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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.

I think Intel has already admitted that fabrication is a huge issue. They're pretty open that they're second rate, much like AMD did when they spun off Global Foundries. Not everyone needs 3nm TSMC wafers and not everybody can even compete to buy them. Intel has moved its fabs to a separate...

It appears that there are no plans to release any higher end Battlemage GPUs. Intel didn't bring it up at all during its Tech Conference earlier in the week and I'm assuming that's not good news. A faster GPU die DOES exist and there's speculation it might be used for workstation hardware but...

I used one of these on a case I 3D printed. The case doesn't look all that good but I like the fancy button.

In a "Hey, this thing is kind of cool!", I found a Logitech G Cloud at a pawn shop on the north side of Chicago yesterday, a place I like to hit up for used photography gear moreso than anything else. It's REALLY a 7" Android 11 tablet in a shell that has game controls built around it, but they...

The games industry has sucked a lot of fun out of games in general. You might do well to look at the genre called Boomer Shooters. These are meant to be 90s shooter throwbacks, so everything is fast and the fun is finding all the new weapons and powerups. Ion Fury, Amid Evil and Dusk are some...

No love for the Peerless Assassin 120? They're like $35, barely make noise and fit over the standard AMD mounting system.

HX370 is kind of a pain for Linux. Most distros aren't loading a 6.10 kernel from the base system image and don't have fully updated support firmware, in spite of these systems being nine months old. I wound up installing Rocky in text mode. It really brought me back. I'm using a pair of...

I'm really just waiting on news of a B770-equivalent. Or an affordable RTX 5070Ti, although recent history tells me that's absolutely not going to happen. The latest thing out of the rumor mill is that AMD is going to make a 9080XTX or something simply because there's now a proven market and...

I can kinda-sorta understand it on notebooks, but even then I see it as an issue with form factors. If it's a problem for desktops or desktop-like systems then no, I'm not OK with it. Dell has CAMM as an updated physical standard that supports higher densities and bandwidth and if there's a...

Videocardz has images of a disassembled HX 395 mini PC and there's not a slot or socket to be had on that motherboard. My AliExpress HX 370 also apparently has soldered-in DDR5-8000. I might send it back in trade for that Minisforum board or something similar, but at the same time, none of my...

I had to spend $220 on an RTX 3050 6GB on Sunday. None of Amazon, Newegg, BestBuy or Walmart could get me anything sanely priced overnight and while Microcenter did have a better $200 option with the RX 6600, by the time I factored in the time, gas and taxes, that wasn't worthwhile either...

I wonder what the issue is with the 395? They're meant to go on notebooks, so they can't be THAT crazy. I found myself an AliExpress-grade HX 370 mini that I'm going to trial as a VM host. I'm sure I can find a home for it if I don't like it, but with 4TB of internal NVMe and a 10GbE USB 4 NIC...

Are you using any amount of Alexa, Siri or Gemini otherwise? Amazon announced that it's going to require remote processing on voice commands from now on. I have a Hubitat for my automation control so I've never looked at Home Assistant but my guess is that everything on a phone is a bigger...

I can't decide if framework's pricing is reasonable for the 395. A complete Ser9 with 32GB of socketed RAM is $900ish. I see $1500 for the baseline 395 desktop with 64GB. There's a PCIe slot and that's valuable but hopefully AMD will offer these APUs on regular AM5 sooner rather than later...

I am not sure if y'all have seen this, but Plex is going to start charging people to access Remote Streaming Servers. Basically if you don't have a Plex Pass on your server instance, it'll cost you $2/month to use remote access. Jellyfin, Emby and Kodi don't do this shit but then, none of...

I got to set up a couple Beelink Ser9 (AMD HX 370) desktops this morning. I'm surprised there isn't any option to get the new AMD APUs on a bare motherboard aside from the Framework systems that won't even ship until this fall. AliExpress doesn't even have anything. I've seen discussion about...

We're not going to have a North vs. South war. We're going to have Northern Ireland in the 1970s. We'll see bombings and many forms of sabotage. I suspect that punitive actions will be taken against cities, such as highway blockades and damage to rail lines, because Johnny Sisterfuck can rightly...

MAGA is right on the edge of complete imperial control over what used to be the United States. Why would the be content with Greenland?

Yongnuo just released a $700 micro four thirds camera running a current build of Android. The body includes support for a SIM and therefore a 4G data connection and since it's Android, you can do real time video effects or directly live stream from it. It's sold with either 35mm or 24-70mm...

I'm in the same boat. I do wish I lived on the good side of the Illinois state line right now, but even that is a risk since the godless trans-abortionplex that is Chicago is target #1 for every red hat bumpkin west of Ohio and east of Colorado. My partner has the option to get Spanish and...

I'm pretty impressed with Microsoft Power Automate's ability to do stupid, free-form web things. I used it this morning to scrape and gather URLs, filenames and descriptive information from someone's (adult web service) account and dump them into Excel. (Adult web service) does not provide...

This week, Citi and UBS analysts independently issued blanket investment advice to seek European and Chinese securities and investments over those in the US. China's economy is a mess; it keeps trying to jump start a consumer economy and it has a negative trending real estate market because it's...

My GenZ Ladies all carry/wear small backpacks rather than purses, which are a little more forgiving for someone who wants to keep something on hand. There's a decent chance the camera-inclined will have one with them, and if not they might have a Switch or a Surface Pro on hand. Half of a...

I suspect that the last remnants of Sprint are no longer operating. I'm definitely not willing to pay $60/month for my phone. For as little as I care to talk on it, all I really want is real time maps and enough data service to play audio at a decent bit rate.

Just got a message from T-Mobile that my 21 year old service contact is no longer going to be honored and I finally have to switch to one of its plans. My bill is about to double, or else I have to change carriers to MetroPCS or something. What a revolting development.

When I was a little kid, my house was about 1km off the path of a tornado. It blew through a corn field and the winds were strong enough to drive corn cobs clean through our garage wall. My parents weren't home when it happened, but my brother and I knew to get in the crawl space to wait it out...

In what world is the NYT left wing media?

Look at an R50. My partner's backup camera. It's very close to a somewhat larger R7, but with fewer controls on the back. The kit lens is 24-70 equivalent and not great for aperture, but the RF 35mm is cheap and excellent. A Sony Alpha 6700 is probably over a grand but it's TINY for being as...

It seems that pricing after the launch has been left to board partners and in general, they seem to have a much higher opinion of their hardware than we had last week. I suspect we'll be seeing $750 9070XTs for the non-premium models and maybe even $900 for the premium ones, just like the 7900XTX.

The US has functionally withdrawn from NATO. While there is a legal requirement for a 2/3rds Senate vote to abandon a treaty, the Trump administration has announced that it will not conduct joint exercises with any NATO partner in the next two years. While NATO article 5 protects treaty members...

He's not getting ousted. He's going to die in office. Vance is a moron but he's as surely Thiel's patsy as Trump is for Musk.

The Microcenter in Westmont, Illinois is one of the very few places that 9070s are still in stock. There's no option to buy and pick up; they're only there for people willing to drive in and take one off the shelf. I was planning to drive out there after work today to pick one up but over the...

I remind people of this periodically, but there's a lot of goodies on Amazon Prime Gaming right now if you haven't looked for a moment. Saints Row 3, one of the newer Wolfenstein titles and Mafia II are both free right now. If you look in the app, make sure you scroll down to check offers on...

Trump just overspent every tiny bit of goodwill the US had in international trade and diplomacy in something like two weeks. One of my favorite images from the news this week was King Charles sitting in a helicopter, clothed as an Officer of the Canadian Navy. It has come to having to remind...

I used to get fulfillment on corporate orders from CDW in the mid-90s when I was just the kid moving new PCs on to people's desks and I remember seeing their full color catalogs in the late 80s, before I discovered Computer Shopper. That is some SERIOUS history.

KVMs are one of those things that should be a lot cheaper than they are. You can get a keyboard and mouse for $15 and a portable display for $50, so how the hell is it $300 to get a box with a push-button to switch between four inputs?

No HEVC 422 and the power draw is higher than I'd like to see but there aren't really any surprises with the 9070-series cards. They look great for gamers but they're still the last place option for content creation. Bogus.

I'm super looking forward to Trump and his pals announcing plans to withdraw from NATO, start carpet bombing migrants or announcing that we'll be supporting Russian territorial gains in Ukraine in the State of the Union tonight. There's definitely a BINGO/drinking game out there for blaming...

I get good mileage out of using RustDesk for my computers since I honestly have damned near everything somewhere in my home. I have a portable 15" FHD display I can move around to whatever system if I actually need to look in firmware for the very rare times I need to do that.