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Growing up I would fly unaccompanied minor on Southwest to my Mom's for Christmas (SDF to MDW) every couple years or so. More recently when I fly it's been Delta, but I wouldn't exactly call my experiences comfortable. Every time I've done it thus far has been with little enough warning or cost...

Well, I certainly got what I paid for -- it's cheaper than my last chair, but higher quality, which isn't a terrific surprise considering my last one came from Office Depot with probably a 200% markup. But I certainly don't know where they get "big and tall" from -- it's comfortable, but it's...

They do still activate -- hell, they'll still activate 11 -- but I'm concerned as to the dubious legal status of those licenses. Granted, if MS were so fussed by it, I'd imagine they'd stop accepting them.

Yeah, he'll need to reactivate, but I've had success just asking it to do so without changing the code. Not sure how legal that is -- I'm left to assume the answer is not very -- but it's worked in the past. And yes, changing GPUs is a bit of a hassle, but I've never been in so bad a situation...

Well, maybe once I'm not stressing about not having a working chair, I'll settle in and look for something better. I'll need it for the other desk on the other side of the room, anyway -- for now I'm just wheeling across the carpet to my work desk. Until then this already stands a fair chance of...

You might not even need to enter a new license code, actually. Assuming your drive isn't BitLockered (or of course you have the key) it should be pretty straightforward, Windows should detect and install the new hardware fine. That reasoning for AMD is pretty fair and honestly something I hadn't...

The freshest in an annoying batch of issues is that I broke the back of my desk chair last night. Rushing to the local stores today for a replacement -- my back already hurts sitting at my desk in both the ruined old chair and one of my high-rise dining chairs -- didn't fill me with confidence...

Right now I honestly think the move, if you're building new, is to buy Intel. I say this as an AMD fan -- the value's just not there yet for Zen4, I don't think. If you're near (or can bully someone who is into buying on your behalf) a Microcenter, they're still doing really good combo deals for...

Oh, I don't. I know better than to mess with something I don't understand when it's not mine to potentially destroy. That's basically how it went, but at the time it felt like a bit of a lame cop-out. I'm almost certain it caused us to lose that client, albeit I wasn't blamed for it or...

We explicitly don't service Macs, which is why I doubt I'd ever be able to convince my employer to acquire one, but there've been a couple times where I've run into them at a site. I'd like to at least be able to claim some basic competency in navigating its UI at least to do simple system...

I'm not looking to be wowed by the special features that only work properly with other Apple products, honestly I just want to be able to competently navigate and configure the OS should I need to for some reason for work.

Then I may as well just not bother and proceed with the tentative plan I had to hackintosh my laptop. I'm not spending the kind of money they're asking just to play around and familiarize myself with OS X. Granted, I probably won't get a 100% clear picture of how it is on official hardware that...

Some favorites of mine are Joe Scott (Answers with Joe on YT), Knowing Better, and LowSpecGamer (started with his namesake, moved to video essays on the history of the gaming industry at large). Knowing Better attempts to give unbiased explanations of societal mechanics and long-forgotten echoes...

I realize most of you are far past your IRC days if you were ever indeed in them, but I'm curious as to your opinion on this situation. I personally only keep two versions of mIRC around with a license I was given by an old friend, those being 5.91s for Windows 3.x and 6.35 for NT4/9x...

Oh, hey, thanks! They had a standard promotion where through the holidays you got 40% off, funnily enough, but the code you gave me was better. I'm already finding a lot of the channels I subscribed to.

I've been considering such a sub, which is high praise considering I don't pay for a single other streaming service at all period. I had Discovery+ for all of a month and I didn't much care for that either. I subscribe to a few YT channels that proclaim to upload "higher quality" and/or "bonus...

Blu-ray on PC is kind of a mess -- you'd need to use MakeMKV just to maybe decrypt the disc to play it, much less rip it. You can buy commercial software to play it, and I'm thinking some external drives might well come with said software, but think of the worst of the DVD player software that...

Do you guys have any particular recommendations for mice? I have (and love) a Pro Intellimouse, but there's a known issue with the connection from the scroll wheel assembly to the main board of the device where the cable's not flexible enough so it breaks internally. This is the second such...

For giggles I installed 11 fresh on my main desktop, to kick the tires a little between reinstalls of 10. Since all my user data lives on my NAS and I have a decent internet connection now, it doesn't matter much what I run on there day-to-day since there aren't any huge backup/restore...

My personal number on the S20 is through an eSIM. My work is through the actual physical SIM. I distinctly remember multiple profiles being a thing on phones circa the Android 6-7 era. I'm not super annoyed, just a little chagrined that I can't quite so easily keep everything separate and I have...

I'm giving a dual-SIM experience a trial run (with my boss's blessing) -- I'm really tired of carrying not just one but two bulky phones around everywhere I go, especially when 90% of the time one or the other goes completely silent. So far the experience has been surprisingly trouble-free with...

I wonder if pre-activated copies of Office XP/2003 were/are floating around like they did for Windows XP? I haven't had to mess with activating Windows XP a day in my life -- the burnt CD Dad was given years and years ago (and that I've taken an ISO image of and slipstreamed updates into) when...

Hmm. Maybe I will just nuke it and install 10 over the weekend then, before I send it out to her. Dell is at least a heck of a lot better about not preloading a ton of bloatware than they used to be -- the only thing I actually uninstalled was McAfee. It's just a shame Microsoft themselves are...

Right, but this was a Dell refurb I wanted to keep the (two year!) warranty on, I wasn't sure what it does and doesn't allow me to change (and was too lazy to read the terms) so I was hesitant to reformat and reinstall just for that. Frankly, if I was going to do that, I would have just...

It wasn't an actual operator, it was an automated system. I'm betting someone up high's forgotten they even pay for this phone number anymore, much less keep the system running on it. Although, it seems to have been updated sometime recently, because it offered to send me a link to a web portal...

I just activated Office 2003 on my Pentium 4 build. 19 years after it released. By phone. The online activation no longer functions; the servers used to authenticate it are no longer online. But they still have a phone line. Nine groups of 6 numbers read into a microphone, and another seven...

I had to use an obscure key combination to bring up a CMD window to bypass the OOBE on the laptop I bought my sister for Christmas -- she doesn't have a Microsoft account presently, and I wanted to make it her decision to make one rather than have Microsoft try and force her into it. I finally...

I say keep it. Let it ward off other idiots.

The point where the springbar holds in the strap for my watch finally gave out on my WaveCeptor that I wore every day, and honestly for a 40 dollar watch that I didn't mind you'd have thought I'd have just bought another one, but no -- the Seiko 5 I have I like to keep looking nice since it's...

Alright, I think we've had our fun here. @Handruin, probably time to send him packing. He's getting abusive.

You in particular are probably better off with an nVidia card. Everything down that aisle pretty much exclusively uses CUDA, which AMD will never support. I find it quite funny actually that the OpenCL standard gained almost zero traction here, but then, FireGL sales had been in decline for...

No, no no. You came here to push your beliefs on us. Therefore it's you who has the burden of proving your arguments. So far they've been insufficient. You can't just waltz in here, refuse to use actual sources, and then expect us to take you at your word. You especially can't go about telling...

Looks like I wasn't super far off the mark, then. With all this stuff nVidia's pulling recently, some rumblings about bad drivers for Turing and older cards, and my still being salty about the lack of integer scaling support on my 1070, I find my eyes wandering a bit. The 1070 wouldn't go to...

Okay, I was very wrong. Apparently for everything after 2 dual-rank DIMMs the max clock (not latency) goes down to 3600. Not great especially since Zen4 still uses the DRAM clock to derive infinity fabric speeds so you definitely want 5200MHz or better on the DRAM.

If you're not interested in an intelligent conversation with people who disagree with you, the door's over there, don't let it hit you in the ass on the way out.

From what I understand the issue with more than two DDR5 modules on AM5 is more a latency thing and isn't even that big a deal, but if it's important to you then definitely work around it. I haven't heard anything about RAM incompatibilities like early 1st-gen Ryzen where you essentially used...

The lack of religious faith isn't what turns them into mass shooters, it's a lack of focus on mental healthcare and in some cases, a lack of parental discipline. Who are you going to (falsely) call out next, video games? Frankly if you need negative reinforcement (the threat of hell or something...

I can't tell if this parky guy in the other thread is a real person actually getting offended at us messing with them, or if it's a bot of some kind. Either way it's very entertaining.

Prolonging life for its own sake isn't something to aspire to in my opinion. Like Lunar said, by living such a 'healthy' lifestyle you remove a lot of the things that make it worth living. Personally I'd prefer not to stick around all that long after I'm finished being of use. I'm not sure I'll...

So, on my YMF744 card in my PIII build, there are vestigial pads for an SB-Link connector. It was a short-lived quasi-standard pushed by Creative and Intel primarily -- VIA/Yamaha actually referred to it as PC/PCI -- what it did was connect ISA IRQ and DMA lines directly to a PCI card so it was...

I can vouch for the Cooler Master N200 (note the lack of R, this is a microATX tower), I've come across a few in my work and they're solid enough. The metal's a little thin, but it has a nice featureset for a case in its budget segment and it's not super gaudy or flashy. I'm not crazy about them...

Discovered by accident that nVidia artificially limits Integer Scaling to the RTX 20 series and newer, including the GTX 16 series. I'm beyond nuclear pissed about that since my R9 380 could do that.

They'll pull it and relaunch it as the 4070 that it should have been from the word go.

Don't get me wrong, I prefer air cooling myself as well, and all else equal I will obviously use it over liquid cooling. I'm just saying that platforms that need it are no longer completely out of the running just because they need it in my mind. Granted, they're usually out of consideration for...

No, completely missed our area.

Those directory redirectors are why I have my data stored on my NAS and it's seamless. Though Windows does like to freak out a little when I don't have a network connection, so I'm assuming I might have just done something slightly wrong. It's a situation that happens so minimally often that I...

It's not just overclockers running into this. According to Gamer's Nexus, 95C is just the new load temp now for almost every use case that maxes out the chip. The IHS is so thick primarily to provide backward compatibility with most existing AM4 coolers. Direct-die cooling was always going to be...

According to some sources the IHS on Zen4 is too thick and hurts temps. I don't know how true that is.

Well, in a strange twist of fate, I now have a viable option for VGA capture. I was given a Datapath E1S card from a friend. The problem is that in my main machine, it's very unstable since it's a PCI-E 1.0 card and doesn't play nice with my PCI-E 3.0 board. Luckily I was able to shunt it down...

I was quite partial to my Dell AT101W before in an ill-advised attempt to linearize the switches I lost a ton of bits to it. I'm still kicking myself for that one. I'd like to track down another one but prices have gotten completely insane. I had a model M for a time, but it was rubber-dome and...