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I mean, I do fine keeping my place if not spotless, then at least reasonably clean. Sometimes I drag my feet a little doing dishes but that's more because it's tough sometimes to get enough together to make doing them worthwhile, living alone. I don't live like a typical bachelor I guess.

Literally, they could probably sell it as a SOHO server chassis if they just put a couple more 3.5" internal bays in it! I don't feel like I'm asking for that much. Alas.

Oh, right, catch-up. I spent some years spinning my wheels in a retail job I hated, then moved to Florida in early 2021 -- no particular reason for Florida other than I had family to rely on down here -- and after a surprisingly short time spent spinning my wheels here (in the restaurant...

Okay, that's actually awesome and I'm angry I didn't know about it before. It sounds perfect for my home server. EDIT: Oh, but if it only had a couple more internal bays...

Yeah, I'm not really anything special and don't really have much prospect of becoming anything special, so I'm stuck in the US, probably forever. I don't have much interest in travel that isn't work-related, so I don't even have a passport, much less a path to a residence permit. The big problem...

The N400 specifically won't mount your D15 and still have the side panel close. I tried that and it's the reason why I moved to the Phanteks case in the first place.

Well, all of the options there have 5.25" bays to start with, since finding anything these days with even one external 3.5" bay is a chore at best.

I've actually been stockpiling older cases when I come across them in good shape. I too find the current situation rather disgusting. Handy, Lunar was asking about two external 3.5" bays I think. Now that is a rare bird indeed, but if you're okay with using 5.25" to 3.5" bay adapters the case...

Let me join the chorus! I thought you'd decided to leave permanently as well. It's good to hear from you and hopefully you all are holding up alright, but from the sound of things, you're doing at least okay. Here's hoping the real estate market is reasonable by the time I'm ready to plunk...

I don't really think suffering builds character. Call me an entitled millennial if you will (I'm not, I'm very early Gen Z) but I personally think suffering is just... suffering. I don't think it's that much to ask, that my place of living be adequately insulated and brought up to modern...

Moving that part of the discussion here as it'd gone a bit off the rails. Meanwhile, I have practically no insulation, so most of my energy is spent just keeping my place barely hospitable. I'm hot in the summer, cold on the actually cold days of winter. The only saving grace is that it usually...

I pay my own power bill, thank you. My AC is set to 78F, the heat to 60. That's ~26 and ~16C, for those more Celsius-inclined. I religiously turn off power strips I'm not using. I don't even like the idea of leaving my NAS on all the time, but I do it anyway because it also provides other...

If you bought a Stadia controller like I did (I got mine as part of a bundle with a Chromecast), as one of the swan-songs of the platform, the crew is going to be showing you how to unlock the bluetooth sometime next week. I really like the controller, but having to use it plugged in was the...

Frankly I almost want to remove the clips and be done with it -- they're probably not doing anything important when I've got the card mounted with two screws.

Yeah, AM4 machines already spent a worrying amount of time with a black screen before the UEFI sign-on, this just stands to make everything worse.

Well, tonight's been a rollercoaster. I get home from housesitting, go to install my new GPU, test-fit the dual-GPU setup I was wanting to go for, rip off my bottom PCI-E slot (!!)* but it's fine, I can't use that slot for my purpose anyway since putting GPUs in each slot there stifles the...

I ended up with that 3200G APU build my boss was going to take home and use for a home office workstation, and I'm thinking terrible, awful ideas. It has, ironically, better RAM and NVMe storage than my main, so yoink it I shall, and I think this may well become my new home server, provided I...

I wouldn't say I'm a fan, I find Linus himself pretty obnoxious and Anthony's about the only good thing about that channel anymore. But it's either that or the sometimes overly-negative snoozefest that's Gamer's Nexus. All of the other channels in the "techtubing" space are even worse.

Everyone knows it's just the "4080 12GB" from a few months back rebranded. They couldn't call it a 4070 or they'd be admitting they screwed up, so they call it a 4070Ti and jack that performance level's price point up to where they still make nearly as much money. Imagine a mid-high end card...

Predictably, Newegg shipping is honking awful, it was supposed to arrive yesterday and it only just got handed off to the courier service last night. UPS tracking pushed delivery out another 6 days. I'll be lucky if I receive it then I think. Used to be if they missed a deadline they'd upgrade...

Yeah, NVME drives are just kind of hot all around. Most are designed to be able to continue running with no cooling whatsoever(ie. in laptops). I wouldn't worry too much about it, though i did put a small passive heatsink on mine when I installed it a year or so back.

When I saw an A770LE on Newegg going for MSRP with a good software bundle (of particular note are Topaz Gigapixel and PowerDirector as they're supposedly perpetual licenses, even if for one particular version) I pounced. I initially thought I might sell the 1070 to recoup some costs, but I...

Welp. The scandal surrounding cooler and driver issues (albeit the latter aren't relevant to me since I don't do VR) on the 7000 series kind of dashed any hopes I have of getting last-gen parts at a decent price any time soon. Intel's still having some issues with older DirectX versions on their...

There's no question that we should be building it, but a. we likely never will and b. the discussion as I understood it was primarily around the state of rail travel in the US as it currently is. I don't even know where my closest train station for passenger use would be, nor have I really ever...

Growing up I would fly unaccompanied minor on Southwest to my Mom's for Christmas (SDF to MDW) every couple years or so. More recently when I fly it's been Delta, but I wouldn't exactly call my experiences comfortable. Every time I've done it thus far has been with little enough warning or cost...

Well, I certainly got what I paid for -- it's cheaper than my last chair, but higher quality, which isn't a terrific surprise considering my last one came from Office Depot with probably a 200% markup. But I certainly don't know where they get "big and tall" from -- it's comfortable, but it's...

They do still activate -- hell, they'll still activate 11 -- but I'm concerned as to the dubious legal status of those licenses. Granted, if MS were so fussed by it, I'd imagine they'd stop accepting them.

Yeah, he'll need to reactivate, but I've had success just asking it to do so without changing the code. Not sure how legal that is -- I'm left to assume the answer is not very -- but it's worked in the past. And yes, changing GPUs is a bit of a hassle, but I've never been in so bad a situation...

Well, maybe once I'm not stressing about not having a working chair, I'll settle in and look for something better. I'll need it for the other desk on the other side of the room, anyway -- for now I'm just wheeling across the carpet to my work desk. Until then this already stands a fair chance of...

You might not even need to enter a new license code, actually. Assuming your drive isn't BitLockered (or of course you have the key) it should be pretty straightforward, Windows should detect and install the new hardware fine. That reasoning for AMD is pretty fair and honestly something I hadn't...

The freshest in an annoying batch of issues is that I broke the back of my desk chair last night. Rushing to the local stores today for a replacement -- my back already hurts sitting at my desk in both the ruined old chair and one of my high-rise dining chairs -- didn't fill me with confidence...

Right now I honestly think the move, if you're building new, is to buy Intel. I say this as an AMD fan -- the value's just not there yet for Zen4, I don't think. If you're near (or can bully someone who is into buying on your behalf) a Microcenter, they're still doing really good combo deals for...

Oh, I don't. I know better than to mess with something I don't understand when it's not mine to potentially destroy. That's basically how it went, but at the time it felt like a bit of a lame cop-out. I'm almost certain it caused us to lose that client, albeit I wasn't blamed for it or...

We explicitly don't service Macs, which is why I doubt I'd ever be able to convince my employer to acquire one, but there've been a couple times where I've run into them at a site. I'd like to at least be able to claim some basic competency in navigating its UI at least to do simple system...

I'm not looking to be wowed by the special features that only work properly with other Apple products, honestly I just want to be able to competently navigate and configure the OS should I need to for some reason for work.

Then I may as well just not bother and proceed with the tentative plan I had to hackintosh my laptop. I'm not spending the kind of money they're asking just to play around and familiarize myself with OS X. Granted, I probably won't get a 100% clear picture of how it is on official hardware that...

Some favorites of mine are Joe Scott (Answers with Joe on YT), Knowing Better, and LowSpecGamer (started with his namesake, moved to video essays on the history of the gaming industry at large). Knowing Better attempts to give unbiased explanations of societal mechanics and long-forgotten echoes...

I realize most of you are far past your IRC days if you were ever indeed in them, but I'm curious as to your opinion on this situation. I personally only keep two versions of mIRC around with a license I was given by an old friend, those being 5.91s for Windows 3.x and 6.35 for NT4/9x...

Oh, hey, thanks! They had a standard promotion where through the holidays you got 40% off, funnily enough, but the code you gave me was better. I'm already finding a lot of the channels I subscribed to.

I've been considering such a sub, which is high praise considering I don't pay for a single other streaming service at all period. I had Discovery+ for all of a month and I didn't much care for that either. I subscribe to a few YT channels that proclaim to upload "higher quality" and/or "bonus...

Blu-ray on PC is kind of a mess -- you'd need to use MakeMKV just to maybe decrypt the disc to play it, much less rip it. You can buy commercial software to play it, and I'm thinking some external drives might well come with said software, but think of the worst of the DVD player software that...

Do you guys have any particular recommendations for mice? I have (and love) a Pro Intellimouse, but there's a known issue with the connection from the scroll wheel assembly to the main board of the device where the cable's not flexible enough so it breaks internally. This is the second such...

For giggles I installed 11 fresh on my main desktop, to kick the tires a little between reinstalls of 10. Since all my user data lives on my NAS and I have a decent internet connection now, it doesn't matter much what I run on there day-to-day since there aren't any huge backup/restore...

My personal number on the S20 is through an eSIM. My work is through the actual physical SIM. I distinctly remember multiple profiles being a thing on phones circa the Android 6-7 era. I'm not super annoyed, just a little chagrined that I can't quite so easily keep everything separate and I have...

I'm giving a dual-SIM experience a trial run (with my boss's blessing) -- I'm really tired of carrying not just one but two bulky phones around everywhere I go, especially when 90% of the time one or the other goes completely silent. So far the experience has been surprisingly trouble-free with...

I wonder if pre-activated copies of Office XP/2003 were/are floating around like they did for Windows XP? I haven't had to mess with activating Windows XP a day in my life -- the burnt CD Dad was given years and years ago (and that I've taken an ISO image of and slipstreamed updates into) when...

Hmm. Maybe I will just nuke it and install 10 over the weekend then, before I send it out to her. Dell is at least a heck of a lot better about not preloading a ton of bloatware than they used to be -- the only thing I actually uninstalled was McAfee. It's just a shame Microsoft themselves are...

Right, but this was a Dell refurb I wanted to keep the (two year!) warranty on, I wasn't sure what it does and doesn't allow me to change (and was too lazy to read the terms) so I was hesitant to reformat and reinstall just for that. Frankly, if I was going to do that, I would have just...

It wasn't an actual operator, it was an automated system. I'm betting someone up high's forgotten they even pay for this phone number anymore, much less keep the system running on it. Although, it seems to have been updated sometime recently, because it offered to send me a link to a web portal...

I just activated Office 2003 on my Pentium 4 build. 19 years after it released. By phone. The online activation no longer functions; the servers used to authenticate it are no longer online. But they still have a phone line. Nine groups of 6 numbers read into a microphone, and another seven...