Recent content by sedrosken

Mine's looking like half of it's gonna be consumed with getting a cousin off my wireless plan so I can change carriers and save everyone involved some money. I had her on my plan to begin with because she couldn't afford to replace her phone and it'd cost her twice as much to go to a big carrier...

I'm not buying her anything consumer-ish, to be honest. I want it to last her and she's not terribly good about babying electronics, so I'm very sure if I get her another consumer grade laptop it'll be broken in a year or two. I'm okay with it being a bit slower than strictly optimal (trying to...

I'm trying to swing something with a 7840U for my sister for Christmas since her old 5625(?)U laptop kicked it a month or two ago. I'm going with something that high-powered because it should be relatively available used or refurbished (I'm eyeing Elitebooks) and I'd like it to last her through...

Hm. I'm on blood pressure medicine but I'm not in the best shape health-wise and my dad was on it by my age too. Mine's still a fairly low dose -- I didn't notice any issues getting mine, the pharmacy even got me a 90-day supply. It's nothing I'll die immediately without, but that doesn't mean...

I've been doing most of my day to day computing on a Surface Laptop Go 2 I got a sweetheart deal on as it had things wrong with it that I fixed. Apart from the soldered memory (to be fair, this allows it to be Fast, LPDDR4 moment) it's actually surprisingly repairable. It's probably the newest...

Every couple of years now there's some new use for GPUs that keeps them expensive. First it was mining crypto, then it was mining crypto again, now it's running AI models, and it looks like this one is going to stick at least for a few years. Maybe once these companies fold we'll start to see...

Things like this are another reason why I just... couldn't.

Economic collapse, that's what's going to happen. People will lose their entire life savings and maybe some companies will fold and yet more wealth will accumulate in the coffers of people who never worked a day for it, and the poor will struggle to feed themselves. So... not much change from...

I think you should be able to unpack the Win11 WIM with the Win7 or 8 PE from the installer disc, even, though that's a more arcane and obscure process. I know that on one weird issue I had a long time ago where a machine supported 10 but wouldn't boot its installer image, I had to either...

I helped a few friends do this since the big killswitch moment. I feel like this is a cat and mouse game Microsoft will always lose.

Yeah, I'm supposed to be flying out to Dallas or somewhere in California for work here in the next few months and my first thought is "who's being paid to run ATC? yeah... no one". I think the playbook is to keep the government shut down permanently so there isn't anyone who can possibly tell...

That was what the ROG Ally Xbox or whatever it was called was supposed to be, no? A handheld Windows PC that could run Windows software and Xbox games? That didn't last -- it just runs Steam games and "Xbox" ports to, what, UWP? Or are you saying that there will be no further actual Xbox titles...

Found a demo unit SKU for a Surface Pro with some attractive pricing. 16GB RAM, 256GB storage, Snapdragon X Plus. Normally I try not to buy machines with less than 512GB of storage but for the use case I have in mind for this, 256 may well be overkill. I would have preferred a more traditional...

Pretty sure if Obama runs again he won't have to worry about any would-be assassins, his own wife will kill him. I get the distinct impression from his book that she is not a fan of presidential/first lady life.

I think we just resold a small fleet of some updated version of this for a similar use-case. I didn't have them out of the box as we were strictly acting as a reseller, but if a newer version of the same tablet from Samsung of all companies doesn't have a better, brighter screen I'd be shocked.