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    Samsung Galaxy S24 / S24+ / S24 Ultra

    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 important functionality. This was, I think, Android...
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    Anyone went strictly to SSDs only yet ?

    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 severely bottleneck an SGI Octane.) Until then...
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    Samsung Galaxy S24 / S24+ / S24 Ultra

    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 kidding about how much they've stepped up their...
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    [Rumor] Windows 12 to arrive in fall 2024 with a floating taskbar and a focus on AI

    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 a hard-docked bar.) This focus on NPUs better not...
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    Optimum speaker setup for PC gaming?

    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 games back in the day because of it, and Creative had...
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    Samsung Galaxy S24 / S24+ / S24 Ultra

    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 the lip at the edge of my case just beneath the...
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    What do you do with very small SSD or NVMe drives?

    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 write endurance won't hold up. Those would be...
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    Seeking input on adding a 16 port Sata expansion card

    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 internal lanes across 4 ports) variety. Attach a...
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    30tb hdd for consumers this year

    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 about the rebuild/resilver times on arrays composed...
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    2.5" SSD for gaming?

    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 XPoint/Optane.
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    Samsung Galaxy S24 / S24+ / S24 Ultra

    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 the AI features. That said, I'm surprised he...
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    Samsung Galaxy S24 / S24+ / S24 Ultra

    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 you're pressing without actually showing the nav...
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    Samsung Galaxy S24 / S24+ / S24 Ultra

    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 other stuff with the USB-C port but can't just...
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    Samsung Galaxy S24 / S24+ / S24 Ultra

    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 the past, well before the merger), just took the...
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    The Mac turns 40

    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 part of the reason people want to pay so much for...
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