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I've been using linux and various distros as a toy/hobby/experiment since it came out in the 90s - but never super seriously, and frankly I've never been a stud at how it works. I often would install a distro, not be able to get something to work, use it for a while for some things, but...

I built a new PC a little bit ago, and upgraded to 11 from 10 - and the only reason I did that was because I had to do a complete reinstall on a new SSD. There simply aren't compelling reasons to upgrade from 10. 11 is 10 with a facelift, some added bloat, but other wise is pretty much the...

I've been cycling through what seems like a million different new mice and I hated them all. Just tonight I went back to the old standby that served me well for what seemed like forever - Logitech G502. I guess you can use a mouse for so long that it becomes impossible to replace. I hope they...

Sorry not trying to hijack. Rather trying to make the point that no OS is perfect, and it's highly subjective to the individual and their use case. There's all kinds of things to not like about win11, but they can be fixed with mods or one can run other OSs. I just like to encourage people to...

fair enough - haven't tried those.

I'm running arch gnome on my main rig dual booted with win 11. I have a secondary PC running endeavor - I like that as well. I have another laptop running mint. The pc running endeavor shipped with win 11 and it NEVER worked right (minis forum pc used as a small little college paper writing...

I guess I'll be the Linux guy... There's nothing wrong with 11's functionality. It totally works. It runs all windows programs (obviously), so it's worth keeping around as a dual boot for the odd game or program that doesn't behave in linux. But I've found I simply don't like it as much as...

What kinds of radiation levels was it subjected to? Did they build it to withstand Chernobyl elephant's foot levels of radiation? Is space better or worse? Hard for us little brained people to put things on a meaningful scale...

Ya that's fair - both of my examples were over decades. You kind of can't complain about someone who has literally dedicated their entire career to a single company. Nvidia might have moved a bit faster - more of a hockey stick growth chart.

It smells EXACTLY like my Compudyne 486 from CompUSA. The nostalgia hits so hard. I'm huffing those fumes like a crack addict ;)

Cool post, great read first thing on a Monday morning. Thanks!

I mean, to some extent this is unavoidable. New employees didn't build Nvidia into the company it is today - that was done by the "old timers." I've seen this before in two other companies I worked at. Everyone acts like it's just the big wigs making bank - but the reality is that there are...

I really can't stand the taskbar on 11. Somehow I always end up with what MS wants to push down my throat instead of what I'm looking for. It's just not intuitive at all. I keep finding myself making the following errors after like a year of using it (they only stop me for <1 sec, but it's...

ya just turn off tpm and it won't install. Mine won't go because I'm using legacy bios and tpm is turned off. I like to wait a little bit before upgrading operating systems and let compatibility and drivers settle down. When I'm ready to go and have some free time to tinker, I'll format the...

You know, and for anyone stumbling across this in the future (since there seems to be a bot in here). I concur with lopoetve, I've had one mobo fail on me in almost 30 years of building PCs - it's not very common in my experience for them to fail. I've had more CPUs fail than mobos believe it...

Yup - I did that too just to make sure it wasn't the slot. I did: Run the PC with no video card (CPU vid) - works fine Run the PC with my son's video card in the same slot - works fine Run the PC with a really old video card in the same slot - works fine Run the PC with functioning cards in my...

yup - I always keep a computer+ of old components around for exactly this reason. The pain is ripping everything out of the case and playing "let's troubleshoot by changing parts one at a time" Not really my favorite game, but sometimes absolutely necessary - the error you get isn't always...

So in the end, it had nothing to do with the RAM or the motherboard. It was a failing/ed video card. I have no idea what failed, or why it lit up the DRAM LED error light and not the VGA light. But it's the video card. (powercolor 5700XT). Pulling the card allows the pc to boot. Putting in...

I did try cleaning the contacts - that was my first thought as to why moving them "worked" (it didn't have anything to do with the slot and more with making a connection after physically reseating them) No dice. Can't even get into the BIOS to check the timings - never even comes alive. But...

Running into an issue on an MSI board and my google fu is failing me. For no reason, the PC wouldn't post, and the DRAM error light came on. I googled, and found an obscure post on a forum in the back corner of the internet where some dude said "oh - this is an issue with MSI boards. The...

The MS store is garbage. Not because of stupid stuff - but due to legitimate failures in software installations. Repeatedly. There are so many examples of games that install, then like delete themselves, or don't run properly, and have all kinds of permission problems. Seriously, it's still...

Outside of about 8 hrs of fixing stuff / honeydo list - I played the snot out of this game all weekend. I last time I binged on a game like this was probably 7ish years ago. It was rainy, my wife was working, - ya ALL weekend long. :) I must admit - I'm going at it cold, no internet, tips...

Stardew valley! Been sitting in the backlog for ages. Now I’m totally hooked growing digital vegetables. I know, I know, I need help…

Meh - OP - do what real men do. Install all the operating systems and dual/triple boot them. Win 7 is and always has been fine. Some spyware is sneaking its way in so it's not far from 10 these days. Also the OS will eventually go out of support. But it'll work fine for a while. Win10 is a...

So the trifecta would be those two + noscript? Or are you all letting the scripts through?

The day video gaming goes streaming only is the day I stop playing video games. They’ll try it - but it’s not going to take off.

Audiophiles still buy physical media, and it's oftentimes cheaper than digital. But unless you have nice equipment to enjoy high quality music on - there's really no point to purchasing physical media anymore.

I'm far from a Linux expert - but I've played around with a lot of distros since 1994. If you're looking for a daily driver that just works - linux mint is the way to go IMO. I suppose Ubuntu is just as good but I'm not a fan of the interface. Mint just gets 'er done. If you're looking for...

I dunno. I have the exact same cpu. I'm not convinced there's enough of a bump to justify a major upgrade. Still plays games just fine IMO. Kind of wish I could rip and convert blu rays and cds faster but... I guess I'm waiting for someone to impress me with something other than "here's a...

Having lived through a few CA wildfires - I'll say sure, go ahead and kick the environmentalists in the nutz, but I don't think it'll make much difference. It rains in the winter, and when it does - there's this explosion of green. It's all scrub brushes between 2 and 10 feet tall. Then the...

plants vs zombies 2?

This fine would hurt a small to mid sized company of 100-200 people, and even then, they’d be ok. Just have a bad financial year. This does nothing for Facebook. One or two directors salaries - just get rid of a couple of deadbeats and they are even.

OR It IS the answer. Make computers hard and the domain of nerds again. Put everyone else on tablets for their twitfacechat.

Reason #1001 why I defer all updates for win10 for a very long time. The quality control on these just isn't there...

Because some people can't resist the urge to step on top of the soapbox and start blabbing nonsense. Other people like stalking other people online, and\or people watching those people soapboxing. So you're either crazy and love facebook, or you're completely normal and love facebook because...

I used Kodi legitimately as a front end for my htpc - not for pirating. It works. But eventually, it was easier to get a Bluetooth keyboard with an integrated trackpad, ditch the remote, and just use windows/VLC to watch my movies. Kodi never gets used anymore. A neighbor is a big pirater...

Again, people aren’t upset about the lack of crossplay. They are upset with Sony and Epic commandeering accounts simply by linking to ps+. When diabloiii comes out on switch, am I going to need to create a new bnet account because I linked my PS4 diabloiii game to my decades old bnet account?

Here’s the thing - you don’t need to resort to piracy to avoid ads. You only have to accept one thing - not watching things live, and waiting 3-6 months. Ripping DVDs and blu rays of tv shows couldn’t be easier these days, and you’re PAYING for the content via things like Netflix DVD. You can...

Or we could all speak with our wallets like I am currently. No need to upgrade my pc with overpriced ram and video cards, and underwhelming intel chips with security flaws... I’ll wait tyvm - but most wont, and that’s why prices are high...

Having a new ipad pro (work supplied), I can speak to it's ability to become a laptop replacement. (I used it exclusively for a few weeks to set myself up for travel without taking my laptop) There's a few things Apple needs to fix and I think the ipad pros actually could be a laptop...