Mercutio's latest activity
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Mercutio replied to the thread Something Random.What a revolting development, actually. The 5700XT was my secret weapon for getting something decent in a PC. I was getting them for $75... -
Mercutio replied to the thread Hard Drive Recommendations.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...
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Mercutio replied to the thread $800 used to be enough?.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...
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Mercutio replied to the thread Securing your phone against hacking?.Contemporary Android devices have a setting to reboot on a schedule. Weekly reboots seem reasonable to me.
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Mercutio replied to the thread Android phones: Tips, tricks?.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...
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Mercutio replied to the thread Laptop time?.You can make incompatible CPUs run 11, but unless you know the secret sauce, they can't be upgraded past whatever version is initially...
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Mercutio replied to the thread Laptop time?.So you're looking to buy a PC that was born incompatible to run Windows 11? Why?
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As long as what I'm doing doesn't have a hard AVX2 requirement, I'm having a hard time finding a workload that really, truly crushes it...
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Mercutio replied to the thread Android phones: Tips, tricks?.I hate the S25 Ultra. The extra width means I can't reach the far edge of my phone with my thumb. I've gotten the pen out all of one...
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Mercutio replied to the thread AI: How can you tell if it's AI, or real?.Boob to you too this fine morning. I take pictures all the time and some of the tools that I use do apply AI to correct a focus...
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Mercutio replied to the thread Here is a thread to talk about gaming.I finally delivered the gaming PC I built for my friend's kid last week. It turned into a bit of a communal project; friends got him a...
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Mercutio replied to the thread Something Random.I was still actively using an i7-2700k until last year for the simple reason that the damned thing wouldn't die and did everything I...
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Mercutio replied to the thread Merc's Useful Tools of the day.Results from "kill all the AI" script are pretty promising. On a vanilla Windows 11 VM install with 4GB allocated RAM, I saw a decrease...
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Mercutio replied to the thread Empire in Decline.I think we all know that ain't nothin' gonna happen over this. We didn't do anything about it last time he was in office and now...
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Mercutio replied to the thread Windows 11.For purpose of comparison, an N150 has approximately the same amount of computing power as an i7-7700 at a tiny fraction of the power...
