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My last like 3 computers at my last job were all Dells and I always underspecced the RAM and then bought some to install myself exactly because Dell's prices were a ripoff.

XBox One 2.

Here's a better example: Apple and Google (and Valve) charging 30% is like getting a table at a flea market and whoever runs the show demands 30% of everything you sell, instead of $10/table or whatever.

The free speech-hating loons at Arse Technica love the idea of bringing it back.

No. Absolutely not.

I had a customer that had an old unix-of-some-type system that they used as a database server for a couple of applications, including ours, and they were proud of the fact that they hadn't run an update in a decade. They were paranoid about an update breaking something. They got mad one day...

I read an article about this yesterday that mentioned that there have been two main contributers for the last few years--one guy who was a long-term primary dev, and a newish person who got commit privileges about a year or two ago. Odds are it was the second one. Edit: post #11 update 2...

The meat of the email is that Intel's apparently going to finally start reporting new CPUs as something other than Family 6 at some point, and the discussion was about not duplicating the mess of various processor features, as code using Family 6 does. The email itself is actually kind of...

https://wccftech.com/intel-next-gen-cpu-cores-families-douglas-cove-adams-lake-sheldonmont-cooper-forest/ WCCFTech misread an email on the Linux Kernel mailing list talking about new Intel CPUIDs. In it, the poster writes about a way to redo #defines that will make kernel coding that is...

An APU is just AMD's term for a CPU with integrated graphics.

The Copilot taskbar icon just appeared on my computer last night after Windows Update.

Yes, but it's also a pair of animated gifs, so it would.

I know about file extensions--I have the "hide them" setting turned off on that PC, plus I used the biosrenamer tool to do it, so a bad name wouldn't have been my fault. My best guess is the "drive wasn't empty" theory, but I have to say that's a stupid reason for it not to work, because the...

Eh, the regular flash from inside the bios worked fine, I just wanted to try the other way.

Probably (and certainly, the bios can read the drive to find the file when I do it the regular way) and yes. The correct port's clearly marked on the back panel, too.

I would expect the SSD's PCB to break long before the socket snapped like that.

No, it was in the root drive, the directions are clear about that, but they didn't say the drive had to be emply, so it wasn't.

A couple of years ago, I bought an HP laserjet pro m118dw, because I needed an actual HP printer for work, because I needed something with a functional PCL5 driver for a legacy app. It works fine, no games with the toner so far, although it did want to install that stupid HP Smarrt app or...

They already are. I saw a story last week about someone who spent two days trying to figure out why their printer refused to print before contacting HP, who told them the debit card they were paying their ink subscription expired. HP disables the printer and doesn't tell you why until you...

This also gives them an excuse to make them even lower quality so they DO fail after two years.

Big Clive used one of those things--I can't think of the word at the moment--it's like an insulin needle but no needle, and you can suck up liquids with it--on an inkjet cartridge and found it actually had more less the claimed amount in it, but it is suspended in the sponge, so you need to...

I mean, if it makes sense financially, I suppose it's fine. I realized I have almost no need to print color, so I avoid the whole "print head clogging" thing by not using inkjets.

That's why so many of use user laser printers.

Yup. Although they're supposedly starting to get in on the DRM ink act.

"HP wants you to pay up to $36/month to rent a printer that it monitors" https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/hp-wants-you-to-pay-up-to-36-month-to-rent-a-printer-that-it-monitors/ They'll rent you a printer and ink, starting at $6 for 20 pages a month. This is like old-school cell phone...

Nobody else is getting Itanium flashbacks? Just like this, that required a lot of heavy lifting on the compilers part to get results, and it was one of the reasons Itanium died.

ChatGPT can do trivial stuff pretty well. I asked it to create a tool that does the same thing one I wrote several years ago: I had 2-color bitmaps that had white borders around them that I needed to get rid of the border. ChatGPT could make a program that does that fairly well, but it...

Took the dog for a walk, and when I came back the LED was still solid. It had been an hour or so by that point, so I flipped the PSU switch, then unplugged the drive & rebooted. Still on the old bios. I just did it the regular way, and it's all set now. Had to go and turn XMP back on...

Does this actually work? I tried going from 2802 to 3302 (skipping one intermediate BIOS), following Asus' video on YT: run the bios renamer, copy the .cap file to the root of a flash drive, plug said drive into the correct motherboard port, turn the power off, hold down the flashback button...

"obscure" and "hard" are two different things. This setting is obscure, but not hard, because it's literally clicking a button. If you want to complain, complain about the right thing. I could agree with you in this case that this *is* obscure. On the other hand, I googled "windows 11...

I just got it in the "2024-02 cumulative update for windows 11 version 23h2", KB5034765 a couple of days ago. GPO on Windows 11 disabled it. (I didn't see a process named anything like "windows copilot" so I don't know if it's gone or just hidden, but the taskbar icon is gone. Here's the...

Or marking your internet connection as metered, as Lakados has mentioned a couple of times. That's hardly "hard to disable".

Oh my god. The original DS sold 154 million units worldwide in 12 years (2004-2016). If you add the DS Lite, you get another 94 million in 8 years. The Switch has sold 140 million in 6 years, making it a significantly better seller than the original DS. The Wii had 102 million in 13 years...

Either way, once your face data is out there, there's no getting rid of it, ever, and there's no way it's not getting sold. So this may not be Apple's fault, which is fine, but it's still bad.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/15/cybercriminals_stealing_face_id/ You can change a compromised password. You can't change your face or fingerprints.

Dude, that says right below it, "not a real screenshot." Stop being so dishonest.

They put the last one, at least, back in at some point.

I'm pretty sure that was added at some point and you couldn't do it when 11 first came out.

Some people have to relearn lessons on their own, unfortunately.