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Still up in the air
Buy an identical one off ebay leads over
Get a new one, despite not having yet found one that isn't horribly noisy or horribly smoothed. (what?) (2 years ago)
remove the armrest altogether (although it seems a shame to lose the perfectly functional left one) and
carve a new one out of wood (lot of work to make it comfy and safe) are tied (3 years ago)
open leads over
closed (3 years ago)
Simply not a word leads over
Is a word / I understand what you mean without thinking about it too much (3 years ago)
Set in stone
I decided to do
Something else rather than
buy new old stock, $40
or
buy new-new from little company in appalachia that bought the rights to the keyboards, $60 (2 years ago)
repaired it using parts from another dead one
I picked
mirror + 1 disk of data i honestly don't care about losing over
raid5
(3 years ago)
i already set it up as a mirror and a nonredundant disk. shifting to raid5 would require a 4th disk temporarily... so... laziness. (also, not a modern processor -- 7y.o.)
I decided to do
Something else rather than
Buy more from them (will arrive in a day 'cuz we're both in greater boston)
or
Find cocoa nibs and make it myself (3 years ago)
Got some from friends who didn't like it. Freaks. ;)
I picked
"an SSE instruction" because it's "ess ess ee"
over
"a SSE instruction" because it's "streaming SIMD extension" (3 years ago)
But now I'm trying to think of an acronym where you'd expand it when you pronounced it. (i.e. an acronym for which you'd choose the other)
I picked
yes (60% speed increase for no more thermal or electric power)
over
no (some tiny chance of bricking it, no guarantee it'll work) (3 years ago)
well, i did, and i can clock my memory faster now, but the new cpu still doesn't work.
I picked
throw 'em away over
make 'em into an art project
(3 years ago)
I don't really need to make an IC centipede, as cute as it is.
I picked
Wait until these get unusably dim and then buy a matched pair (of higher resolution). It's not like I use them for much beyond text anyway.
over
Replace one at a time, with 1440x900 LCDs with high contrast ratios, but take a chance of not being able to get a matched set (3 years ago)
I picked
buy something else (what?) over
use a gumstix with the audio module ($140ish)
(3 years ago)
N800s falling from the sky!
I picked
GameCube, available now, more authentic (Link is left-handed), minor bug fixes that might also be in a later pressing of the Wii game disc, familiar controls, some people have reported slowdown, ~$50 over
Wii when I actually can buy one, widescreen support, wiimote!, more inventory hotkeys, ~$300
(3 years ago)
Not having useful camera control has really frustrated me when I've been playing the Wii version.
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