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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • I used to own both a Series X, PS5 and have my gaming PC (all in the same room - desktop currently has an i5 13500, RTX 3090 24GB, 4TB of NVME storage & 128GB ram)

    Got myself a 5m hdmi lead capable of driving my 4k/120 TV and just ended up using my pc for everything now.

    I just switch sources between my monitor and tv when I want to game on the couch. Any mouse/keyboard input needed, I do it on the Unified remote app on my phone and fire up Steam big picture on the tv.

    Sold the PS5 and XBOX and ditched two more subscriptions hitting me every month.

    No regrets so far.



  • To get that ad-free YouTube experience, I use Vinegar safari extension and have pinned the YouTube site to my home screen rather than using any apps.

    I also use Banish to remove all those annoying “Open in our app” pop-ups in Safari.

    Lastly, I use AdGuard to block ads on the phone locally and have also set up my own Wireguard VPN server at home with PiHole so that I’m always protected ad-wise when I’m out and about over 5G and on any public Wifi (I used to use my own Wireguard VPN with my old Pixels too).

    Absolute bliss.





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    11 months ago

    I like being able to use my the same charger universally with my and my families:

    • Steam Deck
    • iPads
    • PlayStation 5 controllers
    • XBOX Series X Controllers
    • Laptops
    • Phone power banks
    • Magsafe Charger
    • Nintendo Switches
    • Beats Fit Pro
    • Samsung Galaxy Tabs

    I detest the:

    • Shitty USB 2.0 Lightning cable

    This is great stuff.





  • I hate where the internet is right now.

    Anyone trying to get information written by a human or decent benchmarks of CPUs is in for a real crap time.

    Just tested i5 12400 vs i3 12100f and was met with results in this order:

    1. Userbenchmark
    2. Userbenchmark
    3. CPU-Monkey
    4. 3 shitty YouTube videos of obviously fake gameplay benchmarks (that’s a whole other thing on YouTube)
    5. Technical city
    6. cpubenchmark.net - the first kind of decent result as it’s from the people at passmark.
    7. versus (dot com)
    8. gadget versus
    9. pc Praha (dot cz)
    10. cpu-compare
    11. cpu-panda

    The crap just goes on. SEO optimised lists of (at best) affiliate link laden spec sheets with no real information form an actual human.