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Health care is extremely frustrating on pretty much every level and you're right that there's pretty much nothing you can do, but sometimes the act of being there is powerful on its own. Maybe it's a good day to sit down and write your dad a letter? You don't have to say all the things you're...

Does anyone know where to get those little rubber or nylon clips some OEMs are putting in systems for M.2 retention?

I am a heavy reader and here are my thoughts: Larger than 10" tablets are too fucking big. They're heavy and it's difficult to read comfortably on one and still do things like flip pages. I did find a use for a (12") Tab S9+ as an extra screen for tabletop gaming but I swapped my partner back my...

Basically my closest friends all live in Florida now. A lot of socialization happened over voice chats in games, but not games I play (I'm not one for Marvel Rivals, for example) but now that my partner is gone I don't expect to be included in that. We have a tabletop game night too, but since...

FireOS kind of sucks given Amazon's app ecosystem. A lot of things just aren't available from the Amazon app store. Fire tablets have very nice screens but the rest of the hardware is regrettable. You should be able to find a much more capable Lenovo M-series tablet in that price range and you...

I've seen mini PC systems get stuck at their lowest Speedstep state as a misbegotten firmware default. Turning off some of the C state options has helped me deal with that.

Apparently tomorrow is the big day. This place is going to be so empty.

I'm 99% sure Haswell is good for XP support. Haswell E, not so much, but anything that does DDR3 is a decent marker for the cutoff. Unused H81 motherboards aren't THAT hard to find, but it's probably easier to find an old fleet desktop than put something together from parts.

Can you direct connect the two NICs without involving the switch? It seems like your switch is ruled out of involvement but it's worth a try. What if you switch the two cards to IB mode instead of ETH? Are you writing to equivalent storage on both sides? 4Gbit sounds weirdly close to SATA SSD...

Vintage is extremely subjective but I've been talking people through retro-gaming setups with either Lenovo Thinkcentre 720q Tiny PCs (i3/i5 7th gen Intel) for around $125 or Beelink Ser5 Ryzen 5800u CPUs that cost around $250. Put Batocera Linux on them, which is basically a front end to...

Inconsistent Power State usually means that a device that the system should be running normally isn't doing that. For these purposes, "device" might mean a software device, possibly even Norton AV, if any part of it is still installed. But it could also be a buggy graphics/audio/NIC driver or...

That is expected behavior. The tool exists to support a borked Norton install because the full set of manual removal instructions is multiple printed pages long.

Fun true story: The same company, Gen Digital, owns Norton, AVG, Avira and Avast. It also owns Piriform, which makes Ccleaner. They're all now equally worthless. Anyway, there's an official Norton Removal Tool that should be used instead of manually deleting registry entries. Failing that...

It sounds like you did a Windows Reset. If the default installation image on your PC had Norton-whatever in it, you'll get it back when you do a reset as well.

Apple keyboards and haven't since approximately the introduction of OS X. They keys feel small and shallow to me and I often wind up with a lot more typos on them. If I know I have to type on an Apple keyboard, I'll bring something different along just to avoid using the Apple version. The...

Oh man it is so hard to explain Andor without going into spoilers. OK. Rogue One is about the successful mission to recover the plans for the Death Star prior to A New Hope. Rogue One has some pacing problems, but it has a Dirty Dozen style cast of memorable characters, particularly Cassian...

I'm feeling that as well. My household is getting ready to switch to single-income and I am not looking forward to it.

Speak for yourself. 😛 I live literally across the street from a national park. May is peak "hey, we can go take pictures on the beach while nobody else is out there to complain about what anyone may or may not be wearing"-time. I'm curious what makes you draw that distinction. Touchpads have...

From what I remember, I made the switch in about 1992. I spent about two hours getting comfortable with a trackball and it's been my primary pointing device ever since. My original reason was that my first "computer desk" was salvaged from a high school classroom, so it just had the tiny little...

AliExpress deliveries either come USPS or else some random Asian dude just pulls up in a car with my stuff. I've never, ever, ever had a shipping problem with AliExpress. I get an Amazon package stolen five or six times a year, albeit not always from my place. Most recently, a box full of...

I'm overwhelmingly a trackball user rather than a mouse person, going all the way back to the Microsoft Ballpoint in the early 90s. My wrists don't bother me at all and I spend actually obscene amounts of time on a computer. I buy a new trackball about every five years and just ordered another...

It's doing OK with opnsense right now, which is the only thing I really wanted it to do. I thought about trying to set it up for Plex but it turns out that the FreeBSD version of Plex lags features vs other versions and I didn't want to mess with virtualizing things and then dealing with iGPU...

I'm pretty sure that even the T6x notebooks still had socketed CPUs and I kinda-sorta remember being able to boot USB drives on a T22 or 23, IBM engineered the SHIT out of those Thinkpads. At varying points in time, Thinkpads have had some oddball configuration issues. One of my favorites was...

I've been able to find volunteer led efforts to get drivers for "unsupported" GPUs years after official support ended. This is most often an annoyance for old notebooks where support vanishes at the drop of a hat about 40 seconds after the last system using that hardware goes out of warranty...

rClone talks to Cloud Storage and virtualizes it for local use. That doesn't sound THAT interesting, but I am telling you that it is, because it allows for multiple account access on the same system, especially if you want more than one Google, Mega or OneDrive on your PC. This is a tool I've...

They're 8GB and don't trace any rays, but RX 5700XTs are unicorn hardware right now because they can be found secondhand for under $100 and are fantastic for 1080p gaming. I bought a couple so I never have to spend $250 on a 3050 again and honestly they're kind of perfectly positioned to tide...

I decided to pick up one of these guys. It's not exactly the same as the Zimaboard I linked, above, but dual m.2s, 10Gb USBs and 2.5GbE ports and updated graphics cores mean it's a lot more flexible than the J1900-based, dual GbE mini PC I've been using for a router for the last several years...

That looks right to me.

My partner repurchased the Oblivion Remaster on Steam and PS5 last night. She has it through Xbox Game Pass as well. She then spent all evening complaining that she couldn't play it because she was downloading it on all three platforms. The game is $60/platform and there's no doubt in my mind...

The new season of Andor seems awfully pointed in our current political climate. Can't imagine why.

Hideous but undoubtedly a sweet PC. My systems never look good enough for pictures either.

Exactly what programs do you think the Windows 11 Installation program should uninstall? If you want to reinstall Windows 11 you can just reinstall Windows 11. As long as you're using the same or new build version than the one that shows up when you run winver.exe, you're doing an in-place...

As a person who is excited about lenses I will never own, Sony released a $3900 50 - 150/2 lens today. It's enormous, weighing in at 1.4kg and having a 95mm front element, but the focal range and fast aperture are lust-inducing. Knowing that such a lens is technically possible and affordable...

This little guy actually looks pretty tempting, except that it'll only have 8 or 16GB non-upgradeable RAM. 2x SATA ports, 2x2.5GbE and a PCIe x4 slot + contemporary Intel CPU/iGPU cores is a pretty sweet recipe for a such a little guy. The included OS looks like it's set up to run tons of Docker...

As I understand it, the big reasons they picked a South American pope were to shore up the rapidly declining base of South American Catholics plus finding someone with absolutely no connection to the internal sex abuse scandals that were present for more or less the entirety of Benedict's time...

Gen 4 and 5 m.2 drives probably do need at least some cooling but I don't know if it has to be a heat sink with pad. Most new motherboards have some kind of fancy, overdone cover for what's meant to be the fastest slot and it's not uncommon for me to want an fan on GPU and Infiniband HBA anyway...

What tool(s) are you using to clone?

Google was just found guilty of antitrust violations related to its control over ad tech and markets in the USA. The current administration has displayed open favoritism for Apple among big tech firms, but there's an open question of whether or not Google can buy its way out of serious...

mubs, you do not have to buy Windows 11.

Every AM5 other than the 7500F has at least enough iGPU to give video out, so no reason to involve an iffy discrete card if you don't want to.

PDFgear is free. I had a whole conversation with the developer on Imgur once upon a time and I'm a huge fan of it now.

I don't know. Asus has in my experience an amazing ability to fuck up motherboards with terrible firmware. Like not offering user control over thermal warnings and shutdowns or not being able to choose which SATA port to boot from for just no reason. I know they're well regarded, but I won't buy...

The more RAM you have and the higher it's clocked, the longer it takes. It EASILY took a half hour before 96GB of DDR5-6400 posted on my system. Also I wound up running my EXPO RAM at DDR5-6000 anyway because I was seeing a bluescreen every few weeks and clocking the RAM down seemed to fix it.

Mullet Madjack is complete insanity. Doom on crack. You just run down halls. You have 10 seconds to kill somebody. You can do melee kills or environmental kills or just shoot everything, but something has to die or else you do. And it's all set to 16-bit, Patrick Nagel neon graphics with a...

If you buy your phone direct through Samsung, you can pick up your phone at a retail partner and you'll have the option to buy Samsung Care directly along with the phone. IIRC it was like $120 for two years of coverage, which includes theft and loss protection. Repairs are USUALLY covered at...

Believe it or not, my renter's insurance policy includes the contents of my car up to a total value of $50k. I work with a lot of insurance agents and shopping for that was important to my choice of policy. A few years ago I was blamed (not actually at fault, but blamed) for police vehicle...

Yeah. I wind up hauling stuff around a lot of different places. My partner was roasting me over it until I suggested we go spelunking around her vanity next. I bet $100 I could find more expensive little tubes and jars on the floor than everything I found in my car. It's not entirely her fault...

Cleaned out my car today. There's a tendency in cold months for stuff to just get tossed in the back, and especially since I've been giving friends with kids rides all winter and car seats absolutely cause chaos in my life. The prizes for this year's spring cleaning included a shrinkwrapp...

I got to experience Samsung Care+ service for the first time yesterday. My phone slipped out of my hoodie while I was getting gas. It hit the corner of a concrete pedestal the pump was on at just the right angle to shatter the top-left corner of my phone's screen. Yes, my phone was in a bumper...

I'm 95% sure that there were in fact 802.11g USB adapters with 9x drivers. Is that a path you've followed or is there some reason you don't want to go that route? I'm thinking you might have better luck finding USB than something using a PC card slot.