I got my last upgrades in September 2022 with a pair of dell precision 7770 laptops (i9-12950hx, 16GB RAM 4TB NVMe NVIDIA RTX A1000) and in October 2024 with a dell precision 3460 desktop (i9-14900 32GB RAM 512GB NVMe NVIDIA T1000). I found the desktop on ebay new without warranty for $900. Wish I had gotten 2 since it turned out to be good and quiet.
I had planned to expand the RAM to 64GB or more, but prices have become exorbitant so am still waiting. I did pick up a couple samsung 990 pro 4 TB SSD's for $245 before prices went up (now nearly 3x that). Also got a few WD 24/26TB drives to store video on. On the other hand, I retired last year so this has become mostly a hobby and even 16 GB is enough for running web browsers and word/excel which is mostly what I do with them these days (other than downloading video via bittorrent).
I still regularly peruse ebay looking for bargains on test equipment and other stuff. I also got an invite to amazon vine last May so have accumulated nearly 700 items of varying usefulness since then. Substituting checking work email for checking vine every morning feels a bit strange. Another activity is adding movies and other media to my bitorrent download queue.
I'm 55 and don't recall memory prices ever increasing over time before. This among other factors such as the precious metals prices makes me think we are living in very strange times.
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on: February 20, 2026, 08:34:01 08:34
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New ver:3.31
take care, X! |
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on: February 14, 2026, 12:33:45 12:33
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Hello, Does MCC work correctly for everyone in MPLAB X 6.30?
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on: February 12, 2026, 09:32:31 09:32
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ESP32-S3 development board DIY ESP32-S3R8
https://xtronic.org/download/microcontroller/esp32-s3-development-board-diy-esp32s3r8/ I need the files at the following links: ESP32S3 development board DIY Starting Manual (154.10MB) https://pan.baidu.com/s/191qHjphKNeRITbFmC6Ct-g pass: hoga ESP32S3 development board DIY Module Examples (127.13KB) https://pan.baidu.com/s/1hWY3q5V3T1MpiovRbq7xew pass: 4qke Would anyone be kind enough to help me and upload the files to another file-sharing host? I would be very grateful. Thanks! |
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