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StopSneeding said:
My ASUS AC-66U seemed like it was on its way out. It was constantly disconnecting and having issues bringing wlan interfaces up after restart. Download speed became abysmal at 5ish MB/s on a 250 mbit connection. Just picked up an AX-68U and flashed ASUS Merlin onto it. Wifi 6 is working really well and the range is excellent. I am going to setup entware and either adguard home or diversion for DNS based ad blocking later today. I'm sure there's some other scripts/programs I'll set up too.
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I had some of the old Asus RT-NXX series routers and they all ended up crapping out after a few years. After that I decided no more consumer grade routers and APs.
 
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The Ugly One said:
Dual monitors are extremely useful. But sometimes you need 2xHDMI, and sometimes you need 2xDisplayPort, hence 4 ports on most cards these days.
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Horror story:
Something I regret not filling a trashbag with at a previous place was miniDP to HDMI adapters. HP had fucked the local government, as usual, so they had a thousand of the things to get rid of and if anyone wanted one they cost one euro a piece. I'm not sure how that happened but all computers have quadros and they all have four miniDP outputs and the ratfuckers at HP would absolutely recommend four mDP-HDMI adapters per computer even if they only used one screen. I hate them so much.
 
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Car Won't Crank said:
I had some of the old Asus RT-NXX series routers and they all ended up crapping out after a few years. After that I decided no more consumer grade routers and APs.
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Pretty sure the wifi chipset just gets cooked after a while. Under heavy load from many clients the routers run extremely hot. This combined with shitty thermal pads with poor contact, terrible thermal paste, no ventilation, and only passive cooling will always end in failure. From repeated extreme hot to cool the solder will eventually fail on these cheap consumer routers.

Adguard is up and running, works very well so far with no issues. WebUI actually runs well and is easy to navigate. Setup 5 gigs of swap on a dedicated USB to accommodate entware packages and scripts.
 
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StopSneeding said:
Pretty sure the wifi chipset just gets cooked after a while. Under heavy load from many clients the routers run extremely hot. This combined with shitty thermal pads with poor contact, terrible thermal paste, no ventilation, and only passive cooling will always end in failure. From repeated extreme hot to cool the solder will eventually fail on these cheap consumer routers.

Adguard is up and running, works very well so far with no issues. WebUI actually runs well and is easy to navigate. Setup 5 gigs of swap on a dedicated USB to accommodate entware packages and scripts.
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That's probably what happened. For all of those RT routers I could log in, flash the firmware etc but it would fail to acquire ip from the modem and actually do the routing. I remember them feeling hot to the touch, especially the trapezoidal RT-N56u router's chassis. Terrible airflow and cooling on that thing.
 
The Mass Shooter Ron Soye said:

Aluminum is not weak if it's thick enough and niche mini-ITX cases being expensive is nothing new.
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Why you post the link when the pic its literally from there? whats the point? and its weak af, look at the review videos it warps as you try to bend the ends, its a POS
TheRedChair said:
This is nothing but a stamped piece of metal that you put together. Oh I keep forgetting... If there are REEEEEETARDS.... If they see it, they will buy it.

The cost is too high for what you got.
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You dont even get the shitty but necessary fan for that price, you have to buy it separately or overheat
 
TheRedChair said:
This is nothing but a stamped piece of metal that you put together. Oh I keep forgetting... If there are REEEEEETARDS.... If they see it, they will buy it.

The cost is too high for what you got.
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It's stylish. There's a market for people who want something small and attractive on their desks (without a skull for whatever reason), and they'll pay a premium.
 
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I'm seeing the usual internet talking heads screaming that "intel is closing down their GPU division!".

If true, I can see the ARC gpus that are currently out there becoming weird collectors items ten years down the line the same way Cyrix and Voodoo are today.
 
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Cool Dog said:
Why you post the link when the pic its literally from there? whats the point? and its weak af, look at the review videos it warps as you try to bend the ends, its a POS

You dont even get the shitty but necessary fan for that price, you have to buy it separately or overheat
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Teenage engineering is for retarded tech idiots who work at marketing firms and want to look cool and show off how much money they make
 
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Bonesjones said:
Teenage engineering is for retarded tech idiots who work at marketing firms and want to look cool and show off how much money they make
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I'm surprised chinks arent selling copies yet, all they need is a metal stamping machine
 
Bonesjones said:
Their OP1 synth came out in like 2018 and was considered ridiculously overpriced at 800 dollars, it's now 1200 bucks. A slight revision model is 2k. They are just attempting to appeal to the Apple retard community.
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Didn't it go up in price because one of the components stopped being made (the screen iirc) and they had to source it from another factory with dwindling stocks? Or something like that - that was the excuse they gave. It's a nifty little unit but nowhere near worth that money unless you got cash to burn. Most people who have one say they don't use it very much except for train journeys etc. etc.

I have a few TE bits and bobs. Pocket Operators anyway. The PO-33 K.O! microsampler is my favorite. You can do a lot with it and it's a lot of fun. But once you bought a few of them you realise they are fiddly and difficult to save your work on and synch up to other units, but they do sound good for the size. And they are much cheaper to take on the train. You too can be the virgin cowering PO-33 USER vs the swaggering OP1 USER chad.

Like all these pretentious design studios they have to fuck it up. They did a case for the pocket operators that had little icons on the pad buttons, like snare, clap, hat, kind of thing. But they stopped making them and now only provide fucking numbers. Thanks. Still haven't got a fucking clue which button to press. Then you erase all the good stuff you did fucking about and realise you had none of it saved. On most units you can't even save! Pretty nifty being able to send out an audio morse code signal though to transmit digital code to your computer to be able to load and save (on the ones that have it).

You think they are like 50/60/70 bucks and so aren't expensive, but after your third or fourth one you realise you could have bought a proper synth/drum machine/sampler with the money.

I'll admit to owning those and I do like them - you can do a very quick table top jam with a couple of those and a couple of korg volcas, but otherwise I pretty much agree with your assessment of them as a company.


On another note, I just bought 16GB of DDR-3 1600 RAM for my computer. I can't afford to buy a new system at the moment -- not the one I would like anyway -- and I don't have time to faff about with building one myself like I usually do. So I upgraded my SSD storage and RAM, and I'm then going to overclock the chip I've got which is a very good little overclocker. Got good cooling on it. Should be able to take it up about 400MHz easy, which is just about on the side of 'oh, this seems to be a bit faster now'.

I didn't go with brand name memory this time as Crucial and Kingston wanted about 160 quid iirc. This no name brand (which has good reviews) only cost me about 60 quid. And the 8GB upgrade was only marginally less than the 16GB -- 40 quid. So that gives me 24GB to play with now. I will use it up with sample libraries and whatnot. Maybe now my computer will stop crashing when I load nearly a hundred tabs of porn!
 
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I remember a time, must have been about a decade ago, when people wouldn't shut up about getting a "Tomato compatible router". These days I never hear about them.

According to google, Tomato is basically open source custom firmware. Do any kiwis know why people were so obsessed with it and what the benefits were?
 
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I remember a time, must have been about a decade ago, when people wouldn't shut up about getting a "Tomato compatible router". These days I never hear about them.

According to google, Tomato is basically open source custom firmware. Do any kiwis know why people were so obsessed with it and what the benefits were?
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I was going to say something about linuxfags, but tomato actually sounds kind of interesting.
 
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