Just-In-Timeberlake posted:

am i to understand that there are people in this very thread over the age of 25 that are still building pcs instead of just going out and buying what they need like a loving adult making 6 figgies?

theultimo posted:

Yeah lets buy a PC like this
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/asus-rog-desktop-intel-core-i7-16gb-memory-2tb-hard-drive-black-red/4494400.p?id=1219754435687&skuId=4494400

And have it break down due to shoddy parts and cooling


Also, as ASUS for making a worse.alienware

qirex posted:

I've never understood how windows has always been so bad at multiple monitors, pretty sure even most linuxes can handle "there's a second monitor but it's only on sometimes" better nowadays

Sir Unimaginative posted:

Fourteen hundred and ninety nine US dollars and not even an SSD

Shameful

The_Franz posted:

no ssd and a lovely laptop-style keyboard

theultimo posted:

And a external power supply the size of 3 kinects

Just-In-Timeberlake posted:

am i to understand that there are people in this very thread over the age of 25 that are still building pcs instead of just going out and buying what they need like a loving adult making 6 figgies?

Just-In-Timeberlake posted:

am i to understand that there are people in this very thread over the age of 25 that are still building pcs instead of just going out and buying what they need like a loving adult making 6 figgies?

cremnob posted:

Anyone else have the sudden realisation that they're way too emotionally invested in this platform?

Supposedly the first step to getting better is admitting you've got a problem so here goes.

I've had a horrible week. I've been so stressed and angry over the last few days and just generally pretty down. My wife got fed up with my moodiness and forced me to tell her what was wrong - it was the constant negative Windows Phone articles. So much doom and gloom was being spread about my favourite platform and I was so loving frustrated that I couldn't do anything about it. I'd been spending several hours a day reading them and getting more and more upset and I had no way to vent.

She laughed at me and told me to get my poo poo together. She's right. I had what can only be described as an epiphany - but not the kind of epiphany where you yell "eureka!", the kind where you say "oh gently caress, what have I done".

I am so much of a hardcore fanboy that I've let this poo poo affect my life - my real, non-internet life. What the gently caress was I thinking?

I feel sick to my stomach when I think about the countless hours of my life that I've wasted praising/defending a mobile platform; putting so much effort into converting others to my way of thinking. Oh my god, the pathetic poo poo that I've pulled in the name of Windows Phone over the years. Here's a taster:

• I write essay length rebuttals in comments sections to any negative WP article I come accross.
  
• If I don't get enough support for said rebuttals, I'll register new accounts to reply in agreement or give myself one or two "recommends" or "likes".
  
• I sometimes pretend to be an iPhone/Android user to post a stupid, biased comment about WP that I can then refute.
  
• I've created posts about how my 950 works perfectly and is bug-free, even though I don't own a 950 yet.
  
• I make a lot of comments on various websites about how laggy and unstable my Android phones have been but I've never even used an Android phone.
  
• I've written my fare share of "this guy at work saw my phone and was amazed" fantasies.
  
• I've pretended to be a developer and written about how poo poo iOS/Android are to develop for compared to WP.
  
• I've criticised the iPhone cameras for being rubbish in comparison to my Lumia (never actually used an iPhone past the 4s)
  
• I've hounded people like Tom Warren and Paul Thurrot on Twitter for their negative WP articles (I've never written anything nasty or personal but I feel pretty guilty about giving them so much poo poo).

Phew! I feel 10 lb lighter! Writing all that out and re-reading it, I can't help but think what a loving basket case I am. What the gently caress is wrong with me? I think maybe it's just tribalism. Like I needed one side to support (Microsoft) and one side to despise (Google, and to a lesser extend Apple), and I invented my own reasons at a later date.

I don't for a second think that any of you lovely folk are as bad as me. But maybe a few of you are also letting this stuff get you down a bit - well now you can at least say you're not as bad as that other lunatic!

So anyway, I'm going to take a step back and get a different phone. Not because there's anything wrong with WP or my 930, but because I need to go cold turkey and reclaim a bit of sanity. Also, maybe it's a little poetic that I'm leaving this side of my life behind as the platform seems to be winding down.

So long chaps, you will be missed. I have no idea what I'll do with all my free time now. Maybe I should get into sports...

https://www.reddit.com/r/windowsphone/comments/43pkci/anyone_else_have_the_sudden_realisation_that/

cremnob posted:

Anyone else have the sudden realisation that they're way too emotionally invested in this platform?

Supposedly the first step to getting better is admitting you've got a problem so here goes.

I've had a horrible week. I've been so stressed and angry over the last few days and just generally pretty down. My wife got fed up with my moodiness and forced me to tell her what was wrong - it was the constant negative Windows Phone articles. So much doom and gloom was being spread about my favourite platform and I was so loving frustrated that I couldn't do anything about it. I'd been spending several hours a day reading them and getting more and more upset and I had no way to vent.

She laughed at me and told me to get my poo poo together. She's right. I had what can only be described as an epiphany - but not the kind of epiphany where you yell "eureka!", the kind where you say "oh gently caress, what have I done".

I am so much of a hardcore fanboy that I've let this poo poo affect my life - my real, non-internet life. What the gently caress was I thinking?

I feel sick to my stomach when I think about the countless hours of my life that I've wasted praising/defending a mobile platform; putting so much effort into converting others to my way of thinking. Oh my god, the pathetic poo poo that I've pulled in the name of Windows Phone over the years. Here's a taster:

• I write essay length rebuttals in comments sections to any negative WP article I come accross.
  
• If I don't get enough support for said rebuttals, I'll register new accounts to reply in agreement or give myself one or two "recommends" or "likes".
  
• I sometimes pretend to be an iPhone/Android user to post a stupid, biased comment about WP that I can then refute.
  
• I've created posts about how my 950 works perfectly and is bug-free, even though I don't own a 950 yet.
  
• I make a lot of comments on various websites about how laggy and unstable my Android phones have been but I've never even used an Android phone.
  
• I've written my fare share of "this guy at work saw my phone and was amazed" fantasies.
  
• I've pretended to be a developer and written about how poo poo iOS/Android are to develop for compared to WP.
  
• I've criticised the iPhone cameras for being rubbish in comparison to my Lumia (never actually used an iPhone past the 4s)
  
• I've hounded people like Tom Warren and Paul Thurrot on Twitter for their negative WP articles (I've never written anything nasty or personal but I feel pretty guilty about giving them so much poo poo).

Phew! I feel 10 lb lighter! Writing all that out and re-reading it, I can't help but think what a loving basket case I am. What the gently caress is wrong with me? I think maybe it's just tribalism. Like I needed one side to support (Microsoft) and one side to despise (Google, and to a lesser extend Apple), and I invented my own reasons at a later date.

I don't for a second think that any of you lovely folk are as bad as me. But maybe a few of you are also letting this stuff get you down a bit - well now you can at least say you're not as bad as that other lunatic!

So anyway, I'm going to take a step back and get a different phone. Not because there's anything wrong with WP or my 930, but because I need to go cold turkey and reclaim a bit of sanity. Also, maybe it's a little poetic that I'm leaving this side of my life behind as the platform seems to be winding down.

So long chaps, you will be missed. I have no idea what I'll do with all my free time now. Maybe I should get into sports...

https://www.reddit.com/r/windowsphone/comments/43pkci/anyone_else_have_the_sudden_realisation_that/

32MB OF ESRAM posted:

MrMoo posted:

Microsoft's lack of QA finally winning fans, although this really isn't anything new with MSVC:

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/695023034797666305

Just-In-Timeberlake posted:

ms is a clown shoes company, but their IDEs are da bomb

PleasureKevin posted:

https://twitter.com/ericlaw/status/695298411533193217

cremnob posted:

Anyone else have the sudden realisation that they're way too emotionally invested in this platform?

Supposedly the first step to getting better is admitting you've got a problem so here goes.

I've had a horrible week. I've been so stressed and angry over the last few days and just generally pretty down. My wife got fed up with my moodiness and forced me to tell her what was wrong - it was the constant negative Windows Phone articles. So much doom and gloom was being spread about my favourite platform and I was so loving frustrated that I couldn't do anything about it. I'd been spending several hours a day reading them and getting more and more upset and I had no way to vent.

She laughed at me and told me to get my poo poo together. She's right. I had what can only be described as an epiphany - but not the kind of epiphany where you yell "eureka!", the kind where you say "oh gently caress, what have I done".

I am so much of a hardcore fanboy that I've let this poo poo affect my life - my real, non-internet life. What the gently caress was I thinking?

I feel sick to my stomach when I think about the countless hours of my life that I've wasted praising/defending a mobile platform; putting so much effort into converting others to my way of thinking. Oh my god, the pathetic poo poo that I've pulled in the name of Windows Phone over the years. Here's a taster:

• I write essay length rebuttals in comments sections to any negative WP article I come accross.
  
• If I don't get enough support for said rebuttals, I'll register new accounts to reply in agreement or give myself one or two "recommends" or "likes".
  
• I sometimes pretend to be an iPhone/Android user to post a stupid, biased comment about WP that I can then refute.
  
• I've created posts about how my 950 works perfectly and is bug-free, even though I don't own a 950 yet.
  
• I make a lot of comments on various websites about how laggy and unstable my Android phones have been but I've never even used an Android phone.
  
• I've written my fare share of "this guy at work saw my phone and was amazed" fantasies.
  
• I've pretended to be a developer and written about how poo poo iOS/Android are to develop for compared to WP.
  
• I've criticised the iPhone cameras for being rubbish in comparison to my Lumia (never actually used an iPhone past the 4s)
  
• I've hounded people like Tom Warren and Paul Thurrot on Twitter for their negative WP articles (I've never written anything nasty or personal but I feel pretty guilty about giving them so much poo poo).

Phew! I feel 10 lb lighter! Writing all that out and re-reading it, I can't help but think what a loving basket case I am. What the gently caress is wrong with me? I think maybe it's just tribalism. Like I needed one side to support (Microsoft) and one side to despise (Google, and to a lesser extend Apple), and I invented my own reasons at a later date.

I don't for a second think that any of you lovely folk are as bad as me. But maybe a few of you are also letting this stuff get you down a bit - well now you can at least say you're not as bad as that other lunatic!

So anyway, I'm going to take a step back and get a different phone. Not because there's anything wrong with WP or my 930, but because I need to go cold turkey and reclaim a bit of sanity. Also, maybe it's a little poetic that I'm leaving this side of my life behind as the platform seems to be winding down.

So long chaps, you will be missed. I have no idea what I'll do with all my free time now. Maybe I should get into sports...

https://www.reddit.com/r/windowsphone/comments/43pkci/anyone_else_have_the_sudden_realisation_that/

Just-In-Timeberlake posted:

why would you uninstall vs2015, it's loving dope as hell

cremnob posted:

Anyone else have the sudden realisation that they're way too emotionally invested in this platform?

Supposedly the first step to getting better is admitting you've got a problem so here goes.

I've had a horrible week. I've been so stressed and angry over the last few days and just generally pretty down. My wife got fed up with my moodiness and forced me to tell her what was wrong - it was the constant negative Windows Phone articles. So much doom and gloom was being spread about my favourite platform and I was so loving frustrated that I couldn't do anything about it. I'd been spending several hours a day reading them and getting more and more upset and I had no way to vent.

She laughed at me and told me to get my poo poo together. She's right. I had what can only be described as an epiphany - but not the kind of epiphany where you yell "eureka!", the kind where you say "oh gently caress, what have I done".

I am so much of a hardcore fanboy that I've let this poo poo affect my life - my real, non-internet life. What the gently caress was I thinking?

I feel sick to my stomach when I think about the countless hours of my life that I've wasted praising/defending a mobile platform; putting so much effort into converting others to my way of thinking. Oh my god, the pathetic poo poo that I've pulled in the name of Windows Phone over the years. Here's a taster:

• I write essay length rebuttals in comments sections to any negative WP article I come accross.
  
• If I don't get enough support for said rebuttals, I'll register new accounts to reply in agreement or give myself one or two "recommends" or "likes".
  
• I sometimes pretend to be an iPhone/Android user to post a stupid, biased comment about WP that I can then refute.
  
• I've created posts about how my 950 works perfectly and is bug-free, even though I don't own a 950 yet.
  
• I make a lot of comments on various websites about how laggy and unstable my Android phones have been but I've never even used an Android phone.
  
• I've written my fare share of "this guy at work saw my phone and was amazed" fantasies.
  
• I've pretended to be a developer and written about how poo poo iOS/Android are to develop for compared to WP.
  
• I've criticised the iPhone cameras for being rubbish in comparison to my Lumia (never actually used an iPhone past the 4s)
  
• I've hounded people like Tom Warren and Paul Thurrot on Twitter for their negative WP articles (I've never written anything nasty or personal but I feel pretty guilty about giving them so much poo poo).

Phew! I feel 10 lb lighter! Writing all that out and re-reading it, I can't help but think what a loving basket case I am. What the gently caress is wrong with me? I think maybe it's just tribalism. Like I needed one side to support (Microsoft) and one side to despise (Google, and to a lesser extend Apple), and I invented my own reasons at a later date.

I don't for a second think that any of you lovely folk are as bad as me. But maybe a few of you are also letting this stuff get you down a bit - well now you can at least say you're not as bad as that other lunatic!

So anyway, I'm going to take a step back and get a different phone. Not because there's anything wrong with WP or my 930, but because I need to go cold turkey and reclaim a bit of sanity. Also, maybe it's a little poetic that I'm leaving this side of my life behind as the platform seems to be winding down.

So long chaps, you will be missed. I have no idea what I'll do with all my free time now. Maybe I should get into sports...

https://www.reddit.com/r/windowsphone/comments/43pkci/anyone_else_have_the_sudden_realisation_that/

32MB OF ESRAM posted:

PleasureKevin posted:

so it's at most 200 for the case. which also includes LEDs

32MB OF ESRAM posted:

PleasureKevin posted:

and again the size of the case was the whole point

Just-In-Timeberlake posted:

ms is a clown shoes company, but their IDEs are da bomb

Beeftweeter posted:

dont forget the leds. oh and it came with a sticker too, cant forget the sticker.

32MB OF ESRAM posted:

Just-In-Timeberlake posted:

am i to understand that there are people in this very thread over the age of 25 that are still building pcs instead of just going out and buying what they need like a loving adult making 6 figgies?

cremnob posted:

Anyone else have the sudden realisation that they're way too emotionally invested in this platform?

Supposedly the first step to getting better is admitting you've got a problem so here goes.

I've had a horrible week. I've been so stressed and angry over the last few days and just generally pretty down. My wife got fed up with my moodiness and forced me to tell her what was wrong - it was the constant negative Windows Phone articles. So much doom and gloom was being spread about my favourite platform and I was so loving frustrated that I couldn't do anything about it. I'd been spending several hours a day reading them and getting more and more upset and I had no way to vent.

She laughed at me and told me to get my poo poo together. She's right. I had what can only be described as an epiphany - but not the kind of epiphany where you yell "eureka!", the kind where you say "oh gently caress, what have I done".

I am so much of a hardcore fanboy that I've let this poo poo affect my life - my real, non-internet life. What the gently caress was I thinking?

I feel sick to my stomach when I think about the countless hours of my life that I've wasted praising/defending a mobile platform; putting so much effort into converting others to my way of thinking. Oh my god, the pathetic poo poo that I've pulled in the name of Windows Phone over the years. Here's a taster:

• I write essay length rebuttals in comments sections to any negative WP article I come accross.
  
• If I don't get enough support for said rebuttals, I'll register new accounts to reply in agreement or give myself one or two "recommends" or "likes".
  
• I sometimes pretend to be an iPhone/Android user to post a stupid, biased comment about WP that I can then refute.
  
• I've created posts about how my 950 works perfectly and is bug-free, even though I don't own a 950 yet.
  
• I make a lot of comments on various websites about how laggy and unstable my Android phones have been but I've never even used an Android phone.
  
• I've written my fare share of "this guy at work saw my phone and was amazed" fantasies.
  
• I've pretended to be a developer and written about how poo poo iOS/Android are to develop for compared to WP.
  
• I've criticised the iPhone cameras for being rubbish in comparison to my Lumia (never actually used an iPhone past the 4s)
  
• I've hounded people like Tom Warren and Paul Thurrot on Twitter for their negative WP articles (I've never written anything nasty or personal but I feel pretty guilty about giving them so much poo poo).

Phew! I feel 10 lb lighter! Writing all that out and re-reading it, I can't help but think what a loving basket case I am. What the gently caress is wrong with me? I think maybe it's just tribalism. Like I needed one side to support (Microsoft) and one side to despise (Google, and to a lesser extend Apple), and I invented my own reasons at a later date.

I don't for a second think that any of you lovely folk are as bad as me. But maybe a few of you are also letting this stuff get you down a bit - well now you can at least say you're not as bad as that other lunatic!

So anyway, I'm going to take a step back and get a different phone. Not because there's anything wrong with WP or my 930, but because I need to go cold turkey and reclaim a bit of sanity. Also, maybe it's a little poetic that I'm leaving this side of my life behind as the platform seems to be winding down.

So long chaps, you will be missed. I have no idea what I'll do with all my free time now. Maybe I should get into sports...

https://www.reddit.com/r/windowsphone/comments/43pkci/anyone_else_have_the_sudden_realisation_that/

Internaut! posted:

I did this only because I dont have a closet in my new office and I wanted a dead silent machine

ended up with a PC that has no case fans, no cpu fan, and PSU/GPU fans that only turn when really under load so it literally has no parts moving unless I'm rendering video or doing some insane 3D or whatever

as a bonus it looks hilarious



edit: to be fair it doesn't look too bad buttoned up but I never see it anyway



but for extra hilarity did I mention it's a hackintosh

FCKGW posted:

and you're proud of this trash heap?

jfc by a 5k iMac already, the worlds best computer

CraigK posted:

anyway, is there a list of kbXXXXXXX patches i have to hide on win7 to not get the "we're going to upgrade you to win10 because we have decided you need it" poo poo