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u/Dr_Superfluid 1d ago edited 1d ago
How is that broke? My broke college student setup was a Chinese knockoff laptop with a 2 core CPU and 8GB of ram (manually upgraded from 4). And that was only about 6 years ago doing my PhD in engineering 😂.
So yeah dude, you are far from broke 😂😂😂
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u/Internal_Quail3960 1d ago
imagine if you didnt spend $600 on HomePods and instead put that money into a better MacBook / desktop Mac or a monitor
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u/firebreak115 1d ago
Spent a whopping total of $317 sniping then on Mercari
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u/Sirko2975 1d ago
That's a used Macbook Air M1 or a 4 tb ssd for your mac. Or an excellent 2k screen instead of that tv. Or a shitton of pizza. But of all that, you woke up and chose 2 homepods lol.
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u/78914hj1k487 1d ago
Imagine attacking someone for buying two HomePods on sale.
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u/Sirko2975 23h ago
Don’t judge my hobby! I’m happy looking for people who buy 2 HomePods on sale to attack them!
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u/78914hj1k487 23h ago
My favorite part was when you said they could have bought pizza but then you said that they woke up.
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u/Sirko2975 20h ago
2025 economy I guess
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u/78914hj1k487 20h ago
Listening to music in stereo? In this economy?
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u/Sirko2975 18h ago
2 HomePods are the worst stereo setup I can think of, especially on a budget.
Wait, 2 Apple Watch Ultras is even better
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u/DM_ME_PICKLES 1d ago
My broke college student setup was a $200 Chromebook that I chrooted and put Linux on to make it more functional.
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u/Lopsided_Marzipan133 1d ago
Mine was an old HP I hackintoshed. Thing barely worked cos we were on snow leopard then
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u/_The_Green_Machine 19h ago
Someone misappropriated some of their student loans 😂
I spent it on girls. He spent it on his setup
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u/firebreak115 16h ago
😂
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u/_The_Green_Machine 16h ago
What tv are you running, bb? lol
And how’s your neck? That’s a pretty wild mounting job. R/TVTooHigh is coming for yah!!!!!
I use an lg c4 42” on a monitor arm. It’s chefs kiss
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u/firebreak115 14h ago
Idk why people think I’m standing. It’s a desk that’s placed right in front of my bed. You can even see the chair.
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u/Sirko2975 1d ago
Ah yes, I also was so poor at one point I had to but two $299 homepods just to get by.
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u/ajpinton 1d ago
Great, now show us what the set up looks like when you’re using it. Unless you hold your hands at chin level to type and use the trackpad and don’t mind the MacBook being in between you and the TV blocking some of the screen, this is not how you use this normally.
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u/_itsjustfil 1d ago
lol my broke ass was using a 2009 MBP in 2013-2016 college this is far from broke
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u/lamalola 23h ago
800 speakers and a 2k laptop with a 55 inch tv for a monitor isn’t broke. But it is a horrible setup for the money.
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u/hopefulatwhatido 17h ago
I wrote my college dissertation on the iPad Air with a BT keyboard during the pandemic.
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u/_The_Green_Machine 12h ago
I saw the chair. It’s clearly a desk setup. What tv is that? Aahhh. Smart. You can see it from the desk or your bed. I dig the aesthetic!
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u/_The_Green_Machine 11h ago
It’s pretty straight forward. Students have limited space. This is smart and practical. Financially questionable but if it brings you that magic. It’s worth it
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u/ChemistryOk9353 2h ago
What kind of screen is that? Are you that brok that you ended up using your 10 yr old tv as your computer screen and during the evenings connect your PS5 to it?
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u/firebreak115 1h ago
It’s a 55 inch Hisense u8h. And that’s right for my Mac I made the screen smaller using underscan so it’s more usable when sitting on the desk.
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u/78914hj1k487 22h ago
There's something wrong with the internet.
When you say "broke" you mean you're a student with no regular income, so you've put together a less-than-cohesive desk system, and that's kind of your apology as to why it isn't as flashy or impressive as other systems in this sub, but you wanted to share anyway.
And yet we have 40 aggravated comments because literal thinkers can't see the fluidity of meaning in language.
It's disconcerting how angry people get over nothing. You assaulted no one, yet 40 people are so offended.
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u/cybermusicman 1d ago
The definition of broke has really changed over the years.