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I considered the OnePlus 6, but a) availability here is currently non-existent and b) I noticed at least one reviewer backtracking on their initial enthusiasm after spending a few days with it. The camera doesn't seem to be up to snuff, despite initial enthusiasm. The phone may be powerful, but...

Can we expect Stereodude-like dedication in a 7-day battery runtime test? ;) Actually, some feedback on battery life would be really useful - I couldn't find out anything about that phone.

Locally, S7 is about US$545 and S8 about US$680. With the age of the S7, I would be concerned about the condition of the Li-ion battery. Also, we would need S7 Edge or S8+ to support our longsighted vision (as Tannin pointed out). Thanks for the warning about LG longevity - that is my major...

Samsung white paper on power loss in SSDs It looks to me like consumer SSDs still have journaling, so only the data in the RAM cache is lost - the SSD does not get scrambled. I would hope that the OS could cope with that without scrambling the file system. So I'm thinking that full power loss...

I have relied fairly heavily on review sites such as GSMArena, as well as PhoneArena etc. The low-light photo samples ruled out most of the Chinese products that were not expensive flagship models. One thing I can't help but notice is just how amazingly good Samsung has become with photography...

Although inspired by Tannin's efforts to find a high-endurance phone with a large screen for US$250, I think I need something a little more upmarket. My wife and I currently have Samsung Note 4 phones. There are 3 main problems, compared to how they were when new: 1. Responsiveness is often...

Is it by chance an OLED display?

In theory, SSDs could be scrambled in the event of a power failure while data is being written. Enterprise drives have "power loss protection", typically a capacitor to sustain power until everything critical is written out. Has anyone experienced the consequences of not having this feature...

I think a couple of people here have spent some time in China, so I'm hoping for some insight. In most situations, The Great Firewall of China now blocks email hosted by Google (eg Gmail). We still have some service with a roaming phone, but imap.googlemail.com etc are no longer functional. Of...

Sorry, the first part of my response was directed at others. Only the second part was relevant to your comments. It is interesting that you think that it is OK for the government to conduct social engineering to help people buy homes, but not for other purposes. I thought you were more of the...

I really don't know what you're on about. High wealth individuals are not foolish enough to declare all their income as individuals. There are myriad other ways to funnel wealth accumulation. That just leaves you along with the rest of the populace who can't restructure their financial affairs...

Fastmail provides several domains for users who do not have their own domain. None of these have the words FastMail in them. It is only relatively recently that Fastmail.com was made available for such users - previously, there was only Fastmail.fm, and that was the portal for all accounts. It...

Complete bullshit, I'm afraid. Check out: https://blog.fastmail.com/2015/12/17/the-endless-battle-against-spam/ for an insight into the efforts to stop spam afflicting Fastmail users.

Ouch! Late night typo that my failing eyesight missed. I meant "Why don't CARS rust?".

I'm not a data entry operator. Why would I need a dedicated numeric keypad? If I do feel the need to enter a bunch of numbers in an optimal fashion, I can pick up a standalone Lenovo numeric keypad for AU$30 (probably US$20). That way, I can still have my mouse close in - where it should be -...

For the last few days, I have been the proud owner of a Logitech G Pro (TenKeyLess). No regrets. Highly recommended.

I learned quite a lot from this video: Why don't don't cards rust as badly as they used to? I wish more YouTube videos were this informative.

Mutinying is something I consider doing almost every day, but so far, I keep turning up for the floggings. I've managed to make some practical observations, and I see it is hard to predict how noisy a keyboard will be by just looking at which switches it uses. In particular, some keyboards...

Hi Bozo Short answer is YES and NONE, for most desktops. Although Timwhit's point that browsers use multiple threads is technically true (and the OS can run multiple processes across different cores), it doesn't lead to better performance once you have enough cores to avoid saturation of a...

I seem to have hit the wall in trying to find a replacement keyboard for myself. I want another backlit keyboard. At night, we usually use that particular computer without additional lighting in the same room. Tired eyes and all that. Unfortunately, almost all backlit keyboards are...

We saw some of his semifinal against Marin Čilić. Didn't see the final, but no question he deserved his twentieth. Can't think of any other male who has dominated such an athletic sport for so long. Very nearly the oldest Grand Slam winner of all time, only pipped by Ken Rosewall back in 1972...

That's a great find, except it's obsolete. Asus is not qualifying ECC memory on any of their new models, as far as I could see. :(

I'm not keen on 1U where it's not necessary. Tiny fans are very noisy and theoretically have a shorter life. You are also talking an exotic power supply and no expansion without a riser. I don't have anything much against 2U except the need for low-profile cards. I guess you could use a rack...

Yep. Not sure why you would bother with a Celeron or Pentium, though. There is a thread on Intel's forums where someone is trying to get an i3 to work on an Asus workstation motherboard with ECC. They did not succeed, apparently due to Asus not really trying that hard to support this...

I recently got stopped at airport security because they x-rayed my wallet and found a 'credit card' multi-tool. It had been there for years and I had forgotten all about it. Ridiculous, but I let them take it so I could make the flight.

Now you're being fatuous. Knives are illegal to carry here if they use gravity or a spring to facilitate one-handed opening. They are also illegal if there is intent to use them as a weapon, eg carrying a kitchen knife in public without good reason is likely to get you arrested.

I'm looking for a couple of budget servers, intended for smallish databases and files. First up, I can't see any wonderful bargains from Dell, HP or Lenovo, and local support is critical. So unless someone can suggest something, they will have to be built from off-the-shelf parts. Preferably...

I'm looking at speccing a couple of budget workgroup servers. The only thing I really need (or think I need) is ECC memory. The cheapest possible way to achieve that with Intel is a Xeon E3-1225 (3.3GHz with graphics) and a C236 chipset 'workstation' motherboard. Just 4 lousy cores with no...

I've now read a ton of test results about Coffee Lake (and Ryzen, of course). It seems to me that the IPC improvement over Kaby Lake is minimal - 5% at best. The rest of the performance lift is down to higher clocks (note the higher turbo clocks, particularly with all cores active) and a couple...

And to you, Bozo. Pretty quiet where I am. Someone let off a couple of fireworks (illegal here), but that was about it.

Unfortunately, I've had problems with Chrome as well. The last straw was when I realized that it was stopping us using online banking (even with plugins disabled). I've been desperate enough to try Vivaldi - which also has a couple of problems, but so far it's giving me less grief than Chrome.

Hard to disagree. The whole Mozilla saga has done more to destroy the credibility of open source software than anything else that I can think of.

+1.

So you're an actual ghostwriter? It often seems as if you are not really there.

AMD had announced the AM4 platform by May 2015. Intel released their 100 series chipsets in 3rd quarter 2015. AMD released their 300 series chipsets in September 2016. Intel released their 200 series chipsets in January 2017. It seems likely that AMD might have used 100 as the numbering to...

Awesome! Lunar, you are nuts.

This is 'conventional wisdom', but like a lot of thermal building advice, I suspect it may be crap. Castles, which have massive thermal inertia in their stone or concrete walls, have notoriously cold interiors that are very difficult to heat. On the other hand, cave homes at Coober Pedy stay...

Carpet with decent underlay is a tried and true insulator for concrete slabs. You could probably also get some benefit from 'floating flooring', which is timber veneer over a foam underlay. But tiles are absolutely out in your climate unless you enjoy frozen feet.

Your Summer temperatures are pretty much Winter temperatures in Oz (in the cooler, temperate parts). I live in a sub-tropical area, and at 9pm on a Winter's night, it's 11C. Right now I have bare knees and the house is not being heated (probably about 20C). Interestingly, it doesn't seem to...

No, a fridge. At least 80 people died, just 4 weeks ago.

EIFS? You mean like the Grenfell Tower?

Surely that's pronounced "pissy"?

That lasted 9 years ... Having said that, my G31 experiences weren't any better. A PSU is not a battery, it has lots of ripple and other artifacts. Given the effects of changing the PSU, I would assume that the main problem lies in the motherboard VRM; after 9 years, even solid caps could be...

IMO, an i7 is not suited to the NUC format if you're actually going to load the CPU rather than just type memos. The teeny tiny fan just isn't up to it and certainly isn't user-friendly. A colleague had the misfortune of being issued with a Dell version. Every time he launched Visual Studio, it...

For a second there I thought you were talking about your hip.

... before the discount coupon expires. ... before the divorce settlement is due. ... before I leave my job. ... before I leave the country. ... before I leave Earth's gravitational field for a 6-month stint on the space station. ... before my bankruptcy hearing. ... before the arrest warrant is...

:)

We ended up backing up the huge files I don't really care about to a couple of external drives, then deleting them from the original drive. That reduced the data size from 900GB to 200GB, and hopefully took potentially troublesome blocks out of the equation. Rather than use clone software that...

I might have to get a new colleague ...

We have a drive that is dying but still works. Already seen a no-drive-found error or similar after having to reboot the PC. Unfortunately, it's a single disk setup and I really would prefer to salvage the Windows 7 installation with its installed apps in particular. Much of the drive is taken...