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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 important functionality. This was, I think, Android...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 they're not Commodore Amigas where an A4000 at just...

Just got my S24U yesterday, then a Mous Limitless case and glass screen protectors to slap on today. I'm still very much in the first impressions phase, but I may as well list 'em off. This phone is much, MUCH easier to hold without a case due to the thick frame edges and matte-finished rear...

Mid-mount bay res? Now that's the Alphacool I know - they're a fairly sizeable name in custom water-cooling, after all! It's also a D5 pump top, which is even better for me since those are the pumps that I've standardized on. This may have just become my ATX rackmount computer case of choice...

The most insulting thing about removing the microSD card slot is that Samsung sells UFS cards now, so if they wanted to justify it by saying that eMMC (which is fundamentally what SD cards are) doesn't have the performance of the built-in UFS for things like high-res video or burst photos, then...

I can't be the only one whose favorite feature of the S24 Ultra is also one of the simplest: the return of the flat screen. There's no point to having those curved screen edges on a penabled phone; it just makes it harder to use the S Pen on the very edges, and somehow Samsung thought this was...

Count me in amongst those who want to get a homelab going but can't justify excessive fan noise. I do like that this case has 360mm radiator mounting, but had initial concerns about GPU clearance with that radiator placement - not necessarily for the short term as a largely CPU-centric server...

My current gaming desktop uses a 12700K, so 8P/4E = 12 cores, 20 threads. I just leave the E-cores on because I can't unlock AVX-512 on this particular CPU stepping by disabling them, so the benefit is minimal. Might as well leave 'em on, I'm hitting overclocking walls trying to go past 5.1 GHz...

Wake me up when this somehow works out better in DCS, Star Citizen, etc. without my usual Process Lasso "keep these off the E-cores" scheduler intervention. At any rate, I'm definitely not buying a refresh CPU just to use APO, so here's hoping they throw 12700K owners a bone here. Only viable...

Keep the CPU at the very least, even if the motherboard turns out to be utter crap even after a recap. VIA chipsets were not particularly well-regarded back in the day, but it'll tide you over until you can find a suitable 440BX board - and probably a slotket, most of those are Slot 1 and you...

I'm also all for U.2, but it's frankly a bit of a pain to wrap my head around. The connectors are basically SAS, but the protocol isn't SAS and thus you can't just use any old SAS backplane with U.2. Some SAS HBAs are actually tri-mode and support U.2 NVMe drives alongside the expected SAS and...

Huh, didn't know that about Direct3D 7 and prior. I think I didn't actively notice with the usual Unreal Engine 1 titles (mostly Unreal 1, UT'99, Deus Ex, the well-supported ones) because they have modernized Direct3D 10/11 renderers, which clearly support 4K because I've actually done it...

X299 - not quite the expected C621 server/workstation chipset for that socket, no official RDIMM support. You definitely need UDIMMs. Intel's market segmentation is such a pain with that, gotta have a Xeon and a supported chipset together if you want to even think about cheap RDIMMs and LRDIMMs...

So let's look this up real quick: 16 GB DDR4-2400 ECC UDIMM, Hynix AFR chips? Alas, I can't help with that. All my spare ECC DDR4 happens to be 32 GB RDIMMs - need a server or workstation platform for those. Also, you can get 32 GB DDR4-3200 DDR4 ECC UDIMMs nowadays, though you're looking at...

ECC is something we'd probably have a lot more general understanding of if Intel didn't specifically market-segment it out of the reach of casual computer users. I suppose enabling it on consumer Core i5s and i7s with a W680 motherboard (as opposed to needing a Xeon CPU and a workstation...

Dan_D summed up all the technical issues with trying to synchronize multiple GPUs today, so that's why you don't really see SLI/CrossFire anymore. That doesn't necessarily make multiple GPUs in one computer useless, though, because if you're willing to set up a hypervisor and a few virtual...

Believe it or not, really old graphics cards from the '90s used to have VRAM SIMMs or other upgrade modules, but that practice died out pretty quickly. Good luck finding VRAM SIMMs now! Part of the problem with today's GPUs is similar to what laptops are experiencing with DDR5 and the need for...

As with any hardware, it's all about what you're trying to play, at what settings you want. Love high resolutions and framerate? Don't be surprised if you have to dial down some other in-game settings to keep the framerates up. In turn, you'll have no problem running some old game like Unreal...

I actually bought/traded for 768 GB worth of DDR4 RDIMMs packed in a Lenovo x3650 M5, and since said server has now bricked itself, I'm contemplating a move to another dual LGA2011-3 system with 24 DIMM slots just so I can keep all of that RAM, never mind that the CPUs get trounced by modern...

I've contemplated EPYC builds, but the used parts pricing makes my Threadripper 1950X/X399 setup look cheap, or for that matter, any Haswell/Broadwell-EP dual-LGA2011-3 platform. Can't really justify it when even the Naples (Zen 1) stuff is so pricey, and yet so architecturally behind current...

Well, that Lenovo x3650 M5 decided that it wanted to brick itself out of the blue. IMM2 hangs on trying to get through U-Boot, and without the IMM2 BMC fully booted up, the actual server will hang on "System initializing" forever while ramping the fans up to eardrum-offensive levels. The...

While technically not an ESXi lab (in fact, I migrated from ESXi 5.5.0 to 6.7.0u3, then Proxmox VE at work because nobody wanted to eat the insane cost for new ESXi licenses and our aging HPE Gen8 servers wouldn't have been on the HCL anyway), I'm starting to get hit by the homelab bug pretty...

There's never really been anything truly future-proof over the decades of computing that I've witnessed; the most you can hope for is not unwittingly buying in at the wrong time, just before a major technology gets released, and buying into a platform with unusually long legs. Case in point: my...

As I understand, dual-actuator HDDs are already on the market - with currently existing SATA 6 Gbps/SAS 12 Gbps interfaces, at that, though as I understand it, the SATA ones are especially janky since they can't just present two LUNs like the SAS ones do. (Each actuator is, effectively, a...

As I understand it, Windows actually has never been Microsoft's big money maker - that would be MS Office, as it has been for literal decades, and given how deep my employer is into Office/Microsoft 365 and Teams right now, amongst countless others, I see no reason for that to change any time...

The day Windows decides to no longer permit local, offline installs is the day I stop updating major Windows versions and really put my Linux/BSD migration plans into motion, then ruthlessly sandbox that final version of Windows into a VM. Anti-cheat and DRM systems that don't like VMs can suck...