Recent content by Chewy509

I saw this, and noticed it's not getting a lot of mainstream traction... Trump's Core 5, essentially what some would call the New World Order. https://www.politico.com/newsletters/national-security-daily/2025/12/10/how-a-new-russia-china-us-network-could-work-00685342

Yeah, I’ve seen a few memes that Apples memory upgrade prices are now cheaper than the pc market! It’s expected graphics cards to start get more expensive in the new year due to expected GDDR shortages in the coming months so bit the bullet on the upgrade...

It was mainly for programming tasks, and have the ability to play games due to the beefed up GPU and cooling in it. Due to discounts, I managed to get one cheaper than an equivalent PC would have cost. They are excellent machines for their designed use case, and I don't see myself changing any...

My main desktop is a MacStudio (M2 Max), and an iPad for anytime I need portable compute. My wife and daughter both have iMac's (M4) and iPads... My son is still on a i5-11500 based PC, 64GB DDR4 with RTX3060 12GB and is on Windows 11 solely for gaming, otherwise he would be on Linux. He was...

LEGO has officially announced the NCC-1701-D Enterprise kit. https://www.lego.com/en-au/product/star-trek-u-s-s-enterprise-ncc-1701-d-10356

Visual Studio 2022 still supports targeting Windows 7. (1) Visual Studio 2019 was the last to support targeting Windows Vista, and could still target Windows XP if you also had VS2017 installed. Visual Studio 2017 was the last to support targeting Windows XP, and is still supported running on...

Amusing, but for classic 90's comedy, search for "The comedy company" on YT. Here is a sample: Characters such as Con the Fruiter, Uncle Arthur and Colin Carpenter were all classics at the time. However some of it is quite racist and sexist, but that was largely a reflection of Australia at...

Fun fact, on Windows 11 Home, if you disable location services in settings (during the initial setup), you cannot manually set the timezone of the system via the Settings UI. (It's greyed out). Setting the timezone is now tied to enablement of location services. There are two workarounds: User...

As a side note, it appears that MS servers are struggling due to so many users cancelling the service: https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/xbox-game-pass-users-are-canceling-subscriptions-so-fast-that-microsofts-website-is-struggling-to-keep-up-and-i-dont-blame-them

On a more positive note, Project 2025 is nearing 50% completion... https://www.project2025.observer/en (The word 'positive' is used with a bigly amount of sarcasm).

IIRC, The colour grading in the Matrix series was intentional, with scenes inside the matrix being green tinted, and those based outside (in real life) were meant to have a different tint. This was done to hint to the viewer which environment they were in. IIRC, this was discussed in either...

Thanks, sorry forgot to mention it’s mostly for gaming until next year when he is off to university, then it’ll be gaming, some more gaming and then maybe some word, excel stuff for his studies. Was looking at the Crucial T500, as its only a few dollars more than the Crucial P3 plus and Crucial...

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Hi all, Just wondering what the current recommendations are for 1-2TB nvme ssds are these days. Need to replace the boot drive in my sons system due the current one starting to exhibit IO errors. Currently has a Kingston KC2500 1TB which has been fine until a month ago, where the recoverable...