• Flying Squid
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    42 years ago

    Typing this right now from a garage office with unpainted, somewhat uninsulated walls and a concrete floor. I don’t mind working in it, but I wouldn’t want to live here.

  • smashboy
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    42 years ago

    Eesh. The dwelling of someone who only lives virtually. Depressing.

  • twelve20two
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    12 years ago

    I see SootHouse moved into the area of Bulgaria they bought land in years ago.

  • Obinice
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    322 years ago

    What’s bad about this?

    Take 2 days to lay a carpet and paint the place and it’ll be completely fine. Easy and simple.

    • IWantToFuckSpez
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      402 years ago

      Sure it’s easy. That’s why the seller should have done it. If you sell a house you should stage it properly so you get the most money out of it. Many people have zero imagination and can’t see past the current interior design. The seller is an idiot for putting it on sale like this. They don’t even have to place carpet just coat the floor with white paint and it suddenly looks modern.

    • arefx
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      22 years ago

      I could install that carpet for you in a short afternoon but I do it professionally.

  • @[email protected]
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    122 years ago

    To me, a gamers paradise is a clean desk with a high end PC connected to a removedin sweet ultra wide monitor. This pic just makes me itch all over.

  • uralsolo [he/him]
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    72 years ago

    Do you think they started painting the walls and gave up, or did they get the room with the walls halfway painted and just decide it wasn’t worth finishing?

    Anyway I spend like 90% of my time these days in a garage with all my shit on a table next to me so i can’t really judge.

  • @[email protected]
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    102 years ago

    There’s no scattered empty soda, and chip bags. Also, there’s definitely be a layer of cheatoh and Doritos dust over everything giving a sort of neon orange tinge. Clearly this is staged.

  • @[email protected]
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    712 years ago

    Lies!

    I see wi-fi antennae. What gamer settles for that?

    I want to go to an estate agent and say “I want a house so wired that if I down 82 redbulls and punch through the drywall after losing a round of Call of Skyrim, anywhere in the house, I should be able to reach in the hole and pull out a bale of Cat 6.”

    • @[email protected]
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      132 years ago

      Looks like a router to me, in which case it’s probably for his phone and tv.

      The pc is close enough to it to be hardwired

    • @[email protected]
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      242 years ago

      Wifi 6 is pretty amazing. I play on it since my apartment has a weird layout and I will not drag a cable from one side of the apartment (where the router is) to the other (where the office is located).

      Network latency averages somewhere around 5ms which is totally fine.

    • @[email protected]
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      42 years ago

      WiFi 5 pings are just 2x larger than a direct patch cord to the router. This is just a few microseconds difference. WiFi 6 is basically on par with cable. WiFi 7 is better than cable.

      Gamers who don’t use WiFi are stuck in the stone age.

      • @[email protected]
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        52 years ago

        Even with the latest and greatest WiFi I prefer still to opt for Ethernet/cabling wherever possible. I like to keep the WiFi workload light — I say this even though I’ve got business-class WiFi everywhere. It’s the principle of the thing; keep 4K streaming and other workload-heavy tasks off the air whenever possible.

      • @[email protected]
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        62 years ago

        I’ll take a solid guaranteed gbps wire over sensitive “won’t pass through 2cm of concrete” wireless nonsense any day.

    • mihnt
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      62 years ago

      I have a similar setup. Three monitors with the tower behind and a router on top. All hard-lined. Wifi is only for dumb shit like phones and handhelds.

    • Lemmington Bunnie
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      42 years ago

      We’re living with my grandmother temporarily, and we don’t want the risk of trip hazard so had to get a good WiFi router.

      It goes down whenever she uses the microwave - awesome for me, as I work from home.

      Also we’re tied to using her ISPs router because we didn’t want to risk losing her phone number and other dramas moving to ours, so the modem router we use is theirs, and it sucks and the first two have blown up in the space of a year - we’re on our third.

      Meanwhile our great equipment is sitting in plastic crates in the garage.

      Oh well. Do it for her!

      • @[email protected]
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        12 years ago

        But why would you lose her phone number using another router? I use the cable company’s shitty modem but I have a super nice router, no issues. If her landline phone is actually VoIP then it seems like it should still function with another router? Maybe I’m wrong on that. If it’s a true landline then one should have nothing to do with the other though. Oh and one more point if the car comp6just nukes her phone number and hands it to someone else because you hooked up a 3rd party router then seriously eff them.

        • Lemmington Bunnie
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          22 years ago

          In Australia, the phone number is tied to the ISP, and she’s with the biggest, worst one. We considered porting but the risk would be too great and she was too anxious about it.

            • Lemmington Bunnie
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              12 years ago

              We’re living here rent free, just paying our share of utilities and saving money while giving her company - I can’t complain too much about the small things!

      • @[email protected]
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        12 years ago

        Yikes, if it’s going down when the microwave is being used it sounds like it only supports the 2 GHz channels.

        • Lemmington Bunnie
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          It’s on some dual band thing which can be split - I think we forgot to set it up on the last two, only bothered on the first. I can’t remember if the first went down when the microwave was used.

          • @[email protected]
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            22 years ago

            Personally I prefer to keep both bands on the same SSID/encryption scheme so devices automagically choose the best band depending on coverage. But it’s just my random opinion, lol.

      • @[email protected]
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        22 years ago

        I invested in Cat6 for future proofing, only for it to turn out that there’s nothing Cat6 can do that Cat5e can’t. 🤦‍♂️

        • @[email protected]
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          22 years ago

          I wouldn’t feel too bad. I consider 5e trash because it’s really easy for it to downgrade to slower speeds if it happens to bend too far.