's the best approach to begin reseller business.

If anyone can make resller happen its gotta be Blazin

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A computer store near me has this wall of motherboards, so cool.

And just look at all these Linksys WRT series routers!

Probably acquired them when someone ran outta business.

Ah thats a good point. I've seen some flash sales of "junk" that i presume comes from similar scenarios. If they are in good working order.. that could have been quite a good deal if they were able to quickly flip them when the tech was still good

Unfortunately, in most cases, you are not allowed to check their working condition. So, it's luck-based I guess.

yeah thats the tough part. Primary reason i dont buy. Wanted to buy old servers this way too

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xpress7 is cataching up to TrK let's see what happens

You and I are closer to him in the rankings.

I will catch up, after you all sleep.

I'm not sleeping not for a few days

LOL! I dunno whether to encourage you or tell you about the bad effects of losing sleep.

Let him learn on his own....

Right. Experience is the best teacher.

Yes.. He is a great teacher.. He taught me so many life lesssons.

more than you better half?

She is his daughter.

you know what i am laughing like crazy on this one

🤣🤣

Oh man, I missed this gem. I am gonna screenshot this for later !

Wait im lost, who is whos daughter!? Whaat

He was teasing his wife saying, experience is the teacher and his wife is experience's daughter personified.

Now I understand. Thanks

Yah, being a married man makes him qualified to throw around jokes related to marriage and wives.

As long as my wife doesn't see them.

You pray for that.

Shutting down the laptop works.

Temporarily, might I add. Pretty sure, it's tough for you to stay away from the laptop this RackNerd season.

True. Should open laptop to win laptop.

If you need it you have to get it

More like, grip it out of TrK's hands at this point.

I dont think that is going to happen for anyone any time soon! TrK has got a grip on this thing and has it figured out. Its going to be tough to take it from his hands after he worked so hard for it

Yah, need someone crazier than TrK. I guess, xpress7 is crazy for that laptop as well.

one of them will win out for the top i think

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A computer store near me has this wall of motherboards, so cool.

And just look at all these Linksys WRT series routers!

Probably acquired them when someone ran outta business.

They've been around for a while and love to collect like me, so we get along quite well.

Ahh, are these on sale BTW, the routers, esp?

They're mostly for display in the shop, but maybe if I asked really nice.

Here's my setup for the big RackNerd thread of 2021

Woah, that's impressive, man. That green lit keybaord an HP Pavillion gaming?

HP Pavillion.. now that sounds like a throwback. Making me feel old when i hear the words HP echoed now. My how the mightly have fallen. I think its case of them getting complacent.

Yah, they have gone down a lot.

someone needs to buy them out and return to former glory