The Computer Thread

Never Mind the B*ll*cks
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Booked 2 hrs in an actual flight sim a few weeks ago. $600. Worth it.

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I did a flight sim thing in Perth, it was awesome. It was one of the ones that the hours can count towards a pilots license.

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You can totally so an intro flight at Bathurst for about a third of that.

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What do we know about this?

https://thebestofretrogaming.com

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Overpriced and overseas

I got this and love it,

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/4000-Games-In-1-Pandoras-Box-Retro-Split-Key-3D-games-2-Players-Arcade-FULL-HD/362894256415?_trkparms=aid%3D1110009%26algo%3DSPLICE.COMPLISTINGS%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20200220094952%26meid%3D1e1a282488a040729fe7174b5c802b4e%26pid%3D100008%26rk%3D5%26rkt%3D12%26sd%3D392555371482%26itm%3D362894256415%26pmt%3D1%26noa%3D0%26pg%3D2047675%26algv%3Ddefault%26brand%3DUnbranded%2FGeneric&_trksid=p2047675.c100008.m2219

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the other one sys 50000 games thou!

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Actually the small print on each one of the 4 models says no games included.

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Gaming has been all downhill since the Commodore 64. Discuss.

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Summer Games ftw!

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I’m more of a California Games man. Made the mistake of buying it on cassette though and having to watch the trippy colours cycle through for 20 mins before I could play half pipe or surfing.

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Brains trust… What would be considered an average or “good” broadband speed?

I did a test last night at 3am (off-peak) and got 6mb/s. As I post I’m sitting on 3mb/s. Surely even for broadband it should be upwards of 15mb/s?

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Yep, that sucks for broadband.

Here’s the ACCC page on broadband speeds, it’s very good and they’ve started actively enforcing claims now.

I currently have 45/12 which isn’t bad for a basic Telstra link

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Thanks heaps Jubal.

I’m with iiNet and after an outage the speed has dropped considerably. It was never great but now it’s pretty much useless. Been on the phone to them several times a day and now they’re sending a technician out to look at it but I dear they’re going to feed me some bullshit about copper pipes and leave it at that.

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There’s no excuse other than maybe buck passing to NBN Co, who own the infrastructure.

Interestingly I decided to look at a bill to confirm my Telstr a plan and discovered I’d been paying for their bullshit Platinum support, which I never signed up for, since Nov 2017

They’re now refunding $752 to my account :slight_smile:

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My wife has macbook and wants to hook it up to two monitors to work off rather then just the laptop… anyone done this and know the easiest and most cost effective way? I have this set up but with dell and was set up by work,… I am really not in the tech space at all, so sorry if it is an ‘easy’ question… just want to make my wifes study life as best possible

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buy a docking station set up for macbooks, easiest way and has the added benefit you don’t need a charging cable anymore

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Righto - its what I have, i have done limited research for macbook - will go down that path now. cheers

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have a look through that

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Was just about to ask for recommendations :slight_smile:

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A quick question just to confirm that I am on the right track.

I have a surface book and want to hook it up to another monitor for working from home.
The monitor is a bit old and has VGA and DVI ports and the surface has USB-C.
Hooking up a USB-C to DVI cable seems like it will do the trick.

Am I all good with that?