I have 2 at work. Sometimes I just have our ticket software on one and Firefox on another both full screen. When works crunching I might have multiple PDF manuals open on one and PDF schematics on another and could use a 3rd for a browser window to search for old similar problems in our daily reports. I’m able to work best when I can keep 1 screen dedicated to what I’m working on and the others for information gathering.

At home I typically just have 1 screen for gaming. I might set my laptop up on the desk if I want to browse the web or chat while playing.

I had a 92 Taurus that made a loud crack when I turned left. Mechanic said engine was about to fall out. Left it parked in front of my house and a cement mixer backed into it and crumpled the front end. Got about 2000 bucks out of a car we were going to scrap.

That approach never sinks in with anyone I train. They seem to remember that I told them something about something so they do that not remembering I said not to do that.

When I was messing around with it, I had to go back and fix it’s code more often than not. It’s still useful for get the be bones of a program going though.

36 year old and still sleep with stuffed animals. I’ve had them for 30 years and just honestly sleep better with them than a pillow. They are a stuffed wolf named timber and a stuffed dog named woofles.

I think only the real dog judges me, but that’s cause she’s a jealous bitch.

At home mainly records. Rega P6 as a player, marantz amp and totem speakers or koss esp/95x headphones.

On the go Qobuz on my phone to cayin ru7 dac and campfire Andromeda iems.

Yup I tried to go to work this morning but couldn’t make it out of the driveway without the car sliding. Pulled back in as far forwards as possible but an hour later the car has slid back down. It was blocking the sidewalk but I don’t think anyone is walking around in this mess. I was able to get it back in the driveway when stuff started to warm up a little.

My first computer was some random 286 with CGA graphics. It was 1994-1995 and I was a little younger than you maybe 7 or 8 and I didn’t find it in the trash but my dad did. It had DOS and some GUI you could launch on top of it. I cannot for the life of me remember what it was but doing research I think it was Norton desktop. I knew enough to poke around the directories and found a gaming one that was stuffed to the gills. Most of the games didn’t impress me as I’d seen graphics with more than four colors by this point but I got absolutely sucked into Elite and Gauntlet was pretty fun too.

There was a big push at the time for us to type everything up in school because computers were the future. We had a much nicer family computer with windows 3.11 and a 386 or 486 that I mainly used but would get kicked off when my parents were on call for work and had to remote in to fix something. I used my pc to type up my papers and transferred them over to the family pc for printing via floppy.

A few years later my dad and I pretty much rebuilt the trash pc with hand me downs from the family pc plus a few upgrade parts and got it running windows 95. I remember playing a ton of games on it in that form. Heroes of might and magic 3, warcraft, starcraft, diablo, baulder’s gate, wing commander etc. The best was some weekends we’d roll an ethernet cable down the hallway and hook up the two pcs and my dad and I would play games together.

I used it in its windows 95 form all through high school in 2005. It never had internet as my mom wouldn’t let me keep the lan cable permanently installed in the hallway but I played a ton of games and wrote every paper on it. Not sure what happened to it but it was by far my most heavily used PC and I was so happy to have it as no one I knew had their own PC just family PCs.

Great times.

Neither were the specs listed… What they specc’d would be about 1000 USD.

Fallout 1. Killing my way out of 1000 rats to finally leave vault 13.

I loved the stealth sections in ocarina of time and wind waker

Sadly I have to venture forth tomorrow or the day after for sustenance. Other than that I’m with you, people are nuts this time of year and are best avoided.

What entertainment are you enjoying? I started watching “For All Mankind” this week. So I’d like to get all caught up on that.

I don’t use it wrong because I don’t use it but to me “mirth” feels like it has a negative connotation even though I know it means joyful.

How Did This Get Made

Hello From the Magic Tavern

The White Vault.

I dont have a special waterproof speaker but I have a regular Bluetooth speaker over in the corner by the sink. Love listening to it while getting ready.

I find he’s a very underrated actor because of his spiky hair and icy demeanor.

I’d like to be able to smell crime before it happened.

You can’t buy a new iPod anymore and I remember the full size ones being closer to 300 bucks. Never had a mini or nano so those may have been closer to 100-150.

I’ve been using the first gen of this for a few years. Browsing the library is touch screen but you get physical buttons for play/pause, rev, fwd and volume. I find this to be a good combination of controls. I can skip tracks or change volume from my pocket and if I want to browse the library I think a touch screen is faster than clicking buttons or spinning a dial.

https://store.hiby.com/products/hiby-r3-ii

There are a lot of audiophile DAPs around these days and you can get something for 200 bucks that will blow away the MP3 players of yesteryear.

I bought one for my car when Android phones started removing the headphone jack and SD cards. When I got a new car in 2021 it no longer had an aux port. I could still connect the mp3 player with Bluetooth but that was fiddly. The car has a decent ui for playing music off USB stick which is mainly what I do these days.

I still sometimes use the mp3 player because it sounds better and I have a lot of wired headphones but I no longer daily it.