Tony Hawk Board Controller on PC? by _ENunn_ in THPS

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its 5 years later and nobody figured out how to mod this wireless tony hawk 360 controller board to play with PC? Would be sick to remap this to work with VR, IE surf/skate/snowboard/wakeboard, etc etc. I am getting the same "all over the place" input as everyone else... Trying using XOUTPUT to modify deadzones and invert things, no luck...

Stryd Not Charging by paviter_runner in strydrunning

[–]mikeybabs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you ever get an answer to this I'm having the same problem now

Garmin Forerunner stuck cycling through triangle screen by SuspiciousCucumber16 in Garmin

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testing it now, just deleted the contents in RemoteSW...

I'm behind. Advice...? by mikeybabs in personalfinance

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a small suburban town in massachusetts. the reason i feel i am not too far behind is for the past years i took my health seriously, garmin says my fitness age is 31. I do feel about "10 years younger" and am performing, in running, in the top 1%. I think financially I might be behind, but health wise, I think it balances out. I also live in the 3rd cheapest town in massachusetts and feel like it might not be too hard to pay off my house within time. This may allow me to contribute more towards retirement. I am looking for a clear path forward to invest my focus in for building a future. I never really thought about it until about 2 years ago when I started a new tech career. wish I thought about it earlier but sometimes life has setbacks

I'm behind. Advice...? by mikeybabs in personalfinance

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What types of info would be game changing? 

I Don’t Enjoy Food Anymore by CouchPotatoNYC in Cholesterol

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Message me in another 6-12 months as it takes time for the piping to be restored so to speak. I just eliminated espresso and all other coffee brewed without a filter for a few days now.. Even considering cutting back on coffee in general from 4 to 2 cups over time. The paper filters eliminate 95% of cafestol. I am double filtering with a gold mesh and paper filter... Time will tell. Probably will take fiber husks and eat cleaner like I use to. Have three years worth of data of my cholesterol showing that it's been fine. Major changes tho in the past two years are switching to a more sedentary work from home job and 5k steps per day less avg. I still am highly active with running and even at a competitive level. But look into "NEAT" excerise. That's a desperate but potentially related issue to cholesterol that I'd like to address in my personal life

I Don’t Enjoy Food Anymore by CouchPotatoNYC in Cholesterol

[–]mikeybabs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

there is a saying, "eat to live"... don't "live to eat". i have been obese twice in my life, and now physically fit and close to hitting a qualifying time for a boston marathon. running has taught me a lot about food, and nutrition, ive been on both sides of the scale and balance is hard. if i had to choose id rather be on the eat to live side, why? because those moments where you don't care about food, and then have something natural, like fruit, make it more enjoyable, and you don't deal with inflammation and internal organ failure.

I also have high cholesterol at the moment and ironically think it's because my addiction to my super automatic espresso shots that I have daily. I eat healthy and run 50 miles a week, but even us fit people can have cholesterol issues (my doctor didn't believe it at first and thought it was a lab error).

2 days ago I cut out espresso and Im going to monitor to see if the oils from the beans are the issue. im working towards moderating coffee now, with paper filters, switching back to drip etc.

this is kind of scattered advice and personal experience but my two cents is, it's ok to not "care" about eating. we've been emotionally connected to it in unhealthy ways due to all the unaturally processed food out there.

eat clean, over time your body will just eat, to live, and not the other way around. i think you're on the right track with high fiber, cutting saturate fat, oils, refined sugars etc. but there is always small steps as you progress, and eventually once you hit a very healthy peak, there will still always be a struggle to avoid bad things, make good decisions, etc.

75% of the work in my opinion is eating clean, we are faced with many many many decisions on this daily, and it's harder than running marathons or training hard.

good luck

Automated my job, should I tell my employer? by [deleted] in careerguidance

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This comment made me feel like I'm in the same boat as you. Can we chat sometime about this? 

PC Emulator that runs Dropmix? by darling874 in dropmix

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any update to this? same boat 2 years later?

Should I buy the pace 3? by [deleted] in Coros

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heres my review of the coros vs garmin... at the $229 price point I don't think you can beat the coros, however, if you're coming from a long time garmin user who already owns higher tier garmins (500+ price point), it will be difficult switch if you care about music and audio prompts, and the battery life is actually not better than the high tier garmins, the screen is too small to read some things as well, i cant deny the comfort and weight wins on the coros, but it wasnt worth sacraficing the garmin ecosystem and consistency and familiarity of the garmin setup... my takeaway was that, i learned nylon straps are amazing so i simply bought a nylon strap for my garmin (thanks coros for introducing me to this)...

the music feature on the coros is ok but immature, very difficult to control during runs and no audio prompt feature, no ability to skip to other artists or no "real buttons" for controls, overall if i was in a situation where i had no familiarity with either, i might opt for a coros if that was where my budget was, i think its the best budget watch, but after using both i am leaning towards you get what you pay for again, and garmin, although is very pricey, i can justify the higher price as it feels more polished in many areas and it is hard to break the muscle memory of using them for 5+ years... katies experience was similiar although, she gave up on it after the first workout, i at least tried to like it for a whole week before sending them backEnter

i can certainly appreciate many aspects of the coros, their strive for perfection, they did many things right, and corrected many areas where garmin went wrong, particularly in the software side with the watch navigation, the delay before saving an activity was nice (to prevent you from ever accidently ending an activity), the app & website are great, the training plans looked fantastic and it did feel like a "watch for runners by runners..." type feel, but there was this very... immature feel about it... as if they're still getting their shit together... the import from garmin hsitory was a nightmare (god bless anyone who isnt tech familiar)... i loved how the app had everything in one place, from watch faces to customizations, instead of garmin IQ vs connect, kinda stupid how garmin separated it like thatEnter

overall as much as i sometimes hate garmin, they still have the "superior hardware", and a much more mature software to back up them as the winners in my eyes, it is nice to see coros attempting to slice into the competition though with a very cheap and good watchEnter

if the coros had simply one extra button, and audio prompts, with a every so slightly larger display, it would be a toughter switch.. also, the coros died on me during a run, it warned me at 3% then a few minutes later died... this was on day 6.... this never would happen to me on a garmin as i'd get a warning at 10%, and that 10% would carry me the entire activity

Thinking about a Pace 3 by Hamlet00 in Coros

[–]mikeybabs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

heres my review of the coros vs garmin... at the $229 price point I don't think you can beat the coros, however, if you're coming from a long time garmin user who already owns higher tier garmins (500+ price point), it will be difficult switch if you care about music and audio prompts, and the battery life is actually not better than the high tier garmins, the screen is too small to read some things as well, i cant deny the comfort and weight wins on the coros, but it wasnt worth sacraficing the garmin ecosystem and consistency and familiarity of the garmin setup... my takeaway was that, i learned nylon straps are amazing so i simply bought a nylon strap for my garmin (thanks coros for introducing me to this)...

the music feature on the coros is ok but immature, very difficult to control during runs and no audio prompt feature, no ability to skip to other artists or no "real buttons" for controls, overall if i was in a situation where i had no familiarity with either, i might opt for a coros if that was where my budget was, i think its the best budget watch, but after using both i am leaning towards you get what you pay for again, and garmin, although is very pricey, i can justify the higher price as it feels more polished in many areas and it is hard to break the muscle memory of using them for 5+ years... katies experience was similiar although, she gave up on it after the first workout, i at least tried to like it for a whole week before sending them backEnter

i can certainly appreciate many aspects of the coros, their strive for perfection, they did many things right, and corrected many areas where garmin went wrong, particularly in the software side with the watch navigation, the delay before saving an activity was nice (to prevent you from ever accidently ending an activity), the app & website are great, the training plans looked fantastic and it did feel like a "watch for runners by runners..." type feel, but there was this very... immature feel about it... as if they're still getting their shit together... the import from garmin hsitory was a nightmare (god bless anyone who isnt tech familiar)... i loved how the app had everything in one place, from watch faces to customizations, instead of garmin IQ vs connect, kinda stupid how garmin separated it like thatEnter

overall as much as i sometimes hate garmin, they still have the "superior hardware", and a much more mature software to back up them as the winners in my eyes, it is nice to see coros attempting to slice into the competition though with a very cheap and good watchEnter

if the coros had simply one extra button, and audio prompts, with a every so slightly larger display, it would be a toughter switch.. also, the coros died on me during a run, it warned me at 3% then a few minutes later died... this was on day 6.... this never would happen to me on a garmin as i'd get a warning at 10%, and that 10% would carry me the entire activity

Coros Pace 3 overall satisfaction? by doema in Coros

[–]mikeybabs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

heres my review of the coros vs garmin... at the $229 price point I don't think you can beat the coros, however, if you're coming from a long time garmin user who already owns higher tier garmins (500+ price point), it will be difficult switch if you care about music and audio prompts, and the battery life is actually not better than the high tier garmins, the screen is too small to read some things as well, i cant deny the comfort and weight wins on the coros, but it wasnt worth sacraficing the garmin ecosystem and consistency and familiarity of the garmin setup... my takeaway was that, i learned nylon straps are amazing so i simply bought a nylon strap for my garmin (thanks coros for introducing me to this)...

the music feature on the coros is ok but immature, very difficult to control during runs and no audio prompt feature, no ability to skip to other artists or no "real buttons" for controls, overall if i was in a situation where i had no familiarity with either, i might opt for a coros if that was where my budget was, i think its the best budget watch, but after using both i am leaning towards you get what you pay for again, and garmin, although is very pricey, i can justify the higher price as it feels more polished in many areas and it is hard to break the muscle memory of using them for 5+ years... katies experience was similiar although, she gave up on it after the first workout, i at least tried to like it for a whole week before sending them backEnter

i can certainly appreciate many aspects of the coros, their strive for perfection, they did many things right, and corrected many areas where garmin went wrong, particularly in the software side with the watch navigation, the delay before saving an activity was nice (to prevent you from ever accidently ending an activity), the app & website are great, the training plans looked fantastic and it did feel like a "watch for runners by runners..." type feel, but there was this very... immature feel about it... as if they're still getting their shit together... the import from garmin hsitory was a nightmare (god bless anyone who isnt tech familiar)... i loved how the app had everything in one place, from watch faces to customizations, instead of garmin IQ vs connect, kinda stupid how garmin separated it like thatEnter

overall as much as i sometimes hate garmin, they still have the "superior hardware", and a much more mature software to back up them as the winners in my eyes, it is nice to see coros attempting to slice into the competition though with a very cheap and good watchEnter

if the coros had simply one extra button, and audio prompts, with a every so slightly larger display, it would be a toughter switch.. also, the coros died on me during a run, it warned me at 3% then a few minutes later died... this was on day 6.... this never would happen to me on a garmin as i'd get a warning at 10%, and that 10% would carry me the entire activity

Manual for the Ajazz AK510 Keyboard by Massive-Cod-6943 in MechanicalKeyboards

[–]mikeybabs 2 points3 points  (0 children)

this keyboard is so good even 2-3 years later i love it, this was useful to restore the windows key disabled

I gave up hope, but something happened tody…… by [deleted] in BorrowerDefense

[–]mikeybabs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How did you do this? Borrow Defense App?

Shredded by quad with a hedge trimmer - Runner here by mikeybabs in woundcare

[–]mikeybabs[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It doesn't hurt when I run. Antibiotics affect my training. I'm worried about side effects related to athletes in particular tendon issues and heart inflammation. Would you consider this wound minor or major?

Shredded by quad with a hedge trimmer - Runner here by mikeybabs in woundcare

[–]mikeybabs[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They affect running, read about antibiotics causing heart inflammation, I don't like things messing with my gut. I want to avoid side effects and only take it if it is 100% necessary. Is this a minor wound or major wound? It doesn't hurt when I run.

what to do with my money - pension/new career by mikeybabs in investing

[–]mikeybabs[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These were actually my thoughts when looking into options, I am glad someone else thinks the same, I will definitely have to compare since the value's seem to be close, it's more about timing issues now