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    What is this part on this gaming desk?

    Sometimes it's handy to have a place for power bricks to keep them off the surface. Not sure if that tray would do it though.
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    Microsoft stoops to new low with ads in Windows 11, as PC Manager tool suggests your system needs ‘repairing’ if you don’t use Bing

    The best format for distribution on Linux is a self-contained Windows exe that you've tested in Wine. Not sure which windows version to target, but as long as it runs well in Wine, it will run everywhere. Much better than trying to play nice with anything else.
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    Microsoft stoops to new low with ads in Windows 11, as PC Manager tool suggests your system needs ‘repairing’ if you don’t use Bing

    With my trolling hat firmly on. The two most popular Linux distributions, Android and ChromeOS both push pretry hard for an online account. I don't think the bundled ads are pushed as hard as Windows though, but recent Android does force install a bunch of stuff when you sign in, that you pretty...
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    Here's what happens if you connect Windows XP to the Internet in 2024

    I just bought one recently. They're definitely still out there for cable. Less so for DSL, gotta find a modem you can put into bridge mode or whatever, but it's going to have all the stuff, just disabled.
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    Winamp's source code to be released publicly on September 24

    It still works for listening to digitally imported (di.fm), but you need a subscription if you want to use winamp instead of their web player now, I think.
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    Toshiba Successfully Demonstrates Nearline HDDs with Massive Capacity of Over 30TB

    I'm sure there's some of us. And we've got some real horders that can probably make use of SMR as well. Also, chances are all the other bits work without shingles too, but the density is a bit less so the PR highlights the capacity with SMR. I think I saw someone has a drive you can format for...
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    sold

    Inquiring minds want to know... What did your friend replace these with? These seem pretty solid as access points, but wifi 6 and 7 are nice to have.
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    Does Amazon sell New Pixels or are they all used?

    It's pretty easy to accidentally buy from not Amazon if you're not paying attention. I assume most of the people writing reviews don't pay attention, so there's going to be some of that. But also, amazon still comingles inventory afaik, so you might select to buy from one seller, but amazon...
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    Nvidia begins developing Arm-based PC chips in challenge to Intel

    Roku devices are pretty good UI (depending on the service, some of them write real shitty UIs), and easy for regular people to use. Integrations into fun personal library stuff is kind of not great at the moment though. There's a lot of things that kind of work and kind of don't. And there's...
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    Nvidia begins developing Arm-based PC chips in challenge to Intel

    Yeah, it's a real shame Intel killed development right before Microsoft demoed Continuum. x86 windows mobile 10 could have been really interesting.
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    sold

    That's barebones though. No ram or storage.
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    Microcenter is coming back to the Bay Area!!!

    Yep, I only went to the Microcenter in Tustin a couple times and don't remember buying anything when I lived near there, and I think I went in the Santa Clara location twice, and I worked at the office tower next door for about a year. Now that Fry's is dead, I always check if I should visit...
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    Moto G Stylus 5G (2024)

    I've got the 2023 model. The stylus is great for fidgeting with, but really I just wanted the headphone jack and a decent processor. I'm thrilled that motorola figured out how to make vibration work, whatever year moto g power I had from before then was really terrible at actually notifying me.
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    Pixel 7 / Pixel 7 Pro / Pixel 7a

    Can't you just move the old sim to get SMS codes sent by Verizon?
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    Windows 11 Market Share Keeps Declining

    That button doesn't seem to work for me either, but turning off the TPM works great.
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    Do you guys use Bitlocker on your home/Personal machines?

    I don't encrypt my personal devices. If something goes wrong, I'd rather have a chance of data recovery. I do encrypt my work computer because work policy. And I encrypt my budget hosting drive because those guys are clowns and I don't trust them to wipe my drives when I'm done (but they're...
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    Patriot 2TB SATA SSD $78 on amazon

    Last August.
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    10gb questions….

    Cat5e also tends to work for 10G-BaseT. If you're doing new wiring, it's reasonable to use something better, but if you've already got Cat5e in the walls, it's worth a try. The specs are for 100 meter runs, with most of that in dense conduit, and all of the cables running the same speed; most...
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    Need 16x-8x configuration at same time. Are there any consumer boards?

    I think resilver follows the usual pattern of ZFS deprioritizing non-interactive use. If you're doing any sort of real reads and writes, the resilver will pause or at least limit concurrency while those are in progress (more or less). Scrub and resilver also got a big improvement in OpenZFS...
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    Tips or Tricks for Proper install of tiny m.2 WLAN card internal anntenna connectors?

    Well, there's always wired ethernet. Or usb wireless, maybe.
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    Old UPS batteries (APC SUA 1500)... where do you source them?

    It depends on the generator. Mine is pretty big, so it's not that bad, but you can see the lights flicker, and when the HVAC kicks in, the output changes a bunch. But my little single cylinder portable generator would be much worse for a PC. Either way, maybe it makes the power supplies work a...
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    Old UPS batteries (APC SUA 1500)... where do you source them?

    Cummings 35kW based on a Ford v6 with a 500 gallon propane tank. It's configured to start a few seconds after utility failure (because most of the time it comes right back on) and warm up a bit (but it's got a coolant heater so it starts fairly warm), and then takes over the load. One minute is...
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    Old UPS batteries (APC SUA 1500)... where do you source them?

    I wish they'd make products specifically targetted for 1 minute. My utility outages are either a couple seconds (auto-recloser found the short was transitory), or long (tree on line is persistent or severed the line). And I've got a automatic generator for the last one. So I really just need to...
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    Oldest gamer I know

    I got the fever to finally do a f***ing spinning pile driver a couple years ago, on a ps2 (dual shock). Finally got it, but also got a nasty blister and couldn't play for a week plus.
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    FS: Cheyenne Computer

    You're looking at probably 20-30 ms to go to Canada from the southern parts of the US. If it matters a lot or not, I dunno. Cloud vendors have stuff in Canada, but they've also got stuff all over the place. No big deal to have a couple datacenters in Canada when you have like 10 in the US. GCP...
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    FS: Cheyenne Computer

    Free cooling is nice, but extra latency to where the people are is kind of meh. And access to major existing networking. (Which is self reinforcing, but oh well)
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    FS: Cheyenne Computer

    You're gonna need to find a good auction source for your solar array... 1.7 MW is a lot of power.
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    FS: Cheyenne Computer

    Yeah, I buy way too much stupid stuff at my local auction. Not gonna go to Wyoming, thanks. Plus I don't do watercooling.
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    So Microsoft and IBM made Dos 4.0 OpenSource today…

    Historical interest. Newer would probably be more interesting, but they've released older stuff before. Microsoft has never been slow to license other people's code to use in their OS, and all that needs to be cleared or scrubbed, and it takes time. Older versions are smaller, and then you can...
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    2009-era Netgear 54Mbps print server won't connect to modern wifi

    I'm not sure if getting it hooked up to wifi will help if it doesn't work when wired. If you've got any spare access points, I'd do what everyone else says, give it a dedicated access point with wep/wpa1/no auth and see... If you don't gave any spare access points, congrats on not being a horder...
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    SSD Health conflicting messages

    Yes those are always in hex, but the units are not always what they seem... I'm not 105% sure that's just percent. I'm not super familiar with smart for nvme.
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    China unveils world’s 1st diesel engine with 53.09% thermal efficiency

    Yeah, well VW got in trouble for running the engines hotter, at higher efficiency because it put out more NOx, because higher temperature + air from the atmosphere makes more NOx; well that and they didn't want to put in a DEF tank for small engines or a large enough one for big engines.
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    Target joins Best Buy and discontinues sales of DVD's and Blurays

    OK, that's fair (and I probably agree with you!), but it's important to note that you're not really asking for correct then :P
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    Target joins Best Buy and discontinues sales of DVD's and Blurays

    Dune (bought it on DVD, Blu-Ray, and a 4k from germany is on order; and I've got the 4k of the new one; I might have a problem), Logan's Run (dvd and blu-ray, not gonna get the 4k, cause you can see too much of the effects on the blu-ray already). Some of the Star Trek movies... Happy to have...
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    SSD Health conflicting messages

    By my calculations, that's 105% used. So there's that.
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    Gigaplus 8-port 2.5G 2-port 10G switch $69

    I'm pretty sure upgrading my network just enabled me to spend more time messing with my network :p Still gotta do more tuning to get my iperf scores up.
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    SSD Health conflicting messages

    Definitely. SSDs like to die as a brick too; they're supposed to fail as read-only, but they're also supposed to not fail.
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    SSD Health conflicting messages

    This just means the partitions haven't shown errors yet and weren't unsafely unmounted. SMART can predict imminent failure, but disk manager doesn't check for that. Otoh, it matters what stat(s) are showing (pre)failure. If you're low on spare sectors, that's probably a good time to get a new...
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    Any issues having front speakers having their own subwoofer connected through front speakers, in a 5.1 setup with 2 subs?

    Does the 1280T have a sub out? I don't see one in the manual? Otherwise, I don't think it would be a big deal to have one sub for low frequency audio in the front and another for low frequency audio that's mixed as a separate channel. When you're using a 5.1 mix, there shouldn't be much low...
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    Target joins Best Buy and discontinues sales of DVD's and Blurays

    I assume you're taking correct pronounciation from the books on tape Frank Herbert recorded in the before times. Not from anywhere else...
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