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    Mercutio replied to the thread Android phones: Tips, tricks?.
    You might try Blackplayer, but if you're having problems playing music from your SD card, it's possible the issue is the card you're...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Laptop time?.
    You can make incompatible CPUs run 11, but unless you know the secret sauce, they can't be upgraded past whatever version is initially...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Laptop time?.
    So you're looking to buy a PC that was born incompatible to run Windows 11? Why?
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    Mercutio reacted to sedrosken's post in the thread Something Random with Like Like.
    As long as what I'm doing doesn't have a hard AVX2 requirement, I'm having a hard time finding a workload that really, truly crushes it...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Android phones: Tips, tricks?.
    I hate the S25 Ultra. The extra width means I can't reach the far edge of my phone with my thumb. I've gotten the pen out all of one...
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    Boob to you too this fine morning. I take pictures all the time and some of the tools that I use do apply AI to correct a focus...
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    I finally delivered the gaming PC I built for my friend's kid last week. It turned into a bit of a communal project; friends got him a...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Something Random.
    I was still actively using an i7-2700k until last year for the simple reason that the damned thing wouldn't die and did everything I...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Merc's Useful Tools of the day.
    Results from "kill all the AI" script are pretty promising. On a vanilla Windows 11 VM install with 4GB allocated RAM, I saw a decrease...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Empire in Decline.
    I think we all know that ain't nothin' gonna happen over this. We didn't do anything about it last time he was in office and now...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Windows 11.
    For purpose of comparison, an N150 has approximately the same amount of computing power as an i7-7700 at a tiny fraction of the power...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Windows 11.
    Greg, that is some bigly e-waste right there. it'll technically run Windows 10 but that's G41 chipset that PROBABLY uses DDR2...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Empire in Decline.
    The EU owns around $8T of US Debt. Essentially no entity on the planet could buy all that, and no one other than a close ally would want...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Nvidia 50xx.
    I turn all the frame generation stuff off, but nothing I do needs those settings. IIRC there's a global and per-game setting in the...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Nvidia 50xx.
    Hardware Unboxed, which IIRC is an Oz-based Youtube channel, says that the 5070Ti and 16GB 5060Ti have been discontinued or functionally...
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