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Rather than get a new laptop, I decided to get a desktop and keep my current laptop as a backup. It's still beefy enough to run dual displays at 4k with the external monitor running at 144Hz, so it's a good backup.
And since this is the Internet, I have to preface this by saying, yes I know building a desktop myself will save a few hundred bucks. Back when I was a kid, I valued the learning and saving money. These days I value my time so I can get back to making money and watching TV. So, paying a tiny premium for someone else to do the leg work is fine by me. With that out the way...
Anyone use NZXT? I just ordered a desktop from them, and I'll admit I'm always slightly worried when not getting to see a build in person first. But, from the Googling I haven't heard anything bad about them, save for they used to have airflow issues with their cases. That's supposed to be fixed now though.
Side note, I won't be doing much gaming on it. But, I do buy gaming computers because they tend to be the most beefy.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: Anyone use NZXT?
Nope...
I built mine myself, not to save some bucks but to force me to read about the current components and keep up-to-date. My last build was around 15 years ago.
Keep us posted when you receive it and start working with it.
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Nelek wrote: I built mine myself, not to save some bucks but to force me to read about the current components and keep up-to-date. My last build was around 15 years ago.
I could see that. I mean, I still know the basics but I couldn't tell you if SLI is still considered nice or not. A lot of stuff is the same though, we're still using DDR for instance, it's just 5 instead of 3, etc.
At least it's a desktop, so if I ever get that itch then I can swap stuff out in the future. Will be years away though, this one should last me a few.
Nelek wrote: Keep us posted when you receive it and start working with it.
Will do man.
Jeremy Falcon
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I've built my own desktops for the last 30 years, until my current one that I bought a few months ago. I was shocked to find that it was actually cheaper to buy a Dell and get the components I wanted than build it myself, by a couple hundred dollars--what I used to save by doing it myself.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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Really? Dell's awesome. I was so close to buying a new XPS laptop from them. The only thing that stopped me was I couldn't push 144Hz from an external monitor. Still, they're good computers.
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last week my GE refrigerator stopped working and sent clinking noise from the rear.
I did some research and found the solution: the controller board malfunctioned.
So I ordered it from Amazon and it will be my exercise in labor day.
diligent hands rule....
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this controller board is even more interesting: image is here
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The fun part of IoT and embedded is a lot of times you're working very close to the metal, and you can't rely on things like an operating system and graphics drivers - you have to write them yourself (or find code that's already written in some cases). I have a graphics library I wrote which I've been using for about 2 years both professionally and as a hobby. I've extended it in that time to support Unicode, TrueType, SVG, PNG and JPG. I liked writing all that code. I hated documenting it[^]. I'm working on documentation for my user interface library that builds on top of it right now and it's a slog.
Testing it is at least as bad. I can't decide which I hate most. Probably testing, considering I enjoy writing at least. I've got some unit tests for my major library, but I haven't written it to cover the absolutely vast surface area of my test matrix.
Design is typically fun for me, but I feel like every third time I think I'm clever it bites me. Lately the above user interface library has been kicking me in the teeth, requiring me to make breaking changes over several iterations of the code. I'm not thrilled about it, but it's better than testing.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
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Definitely documentation, I'm terrible at it!
I don't think before I open my mouth, I like to be as surprised a everyone else.
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I hate documenting my code, but I enjoy writing technical articles. I've tried using codeproject articles to document my code, but in the end I found they were at best supplementary.
Now I've taken to using markdown and generating a wiki web from it using Gatsby. Markdown is at least easy to format, and I can do it all in VS Code, putting the markdown in a /docs folder under the project. I even have a server script that repulls my doc updates from git and pushes them to the web.
Markdown, once you know it - and if you use a preview extension with it, is a nice way to document. It's now used all over the place, including Github, and it's also easy to read even if you don't have a markdown display app.
I know it isn't the silver bullet you and I are hoping for, but I like it a lot better than trying to fill in the blanks with something like doxygen.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
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