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I remember, back in the Note 4 days, I readily took advantage of the fact that Sprint variants had an unlocked bootloader because that was the only way I could fix the system DPI being way too damn big, and a lot of apps still needed root for...

Show me where I can get a 3D-stacked TLC NAND SSD for $2.75/TB, or better yet, MLC, and maybe I can do away with all the spinning rust in my non-retro systems. (Even there, a SCSI2SD/BlueSCSI/etc. works wonders for old Macs and Amigas, but will...

Damn, I'd be pissed beyond belief too were I in your situation, and Samsung customer "support" is already... infamously substandard. You'd think a $1,300+ smartphone would have appropriately premium customer service to back it up. I wasn't...

My quick comparison between stock Android on the Pixel and OneUI on the Galaxy. Pixel UI everything seems extra large or big. It's a very artsy bubbly almost goofy / funky design throughout the UI. The animations and the way things bounce and...

Very early into the phone, got it setup to start with. Still so much to explore and tweak. Hardware is superb, this is a very high quality feeling phone. Screen so far looks great to me. Phone is super smooth no lag whatsoever. Was surprised...

Floating taskbar? They better give us the option to reposition it that they took away in Windows 11 to begin with, then! (And depending on implementation, it could be very reminiscent of how BeOS and SGI IRIX had this floating menu as opposed to...

I might be interested in AI when it could be hosted on a machine on my local network. No subscriptions and no requirement for a external account (like a Microsoft account). The only time the AI should access the internet is when I told it to.

The optimal setup is headphones with a good HRTF. (Add a subwoofer if you want immersive explosions.) Aureal understood this back in the late '90s and made it a selling point with A3D - people were getting that "aural wallhack" feeling in PC...

Looks like Samsung recently updated the NavStar part of Good Lock to bring back the old-style edge swipe gestures, though I'm having a bit more trouble executing them properly than I did with my old Note 20 Ultra. Might have something to do with...

Certain NAS OS distributions like TrueNAS don't allow you to use your boot drive for storage as well, so overly large SSDs are actually wasted on them - but you also shouldn't use garden variety USB flash drives or SD cards, either, because their...

Unless you're REALLY constrained for PCIe lanes, I would not waste money on that SATA card. Going with ASMedia and especially JMicron chipsets on that thing is a recipe for pain. Second-hand LSI SAS HBAs can be had for less, even the 16i (16...

Much as I'd love to have 30 TB in a single drive, that will likely be wallet-demolishingly expensive from a $/TB standpoint. Gotta milk all those datacenters that are limited in drive bay quantity for all their worth, right? Also, just think...

Great, now I'm really kicking myself for missing the news on that Micron/Crucial 7400 Pro deal. Those numbers are quite phenomenal at that $/TB ratio, barring the Q1T1 for obvious reasons, but if you want high Q1T1 performance, you buy 3D...

I finally replaced all my 5 year old Samsung 960 Pro / 970 Evo SSD with 2.5 inch SSD's and ran some testing with crystal disk mark on the new drives. Micron 7400 Pro 7.68TB (PCIe 4.0 x 4) - Q1T1 Read performance isn't particularly impressive...

I can tell this particular reviewer really favors camera performance like most tech influencers/reviewers do, and in that respect, it really does look like Google put more thought overall into their camera app than Samsung did, particularly with...

Just for clarification, when I talk about the swipe gestures, I don't mean the newer pill/bar-based ones, but the ones modeled after the nav bar where it's which third of the lower screen edge you're swiping up from that determines which button...

Honestly, it sounds like the Xperia 1 V checks all of my boxes except for that Wacom EMR pen, and that's a niche Samsung has all to themselves. It's rather frustrating that nobody wants to compete there, because I can work around most of that...

And you can't just set up an eSIM on a pre-release phone like a physical SIM by scanning a QR code or whatever? So much for eSIMs being easier and more convenient like they all said! I'm on AT&T at the moment (and have had Sprint and T-Mobile in...

Oh, right, hadn't put much thought into System 6, mostly because I'm way too used to the System 7-Mac OS 9 era and a lot of games outright require that. Usually, if there's any OS compatibility that inflates Mac values, it's A/UX, which may be...

The Quadra 950 would probably challenge the IIfx in terms of "ridiculous 68k Mac resale values" today, especially that one dude trying to flip some for $600, $700, even $1,000 with a PowerPC 601 upgrade over at VCF Midwest (and failing, because...