mypasswordis1234What are computer gadgets everyone should own?
Miku Luna \ she/itA good mouse and keyboard are probably a good start.
Jungle George đ´Upgraded my setup to logitech MX Keys and MX Master 3 and oooooh boy, itâs so much nicer than the cheap rubbish I used before
Refrigerator
Bernie EcclestonedSteering wheel
WodgeI second this, as I have spent far too much on mine, so be warned, your wallet will not be pleased.
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Guy DudemanWTF is right!
fiahsir I request you post this in the nearest simracing Lemmy just so we can get some conversation going
Which one? Iâm subscribed to a few, but theyâre all dead!
[email protected] has been the biggest so far
Weâre pretty dead over there right now unfortunately, but with as small of a community as it is thereâs always struggles for content
Large desk mat comfy chair good keyboard wrist rest decent 1440 monitor
UsernameblankfaceExternal hard drive big enough to hold more than the entire memory of the computer. Keep everything you find valuable at least, or better yet back up the entire computer on there and update it regularly. Leave it unplugged from the computer between updates.
In other words, an offline backup of everything on your main computer.
Follow the 3-2-1 rule: 3 copies, 2 different mediums (second HDD + thumb drive, DVD-R, tape if youâre nerdy, etc) and 1 offsite (cloud, VPN tunnel to someone elseâs NAS, etc)
âif it doesnât exist in 3 places, it doesnât exist at allâ is an adage I do my best to abide by. I lost a 500mb hard drive in the 90s (oh noâŚall my funny Sound Recorder clips and funny pics!!) and have been paranoid ever since.
Digital storage is just too cheap nowadays to risk it. Cloud storage, too
My SOs el cheapo PSU went to heavin in a flash around 1999 and took the hard drive And the backup drive with it.
Same here, there are copies everywhere now.
What are you all backing up? My SSD is just my OS, some programs and Steam, a fresh install without a backup has me back up and running in about 2 hours.
What are you all backing up? My SSD is just my OS, some programs and Steam, a fresh install without a backup has me back up and running in about 2 hours.
Some people have families and like to keep pictures and videos of said family around. Also, legal documents, academic papers, career and work related documents. Other deranged individuals have collections of rare stuff like music, games and movies that arenât available on digital platforms anymore. Wild concept, I know.
It was a genuine question tbh. I mean, I have a family with kids and I am a few years out of higher education (technically still in uni, as residency in my country is still university), I still feel no need to keep a physical backup, maybe backing up the photos would be an idea.
Yeah I donât know why they came at you with so much snark.
I gather you leave all your digital presence to cloud services? If it ainât in your computer, you donât own it. Iâve seen people deal with all sorts of problems because they only had one copy of whatever digital file. Computers arenât eternal, if anything they are actually more fickle than some physical mediums. Donât trust mega corporations to keep your data safe, some will sneeze, fuck you over and wonât care because either you werenât a paying customer or your problems just arenât profitable enough for even a real human to look at your pleads for assistance.
I just have my photos, that are on the cloud, yes, as they are all taken by phone. I hadnt considered needing a backup for those, and I am not sure I will, but it is an idea. I mostly take them to share with people, I am not really the type of person to go back and look at photos. Nothing else that feel worth backing up.
I used to hoard various files like work stuff, uni materials etc, but time and time again I find I never go back to them, so I donât really keep stuff like that anymore.
Oh goodness⌠60,000+ pictures Iâve taken with my camera, my collection of flac files, movies, shows, photoshopped images, screenshots, and random files that might stop existing on the internet!
When I was younger, heaps of hentai. Many heaps.
Sheesh, that is a lot of pics. Got any examples of the random files?
I actually used to have a pretty big music collection back in the day, but these days I cba to maintain my own music, so I just let that go with the wind at some point. Really now I am even too lazy to have my own playlists on my Youtube Music, so I mostly opt for the algorithm playlists / radio playlists or just full albums.
It IS a whole lot of pics! Mostly cats and pictures of myself and my partner from the last ten years while weâre young and smexy. Hopefully weâll have more when weâre old and smexy. But 95% cats.
Random files? Sure! Lotta stuff that I feel might get deleted from YouTube. Some of it has. Every banned Disney cartoon. Lots of North Korean cartoon propaganda! Really weird old stuff. Tons of old VHS tape rips of stuff like Toonami with commercials from the early â00s. Loooooots of downloads of full threads from /b/ 2003-2009.
Between me and my partner I have almost 150 000 pictures backed up.
Now that we got 2 kids itâs growing even faster !
I should probably sort them to keep only the important ones but right now my time is more precious than the cost of few 100s Go so I just back up everything.
I have inherited about that many photos. Old family photos back to 1900. Iâd like to know how you manage that many. Scan, sort, search, index, store, etc.
My backup is the fact I have a general idea of what Iâm planning to do and hope I can figure my shit out if I lose all my data
I have 16 TBs of photos/books/comics/movies/shows/games/etc. Thatâs not even that much compared to some people.
Its the backing up books / movies / shows / games I do not fully get tbh., to me it feels a bit like digital hoarding.
Like if its a rare item that you struggled to get - I can see it, kind of.
The amount of things I have wanted to ever rewatch / reread is absurdly small. I can think of a singular book, maybe a few movies and a couple shows (and those really for a lack of alternatives that I have not seen).
Its the backing up books / movies / shows / games I do not fully get tbh., to me it feels a bit like digital hoarding.
I mean, yea youâre not wrong but itâs not like I have piles off shit all through my house I have to build trails to get through. Itâs a server and external drives sitting in a corner and it lets me have whatever I want to read/watch at my fingertips instead of having to find it on streaming somewhere. Thereâs probably stuff in there Iâll never look at again but thereâs a lot that sometimes I just get in the mood for and itâs right there ready to go or if I canât decide I can pick something at random.
I can certainly see why some would not want to mess with it and I do have a pretty huge backlog of tech debt where I have to sort things out of my âdownloadsâ folder into my media library but all in all I think itâs worth it. Itâs the one thing I allow myself to just go crazy on because itâs so cost efficient. Buying actual objects that will take up space in my house is another story, those things get vetted thoroughly before I pull the trigger on the purchase.
TAGThe important things for me to back up include:
- photographs and family videos (literally irreplaceable)
- legal documents and other such paperwork (can be replaced, but it would be a pain)
- various notes on how to accomplish occasional tasks (not too hard to figure out again, but it is convenient to spend 1 minute copying a command out of a text file instead of spending 15 minutes to find all the correct command line arguments)
Call me Lenny/LeniOne of these, the worldâs most sophisticated form of protection.
Electrical tape is classier.
It is? What if you want to remove it? Plus a cup gives a kind of lampshade vibe.
I make a flap out of gafferâs tape.
BOMBSthey sell little plastic laptop camera sliders online for nearly nothing that are more convenient and visually modest
They have improved then since the picture was made, as I used to go to the store and theyâd take advantage of the fact people feel they need the sliders so bad and sell them at the price of an umbrella. And then it was realized after looking at bathroom cups that not only can you make them in an instant for free but also that the translucent ones can imbue certain effects.
My webcam has a built in physical privacy slider
I feel like whenever they actually include that theyâre pulling a Sun Tzu on us.
Appropriate game controllers for what you play. Gamepads, arcade sticks, racing wheels and flight sticks all have their uses. Mouse and keyboard isnât always the best control scheme and itâs annoying to see steam reviews where people complain about that.
LithAs somebody that doesnât play a lot of racing games or flight sims or anything, a basic gamepad will go a long way. A lot of games that feel bad on keyboard were simply made primarily for console. Dark Souls was an infamous example of this, but this can apply to a surprising amount of things - I find itâs hard to reach for numbers in MMOs, and macro keyboards/mice are too busy, but FFXIV actually handles incredibly well on a controller because it was designed with the PS4 in mind. Even with recent games, Armored Core 6, Resident Evil remakes, Elden Ring, Jedi Survivor, Iâm sure these all play fine on keyboard and mouse but theyâre much more comfortable on a gamepad.
A good gamepad is a great catchall if you arenât seriously into any of the genres that utilize specialized controls and are absolutely indispensable for any pc gamer.
Man, I hate gamepads. If a game is clearly meant to be played with a pad and thw kb+m is a garbage afterthought I immediately uninstall. Canât stand them.
Ultrawide monitor, especially for gaming.
perhaps even superultrawide
why have 2 monitors side by side when you can have one monitor to rule them allgame on?
I thought for so long whether go get a 1440p UW or just standars 1440p. In the end I opted for the standard one. Maybe one of these days Iâll try it but the price point just wasnât there imo.
simpleA good chair. I know itâs not technically a gadget but if youâre spending half of your day on the computer you should spend on a good chair with proper lumbar support. Your back will thank you.
Just donât fall for those âgamerâ chairs. Theyâre designed to look pretty, not to be comfortable.
I donât know what youâre talking about, theyâre pretty comfortable if I say so myself
The issue is, yeah theyâre comfortable, but theyâre not comfortable in a good way for your body. You slouch and fuck your spine up. Also you look like a teenager.
do you have a racecar bed too?
Why do you hate fun?
I have fun, whilst sitting on a super comfy chair made to be adaptable and ergonomic so I can have fun for longer without fucking up my body. đ¤ˇââď¸
With a gaming chair, youâre also overpaying for bad posture and bad materials. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Yhc6mmdJC4
It just makes me think âkid that got scammed and follows trends to fit inâ, not âfunâ
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Gamer chairs are the same chairs youâre buying but more expensive.
Theyâre just cheap shit. I donât buy cheap shit, I have a premium chair that I bought used for a fraction of the price, cheaper than a âgamer chairâ đŤŁ
Yeah, but mine has RGB and reclines flat
Captain AggravatedGamer chairs are worse for you than office chairs. Theyâre designed to look âcoolâ but most of what they do is kill your back.
do you have a racecar bed too?
I fucking wish
Someone should make a chair thatâs designed to be slouched in without fucking up your back.
Most gamer chairs are fine but theyâre overly expensive. My chair is just a high quality office chair I grabbed from a local store. Super comfy and relatively cheap.