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CCleaner used to be good, now it's just adware. Even if cleaning the registry was by and large a placebo, it did do a better job of removing temp files than Disk Cleanup did. These days if I need something like that I'll use BleachBit. I'll echo everyone here and say I use uBlock Origin, but I...

Turns out OCCT needs a license to do actual stability testing. Without one, you're stuck with a 1h test duration. I found this out to my detriment leaving the computer running what I thought were laps in OCCT all night and day while I was at work, but it actually just sat idle for 15 of the 16...

Got the 3770K in. Kicked it to 4.5GHz 1.35v just off the bat. Got it at 4.6 now, seems okay in testing so far, though Firefox did crash suspiciously the first time I was writing this post... that COULD just be a coincidence, though. Edit: no, no it's not. 1.35 was my limit for voltage for a...

I really need to make it up to see my dad more often than I do.

And regardless of how "violent" you think Pretti was, he was already disarmed and no longer a threat when he got magdumped. Maybe we shouldn't be magdumping protesters, just kind of like, at all?

ICE is being sent into places where they are meant to experience 'resistance' (aka, people not cheerfully giving up their friends and neighbors to the modern equivalent of the Gestapo) specifically to stir up enough trouble to justify a further crackdown and potential declaration of martial law...

This could be a gamechanger in getting a baseline image setup quickly and easily.

I've been using library sharing to share my own (not insignificant, ~490 titles now) library with my sister for years now. One thing I like to do is buy old games when they get cheap on Steam or GoG, and then grab more appropriate install media for the target platforms where appropriate and use...

It's not -- if I have to swap the board, I'm more likely to rebuild with my X470 board with the questionable SATA ports. I've sent the 3060 and 5700X I had on to a friend who needed it more a little while back, and my 1070 and 5500 are going out to another friend in similar straits sometime next...

Ivy Bridge with questionable-to-nonexistent ReBAR and potential UEFI GOP issues. Plus, the Arc is just wholly inappropriate for this class of hardware. And it consumes more power than I'd like. I also play a lot of older titles that still act strangely on first-gen Arc. I imagine I'd get a...

You're pretty much bang-on. DRAM and to a lesser extent NAND prices are in crisis right now and only getting worse and GPUs have been insanity for years, even at the low-mid end. I will say, if it's a light-use machine, just stick with the integrated graphics. An APU is 100% fine for 99.97% of...

What ISN'T working so hot is my old RX480. It has full driver support but I think my particular example must just be dying. Stressing it out and then asking it to use its encoding block to stream is a good way to make it corrupt the display, lock up the machine and then first completely shut off...

I used Poweramp back when I was an Android user. I think there's a port of foobar2000 as well.

We're in a civil war already, we just don't know it yet.

As long as what I'm doing doesn't have a hard AVX2 requirement, I'm having a hard time finding a workload that really, truly crushes it underfoot, even at stock clocks. Sure, my 1135g7 takes a fifth of the power to run ~10-15% faster, but that's basically a full decade removed, I'd sure hope it...

I've got an i7-2600 box up on the bench right now testing its RAM after I installed an updated UEFI a friend put together for me that fixes UEFI in general (these Sandy boxes were early days for that, yet) and curiously allows for booting NVME, and after I went down a few little rabbitholes with...

Yeah, I ran it on my 16GB SLGO2 and noticed a pretty decent drop in allocated RAM at the desktop, though a modern web browser still soon renders that moot. I hate this timeline.

Something like this is what I have in mind. I don't LOVE giving anyone a machine with less than 16GB of RAM anymore, but it sounds like her needs are pretty basic, and this will satisfy basic needs pretty well especially for the money. If she plans to do anything but update Windows and a web...

7 is your best bet. 10 will probably work but be a trainwreck -- 11 will need Rufus shenanigans to get it to even install, maybe, though on Core2 I honestly don't know if you'll run into some illegal instruction messages. I second Merc on this. Their money is better spent on a Chromebook or an...

AWS is still Amazon, which means it's still really not all that sovereign, is it?

On the contrary, I doubt it'll be very funny at all when Trump's bruised ego makes him declare war on every country that kicks us out. The American century of humiliation continues apace.

Oh, no doubt. If it were a work machine or if I wasn't planning to make use of the big IGP in the x840 SKU, I'd be fine with it, but if I'm putting in the money and it's going to be soldered, it needs to be 32. I'm making 16 work right now in the SLGO2, but it can't run some of the stuff that...

I'm kind of playing with the idea of grabbing a 7840U machine for myself before things get utterly ridiculous, and Walmart even had a Zenbook with an 8840HS and 16/512 for an actually fairly reasonable $599 when I happened to be in for something else yesterday. I want the superior build quality...

My guess is they're supplying chips for AI, so they really don't care if the peons buy or not.

I did some domain consolidation, settling in on using my .net domain going forward for everything instead of the .xyz and .com. The .com is a bit expensive to maintain, the .xyz isn't taken seriously (and *.xyz is on enough spam lists that it's legitimately limited my ability to sign up for...

I don't necessarily mean moving back home in the context of moving back in with my Dad, if only because he's stubborn and won't let me take care of him. If it was something I needed for financial reasons he'd do it, but he won't let me do the same for him. I understand his reasoning, but that...

My question for them would be, why would they not have the cameras on year-round? Kids don't just stop existing in the summer. It's not like there aren't summer activities, from what I understand a lot of agricultural programs do a fair bit of their work in the summer. Is it a cost-cutting...

Who says we'd admit any of them as a state? They'll be territories, at best, my guess is 'independent' countries that curiously never go against the official line from the God-emperor. He likely has no interest in actually running these places beyond extracting all their natural resources. Never...

He's not going to stop there.

Jesus Merc, when it rains it pours. That’s all horrible. Here’s hoping you’re at the end of it and things pick up from here. I’m up with my uncle visiting my dad, and he’s in better health than I’ve seen him for a good year or so. He’s got his upper body strength back and seems back to his...

If it’s any consolation, you did the right thing, the responsible thing, the loving thing. That doesn’t mean it feels good, of course, but these choices are always the hardest and will always replay in our minds regardless of how we play them out. I’m deeply sorry for your loss.

In my experience, SiS's primary sin is that it's slow and DMA is flaky under Windows 98. Under an NT based OS I haven't had any complaints, really. Yeah, from what I gather most of the attachment to 3dfx seems to be of the "you had to be there" variety. In $currentYear with access to 30 years...

Yeah, I jinxed myself. Still freezes. Seems to go longer before doing it, which is promising -- I wonder if I have this recapped if it'll be alright. Hmm. Time to put together a Digikey cart, I guess. I also have another 440BX board to try, this one is older and might not support Coppermine...

I don't want to jinx anything, because the PII-400 was stable too until it just locked up, but the PIII-600 so far seems to be fine. Had a very cool "back in the day" OEM experience where I got to unseal the PIII in its antistatic bag and install the cooler just like an OEM would have. Of...

I'm currently pounding my head against the brick wall that is Slot 1 again... I have a nice board, the ASUS P3B-F. After swapping the Seasonic SS-350ET I had with a more period-accurate Antec 350W supply with plenty of grunt on the +5v rail, it's much improved stability wise except for this...

Neither. Trump will cancel elections, die, and then they'll Weekend at Bernie's him with AI or whatever.

Some stuff I was surprised ran at all, albeit quite slowly: Zuma Deluxe, Feeding Frenzy... in general I did not expect these mid-2000s shovelware (affectionate) titles to even launch, I just copied them over because... why not. Some stuff I was surprised didn't: Age of Empires 2. It just...

The integrated video is surprisingly competent in some areas and the whiplash between the highs and lows is kind of insane: using FastDoom to run in mode 13h like Heretic or Hexen does instead of mode Y as DOS Doom does by default has the high-detail sound-on results of benchmarking demo1 going...

I found what Cathode Ray Dude on YouTube terms a 'beige whale' a week or so ago. That is to say, something I've been on the lookout for, wanted, but wasn't willing to expend actual time/effort/money into tracking down. I've wanted something based around a Cyrix MediaGX for almost ten years now...

I'm sorry, I wish I had something more useful to say... If I hear anything, not that it's exceedingly likely, I'll let you all know.

Horrible to see that happened jtr. Hoping your funds get recovered. It's been going around, we've had a former client who retired who called us all panicked about something similar... all we could do was forward her on to the FBI and SEC. I'd be extremely skeptical of any online-only...

The employees are already the ones left holding the bag. Micron's press release says they're going to minimize the impact insofar as they can by relocating them within the company, but I imagine placement for that's fairly minimal. It's basically another wave of soft layoffs. Steve from GN had...

Yeah, I mean... my demo unit is fine. It doesn't win any awards but it does its job and lasts forever on a charge. I've gotten to where I don't even bring my charger with me on a service call.

Frankly, I hope they do get burnt and they learn from it.

I would be the oldest of my generation in this branch of the family if it weren't for the cousins who were brought in by my uncle remarrying... I'm actually grateful -- it keeps the heat off me for making another generation, which frankly, I've further and further soured on as years pass. I...

In regular, active use are my Precision (10850H/32GB/RTX5000 16GB, used rarely) and the Surface Laptop Go 2 (1135g7/16GB), though I do make use of the Evo N410c (PIIIM-1.2/1GB/Mobility Radeon M6 16MB) for a surprising amount of stuff -- that native RS232 is surprisingly useful, and it's strong...

Got everyone kicked over through the weekend. I won't even get a final bill, I'm all paid up. I don't think I'd be coming back to holidays at all if my folks were like that. We very carefully tiptoed around the subject of politics, but that was a conscious effort from all parties because no one...

Yeah, I use pfSense at home and it smacks of an obscure configuration issue but I couldn't tell you what. I'd maybe look at the time issue as well -- a few minutes makes a huge difference.

Spoiled milk, Lysol, black coffee, and power steering fluid (specifically the import formula). Call it the Domineering Horse Annihilator.

Mine's looking like half of it's gonna be consumed with getting a cousin off my wireless plan so I can change carriers and save everyone involved some money. I had her on my plan to begin with because she couldn't afford to replace her phone and it'd cost her twice as much to go to a big carrier...