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You remember Philip Glass's first symphony? o.0

Looks to me like a Corsair Platinum-rated VS350 is only $130 on Amazon. Or you could get a PicoPSU 150 for $50, which is enough to handle your Intel desktop CPU / NB / SSD / 2.5" HDD / RAM.

Forwarding texts is pretty simple. Phone is at least possible if you have a fully Google Voice-enabled number. I believe it's otherwise blocked by carriers, but you might be able to do some goofy tricks with call forwarding and another VoIP carrier. I can make Vonage calls on my tablet, for example.

It's not quite that straightforward, since the SSD(s) aren't quite just memory cache sitting in top of the array like you might think. What helps more is looking at 1 vs. 2 vs. 4 drives per space. In practice I've found that two (120GB, usually) drives is a happy medium for an 8 drive array but...

I'm not sure how much of a tip this is, but Google Photos will actually back up arbitrary folders on your device's internal storage if you go look under Settings. The whole thing is a bit useless if all your pictures are on an SD card, but Android in general seems to have shed its ability to do...

The thing that I know about David Bowie: He was the guy in Labyrinth! In the late 90s, he sold commoditized securities valued on his future earnings. He set up his own global ISP. This was covered kind of a lot in late-90s tech outlets like Wired Magazine. Philip Glass's 1st Symphony takes its...

Storage Spaces don't really start to drag until you start dealing with parity checking. This should not be news to anyone here.

I'm sure those will be solid products, but ATX power supplies have been around for what? 20 years now? How much more refinement can there be? Now we can all wait patiently and see what JohnnyGuru has to say about them. Probably good things. Good, expensive things.

Why not just repurpose an old tablet for your Nav/Audio needs and leave your head unit connected to its Aux/USB input all the time?

Gigabyte boards will boot USB drives just fine as long as Legacy boot is still in the Start Options. Some boards default to UEFI only, which is a tiny headache, but one that should already be overcome by the time Linux gets on a PC. So my vote is dying PC. Which is probably cold comfort at this...

Not that we're even remotely on topic but... Down side to those high resolution streams is that they take forever to upload and relatively few people can watch them. Even the guys who somehow manage to put eight hours of content a day on Youtube have a real bottleneck at that point and there's...

It's a little off topic, but speaking of PC rigs on Youtube, I can't believe how often I see some Streamer bragging about their gaming rig with $2000 worth of GPUs and... "I only have a 250GB SSD, so we had to run this one on the recording drive."

There's huge value to the up side, particularly since it's not hardware dependent and allows me to cobble together massive single-machine setups if I want them (which I do). It's also much easier to deal with than ZFS, which is a massive pain to in-place expand and has huge RAM requirements. You...

Ditch 3.5" but keep 5.25"? Seriously? Can we talk about misplaced priorities for a minute?

That's in line with my experiences.

Violet Blue on the reason all advertising should be treated as hostile, using the ironic case of Forbes.com insisting users turn off Adblock while at that very moment serving malware from an ad partner.

SD's wife is Chinese. Visiting the in-laws?

I didn't really like AirDroid's UI. Frankly, almost nothing happens on my phone that isn't duplicated in other places, but I have set up Pushbullet for my modest "show me notifications on other devices" needs.

At one time I had a low profile GTX750 sitting around that I was confusing with a short-depth GTX750Ti. I went with the i3 6100T. In theory the whole thing is going to be using maybe 120W full-bore (if I ever make the GPU do anything) and perhaps ~15W - 20W at idle. That doesn't seem too bad...

I need to replace my NUC with... something. The issue is that the current Haswell NUC I have has grossly inadequate cooling, something that's highly apparent when I try to use it at 2160p resolution. Intel doesn't leave me many options to mod in cooling and based on discussions I've read, it...

I need to replace my NUC with... something. The issue is that the current Haswell NUC I have has grossly inadequate cooling, something that's highly apparent when I try to use it at 2160p resolution. Intel doesn't leave me many options to mod in cooling and based on discussions I've read, it...

What are those of us who wear eyeglasses supposed to do with this tech? Do we need to input our prescription so that the image can be corrected for our vision, or do we just fuck right off until someone builds the display into the eyeglasses in the first place?

... and it's back now, at least on the web. I didn't see it last night and I didn't see it this morning.

Speaking of internet retailers with useless web sites, has anyone looked at Newegg in the last few days? They've ditched the left-hand column that used to have the power search options, like which ATX boards have a 4-lane PCIe slot or eight USB 3 ports. The power search isn't in their mobile app...

There's a world of difference between a $1000 TV and a $4000 one, and that's what the difference between a normal 4k TV and an OLED model is right now.

I'm mostly annoyed that I have the last Marantz Receiver that has to get firmware updates from a service center rather than over the internet. It's supposed to be capable of handling 4k but not unless I pay $100 and ship it out for two weeks.

I believe Handy is correct that they're both internally lossless codecs, but I have no idea what is happening where as far as mixing with the channels you don't have.

The worst thing was walking that giant Samsung TV down three flights of stairs by myself. Right now, what I can say is that nothing plugged in through my Marantz receiver will negotiate a 4k video connection. My FireTVv2 (native HDMI), my NUC (mini-DP to HDMI) and an in-progress GTX970-based...

Interesting. It looks to me like I'm going to have to build a new TV PC since my NUC is no longer adequate for my needs.

It is. It works with my FireTV, for example.

My NUC overheats after about 20 minutes of trying to push 4k video but it definitely will push DTS-MA out to my Marantz receiver. Maybe you can get to where you need to be by reassigning inputs on your receiver?

I'm actually going to swap my 70" Samsung TV and a sound bar (and some labor time in hooking everything up) for a still-in-the-box 60" LG 4k set sometime this week. The 70" TV is too big for the space I have in the first place, but with any luck I'll have some things to say about it tomorrow or...

I get asked to find and download one-off songs a lot. Google has done a really good job of pulling video ripping tools out of its app store, but thankfully, Amazon has stepped up with tons of options. After doing some auditions, the best thing I've found for that is Tubemate Pro. You do have to...

I would like to say that it is a happy year but observed results from previous days in 2016 suggest it will be mediocre at best.

Or you could just VPN to an IP inside the country where you'd prefer your Googles. Every so often, I accidentally browse the web on my dedicated VPN (outbound) machine, which makes Google think I'm Swedish. It doesn't redirect me to Google.se on other PCs, but it DOES keep magically changing my...

Based on past experience with Supermicro PSUs, if you went that route, you'd better plan on keeping your NAS box in your garage unless you want something you can hear in the shower.

Here's a cool thing: The Intel Remote Keyboard turns your Android into the keyboard and mouse for a Windows PC.

I'm OK with it. The convenience of the file and PC-based playback normally outweighs any interest I have in special features or a BD's god-awful menu system. If I like a movie enough to have actually purchased it, yeah, I'll probably actually watch the special features once. But probably 2 out...

With regard to upgrading an existing install to a Pro install, you just do it by clicking "Change Product Key" in System Properties. That makes sense, right?

There's nothing stopping you from running a local WSUS server or or a third party tool that emulates it. I linked to a tool that will mirror the complete content of Windows Update for any selected products in the Toolbox thread I post to occasionally. Tannin being a screwdriver shop owner, I...

Mechanically. I had a hell of a time getting a replacement backplane after one of them fizzled. I actually asked for a newer one but was told they won't fit in the chassis I have.

I don't old the Hyper 212 in high regard because its fans can't be oiled, but until it starts making creak-creak-creak bearing noises, it's stilll going to do a better job cooling an LGA115x CPU than a stock Intel cooler.

Their contention is that it's pretty much impossible to verify the quality of a splitter with regard to, for example, intermittent contact issues, and that power problems are the main reason for issues with backplanes. The support folks were pretty insistent that anyone filling a chassis needs...

Also, there's two different models of RPC4224. Make SURE you get one with the newer backplanes, because Norco can no longer supply the older ones. I know this because both mine are older and I had to BEG to get status-unknown spares from them (one of which just happened to be defect free). You...

Norco will tell you over and over that they want 12x native Molex (no splitters) connectors for powering their backplanes. That means really having to hunt or getting a replacement cable kit for whatever modular PSU you wind up using. There's also a 3x120mm fan plate for the 4224 that you'll...

The Venue is just fine for lots and lots of stuff. Pretty much everything that isn't web browsing or gaming, it's pretty good for. It makes a decent E-reader amd music player and I'm about 200% more likely to run Modern-style apps on it than on a laptop or desktop.

I've been fairly impressed with Asrock's workstation boards. They're a lot less picky about RAM than SuperMicro.

I use two Norco 24 bay chassis for my big file server. One of them got modded into an SAS enclosure. I have a pair of LSI 9211s (in TI mode) and a pair of HP SAS Expanders installed. The Norco chassis are huge and take standard desktop parts rather than noisy rackmount gear, so in addition to...

Correct. That's how I've always done it.

If I were only buying a small number of drives, I'd buy the big HGSTs. As it stands, I'm ultimately going to replace 24 3TB drives. I do have another ~30 4TB drives, but at the moment, I'm most interested in getting a meaningful capacity upgrade for the three and four year old Hitachi and...