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It's not as robust as having ad-blocking on the device itself, but it works wonders for devices where that's not doable.

The MSRP on that is $220 if I'm not mistaken so you're not far off at all. I almost want it for the 7-segment displays alone but that clear side panel ruins it for me. Plus, I have far more important things to spend $220 on.

Dad's only 54. He turns 55 in about a month. He is the one that's too young for this to be happening to him. But that's life with Dystonia Parkinsonism. For my childhood his condition was pretty stable -- he had some mobility issues, but he could walk with a limp and drive fine. He took a while...

Dad’s doing okay and as long as they continue to take things seriously he should get better just fine. He’s in good spirits, too, so I’m not nearly as worried as I was before I drove up. Last night Somerset and London KY got slammed with tornadoes. The governor has declared it a disaster area...

My guess is that once the Xbox exits the market and Microsoft fully recommits to the PC, they'll sell a kit (a la their old Media Center TV remote/receiver kit) or a software bit/bob that'll enable that support for supported GPUs. I can't imagine it won't happen without some kind of licensing...

I feel I should also add that he’s going to be fine. I neglected to throw that in there in my fit of being dramatic.

Dad's doing worse than he'd admit to me. Not to air out all his medical issues for all and sundry but when my uncle and grandma went up to see him, well -- he went to the hospital this afternoon, and they're figuring out putting a feeding tube in here in the next few days and sending him to...

I'm using one of those weird half-keyboards for gaming on the couch since I can just plunk it down wherever and not have to bend my wrist unnaturally to get it to line up with my laptop's keyboard when I'm in the living room. I've had to leave my left wrist in jail (a brace) nightly for a couple...

I dumped 22 hours into Oblivion Remastered over the course of the last week -- sleeping, eating, working, and Oblivion -- and I've got about 4-5 hours of life left in this save before I start a new build to do another couple of questlines. The systems that were reworked are amazing in their own...

You're right upon further examination -- Haswell indeed does support XP, albeit with earlier drivers. There were Skylake boards and machines -- particularly OEM ones -- that made use of DDR3 so I'd hesitate to use DDR3 RAM as your discriminator, but in general that's a decent enough rule to...

Yeah, the worst part of my adjustment to being single again was wanting to share my day with someone and having to break the habit of looking for a certain specific someone in my messages. I'd have something humorous or infuriating to share and I'd have to sit and realize... oh. No one who I can...

That sounds like peak XP era to me, aside from the earliest Oregon Trails. Those you can run with an emulator for your platform of choice. Something like a Core2 or Sandy bridge box would be free on up to extremely cheap and do the job fine -- literally, any of them would do the trick, perfectly...

I’m not saying I need the entire palmrest to be one big touchpad, but the postage stamps that qualified for them in the 90s and 2000s are unusable IMO. There’s no room for granular movement without making it so sensitive that a quarter inch movement jets the cursor across the screen. And the...

Late 90s and early 2000s touchpads were absolutely utterly god-awful. Either too sensitive or not sensitive enough, far too small, and I actually happen to use the gestures that only became common in the mid 2010's because PC makers finally got around to copying Apple on their superb touchpads...

I only seldom order stuff from Amazon, because I refuse to pay for prime and usually I'm ordering several small things that don't add up to their 35 dollar threshold to get free shipping otherwise. Meanwhile on eBay I only rarely pay for shipping on anything. That said, with the tariffs, I...

This is going to sound like sacrilege, but since touchpads finally got good for PCs I've been kind of predominantly a touchpad user for general purpose computing, reverting to a mouse when I'm playing a game where the mouse controls the camera. I can't imagine that's any better for my wrists...

Wonder if the N150 being out is going to make the N100 inventory do a price drop. Given that it seems to be an incremental bump all around, I'm guessing not. Especially with the tariff situation.

I was going to wait for a sale to pick it up but I got a steam gift card sitting around so I grabbed it. I'm glad I did, it's lots of fun. My friends are constantly making "we need to cook" references now.

I just remembered I actually underclocked the GPU using ATiTool in another bid to make sure it doesn’t kill itself. It’s too memory bandwidth starved to make use of a 316MHz core clock anyway. I have it clocked at 225MHz on the core and 200MHz on the RAM, and it performs about as well — which...

Now for another project box that you haven't been told about yet -- I have a nearly mint IBM T42. Dothan core Pentium M @ 1.7GHz, mobility Radeon 9600 64MB, 2GB DDR-333. I'm currently imaging the 128GB SSD I originally put in it over to a 256 and expanding the partition. There's not even any...

What's the plan for when AMD inevitably drops driver support for them at the worst possible time? I know Polaris has to be next on the chopping block, but they dropped support for the R9 2/3xx range during the last GPU shortage. I'm honestly shocked they still support Polaris, even, and that...

Those are some eye-watering power bills in your future, but I can't argue with those numbers. I might consume a quarter of the load power you do, but I also probably get about a quarter of the performance. I guess it's a good thing for me, then, that that's enough. :) It sounds like you're...

Hearing that it was still unmodified Gamebryo underneath made me shrug and go back to playing my heavily modded copy of the original release. The vanilla game is utterly broken in many ways and I refuse to go back to those mechanics regardless of what graphics pack has been thrown on top.

So, I wound up with a Precision 7750 off of a friend whose company was liquidating inventory after upgrading their fleet. No storage, asset info was scrubbed, the useless battery was removed so it could go in a plane, so on and so forth. I ended up chucking the 2TB I bought for my 840g8 and a...

The label does hurt thermal performance a tad, but in my experience with delabelling one to get better contact with the heatsink, it's not by enough to matter. the pad will fill in the minuscule air gaps between the SSD and the aluminum block (or copper pipe, or what-have-you) with something...

Pope Francis has passed, having made it to one more Easter. I'm sure it's no small relief after fighting for his life pretty much for all of the month previous. Can't wait for the hateful bigots to somehow use this as justification for their hatred, saying that God struck him down for his...

Maybe try setting up Windows on the new drive fresh, and then cloning the disk so that your firmware picks up that it's supposed to be looking for a bootloader on the new drive?

Are you cloning the entire drive or just the main Windows partition? You need to see a few-hundred-meg FAT32 partition on your drive labelled as an EFI System Partition for the UEFI firmware to figure out what it's supposed to be booting from. Can you post a screenshot of what your partition...

Good riddance. It was long overdue and whatever companies end up tangled in it deserve what they get, IMO. We knew it was a bubble a very long time ago. I'll weep for the workers affected and getting dumped into an uncertain job market and a souring economy, but no one else.

And if you're already not-buying Windows 11, you can use certain enterprise grade versions that come without a lot of the annoying cruft. IoT Enterprise LTSC 2024 is supposedly going to be supported until October of 2034. That said, you could stick with a 10 base and use LTSC 2021, which I...

That's... supposed to be a given. UEFI typically only functions on FAT32 volumes. It's why your ESP where your bootloaders get stuffed is in FAT32. There's nothing stopping anyone from writing an ext4, xfs, btrfs, zfs, NTFS, exFAT, or even HPFS filesystem driver for it, but it's just... not...

In general, if there's a BIOS upgrade available and I don't have a specific reason for remaining behind, I'll flash it, but that has burnt me once or twice. Thankfully it was on a board with flashback capability where IIRC it kept a copy of the old firmware on another EEPROM that it could boot...

I miss FIC and Abit. Soltek, even. AOpen?

Typically my preferred vendor is ASRock, their stuff is a little quirky but it's always been dependable and excellent value for money. I'll take ASUS next, they're usually a bit spendier than I want, but sometimes it's worth it -- my home server got migrated from a Gigabyte x470 board with my...

Could have sworn I posted a response to this... Anyway, thanks for that suggestion Merc, I kicked the tires on it and while I'm not thrilled about its inclusion of a "Copilot" like feature or that it seems to be really enthusiastic about asking for feedback... I mostly prefer software that does...

Chewy, he asked in context of filling out forms, so something that can edit PDFs would be needed -- usually the editing functionality is what costs money. I've got to be honest, I just use SumatraPDF for reading them, then print them out, fill them out, and scan them back in, myself. I've heard...

I've discovered a procedure by which I can in theory decouple the DOS drivers for the Maestro2E from a Windows 9x install. I may end up doing so and dual-booting the (illegal, but whatever) CDU distribution of MS-DOS 7.1 with Windows 2000 or maybe even XP assuming I end up actually needing it...

Selaco is flat out running in the GZDoom engine. Zortch is another boomer shooter I enjoy. You might also like Ultrakill, but that can get pretty difficult and the visuals might be a bit... much at times. The Nightdive ports of Powerslave, Blood, Quake/Quake II, and Doom/Doom 2 are also all very...

I'm probably just about covered. I'd say I have less than 8k worth of equipment in my car and my blue book value is still 15k.

Yep, at any given time I'm carrying in my car a ladder, a stocked toolbox (including cabling stuff), several backup receipt printers and card readers for our point of sale clients, a 1000ft box of cat5e, a crate with lots of miscellaneous things like displayport to HDMI adapters, patch cables...

The thing is, this is exactly what the richest want -- they can weather the storm, buy up everything the small fry is forced to sell to survive, and further consolidate their ownership over... well... everything. I'm actually kind of glad I never planned to retire; at this point it looks like...

There are plenty, sure, but they're roundabout as hard to find with, specifically, WPA2 support under Windows 9x as the Cardbus variants. That has to be supported at two levels -- the driver, and the connection client. The connection client is covered by virtue of my... acquiring... of a copy of...

Well, the D-Link card is a bust -- it's an Atheros 5211 like the SMC card I already have. That may or may not yet be convinced to do WPA2 under Windows 9x, I'm not sure. I have a saved search set for a card I know is RT61-based, but until then, tinkering is in order I suppose. As for why I want...

I figured Intel would be exiting the DGPU market again after how badly Alchemist performed. They have to do some belt tightening anyway.

I've got a few active projects, currently: - Precision M4400 (C2D P9700, FX 770M, 4GB DDR2-800, 512GB SSD, XP SP3) - Latitude CPx H500GT (PIIIE-500, Rage Mobility M1, 256MB PC100, ESS Maestro2E, 128GB SSD, WinME) - Biostar MB-8500TTD (430TX, 64MB RAM, Pentium MMX 233@262, CT3930 AWE32 w/ 28MB...

I already crave the surety of steel to my weak organic body. Hail the omnissiah! In all seriousness, I'm supposed to be too young for knees to hurt me like they already do, but here we are. It's like having a barometer wired into the pain centers of your brain.

Here's the thing -- Trump doesn't just want to rule over it all, he wants to punish anyone who defies him. Nuclear bomb usage is a MAD scenario that would deter most rational actors -- I don't believe Trump is a rational actor in this equation. If he can't have it, he may well make it so nobody...

No, it'll just be the first civil war to involve the use of nuclear weapons. See if they don't nuke NY and California and anyone who helps them.

The alarm is starting to be sounded on Trump ignoring court orders; I don't know why anyone is surprised. In other news, he's ended secret service protections, useful as it may or may not be, for Biden's kids, so watch for them to mysteriously disappear before too long and for the media to not...

I'd escalate it up the chain as far as it gets before I just accept that. Or just change carriers entirely. You had a contract and they're choosing not to honor it? Sounds like their problem, not yours.