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Nope, and like I predicted the handheld has mostly sit idle for some months now. That's why I bought it instead of something more expensive, I had a feeling it was a momentary hyperfixation and I wasn't truly committed to using it. That said, I'm also running custom firmware on it anyway, so...

The grass may just always be greener on the other side, I guess. That's a fair enough argument, but I don't think Windows would be in precisely the same spot that Android is for that. Since Microsoft controls the OS directly, you don't have a million fly-by-night manufacturers making however...

In my experience, T-Mobile's had great deals on handsets, and I'd be a market for their Magenta Max lines anyway. You just have to be willing to accept a last-gen phone on a two-year not-contract. My S22 that I handed off to my sister was literally free for me. My iP13 was, like, 300 dollars...

I decided my efforts (and money) were better spent on a battery bank that can do 45W USB-C power delivery than getting another dubious battery for the Elitebook directly, as even with only ~35Whr I'm getting close to 4 hours out of it -- I think with one of those Anker 26800mAh bricks I might...

I actually prefer the Exynos phones to anything Qualcomm -- even if they don't always win in a head to head performance comparison, it's close enough that for a phone I really don't notice a difference, and the Exynos will usually get better battery life in my experience. The Exynos ones are...

This is probably the first time I've ever seen one of these bundles that I've already had the main component of...

My Elitebook developed a weird issue where the q, w, e, r and u, i, o, p keys would just quit working at random. Seemed to be an issue where something got into the keyboard matrix, but it's not like you can take apart these sonically-welded FRU-type components and expect to be able to get them...

Forgot to update you all on this -- yeah, it was the driver. The very next release fixed it right up.

With how I leverage my NAS, I need more throughput than even 2.5GbE can do. I'm actually pretty glad for the 10GbE NICs I've fitted in my server and my workstation, so I'd definitely need more than one slot available.

Yeah, no, from now on anything AMD I treat as a two-stick max machine. It sucks, but it's what you pretty much have to do.

Extrapolate the rest of that sentence, because I'm not going to openly advocate for piracy on a public forum with the same screen name I use to sign into linkedin.

Yar, ye scallywag! Ye not even be talkin' like a pirate! Ye be goin' against the spirit o' the holiday! @Santilli, Methinks ye know what I was on about, now. If buyin' ain't ownin', then... arr... what does that make us? Landlubbers? Nay!

Zen's IMC has never been good, to be quite honest. Zen 2 was a massive leap forward over Zen and Zen+, but it's still known to not be great. I just have had poor luck and not a ton of money or patience with which to keep buying new kits to find some goldilocks situation where everything works as-is.

Wow, just noticing I missed several posts before I made mine. It might help if I read some.

You can just as easily get a USB-C dongle that would let you hook it up, or a bluetooth dongle or FM transmitter (my personal choice when I still had my 2010 Corolla), or, hell, even a new head unit that'd support it natively. I have plenty of friends who've gone that route. You could leave it...

Personally I think it smacks of being rushed out the door. This was clearly a marketing opportunity with Intel machine-gunning their foot -- they could very well have said they're having production issues and doing the QA work that Intel should have been and I'm sure everyone would have loved...

You're not going to get a headphone jack on anything 2020 or newer that isn't a budget vomit puck of a phone. Unfortunate, but that's the reality. That's a poor reason to send a phone back that you otherwise like.

Wait until September 19th. ;)

We're actually trialing Intermedia Unite at the office, since we weren't particularly married to Teams or Zoom or anything as it is, and Unite integrates easily with our cloud PBX and such. I use Waterfox -- used to be back in the olden times it was the only way to get a 64-bit Firefox build...

Well, that's you Lunar. A frightening number of people wouldn't be able to just absorb something like that and not care.

Lunar I think you're misunderstanding. The phone itself is basically a brick to them for anything but emergency calls. The Find My feature lets you track it down either to pass information off to law enforcement or get your phone back if for instance you don't have insurance or your carrier...

That's the thing -- usually, the thieves can't just reset an Apple before selling them on. That's how you end up with a ton of iCloud-locked stuff gumming up eBay searches. I don't trust any company as far as I could throw them RE: privacy, but I will grudgingly admit that Apple seems to have...

Core m is Intel, just a very low-voltage SKU of it from the Broadwell and Skylake generation. Your Chromebook is terribly unlikely to use one as it would have been prohibitively expensive -- mine was, like I said, super high-end for a Chromebook and cost well over a grand when new. It was kind...

Yeah, no, I have a Chromebook with a Core m7-6y75 and it's borderline unusable, even in a bare window-manager Linux environment. It'd be better if it would actually hit its max rated turbo at 3.1GHz, but I've never, EVER seen mine tick over 1.9. I'm guessing it's some power limit fuckery, where...

It's because devices this small are not marketed to people like us. Period. Those Cortex chips are just as capable of communicating with 2.5GbE support hardware as anything else, but they cost money that the manufacturer has deemed to not be worth the expenditure. The kind of person this is...

Depends. For IMAP I'm sure it's fine, but the HTML renderer it uses is likely out of date as it's either going to be tied to IE7 or whatever version of IE is present on the machine. O365 Will Not Work(TM)(R) on it now as you can't use anything with it that doesn't support modern auth, regardless...

For something like cloning a disk, honestly if it gets the job done it gets the job done.

Reflect 5 was the last version to be free for company use. Anything, ANYTHING at all newer up to the mid-8.x branch, was only free for personal use. It's not like they had much way to check what you were using it for, but it'd be violating the EULA to use the free version of Reflect for company...

There's a few bits there that I already knew about but the DISM GUI, special older version of Reflect, and PDFGear in particular are very interesting additions. Thanks Merc. I might play with the LAN speed tool too. I usually install SumatraPDF for myself, but it seems Adobe is still the gold...

I keep my AC at 78F not because I want to, but because that's the lowest temp my AC can economically maintain. I do not live in a modern home -- it was built in the 70s when it wasn't in vogue yet to actually insulate homes down this far south. If I set it to, for instance, 75F, it basically...

You'll likely end up needing to go with that QNAP or something similar to get 2.5GbE. I don't think the really simple single-bay NAS devices have graduated past gigabit yet, since almost no one with needs that simple will have a home LAN any faster than 1Gbit anyway.

I'm able to procure a genuine Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021 license from my distributor -- it's not cheap, it's $295 -- but I'm assuming at some point here soon I'll also be able to grab licenses for IoT Enterprise LTSC 2024, aka Win11 24H2 but without a lot of the bull. That would also do...

I'm with a local credit union because I left Chase when I moved to Florida. At the time I moved, I think the closest branch was all the way in Mobile, and that was the reason I left -- my CU has given me good rates on my car loans I've had since then, so I find it very difficult to complain.

We're a 365 shop, and there's only been one customer that we didn't go through with transitioning them completely away from Google Workspace to M365. While I personally think Google Workspace is the right choice for a lot of small business, our partnerships demand we sell them on the Microsoft...

Install Outlook and Teams and get back to me. Even better, do that, then add some corporate-grade antimalware, MDR, a backup program, whatever other meeting platforms your company's decided to "standardize" on... I wish I was kidding. This crap has a real way of making a fast machine feel slow...

I loathe Outlook deeply. Thirtyish (remember Schedule+?) years of just... code, on top of code, on top of code, and none of it worked well to begin with. I cannot tell you just how much of my job is doing the arcane rituals necessary to prod Outlook into working. God help you if you have more...

I'm not the biggest fan of Discord from the perspective of their application being really bloated JS junkware, but the actually decent clients for it break TOS and I'm not risking getting my nearly 10-year-old account that I actually pay for Nitro for banned over it. I met some of my best...

I've seen the Odyssey and Odyssey II showcased before, and while they held academic interest for me, there's only so simple I can go before my imagination just doesn't have anything to work with anymore. The Odyssey I was so basic it wasn't even really a Pong console -- the paddles could just go...

Several companies released Pong consoles in the 70s and early 80s. There's a whole AVGN episode on them. Heck, even Nintendo made a couple, though I believe they were Japan-exclusive. The Fairchild Channel F was a very early cartridge system, but it had probably my favorite version of Pong that...

The way I understand it is that Microsoft has been slowly updating the instruction sets they target for compilation (most recently some instructions added post-Kentsfield that block off Windows 11 24H2 from running on such machines) but that they can't go too far because there's no real unified...

I've not personally had any storage device except maybe an SD card fail in years, but in the last year, I've had a handful of drive recoveries I've had to do professionally. Usually they were customers for our BCDR stack so it was just grabbing a new drive off a shelf, restoring the most recent...

I'm sure they could make just one big CCD but the yields would presumably be awful and they might even have to go UP a node to make any kind of volume, which would kind of ruin the performance/watt argument. The prices would be outrageous, and I doubt they'd meet demand. It'd be a paper part for...

It's... not. My browser had me stuck on page 89 and I was responding to an old post that had derailed the thread, somewhat. My apologies.

I'm not going to lie and say I'll be sad to see the human-drivable car go away. I'm no fan of driving. But I don't see ANYONE allowing this to happen for at minimum the next twenty to thirty years, assuming we can manage not to Fallout ourselves yet by then.

I wouldn't rock the boat and cause an investigation into what exactly was delivered by saying I didn't get them at all, but I'm also not about to inform them of a screwup they made in my favor. That's their job, if they didn't do it, that's on them. If it were something I was taking possession...

Not very much outside our area. I have to be available pretty much 24/7/365 in case we get a service call. When we bring on a few more technicians, I might be able to go for some of these things. When I say we're a small outfit, I mean we are small. I'm one of a five man team, three of which are...

I loved my CF-28, and forever curse that I attempted to swap the keyboard and botched the job. It was slow as hell, but I've never had a machine that felt more solid.

Thankfully in my case I have a fairly good relationship with most of my family and they usually have the tact to not offer unsolicited advice or admonishment for my old regrets. I usually get roped into thanksgiving and christmas with my aunt and uncle who live down here. Outside of online...

Travel's too expensive to be going somewhere without a purpose, personally. Add to that the fact that I can rarely take more than a few days off work at a time and there you have it. If I go somewhere within the year that's further away than about a hundred miles (my usual work radius), it's...

I travel to see family, or for work, but I see no point at all in traveling somewhere just to do it. I'd much rather get my money's worth from my rent payment. I'm glad Merc's come around to enjoy it, but I live in a tourist destination -- it holds absolutely no charm whatsoever for me. I've...