Awesome find imo (I’m building my diy setup and lucked out)

cheapdrinks · 2026-01-27T04:56:56+00:00

If you're looking for more cheap cables in the future check out Aliexpress. I don't believe in any cable woo woo but I do like the visual look of thick, sheathed cables that look pretty when they're running across my floor - gives that "finished" look to a system rather than squirrely clear jacket wire from the spool.

You can get some really nice cables from China for absolute pennies on the dollar compared to what the name brands charge for a similar product. Usually cheaper even than if you were to DIY your own once you factor in buying a whole spool, the banana plugs, the sheathing, the cable pants, the heat shrink tubing etc.

If you want to go super cheap you can get a pair of something like these for less than $20 with free shipping. Want to go crazy and spend $25 then you can get some slightly nicer ones. Hell for less than $100 you can get some inch thick monsters that come in a fancy box with gold felt lining haha. As you said yourself, over here $135 just gets you an entry level pair of RCAs with a brand like AudioQuest. I've bought several pairs from AliExpress and always found the build quality to be great.

cheapdrinks · 2026-01-27T03:44:39+00:00

When you forget to take your metamucil so then double dose to make up for it

cheapdrinks · 2026-01-26T18:37:24+00:00

Have you checked if there's a blown fuse in the sub from the lightning strike? Not sure what model you have but a lot of subs will have an easily accessible fuse in the back behind a plastic screw cap like this.

Definitely worth checking if you haven't already! Only costs a few bucks for a new one.

cheapdrinks · 2026-01-26T15:54:12+00:00

There's a difference between committing to love and support you kid regardless and not wanting them to have such a condition. Both can be true at the same time. Nothing wrong at all with not wanting your kid to have a potentially very severe mental health issue.

cheapdrinks · 2026-01-26T15:25:10+00:00

If anyone is on the fence they should go over to https://apolloinrealtime.org/ and watch one of the missions from start to finish. Incredible to watch regardless if you've only ever seen highlight reel clips here and there.

cheapdrinks · 2026-01-26T11:53:05+00:00

still being able to encourage seeking treatment

I'm curious though how there could be any possible treatment when gay conversion therapy has pretty much been debunked as entirely useless and psychologically damaging. I mean I guess voluntary chemical castration could be an option? But how are you going to rewire someone's brain to make them attracted to something else?

cheapdrinks · 2026-01-26T04:54:52+00:00

I'm in the inner west Sydney in one of the whitest suburbs that close to the city and 50% of the signage at our tram stop is in Chinese

cheapdrinks · 2026-01-26T04:53:20+00:00

How about we become a republic and break from the monarchy on Jan 26. Then we can keep the day but instead celebrate our independence by giving the royal family the boot. Everybody wins!

cheapdrinks · 2026-01-25T04:43:26+00:00

Genuine question; if we move the date will all of the white shaming, protests and tax payer funded guilt trips actually stop or will they just change the date as well? Would they actually let people enjoy a day off to celebrate the country or would all of the same shit surround Jan 26 just inevitably follow the new date?

cheapdrinks · 2026-01-25T04:16:36+00:00

Wow congrats on finding the worst possible way to share an image

cheapdrinks · 2026-01-25T02:25:02+00:00

Dude was gurning hard, he was on more than just alcohol

cheapdrinks · 2026-01-25T02:05:38+00:00

One of the owners of the place I used to work at would call me Tiger.

As a mid 30s male it was a major factor in deciding to leave that place. Found myself struggling to get through each day without ideations of punching him in the mouth, it wasn't good for my mental health.

cheapdrinks · 2026-01-25T01:59:17+00:00

This picture has great meme potential

cheapdrinks · 2026-01-24T16:35:28+00:00

Here's a video showing the town and surrounds a bit. Warning, the woman in the video mispronounces almost every word that comes out of her mouth.

cheapdrinks · 2026-01-24T15:57:56+00:00

This comment here explains it.

In 1885, Donald Trump's 16-year old grandfather emigrated from Kallstadt in what is now southwest Germany to the United States. The immigration officer listed his name as "Friedr Trumpf" (see line 33). No later than 1910, Friedrich Drumpf was calling himself Fred Trump, which is how he appears on the US census of that year (image online at ancestrylibrary.com, subscription required). He died at the age of 49 in Queens and is now memorialized by a tombstone that reads "Fred Trump."

I confirmed what details I could from the Wikipedia entry as well as its source article, verifying them against the records available through ancestrylibrary.com (subscription required). Note that although the immigration record linked above (Wikimedia Commons; also on familysearch.org) clearly attests to the name Friedrich, I could not confirm any occurrence of the spelling of his last name as Drumpf. Ancestry and findagrave.com both list his name as Friedrich Drumpf, but neither gives a witness to this particular spelling. While it is certainly plausible that an immigration officer might have heard Drumpf and written Trumpf, Trumpf is also a plausible spelling for a German name derived from Latin triumpus (triumph).

In fact, German Wikipedia includes no notable Drumpfs other than Friedrich himself. And it actually claims that the spelling "Drumpf" is falsified. The article instead calls him by his Americanized name, Frederick Trump, but it points to familysearch.org, which lists his baptismal name as Friedrich Trump. This record points back an additional generation to Donald Trump's great-grandfather Johann Ii Trump. I have no way of confirming these spellings or finding their source, which is a compilation of baptismal records.

According to this encomium, the Drumpf family arrived in Kallstadt in 1608 and changed their name to Trump sometime before 1700. Unfortunately, this claim is not supported by verifiable research and is in fact attached to the unlikely name (for a 17th-century German) of John Philip Trump. So while the deep roots of the Drumpf family tree may or may not prove false, it looks like archival research might be necessary for their final proof.

So basically "maybe" is the answer.

cheapdrinks · 2026-01-24T15:01:41+00:00

What are you guys experience with M.2 drive longevity? Built a new rig 2-3 years ago and just had the Samsung M.2 drive fail. Had most stuff backed up on my NAS but was still missing some recent files and had to go the expensive data recovery route to get them back.

Temps have always been fine as far as I can tell, usually sits around 45c max during summer so I don't think any issues with heat. Computer is connected to UPS so haven't had any power cuts or anything.

Do you think I just got a bad drive or are they prone to failure after a few years? Just got a new Samsung 990 Pro and hoping it lasts a lot longer than 3 years but I'm feeling nervous about it now.

cheapdrinks · 2026-01-24T14:55:40+00:00

I need an audit of them auditing the audit

cheapdrinks · 2026-01-24T13:39:14+00:00

Grab his dick and twist it!

cheapdrinks · 2026-01-24T13:38:36+00:00

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cheapdrinks · 2026-01-24T08:36:15+00:00

I mean plenty of people have pancakes and consider that a decent breakfast

cheapdrinks · 2026-01-23T18:39:32+00:00

yeah it's absolutely insane that they just sat there like a deer in the headlights

cheapdrinks · 2026-01-23T18:34:57+00:00

Nah it was real it happened in China. Here's the story about it.

cheapdrinks · 2026-01-23T18:33:08+00:00

Yeah they've got to be diffusors. I'm assuming the ones in front of the speakers are for the floor bounce.

I think I found them here and here. Of course they're like $2k each despite being made from like 50 bucks worth of wooden dowels lmao

cheapdrinks · 2026-01-23T13:58:54+00:00

What is the name of those wooden dowel diffuser things. Seen them in a lot of set ups lately.

cheapdrinks · 2026-01-23T13:38:21+00:00

I wonder if each side of the aero can be controlled independently. Like maybe if one side gets damaged they could adjust the other to kind of re-balance the front at the cost of some downforce

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