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the RX 7900XTX and its associated SKUs are kind of shocking in what they're bringing to the table. It looks like you can get a card on Ebay for around $550 for unopened retail boxes vs $1k from usual retail suspects and these things are all in the RTX 4080-ish ballpark, performance-wise. I'd...

Actually upon further exploration, it's ~650GB for DOS games, ~160GB for extras like complete computer magazine articles and ~300GB for games that ran on 16 bit Windows, plus archives for educational titles, Apple II games and all the SCUMM stuff.

That's leaving PCIe lanes on the table and we can't have that!

Got 700GB of free disk space just sitting there doing nothing?

This thing will let me use 4x u.2 @ PCIe 4 speeds. Right now I only have a mix of Intel and Crucial PCIe 3.0 drives but all three of my x16 slots actually do seem to work at x16 if I only use two of the m.2 slots. That's a trade I'm happy to make.

I could only get 160GB G.Skill DDR5-6000 EXPO to post at 4800MHz. I guess I'm not surprised by this.

I will openly advocate for piracy from giant American media conglomerates but I also don't have a LinkedIn account. qbittorrent, Tor and Private Internet Access are great tastes that taste great together.

9950X is up and running. It took over five minutes for it to identify my RAM and boot, even longer than it did with the 7600X, but it's been fine since. I don't have a GPU running on it. I need to figure out a different way to mount all my drives because clearance with cards installed is a...

I ate an orange earlier so at least I probably won't have scurvy anytime soon.

Google won an antitrust appeal in the EU yesterday over its practices as they relate to search service, so it won't have to pay a $1.5B fine that was originally opposed on it. It is still facing charges in the US of holding a monopoly on advertising technologies, since it controls the market...

Our Flag Means Death was too great to live and the only thing with a remotely similar vibe, probably is "Time Bandits" the TV show, which isn't nearly as amusing. In any case, it is a day to embrace your inner pirate or at least committing billions of dollars in copyright violations with a...

And here's an incoming fix for inter-CCD latency reporting. No idea if it actually does anything. re: being rushed, we're talking about a CPU design that has been in development for probably years. It's possible or even likely that AMD has internal tools and idiosyncratic OS builds that we are...

I should finally have my 9950X running by the end of the week. For now, I am going to pair it with an A770 and an Arctic Liquid Freezer 3. I actually hope that I'll be able to undervolt it a bit and maintain its performance. Since it's going in another Be Silent Base 802, I'll be able to compare...

I use Blackplayer EX for local media on my phone, Spotify for streaming when I'm out of the house (the app is more responsive and someone else pays for my Spotify), Amazon Music if I'm streaming at home, Pocket Casts for Podcasts and I've done an absolute fuckton of work to make Plex see and...

Android has had some changes to permission structures in the last six years. Your card needs to be exFAT and you need to grant permission to the root of the SD card before you can use it. I'm 95% certain that VLC prompts you for that. I also had an S20 for a very long time. I used a 1TB card on...

I spent about $400 on a head unit to get wireless Android Auto in my 2011 Honda. I know not a single thing about cars and I still managed to install it about three hours. Before that, I used a $15 bluetooth to aux transceiver, which was great for me but didn't work well for my partner's iphone...

Hulu really isn't a monopoly since the overwhelming majority of its programming is just network television. ESPN might be, simply because of the number of exclusive contracts it has with various sportsing things. There are IPTV providers out in the world. They're easier to find outside the USA...

Google Meet is widely seen as better than Teams by people who get to use both. To be far, hemorrhoids are widely seen as better than Teams as well. All of them? Firefox and Vivaldi are two browsers I am more likely to use. I do make use of Chrome since I have ChromeOS devices, but one thing I...

Emphatically yes. I can access location for my devices and for those enrolled in Google Workspace administration. I can remote wipe them as well. I can do this from my phone or tablet or from the web. Samsung separately has its own version of this, although I've never bothered to mess with it. I...

I can't use iOS without chafing at its restrictions and stupid and unfixable UI. iOS is designed in such a way that even the concept of files us set outside user experience, and as a result, it doesn't have functional userland file browsing. There are many immutable defaults and Apple does not...

iOS should not be countenanced.

Gross.

I had a package of fiber optic cables USPS'd to me from Schaumberg, IL last week. It was last scanned in Arizona and I do not understand why or how that happened.

Chromebooks mostly have either Celeron N-something, Ryzen 3s for the rare AMD models, or Mediatek Kompanio, Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 or Kyro ARM-based SoCs. High end Chromebooks can have full-on laptop CPUs in them, but those are famously bad at being Chromebooks since they drop all pretense of...

I am actually not sure what direction I would go if I wanted a dedicated video camera. I still want to know what Nikon is going to do with Red.

I think it's entirely appropriate for Computers. Who among us doesn't use some or other Google product as part of our computing every day? Re: search as a public utility, I agree that it probably should be, but we in the USA have a political party that can't be trusted with the concept of...

Google's status as a monopoly in search and advertising technologies are being tested in US Federal court starting today. At issue in the first of these trials is the idea that Google both sets the market rates for ad search terms and acts as a buyer on behalf of customers that advertise through...

Newegg gave me a $10 gift card for hitting the back button while I was on its checkout screen today. I had a shopping cart with a dozen Chromebooks, because neither Walmart nor Amazon can deliver the model I was going to buy before the end of the week. Newegg is the same price and they're...

Dude, you do not want to own anything with a Core m CPU. Those are ultra low voltage devices and they're beyond pathetic. Like "SoCs in Tracphones laugh at them"-grade bad.

There are definitely plenty of devices that are still 1GbE only. The 8 bay Synology I've had since the Obama administration, I'm willing to forgive the lack of fast connectivity. Less so something just being introduced to the market.

My favorite thing at the moment are $600 NAS devices that still only have 1GbE interfaces. Getting the "Video Editing" versions of the same product is what you need to see a 10GbE port.

The Tab S10 is said to not have the smallest 10" option, which will instead be released as the Tab S10FE. I have an S8 and an S9+ (the 12" model) as well as an older S6 around the house. I actually think the 12" model is a little too big for my liking, so I currently use the S8 for tablet...

That's the "or the like" part, LM.

I usually suggest Boost Mobile to people looking to cut their mobile bill. Boost is a Tmobile MVNO that has a $25 for everything plan with IIRC a 30GB throttled cap. Being an MVNO means you won't get priority on cell towers vs a direct Tmo customer, but if "The Big One" hits CA or you are busy...

1kg is a pretty normal weight for a Sigma zoom. It's within the range of normal weight for something I'd hand-hold or balance on the body. It's not the 3kg 120-300 that has to have a tripod mount. I know it's not parfocal, so you don't keep focus while you're zooming, but I'm not a pro video...

You can absolutely download the media without an account, but the links to do so change periodically. The easiest way to GET one of those links is by signing in to Office.com, but the links remain usable for months and officecdn.microsoft.com does not enforce any authentication in and of itself.

Not with the old-ass Sony APS-C body I have, but if I had an A7r4 or the like, I'd be all over that thing.

Sigma apparently just launched a 28-105/2.8 for Sony that costs half what the RF mount Canon version does, $1500 MSRP. It's big and heavy, but that's implied just by having the name Sigma on it. It's in One True Lens territory for an awfully lot of use cases.

I can't say that my Yongnuo flashes have been anything but reliable. I switch them out with the Canons freely.

I have a (VERY) small studio space in what used to be an unused office or possibly utility room. It's about 8'x12' with about 2' of that space devoted to some furniture and props I like. The room has zero natural light, so to even walk in, I have to turn on a LED lamp. I do use flash when it's...

Samsung dropped the SD card after the S20-series, I personally don't care about the 3.5mm audio jack, but that's been gone a similar amount of time. The Galaxy A5x series still has the SD slot but the newest model from that line wasn't released in the US, relegating us to the less exciting A3x...

Extra camera coverage. My phone is water resistant. I can use it in fresh water so long as I don't dunk it. The action cams are kind of obnoxious for just turning off when I'm shooting for no reason I can tell, so hopefully reliability enhancements as well. Plus phone gimbals are very...

That's a bargain if it comes with the Snapdragon 1 gen 3, which it should if it ships in the US.

I've bought stand-alone key packs where I only had to activate the key, not sign in with Microsoft beforehand.

The reason was incompatibility with some VBA macros. If you had the typical "middle manager 100k column spreadsheet that is their entire career" setup, having one macro that doesn't return the same result it did in the 32 bit version, that was too much of a problem for IT to deal with, so the...

It's also vastly cheaper than buying another mirrorless camera body and IMO graded output actually looks better than I get off an action camera (e.g. GoPro).

I don't know if Outlook works. I assume that it doesn't work any worse than any other version of Outlook, but I refuse to support it and I don't install it if I'm given a choice in the matter. Office 2007 used to be my path of least resistance for home users that whined about not having Word...

MotionCam works extremely well for people with high end Android devices. It allows your phone camera to output video in editing-friendly codecs like ProRes. A big reason why I never messed with my phones before in terms of their capabilities as cameras is that they don't work the same way as my...

Office 2007 lost access to its "powered by Bing" clipart library today. It is no longer fully functional. Office 2007 was also the last version of Office that worked without any activation nonsense. Pour one out for the last version of Office that wasn't completely stupid.

I have a pair of ancient Norco 24 bay SAS chassis. They were originally meant to have a PC in them, but at this point they are drives-only enclosures. Each of them currently has one backplane that doesn't work and given how long I've had these things, I expect that more will break down as well...