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He had nobody to travel with back then. I totally get that. I've been in the same boat most of my life. I know I wouldn't enjoy myself traveling alone, so I don't much see the point, other than traveling locally in NYC. Also, in my particular case I refuse to fly. Period. So it's Amtrak for me...

I'm puzzled here. They claim you can infect a system by installing a CPU. I was under the impression CPUs have no non-volatile memory, so how can a virus be installed in one?

It's not the electrical savings so much as the ability to use a slower fan speed to lower noise levels. Or better yet, if you can passively cool it.

At this stage, AI driving is actually better than the average driver. There are already AI trucks on highways. The hardest nut to crack is urban driving. We can automate trucks to do the highway part of the trip, but then you need human drivers to take over the last few miles. Once we're 100%...

I'll be happy if AI only gets good enough to drive vehicles. Anything to get lousy human drivers off the roads. It'll also be a boon for people who don't drive. That includes those with disabilities and children. Parents won't have to drive their kids everywhere in the suburbs. They can just...

As far as I know I never got it, but I've never been tested, either. If I did have it I was asymptomatic. I was really sick in October 2019. For the first week I couldn't stand up more than about 30 seconds. It was taking an hour to get my mother out of bed. Once I felt well enough to walk a...

I'm sure it falls into the category of "If you have to ask then you can't afford it." Can't think of a single thing I'd need 14 GB/s speeds for. Even the regular SATA max of ~500 MB/s is plenty for most of what I do, except maybe the rare times I copy a movie or a drive image. That said, with...

I didn't watch it but I heard a few sound bites. Also read a little about it, like this article: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-real-trump-is-back-it-could-cost-him-the-white-house/ar-BB1r2nnI?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=59202f5d912447a2a248f13c707d04d3&ei=9#image=2 This has to be one of...

And I'm getting conflicting reports on it. Some say they have successfully installed 4TB. My Zenbook 14x is actually the newest model so I might be OK in that regard. If/when I do this I'll just make sure I can return the drive if it doesn't work.

Apparently it has PCIe 4.0: My bad. I could swear I looked at another site and it had mSATA. Such is my state of mind these days. If/when I upgrade the SSD, I'll wait until 4GB drives drop in price to under $100. Right now the lowest I'm seeing for any brands I'd trust is ~$300. Way more...

Honestly, this is way more work (i.e. probably hundreds of hours) and money that I'm interested in right now, plus I'm not really seeing what I gain by it when my desktop is still more than adequate for all the things I currently use it for. I'll put any future programs I use on the laptop which...

Doing that would be a shit ton of work I'm not in any mood to do. Still fighting major depression over losing my mother. I have so many programs I use that I'm not sure would even work on Windows 11, plus I have three printers, a scanner, and two monitors. The laptop doesn't have enough ports...

I'm using 7 on the desktop. I can even boot into XP using another drive but I haven't needed to for a long time. My brother still has XP on his desktop, although he says a lot of sites don't work properly any more. I knew someone who was on Windows 3.1 at least until before the pandemic. Haven't...

Yeah, my brother is a rabid Trump supporter who drank the Kool-Aid. He's accusing the left of doing everything the right is doing, along with calling CNN fake news. At least I can still talk politics with him without getting into an argument. He'll honestly admit some of Trump's more glaring...

Last week Chase in all its infinite stupidity decided to no longer support versions of browsers which are compatible with Windows 7. Specifically, they now require: Apple Safari 16.3 and higher Google Chrome 116 and higher Microsoft Edge 119 and higher Mozilla Firefox 115 and higher None of...

Have you ever considered having a big external battery? Being that I have a few UPSes where the battery went south, I'm thinking of this. Don't want to get another SLA battery which will crap out in a few years. Instead, my thoughts are to use some of the ~500 surplus A123 26650s I have. Make a...

Being that it was in the Cafe instead of the Computer section, that was the first thought to come to mind. Didn't someone on SR start a "How big is it?" thread? Kind of silly and juvenile I guess, but boys will be boys. The thread disappeared of course when they had the database meltdown.

Probably. My record was the ~10 years I got out of my XP3200 system. I'm 6 years into my current system. So far it easily meets my needs, so no upgrade fever. Given that I recently bought a laptop, I can use that for things my current system can't handle. So I might be keeping my current desktop...

They won't stop until the bar reaches the 9th level of hell. Even then, they'll push it lower if it's at all possible. I just can't figure out how ~1/3 of the electorate supports these clowns to the point they'll follow them off a cliff. Amazing how you can get people to vote against their own...

I had to look at early pictures of him to see the teeth. He apparently had it fixed. My teeth aren't perfectly aligned, but they're not even close to that bad. I put scientology almost in the same camp as MAGA. Did Tom Cruise try to push the scientology stuff on your partner's dad, or is that...

Hey, I'm only an inch taller than Cruise.

Don't have any preference. I think I usually use whatever fan came with the processor. I'm not even sure what my present CPU is using. I slapped it together over 6 years ago. All I know is outside of when I'm playing with train simulators the system is so quiet I need to put my ear to the case...

Actually the link was for Impossible Mission Force, the fictional organization Tom Cruise's character works for in the Mission: Impossible movies. As for your used PC being used for crimes, wouldn't law enforcement IP trace it to wherever it's being used? That's like selling a car and worrying...

I was thinking the same thing. And the old Windows license could be used by the buyer. Also, it isn't hard to wipe drives clean for security purposes, especially if they're SSDs. You might be able to read some data on an HDD which was wiped clean, but really, that requires specialized...

Same here. 65W TDP is plenty for my needs.

I have used liquid cooling-for thermoelectric projects. I even made my own copper water blocks. I'm able to keep temps about 1.5°C above the inlet water temps with a ~100W heat load. Using tap water in winter, I can get "hot" side temps of around 5°C. With thermoelectrics, every degree you lower...

Never had a Noctua fan so I wouldn't know. Anyway, the higher power CPUs tend to be beyond my budget and needs so that's another reason I gravitate towards around 65 TDP. Another reason is you don't have integrated graphics on the high end. I've been done with graphics cards for like a decade...

I'm not in the IT business but I imagine this kind work qualifies as "drop everything you're doing, get here now, and fix it yesterday". I'd bill anyone with that kind of urgency about 10 times my normal rate. I'm guessing the IT guys will do the same. Millions of man-hours at $1K+ per hour...

Fake some sort of national emergency affecting red states, and declare martial law in these states on election day. Since most voters there tend to not use early voting, they'll miss the chance to vote. Hey, if the GOP can do stuff like January 6, we can surely pull some tricks out of our...

Project 2025 should be enough to stop Trump if the Dems don't bungle the messaging, which sadly they do all the time. I'm honestly at a loss for what I might do if all this comes to pass. Leaving the country would be a huge hassle, plus where to go? I still have cyanide pills from a while back...

About 6 years ago, actually. I tend to pick parts with around 65W TDP, both because electricity costs a fortune here, and I hate noisy fans.

Does this affect the i7-13700h in my new laptop? I hope not. I think a big part of the problem is Intel's ridiculous TDP, at least for their desktop parts. We're on the cusp of liquid cooling being mandatory at the rate we're going. Faster isn't better if you need the output of a nuclear...

The whole Trump near assassination looks like it was lifted straight out of The Manchurian Candidate. Ironic Trump used that moniker for Biden. The thing is let's assume this was planned. Dying as a martyr isn't Trump's speed. After all, once he's out of the picture there's nothing in it for...

I'm sure it'll happen eventually. As it is that little board has the computing power of a high-end desktop c. 2005 or so while consuming a fraction of the power.

The CPU on this board can actually run Linux. If a person has fairly basic needs, a nanocomputer based on this might be just the ticket. You can easily stick the entire thing inside a keyboard, for example.

Both. Generally for most people their needs haven't kept pace with the advances in CPU speed or efficiency. As a result, a tiny bare-bones machine might be enough for the majority. You're old in that you're old enough to remember when a slightly complex Excel spreadsheet bought a 386 without a...

It may not be practical but people are already driving the kinds of vehicles you mentioned on country roads. Despite that, the death rate is still very high. These roads are just dangerous, no matter what you're driving. Well, there are things I don't like about the city, but they're far...

Five-point harness and roll cage. Don't need a lot of mass. Indy cars are the safest vehicles in terms of preventing crash deaths because of these features. They should be standard in all vehicles. Indy cars hit concrete walls at 200 mph and the driver walks away. I never even go to rural areas...

That's true. The highest death rate by far is on two-lane country roads.

Nowadays at least everyone has phones with GPS if they have to navigate a corn field. We grew corn once. I was surprised how big the plants get. Being that far from medical help IS scary. I was thankful when my mother was alive that we are within two miles of multiple hospitals with trauma...

I saw the Macy's fireworks a few times in person. That was worthwhile. Couldn't care less about parades or BBQs though. An unoccupied farmhouse in the middle of nowhere? Sounds like a premise for a grade B slasher flick. Watch out for Jason and his cohorts when you're out there. I get it that...

I give you credit for getting through all that. I doubt I could have. Living in your car sounds horrible, although the housing situation has become so bad it's often the only option. Some places even legalized this recently. They weren't thrilled about it, but saw the reality of the situation...

Water cool the PSU also. That way you have a completely silent system.

Does AI also explain why Amazon's search engine is so awful? It used to be when I looked for something, only results for exactly what the search terms were would come in. Now I get mostly unrelated results. It's been that way with Google for a while also. I don't care what AI might think I'm...

Well, yes, but with only 5GB it's not terribly useful. I'm not a data hog, but even I have well over 500GB of unique data.

That's fine. Honestly, you're not in much of position to afford a new vehicle soon anyway. Let other people get the kinks worked out. That's one reason I'm not an early adopter of much stuff, unless it's fairly inexpensive.

Yes, I'd like to see median versus average myself. My brother actually gets classic car insurance on one of his vehicles, which comes to a few hundred a year, and does all of his repairs. His cars are obviously long paid for. I'd be shocked if his older cars cost him more than $2,000 a year...

Well, I fall in the camp that I don't much see the point to cramming 50MP on a sensor for bragging rights unless the sensor is large enough to get a decent amount of added information from those extra pixels. I guess in bright light it matters less, but not all of us take pictures in full...

I generally store my stuff using my own folder system, not the stupid Windows defaults, for lots of reasons. Among them is making it harder for a potential hacker to find stuff I care about. OneDrive and CoPilot are two features any semi-sophisticated computer user just doesn't want or need. MS...

It's actually worse than that now: https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/loans/auto-loans/total-cost-owning-car The average monthly cost of owning a car has surpassed $1,000. The figures are from AAA. A car, even a decent used one, would easily cost me over $10K. Just the insurance alone would...