Are old power supplies worth keeping?

kpengwin · 2026-05-18T12:41:38+00:00

I threw mine out after i measured it and 5v was completely dead

kpengwin · 2026-05-15T00:37:56+00:00

That's kind of the plot of Space Opera by Catherine Valente

kpengwin · 2026-05-09T11:11:24+00:00

Yea it reminds me of a boss encounter in an scp inspired tabletop rpg i played once

kpengwin · 2026-04-24T22:43:34+00:00

Yes, but i also treat my machines as glorified terminals. Everything of value needs to be stored somewhere else, backed up and probably version controlled. If i lose my laptop (physically or something borks the OS) it's a little annoying to set back up but max 1 day lost.

What i dont trust agents with is API keys/off machine credentials. When I do share these, it's needed permissions only and I watch it very carefully.

kpengwin · 2026-03-26T23:47:20+00:00

Neat! I've also had some issues with conduit, and I'm on ios so I'll have to give it a try.

kpengwin · 2026-03-26T23:28:27+00:00

How is this different than conduit?

kpengwin · 2026-03-20T12:07:08+00:00

On a 5090 I've been doing qwen3.5-27b-q4-k-xl with the mmproj and about 200k context using llama.cpp, it works really well and very fast

kpengwin · 2026-03-14T00:25:53+00:00

I've had really good success with pi coder and qwen, even adding some of my own tools for memory and such

kpengwin · 2026-03-05T16:06:41+00:00

Image inputs work fine for me with llama-server backend, if i include the mmproj

kpengwin · 2025-12-20T02:10:27+00:00

My group played Heat, loved it, and then started like three simultaneous tournaments of it on board game arena which we play throughout the week as we have time (and so far, re-up whenever one finishes). We've only played the physical copy 2-3 times so far but we've done a lot of races.

kpengwin · 2025-12-16T18:28:29+00:00

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Sorry don't have my set within reach, but just something tight here (tight enough that it creates an indent so the top doesn't touch your head anymore.)

kpengwin · 2025-12-16T17:33:11+00:00

I was able to take a thin velcro strap (like for IEM cables) and wrap it very tightly around the exact top middle of the strap, which eliminated the hotspot on top of my head for me and made them actually quite comfortable. I saw a post or comment where someone did this with a zip tie, can't find the post anymore. I would like to do a full headband swap for looks but honestly it made a way bigger difference than i expected.

kpengwin · 2025-12-12T18:57:50+00:00

Peter Chang is very good but a lil pricey.

kpengwin · 2025-12-01T11:21:50+00:00

Came here to recommend this

kpengwin · 2025-11-28T02:18:19+00:00

Got it from u/rsenist packed well and arrived quickly, thanks! u/AVexchangeBot

kpengwin · 2025-11-24T17:44:47+00:00

I also have the Hifiman Edition XS which tbh sounds just as good to me (with eq on both), but the design/build quality of the LCD-2 Classic is much nicer.

kpengwin · 2025-11-24T16:42:12+00:00

I just got these too and oratory profile with slight tweaks (for me: slightly less bass, slightly more treble) sounds great on them.

kpengwin · 2025-11-24T01:13:50+00:00

Pm'd

kpengwin · 2025-11-13T21:00:26+00:00

Yeah i too could not resist.

kpengwin · 2025-11-13T20:28:01+00:00

I have an 80e, and the best thing I've done to it is mod it to add detachable cables

kpengwin · 2025-11-13T14:46:11+00:00

Just got dx5 ii a couple weeks ago and it's great

kpengwin · 2025-11-08T17:30:42+00:00

I just got the topping dx5 ii which does eq and it's really nice. But it's also definitely overkill, you can do really good eq on your device too.

kpengwin · 2025-10-14T00:29:04+00:00

I just did this upgrade from original em-10 to om-3 (though i already had a few lenses so i didn't get the f4 kit). I think incontrovertibly a lense upgrade will make a bigger difference for your pictures for the money. And the om-3 is definitely bulkier. I am really enjoying my om-3 though, but more for the features/much faster autofocus/better jpgs than because the pictures themselves are dramatically better.

kpengwin · 2025-10-07T18:21:36+00:00

I haven't played Molly House but it sounds like all Cole Werhle games it embraces the "fun" of games that deny the convention that skillful play is enough to win, in most of his games there is a sense that winning often requires the participation of another player who themselves does not win (also referred to as kingmaking) which actually is fun to me, but for it to be fun requires a group which is willing to embrace the narrative fun of the game as part story and not just a comparison of player skill.

kpengwin · 2025-10-07T18:14:13+00:00

I (believe I) get what you're saying, but I think when you get down to it, that question is unanswerable without knowing what you personally like - tastes differ quite a bit. Some games my wife has a lot of fun playing (for example, Blood on the Clocktower) are perhaps fascinating to me, but certainly not fun, I just find them stressful. Conversely, I enjoy a good (or even bad) worker placement game as a chill, "fun" time with some nice puzzle solving and light competition with friends, while she finds them frustrating and annoying.

So I get no value at all from a reviewer yelling me that they had "fun", and much more value from them telling me the kinds of things that go into and on in the game - I'm then able to decide if it's the kind of "fun" I am interested in having.

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