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I was dealing with the same wicked instability on this R5-4500U laptop that I was last time I used it extensively and I can't remember how or even if I ever fixed it. I'd either BSOD with a DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE that points in the direction of ntoskrnl and eventually shakes down to...

Amazon has wholesale sets of so many Kailh BOX switches -- I think they're genuine, there's a link to visit the Kailh store on the listing -- I got a box of 110 BOX Navy switches to replace the Gateron Reds on my K4 Pro with as I'm tired of fat fingering every switch and no longer care about...

I think you might well be fine if you're okay with working for a company instead of freelancing -- I'd seen a fair bit of work in Tampa when I last went looking. But if you're dead set on staying where you're at, I understand it.

Probably passing my Elitebook on to my girlfriend when I see her in February -- she's still using a mid-2010s Chromebook for her computing needs, which, frankly, aren't a lot, so an 8550U running Windows 11 should suffice for a good while. I still have my Pavilion, so I'll probably go back to...

Color me impressed. I'm not about to buy another one considering how I got turned out on Alchemist, but maybe these driver improvements will migrate their way back.

As a break from the dreary political landscape, some more retro adventures for your perusal: Putting RAM in this P3B-F box has been an utter nightmare. It seemed fine through a 98SE install which in my experience has been pretty sensitive to bad configs in the past, but eventually I ended up...

As big of a pain as Apple devices can be, I love my 4th gen mono iPod. It's an excellent listening device for when I want to be unreachable by the world at large. It's just that it also takes some work to be usable in $currentYear. I had to replace the battery and install a 1.8" IDE to CF...

Pricing means nothing if they can't stick the landing on the drivers. They need to be perfect day one or they'll get written off again.

Here's the problem dd, this state's main demographic has been brainwashed into believing that climate change is a liberal hoax, drill baby drill, etc. All this while the storms get bigger, faster, meaner, and more numerous every year. How many "once a century" events have we had just in the last...

Half my job already is remote, I just have the ability to be on-site if I need to be as things are right now. If I end up taking a remote work position up there then fair enough. That's just less miles on my car. I'd probably wind up saving money even if I had to take a pay cut, much as I'm...

Yeah, no, most of the providers have left the state and the ones that are left basically want a whole other mortgage payment to insure you. I don't know what the state government is planning to do when all of them are gone and no one can finance property because you have to insure property...

Most likely, yeah, but I arguably don't even have space for what I have now, so I already need to downsize. Especially if at some point next year I'm going to consider moving into a smaller, hopefully cheaper place.

I'd definitely need at least 3 3.5" bays, but if that had rackmount ears... well, I'd certainly be interested.

Apparently there's literally no difference between the K6-2+ and III+ physically speaking except for a little 0-ohm resistor bridging a set of contacts under the heat spreader. If you change which two pads it covers, you can unlock the full 256K of on-die L2 cache, and this mod since being...

Seems like that was a substitution hoping you wouldn't notice the difference since the Jades and Navies are both still clicky -- the Jades are just significantly lighter. I'm currently having a difficult time with finding any listing that shows them in stock from reputable sellers like...

Not any that I know of offhand. You're best off getting a barebones kit of something and popping in switches you source yourself. Trouble is, finding them these days. I can't find more Navies to save my life at this point.

Hmm. On my Linux boxes it refuses to connect to O365 without an addon. Maybe it’s different for the windows releases?

eM Client is one I like. Thanks Merc for the initial suggestion a while back. OE Classic is another I’ve used and enjoyed, but I can’t remember if it does O365. And I believe to use more than one account with it requires you buy it. There’s also the aforementioned Thunderbird. Worth noting...

A word of warning: the CPU you can emulate is pretty directly tied to your single-thread performance. My 5700X balks at maintaining 100% execution speed on anything stronger than roughly a Pentium 233 MMX.

Yeah, but the bright side is I doubt he'll be confirmed with the new majority leader, and he had to resign in order to set up the special election that'll be held to replace him in his (my) district. Trump'll just give him some other imaginary position in the DOGE or some other such that doesn't...

Gotta say, I just wish I still had a PCI Banshee. That was the card that felt the most “right” in my PPro build. But that ended up going back to the guy who I got it from as it was his childhood card. They’re stupid money now.

Hm. On looking it up, you're right. PIIX3 was used for 430HX and 430VX, though. Interesting that 430TX uses the same southbridge as 440LX/BX. I hear VIA was a bit iffy even in that era, whereas ALi and SiS were a little slow but quite stable. Not as stable as the Intel offering, but they also...

The trouble with i430TX is that, IIRC no matter what it can't cache more than 64MB of RAM. Period. That's it. That's all you get -- anything after is uncached and thus rather slow. And I believe protected-mode OSes fill the memory map top-down, or at least Windows 9x certainly does, meaning that...

Yeah, keyboards as a hobby are definitely getting ridiculous in price. I'm glad I got in and got what I wanted more or less while it was still reasonable.

Speaking of retro builds, I've got a couple projects coming down the pipe -- I'm rebuilding my old Pentium Pro system, for one, and I'm still kind of in the planning phase. I have a couple of video cards in mind -- I have a Permedia 2V that would go nicely in it, but I'm wondering how its OpenGL...

Not terribly often, but more than you'd think. I do occasionally print out documentation or reference guides for things as it's more convenient than struggling through scrolling in a PDF on my laptop or a tablet. I'm aware that it's not terribly environmentally conscious, so I try to keep it to...

I'm aware! It works fine on my Win11 and Linux boxen. The drivers I'm stuck using under Windows 95/98 don't seem to want to do it, though. If anyone happens to know of a PCL6 driver for Win95 that does do this, I'd be interested to know, and even more interested to find out if it uses 586...

Best I figured out was handling printing through an application that allows you to print only odds/evens and then sticking the stack back in the tray. A driver for a Brother HL-5030 calls this "manual duplexing" and implements this regardless of application, but it makes the formatting kinda...

Switched out my bunk LaserJet that was only as cheap as it was because they expected you to go with an HP+ subscription and the printer doesn't function without it to a Brother laser copier. I found a DCP-L2640DW for a bit less than $200 (US) brand new at an Office Depot and took it --...

Yeah we've known Civ VII was on the way for a long time now. It is in fact just right around the corner. No doubt it further digresses from the IMO perfect gameplay loop of V. I played VI for a grand total of ten minutes, went "nah screw this" and went back to V.

Gaza will be a parking lot by February. The West Bank likely by March. Trump has flat out said that Israel should, and I quote, "finish the job." Those who didn't vote for Kamala because it'd be akin to getting blood on their hands have just slipped into the bathtub full of blood. Ukraine I'll...

So are we ready to rip the bandaid off and discuss how those of us in the US let our subscription to democracy lapse? Jesus Christ, I don't think I've felt this defeated in a long time.

Yeah, the K4 you went with will do fine. I can't remember -- does the K4 do hotswap for the switches or is that only the Pro? Mine's the Pro. I bought mine with linears so it didn't make the devil's own noise typing on it at night, but man if I don't miss the positive feedback of a clickbar...

I was in at my precinct not long after they opened up, around 7:30. I stopped in and voted before I went the rest of the way to the job site I was needed at this morning. No line to speak of.

If eating pizza with my hands makes me a Neanderthal then so be it.

Yeah, I cancelled my health insurance when I realized I was paying all of my premiums... then paying everything out of pocket anyway because even with my relative health and youth my deductibles were insane. I have no recourse but bankruptcy or (more likely) death if I wind up in a terrible...

I wouldn't be surprised if Apple started this whole mess, given Microsoft's propensity for copying them, but it doesn't seem like their style, no. "Linux" is a loaded term. There are many desktop environments and window/session managers for it, and even more distributions of it. Generally I...

I've gone ahead and made a couple scripts for our RMM using that handy registry entry and dism line you provided, thanks Merc. Like you've said it doesn't seem terribly necessary at present considering we're not buying anything with an NPU right now anyway, but it'll be interesting to see how...

And a whole new host of bugs, like uninstalling Recall reportedly breaking File Explorer. At this rate, Microsoft might well be better served by hiring some QA staff back and killing the Insider program if no one's going to report this crap until release. I've been running 24H2 for a hot minute...

Bear in mind that at the time that it came out, it was completely fine in single-thread performance. It competed well against the contemporary Intel competitor. We're just a bit under five years on from when that happened, is all. You're treating it like it's a Core 2 Quad or something, Lunar...

Newtun coming in with the steel chair!!! The crowd goes wild!

I'd take the winters over the awful summers. In theory by the temperature it's not that hot, but this sun is the most intense I've ever felt in my life. It feels like it's angry that I'm still alive. If it weren't for the fact that I have a good career here, I'd have left over a year ago. It's...

I've kept up with the saga too, but I thought the story was over when they found the kill screen. I didn't imagine in my wildest dreams it'd be possible to just roll the level counter over without a crash. Makes me wonder if one couldn't do something similar for Pac-man.

Nope, it's going to be very far away from me. I imagine I'd be more impacted if I had any significant travel plans, but I very much do not. I don't even expect we'll see any rain. Boss is thinking this weekend will be a good time for the locals to finally hit the beach. Not too hot, not too many...

I'm lucky enough to be able to say I'm at least out on my own, even if at times it's not very fun. On the one hand, I wish Dad had come with me so for once in his life he wouldn't be worried about money (as I'd be shouldering the living expenses) but on the other, he'd hate it down here. I don't...

I think that'd exclusively happen in the bigger cities and the smaller towns would more or less be the same as they always were. They do like to pride themselves on that fact. And making people put the cart before the horse and just make do for a while without the infrastructure they need isn't...

I imagine better door components to make one feel like that got a better vehicle than they did are relatively cheap. I can’t imagine they’re actually any more mechanically sound powertrain-wise. Now, there’s nothing wrong with that, I think this was the last era in which something this expensive...

And all this while I'm hearing rumors that Intel might not even let Battlemage come to production, Alchemist did so poorly in sales. With their dire situation -- apparently Qualcomm is looking at them and licking their chops -- it unfortunately makes sense. I so badly wanted Intel to do well...

Moving this here per Lunar's request. Those basically don't exist here. The ones that do, the people who originally bought them are still driving them. The same amount would have bought me maybe a mid-2000s Ford Focus with frame rust, 180k+ miles on the odo and transmission issues, to use an...

You're seeing the people under 30 who are the loudest and the most fortunate, Lunar. The rest are all too busy working to show much of anything off. They gotta pay that car note, after all. Merc is very correct on that -- the "clunkers" that were all gobbled up with the government subsidies were...