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Apparently they're a thing. I saw these in an e-mail today.

Some of the Intel CPUs have AES acceleration.

That will definitely be a very expensive skin.

I ordered (don't have it yet) a 860 EVO 1TB for $127.99. They'd have to be way under the MSRP for the QVO to be attractive.

Some people will believe anything... The planet is cooling and has been for the past decade plus. They just can't stop fudging the data to hide it though.

Time to recalibrate...

So how do you charge it?

No love for Nair or waxing? :rofl:

:scratch: They're the same basic size. I'd rather have a short cable than the the direct USB plug. First it allows connecting to both USB-C and USB-A ports. Second, I don't end up with a large/heavy (relatively speaking) box hanging off the USB port blocking adjacent ports or stressing the...

I decided to get this Massdrop x THX AAA™ 789 Linear Amplifier and a Massdrop x Grace Design Standard DAC to connect to my desktop computer at home in the library. I will use my HiFiMan HE-560 or HE-500 headphones with it.

I used today's eBay 15% off coupon to buy a set of 6 matched NOS IN-18 Nixie tubes and an assembled PCB to put them in.

In what fantasy world is that? Have you seen all the chips on a M.2 2280 SSD? How are you going to miniaturize that into a USB stick?

It's also much faster than a thumb drive type of case. Life is full of compromises.

:scratch: I think you meant to send him a PM with that question.

No idea if you're still looking, but Amazon has this Lighting deal going on a USB 3.x M.2 enclosure. It's $17.98 and you can get another $2.70 off with the 10% off coupon making it $15.28. Add in a 1TB Samsung EVO 860 for $127.99 and you've got 1TB of high speed USB goodness.

:rotfl: Well played... :rotfl:

FWIW, Monoprice has their Sous Vide on sale today for $43.99 with free shipping. https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=21594

After using CueTools a lot more in the months since starting this thread I have a few comments to add. 1) It is possible that EAC may rip damaged tracks in a way where they can't be recovered. If there are too many samples that vary from the reference it will simply say no match. It's also...

Yes to EAC. There's a now somewhat dated guide that I wrote up here. EAC now has AccurateRip and CTDB comparison capability built it. Combining those with my routine of using the secure mode and effectively ripping each disc twice and comparing them using EAC's test and copy feature the rips...

That's a totally different equation... I'm all about value for my money. I didn't buy my gear from the most expensive retailer either. I can buy 2-3x as much music for the same amount of money. Lastly, I can help to starve the RIAA beast by buying used CDs.

Some are out of print or were never sold in the US new. Also, there's the whole value proposition of a $4-5 used CD vs. a $12 new one.

I got another batch of used CDs today in the mail. The eBay seller that I've bought the most CDs from, decluttr_store, pretty much straight up lies about the condition of their discs. They list everything as Very Good with the added note of “This product has passed our meticulous quality...

So, apparently BT came out with an album at the end of 2016 that can only be had in a lossy format. Hard pass for me...

Tell me about it. I bought tickets through Ticketmaster for one event at one venue and now I get spammed with e-mails for that venue. I click the unsubscribe link and it takes me to a webpage where I can check what I want to receive about. Everything is unchecked, but I keep getting e-mails...

The person who inspected the disc. Their name was on the paper slip included with the disc.

I've been gaining weight from the all the Oreos they're forcing me to eat. That's not happening to you?

I bought a number of used CDs in the past 2 weeks. Today a large number of them arrived in my mailbox. I thought I had seen it all in my used CD buying over the past years, but today I was surprised. One of the jewel cases had a burned Verbatim CD-RW in it instead of a pressed disc. :scratch...

Yep, that's going to be a dog... There are numerous options to improve things. It all depends on how much you want to spend and the form factor you can accept. NVME drive in a USB 3.1 enclosure with 10gbps will be the fastest / best performing. A external USB 3.x SSD will be next (depending...

Run CDM 6.02 on your current drive and post the results. Then you'll have a good baseline to use for comparison for any new drive you look at.

:idea: Maybe he likes touchscreen typing.

The best advice I can give you is to look at the reviews on Amazon and hope people have posted screenshots of CrystalDiskMark and ATTO runs on the various drives you're interested in in the user submitted pictures. Even then you will have to be careful when looking at the screenshots because...

I don't buy things that I can't afford, so the idea of financing a phone seems odd to me. Then again, I wouldn't but a $1k phone either.

Stereocytes...

My bad, you still have yours since you never part with your unused gear.

Why? I can't believe that was the best deal you could get.

Is that your copy that you gave away some years back?

Nice... I got another one from a different "hacker" with the same basic shtick. This one even sent a reminder / final warning e-mail. Yahoo send them both straight into the spam folder.

It's alive! :sunny: The Raspberry Pi 3 is receiving and processing the data from the Moteino (Arduino) on the MightyHat. The Moteino receives the data over the RFM69 wireless transceiver from the Moteino M0 board elsewhere in the house. Now it's time to scale this project up and make a...

Now I have the gateway Arduino receiving data from the remote sensor node over wireless. The remote sensor node is going into the very low power standby mode, waking itself every 10 seconds, transmitting the temperature, humidity, & pressure data packet, and going back into standby. :beer: I...

Apparently I was quite wrong. NodeMcu products using the ESP8266 are sub $10 and have a TCP/IP stack. On my mesh network of sensors project I soldered up my hat for the Rpi3 this afternoon at work. I haven't messed with it yet. I spend a little time tonight playing with the Moteino M0 +...

The e-mail I got appears to come from the e-mail address they claim to have hacked. However, when I looked at the full headers it looks like it originates from a Google account if I'm reading it correctly. It's laughable for many reasons. The first and foremost is that the e-mail account they...

ROFLcopters... My only disappointment is that I can't reply to the e-mail.

Those are cool. I didn't realize there were RGBW neopixels now. On the clock front it wouldn't have to be limited to being a clock since it's a dot matrix display. It could have weather or other information on it too. More than one line or alternating screens. It's sort of hard for me to...

I think a nice geeky clock could be made with RGB LED matrix panels also. Like this one. I should note they're much cheaper to buy on AliExpress. Like this 2mm pitch 128x64 one. There's code on GitHub for driving them from the RPi. There's code to render text to them, playing videos, and...

These nixie tubes are amazing and look like finely crafted pieced of art, but it's almost $1k for a set of 6. If you're going in, you might as well go all in right? :bomb: Their completed clock is a piece of art, but at $2.2k I won't be buying one.

I saw those yesterday also. They're still a little pricey and they don't quite have the same retro vibe to them as Nixie tubes.

A lot of them seem to use an Arduino in which case it seems like it shouldn't be too hard to connect a ESP8266 and simply have it use NTP (assuming there's enough unused flash and RAM left in the Atmel chip). The Nixie tubes are rather expensive now too. A NOS set of 6 IN-18's are about $300.

I'm not sure I follow you on the cleaning part. You'd have to dust it like anything else.

So who here has a Nixie clock? I realize I'm way late to the party, but I kind of want one.

$59 each... :rofl: And the Wifi and Ethernet is handled by the 400MHz Atheros AR9331 WiFi SoC, 64MB of DDR2 RAM, and 16MB of flash. Not exactly a low power embedded micro.