DinoMikeSr
I have the box
My oldest built his brother a gaming computer like that years ago. Had lime 4 fans in it. Sounded like a Cessna.
I was near Richmond today and the Best Buy…
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jrockbridge
Stealing Your Riffs
The latest model Mac Mini is a serious machine that will do much more than you need. It’s literally capable of video production editing. If you want to do multitrack audio recording, you are set. You just need a good audio interface.
What Mac’s, in general, will not do well is gaming. If you want to do gaming with high speed 3D graphics, that’s when you’d need a specialized PC.
jp_nyc
Kick Henry Jackassowski
Last night I walked my dog and it was fucking COLD. I realized that I need new earbuds that can go underneath of a beanie. I spent some time reading reviews and found what I wanted. For some reason Amazon didn’t have them (aside from dozens of deep discount obvious fakes) so I checked Best Buy and they were in stock locally. I went to the store, found the spot, and there were none there. I ran into a gaggle of employees while I was walking out and I decided to ask for help. It turns out that, despite having a space on the shelf for the earbuds, they keep them locked away in a room customers can’t access. I bought the earbuds, but I think many customers would have just left.
jrockbridge
Stealing Your Riffs
They should have a sign that tells customers to ask an employee about the earbuds. They must assume that customers will ask if they can’t find something.
We live in a self serve world where most people want to be left alone. That includes the customers and the employees.
I was in Walmart grabbing a $5 32GB USB drive. They had them hanging on a rod with a lock at the end so that you could not slide them off without unlocking. An employee offered to get the keys to unlock it. I told him not to bother as I showed him how easy it was to gently pull it through the rod, ripping the cardboard. He laughed.
Why the heck are they bothering with trying to secure a $5 item? And who’s the genius who thinks a tiny hole at the top of a thin piece of cardboard is going to stop a thief? Lol! It takes all kinds to make a world.
DinoMikeSr
I have the box
My lady friend bought me a beanie with built in ear/speakers. It sounds surprisingly good and it’s warm.
jp_nyc
Kick Henry Jackassowski
That reminds me of the days when stores started putting security tags on CD wrappers. So people just cut that part of the wrapper off in the store. Hardware stores even started selling tiny box cutters the size of a quarter to make it easy.
I'm in IT, currently as a SysAdmin, and sometimes even *I* don't want to build a system. Did I just pull the AIO cooler out of my box yesterday and replace it with a Noctua NH-D15 and waiting on a new set of 140mm fans to arrive tomorrow? Sure! But it's not something I recommend to everybody, especially when that's not the question that was asked.
Did he have a GlobalWin FOP32 heatsink/fan in it? I had one of those and it sounded like a hairdryer from straight across the house.
However, fans are controllable these days. Some even have a 0% setting where they can actually restart when necessary, unlike older fans that have to start at 100% and slow down.
No need to make something difficult though. You're not going to be sitting there playing competitive CounterStrike, so you don't need that sort of box.
Acadiafall
Kiss Me Hardy
If I'm looking for something electronic I check Amazon Warehouse for goods that have been returned. You can get a great deal if timed right
ColourofFire
Kick Henry Jackassowski
The new macs are great. I used Macs exclusively for a long time, then for a while they were just so meh I switched to Windows. Last year I got an Apple silicon macbook pro for work, damn that thing is impressive. I work in a small company doing interactive installations and touchwalls for museums and stuff, most of our on-site projects run on mac mini's, they last forever and are totally up to pretty much anything you throw at them unless it involves projects with stuff like 4 4k projectors at the same time. I'm sure it'll do everything you need it to
And as a tip for photo stuff: https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/photo/. Unlike Adobe they don't try to suck your wallet dry with a monthly subscription... I like it a lot and it's on sale quite often, I picked up most of the v1 software for around 30 bucks a piece.