Images of items I have purchased (except trainers)

Lakeland · 17 Mar 2019 at 16:00

Strangely I found rigid ink to be very patchy, whereas the mega amazon and Chinese stuff always works. I get my reels for about £12/kg and have no complaints.

chaparral · 17 Mar 2019 at 16:54

LeeUK said:
Life long spectacle wearer here, I buy glasses online at a pittance of the price of the high street places. There is a very high profit markup on glasses so paying more on the high street does not mean you are getting better glasses.

Also the 2 for 1 offers are usually a con too as the "free" pair doesn't include all the lenses options so in reality it still costs you more and so is not totally free.

Also noticed the frames specsavers charged me £129 for each frame are only £30 to £80 when you look around the internet

Janesy B · 17 Mar 2019 at 20:15

A new small aquarium, currently cycling it ready for some Platy. Shrimp are keeping guard for now, my last lot of platy died off because of a shop selling me diseased fish so starting from scratch. Shrimp are much more hardy than I thought they'd be, both are over a year old.

dessimpson · 17 Mar 2019 at 21:34

Got shrimp in both our tanks. They're the only things that seem to last a long time.

Diddums · 17 Mar 2019 at 21:38

Shrimp are the cockroaches of the oceans. Horrible freaks of nature.

Raymond Lin · 17 Mar 2019 at 21:53

Diddums said:
Shrimp are the cockroaches of the oceans. Horrible freaks of nature.

So tasty though.

andy_mk3 · 17 Mar 2019 at 22:00

Couple of rads for my new build.

MassiveJim · 18 Mar 2019 at 12:17

Royal Fleet said:
As a life long Windows user (probably since before most of the posters on here were born), I have been moving over to Apple over the last few years. Samsung phones became Iphones, Yoga laptops became Macbooks and now the desktop has become a Mac Mini. I am under no illusion that there are pros and cons to each nor that Apple is incredibly overpriced for what it is. I can afford it and it is my choice. Apple's model is to suck you into the ecosystem and fleece you accordingly. However I like the easy seamless integration of all those devices.

I would fully expect that in 10 years I'll go full circle.

As a devout Apple "avoider" I can fully understand where you are coming from.
I used to try and get value for money and tinker to make things work how i wanted.
However now I have less time and would happily pay a bit more for things to "just work" out of the box.
Credit where it is due, from what I can tell the Apple ecosystem seems to do this pretty darn well.

That said I still only own a single Apple device and even though it is for business use, it rarely gets turned on.

I just wish that there was backup software available that was as easy to integrate in to windows and worked as well as Time machine does

Malevolence · 18 Mar 2019 at 12:52

Just a few more Blu-rays for the collection.

In before "wahwahwah, physical media"

NoobCannon · 18 Mar 2019 at 15:06

Malevolence said:
Just a few more Blu-rays for the collection.

In before "wahwahwah, physical media"

Wahwahwah physical media

Col_M · 18 Mar 2019 at 19:33

amigafan2003 said:
Rigid ink is the best PLA I've used.

Having said that, I've just blown through 8 reels of Surreal PLA (search Amazon) and if the consistency is maintained, then I can see me switching, esp as its almost half the price of rigid ink. Surreal's PETG is pretty good too!

Thanks, I'll have to check out the Surreal PLA next time I need some "messing about and prototyping" filament that prints well!

Raymond Lin · 18 Mar 2019 at 19:56

New tripod.

ubersonic · 18 Mar 2019 at 22:40

Picked up a new Acer Predator Helios 500 for the Division 2 launch:

Shiney!

Salty22 · 18 Mar 2019 at 22:59

How come the track pad is so far over to the left?

Raymond Lin · 18 Mar 2019 at 23:02

Salty22 said:
How come the track pad is so far over to the left?

It's centred to the keyboard, the number pad on the right.

Mekrel · 19 Mar 2019 at 00:18

@Raymond Lin A while back you posted about a Mac Book Pro leather cover. Do you happen to remember the brand and where you bought it from? There's loads of Amazon but I don't trust half the products or reviews on Amazon these days. I'm after a cover gor my late 2013 model.

Raymond Lin · 19 Mar 2019 at 00:57

Mekrel said:
@Raymond Lin A while back you posted about a Mac Book Pro leather cover. Do you happen to remember the brand and where you bought it from? There's loads of Amazon but I don't trust half the products or reviews on Amazon these days. I'm after a cover gor my late 2013 model.

Mine is a 2018 model below, not sure if they make one for 2013 but worth a shot. Or I still have it on.

Macbook Pro 13 inch Case, Icarer...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0769K6X8J?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

AndyCr15 · 19 Mar 2019 at 06:51

Raymond Lin said:
It's centred to the keyboard, the number pad on the right.

But the keyboard is not centred to the screen or the actual laptop itself (if you want to treat the keypad as something else). Seems really odd to me...?

Raggs · 19 Mar 2019 at 14:59

some fish tank stuff this hobby is costing me a fortune

ci_newman · 19 Mar 2019 at 16:07

I always found the floaty magnets cleaners were a waste of money and space