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Yeah, the K4 you went with will do fine. I can't remember -- does the K4 do hotswap for the switches or is that only the Pro? Mine's the Pro. I bought mine with linears so it didn't make the devil's own noise typing on it at night, but man if I don't miss the positive feedback of a clickbar...

I was in at my precinct not long after they opened up, around 7:30. I stopped in and voted before I went the rest of the way to the job site I was needed at this morning. No line to speak of.

If eating pizza with my hands makes me a Neanderthal then so be it.

Yeah, I cancelled my health insurance when I realized I was paying all of my premiums... then paying everything out of pocket anyway because even with my relative health and youth my deductibles were insane. I have no recourse but bankruptcy or (more likely) death if I wind up in a terrible...

I wouldn't be surprised if Apple started this whole mess, given Microsoft's propensity for copying them, but it doesn't seem like their style, no. "Linux" is a loaded term. There are many desktop environments and window/session managers for it, and even more distributions of it. Generally I...

I've gone ahead and made a couple scripts for our RMM using that handy registry entry and dism line you provided, thanks Merc. Like you've said it doesn't seem terribly necessary at present considering we're not buying anything with an NPU right now anyway, but it'll be interesting to see how...

And a whole new host of bugs, like uninstalling Recall reportedly breaking File Explorer. At this rate, Microsoft might well be better served by hiring some QA staff back and killing the Insider program if no one's going to report this crap until release. I've been running 24H2 for a hot minute...

Bear in mind that at the time that it came out, it was completely fine in single-thread performance. It competed well against the contemporary Intel competitor. We're just a bit under five years on from when that happened, is all. You're treating it like it's a Core 2 Quad or something, Lunar...

Newtun coming in with the steel chair!!! The crowd goes wild!

I'd take the winters over the awful summers. In theory by the temperature it's not that hot, but this sun is the most intense I've ever felt in my life. It feels like it's angry that I'm still alive. If it weren't for the fact that I have a good career here, I'd have left over a year ago. It's...

I've kept up with the saga too, but I thought the story was over when they found the kill screen. I didn't imagine in my wildest dreams it'd be possible to just roll the level counter over without a crash. Makes me wonder if one couldn't do something similar for Pac-man.

Nope, it's going to be very far away from me. I imagine I'd be more impacted if I had any significant travel plans, but I very much do not. I don't even expect we'll see any rain. Boss is thinking this weekend will be a good time for the locals to finally hit the beach. Not too hot, not too many...

I'm lucky enough to be able to say I'm at least out on my own, even if at times it's not very fun. On the one hand, I wish Dad had come with me so for once in his life he wouldn't be worried about money (as I'd be shouldering the living expenses) but on the other, he'd hate it down here. I don't...

I think that'd exclusively happen in the bigger cities and the smaller towns would more or less be the same as they always were. They do like to pride themselves on that fact. And making people put the cart before the horse and just make do for a while without the infrastructure they need isn't...

I imagine better door components to make one feel like that got a better vehicle than they did are relatively cheap. I can’t imagine they’re actually any more mechanically sound powertrain-wise. Now, there’s nothing wrong with that, I think this was the last era in which something this expensive...

And all this while I'm hearing rumors that Intel might not even let Battlemage come to production, Alchemist did so poorly in sales. With their dire situation -- apparently Qualcomm is looking at them and licking their chops -- it unfortunately makes sense. I so badly wanted Intel to do well...

Moving this here per Lunar's request. Those basically don't exist here. The ones that do, the people who originally bought them are still driving them. The same amount would have bought me maybe a mid-2000s Ford Focus with frame rust, 180k+ miles on the odo and transmission issues, to use an...

You're seeing the people under 30 who are the loudest and the most fortunate, Lunar. The rest are all too busy working to show much of anything off. They gotta pay that car note, after all. Merc is very correct on that -- the "clunkers" that were all gobbled up with the government subsidies were...

I refuse to have something as critical as a router be anything but a separate machine running on bare metal. It's not good practice at all, at the very least IMO. I think virtualizing a router is kind of just asking for trouble.

YouTube has become my television, but I refuse to use or work with Twitch at all. Or any livestreaming thing. I don't have the kind of time to just dump watching 3 hours of nothing happening. When I said that, I meant more along the lines of Peter being regarded mostly as a fraud, a disgrace...

I've considered migrating to opnSense after hearing of pfSense's past problems. I just know at this point migrating the config is more complicated than export, install, import, and I don't have the time or ambition to spend an afternoon or longer setting all that back up, and no doubt needing to...

I play heavily modded Skyrim and have almost since it came out, I only played it vanilla on an Xbox 360. I loathe vanilla Skyrim with a passion as it's a mile wide and inch deep experience that has no respect for the player or their intelligence. By the time I'm done with it, it's usually a...

He's talking about a game update, not a Windows update, Lunar

My longest-played game on Steam is Pulsar: Lost Colony at over 800 hours logged, and that's only because it kept ticking the clock after the game crashed one day and I left the computer on. I'd say I have no more than 50 hours in it actually. The highest figure I have that's actually real is...

My router is some chinese Intel N100 box with quad i225 2.5Gbit NICs. It runs pfSense, and has an amount of RAM and storage that I don't remember, but I do remember is plenty for the job. I do run an OpenVPN server from it for access when I'm travelling and I have dynamic DNS set up for both...

I'm not saying it's a good idea for you to leave your plan and finance a phone. It isn't, your best bet is staying exactly where you are. I was just illustrating how the general public here in the states ended up the way they are with regard to the phone landscape. Seems the phone discounts are...

Yeah, mine's the H. It's neat, but mine has a hardware defect where the networking doesn't work regardless of the firmware I throw on it, so it's definitely fallen out of use as a lot of what I use emulation for right now is netplay with my brother or with friends online. I'm not thrilled with...

Then you're not most people, Lunar, and you can't really expect to be marketed to specifically. I hate to say it, but I doubt most people even kick their phone over to WiFi at all, or we wouldn't hear so much complaining over overages because there wouldn't be much if any. Not that I think...

Yeah, I'm over custom thermal solutions with the possible exception of that new PTM7950 or whatever it is once I finally manage to run out of Kryonaut paste, assuming it really is as easy to work with as people say it is. I'm over overclocking, I'm over hardware tinkering on my daily-use...

Nope, and like I predicted the handheld has mostly sit idle for some months now. That's why I bought it instead of something more expensive, I had a feeling it was a momentary hyperfixation and I wasn't truly committed to using it. That said, I'm also running custom firmware on it anyway, so...

The grass may just always be greener on the other side, I guess. That's a fair enough argument, but I don't think Windows would be in precisely the same spot that Android is for that. Since Microsoft controls the OS directly, you don't have a million fly-by-night manufacturers making however...

In my experience, T-Mobile's had great deals on handsets, and I'd be a market for their Magenta Max lines anyway. You just have to be willing to accept a last-gen phone on a two-year not-contract. My S22 that I handed off to my sister was literally free for me. My iP13 was, like, 300 dollars...

I decided my efforts (and money) were better spent on a battery bank that can do 45W USB-C power delivery than getting another dubious battery for the Elitebook directly, as even with only ~35Whr I'm getting close to 4 hours out of it -- I think with one of those Anker 26800mAh bricks I might...

I actually prefer the Exynos phones to anything Qualcomm -- even if they don't always win in a head to head performance comparison, it's close enough that for a phone I really don't notice a difference, and the Exynos will usually get better battery life in my experience. The Exynos ones are...

This is probably the first time I've ever seen one of these bundles that I've already had the main component of...

My Elitebook developed a weird issue where the q, w, e, r and u, i, o, p keys would just quit working at random. Seemed to be an issue where something got into the keyboard matrix, but it's not like you can take apart these sonically-welded FRU-type components and expect to be able to get them...

Forgot to update you all on this -- yeah, it was the driver. The very next release fixed it right up.

With how I leverage my NAS, I need more throughput than even 2.5GbE can do. I'm actually pretty glad for the 10GbE NICs I've fitted in my server and my workstation, so I'd definitely need more than one slot available.

Yeah, no, from now on anything AMD I treat as a two-stick max machine. It sucks, but it's what you pretty much have to do.

Extrapolate the rest of that sentence, because I'm not going to openly advocate for piracy on a public forum with the same screen name I use to sign into linkedin.

Yar, ye scallywag! Ye not even be talkin' like a pirate! Ye be goin' against the spirit o' the holiday! @Santilli, Methinks ye know what I was on about, now. If buyin' ain't ownin', then... arr... what does that make us? Landlubbers? Nay!

Zen's IMC has never been good, to be quite honest. Zen 2 was a massive leap forward over Zen and Zen+, but it's still known to not be great. I just have had poor luck and not a ton of money or patience with which to keep buying new kits to find some goldilocks situation where everything works as-is.

Wow, just noticing I missed several posts before I made mine. It might help if I read some.

You can just as easily get a USB-C dongle that would let you hook it up, or a bluetooth dongle or FM transmitter (my personal choice when I still had my 2010 Corolla), or, hell, even a new head unit that'd support it natively. I have plenty of friends who've gone that route. You could leave it...

Personally I think it smacks of being rushed out the door. This was clearly a marketing opportunity with Intel machine-gunning their foot -- they could very well have said they're having production issues and doing the QA work that Intel should have been and I'm sure everyone would have loved...

You're not going to get a headphone jack on anything 2020 or newer that isn't a budget vomit puck of a phone. Unfortunate, but that's the reality. That's a poor reason to send a phone back that you otherwise like.

Wait until September 19th. ;)

We're actually trialing Intermedia Unite at the office, since we weren't particularly married to Teams or Zoom or anything as it is, and Unite integrates easily with our cloud PBX and such. I use Waterfox -- used to be back in the olden times it was the only way to get a 64-bit Firefox build...

Well, that's you Lunar. A frightening number of people wouldn't be able to just absorb something like that and not care.

Lunar I think you're misunderstanding. The phone itself is basically a brick to them for anything but emergency calls. The Find My feature lets you track it down either to pass information off to law enforcement or get your phone back if for instance you don't have insurance or your carrier...