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Looking at the list of available-at-retail AM4 CPUs is actually looking like a horror show right now; only the 5500, 5500X and 5600, 5600X and 5600XT are available for less than $200. Used prices are a lot better, obviously, but it's it seems that the predictable outcome of unaffordable DDR5 has...

I'm not sure if anyone here is even remotely interested, but Motion Cam Pro, the software I use to capture RAW video on Android, just released its v5.0 update. They have also announced that the price is going from $27 to $39. It is also getting an iOS release and apparently it's a buy-once deal...

We talk about this every year. I have an old ass AC unit that I'm not allowed to upgrade or replace because it's identical to the ones in every other apartment in the building. It cools roughly the 8 square feet closest to itself and nothing else. I only run it if the outdoor temperature is...

And I just noticed that it's going to be over 90F the rest of the week so hopefully no more kids or games at my place anyway.

It's possible Asus has cleaned up its warranty act after getting a crap-ton of bad press for being just the worst about RMAs. I don't know that, but it's possible. The last thing I had that should've gone back was a 9th gen i7 laptop with an unclearable BIOS password. Asus sets a default...

Valve and Meta are IIRC the only two companies selling PC compatible VR hardware. If anything, they either have to keep making gear or cede the market to an even greater evil. The last thing the world needs is to let Facebook have sole control of a technology. If you're counting, I do think...

GL.inet Comet Pros were $140 last week and I bought a couple. These are IPKVMs with direct support for Tailscale and Zerotier that support up to 2560x1440 resolutions at up to 60fps. They have ~30GB of internal storage that can be used for deploying OS images or backups, There's a down side...

How much of a market does VR have in the first place? I don't think I know anyone still trying to do something with VR in 2026.

I've been working on PC stuff since the late 80s and I've never once had an Asus RMA complete successfully. I still buy its monitors and notebooks but I'm going to be interested to see how this plays out.

I have to engage with it as a side effect of supporting other people who play games on PCs. I do get to tell people how wrong they are the entire time, but much like people who buy iOS devices, this is a thing a loathsome thing that is nonetheless regularly set before me. How is it worse...

An HX 370 has very credible graphics performance for an APU. Supposedly between mobile 3060 and 4060 performance, but with assignable RAM and power configs. Mine was $700 with 32 GB RAM and a 1TB SSD. It also has OcuLink and USB4 on it and only really makes meaningful noise if you manage to...

I've never tolerated Valve and I've never understood why anyone else does, either. Valve actively makes PC gaming worse for the essential monoculture it has created for gaming, a space where that never should have happened. GoG is much closer to the ideal everyone should hope wins out, and I...

A socketed CPU and one PCIe port would probably change a lot of minds, but they didn't go that route. The frustration I have here is that I can see a lot of people saying that they were looking at this thing as the entry point to make PC gaming console like. I don't know why that should be an...

I never thought I'd see the day that I'd jump at a chance to spend $40 on a 250GB SD card, but here we are.

I've never been OK with Valve, but I think the mass audience of PC gamers thought it was their friend that could do no wrong, and see the price as a smack in the face. The smack in the face is somewhat real, but I've been telling people all along that whatever that thing sells for, it'll still...

Windows 7 was really the last no-bullshit version of Windows. I understand wanting to cling to it.

Steam Machine is $1050 for 500GB Storage and $1350 for 2TB. The controller is $20 cheaper if you buy it with the PC. Ouch.

That is very fixable. Open the install file with 7zip, extract the files and install them by hand. At worst, you might have to modify a .inf file or six.

The issue for AMD on Windows 7 is actually just the USB drivers. You can either slipstream the drivers into the installation media or, if you have a PS/2 port on your system, you can just install them after the fact. I'll admit I haven't tried setting up anything better than maybe a Ryzen 3700...

UPNP made a lot of consumer level LAN services a lot easier to set up but of course it's a bad practice to use it. The main reason I use Jellyfin is that it supports multichannel FLAC and I have a lot of multichannel audio. Jellyfin's music service defaults also do a better job than Plex at...

I know there are people who update drivers for older AMD drivers but it's mostly because AMD used to be terrible about abandoning mobile graphics. That A10 is from AMD's pre-Ryzen time in the wilderness. I'm not even sure I've ever installed anything in socket FM2+, but I suspect it would be...

I was going to suggest running your music through Squeezebox or Jellyfin. UPNP / DLNA i certainly works, but you may have an easier time in something that handles presentation as well.

It's something I just noticed in passing. Nadia's birthday is in a couple weeks and I'm looking for something fun to give her. I suspect it would be fine for a lot of use cases that aren't AAA gaming, but she already appropriated my Logitech G Cloud and has an Ayn Odin 2 for her hand-held needs...

I'm assuming that you're on the last set of drivers released, which was from... four years ago. Given that's the case, why not just have your PC reboot like every Sunday night so it's not an issue?

What happens if you turn off the Firewall on your Linux PC before you search?

Windows? Linux? What are you using to host your music? Dedicated server application or just Windows Media player?

Apparently the Asus ROG Ally Xbox edition can be had for around $400 on Ebay and from sellers with dozens of positive feedback ratings, presumably because everyone thinks Xbox is a dirty word now. Arch-derived Linux flavors like CachyOS and SteamOS are going through it right now because a...

My tires were purchased at Costco, which does indeed cover replacement from road hazards. It's a pro-rated coverage, so I do have to pay something like $650 to get replacements, but that's better than $1600 for a new set. I've always paid for high-mileage tires, but since my car uses an odd...

My power is back on for the first time since Thursday night. We had tornadoes through this area, and may have more today. Yay. Even worse, as designated Uber for a bunch of single moms, I spent my power-free weekend driving people to Costco/Sam's Club/BJs and on Sunday I ran over a...

Sadly torture won't actually get you your money back.

I know people with big followings on IG, Snapchat or Twitter but posting a random GoFundMe between the thirst traps would cost them thousands of followers.

Microsoft's Xbox executive: Sucks to be them, huh? Emudeck is absolutely on my shit list. Seems like every time it updates, I have to update the path to individual emulator binaries on each of my game systems. And then I have to execute titles that use those Emulators in Steam Rom Manager...

FTX was a highly regarded Crypto Exchange once upon a time. I have no idea how to promote a GoFundMe. Social media? Does anyone here use that?

Manifestv2 has been on death's door for about a year as it is. They said summer of 2026 a while ago and time has flown as expected. I transitioned everyone I manage to uBlock Lite instead. It doesn't work as well but that's exactly why it's acceptable to Google and MS in the first place.

You do still have assets and presumably those do have value that exceed your current financial obligations to someone. There's probably an instrument to use those to get back on solid ground. A Crypto IPO probably isn't a ticket to wealth unless you're set up as a pre-offering owner of the...

One of Firefox's primary developers has merged Brave's open source ad blocking engine into the Firefox code base. I don't think it's in current releases and I don't think it will be as thorough as fully functional uBo, but if it's something I can enable by default through ADMX files on systems...

I have a small claims judgment against Samsung over a misdirected RMA shipment, but I can't figure out how to collect on it. I sort of have a dream of visiting an office or a trade booth and just walking off with something petty, like a chair from a waiting room.

Joe, have you examined City resources for addressing your situation? I do see that there are programs in your Borough and City-wide for helping out older persons as well as programs run by Con Ed. I'm not entirely sure what you might qualify for, but surely it is a better option to consider than...

One of the more interesting things I've done with it is to translate code I've already written and in some cases used for years and years and made into some other language. Perl scripts I wrote in the 90s look like line noise but they can become very readable Python, for example. Not so much...

I'm on a 5TB Google One on my persona Gmail, which gives me Gemini Plus. I bought in to somebody's Gemini Pro through G2A. I do see that there's a difference in the reasoning models I can use on one versus the other. One of the things I can see is that I can feel "Pro" vastly larger files and...

It's fairly tangential to Windows 11 as such, but the newly announced version of MacOS does not support any Intel hardware. If they aren't releasing x86 binaries, that's the end of the road for the Hackintosh community as well, and that's one less choice for the rest of us as well.

Knowing that we're looking at the "new" 5800X3D in about a week and a half, I should point out that the 5900X is around $250 and the 5900XT, a CPU that is only 18 months old, is $280. Both are considerably faster than the 5800X3D if you have any kind of non-gaming workload and fairly negligibly...

I've never, ever, ever had a fraud issue with G2A. If they're ripping off Microsoft or Google or Valve or anyone who makes the mistake of using Valve for distribution, that sounds like other people problems to me.

I paid $12 for 15 months of access to a Gemini Pro plan from G2A on a tertiary Google account I have after seeing how stupid cheap they are on G2A.com. I feel a little dirty about it, but I did want to know what it can do since people keep asking me about it. So far, I had to join a newly made...

I don't think we're getting vastly more efficient anything unless there's some staggering breakthrough in materials science. Germanium-based wafers or the like. We're already deep into diminishing returns; 5nm to 4nm didn't move the efficiency needle much for CPUs or GPUs, and I don't think...

"Crawling" might be a strong word. But what else will they do if rackmounted compute hardware isn't consuming every bit of capital expenditure in tech? Without OpenAI and Anthropic driving demand, why vastly overspecialize in high bandwidth memory? The bubble popping will be UGLY. Not just...

Microsoft, one of the most well financed and wealthy companies to ever exist on Earth, started charging for Copilot Code tokens at their actual monetary value yesterday instead of heavily subsidizing them on June 1, 2026. Today, many Copilot Code users have discovered that their day-one use of...

The Beelink Ex Mate is a $200 Direct-Attach USB 4 dock with 4x m.2 ports, 2.5GbE and even a decent Bluetooth speaker. Personally, having a network port that isn't at least 10Gb leaves me a little limp, but somebody stuck working full time on a laptop or mini-PC might see this thing as a...

When you create a site within a Reverse Tunnel Bridge on Cloudflare, you can specify an authentication method. You can assign usernames and passwords of your own or use something like a Google or Microsoft account. I think you can require an authenticator app as well, but that's more obnoxious...

I have Immich instances hosted in my home. I have access to them arbitrated by a Google sign in before Cloudflare allows traffic on to the relevant server, where they have to sign in a second time. There are traffic authorization rules you can set on reverse tunnels. I think they're very...