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I'm specifically looking at it as a way to get a simplified ISO to turn off the most egregious BS. Like... Go ahead and kill Recall, Onedrive, Microsoft account on OOBE, restore the classic context menu and turn on show file extensions. Those things are the bare minimum I am going to do on every...

Today in nifty things for people, I bring you Winhance. irm https://get.winhance.net | iex What does it do? It does a lot of the same things as chocolatey and the Chris Titus Tool, in that it has the ability to install third party software and toggle Windows default software and settings...

I did finally complete a Steam account setup. Something else I found out is that Adults who are members of the same Steam Family can also share each other's game libraries. I was assuming it was a one-way thing with the person making the invitation being the one sharing the games, but since my...

Wherever they're on sale. They go on sale regularly at Best Buy and Amazon.

It might be making a boot optimization pass. Either that or you got some updates that installed silently and it did more than usual back-end work during your next startup. With regard to low cost, reasonably powerful systems, I can't recall seeing mini PCs with Ryzen 3550H CPUs before, but...

You can make something like a Ryzen 5600G/16GB/2TB or a Ryzen 9600X (or 7700X, maybe)/16GB/1TB work for around $800, if you can accept the iGPU in either product. In my mind either one of those builds should be more like $550 or $600, but cheap RAM just can't be had. I don't mind putting a...

Someone was in mortal danger. Pretti was attempting to help a person having a seizure at the time he was murdered. He was not in that moment threatening anyone. His firearm was not drawn nor did he make any attempt to draw it in the moments leading up to his murder. I need to be very clear about...

I have a couple bus-powered Arc A310s sitting around. They're godly for video editing and encoding, but if you don't have working Rebar, they're not going to work properly for you either. I do know Gigabyte had Resizable Bar support on its Z77 boards; I've tried Arc cards on systems that old...

That man was murdered. No one's life was endangered by Pretti's actions; how dare he try to use his nursing skills to help someone in physical distress. I'm aware you're the most gun-nutty of gun nuts, but Pretti was in lawful possession of a firearm, something that you should fully support...

What a revolting development, actually. The 5700XT was my secret weapon for getting something decent in a PC. I was getting them for $75 and now they've more than doubled in price. Even the formerly maligned Vega64s are around that price now. The A750/A770s can still be had for reasonable...

How can you seriously ask a question like that? Sadly, HDD prices are shooting through the roof right now as well, so I do think that the only deals to be had at the moment are on the external drives that you can shuck and install internally. They're perfectly normal SATA drives for all...

RAM prices are up 400% (literally, the RAM kit in my workstation was $350 when I bought it and now it's over $1700). NVMe for anything but the DRAM-less budget segment is similarly high. I mentioned this a few weeks ago, but I was able to buy three 4TB drives back in August for what one costs...

Contemporary Android devices have a setting to reboot on a schedule. Weekly reboots seem reasonable to me.

You might try Blackplayer, but if you're having problems playing music from your SD card, it's possible the issue is the card you're using rather than an issue with the application you're playing with.

You can make incompatible CPUs run 11, but unless you know the secret sauce, they can't be upgraded past whatever version is initially installed. As previously mentioned, an N150 had more or less the same computing power as an i7 7700. It also has better integrated graphics. At this point...

So you're looking to buy a PC that was born incompatible to run Windows 11? Why?

I hate the S25 Ultra. The extra width means I can't reach the far edge of my phone with my thumb. I've gotten the pen out all of one time and the purported camera upgrade isn't doing a damned thing for me. The S26 line will be out at the end of February or perhaps the middle of March. They're...

Boob to you too this fine morning. I take pictures all the time and some of the tools that I use do apply AI to correct a focus near-miss, or just apply machine learning to help me sift through photos when for example I have 1445 shots to look through, like I did last night. That sort of AI is...

I finally delivered the gaming PC I built for my friend's kid last week. It turned into a bit of a communal project; friends got him a pair of 8bitDo controllers, a gaming mouse and a gaming headset to go along with spare parts build I put together. My spare parts actually wound up as a...

I was still actively using an i7-2700k until last year for the simple reason that the damned thing wouldn't die and did everything I asked of it. That system may very well have had run for 99.99% of its life, from 2011 to early 2025. I took down a picture frame to hang that board and CPU up in a...

Results from "kill all the AI" script are pretty promising. On a vanilla Windows 11 VM install with 4GB allocated RAM, I saw a decrease in RAM in use from 2.8 to 1.5GB, with relatively similar RAM cache values of 800MB vs 750MB. That's a rounding error a system with a large amount of available...

I think we all know that ain't nothin' gonna happen over this. We didn't do anything about it last time he was in office and now everything is worse and checks and balances are thrown out the window when one party controls all branches of government.

For purpose of comparison, an N150 has approximately the same amount of computing power as an i7-7700 at a tiny fraction of the power budget. I can't find any of the $150 N150s with 16GB RAM that I was able to buy any day of the week last year, but I did find this guy for $190.

Greg, that is some bigly e-waste right there. it'll technically run Windows 10 but that's G41 chipset that PROBABLY uses DDR2, although I think there were some hybrid boards that had DDR3 as well. Belarc advisor will tell you for sure. Either way, you're not getting over 8GB RAM on it and it...

The EU owns around $8T of US Debt. Essentially no entity on the planet could buy all that, and no one other than a close ally would want that much exposure to liability. The value of a dollar would plummet in a re-valuation, absent the backing of those assets by European powers. I had one...

I turn all the frame generation stuff off, but nothing I do needs those settings. IIRC there's a global and per-game setting in the control panel. DLSS 4.5 supposedly decreases frame latency to the point where even 4 generated frames to 1 "real" frame is usable, but even within that there are...

Hardware Unboxed, which IIRC is an Oz-based Youtube channel, says that the 5070Ti and 16GB 5060Ti have been discontinued or functionally EOL'd by most or all AIB manufacturers in favor of the 12GB 5070 and 8GB 5060Ti.

I'm the complete opposite of a fan of firearms in any way, shape or form, but Black Flag Civilian is a sort of leftist-anarchist gun advocate. He posted this a few days ago, mostly speaking to the gun nuts who still watch his content. The Administration has a boner for attacking Minnesota...

It's going to be hilarious when the US get evicted from every military base it has in Europe.

This thing prevents cat-related uptime issues.

Apparently, the next version of Windows will be essentially immutable, just as ChromeOS, Android, iOS, MacOS and some versions of Linux are. The idea is that there will be a compatibility layer for software that expects to make changes inside the Windows directory. On one hand, this isn't a...

I have a shelf in my living room where my deceased cats stay. I put them in wooden jewelry boxes and keep them next to my favorite books.

If the US has an open, shooting war with itself, the global economy is toast. I don't think that's likely. It's not going to be Red v Blue. It'll probably look a lot more like non-stop terrorist attacks on what are perceived to be centers of power for either side, although it could be more open...

There is no doubt in my mind that something very similar to all of this this played out in Washington DC last week.

There's a trinity of factors that have to be in place prior to use of deadly force: Capability, Intent and Opportunity. This is a universal standard for law enforcement in the USA. At most, Mrs. Good could be seen as having opportunity, and only if you consider the possibility that driving a...

Did you watch any video of the event other than the one the Administration posted on its official instruments? Sarah Good's truck tires were pointed away from the ICE Officer. He was in no danger of being hit. None. Not even a tiny little bit. He had no lawful reason to fire at her. Even if Mrs...

This guy has a set of scripts to kill pretty much all the AI nonsense baked into Windows in one shot. https://github.com/zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI

Since I finally got annoyed enough to deal with it, one actual "improvement" in the latest version of Office (365 or 2024) is that there's now a heading under options specifically for Copilot and generally only a single checkbox to turn it off. Excel has an option that says "Only for highly...

Just found this guy, who sells among other things, x16 to 2x x8 PCIe adapters and multiple varieties of SlimSAS (i.e. nvme) host adapters. His hardware looks like it all expects Bifurcation support, so it'll generally only work on AMD or Xeon hardware. All of it is somewhat affordable, around...

I actually used an 8GB Ideapad 1 7520u (these are Zen 2 chips since AMD can't be bothered to name things clearly across product lines) quite a bit over December. I found it entirely tolerable for running Office and Firefox. I spent a lot of time updating documentation and deliberately limited...

This will be a thing where the OEMs are just going to be happy to see costs per unit go up, so people who need new systems will be generally willing to pay more than they would five years ago. It's been a while since entry level was closer to $500 than $350, but I think we're going there. When...

nVidia brought zero new consumer products to CES this year and has apparently sharply reduced the number of 506x and 505x GPUs it's planning to ship in 2026 in favor of restarting production on the 3060. So if you were hoping to get a new RTX-something, maybe don't get your hopes up. Neither...

I've never lost a phone before, but continuing the trend of things that suck, my friend's kid tossed my phone out my car window when I didn't want to stop at McDonald's. My old phone is currently somewhere on I294 in approximately Harvey, Illinois and I'm not going back for it. I'm told the...

You found the one good K7S5A. I'm sure they made millions of those things but holy statistical outliers, Batman.

FWIW I suspect the reasons in this case might have been more like "There's no one on site to monitor the cameras." Gary somehow magically misses out on a lot of state grants and programs that other nearby school districts seem to get easily. I DO live in one of only two blue regions in Indiana...

He absolutely believes that he's the most popular president of all time. I suspect that his handlers don't allow him to see anything that contradicts that. It's a cold comfort, but apparently he's been getting regular MRIs and he keeps being given cognitive tests that one might offer dementia...

Since I have recently exchanged words with my folks on this topic: I no longer see National Public Radio as a worthwhile news source; since the second Bush Administration and definitely during the Obama Administration, it became increasingly willing to allow unchecked commentary from right-wing...

I've kind of spent the last few days in shock over what's been going on overall. One of the things that seems particularly awful is that these people have still had to do regular things like call off work or go and pretend nothing has happened. My one friend gets out of the hospital tomorrow. I...

Apparently, we run Venezuela now. I imagine that must come as quite a shock to the people who live there.

It's so hard to tell with cats. Their standard behavior is to mask their pain as best they can. I've brought a number of beloved animals to the gate of Valhalla and it never gets easier. Your Booster had a better life in a loving home and she didn't have to know pain at the end.