What have you purchased recently?

I got a notification from the EVGA waitlist for a 3060, so I copped it. I paid $409.99 before tax and shipping. My 3090, which I'll be selling, is still unopened.

Anyone have recommendations on standing desks? I need enough room for two monitors, keyboard, and my wacom.

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37 minutes ago, Bunglo said: Anyone have recommendations on standing desks? I need enough room for two monitors, keyboard, and my wacom.

I've got this one when we started WFH, and I love it!

https://standsteady.com/collections/st…=39437348798621

I decided to get a crank mechanism instead of electric, because they last longer. It's a really sturdy desk, looks great, and it fits my needs. (Love that monitor shelf.) I memorized how many crank turns I need to bring them up to my preferred height, and that's it. No need for fancy memory buttons on these things that break every other year.

Also, that price is unbeatable considering many standing desks go for 1000 bucks or more.

Well you can find cheaper in IKEA, double check the crank @Bunglo cos I don’t see it in the thumbnails, but in previous job they had bought from them and they were fine. Guess depends how much weight you’ll put on it etc.

https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/cat/standing-desks-55008/

i always wanted to build my own since, was thinking of using a pump mechanism like the hairdresser’s chairs ?

Sidenote: I have had a standing desk for a few years at least before the pandemic ever started. Also get a floor mat...something like the below or similar:

Do those mats actually help?

They do, I had one back at the office and loved it. Easily buys me another hour a day standing, they're surprisingly expensive tho, so nowadays I just use one of my dog's old pillow under my feet. Lol

Sounds like a better solution than spending $70+ on one.

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7 hours ago, Bunglo said: Sounds like a better solution than spending $70+ on one.

Maybe you can find one from Craigslist/ebay/Facebook marketplace from people moving or something

um...spend the $70. so much better than workarounds imo.

Right lots of people have complained for the scalpers and miners stealing our cardddds.

Thanks to Linus I discovered there are now professional mining cards. Will these assholes shell out 5k and let us play in peace?

I think those are pretty much sold out too, so unless Nvidia is able to up the production of them, I doubt anything will really change. I would imagine miners wouldn't mind shelling out the dough for them though, assuming the cost to performance ratio outweighs snagging up cards in mass like they've been doing.

Got one of these silly toy products

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Love them or hate them, Apple just makes cool devices.

I think long-term, Apple intends to justify the Watch as a biometric gauge, but in that respect it currently comes with less default functionality than a fitbit. However, the real magic lies in the apps you can download that deeply parse the data recorded by the Watch.

For example, I like pointless sleep statistics. It's fun to have sixteen graphs and charts which explain that if I don't get 4 hours of sleep, then I probably got good sleep. I feel a little weird having this thing next to my brain when I sleep at night, but that's a different story.

Overall, it feels surprisingly satisfying to use and definitely lights up the "cool screen" part of my monkey mammalian brain. It is most certainly NOT a revolutionary device like the iPhone, but as a toy it does its job, and as a biometric device it shows very early promise and a very early glimpse into Apple's eventual pivot focus.

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15 hours ago, FMPONE said: I think long-term, Apple intends to justify the Watch as a biometric gauge, but in that respect it currently comes with less default functionality than a fitbit.

Really? I’m surprised just because it’s the first time I hear this. Might be because tech reviewers just focus on the tech side, so I can see how this is the best smart watch, and the fitness kinda of “an addition” (although I’d say makes at least 1/3 of the experience and the reason why at least 1/3 owners buy it for that.

So you had the Fitbit before? What does it give you more? I thought was a glorified step counter and only the smart watch rapidly managed to track more activities with every update/app

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10 minutes ago, blackdog said: Really? I’m surprised just because it’s the first time I hear this. Might be because tech reviewers just focus on the tech side, so I can see how this is the best smart watch, and the fitness kinda of “an addition” (although I’d say makes at least 1/3 of the experience and the reason why at least 1/3 owners buy it for that.

So you had the Fitbit before? What does it give you more? I thought was a glorified step counter and only the smart watch rapidly managed to track more activities with every update/app

The Apple Watch relies on apps to give you a good experience, it seems like. I paid $10 for two apps and now I have way better data than the fitbit, but the fitbit comes with better *default* functionality, as it tracks sleep and gives pretty decent sleep data. However there are lots of sleep tracking apps available on the Apple store that are really fantastic and can load onto your Watch and parse your Watch data.

Yeah, welcome to the marvellous ecosystem @FMPONE ? another leg up is that because it’s Apple lots of other medical devices link to Apple health, I know of blood pressure, blood sugars (diabetes), heartbeat trackers (that strap on the chest)… I don’t understand if clinics have started to interface with that data to have a more complete picture, I know many doctors were concerned people would self-assess and show up thinking they have problems where there are not.

I forgot to ask: when do you charge it? With all this tracking you’d want to wear it all the time, but needs charging every day or two days right?

Also did you get a second strap just for the night? ?

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5 minutes ago, blackdog said: Yeah, welcome to the marvellous ecosystem @FMPONE ? another leg up is that because it’s Apple lots of other medical devices link to Apple health, I know of blood pressure, blood sugars (diabetes), heartbeat trackers (that strap on the chest)… I don’t understand if clinics have started to interface with that data to have a more complete picture, I know many doctors were concerned people would self-assess and show up thinking they have problems where there are not.

I forgot to ask: when do you charge it? With all this tracking you’d want to wear it all the time, but needs charging every day or two days right?

Also did you get a second strap just for the night? ?

I didn't get a second strap just for the night, not sure why that would be necessary?

I wear it all the time. The battery is honestly quite disappointing, it needs a charge once per day it seems like.

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2 hours ago, FMPONE said: I didn't get a second strap just for the night, not sure why that would be necessary?

I wear it all the time. The battery is honestly quite disappointing, it needs a charge once per day it seems like.

It would be a fixation of mine I guess, I just wouldn’t like to wear in bed something I wore all day, sweating, collecting whatever is in the air. Guess the sports band are easily washable.

Yeah I imagine, so I just wonder when is the best time to charge those things if one wants to track sleep

Yeah. This is why I like the fitbit HR models. It's light. Battery lasts for about a week, which I already find it annoying, I could not wear a watch that the battery lasts less than 48hrs, fuck that.

I almost got a Garmin Instinct Solar this xmas, battery is supposed to last about a month and the health meter is as good or better than fitbit, which is already better than apple's. But I think I'll stick with Fitbit ecosystem for a little longer, I really like the app, sleep tracker is a must for me and tracking how well I'm doing in terms of exercise at the end of the week is important to me.

The fitbit is definitely a great choice. I had a fantastic experience with the HR and it's dirt cheap.