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I did end up taking the discount. I really needed the impetus to get rid of a bunch of junk I'm never going to use again, anyway, and list it on eBay. Merc, you're more optimistic than I am, is all I'll say. I don't have any concrete ideas about how it'll happen yet simply because so many parts...

I agree, but I also think this is the best I'm likely to get in These Current Times(tm). It's not an amazing deal but considering they could have just told me it was their way or the highway, any discount at all seems like more than I should have reasonably expected. Yeah, ID software is just...

They sent a fairly generous 35% off offer which just barely brings it back into the range where I'm considering paying what they're asking. I was expecting them to come back with a pithy 5 or 10% figure. Maybe they know their initial quote was off-base.

It's sad because Kentucky is a beautiful state and I grew up there and wouldn't trade it for anything, but they make some awfully questionable decisions up there. I say. From Florida.

It got "escalated" over the weekend, and yeah, now they want me to pay for a replacement board. Basically as much as if I were to go and buy another handheld entirely. I get that I'm the one who messed it up, and I understand the supply crunch we're in, but I'm simply not paying that much for...

Nothing more US-american than celebrity marriages and blowing off your fingers with pretty explosives while you eat your weight in various meats. I stayed home and played a video game. Been getting pretty into Project Diablo 2, got a Vengeance Paladin build going. Very squishy in Hell, I need...

I've been running one of those cheap switches with dual 10Gbit RJ45 transceivers for well over a year, feeding both my server and my desktop. The 10Gbit link is only useful for local transfers between them, but it's been going strong for all that time, 24/7 aside from the odd power outage. One...

They seem to have just silently moved onto the "repair" part of the RMA. No update email, nothing asking for payment, they say it'll be done on the 8th. Interesting.

I'm feeling a lot more optimistic today, actually. I've had friends who've apparently managed to get away with low-key kind of scamming new monitors out of them in exchange for some pretty heavily-used ones they bought off ebay one time that apparently still had a scrap, a crumb of warranty time...

Ally's due to arrive at the ASUS shop today. Bracing for whatever I may end up being told. What I imagine is most likely is being told that they'll fix it, but that I'll have to pay for the motherboard out-of-pocket.

Pretty sure that's running Rhythmbox with root permissions since you'd have to call the script with sudo or what-have-you. Not good practice by a long shot but also unlikely to be something that gets you pwned from within your LAN. I also wonder if that's effectively just turning off the...

Well, thanks for that nice dose of dread. Now I guess I really do have to hope for a miracle.

I, um. Actually did buy one of those open-box ROG Ally Xboxes. I got it yesterday. I figured if I sold my Retroid Pocket and some of my hoard of DDR4 it'd just about cover it, and my birthday is next month... I immediately ripped the battery connector off the board disconnecting it to get the...

My guess is that it'll be adequate, but not perfect on up to Half Life Alyx, but anything after, who knows.You have to push two fairly high-res displays at a high enough framerate to not make people sick, after all.

I agree with you that GoG is much closer to ideal, but I frankly don't think it's realistic to expect corporate publishers to ever go to a no-DRM world unless they're dragged kicking and screaming the entire way by some governing body or other. Pandora's box is already open on that front. I'm...

A socketed CPU and PCI-E slot would have made it a fundamentally different sort of machine though, one that'd need adequate cooling and power for the stronger hardware it'd support. It'd nix the form factor and silence of the machine. Maybe that'd be for the best, but it'd be a different sort of...

I don't disagree with that interpretation. It seems a lot of people are taking this as a betrayal. I honestly didn't realize it performed that badly until I saw GN's review with benchmarks, and boy, is this just embarrassing. This loses to a stock PS5. The CPU loses to an R5 3600. The GPU is...

On one hand, I get it, but I personally see the last no-bullshit version of Windows as 2000. And even that had SOME bullshit, i.e. the integration of Internet Explorer.

I was f*cking kidding. Holy crap. It really didn't even make it to Friday.

Yeah, at these prices it's DOA, but when they jacked the Deck to $790 base I honestly figured base model of the Machine would be anywhere from $1250 to $1500. It could have been a lot worse. On the one hand, am I buying it at this price? No. Was I ever going to? Probably not. But especially not...

That's probably what the community installers do, word-for-word. More effort than I want to go to for Windows 7, though.

The reason it wouldn't work is because the official drivers now won't install on 7 out of the box. ;) But yeah, like I said, the retro community (and Windows 7 diehards in general) don't really like taking 'no' for an answer from manufacturers/software devs.

Yes, that would allow access within your LAN. Access from outside the network SHOULD be being blocked by your edge router's firewall. Whether that's acceptable depends how much you trust the devices in your local network, and if you want every single one of them to be able to look at it. It's...

I've got a Retroid Pocket 4 Pro that's basically been just an emulation handheld since Steam Remote Play is, for some reason, really finicky and unfun for me -- and also if I have to run it on my PC anyway, I'd rather just play it on my PC on the bigger screen most of the time. For the games I...

Huh. I either use Jellyfin or just access everything via SMB or NFS. So there WAS once upon a time a reason to have UPnP enabled that wasn't just opening holes in your firewall for funsies.

Actually, 7 can run more-or-less unmodified on up to Skylake, and I think, first-gen Ryzen. You may have to enable legacy boot -- 7's UEFI support is in most situations practically broken as I understand it. The folks in the retro community can basically stuff 7 onto whatever hardware you want...

Doing some research, this is apparently because these are the base models trying to drive 1080p panels with APUs on par with the Deck. For which its own 800p screen was already a challenge.

Have you bought one? I'm wondering what the catch is. I could swing one of these if I sold a couple other things I've got hanging around and I'm honestly tempted to do just that.

Jesus, a quad-blowout on new tires. Is insurance picking any of that up, or would making the claim just raise your premium to more than the tires are worth? And yeah, glad to hear you're physically okay from that. Could have gone way worse. We've got something brewing in the Gulf again. Right...

I don't even give it until Friday.

Looks like one they're reporting some problems with. Some people are having it halfway install and kill their start menu, other people are like you and having it revert itself in a loop.

This comes right as Google is pushing to drop ManifestV2 with the next few releases of Chromium, with everyone else to follow.

G2A is known to be full of listings where credit card fraud was used to procure the licenses. I can't say I care they they stole from Google, but I'm glad you used an account you don't care about, because when they figure it out, they're probably going to ban it.

I've been making myself use the PIII for actual computing tasks at home as it's a more distraction-free environment (i.e. less Internet capability to distract myself with) without being utterly isolated. Something about it makes it feel better to use than my modern machines, but I don't know...

The bubble is ripe for popping. My question is, when it does, will we see companies crawling back to the consumer market, or will they simply keep servicing the datacenters with the goal of keeping compute in the cloud where we'd have to rent it? I don't hold my breath on cheap used hardware...

Naw, the AI companies are just using their fake money they've been passing back and forth with nVidia to buy up literally entire production capacities for years at a time. They drove Micron out of the consumer sector entirely.

I don't have any suggestions there, just... lamenting, I suppose. Me personally, I kicked myself back to an Ivy Bridge box for the moment that's running DDR3 -- I'm hoarding my DDR4 very jealously indeed right now.

I know it's just the reality of the situation, but paying upwards of 400 dollars for a 32GB kit of RAM still strikes me as insane. I concur with Merc. Everything else is fine, for the most part, but I don't know that I'd trust even a good cooler like the Thermalright to keep that 9850X3D cool...

Ouch. At least in my case I only have the one domain to worry about and a relatively simple configuration (some MX records, a few TXT, a couple CNAMEs, one A, and a special DDNS A record tied to a subdomain). I'll have to remember that for bigger use-cases in future.

How did that shake out? Did you end up moving registrars? I'm STILL fighting with GoDaddy for that one client. My AC's drain line clogged last week and it was a fight to get it fixed and the water up from my carpet around it. The HVAC guy ended up putting a couple CO2 cartridges down one end...

I'm glad I got out when I learned I needed a pass to leverage hardware I already had for transcoding. Jellyfin may have its own problems with library management but at least I'm not paying for it.

That's a pretty big issue -- it shouldn't be marking config files that won't be referenced for cleanup, that would be a purge operation... at the very least, you'd think they'd make backups of configuration files and either leave them in the folder structure or copy them to the user's home...

Even the best case scenario so far I've seen is just using them as a domain registrar (we've had a couple companies that used to pay for GoDaddy to host their email -- a couple of disastrous M365 transitions have been the result) and even then they suck eggs. Me personally, my domains are...

Vaguely related to work stuff, but my dealings with GoDaddy have convinced me to never, ever, not EVER be their customer.

We're hitting the point where if they won't let us at least get them set up with Entra ID (which they're usually paying for as part of their M365 sub) we don't take them as clients or make them sign risk acceptance forms. I'd idly played around with the idea of setting up a domain controller in...

Since this seems more relevant here...

Where I'm at it hasn't been much over $4/gal but we had cheap gas to begin with, and it still went up almost 100% relative to what it was. My gas budget for the month has had to eat into my "everything else" budget. My old contacts from the truck stop have reported less traffic for trucks too...

Any strange happenings that you think could be caused by your SSD probably are. Their failure modes tend to look much more abrupt than a traditional hard drive, including being shunted to read-only operation, which very few if any operating systems in their default configuration will tolerate on...

Yeah, we're hitting on-season where we're at -- living in a tourist economy means EVERY field has an on-season because about now's when the money comes in and everyone wants stuff done, they tend to want to coast through the fall and winter -- and I'm just ridiculously busy.

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