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Storage is the one item that, aside from a couple exceptions now and again for low-capacity memory cards for specialty devices, I refuse to buy used or open box or really any condition other than brand new. I'll take bulk packaging, but they do need to be new for me to be interested.

I can't complain, really, the bills are paid, food's on the table and gas is in the tank. Where I come from that means you're doing well enough. My objection is that I pay far too much for the space I have to want to boil myself through the summers. My AC unit is older than I am by a good few...

My trinitron TV is dying and I don't have the energy or motivation to fix it or pass it on. I guess I'm going to be taking it to recycling. This kind of segues into what I'm planning for my stagnant console collection -- without the proper display, I can't say that I have much of a use for them...

Gotta say, I miss when modding my android stuff was fun rather than irritating and time-consuming for no good reason. Maybe it's just that I have less of it these days. I'm a lot less inclined to use custom ROMs or root or do much of anything these days partly because I'm growing more and more...

Merc, I've had lots of success getting stuff that's complaining about updates set to rights just by killing wuauserv and deleting the entirety of the DataStore and Download folders under C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution and then trying the update again. Have you had a case in recent memory where...

That has a potential to be a very potent combo and a hell of a Qualcomm exclusivity/monopoly breaker. In fact, with that, I'd be concerned about the opposite -- this MediaTek/nVidia partnership becoming the default Windows/ARM configuration. Especially since IIRC it still remains to be seen how...

They do in fact tend to do that when they can -- the practice I believe is called fat binaries. However, Rosetta also directly translated PowerPC applications to run on Intel hardware while they continued to support it for stuff that hadn't yet been ported -- it was handled a fair bit like the...

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.

If it works? Sure. I'm used to being my own support anyway. Now, would I implement this for a client? Hell no. You stick to by the books for liability reasons there.

Tell that 16GB limitation to ASRock because they claim their N100M supports up to 32GB. I suppose it's unofficial and the lack of dual channel deals me 3d6 psychic damage every turn but supposedly it works.

For what it's worth, my A770LE is great. If you play a lot of DX11/9 games it can still be a little iffy (but it has come a very very very long way from launch), and for compute if you're not buying nVidia you're just not getting the job done because you don't have CUDA, but for DX12 and...

Yeah, like I said, the US doesn't get cool stuff anymore, and that includes competent mid-rangers. You can get an A5x on a carrier, I'm sure, but if you want to buy unlocked, it's pretty much only high end stuff available. There's an argument to be made that an older flagship is a better buy...

It's not something you have to continually apply, Lunar, it's a checkbox you tick and let it run initial setup and then it's protected thereafter transparently to the user. And like I said you'd be shocked what ends up in your temp files. Lots of settings and software installers unpack there, to...

Yeah, no, I've dealt with the default behavior of Bitlocker. It's not encrypting thumb drives that's for sure. And normal users definitely aren't pulling their OS drive and trying it in another computer. That said, you'd be surprised what your C: partition contains just in your temp folders...

Meanwhile, my 5700X looking at the calendar and shrugging. I'll get whatever's reasonably powerful and on sale in 3 or so years.

Thanks for the tip on removing it there -- I used to remove it, but gave up when it showed back up after every feature update back in the Win10 days.

Use Rufus to make fresh install media that's set up to give you a local account instead, if you're not already too entrenched. It makes sure you only have the crapware Microsoft themselves approved of, and makes for a much more manageable base system than the factory image. If you are already...

Anybody still stuck on MS SQL in the year of our lord 2024 deserves pity, IMO. I won't argue that Visual Studio is better and Win10 supports some things out of the box that are a pain in the ass on 7 at best, but that's more a case of things just not being common/available when 7 came out vs...

I had a feeling the non-^2 sizing was a way to maximize yields. As long as they perform about the same, I'm not fussed.

That tracks with MS's general philosophy of our way or the highway. It's probably a project for the weekend.

Even the Intel N100 is a hell of a platform for low power appliances like NAS, routers, etc. 4 Alder E-cores in a 6W package? They perform roughly the same IPC-wise as Haswell, reportedly. I have one in a little router box I'm running pfSense on now -- the dual-LAN Shuttle mini PC with the...

I'll probably end up biting my tongue and just setting up an identical copy of Samba on the original NAS VM since NFS is being such a stinker for me. It's also just generally pretty terrible latency wise -- it really loves locking up my file explorer windows in ways my SMB shares never did. Part...

The way I have my server set up is that my SMB implementation is a separate VM accessing the shares on the original server through NFS**, so doing that adds considerable overhead and roughly halves network performance. That isn't an issue for a 1Gbps connection, but for 2.5, 5, or 10, it...

For context, primarily outside the US (PC was king even back then here, though the Commodore 64 and Apple ][ were also doing very well), during the mid-to-late-80s there was a bit of a platform holy war between users of the Atari ST and the Commodore Amiga. Humorously, by that point, Jack...

It's set to run at system startup under the SYSTEM user context. It isn't that it never mounts, it eventually does, but a thing I have set to run at startup is depending on some data living there and yells at me and makes me manually open the file if it isn't available when it starts. I could...

It's my professional and personal opinion that every platform has some critical flaw or another, and that you should use what works for you.

This is frankly rather bizarre. I've installed 11 to a separate drive in my main to see if the Arc drivers are any better on it, so I'm using my X540 10GbE LAN card. It may be worth noting that I had to forcibly install drivers meant for Windows 10 for it as the setup program Intel provides...

I'll defer to your experience on the images issue. I don't send them often enough to know, and when I do, they're usually either screenshots or not actually photos taken by my camera. I wouldn't know. The messaging thing is quite annoying I'll grant, but I think you overblow the color palette...

I can switch pretty seamlessly between either-or at this point, the iPhone is just what happened to be on promotion this time and it's more convenient for actually getting messages through to my folks. Most of my people don't have the qualifications to download Facebook messenger, much less...

Sidegraded to a Z Fold 4 for work. It's neat. The bigger screen would be useful for ultra-mobile remote desktop work, you know, if our RMM had that for an integration. I'll want to figure something out for that someday -- it would be very useful if I could just launch into a remote session to...

I can see locked channels and SNRs in my modem's interface but I have no clue what normal values are for that. The uncorrectable codewords field seems remarkably high on some channels, but seeing how I more or less manage what I'm rated for coming down (about 910 of the 1000Mbps offered) that's...

Cox had a promotional offer for me that was actually pretty good -- I paid around 50 bucks per month for 250/10 (I was getting 300/12 with my own equipment). For 25 bucks more I got an upgrade to 1000/100 with free unlimited data -- i.e. basically what every other cable co provides, so they're...

I have a variant of that switch -- seems there's one main design floating around and myriad chinese companies are using it. Mine is, for what it's worth, a Davuaz -- I paid 48 dollars shipped for mine a few weeks ago. I don't know about hitting the full 10Gb from the uplink SFP ports, but I'm...

5G is, mostly, at current, a marketing move. 5G UC or UW is what you want to see, yes -- that means it's using one of the higher bandwidth frequencies, usually one of the mmWave bands. "Regular" 5G, what you'll see most of the time, just means it's LTE under a different name, I believe, or the...

May she rest in peace. My sincerest condolences.

I don't care about running anything newer -- frankly, Monterey is already quite sluggish on a Broadwell-U chip with only 8GB RAM.