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The A770 has been a great bargain IMO, but I got one cheap as well. I think you have to have at least some interest in it outside gaming needs to see it as worthwhile hardware. $200something is a crazy good deal for one.

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Brother is my go to for printers under almost all circumstances. I even like its multifunction inkjets and believe me that I do not say that lightly. The printer repair people I know don't like them but from talking to them it sounds like HP printers are just more profitable for them. I like...

GoG is wonderful. Highest marks. The actual good guy of digital storefronts.

Amazon and Google at least use custom hardware. Amazon runs a ton of systems on ARM based servers. Google users DC power instead messing with switching PSUs, but I think they're still running x86 mostly. I've seen CPU and GPU compute racks, even in the relatively small colo where my stuff...

The USA was about to impose a 25% tariff on certain high tech parts, most notably GPUs, starting in a couple weeks. They decided to wait a year. Hopefully we all have our 5090s by then. Also hopefully nvidia will finally implement hardware codecs for HEVC 10-bit like every ARM SoC and Intel...

Give my plastic all day every day. It's practical. LG sold a few phones with leather backs as well. I don't like leather. It holds smells and I think that's gross, but if someone needs a more premium option, it's an easy alternative. Just miss me with that glass shit.

There's always Fuji?

This actually hurts my heart. At least your upload speed isn't garbage. DSL where I live is usually rate limited to 5Mbps up.

sed, The Democrats should've at least at held a primary to have some meaningful policy discourse. The GenZ I run with mostly can't stand Biden as an out of touch papaw and I'll admit that he's been entirely too tolerant of Lekud's actions in Palestine. "Active participant in genocide" is not a...

I don't actually care. The EU has mandated user serviceable batteries. That doesn't happen on phones that are glass on all sides and I'll be happy to see those abominations die. The EU is of course the only regulator in the world that actually cares about consumer or end user experience.

Since the outer doors on my apartment building lock and I hate dealing with that, I have most things delivered to a business where I have keys that's down the street. Maybe 5% of my deliveries happen outside business hours but the location is unambiguous and generally secure. If the package...

Prime has benefits I don't get to use, like discounts at Whole Foods, but I love my fast shipping and consider that worthwhile enough on its own. If somebody tells me GrubHub is the reason my prime bill has to go up, that's a different story. For now I'm glad to have it.

I use food delivery services to get meals to far flung friends, actually. Given my friends are younger and not established in their lives, sending someone a couple cartons of Chinese food on a move-in day or during finals week is usually highly appreciated. A couple years ago, I used Boomerang...

It's basically a front-end to chocolatey/WinGet plus a lot of powershell registry and group policy tricks. One interesting thing about it compared to Chocolatey, though, is that it runs some installers in contexts other than the computer administrator account when people have observed issues...

Amazon Prime members get Grubhub+ as a standard benefit now. I have never ordered prepared food delivery to my house. Groceries sometimes, but never food. But I do find myself sending food to other people from time to time. Also, I pay $150/month for 2.5Gbps down/50Mbps up on Comcast Business...

I just have a box of cables. For a while, every time I bought a specific model of Lenovo Ideapad, it would come with a brand new HDMI cable and also a generic 32GB USB 3 thumb drive. I wound up buying dozens of that one model of Ideapad, so for the time being I just have dozens of new HDMI...

If you want high refresh to work, you need to make sure everything in the signal chain supports it. It's a real dummy moment when you find someone with a $1000 Samsung G9 and an RTX 4080 who can't be megafancy because they're using a 10 year old HDMI cable. Freesync is an AMD technology that...

You can just ignore it or turn off the widgets. I'm not sure what Copilot is supposed to do either. Or why I should want to pay for Gemini or a subscription tier of Alexa, for that matter.

MacOS is a commercial Unix. Partition assignments can be much more flexible but OS recovery can also be more obnoxious. For example you can connect one Mac to another and just treat that second system as a disk drive, but the pain point is that in many cases you need a Mac to fix a Mac, and...

Signal65.com has a whitepaper about Qualcomm Elite SoCs. Short version: They're hot. They spank a 12th gen Intel low voltage CPU and trade fairly well with M3 Apple Silicon with the caveat that Apple is generally faster per core but the ARM SoCs tend to have more cores.

One of my students brought this to my attention: https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil This is a powershell script you can run as easily as irm https://christitus.com/win | iex as administrator. The command brings up a long list of installable software, but also notably includes some...

There was a leak of Google Documentation over the weekend that seems to thoroughly describe how its Search functions work right now. It's an interesting read. The site is run by some kind of SEO goon, but the information is still valuable since Google is in the process of making its search...

Some years ago, when I moved from Comcast consumer service to Comcast Business service, I had to be put through Retentions. Her response was "Hm. Well, I've never seen this before but I have to read this to you." At least she got a laugh out of it. Most communities around mine have some kind...

At this point, I have a phone set aside for photography functions. It has a 1TB card and I use it with a USB-C to HDMI capture device so that I can display my viewfinder to a model and/or shoot video and photos at the same time and so I can swap it back and forth with my camera to get pictures...

The problem with that particular bug is that Windows doesn't quite come equipped with tools to fix it. It should; we can in theory re-size partitions in Disk Management, but doing so depends on how OEMs decided to create partition layouts and resizing partitions is a big hairy problem, as is the...

For me, the justification for microSD is the ability to switch the personality of the device. I had a card full of media, mostly music, that I kept on hand for entertainment and I'd keep an empty one in my phone when I was traveling to swap back and forth with my camera so that I could sync data...

Love lives are something we all have to figure out on our own but I will say that I put part-time job hours into dating apps for years and that me vastly more harm than good, and I'm different enough from other people who live where I do that going to a bar wasn't going to work either. Whether...

I am perfectly willing to buy used drives, but nothing I store only exists in only one place for more than maybe a single day.

I usually try the offline updater before I take that step, because I most assuredly have it on a flash drive if not running on something-or-other on whatever LAN I happen to be using. It's been months since I've had to nuke a SoftwareDistribution folder. This might be a case where there are...

sed, I make enough money that I don't have to worry about expenses but I feel where you're coming from. I have no desire at all to own a home, but my rent has increased by about 30% in the last three years, and I always justify the two bedroom place where I live by offering to share my space...

I see now that this is the second generation version. The original one had dozens of little 40mm fans.

DIY Perks also did a really cool video using a Baguette pan for building high CRI string LEDs to make a light panel bright enough to make an artificial sunlit window. I'd worry about the long term lifespan of that many 40mm fans though. All any 40mm fan has done for me is suck and die.

You have to choose between the quality of the screen and your desire for an SD slot. Samsung devices have superlative screens even on their crappy phones. Sony does not have that, especially in terms of overall screen brightness. Not that you'll be able to tell, because no mainstream brick and...

The phone you probably want is a Samsung A53 or A54. The A35 does not have a card slot, but the A34 did. You can also buy buy one of Sony's premium Experia models, but those only get two years of software updates at most and have inferior screens to Samsung's. Sony's newest flagship model, the...

That is a failure on your part, because it most assuredly does.

https://download.wsusoffline.net/ After it's downloaded and set up, they're there in the installation folder. It should be self explanatory.

It's exactly what it says on the label: It downloads the individual Windows updates for a given platform and stores them locally, so that they can be executed individually on the client instead of trusting Windows automatic updates to do whatever it's going to do. There's a downloader executable...

I keep mine on max battery saving mode, so it only charges to 80%. This has been an option on Galaxy S models at least as far back as the S20.

My partner convinced one of the people she works for that she needed a pair of 32" Ultrasharp displays. She legitimately does do graphics work, print layouts etc. Does that need a 4k display? Kinda doubtful, but we got 'em. The TV is where PC games get played.

Research says it's because I have three displays plugged in to it. There are rules about when the hardware will even attempt to power down the video card, but since there are two 4k displays and a 4k TV connected to that thing, it's just not going to happen without some kind of update to...

One thing I am noticing about the A770 is that it is using around 40W just idling. I thought maybe it might be because that system is also my Plex Server and therefore has transcode jobs but no, I killed Plex and all the Adobe stuff on that system and the GPU still running kind of warm. On the...

It's hard to call a brand new CPU obsolete just because another company is doing something different. Intel knows that its package is the definition of x86 compatible and we have no idea how it compares in real world usage to Qualcomm, especially with the Prism compatibility layer that more or...

The Galaxy Tab S9 has a keyboard cover if you want it and can be had with 11, 12.5 and ~15" screens and a Snapdragon 1 gen 2 SoC. It can run DeX just fine and there is a lot of value in the S pen if for example you like the idea of having a drawing tablet permanently handy. I've said before that...

dd, I am completely serious when I say that a premium 2 in 1 Chromebook might be just the thing for you. I'm familiar with the Samsung Chromebook Go as a 4G internet-connected device, but I have to imagine that we'll be seeing some new devices with the Snapdragon Elite SoCs soon as well. I...

Up to now, there have been pricing barriers to entry on AM5 CPUs; there hasn't been a credible budget CPU, AM5 motherboards were mostly premium SKUs and DDR5 is of course still kind of expensive. I am excited to see that I can finally get a mainstream desktop out the door for around $600. The...

Not sure if anyone cares, but I'm seeing Ryzen 7500f CPUs on AliExpress for $125, with entry level motherboards around the $100 mark. I was planning to build someone an AM4 system this week, but if the only extra cost is ddr4 vs ddr5, I might as well go AM5. Took long enough.

Geekbench is a synthetic workload, so we'll have to wait for products to get in people's hands before we really know if the performance claims are real or just a pile of marketing.

Most people think phone cameras are the #1 reason to buy a premium phone, but it really does cost money to get a high quality display + a high end SoC. There are places that tear down and estimate manufacturing costs; flagship Samsung S-series Ultra phones have somewhere around $650 worth of...