Recent content by Mercutio

I'm specifically looking at it as a way to get a simplified ISO to turn off the most egregious BS. Like... Go ahead and kill Recall, Onedrive, Microsoft account on OOBE, restore the classic context menu and turn on show file extensions. Those things are the bare minimum I am going to do on every...

Today in nifty things for people, I bring you Winhance. irm https://get.winhance.net | iex What does it do? It does a lot of the same things as chocolatey and the Chris Titus Tool, in that it has the ability to install third party software and toggle Windows default software and settings...

I did finally complete a Steam account setup. Something else I found out is that Adults who are members of the same Steam Family can also share each other's game libraries. I was assuming it was a one-way thing with the person making the invitation being the one sharing the games, but since my...

Wherever they're on sale. They go on sale regularly at Best Buy and Amazon.

It might be making a boot optimization pass. Either that or you got some updates that installed silently and it did more than usual back-end work during your next startup. With regard to low cost, reasonably powerful systems, I can't recall seeing mini PCs with Ryzen 3550H CPUs before, but...

You can make something like a Ryzen 5600G/16GB/2TB or a Ryzen 9600X (or 7700X, maybe)/16GB/1TB work for around $800, if you can accept the iGPU in either product. In my mind either one of those builds should be more like $550 or $600, but cheap RAM just can't be had. I don't mind putting a...

Someone was in mortal danger. Pretti was attempting to help a person having a seizure at the time he was murdered. He was not in that moment threatening anyone. His firearm was not drawn nor did he make any attempt to draw it in the moments leading up to his murder. I need to be very clear about...

I have a couple bus-powered Arc A310s sitting around. They're godly for video editing and encoding, but if you don't have working Rebar, they're not going to work properly for you either. I do know Gigabyte had Resizable Bar support on its Z77 boards; I've tried Arc cards on systems that old...

That man was murdered. No one's life was endangered by Pretti's actions; how dare he try to use his nursing skills to help someone in physical distress. I'm aware you're the most gun-nutty of gun nuts, but Pretti was in lawful possession of a firearm, something that you should fully support...

What a revolting development, actually. The 5700XT was my secret weapon for getting something decent in a PC. I was getting them for $75 and now they've more than doubled in price. Even the formerly maligned Vega64s are around that price now. The A750/A770s can still be had for reasonable...

How can you seriously ask a question like that? Sadly, HDD prices are shooting through the roof right now as well, so I do think that the only deals to be had at the moment are on the external drives that you can shuck and install internally. They're perfectly normal SATA drives for all...

RAM prices are up 400% (literally, the RAM kit in my workstation was $350 when I bought it and now it's over $1700). NVMe for anything but the DRAM-less budget segment is similarly high. I mentioned this a few weeks ago, but I was able to buy three 4TB drives back in August for what one costs...

Contemporary Android devices have a setting to reboot on a schedule. Weekly reboots seem reasonable to me.

You might try Blackplayer, but if you're having problems playing music from your SD card, it's possible the issue is the card you're using rather than an issue with the application you're playing with.

You can make incompatible CPUs run 11, but unless you know the secret sauce, they can't be upgraded past whatever version is initially installed. As previously mentioned, an N150 had more or less the same computing power as an i7 7700. It also has better integrated graphics. At this point...