Recent content by sedrosken

I don't even have one of the "good" APUs -- mine's a Ryzen 4500U with I think Vega 8, and for everything I do on the regular -- mostly playing BTD6 and Fistful of Frags with my friends, on up to modded OpenMW and Skyrim Special Edition -- it's plenty. I haven't actually turned on my main desktop...

Are you at all surprised? Most folks building a new computer in 2024 are not going to be running Windows 10 on it. 10 is most of ten years old at this point. I'm kind of surprised they supported 10 on Zen4 considering 11 was out by the launch.

If they can't drive Windows 11 adoption the normal way, they'll just break what you already have and then not fix it. Go figure.

We tend to outfit most of our smaller customers that don't really have the need or budget for a FortiGate typically with a UDM Pro, a PoE 24 port Ubiquiti switch, and some amount of APs -- though, typically, we're outfitting with U6-Lites or U6-LRs for cost reasons, as most folks have zero need...

I mean I guess I have to give Microsoft some props for giving me some job security. While they keep screwing things up I know I'll never be bored.

They seem awfully keen on obliterating any goodwill they manage to build up for themselves, don't they?

Yeah, I don't know what's up with Intel based laptops these days, but on 11th gen and newer I've reliably had no mouse in setup, and especially on HP implementations they seem to like to enable RST for no good reason with no way to turn it off, necessitating installation of disk controller...

Probably going to end up with a 2TB TeamGroup MP34 or some such. I don't do anything terribly intensive or have archival needs justifying spending 50% more for the same amount of storage at roughly the same speed -- being limited to Gen3x4 speeds makes spending a ton of money on the upgrade...

I'm a little disappointed in myself that my first impulse was to be horrified at how widespread that system is. I can see how it'd be useful, but I'm skeptical that such a system wouldn't inevitably be abused, or that a slow-moving bureaucratic governmental body is the best choice to run such a...

A Windows 7 machine likely isn't worth a whole lot of extra consideration as one has to wonder just how much of a lifespan it has left regardless. That said, I've had good results with Teamgroup drives -- they're nothing special, but the pricing is good and they're fast enough. Remember that...

I've got a similar situation where I've got an older gentleman in his eighties who was pretty high up in his industry and has a lot of old data tied behind a 365 business sub he's still paying for, but that he can't get into -- we know his password, but he lost his 2FA stuff, and we can't seem...

The 1TB NVME drive I had my eye on at the start of the year spiked from 55 dollars up to 70 recently. Guess I'm waiting a bit longer, even if this laptop desperately cries out for more than 512GB -- games are very rough on storage these days, and I've got a few big-ticket items installed.

Starting to think they're deliberately trying to go after stuff like Open-Shell and StartAllBack, which literally just serves to give people back the Windows 7 era or XP era start menu if they want it. Can't wait for the seventeen million step registry hack that fixes that. In other annoying...

Using a cast-off Pavilion laptop for the summer to keep my electric bill from getting too crazy, it's got a R5-4500U in it with I think Vega 8? I'm pretty suitably impressed. Build quality is typical HP consumer-grade slop but the cooler is adequate for it and it had a single 16GB stick that...

Having an extra key to rebind for my own nefarious uses is always nice. But then, most keyboards will likely have it replacing the Menu key, having the Menu function as a Fn layer, I suppose.