Right before the pandemic started I had a big move and had to downsize a lot of my personal belongings. Some of my extra consoles and collectibles had to go. I was able to keep my game collection (mostly PS1, PS2, Wii, Xbox 360) because I got rid of all of the cases and manuals and slotted them into CD binders. I know that sort of thing is sacrilege in a community like this, but I know there would have been no way I could have kept my collect, except for a small handful of discs if I didn't do that.
Fast forward a few years later and I still feel pretty good about that decision. I know that if I wanted to sell my collection, certain games would be worth a lot more now if I did keep the cases, but like many of you selling is not the reason I collect. Sure, I do miss the art and sweet display all of those cases made, but life changed and I had to too.
Has anyone else been in a similar boat over the years? I know it's not the ideal, but I'm wondering if anyone consciously choose to collect strictly discs for the money saving (I bought most of my collection before 'retro' prices went crazy), space saving, or any other reasons and how it's played out over the years.

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I started running a campaign using Cepheus Deluxe Enhanced and roll20 about three months ago, and suddenly realised it's the first time I've actually run homebrew, or non-DnD for that matter. The learning curve hasn't been too bad, although it has been fraught at times. Here are my notes, based on the way I run: -I need to know the rules better. Mostly in the first two or three sessions, but still occasionally now, I've lost precious time looking things up. There are so many bookmarks in the book now it looks like a porcupine. I keep losing the trading pages and the ship combat pages. My next job is summarising them both for fast access. -I looove the mechanics. Combat and general roles feel more realistic, compared to DnD's nonsense. It took a couple of the players a while to get used to roll20's clunky execution, but they all have the hang of it now.. -I need more portraits. As I'm running homebrew, I can make up pretty much any situation, but a temporary lack of different images has resulted in a multi-sector clone conspiracy. Don't get me wrong, it's tremendous fun having the players get all anti-clone, and it fitted in with my campaign arc, but it's not necessarily the way I would have gone. Oh well. In fact, images and maps are generally in short supply. I'm thinking of creating some ships in Space Engineers or Interstellar Rift just for this purpose. -I've been too generous, maybe. It was difficult teaming up such a disparate group of characters, especially some with their own ships, but a sting followed by a jailbreak/rescue worked pretty well. Unfortunately the players were all in that mercenary mindset, so I needed to sweeten the deal with a new ship bursting with cargo. Now they're all pretty well off they aren't yet feeling the need to take high risk, high reward missions (this will change when the life support explodes...) On the other hand, as they're mostly new to Cepheus, I think this cushion has been beneficial in easing them in gently. -Adding additional rules is easier than I expected. While I love the rules as is, there are a few things I've added to fill things out a bit. I made an old ship complication table, and created some advancement rules (learning new skills). Last night a player messaged me about his character wanting to be a social media movie star, so I've added in a couple of rules about custom armour, camera drones and editing. It didn't take arcane knowledge of the rules, they just slotted in. -I need to see all the character sheets. As it's my first proper campaign, I'm keen on keeping everyone engaged, so I need to check their skills regularly to make sure they all get to exercise at least a couple of them each session. A couple of the players love the more granular aspects, so I run extra sessions for them where they're doing nothing but trading rolls, and they just love it. -Online generators are essential for unplanned sessions. Making up a lot of content on the fly is exciting, but having to roll up new NPCs is too time consuming. I've been using zhodani.space a lot, and it's great! -My character voices have got worse. I used to be great at voices, but now I suck.
I'm really enjoying running it, I can't wait to see what happens next!

Mild spoilers ahead. Not story-related or visuals, but if you rather figure this out on your own, maybe stop reading now.
So I decided to do some research on how to yield maximum profit from processing (excess) materials. Some materials I have not found any profit yield for, yet others are off the charts. Here are my findings so far.

1. Fruits & Berries -- Burn them into Roasted Fruits, cook them into Fruit Jam, cook those into Fruit Tincture. Sell them for 24000/piece. Profit: 16~19.2x
2. Root Vegetables -- Burn them into Roasted Root Vegetables, cook them into Vegetable Broth. Sell them for 2500/piece. Profit: 4.7~18.8x
3. Wood -- Recycle Softwood and Hardwood into Branches. Craft these into Ultra Rare Watering Cans. Sell them for 2000/piece. Profit: 10x
4. Eggs (1) -- Cook them into Boiled Eggs, cook those into Deviled Eggs, cook those into Thousand Year Eggs. Sell them for 10000/piece. Profit: 1.7x
5. Eggs (2) -- Cook them into Boiled Eggs, cook those into Tea Eggs. Sell them for 4800/piece. Profit: 4.4x
6. Mixed Greens (1) -- Cook them into Fancy Greens, cook those into Deluxe Greens. Sell them for 3600/piece. Profit: 1.5x
7. Mixed Greens (2) -- Cook them into Fancy Greens, cook those into Deluxe Greens, cook those into Kimchi. Sell them for 10000/piece. Profit: 2.0x
8. Nut Flout & Cocoa Beans - Cook them into Cocoa Pancakes. Sell them for 6000/piece. Profit: 2.6x

A few notes to go along with this:

1. The Profit means the difference between the raw ingredients for the entire recipe, and the selling price at the end. So if a recipe includes essences, the selling price for those essences is factored into the profit margin as well.
2. Every raw material not mentioned above, doesn't appear to have any recipe that yields a profit. So excess Onions, Flowers, Essences, and Ingots are better sold as-is or kept in storage for when they're needed to fullfill a quest or purchase an item.
3. It may seem like a waste to recycle Hardwood all the way back into Branches, but I promise it's the most econimic way to get rid of them. Selling Hardwood as-is yields much less, and turning Hardwood into a different variety of Ultra Rare furniture also yields less.
4. Why Ultra Rare specifically? It has to be Ultra Rare because all lower AND higher tiers will yield less profit.
5. Why the Watering Can specifically? It doesn't have to be a Watering Can, as there are a few other similar recipes. As long as they require 20 Branches, and can be sold for 2000, that's all that matters.
6. Recipes 4, 5, 6, and 8 all require extra ingredients, among which are Essences and Salt. This is why I'm listing two options for Eggs and Mixed Greens, so you can pick and choose whichever matches your playstyle & excess inventory best.

Hope this helps you get some more coins to buy those precious decorations. If you prefer not to think about economics too much in a game like this, power to you! You play the game however you like. No one is forcing you to yield maximum profit. It's only a game 🙂
If anyone has found any better yields, please write below in the comments. I'm curious to your responses.

So I just thought about it and did not find anything on Google, but did any of you have thought about it ? Like the only reason I have a Bluetooth small jbl speaker is that a full on 2.1 80 pounds set with amps and batteries is too much to take by car easily. But what about a box that could collapse to make way, or one that can be opened to use internal space as storage for the satellites or full range speakers and then be sealed afterwards ? How hard would that be to build, like a rubber seal with ratchet straps-like mechanism to hold the top in place for use ?
Anybody played around with this concept ? I’d love your inputs !

What will you be doing with this PC? Be as specific as possible, and include specific games or programs you will be using.

• Moderate to heavy gaming - latest COD, Satisfactory, AAA games broadly, on a 34 inch 3440 x 1440 monitor (with a second monitor for Discord/Spotify).

What is your maximum budget before rebates/shipping/taxes?

• 1200 AUD

When do you plan on building/buying the PC? Note: beyond a week or two from today means any build you receive will be out of date when you want to buy.

• ASAP

What, exactly, do you need included in the budget? (ToweOS/monitokeyboard/mouse/etc)

• Mid-tower case, mobo, CPU, RAM, SSD

Which country (and state/province) will you be purchasing the parts in? If you're in US, do you have access to a Microcenter location?

• South Australia

If reusing any parts (including monitor(s)/keyboard/mouse/etc), what parts will you be reusing? Brands and models are appreciated.

• Monitor - Gigabyte G34WQC UWQHD 144Hz Adaptive-Sync Curved 34in Monitor GPU - Gigabyte 3080 PSU - Corsair RM850 Mouse & Keyboard - Logitech G502, Pok3r

Will you be overclocking? If yes, are you interested in overclocking right away, or down the line? CPU and/or GPU?

• No overclocking.

Are there any specific features or items you want/need in the build? (ex: SSD, large amount of storage or a RAID setup, CUDA or OpenCL support, etc)

• Ideally just a CPU that doesn't bottleneck my 3080. My current CPU is a 7700K.

What type of network connectivity do you need? (Wired and/or WiFi) If WiFi is needed and you would like to find the fastest match for your wireless router, please list any specifics.

• Wifi onboard would be ideal, ethernet is a must.

Do you have any specific case preferences (Size like ITX/microATX/mid-towefull-tower, styles, colors, window or not, LED lighting, etc), or a particular color theme preference for the components?

• Mid-tower would be great, my current build is a full tower and it's too big.

Do you need a copy of Windows included in the budget? If you do need one included, do you have a preference?

• No, happy to source this independently.

Extra info or particulars: My current rig is a Frankenstein - the case is a Corsair full tower from 2014, the CPU and mobo are from 2017ish, and the GPU is a 3080 I bought last year. I'd love to use the GPU in a new rig, without breaking the bank.

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If you want to put my comments below into context, 61A was my first time coding and my only math experience comes from AMC 8/10 (which I took once a year without studying & never advanced past 1st round).
CS 61B: 10/10

• Favorite part of the class was learning Hug’s approach to asymptotics; personally thought that these questions were a lot more fun than straight up coding on exams
• Liked the customizability of the class (different difficulties for discussion, optional discussions & labs, etc.); liked the concept of pacing points which both helps struggling students and doesn’t hurt those who operate more independently of the class schedule
• The projects aren’t as bad as they’re made out to be; some are time-consuming but I think a lot of the extra time spent on them is a result of not watching the applicable lecture(s) first. For example, project 2B took me a long time but I realized after the fact that there was 1 lecture that pretty much told you how to set it up.
• Honestly y’all were way too mean to Yokota lol (idk anything about 61C but just from a 61B perspective). Most of the memes are pretty harmless but the “fuck you”s are unwarranted. I think MT2 and the final were harder than they maybe should’ve been (walked out of both thinking I messed up big time), but in retrospect the exams weren’t as terrible as I thought they were in the heat of the moment. Part of the shock factor was probably because MT1 was written a bit too easy.

CS 70: 8/10

• I personally really enjoyed the rsa/secret sharing/error correcting codes part of the class
• Overall I think this class isn’t really the villain it’s made out to be. It’s without a doubt the most challenging content I’ve ever learned (walked out of MT1 genuinely in awe of whatever the hell just happened lol) but at the same time you don’t need to understand everything. Knowing and having applied the general techniques on things like discussions worksheets (i.e. removing a vertex and adding it back in during a graph-related inductive proof) is enough.
• Don’t waste your time trying to learn everything about stable matching, for instance. Those true/false questions are pretty much just a crapshoot and doing 1 or 2 past exams for instinct is all you really need (even if you miss all of those true/false, it doesn’t really matter). This rings even truer for countability/computability; just write down what general things are countable from the notes/discussion/csm and reference those if needed, otherwise make your best guess.
• Attending discussion was pretty useless tbh (although I do think the worksheets themselves were good). I was consistently like ~3 weeks behind so I didn’t understand the words being tossed around until much later & kinda just stopped going after I got my 13 mandatory ones (obviously I do not recommend digging yourself this hole lol). I do appreciate how they started hosting review discussions though.
• Use CSM! Honestly my mentor was not so good at explaining things but I still went during the 1st half of class because it was a nice way to stay somewhat on track and have people to talk to about 70 if your friends aren’t in the class with you.
• I think the best experience you can have in this class is grinding during the discrete portion to get a good grade on MT1, then (hopefully) choosing the no homework option and chilling for the 2nd half. As much as I hated doing the discrete homeworks, I think that they honestly did help me prepare for MT1 (and if everything works out, you’ll never have to look at a probability hw question). As far as study resources go, I’d say discussion worksheets > csm worksheets > hw (past exams considered separately since you kinda have to do them).

MATH 54 (Sheu): -/10

• Had Norman last semester for 53 and it was pretty much the exact same experience: no need to go to lecture, the textbook is your bible. Only difference was not having quizzes in 53, which was nice.
• I really don’t have anything to say about this class; I didn’t even give it a number rating because imo it was just a standard math class.

MUSIC 26AC: 9/10

• Liked the content and appreciated getting to learn about the cultural and historical motivations behind a lot of different genres of music. I know that ESPM 50AC is another popular choice for ac but from what I’ve heard music has a lot less reading. I’m not exaggerating when I say that this class is legitimately the equivalent of 1 unit (~3 hours of work per week). If you 2x speed the lectures (since there’s not much to process, just info to learn) and do the weekly hw, it’s honestly less. Highly recommend.

CS 198-134 (Quant Decal): 7/10

• Definitely take if you’re interested in learning about the space, very nice survey
• Not sure how this will change in following semesters but the Thurs 8-10 time slot was slightly annoying

BIOENG 25:

• Remnant of being an ex bioe major

UGIS 192B: 4/10

• This means nothing since every lab is different, but personally my urap experience was not super fulfilling, just extra workload on top of other stuff I already had to do. If your reason for applying for research is just to try it out (like mine was), I’d apply to projects you are genuinely interested in instead of settling beforehand and applying to less interesting ones that you think might be less selective. Worst case you get rejected and have more free time

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Packed low-cost flight (Ryanair UK), overhead lockers are typically reserved for hand luggages and the flight attendants tend to mention that backpacks should go under seats, although they don't enforce it.
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Scene: flight is very busy during boarding, many people waiting behind me while I try to find a spot on the overhead lockers full of backpacks, coats, and all kind of stuff that should go under your seat.
I look for a flight attendant around to help place my hand luggage in a non-existent free spot but there's noone around apart from other impatient passengers.
I take a random backpack and ask to the people nearby "whose backpack is this" and no-one answers.
So I take that backpack, place it under the empty seat next to mine, and hoist my hand luggage in the overhead storage.
At the end of the flight I put that stranger's backpack on the seat and wait for the owner to come look for it.
When he comes back (turns out he was elsewhere on the plane, that's why he could not hear me when I asked around) I point out that I had to make space for my luggage, and he got very upset.
I point out that backpacks should go anyways under the seat for this very reason (Saying "it's kind of a rule, ask the attendants"). But he wouldn't take it and just stormed out super angry and what-not...
This lack of space happens fairly regularly (see picture of my current flight) due to everyone just putting all sort of random stuff and small bags in the overhead locks but I seem to be the only person annoyed by that....
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AITA?

I've thinking about buying my first iPad for a while now and I recently came across some extra money, so I decided to finally do it. I do want to buy something that I can use for several years, both for work and recreation. My main use for it would be note-taking, reading, streaming, and graphic design (although this last point will only be occasional).
I'm doubting between the iPad Pro 2020 11' vs. the iPad Air 2020, both with 256Gb storage, and I'm also planning on investing in an Apple Pencil. I found pretty decent refurbished options for both, at 754EUR for the Pro and 598EUR for the Air. I'm mainly wondering if the extra ~150EUR is worth the upgrade to the Pro model, taking into account what I'm planning to use it for.
If anybody here has any advice/opinions on which one would be best, I would love to hear them. Thanks in advance!

I had been hosting files on a PC I built using 2 8 TB drives mirrored using Storage spaces in Windows 10. I was given a 3rd 8 TB drive and decided to add it to the server and redo my Storage space to do Raid 5 to double the size of the storage pool while offering some redundancy.
I didn't have a single drive large enough to back up all my files to. I had 4 3 TB drives lying around but didn't have anything to put them into. I looked at empty NAS enclosures, but they were more than I wanted to spend. I found a dude on Craigslist selling an HP Z220 Workstation for $60 and bought it. It has 6 SATA ports on it, 2 SATA 3, 4 SATA 2 ports. I threw an old SSD on one of the SATA 3 ports and plugged the 4 3 TB drives on all of the SATA 2 ports. I used the onboard intel chipset raid controller to create a RAID 0 array with all 4 drives. Everything seemed to go fine, I created a single partition on the raid disk in Windows and mapped the drive with the 8 TB pool I wanted to back up, then copied everything over. Both PCs are plugged into a gigabit switch and the file transfer took about 16 hours.
After the copy finished, I added the new 8 TB drive and redid the Storage Spaces on my original file server and created a 16 TB storage space with parity. I started copying everything back but it took over a week. There were long pauses of a couple of seconds between files, and the speed wasn't hitting gigabit speeds.
I assume this may mean that one or more of the 3 TB disks in the RAID 0 array have problems, but the individual disks do not show up in device manager and I'm not sure how to do health checks on the individual disks as they seem to be hidden behind the raid controller in Windows 10.
Is there some software I can download from HP or some 3rd party tool that you would recommend that would help me get an idea of which disks might be bad or if there's something I have misconfigured?

My husband and I bought a home at auction, which means we bought it without going inside first. The home is at an absolute amazing location.
It’s currently down to the studs. We are renovating the entire thing. It had a master on the first floor but we made another upstairs. It also has a galley kitchen. There was no way to make an open kitchen without spending $30k more and putting on an addition. Right off the kitchen is under stairs storage where laundry was. I moved laundry upstairs and plan to use that space as a pantry.
Because there is a water line already there I thought about adding a small bar sink with countertop space there to call it a Butler’s kitchen. The refrigerator in the galley kitchen is all the way on the opposite side meaning anyone needing to get in it will have to pass whoever is in the kitchen cooking. I also thought about adding a small beverage refrigerator in the pantry. My husband and parents think I am being extra but I really think this will be handy and add extra value whenever we decide to sell.
Thoughts? Is it worth it?

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I’m sure there are huge variations in this but I’m quite interested in the human side of how therapists react - if I say I want to drop to once every two weeks from weekly, how much of a “oh shit now I have a hole in my schedule” reaction do you have? Or is it “oh thank god - I have some extra breathing space in my day”. Or is it simply that there are usually so many people in need that the natural rhythm of people starting, stopping, taking breaks, rescheduling, cutting back is something you take in stride? I guess behind my question is a feeling that I have a responsibility for my therapist’s happiness and well-being, which is probably something I should delve into !

It's Monday and I have a bone to pick with TAG Heuer. They announced their new watch right as I clicked publish on the news update. I guess you're already caught up on it.

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TAG Heuer Releases A Trio Of New Monacos With Skeleton Dials Ahead Of The Big Race
Hey, thanks a lot TAG! The exact second I sent out the Friday edition of It’s About Time they decided to announce a new watch. And not just any watch, that I would be cool with waiting until Monday to write about it. It is a trio of new and very different TAG Heuer Monaco Skeleton Chronographs, one of the first times they put a skeleton dial in the Monaco, but it’s also a release that coincides with the Monaco F1 Grand Prix. So here I am, writing about it after the race is over.
Never mind, it’s still a nice watch. Excluding the V4 editions that had a different case and was driven by belts, a unique piece in carbon made for Only Watch 2021, and the very exclusive “Riviera” edition, TAG Heuer has never made a production Monaco with a skeleton dial. And looking at these watches, it looks to have been a mistake on TAG’s part as the watches really do look fantastic.
The base dimensions of the watch remain the same - 39mm wide and 14.7mm thick, but not much else is the same. The case in the skeleton model is made out of sandblasted titanium to make it much lighter. While I see why some people would want that, I adore the weight of the original model. You know when you are wearing one.
TAG calls this watch a skeleton, I described it as a skeleton but it, in fact, is not actually a skeleton watch. It would more appropriately be described as an openworked Monaco, as it has a partial dial that reveals a slightly reworked movement. But even as such it looks great - all sharp lines and angles. The watch comes in three editions - Original Blue with an untreated titanium case, blue dial, white and red accents and a blue strap; Racing Red, an untreated case, black dial with red and white accents and a black strap; and Turquoise, with a black DLC coated case, a black strap, a black dial with turquoise-coloured accents and sub-dials, a colour also being sported on the column wheel and rotor.
Inside is the familiar Calibre Heuer 02 with some slight improvements, with an 80 hour power reserve. Apart from the colors, all the straps are the same, a mix of rubber and leather with a titanium folding clasp.
All three are part of the regular collection and are not limited. The Original Blue and Racing Red editions are priced at CHF 10,500, and the DLC-coated Turquoise edition at CHF 11,000.
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Aquastar Revives Their First Dive Watch With The Model 60, The Most Classic Of Skin Divers With A Great Price
We are in the golden age of brand revivals. Aquastar, for example, was founded in the early 60s in Geneva by Frédéric Robert, a diver, sailor, pilot, mathematician and watchmaker after Robert took over his fathers watchmaking business JeanRichard. Over the next ten years, Rober filed a number of patents that are still relevant today, like inner rotating bezels, multiple dive decompression bezels, a new crown sealing system and the friction bezel ring…
When Robert retired, the brand was bought and sold by a number of companies and ended up being revived in 2020 by Rick Marei, who is known for building up Doxa to the powerhouse it is today. And ever since then they have been putting out fire releases. Their newest one is the Aquastar Model 60, which brings back the brand’s first-ever diver with modern specs.
All of the modern releases from Aquastar have been based on the Deepstar, but the Model 60 gets a completely new case. It’s based on the original Model 60, introduced in 1957 as JeanRichard7s first diver with a water resistance rating of 100 meters, and it was seemingly the earliest watch to use a skin-diver-style case. The Model 60 is also famous for being worn by Don Walsh to the bottom of the Mariana Trench while inside the Trieste submersible.
The stainless steel case of the Model 60 measures 37mm wide, 47mm lug-to-lug, 11mm thick and with a 19mm lug spacing. Speaking of the lugs, the watch comes on a tropic strap and can be had with an optional beads-of-rice bracelet with a safety clasp, or a nylon strap. Water resistance is 200 meters, and the sunburst-finished steel bezel is bidirectional.
The dial is what you would expect from a vintage diver - black with printed white minute track and hour markers, filled with “Old Radium” Super-LumiNova. The hands are the same as the Deepstar aside from the addition of a central seconds hand with a lume pip. Inside the watch is the La Joux-Perret G100, which features a 68-hour power reserve and is adjusted to four positions.
The Aquastar Model 60 will be a regular production model for the brand, and will not be limited. The Model 60 will start at $990 and rise to $1,290 at some point. The bracelet will cost an extra $159. Also the first 100 buyers will get a liquid-filled compass that can be attached to either a Tropic or nylon strap. However, considering the amount of press this watch has gotten over the weekend, I imagine they sold the first 100 already.
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The New And More Compact De Bethune DB28XS Starry Seas Is An Ode To Calm Seas
De Bethune watches are really something very special. The DB28 line especially. The floating lugs, delta-shaped bridge and crown at noon all give it a very futuristic look while remaining supremely elegant. The newly introduced DB28X Starry Seas takes all of these traits and gives them a huge makeover, despite looking practically the same - it shrinks it down radically to 39mm and gives it a beautifully serene blue dial with a world-first random guilloché pattern designed to evoke a starry sea.
The DB28XS is not only the smallest model in De Bethune’s family but inherits the slimmer, more stylised profile of the DB28XP models. With its diameter of 38.7mm (down from almost 43mm of the DB28) and thickness of 7.4mm, this petite newcomer is small and slim but also light, thanks to the polished titanium case.
The dial, which relies on a heat-blued titanium base that De Bethune has become known for, is decorated with the world’s first random guilloché pattern invented by De Bethune. Whether this means that De Bethune invented a random guilloché pattern or whether it is the fact that De Bethune has applied a random guiloché pattern to a blued titanium base needs clarifying. But there’s no denying that it’s a beautiful dial, as the wavy pattern is interrupted with sprinklings of white gold that mimic stars. A silver-plated rounded chapter ring bearing transferred Arabic numerals for hours and a blue dotted minute track frames the wavy dial. Time is indicated by two custom-made and hand-polished titanium openworked hands.
The watch comes on a supple dark blue alligator leather strap with light blue top stitching and a titanium pin buckle. De Bethune have not said whether this will be a limited model or when it will be available, but it’s expected to retail for CHF 77,000, excluding taxes.
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Alpina Has A Very Interesting Startimer Pilot Heritage Manufacture
Alpina is really starting to annoy me. I don’t want to take them seriously, on account of the name they share with the people that make my skis, and I’m not a huge fan of a number of their watches. But every now and again, they release a watch that’s just so great… Wait until you read all the specs and the price of the newly introduced Aplina Startimer Pilot Heritage Manufacture, an attractive vintage-inspired pilot’s watch.
The barrel-shaped case measures 42×40.75mm and lacks traditional lugs, with the strap going deep into the brushed case, with a crown at 4 o’clock. The dial is splendidly simple, with a deep blue color, a white minute track and beige luminescent hour markers. The rectangular hour and minute hands get the same beige lume. You can get it on a very vintage brown calf leather strap with white stitching.
But what’s really special is what’s inside the watch. A number of Alpina watches have had third party movements, but this one gets the AL-709 in-house calibre, an automatic movement presented in a becoming golden hue. Visible via an exhibition caseback, the movement at first glance resembles a manual movement due to its oscillating mass sharing the same golden tones as the automatic device bridge and mainplate. Subtle graining, blue screws and perlage are all augmenting the model’s overall appeal.
But what makes it even more special is the availability of 188 pieces and the price - just €2,850. And now this presents me with a question. This is obviously a very attractive watch - it looks great, has a good size, has an in house movement and does not break the bank, while still being limited which should, in theory, increase its desirability. I only now found out about the watch from the article in Escapement. In fact, this has been available since January. Why hasn’t it sold out yet? Is it just not attractive enough? Is it the name? It can’t be the value for money, or am I mistaken?
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Respected Independent Watchmaker Andreas Strehler Launches New Brand And Watch With The Strehler Sirna
Andreas Strehler is one of those watchmakers that is a leader among independent watchmakers and for good reason. He has mastered everything from fabrication to finishing, but then would not budge from the polarising design of his watches that many argue kept a lot of customers from him. And I love when someone is so stubborn. To be clear, his previous watches were not ugly monstrosities. They were elegant timepieces marked by a distinctive papillon, or “butterfly”, movement architecture and resulting cushion-shaped case, and Strehler has become known as the independent watchmaker’s watchmaker, having developed the HMC 341 perpetual calendar movement for H. Moser & Cie and the Dragon Lever escapement for Precision Engineering.
Stehler has now decided to expand to a wider audience and has launched a new brand known simply as Strehler, which aims to reach a wider audience with more accessible designs and prices. The brand’s opening act is the Sirna, named after the town of Sirnach in northeastern Switzerland where the manufacture is based.
At launch, the Sirna is offered in a single reference that features an elegantly proportioned, 40 mm steel case with a concave case band and ergonomically formed lugs. The crown is inlaid with a blue titanium disk that features Mr. Strehler’s signature Papillon logo. The patterned dial is also titanium, anodised in a beautiful blue. Designed by Eric Giroud, each dial is machined and laser-engraved before being individually hand polished.
But what’s really special is what’s inside - the in-house SA-30 movement that has some of the highest quality finishings at this price point. For example, the movement has an in-house gold rotor and ball-bearing rotor mount. Most brands, even those in the so-called “Holy Trinity”, typically outsource the production of rotors to a specialist.
The architecture of this 30mm calibre stands out with a series of circles for the bridges and the openworked rotor that match the curvature of the case. The large, free-sprung balance beats at 21,600 vibrations/hour and boasts 60 hours of power reserve. The decoration of this movement is refined, with hand-chamfered bevels, circular Geneva stripes, graining and circular-grained wheels, all channelling the movement’s elaborate design.
The Strehler Sirna comes on a supple brown calfskin strap with off-white stitching. The steel pin buckle is engraved with the brand’s logo. The price is set at CHF 20,000 (excl. taxes), which seems fair for an “independent watch” of this level. The watch is not a limited edition, but the production capacity is expected to be around 30 to 50 watches per year maximum.
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On hand - a selection of reviews

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A review of the Shinola Duck the brand’s light-duty, entry-level diver-style watch
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Hands-on with the Maen Brooklyn 36 — an unusual panda with a champagne twist
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Watch Worthy - A look at an offbeat, less known watch you might actually like

The Sofia II from Axia Time — high style with some substance
The Sofia II sits somewhere between a dressy and sporty piece, and Axia has sized it accordingly. The diameter of 40.5mm and lug-to-lug length of just under 48mm is a good fit on my 17.75cm (7″) wrist. It perhaps looks even larger than that due to the all-dial design and large polished lug facets. The combination of titanium, a thickness of 10.5mm, and lug tips sitting slightly lower than the case back all help the watch to sit securely and wear comfortably. But this leads to another dichotomy.
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What will you be doing with this PC? Be as specific as possible, and include specific games or programs you will be using.

Mostly gaming, but also regular web browsing, watching shows, but also I’ll use it to keep some files for my university. I plan play a lot of genres of games: Elden Ring, Forza Horizon 5, COD MW2, Mordhau, Mount&Blade 2 Bannerlord, Starfield, Manor Lords, Crusader Kings.

What is your maximum budget before rebates/shipping/taxes?

1000€

When do you plan on building/buying the PC? Note: beyond a week or two from today means any build you receive will be out of date when you want to buy.

Possibly within this summer, I’m not aiming to top of the line equipment anyway

What, exactly, do you need included in the budget? (ToweOS/monitokeyboard/mouse/etc)

Everything but keyboard, mouse and headphones.

Which country (and state/province) will you be purchasing the parts in? If you're in US, do you have access to a Microcenter location?

I’m going to purchase this in Italy

If reusing any parts (including monitor(s)/keyboard/mouse/etc), what parts will you be reusing? Brands and models are appreciated.

Razer Ornata Chroma keyboard
Logitech G402 Gaming Mouse
HyperX Cloud II gaming headphones

Will you be overclocking? If yes, are you interested in overclocking right away, or down the line? CPU and/or GPU?

No

Are there any specific features or items you want/need in the build? (ex: SSD, large amount of storage or a RAID setup, CUDA or OpenCL support, etc)

An SSD would be appreciated, possibly 1TB of space

Do you have any specific case preferences (Size like ITX/microATX/mid-towefull-tower, styles, colors, window or not, LED lighting, etc), or a particular color theme preference for theme preference for the components?

No, I’d like to “optimize” the price-performance ratio, so I don’t want any unnecessary fluff like RGB lighting or things like that. As long as the case is good enough to fit the components well and has good ventilation it’s fine

Do you need a copy of Windows included in the budget? If you do need one included, do you have a preference?

Yes, a copy of Windows 11

*Extra info for particulars

As I’ve said no RGB as it usually inflates prices for no reason at all. I don’t need my build to be necessarily look good to the eye

In the past I haven’t really gone to very many festivals or concerts because I am on the autism spectrum and i get anxious and overstimulated being in large crowds in a confined space, (I have been to Lights all Night 2019 in Texas tho) but I just went to Sonic Temple 2023 in Ohio on a whim with my friend who had an extra ticket, and they all went inside to the field/pit and i just stayed outside on the grass and chilled in the back and it was a really fun experience for me even if i was just chilling and walking around by myself! So i was wondering what other festivals and events in the US are really good for the whole experience in the like just chilling outside and walking around and stuff as opposed to being in the crowd moshing and crowd surfing ? Sorry if this sounds ignorant because I’m not necessarily that cultured in music events, and I don’t want to be “taking away a ticket from a real fan” or anything, I just had a really good time and want to go to more festivals and events for the experience!

I was 18 and my dad had terminal cancer. Mom was his fulltime caregiver till he passed away. When we sort through his belonging and also some clutter from the house, my mom found my older sister diary that she used to keep. My mom started reading and I felt that she was invading privacy, I tried to take it from her, but she scolds me for it. I argue how she could be so inconsiderate, and she just got angry at me but still keep reading and making comments about the stuff my sister wrote. I cried because mom did the same thing in the past and I wrote my rant in my diary about school and she found it and confront me about it. It was my outlet for things I never was able to say or retaliate others. I never kept any diary after.
A week after that, we had a roadtrip to finalize some paperwork with my paternal aunt accompanying us. On our way home, they were talking about my dad's passing that leads to conversation saying "Nowadays, kids would right away put this behind them and recover quick in a few days. Unlike us in the past who grieve much longer months or even years." I sat in the backseat angry at this but I didn't say anything. Thinking on how these thoughtless words come straight out of my mom who used to be a nurse.
The next thing I happened to overhear my mom talking on the phone with her friend in a room about the details of my dad's struggle when he was seriously ill. I was angry because she didn't disclose much information to me but blabber away to an outsider. I wasn't able to meet my dad in those months but only on twice. First time is when my friend drive me to the hospital and i have a short conversation and how my dad promised to teach me how to drive. Second time is months later, he was unresponsive and stared blankly and tired with not much energy left. He died the following week.
My sister came back from studying abroad and it was my turn to go away. I left to study 3 years, return home to my room occupied by my sister. It became "her room". She asked for my consent before and I have given my approval but only if she return it to me after i came back. She did not keep her promise and my mom sided with my sister. I had to give up my room and used a spare room that was used as storage. I salvage a few furniture to use. I held such strong attachment to the room that my sister took from me is because we lived in the same bedroom with our parents up till we are 17 or 18. We had to queen bed and shared wardrobe and space. When my sister left to study, my dad cleared up the room that is supposed to be mine and the spare room my dad had planned to get it a makeover but he was had gotten sick. When i wanted to renovate the spare room or buy new furniture, my mom told me not to waste the money.
I noticed some of my old clothes went missing, my mom had thrown them away because I probably won't wear them anymore. A wallet my friend gave me on birthday and handbag that is a souvenir from my parent ended up used by my mom, without my knowledge. She said I don't use them much anyway. To me they were memorabilia. I ended up with fewer stuff than I originally had.
I felt like I was punished for being obedient. Whenever I think of it I cried. And when I got angry and told them off, they talk me down. Not understanding the point why I was so upset and it was just such a small thing to get upset about in their eyes. My mom dared to throw my stuff but doesn't do it to my sister and even make spaces where I originally had for her. My sister gets angry for anyone who moved her stuff but she can't see it from my point when I got angry. I know one day i will choose to no contact everyone and live alone. I'm sorry dad, eventhough you always told me not to get angry at mom, I can't do it.

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