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The matter should be getting a lot of attention if for no other reason than the fact Google led the way towards monetizing search engines. It annoys me no end how Amazon and eBay sellers can pay to be ranked higher in the search results. A search should return results based on relevancy, not who...

You're forgetting one thing. Strobes are omnidirectional. A lot of their light is wasted. LEDs can be focused fairly efficiently. Overall that probably means LED is 5 times as efficient or more in terms of the amount of light delivered to the target. Also, the limiting factor of LEDs for strobe...

Didn't happen with my mother. I kept where she was at 70 in the winter and she never complained about being cold. In the summers if I turned the A/C past about 80 she complained about being hot. This was while she was wearing shorts. If I'm just sitting or lying down, high 70s is tolerable to...

It depends upon your needs. I'd be hard pressed to imagine what I'd need 132TB for. For saving the kind of stuff I do even a few TB is plenty. To put things into perspective the first drive I bought was 8.4GB and it cost $100. That seemed like oodles of storage at the time but I still would have...

Nowadays storage is so cheap and vast it's easier to just keep everything, instead of expending time trying to see what you might not need. To use analogies, back when I first got into computers in the early 1990s storage was like a small apartment. You had to be selective about what to keep...

Exactly why I never have AV software. Every single one I've tried slows the machine to a crawl, especially when doing file intensive operations. It's like the software has to scan every single file in use multiple times. Sometimes I honestly think software bloat is intentional in order to get...

To me the big banks are all the same. From what I've heard Citibank is probably the worst but it's a close contest.

It's mostly commodity drives which you likely wouldn't be interested in buying. I saw prices as low as $35/TB last year before prices started going up. For example, these are all going for $45/TB: https://www.newegg.com/team-group-2tb-ms30-sata/p/N82E16820331840?Item=N82E16820331840...

We might be looking at $20 to $25 per TB if prices normalize to their long-term trend. That puts 128TB at around $2,500 to $3,200 if we're talking commodity stuff. Enterprise would probably be at least twice that. Among the things being looked at to lower price per TB are up to 1,000 layers...

Granted but my point is I wonder how well compilers work at outputting a bare minimum number of commands to accomplish a given task. To me it seems all they do is translate whatever the programmer wrote in high-level language into machine language. It the programmer wrote a convoluted way to...

My guess as a layperson is that MS keeps reusing code which probably dates from the XP days, if not earlier, for large parts of its OS. They just changed the outward appearance of the OS, added some features, but didn't always update their compilers to take advantage of the latest architectures...

Probably costs as much as a new car.

Thanks for the review, not that I'm currently in the market for an upgrade. Just good to know what's out there.

I'd think of it as compensation for all the years of inconvenience they put you through. Also, this is like when someone puts up hacks to get around M$'s extortion schemes. Can't feel sorry for a multibillion dollar company who has screwed over their paying customers for decades, along with...

It depends. If it was in a wallet with someone's name, no. I'd call them and have them pick it up. If it was just bills floating around, probably, but I'd keep an eye out for any news of someone losing a large amount of cash. If I heard anything, again, I'd return it. Last thing I'd want to do...

I'd just keep it. If they can't ship the correct product it's on them. Also, another thought here is maybe what you ordered wasn't in stock, might not be in stock for quite some time, so they made a substitution of an equal or better product. In this case MUCH better. Just enjoy it without...

Sorry to hear about this, especially the loss of smell and taste. I hope it's not long term. Sounds like you're an independent contractor, which means nobody to pick up the slack. Just an awful situation to be in. Getting rest is probably the best thing to do to let your immune system handle it.

Yes. Class of 1985, same as Michelle Obama actually (who went by Michelle Robinson at the time). No, I never met her. MIT was actually my first choice. I even applied early admission. I got wait-listed and ultimately rejected. At that point it was a choice of Princeton or Yale. Princeton was...

That's true for many people. That's why they don't travel until they retire. I honestly didn't have enough money to travel until a few years ago. Before then, being self-employed I really couldn't be away for long enough to travel even if I did have the money. Of course, from about 2011 until...

I'm sort of like that myself but I think having a person to do stuff with would get me out of the house more. I'm not one for "tourist" type stuff, either, but there is a lot of the world to see outside of typical tourist traps.

That's what happened to both my mother and sister. In my mother's case a lot of the nerves were dead by the time she got treatment. I've had this since my late 20s at least but I never had medical insurance. I never even had a proper diagnosis, never mind treatment. I'm 3 years and less than 4...

It gets worse from there. I can't feel my hands at all after I'm riding for about 15-20 minutes. My feet go numb also, which means the CTS spread there. Hopefully you'll respond to treatment better than my mother and sister did. For both, it helped for a while but then it came back. Really, I've...

Just wondering if you had similar outcomes with their SSDs, assuming you even tried them.

I would hope their SSDs are no worse than any other brand. Whatever issues Merc had with WD HDDs, it's (hopefully) safe to say their SSDs aren't affected given that they're a completely different technology.

My only goal in 2024 is to ride at least 2,500 miles. I managed to reach that last year also. I'll always remember the days people or pets important to me passed. Tiger for example died on October 1, 2002. I remember that every year. You don't get over deaths so much as you just learn to live...

I don't have any goals for 2024. I'm still deeply depressed over my mother passing. I also can't make any plans until the house is in my name only. That depends upon my siblings. I've tried "change" in the past and nothing ever happens. Unfortunately, you can't control how other people will...

It's actually faster to get to Penn Station than LGA. LGA can only be reached by multiple buses from me. Penn station is maybe 35-40 minutes away. Putting aside that I don't fly, airports are always on the outskirts, which presents a problem for me on the destination end. In many cases the only...

He had nobody to travel with back then. I totally get that. I've been in the same boat most of my life. I know I wouldn't enjoy myself traveling alone, so I don't much see the point, other than traveling locally in NYC. Also, in my particular case I refuse to fly. Period. So it's Amtrak for me...

I'm puzzled here. They claim you can infect a system by installing a CPU. I was under the impression CPUs have no non-volatile memory, so how can a virus be installed in one?

It's not the electrical savings so much as the ability to use a slower fan speed to lower noise levels. Or better yet, if you can passively cool it.

At this stage, AI driving is actually better than the average driver. There are already AI trucks on highways. The hardest nut to crack is urban driving. We can automate trucks to do the highway part of the trip, but then you need human drivers to take over the last few miles. Once we're 100%...

I'll be happy if AI only gets good enough to drive vehicles. Anything to get lousy human drivers off the roads. It'll also be a boon for people who don't drive. That includes those with disabilities and children. Parents won't have to drive their kids everywhere in the suburbs. They can just...

As far as I know I never got it, but I've never been tested, either. If I did have it I was asymptomatic. I was really sick in October 2019. For the first week I couldn't stand up more than about 30 seconds. It was taking an hour to get my mother out of bed. Once I felt well enough to walk a...

I'm sure it falls into the category of "If you have to ask then you can't afford it." Can't think of a single thing I'd need 14 GB/s speeds for. Even the regular SATA max of ~500 MB/s is plenty for most of what I do, except maybe the rare times I copy a movie or a drive image. That said, with...

I didn't watch it but I heard a few sound bites. Also read a little about it, like this article: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-real-trump-is-back-it-could-cost-him-the-white-house/ar-BB1r2nnI?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=59202f5d912447a2a248f13c707d04d3&ei=9#image=2 This has to be one of...

And I'm getting conflicting reports on it. Some say they have successfully installed 4TB. My Zenbook 14x is actually the newest model so I might be OK in that regard. If/when I do this I'll just make sure I can return the drive if it doesn't work.

Apparently it has PCIe 4.0: My bad. I could swear I looked at another site and it had mSATA. Such is my state of mind these days. If/when I upgrade the SSD, I'll wait until 4GB drives drop in price to under $100. Right now the lowest I'm seeing for any brands I'd trust is ~$300. Way more...

Honestly, this is way more work (i.e. probably hundreds of hours) and money that I'm interested in right now, plus I'm not really seeing what I gain by it when my desktop is still more than adequate for all the things I currently use it for. I'll put any future programs I use on the laptop which...

Doing that would be a shit ton of work I'm not in any mood to do. Still fighting major depression over losing my mother. I have so many programs I use that I'm not sure would even work on Windows 11, plus I have three printers, a scanner, and two monitors. The laptop doesn't have enough ports...

I'm using 7 on the desktop. I can even boot into XP using another drive but I haven't needed to for a long time. My brother still has XP on his desktop, although he says a lot of sites don't work properly any more. I knew someone who was on Windows 3.1 at least until before the pandemic. Haven't...

Yeah, my brother is a rabid Trump supporter who drank the Kool-Aid. He's accusing the left of doing everything the right is doing, along with calling CNN fake news. At least I can still talk politics with him without getting into an argument. He'll honestly admit some of Trump's more glaring...

Last week Chase in all its infinite stupidity decided to no longer support versions of browsers which are compatible with Windows 7. Specifically, they now require: Apple Safari 16.3 and higher Google Chrome 116 and higher Microsoft Edge 119 and higher Mozilla Firefox 115 and higher None of...

Have you ever considered having a big external battery? Being that I have a few UPSes where the battery went south, I'm thinking of this. Don't want to get another SLA battery which will crap out in a few years. Instead, my thoughts are to use some of the ~500 surplus A123 26650s I have. Make a...

Being that it was in the Cafe instead of the Computer section, that was the first thought to come to mind. Didn't someone on SR start a "How big is it?" thread? Kind of silly and juvenile I guess, but boys will be boys. The thread disappeared of course when they had the database meltdown.

Probably. My record was the ~10 years I got out of my XP3200 system. I'm 6 years into my current system. So far it easily meets my needs, so no upgrade fever. Given that I recently bought a laptop, I can use that for things my current system can't handle. So I might be keeping my current desktop...

They won't stop until the bar reaches the 9th level of hell. Even then, they'll push it lower if it's at all possible. I just can't figure out how ~1/3 of the electorate supports these clowns to the point they'll follow them off a cliff. Amazing how you can get people to vote against their own...

I had to look at early pictures of him to see the teeth. He apparently had it fixed. My teeth aren't perfectly aligned, but they're not even close to that bad. I put scientology almost in the same camp as MAGA. Did Tom Cruise try to push the scientology stuff on your partner's dad, or is that...

Hey, I'm only an inch taller than Cruise.

Don't have any preference. I think I usually use whatever fan came with the processor. I'm not even sure what my present CPU is using. I slapped it together over 6 years ago. All I know is outside of when I'm playing with train simulators the system is so quiet I need to put my ear to the case...

Actually the link was for Impossible Mission Force, the fictional organization Tom Cruise's character works for in the Mission: Impossible movies. As for your used PC being used for crimes, wouldn't law enforcement IP trace it to wherever it's being used? That's like selling a car and worrying...