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Install Outlook and Teams and get back to me. Even better, do that, then add some corporate-grade antimalware, MDR, a backup program, whatever other meeting platforms your company's decided to "standardize" on... I wish I was kidding. This crap has a real way of making a fast machine feel slow...

I loathe Outlook deeply. Thirtyish (remember Schedule+?) years of just... code, on top of code, on top of code, and none of it worked well to begin with. I cannot tell you just how much of my job is doing the arcane rituals necessary to prod Outlook into working. God help you if you have more...

I'm not the biggest fan of Discord from the perspective of their application being really bloated JS junkware, but the actually decent clients for it break TOS and I'm not risking getting my nearly 10-year-old account that I actually pay for Nitro for banned over it. I met some of my best...

I've seen the Odyssey and Odyssey II showcased before, and while they held academic interest for me, there's only so simple I can go before my imagination just doesn't have anything to work with anymore. The Odyssey I was so basic it wasn't even really a Pong console -- the paddles could just go...

Several companies released Pong consoles in the 70s and early 80s. There's a whole AVGN episode on them. Heck, even Nintendo made a couple, though I believe they were Japan-exclusive. The Fairchild Channel F was a very early cartridge system, but it had probably my favorite version of Pong that...

The way I understand it is that Microsoft has been slowly updating the instruction sets they target for compilation (most recently some instructions added post-Kentsfield that block off Windows 11 24H2 from running on such machines) but that they can't go too far because there's no real unified...

I've not personally had any storage device except maybe an SD card fail in years, but in the last year, I've had a handful of drive recoveries I've had to do professionally. Usually they were customers for our BCDR stack so it was just grabbing a new drive off a shelf, restoring the most recent...

I'm sure they could make just one big CCD but the yields would presumably be awful and they might even have to go UP a node to make any kind of volume, which would kind of ruin the performance/watt argument. The prices would be outrageous, and I doubt they'd meet demand. It'd be a paper part for...

It's... not. My browser had me stuck on page 89 and I was responding to an old post that had derailed the thread, somewhat. My apologies.

I'm not going to lie and say I'll be sad to see the human-drivable car go away. I'm no fan of driving. But I don't see ANYONE allowing this to happen for at minimum the next twenty to thirty years, assuming we can manage not to Fallout ourselves yet by then.

I wouldn't rock the boat and cause an investigation into what exactly was delivered by saying I didn't get them at all, but I'm also not about to inform them of a screwup they made in my favor. That's their job, if they didn't do it, that's on them. If it were something I was taking possession...

Not very much outside our area. I have to be available pretty much 24/7/365 in case we get a service call. When we bring on a few more technicians, I might be able to go for some of these things. When I say we're a small outfit, I mean we are small. I'm one of a five man team, three of which are...

I loved my CF-28, and forever curse that I attempted to swap the keyboard and botched the job. It was slow as hell, but I've never had a machine that felt more solid.

Thankfully in my case I have a fairly good relationship with most of my family and they usually have the tact to not offer unsolicited advice or admonishment for my old regrets. I usually get roped into thanksgiving and christmas with my aunt and uncle who live down here. Outside of online...

Travel's too expensive to be going somewhere without a purpose, personally. Add to that the fact that I can rarely take more than a few days off work at a time and there you have it. If I go somewhere within the year that's further away than about a hundred miles (my usual work radius), it's...

I travel to see family, or for work, but I see no point at all in traveling somewhere just to do it. I'd much rather get my money's worth from my rent payment. I'm glad Merc's come around to enjoy it, but I live in a tourist destination -- it holds absolutely no charm whatsoever for me. I've...

That's exactly the case, but I don't think it can be updated directly -- if I'm understanding this correctly, and I may not be, I believe that the PSP gets updated as part of microcode loading either by system firmware or as a binary blob by the operating system as it boots. This likely...

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/sinclose-vulnerability-affects-hundreds-of-millions-of-amd-processors-enables-data-theft-amd-begins-patching-issue-in-critical-chip-lines-more-to-follow Goddamn it. To be fair, needing a compromised kernel to take advantage of the...

I care about power budgets because I happen to pay my own electric bill, Lunar. ;) If I can get more done in less power used, that's money saved and money earned. Granted, the sorts of differences you'd actually see between my 5700X and one of these wouldn't even pay for the upgrade, but it's...

My guess is that it has something to do with OCR and how scanners build an image vs. a camera. I'm impressed every time at how easily my CU's app picks up through my boss's nigh-unto doctorlike handwriting on reimbursement checks for various and sundry.

Do AM5 Zen boards still have the issue where some manufacturers skimped on the flash for the firmware so their solutions ended up being making people with older CPUs stay stuck on the older versions of the UEFI? I know my B450M-Pro4 was stuck on a years-old revision for a long, long time because...

Yeah, back when I used Chase, I preferred the mobile app to their web interface. Now I'm with a local credit union and their app is still somehow better than their web experience. I've used Supermium for some experimentation I did with Vista on my Dimension 9200 project (namely seeing how...

Wow, this is upsetting. I really hate this for everyone else who has to deal with it... but I somehow keep rolling sixes, because everything's still up for my clients (including myself*) in my region. Still going to be a setback for their reputation -- how much precisely depends on how long it...

I suppose I just have a vastly poorer idea of what a good computer is then. I have a more upper-end build now than I ever have and I imagine it'd still struggle to break the $1k mark valued today, though I'll say that I've probably spent a tad under $2k for the whole deal as I've upgraded and...

Frankly I'm not sure that using something nearly if not as good for less money qualifies as "screwing around" but potato potahto. I use the slightly louder fans in a case that deadens sound anyway, so it honestly doesn't matter to me. I'm also skeptical that it's merely double -- I think the...

The trouble with your thinking jtr is that we have a little integrity. It'll probably get us killed, but we won't stoop to the same levels that they're willing to precisely because we know it opens the door to them being used against us later on, and we're not terribly interested in establishing...

Honestly, props to AMD for having the guts to actually delay a product that isn't up to their specification. They could probably release anything that doesn't literally cook itself and the tech bros would be all over it even still.

Bear in mind, I use cases with solid side panels -- I'm not constantly looking in at them either -- and yes, Noctua does offer black fans now, although as I understand it you do pay a bit more for the privilege of having them match the rest of your stuff. I also reuse fans between builds, Merc...

Personally I prefer Arctic Cooling fans. Noctua performance, or damn near, at much more reasonable prices, and I don't have to deal with that godawful brown-on-cream color scheme. I will give Noctua points for making all sorts of fans in weird form factors, like -- they still make the 60mm...

When someone uses your old equipment for crimes, they are the ones considered liable, not you. They figure out who actually committed the crime.

Yeah, no, I flirted with liquid cooling, but I quickly went back. The juice is simply not worth the squeeze. I'd much rather enforce sane power limits and use a modest HSF like the Thermalright Phantom Spirit I recently upgraded to. Then again, I don't have much use for the kind of rigs that...

They want your sweet, sweet data Lunar. They will stop at nothing to get it. You must return to monkey -- I mean -- Windows XP. You know it's true, you know now what you must do. :p

Well son of a bitch. I don't think we had much chance with him at this point, but now, less than four months before the election, we have to decide on and rally behind another candidate? Christ. Why don't we just skip the election and hand Trump a crown already.

So, uh... Pennsylvania, am I right? Necroing and semi-hijacking this thread to be the Politics dumpsterfire. I will be the first to say I don't like Trump. I think we all know this. I think we are, for the most part, on the same page. But I don't think he deserved to get the JFK treatment on...

In this case, Merc, they'd been paying for 365 Premium for a while, so moving to Entra and Sharepoint is literally free for them apart from paying the rate for my time in migrating them -- in fact they might well save money on power costs. And it's a very, very small business, they'd need to...

Tiny, useless detail, but I find it rather impressive that in the time that Intel's changed fonts for etching model numbers on the heat spreader some two or three times that I know of, AMD seems to have kept the same lettering from at least the socketed Athlon days. I'm willing to bet that if...

We're looking at phasing out the last on-prem Windows Server we admin -- they're stuck as VMs on an ESXi server that's out of date with no upgrade path and for whom the licensing costs have just finally gotten to be too bothersome. Their domain controller is being replaced with Entra logins...

It seems that, currently, whatever problems AMD has, Intel has it worse. I hope they get their shit together, especially with their dedicated graphics offerings but also just in general, because if they fail to compete for too much longer I wonder if it won't prompt them to leave the PC space...

I believe this class of device is typically referred to as an emulation handheld, and this one in particular is likely most useful with Android. I considered grabbing a Retroid Pocket 2 or something, and ended up with the Anbernic RG35XX H instead. It's nowhere near as fast -- I think the Pocket...

IMO the 9000 line isn't for people already on AM5 with high end 7000 series CPUs, it's for people like me holding out on AM4 still. I bet compared to my 5700X, the 9900X is leaps and bounds quicker. Shame for them I just don't care.

So what do they do if your drive is under warranty but not the replacement period of the warranty, especially if they can't actually repair it? Can they get away with telling you to kick bricks in this market segment, or...?

By 2028 I expect that we'll be largely in the same spot we're in now. By 2034, though, I expect USB-C to have more or less taken over for traditional display ports, period. We'll probably still be in the dongle era for older equipment, but on new stuff, I expect USB-C to be the only real option...

Lunar, jtr qualified that as being for normal people with basic needs. We are not that. Normal people don't even know what a RAW file is, much less how to process one. That said, jtr, I don't think that'll catch on until you can make the same thing run regular x64 Windows. Maybe if the ARM...

That (currently out of stock) is a big indicator -- I bought on amazon and thankfully the return process is easy. It seems now if you're not buying there you're paying ridiculous sums for key switches. Whereas I already had a known good supplier for the Kailhs -- I got those from kbdfans years ago.

My keyboard. I'd wanted to replace the Gateron Reds with Oil Kings as they're a heavier linear switch -- I accidentally actuate the wrong key all the time with these lighter Reds.

Not to derail but the Gateron Oil King switches I ordered were, instead, cleverly packaged Keychron Browns. I'd be impressed at the ingenuity of repackaging them in the Gateron box and resealing it if I weren't given to unyielding rage over having been had. I will of course be requesting a...

My plan for the holidays (and my birthday, later this month) are to make no noise and pretend I don't exist, in a manner of speaking. I prefer not acknowledging them a lot of the time. Honestly for me the worst part of country living was the glacial internet connection. 3mbps down and 768kbps...

Is that AM5 specific? I'm running 11 on all my active duty machines including the work PC for right now -- I haven't noticed any of these issues.

I'm not sure if that's supposed to nuke the "People also searched" section that annoys the crap out of me, but it certainly doesn't. I wonder if my being logged into google services has anything to do with it overriding my preferences. I've unironically been a DuckDuckGo user for years at...

Yeah, if they even upped standard storage to 100GB I'd be less annoyed about this. All our 365 subscribers including myself get 1TB free with that subscription, but god forbid I let someone set up a machine with their microsoft account anymore.