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My problem with that is, no one ever seems to use those reinforced plastics. My old Galaxy S4 had a plastic back that feels super cheap and gross and that was a flagship phone in its day. I can definitely see people spending more than a grand on a phone feeling pretty crummy about getting a...

Usually a hypervisor like Handy said on the bare metal. Within the various VMs they're running usually some kind of Linux -- from what I can tell usually CentOS, RHEL or Ubuntu -- though you do see Windows and occasionally some variant of BSD sneak in there. You also have to understand that...

Likely not upgradable at all if their Pro 9s we are selling are anything to go by. These have always been kind of marketed at executives -- people with modest performance needs, money to spend, a need to look luxurious and elite in some way, and who are fascinated by touch screens. I honestly...

Don't those sub-$10K EVs not pass NHTSA safety standards anyway? I agree, tariffs don't boost local industry, they just make the economic situation look even worse than it is, but the EVs in particular I don't really see selling stateside as it is. I've started mulling over the possibility of...

I hope you're right, Merc, and I hope I don't wake up November 6th to see that Trump's due back in the White House, but even with RFK Jr siphoning off votes from him, it's a little terrifying to see just how much momentum he still has. If not him, I shudder to think just who's coming down the...

To play devil's advocate, plastic backs never really felt very sturdy or 'premium'. Threw up a bit in my mouth typing that. That's almost certainly what most manufacturers will go back to, after throwing up their hands and throwing as much blame at the EU as they can in order to hopefully rile...

@Santilli, If you're still running that i7-940, you may want to make sure you have UEFI support in your board and have it enabled -- it's uncommon but not unheard of for Nehalem boards to get it, usually as an update -- most new graphics cards will not give a display on BIOS-only boards. I'm not...

While it is quite vindicating to see it, I don't think it'll mean anything. He's certain to appeal and he might just win it, and even if he doesn't, I highly doubt he's going to prison, which is, of course, the only possible way it stops him from being elected. Biden's pissed off too much of the...

Just a quick and dirty test from my laptop over WiFi.

I could get all that too, it'd just cost me probably 4-5 times as much all told. Such is life in the states. I don't mind "only" having 300 right now because I can't stuff much more through my AP anyway, and I'm not in the market for an upgrade in the next... I don't know, five years? 300mbit...

No, but I've heard of companies giving allowances to their employees if they're remote for internet connections and such. Testing today, it's a lot more in line with what I'm actually due to pay for -- I'm getting about 370/370 now. That's still, what, 23% more than I'm paying for? More...

Well too bad. Microsoft says you get one anyway. They can't seem to decide what size it should be, though. :ROFLMAO:

Got my fiber installed today. Not thrilled about needing AT&T's little box to get it, but at least setting up WAN passthrough to my pfSense router was relatively straightforward. I pay for 300/300 and so far that's been a worst case scenario -- usually in my testing I'm trending around 450/450...

Given she can rent these units just fine from people desperate enough to take anything, she's not likely to be interested in any major renovations that come out of her pocket. At best she'd turn around and jack up rents minimum 50%. Put simply, she doesn't have to care, so she doesn't. It's...

I'm not bound by a lease, haven't been for almost a year now. Knock on wood, but my landlady hasn't been real interested in jacking up my rates or anything. I personally think she's just glad I don't cause trouble or damage stuff and doesn't want to ruin a good thing. She's had some pretty poor...

I have significantly less storage need than Lunar but I can tell you that raw captures for video in any codec at a sufficiently high bitrate and raw photos take up obscene amounts of storage. Just, gobs upon gobs upon gobs of it. I only capture video very occasionally but my scratch folder for...

Storage is the one item that, aside from a couple exceptions now and again for low-capacity memory cards for specialty devices, I refuse to buy used or open box or really any condition other than brand new. I'll take bulk packaging, but they do need to be new for me to be interested.

I can't complain, really, the bills are paid, food's on the table and gas is in the tank. Where I come from that means you're doing well enough. My objection is that I pay far too much for the space I have to want to boil myself through the summers. My AC unit is older than I am by a good few...

My trinitron TV is dying and I don't have the energy or motivation to fix it or pass it on. I guess I'm going to be taking it to recycling. This kind of segues into what I'm planning for my stagnant console collection -- without the proper display, I can't say that I have much of a use for them...

Gotta say, I miss when modding my android stuff was fun rather than irritating and time-consuming for no good reason. Maybe it's just that I have less of it these days. I'm a lot less inclined to use custom ROMs or root or do much of anything these days partly because I'm growing more and more...

Merc, I've had lots of success getting stuff that's complaining about updates set to rights just by killing wuauserv and deleting the entirety of the DataStore and Download folders under C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution and then trying the update again. Have you had a case in recent memory where...

That has a potential to be a very potent combo and a hell of a Qualcomm exclusivity/monopoly breaker. In fact, with that, I'd be concerned about the opposite -- this MediaTek/nVidia partnership becoming the default Windows/ARM configuration. Especially since IIRC it still remains to be seen how...

They do in fact tend to do that when they can -- the practice I believe is called fat binaries. However, Rosetta also directly translated PowerPC applications to run on Intel hardware while they continued to support it for stuff that hadn't yet been ported -- it was handled a fair bit like the...

I don't even have one of the "good" APUs -- mine's a Ryzen 4500U with I think Vega 8, and for everything I do on the regular -- mostly playing BTD6 and Fistful of Frags with my friends, on up to modded OpenMW and Skyrim Special Edition -- it's plenty. I haven't actually turned on my main desktop...

Are you at all surprised? Most folks building a new computer in 2024 are not going to be running Windows 10 on it. 10 is most of ten years old at this point. I'm kind of surprised they supported 10 on Zen4 considering 11 was out by the launch.

If they can't drive Windows 11 adoption the normal way, they'll just break what you already have and then not fix it. Go figure.

We tend to outfit most of our smaller customers that don't really have the need or budget for a FortiGate typically with a UDM Pro, a PoE 24 port Ubiquiti switch, and some amount of APs -- though, typically, we're outfitting with U6-Lites or U6-LRs for cost reasons, as most folks have zero need...

I mean I guess I have to give Microsoft some props for giving me some job security. While they keep screwing things up I know I'll never be bored.

They seem awfully keen on obliterating any goodwill they manage to build up for themselves, don't they?

Yeah, I don't know what's up with Intel based laptops these days, but on 11th gen and newer I've reliably had no mouse in setup, and especially on HP implementations they seem to like to enable RST for no good reason with no way to turn it off, necessitating installation of disk controller...

Probably going to end up with a 2TB TeamGroup MP34 or some such. I don't do anything terribly intensive or have archival needs justifying spending 50% more for the same amount of storage at roughly the same speed -- being limited to Gen3x4 speeds makes spending a ton of money on the upgrade...

I'm a little disappointed in myself that my first impulse was to be horrified at how widespread that system is. I can see how it'd be useful, but I'm skeptical that such a system wouldn't inevitably be abused, or that a slow-moving bureaucratic governmental body is the best choice to run such a...

A Windows 7 machine likely isn't worth a whole lot of extra consideration as one has to wonder just how much of a lifespan it has left regardless. That said, I've had good results with Teamgroup drives -- they're nothing special, but the pricing is good and they're fast enough. Remember that...

I've got a similar situation where I've got an older gentleman in his eighties who was pretty high up in his industry and has a lot of old data tied behind a 365 business sub he's still paying for, but that he can't get into -- we know his password, but he lost his 2FA stuff, and we can't seem...

The 1TB NVME drive I had my eye on at the start of the year spiked from 55 dollars up to 70 recently. Guess I'm waiting a bit longer, even if this laptop desperately cries out for more than 512GB -- games are very rough on storage these days, and I've got a few big-ticket items installed.

Starting to think they're deliberately trying to go after stuff like Open-Shell and StartAllBack, which literally just serves to give people back the Windows 7 era or XP era start menu if they want it. Can't wait for the seventeen million step registry hack that fixes that. In other annoying...

Using a cast-off Pavilion laptop for the summer to keep my electric bill from getting too crazy, it's got a R5-4500U in it with I think Vega 8? I'm pretty suitably impressed. Build quality is typical HP consumer-grade slop but the cooler is adequate for it and it had a single 16GB stick that...

Having an extra key to rebind for my own nefarious uses is always nice. But then, most keyboards will likely have it replacing the Menu key, having the Menu function as a Fn layer, I suppose.

If it works? Sure. I'm used to being my own support anyway. Now, would I implement this for a client? Hell no. You stick to by the books for liability reasons there.

Tell that 16GB limitation to ASRock because they claim their N100M supports up to 32GB. I suppose it's unofficial and the lack of dual channel deals me 3d6 psychic damage every turn but supposedly it works.

For what it's worth, my A770LE is great. If you play a lot of DX11/9 games it can still be a little iffy (but it has come a very very very long way from launch), and for compute if you're not buying nVidia you're just not getting the job done because you don't have CUDA, but for DX12 and...

Yeah, like I said, the US doesn't get cool stuff anymore, and that includes competent mid-rangers. You can get an A5x on a carrier, I'm sure, but if you want to buy unlocked, it's pretty much only high end stuff available. There's an argument to be made that an older flagship is a better buy...

It's not something you have to continually apply, Lunar, it's a checkbox you tick and let it run initial setup and then it's protected thereafter transparently to the user. And like I said you'd be shocked what ends up in your temp files. Lots of settings and software installers unpack there, to...

Yeah, no, I've dealt with the default behavior of Bitlocker. It's not encrypting thumb drives that's for sure. And normal users definitely aren't pulling their OS drive and trying it in another computer. That said, you'd be surprised what your C: partition contains just in your temp folders...

Meanwhile, my 5700X looking at the calendar and shrugging. I'll get whatever's reasonably powerful and on sale in 3 or so years.

Thanks for the tip on removing it there -- I used to remove it, but gave up when it showed back up after every feature update back in the Win10 days.

Use Rufus to make fresh install media that's set up to give you a local account instead, if you're not already too entrenched. It makes sure you only have the crapware Microsoft themselves approved of, and makes for a much more manageable base system than the factory image. If you are already...

Anybody still stuck on MS SQL in the year of our lord 2024 deserves pity, IMO. I won't argue that Visual Studio is better and Win10 supports some things out of the box that are a pain in the ass on 7 at best, but that's more a case of things just not being common/available when 7 came out vs...

I had a feeling the non-^2 sizing was a way to maximize yields. As long as they perform about the same, I'm not fussed.

That tracks with MS's general philosophy of our way or the highway. It's probably a project for the weekend.