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Let go of my mango Eh! :laughing:

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Nah. Let’s go mangoing together, man. :wink:

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Now that’s an idea. :wink:

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As Microsoft announced it will only be producing Surface hardware (overpriced) in the future, I got hold of this with some difficulty.

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The old IntelliMice from 1999 (older than the one you’re showing) were the only good thing Micro$oft has ever done. I still have a couple, very reliable and almost unbreakable. Probably made from the same stuff Nokia 3310 were made.

The only thing that was not properly made was the mouse wheel: it was made of vulcanised rubber and if you leave in sunlight, it turns to glue. I think they fixed that in later variants.

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I have a “ball” Intellimouse of that type. The only issues with it are:

  1. The ball.
  2. That its shiny white plastic has become yellow to a fantastic degree, worse than anything else I’ve ever owned.

But, in what must be 25 years, that plastic hasn’t worn or started to flake off.

It also has a PS/2 plug, but a Perixx PS/2 to USB adapter fixes that.

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Got me a R5 5600 and a b550 motherboard


before


after

Next I plan to upgrade the GPU and then eventually the case but for now this was a huge upgrade going from an fx8320 with 1600mhz ddr3 ram to r5 5600 with 3200mhz ddr4 ram.

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Noctua sells these interesting PC fans that are 140 mm in diameter but have 120 mm mount points. Really cool™ to upgrade e.g. your original 120 mm CPU cooler fans:

And the Redux version doesn’t even brake the bank starting around USD 15.

https://noctua.at/en/nf-p14r-redux-1500-pwm

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Cool … i have the noctua NH-D15 for my next desktop Ryzen 5800X

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For the occasion of 75th year of Independence, the Government had released the special coins of various denominations.
Finally I managed to get my hands on few of them :

:grin: :grin: :grin:

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The United States minted state quarters for all 50 states during the period of 1999 through 2008.

These quarters were minted in Denver, Colorado and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
I have a friend who dabbles in coin collecting. Through him over a 10 year span, I was able to receive all 50 states from the Denver mint, and all 50 states from the Philadelphia Mint in uncirculated condition. I received 5 coins of each variety to fill 3 Albums . One for my wife and I and one album for each of my two children. The rest I have traded away over the years.

It was great fun.

Pudge

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In past( around 1980s), there used to be the coins of very small denominations like 5 paise, 25 paise, 50 paise, etc… And those coins felt like holding a thin sheet with slight matte finish.
If I convert the Paise into Rupees, then :

100 Paise = 1 Rupees

As expected, those coins became extinct :rofl: , and it is very difficult to find them. My Grandfather might have racked up few of them, I guess…
The peculiar fact about those coins were that they were not circular. Instead, they were pentagonal, square or hexagonal :

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You can see, how antique these coins look !

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Wow, If 1980s are antique, I must look REALLY antique :person_white_hair:

I am not sure about your country, but a lot of countries did this so visually impaired people could feel the difference between coins.

Pudge

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No !

1980s are antique because I came into existence in the new century, hence I really don’t know how it feels during those eras( 60s, 70s, 80s )…

:boy:

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Let me tell you, it feels great! :partying_face:

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I bought a 80x80mm sheet of PTM7950. Repasted my T14 Gen2 AMD with it (was stock paste).

Running a stress test with all 16 cores being pinned to 100%. All cores are running (slightly) faster than base speed. Yet, look at the core temps. Not breaking 60* C.

If anyone is debating using PTM7950, I can say this test blew me away for how it starts out. And according to Honeywell’s testing, it starts to get more efficient after a few hundred phase change cycles.

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Cool. I used to have a collection of these in my teens. Should talk to my parents if they can find it in my old room. I also had a couple of coins from when India was still a British colony. My grandmother had given them to me. Completely forgot about those until I saw your post. Guess I’m not a very good grandson. :frowning_face:

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:ukraine:

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I also have one of these and will certainly get one or two in stock before the remaining stock ends up on ebay and is then no longer affordable.