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I have also moved to Kagi from my prior options. Being able to weight and block/pin domains is a huge feature. Especially when a lot of my searches are specific or often looking for a result from the same site. Even without that, though, I find myself encountering far less spammy results and...

Another +1 for Brother from me (have had mine for 4+ years now and going strong, even on Linux with minimal setup, hooked up to a print server, still using the original toner!) and a strong -1000 for modern era HP. The HPs we got at work for internal purchasing by end users are extremely scammy...

I wonder how these would compare to my Edifier R1280DBs in terms of overall quality. These are smaller of course, but seem to be getting rave reviews

Interesting to me that the drives have the same problem in another system. Definitely sounds like the problem is following the drives wherever they are instead of it being other hardware at fault, though these things do get complicated to troubleshoot. Really feels like it's the drives, but for...

Firefox is my main browser on all PCs across multiple OSes, all on latest versions, and I've never had this issue, nor have I had any "mining" going on. I have periodically on Windows, in particular, had weird issues with Firefox and Chrome in the past, but those turned out to be a corrupted...

I've been pleasantly surprised even with some of their bargain-bin stuff. The quality really seems to have a big range and it's not even necessarily by price- though it's typically a good indicator, with some exceptions- I've bought some one-off $1.50 screwdrivers that were better quality...

Having hot swappable switches at those prices seems wild to me. Sounds like the software that goes with these (but not required to install/use, except maybe particular features) is sketchy, but aside from that seems good

Yeah at home, I'm all Linux (main gaming PC, living room PC, lightweight laptop, servers, etc) except for two PCs- one for music production and another (gaming laptop) as basically a catch-all for software that won't run on Linux (Affinity Photo/Designer, games that won't work on my main gaming...

Yes, I absolutely hate how pushy Microsoft is getting again with all of their own products inside their OS. I would not mind at all if the regulatory hammer came down on them hard again. I am using Windows on less and less devices now (at work because I have to, and then at home on a couple of...

My grandmother was told that my Tandy 1000 HX I got in the early 90s would "last me through college" :ROFLMAO:

I got one of these recently to consolidate my gaming drives into one big SSD and I have not been disappointed. Seems it's even lower now at $158.99 USD. It's tempting to buy even more at such at price and toss them in all of my PCs and laptops just for the hell of it.

I love ramen, from the cheap crap to good stuff. I stock up on it but I don't eat it constantly. 1-2 lunches a week max or an occasional weekend snack-meal. If I do find myself eating it more often I don't use all of the seasoning, while it tastes good I avoid drinking the broth too, maybe some...

I think out of the ~20-25 LED bulbs I've purchased over the years I've had only maybe 4 die max, and only one died what I would consider "early", and that's because it was a no-name brand that I bought in the early days of LEDs. All other bulbs have been going fine, some I think have hit the 5-7...

It's a Chinese seller/brand with one (albeit positive) review. I would advise caution. Not that you can't get good items from a no-name Chinese brand, but less enforcement on counterfeiting and quality assurance means you're rolling the dice. It is also shipped and sold from the seller, so...

I second the Macrium Reflect option. Unless things have changed, the free version provided adequate functionality to clone things and is more flexible with differing drive sizes/etc than something like clonezilla