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  • Mercutio
    Mercutio replied to the thread Pi-Hole?.
    I install ad blocking on everything I touch. I don't care. Advertising is a malware vector and must be treated as hostile.
  • ddrueding
    ddrueding replied to the thread Pi-Hole?.
    I had one running when I was doing lots of system builds or repairs. Nice to have the benefits of ad blocking without having to modify...
  • Mercutio
    Mercutio replied to the thread Pi-Hole?.
    They're very useful for people with lame mobile devices or who are too lazy to set up ad blocking on their devices. I've set them up...
  • Newtun
    Newtun posted the thread Pi-Hole? in Tech Support.
    Does anyone else here use Pi-hole? I came across it at some point, and it seemed useful, so I set it up on a little VM. But I'm not so...
  • Chewy509
    Chewy509 replied to the thread Computer Cases.
    Some mini-its stuff from Computex 2025
  • Mercutio
    Mercutio replied to the thread Video Cards.
    I had to make a trip to Micro Center this morning for a couple CPUs and as luck would have it, I was able to get a Gigabyte 16GB 5060Ti...
  • Mercutio
    Mercutio replied to the thread Computer Cases.
    The Fractal Define and Cooler Master Nwhatever have been my go-to options for modest builds, but it's hard for me to justify $150 for a...
  • Chewy509
    Chewy509 replied to the thread Computer Cases.
    Yeah, I agree, the fish bowl design is uninspired. At least we still have companies like Chenbro making modernised 20 year old...
  • J
    jtr1962 replied to the thread Computer Cases.
    It reminds me of the case my old 386 is in. Beige cases were almost always disgusting. I never understood the point of picking a color...
  • Mercutio
    Mercutio replied to the thread Computer Cases.
    I did actually go digging around on the Silverstone web site, where I found this monster. I have a pair of Norco 3U 24 bay chassis and...
  • sedrosken
    sedrosken replied to the thread Computer Cases.
    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...
  • Mercutio
    Mercutio replied to the thread Computer Cases.
    You know they're going to want $250 for that thing. There were some great looking beige cases back in the day but no, they went...
  • Chewy509
    Chewy509 replied to the thread Computer Cases.
    What's wrong with the Silverstone FLP02...
  • Mercutio
    Mercutio replied to the thread Something Random.
    I actually managed to use all 96GB + 96GB swap on my workstation today by accidentally calling ImageMagick on on about 20M files...
  • ddrueding
    ddrueding reacted to Mercutio's post in the thread Laptop Boot Drive Swap Fails with Like Like.
    For future reference, if you ever need to delete and/or recreate your recovery partition on a Windows system, you have to work from...
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