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I just ran across this on Ebay, but I imagine the Newegg link is probably more appreciated since it has more info. 8c16t, Zen 2 GPU, 2x DDR5, SATA and nvme. Seems like an absolute dream of a NUC-alike to me.

Ironically, another dear friend came from a weird Lutheran offshoot. You don't really hear a lot about Lutheran fundamentalists, but they're out there.

The pattern among my closest friends has been a family that is extremely religious that for one reason or other isn't willing to support daughters who are unwilling to get with the program. My current partner's family are Scientologists. She was expected to start her journey in that faith at 16...

Go looking now. The opportunities evaporate as you get older and the chances that someone will see your professional success as a way to correct their youthful mistakes just increases with age. Even someone's adult offspring still mean you get static from another parent and potentially two sets...

The age gap isn't terribly relevant to either of us, jtr. We just get along really well and recognize the mutual benefits of being a team for some period of time. It's a good model to have for people who aren't necessarily trying to start a family or find til death do us part.

My domestic partner is 22. Her father is a few years younger than, young enough that he MIGHT be a millennial. She's also involved in Chicago-area concert venues and music festivals, so she's always talking about who is going to be where and which things are worth making plans, because she can...

Hot April is great because it's the time I can absolutely get away with doing questionable outdoor modeling shoots. I was out on the lake shore this morning, even. LM, you gotta let me know if you're through here. Even if you're just at ORD on a layover, there's places to meet up as close as...

Gaming systems are shipping with everything right now. nVidia actually restarted production on 1660s last year because they're cheap and don't have to be made by TSMC.

UT2003 is just because that's the game media *I* ripped a zillion years ago and keep on hand. I love modified game modes, especially low gravity play, and vertically, oriented maps.

There's a video card sweet spot at somewhere around $250 - $350, which is in line with the cost of a console system. Based on current expectations, that's probably where the 4060 SHOULD be, but based on nVidia's pricing trend, it's seeming like it'll be $500, which is the point where the value...

There are several games I've gotten from GoG that don't seem to work on anything I have. I know that for example Vampire Bloolines needs a massive community patch before it will play on any new computer, and it's not very well documented which community or what patch the most correct way to...

It's at least possible to get most cards at MSRP, but for last gen cards at this point in their life cycle should be substantially discounted, not hovering within 10% of their launch price.

How many of them were under $400?

You might want to check GoG.com. I know bought my favorites of the Ultimate games (4 - 6) for something like $5.

I know a lot of people sitting on Ryzen 3 systems with GTX1660s and waiting for SOME kind of reasonable replacement to come about. I'm telling them to look at the A750 or A770, but most of them are saying that it's not enough of an upgrade vs what they have They want something from AMD or...

4070 is released. It's a little faster than a 3080 and it's the closest thing to a reasonably priced Ada card but it's STILL $600. nVidia is dreaming if it thinks people are clamoring for a 4060 that's still hanging around the $500 price point, but that looks to be the case.

Sometimes you need a crappy Gigabyte Power supply and also 24 cans of refried beans I guess.

Newegg has a Taco Bell section.

It's a frequent subject of discussion on the makemkv forums. I have a Pioneer drive that works for that purpose, but the only 4k BDs I've ripped myself are the Lord of the Rings movies. The only other disc I've done since 2020 is the BD release of "Einstein on the Beach" since there was an...

The outer door on my building locks with a key code and there's one for the parking lot as well. The closest thing I have to an enemy in the building is the judgmental Dominican lady who keeps calling my roommate a hoe for daring to show off her tattoos.

I had a home invader today. I unlock the door to my apartment if my roommate borrows my car, since my housekey is on the same keyring as my car key. She had a job interview this morning, so she's off doing that, and I was sitting at the desk in my bedroom, working. My downstairs neighbor's two...

I don't trust external hard drives for anything but temporary needs. I have found 2.5" drives to be more reliable for those needs, but the largest mechanical 2.5" drives are 5TB and I believe those are SMR. I know there's a cost for a small NAS, but I'd probably look at a 2 or 4 bay NAS for long...

For reference, it's possible to buy an LTO5 SAS drive for $100 - $200 and 1.5TB tapes can be had for $10 each in bulk. The costs become similar to buying a high capacity single hard drive, but tape is more affordable as need for capacity increases.

There is currently a gold standard for optical drives, which are actually older BD-RW drives or units that support flashing back to older firmware, since most newer drives refuse to make bit-perfect copies of 4k BDs. "White book" CDs usually didn't have the screwy structural issues that are used...

As the superuser for a whole bunch of Google Workspaces, that may or may not be the appropriate answer. But Nearby Share can be a fantastic for copying over a 300MB PDF or to to share a bunch of photos without needing to know someone's contact details. I've discovered that many, many, MANY...

Nearby Share has finally been implemented for Windows. No more sending everything to Google Drive first. Hooray!

It's a longstanding tradition and sometimes a matter of law in many European cities that the tallest building is the city's cathedral. This is something of a joke, but also still very true in most places that aren't big enough to have skyscrapers.

They're letting you live in a building taller than the highest spire of the biggest church these days? That doesn't sound very European.

My view of Lake Michigan would be really cool if some asshole didn't put another apartment building between me and the water. ;)

Older LTO drives are not terribly expensive and the tapes are very reasonably priced. I *have* heard of big providers losing end user data, but never for big customers. There are definitely some famous cases as well: Myspace, LiveJournal and Yahoo are all fantastic examples of enterprises that...

It absolutely is, especially for people used to mobile devices. This is also why I absolutely hate OneDrive on Windows.

People do not understand storage.

Bad guys compromised WD's cloud storage services and WD doesn't know what they took yet.

Cosplay is an enjoyable hobby for a lot of people, especially those with a background in fabric arts, makeup or crafting. It can also be a way to stand out for people trying to raise their profile on social media, and there's a path to success as an e-girl or adult model that starts with a...

I do a lot of things that add up to a full time job, which is more or less how my professional life has always worked.

Astro is something I'd love to do but the Chicago area is the most light-polluted place on Earth. There's a pink-purple haze everywhere within probably 100 miles of the city, even on the darkest nights. I saw a pro yesterday taking cosplay photos who had three R5s strapped to his body and my...

I don't even want ONE phone. I don't think anyone should buy iOS devices. They bought me a company mobile phone some years ago. I just never turned it on and it was eventually taken to replace another phone when it was broken. My company does not have my cell phone number. They have the number...

My company would subsidize only if I accepted an iphone.

It was a T-mobile MVNO that offered an unlimited* data plan for $30/month if paid annually. I'm currently on a Sprint employee plan, but there are more and more caveats to that plan and what I can do with it, as well as some new fees that raised the price for my phone plan above $30/month I've...

Samsung says S22s get Exynos in all of Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and whatever Russian satellites. The S23 does have a Qualcomm SoC in Euroland, though. Are you sure you didn't get an imported US phone? There is some demand for those, as they're widely known to be the superior option. I...

It's not that hard to stitch a pano shot. I had the opportunity to take some photos from the 20th floor of an apartment building in Tampa. I used about 60 shots to get a nighttime view of the bay. I guess it's neat to do it in camera, or if it can be done for a single subject, but I wouldn't...

They're supposed to be a compromise between the U (ultra low voltage) and H (High performance) mobile CPUs. but the NUC is technically a desktop. They couldn't stuff the high performance mobile CPUs in a device that could literally be made out of heat sink? I'd rather have m.2 + 2.5" drive...

From everything I read about it, US S-series Samsungs have locked eSIM capability. It's not model specific. Snapdragon = no eSIM. I hope that's gotten better since the S20, but that's the explanation I was given. I believe that the Snapdragon SoCs have better support for US LTE and 5G bands...

Be happy there's a second drive option at all. The P series CPU is kind of a fail, too.

The 135/2 was giving a can't communicate with camera error that I couldn't clear. I took it to my local camera shop. They're looking at it. I like the Sigma 50/1.4 better than the Canon EF 1.2. That thing is pillow soft wide open. The Sigma is a favorite of mibe for almost all uses. The Canon...

I get to go to a professional basketball game tonight. We're getting waved through security by an executive for the team and we're allowed access to courtside before the game. I've been told that we can bring cameras, which are normally banned by the facility, and use them during practice AND...

The problem goes away if I shoot mechanical, but so does my ability to capture more than 10 frames in a second. If I use electronic first curtain or fully electronic, it's a progressively larger problem. Apparently Sony cameras don't have an issue with this. I don't know if that's because they...

Hilariously, a lot of phones in the USA with carrier specific models have eSim functionality blocked in the OS. This is particularly aggravating with Samsung because it makes phones with Snapdragon (good) or Exynos (not-so-good) SoCs. The Snapdragon models are only sold in the USA and Korea, and...

1/250 is pretty normal if I'm trying to freeze motion in bad light, which is usually the goal for a burst shot. I'm trying to get a stage dive in mid-air, glitter off the top of a snare drum, long hair flying around etc. Even 1/200 will probably result in a blurry mess for some of that stuff.

Tmobile uses a normal SIM that you could swap with any other normal carrier. If you buy from a carrier, it'll be carrier-locked until you complain enough to make them unlock it, and only if you aren't on a hardware purchase contract.