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So I upgraded my TV in the past month, got a UHD BD player, and then a new receiver so I can setup Atmos in my great room (I haven't gotten the overhead speakers installed yet). The whole "4K" thing for the sake of extra resolution I think is largely a big bag of "meh" even with an extra 11" of...

Thanks for taking care of us and our little home on the interwebz.

Don't buy QLC drives and manufacturers will get the message (hopefully). Regular consumers will figure it out when they spend money on one and find they're slow and they'll get a bad reputation in short order.

So, I identified the correct code project on GitHut for the board I have and I fixed #1, #2, and have #3 partially fixed. #3 now happens on 60 second intervals instead of 65 second intervals. I haven't attempted to make it happen at a certain number of seconds yet.

I finally got the nixie tubes yesterday. I had to pick them up from the post office since they needed a signature and I wasn't home when they tried to deliver. Air Mail shipping from the Ukraine is certainly not fast. I have it working with the stock Arduino firmware that came preflashed on...

:idea: Enter the correct password.

:rofl: Texts are one thing GV does horribly if you're trying to forward them to a cell phone number. The text don't appear to come from the actual sender number on the phone.

Merry Christmas!

Uh, the whole thing was a hoax/mistake/mass hysteria/group delusion. There were no drones.

What about the movies?

So you don't have a password to login? You just click on LunarMist as the username and roll?

Yes it activated as Windows 10 Pro automatically by the BIOS, but I don't see the connection you're trying to make. After Windows 10 asks you for your name and your password (setting up the PC) it makes you pick 3 security questions and give answers for use in resetting your password if you...

Take a wild guess how we might have gotten here... :idea:

I clean installed the 1809 build of Windows 10 on my Dell XPS 13 tonight. I see Microsoft has gone full on stupid and now forces you to answer 3 easily socially engineered questions in case you forget your password. Random gibberish answers eliminated that gaping security hole.

I got it installed in the XPS13 tonight and Windows 10 (build 1809) clean installed.

Which apparently meant the following Wed. What's the better part of a week between friends? :frusty:

Link us to your YouTube channel and we'll see how you do it.

Kids these days...

Thanks for informing us of your odor problems. :salut:

I had a great laugh over this:

As long as they keep making them, I'll keep buying them. Once they stop making them, I stop buying music unless someone wants to sell me lossless audio files at a reasonable price. And, I currently think the lossy versions of albums are vastly overpriced, so I won't be holding my breath for $5...

Better? Probably not. It has more bang for the buck and is good enough for nearly all non-enterprise workloads.

FWIW, you can now get an extra 10% off with the coupon code PICKUPSALE

No idea. I didn't have a viewfinder on my S90 or the RX-100 Mk2 and haven't had any issues or considered it to be a problem.

It's getting closer... https://www.canonrumors.com/is-this-the-canon-powershot-g7-x-mark-iii/

Probably not, but that's not what I'm doing.

And you just happened to know about this one? :pirate:

So then why has it been a blur? :shaking:

I pointed that out too. You can lead the horse to water...

Are you sure that's not something you've been drinking or smoking? :rofl:

A poster there was repeatedly trying to hump my leg over a post I made where I stated the TBW ratings on these consumer SSDs meant nothing, were strictly marketing numbers, and that the drives would still be working if they were exceeded. He got all wrapped around the axle because I stated they...

When I bought mine it was slightly more (after a 10% off eBay coupon). And now I have to pay sales tax from Newegg. :( Here's the exact quote from Anandtech's 2018 Holiday SSD guide:

Anandtech recommends that HP as the high performance NVME SSD to buy. They say no one is going to be able to tell the difference between it and the more expensive NVME drives that benchmark a tad better. It's reasonably power efficient and has very low idle power draw with the power management...

Decades? Perhaps you should calibrate your sense of time. 5 years is not decades.

If you'd been paying attention years ago, you'd know his real name.

Nice, I have a 1TB HP EX920 (NVME) on order for my Dell XPS 13 laptop. It was $167.99 after tax. I'm supposed to have it by Friday.

No, they are not further into the UV spectrum. They reduced the size of the pits slightly to get 33GB per layer instead of 25GB. I'm not sure why this seems to have such a dramatic effect on readability. I've only watched 3 UHD BD's so far and sampled parts of a 4th. I can't exactly say how...

The 1TB Samsung 860 EVO finally arrived today after being on backorder for a few weeks. Here's how it tests out in the ~$15 Wavlink enclosure.

So apparently UHD Blu-rays are extremely sensitive about having a perfectly clean disc. I opened a brand new movie last night from the shrinkwrap, put it in the player, and started watching it. At about 2 hours into the movie playback froze. Upon ejecting the disc and examining it closely...

Potentially something to replace my RX-100 MkII. I don't see Canon trying to double the price of the II with the III to equal the RX-100 MkVI

This surprises you? Pretty much every review shows that somewhere when they use Bapco Sysmark or something similar to show real world app performance. Everyone focuses on the synthetic benchmarks or totally inaccurate workloads though.

Yeah, about 1200 of them.

I'm more interested to see if the Powershot G7x Mk III will be introduced at CES like rumored.

Is there a difference? :rofl:

As long as they don't cancel Christmas I'm good.

What are you talking about? I replaced the CAT6 between my cable model and my router with one of these CAT8 cables and the CAT6 cable between my PC and the router and my internet ping dropped, I now get 25% more bandwidth in speed tests, and my gray hair has been fading.

I think (hope?) that they're being made tongue-in-cheek.

Running Linux on a Chromebook is old news, but I don't think that's what you actually meant judging from the topic.

Doesn't Samsung use a special Displayport over USB-C to HDMI mode?

Looks like it's time to get yourself a Titan RTX...