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I had to use an obscure key combination to bring up a CMD window to bypass the OOBE on the laptop I bought my sister for Christmas -- she doesn't have a Microsoft account presently, and I wanted to make it her decision to make one rather than have Microsoft try and force her into it. I finally...

I say keep it. Let it ward off other idiots.

The point where the springbar holds in the strap for my watch finally gave out on my WaveCeptor that I wore every day, and honestly for a 40 dollar watch that I didn't mind you'd have thought I'd have just bought another one, but no -- the Seiko 5 I have I like to keep looking nice since it's...

Alright, I think we've had our fun here. @Handruin, probably time to send him packing. He's getting abusive.

You in particular are probably better off with an nVidia card. Everything down that aisle pretty much exclusively uses CUDA, which AMD will never support. I find it quite funny actually that the OpenCL standard gained almost zero traction here, but then, FireGL sales had been in decline for...

No, no no. You came here to push your beliefs on us. Therefore it's you who has the burden of proving your arguments. So far they've been insufficient. You can't just waltz in here, refuse to use actual sources, and then expect us to take you at your word. You especially can't go about telling...

Looks like I wasn't super far off the mark, then. With all this stuff nVidia's pulling recently, some rumblings about bad drivers for Turing and older cards, and my still being salty about the lack of integer scaling support on my 1070, I find my eyes wandering a bit. The 1070 wouldn't go to...

Okay, I was very wrong. Apparently for everything after 2 dual-rank DIMMs the max clock (not latency) goes down to 3600. Not great especially since Zen4 still uses the DRAM clock to derive infinity fabric speeds so you definitely want 5200MHz or better on the DRAM.

If you're not interested in an intelligent conversation with people who disagree with you, the door's over there, don't let it hit you in the ass on the way out.

From what I understand the issue with more than two DDR5 modules on AM5 is more a latency thing and isn't even that big a deal, but if it's important to you then definitely work around it. I haven't heard anything about RAM incompatibilities like early 1st-gen Ryzen where you essentially used...

The lack of religious faith isn't what turns them into mass shooters, it's a lack of focus on mental healthcare and in some cases, a lack of parental discipline. Who are you going to (falsely) call out next, video games? Frankly if you need negative reinforcement (the threat of hell or something...

I can't tell if this parky guy in the other thread is a real person actually getting offended at us messing with them, or if it's a bot of some kind. Either way it's very entertaining.

Prolonging life for its own sake isn't something to aspire to in my opinion. Like Lunar said, by living such a 'healthy' lifestyle you remove a lot of the things that make it worth living. Personally I'd prefer not to stick around all that long after I'm finished being of use. I'm not sure I'll...

So, on my YMF744 card in my PIII build, there are vestigial pads for an SB-Link connector. It was a short-lived quasi-standard pushed by Creative and Intel primarily -- VIA/Yamaha actually referred to it as PC/PCI -- what it did was connect ISA IRQ and DMA lines directly to a PCI card so it was...

I can vouch for the Cooler Master N200 (note the lack of R, this is a microATX tower), I've come across a few in my work and they're solid enough. The metal's a little thin, but it has a nice featureset for a case in its budget segment and it's not super gaudy or flashy. I'm not crazy about them...

Discovered by accident that nVidia artificially limits Integer Scaling to the RTX 20 series and newer, including the GTX 16 series. I'm beyond nuclear pissed about that since my R9 380 could do that.

They'll pull it and relaunch it as the 4070 that it should have been from the word go.

Don't get me wrong, I prefer air cooling myself as well, and all else equal I will obviously use it over liquid cooling. I'm just saying that platforms that need it are no longer completely out of the running just because they need it in my mind. Granted, they're usually out of consideration for...

No, completely missed our area.

Those directory redirectors are why I have my data stored on my NAS and it's seamless. Though Windows does like to freak out a little when I don't have a network connection, so I'm assuming I might have just done something slightly wrong. It's a situation that happens so minimally often that I...

It's not just overclockers running into this. According to Gamer's Nexus, 95C is just the new load temp now for almost every use case that maxes out the chip. The IHS is so thick primarily to provide backward compatibility with most existing AM4 coolers. Direct-die cooling was always going to be...

According to some sources the IHS on Zen4 is too thick and hurts temps. I don't know how true that is.

Well, in a strange twist of fate, I now have a viable option for VGA capture. I was given a Datapath E1S card from a friend. The problem is that in my main machine, it's very unstable since it's a PCI-E 1.0 card and doesn't play nice with my PCI-E 3.0 board. Luckily I was able to shunt it down...

I was quite partial to my Dell AT101W before in an ill-advised attempt to linearize the switches I lost a ton of bits to it. I'm still kicking myself for that one. I'd like to track down another one but prices have gotten completely insane. I had a model M for a time, but it was rubber-dome and...

It absolutely is a bald-faced attempt to make what would be a 4070-class card sound more impressive by bumping it up a tier marketing-wise, obviously so they can squeeze more money out of it. And no, it certainly won't perform badly or anything, although it will probably make a few people run...

I say don't buy a damn thing and let them sweat. I don't know about you guys but my 1070 does fine for what I need a GPU to do these days. I'm only looking to replace it if it dies and even then I'm more likely to buy a used 3060 (so as not to alleviate their overstock problem) than anything new.

The Camry was newer than my RAV4 is by a few years, and mine is base trim -- IIRC the Camry was one level below top trim. I don't know if it's just Enterprise upping their game or what. And yes, the of the other options I had available to me, there was an Altima. Also a Charger, but I turned...

I guess this shows how this is the newest vehicle I've ever driven extensively. I never took the rental Camry anywhere I didn't need to go, so I never learned how its adaptive cruise worked.

Wait... you can choose how far it follows? God I'm dumb. I didn't realize the screen it was showing after activating the radar was a menu, it just looked like some kind of "informational slide" or something.

I'm sure there is plenty of people out there that like the adaptive cruise control (radar) standard on most cars these days; I am not one of them. I find it annoying how it tries to keep whole football fields between me and other vehicles and will slow down to do it. So I was quite relieved to...

Another small addendum: I noted that the steering felt stiffer. Well, that's because of the lane assist -- turn it off, and it's fine now.

Okay, a couple corrections. The Adventure trim is the one with a 3500lb towing capacity. The only significant difference over the next lowest trim is apparently a better suspension and bigger wheels/tires...? I don't know. Anyway, most of the lineup has a max towing capacity of 1500. Again...

I wouldn't keep my cell in my bedroom either, except I'm always on-call, and I don't have a TV in my bedroom to spit generic noise at me so I can actually focus on something other than my own thoughts for long enough to fall asleep anymore. I customize ringtones by contact so I know who I can...

I miss Presto-era Opera.

I have the car now, I'm quite satisfied with it. I can't believe I only just now came upon the idea to use the cargo hooks to strap my real jack down so it doesn't make the devil's own noise rattling around as I drive through town, but here we are -- granted, I bought those straps specifically...

Don't get me wrong, I use Firefox myself, but much like I stopped eating Chick-Fil-A for their anti-queer BS, I very nearly stopped using Firefox over it too. It was the revolt itself that told me that it was salvageable.

I use it to keep track of my battery health, but I found the alarm annoying as it'd constantly go off right when I was about to sleep. I don't really pay much attention to my charging habits but I somehow keep rolling sixes and none of my devices are significantly worn, even the ones I've had...

Seems like whatever shitty decision Google makes regarding Chrome, Mozilla replicates regarding Firefox some years later. Not to be an alarmist but I do kind of see this as the beginning of the end so to speak. Here's hoping DNS-based adblocking at the very least can get better, and that...

Huh. I went to change my insurance over today (cleared it with the dealer, it's fine for me to do that now) and it's actually... cheaper. Not significantly so, roughly a 3 dollar per month difference, but still... not bad. Hopefully I can get to the point soon where I can just pay the 6 month...

Ok, well, that didn't take long. Also, yes, by the way, I do actually need a car. When I'm not able to work remotely I have to be able to get on-site after all, and it's a 40mi roundtrip just to the office and back, no client sites involved. Riding a bike out here will get you ran over. Not to...

So, for those unfamiliar with the situation, I was rear-ended back in May and only now has the shop finally deigned to look at my car. I've been driving it since the accident up until a couple weeks ago when they took it and I got the rental Camry. The insurance company has finally decided it's...

There's also the matter of software updates. The A53 is supposed to be getting major Android updates for 5 years, whereas Lenovo has promised nothing like that for the Motorola phones. Plus, the A53 is a lot more likely to get custom ROM support seeing how it's using an Exynos for both the...

Anyone have anything good to say about CyberPower? They seem like a more budget brand but that they don't really skimp on the things that matter. I found this unit on Amazon that seems like I could live with -- I'd prefer something rackmount but that seems to tack about 300 dollars onto the...

Holy ish, that price though. Absolutely not, no thank you.

I'm still using a surge protector for my home rack under the false assumption that it'd be fine -- lo and behold a couple weeks back my nearly brand new dumb gigabit switch got murdered by a lightning storm. Curiously my modem is fine, my router is fine minus a dead port (the one that was hooked...

I personally keep a separate work and personal phone. For a while I was working from my personal but that got to be annoying. My personal is an A53 5G and my work phone is an S20 Ultra 5G. No, the irony is not lost on me that I live out of the worse phone and work from the one that arguably has...

In the wake of one of my friends doing something similar I reacted in much the same way. I'm just terrible at keeping in touch anyway, but I want the people I care about to know I care. But then I get busy, life gets in the way, I don't have the sheer amount of free time that I used to. There's...

Well, considering I don't have it anymore, I can't really supply much more information outside the fact that I used NT-H1 paste with a Phanteks Enthoo Pro (solid side panels version). I have the 200mm fan in front as intake, the 140mm fan in the rear and a 120mm fan up top as exhaust, and at the...

I wouldn't trust a Lenovo-owned Motorola as far as I could throw them, anymore. Samsung has pledged to offer, what, 5 years of OS updates for all their phones now? Lenovo doesn't seem to promise much of anything. I did end up needing to replace my XR. It had a screen issue where it'd keep...

Maybe I was just surprised at how high Zen2 and up idle -- 50C felt like too high for an idle temperature of anything to me. It never once thermal throttled or went past 75C under load, but I don't consider that to be particularly amazing either -- I know these things are considered safe up to...