Got the parts to fix my air conditioner in my car, and a used phone, and a retro handheld I had been putting off.
All used, of course. I’m not contributing back to this corrupt hell government.
DS9 station from BlueBrixx
It’s so cool. I got to help assemble one.
I can’t wait to built it!
I wish I could help again!
Big order of fishing supplies off Ali Express before May 1. Line, lures, hooks, that sort of thing.
Is this as a hobby or prepping for food scarcity? Not judging, legitimately just asking.
I like fishing as a hobby, but I eat some of the fish I catch. I think it’s good to have a hobby that doesn’t cost very much and gets you out into nature. I’ll probably spend $60 total on supplies for the full year and it’ll buy me some toys to try and target some other species I didn’t last year.
I also like gardening and cooking, so while I’m not intentionally planning for food scarcity, I’ll be circumstantially more prepared.
I think tariffs are generally applied based on date of customs arrival, not time of order - discussion on wine imports who order months+ in advance as well as some small businesses getting hit unexpectedly on long-ordered goods, plus my own industry that has a several month lead time on orders and some bills we have received. I’m less familiar with that mechanic but I don’t know that placing the order before that time will help you if it has to ship from overseas.
Might get an SSD for my laptop. Resisting new computer. Must … resist…
Stay strong. The one you have now works well enough. Nothing broken, nothing needs to be replaced.
You can always get used parts in 3-6 months when the economy really crashes and people start losing their jobs. (God, I hope I’m wrong)
Too late. I have no money.
Yup. I’ve been busy, oh you know, managing having fucking cancer and having necessary surgeries.
I only fucking wish I had money to spend to rebuild my life before it all goes to shit.
Some fun new news! Now Trump wants to enact tariffs specifically on pharmaceutical companies! Hooray!
It was nice having met you!
Edit: /s, obvs; I’m so sorry that you’re in for even more shit
Not previous poster; I felt smart a couple days ago buying a few smaller appliances and airbrush parts ahead of the tariffs, then the pharmaceutical ones were announced and it’s like “oh cool, so my chronic health condition will just bankrupt me now instead”
I really hope that you’re not telling me that you only had a problem with Trump’s tariffs once it affected you personally. Because that would be pretty shitty.
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Bought shrimp and rice at costco
probably better to get the 50+lb rice bags from asian markets. the white gallons drums are useful for holding the rice, and keeping it away from pests.
Trying to use brown rice, which doesn’t keep for as long
RAM
Bidet installed
I don’t believe you, show me the results…
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There is no better gift to oneself than a clean ass.
I had some DYI hackable computer kits (ClockworkPI) that I orderd last year, both of them arrived in the last few weeks. Im very glad they made it through customs before most of this shit gets enacted.
10% baseline tariffs already begun, should’ve bought whatever you needed before April 5
SO was thinking about buying a (edit: [insert “new”]) car this year, yeah… that’s not happening.
Also harder to track you (assuming you turn off all the radios on your phone). No license plates needed, so there no identifier to track, and in addition you can avoid major roads that have CCTV. You can go protesting while remaining anonymous. (But if you are protesting, the better thing is don’t bring phones. Bring a camera)
I built a gaming PC back in January for this purpose, unfortunately GPUs are impossible to get so I’m stuck in a 2080 TI (which is showing its age). Tempted to pay ebay scalper prices ($300+ above MSRP for a 9070 XT), beats paying tariffs and prevents that extra money going to fund whatever new atrocities my government intends to commit.
Also got a nice motorized sausage stuffer.
I have a 3080 and usually play on a patient gamer schedule so I don’t really need to update yet, but I sort of wish I had now. I feel like my current build is going to have to last me for a lot longer than anticipated. But that’s ok, it’s probably better for my bank account to hoard the money I have anyway.
I built at a good time, micro center had the 9800x3d in stock at MSRP 😁 i should be good for 5+ years from now
Also i was upgrading from a ryzen 7 3800X (predating the x3d line) and to 100% NVME storage (4tb gaming drive and a 1tb boot drive)
Just having it in stock seems like a miracle from everything I’ve seen for a while. I may be moving to Europe late this year or next year and my income will be dropping to about half (with a generally much lower COL, but PC parts look to be about comparable to the US at the moment) so I’m guessing I may be able to find the parts but affording them will be a different matter.
your industry in tech? it seems only tech and phd level scientist are able to move there as a viable alternative.
No, I’d be going on a non-lucrative visa. Not off my own earnings because I’m a millennial who was idealistic enough to go into public service, but my mom has enough retirement and assets to swing the fairly modest income requirements for us both and she wants me to come. She’s worried I’m going to end up dead in El Salvador, being a member of several targeted groups by this administration.
What games are you playing where it’s showing its age? I’m using a 2070 super personally. With a variable refresh rate monitor I hardly notice slowdown unless it’s below 30fps, or if it’s spiking.
I also play old games. My recent ones (past year) have been Fallout New Vegas, Stardew Valley, Watch Dogs, Watch Dogs 2, Sonic Unleashed Recompiled, and Cyberpunk 2077.
Its not the games so much as the resolution; I’m at 4K, watchdogs 2 struggles and i had to drop settings a bit to maintain 50+ fps.
Esir: also i want to play Avowed at 60 FPS. Love the universe and played both Pillars of Eternity games, enjoyed the tutorial island of Avowed, just wanna enjoy buttery smooth combat.
Oh yeah, resolution will absolutely eat GPU power. I’m at 2k, but that’s also what my monitors were made for. Not sure how good that would look on a 4k mon.
Might be worth trying to downscale and use reshade for extra antialiasing though, if you’re up for tinkering with fiddly bullshit that might not help too much.
I’m still running my 1080 (non-TI), I’ve wanted to upgrade since the 30x0 series but couldn’t justify the cost… Definitely not gonna get any better.
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I can’t afford to get any real last-minute stuff, unfortunately. What I did do was stock up on rice and the spices that I largely use, and got some new shoes from walmart earlier than I normally would.
I put off the things I had been saving for (like a vero v), canceled everything but my basic phone service, and I’ll be seeing how much stuff I can get by with repairing/cobbling.
What’s sad is that the billionaires who control the only grocery options for 90 miles will be getting a LOT more of my income, and the small businesses (music stores, thrift stores, things like that) will be getting left. Thereby amplifying the wealth extraction already happening.
F this, and f everyone who voted for it.
Do you have a garden share anywhere near you? We have some towns near us where you can rent a plot that’s like 20’*20’ for $10 a plot.
A few from further out only plant low maintenance crops that they tend to on a weekend, or have met someone who happily lends a hand on a day when they can’t come.
Gardening is not only a good way to grow savings, it’s also fun! It can be a lot less work then some people realize.
My PC just started taking shits last week. I’m fucken upset I have no time.
I’m still running a Ryzen 5 3600 and a 3060ti. I can’t afford to upgrade right now, so if my PC takes a shit during tarrif hell I’m going to use my Steam Deck as my main PC until living becomes affordable again, then maybe someday a new PC will.
looks at my RX580 I got pre-Covid
softly Don’t.
Eh thats not really fair to my build.
What I should say is Microsoft has decided that my E2550 (or whatever) Killer WiFi is actually an E1100 and every day I gotta uninstall the drivers and restart. I added a dword to the registry so fingers crossed.
But god dammit I want a build with no Nvidia so bad. I wanna rock a Battlemage just to say I have a Battlemage cause I’m dumb like that.
So believe in that RX580 its got this for 10 more years (just dont play new games by then).
I totally get it. It still runs great, but it’s showing its age, that’s for sure. I tried Enshrouded, but it was a slide show once I got out of the starter cave with lowest settings. At least it runs Satisfactory and that’s okay with me.
Get real into Space Station 14 or BAR and you’ll forget about new GPUs. Both those games are open source.
Have you tried reinstalling Windows? Probably a dumb question.
Its an issue with Microsoft delivering the drivers, from what I can tell my registry edit fixed it.
I’m using a desktop that’s an off lease machine I bought in 2016 that was new in 2012 (haswel architecture.)
about the one thing I HAVEN’T replaced on it is the power supply and fans. It’s been a pretty good box.
Look for used parts or machines recycled as part of a corporate hardware refresh. They won’t be top of the line, but it’s better than paying double the price for something that’s already expensive.
fucken
Short for ‘fuckeng’?
I do have to say, I never really enjoy your replies to me. They’re all like this
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Quip or correction someone else already made.
Lol
An air conditioner and a swamp cooler
