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I fully agree with you. For me the Xperia 1 VI 1080p 396 ppi density is an unacceptable downgrade. You accurately described a user wanting the Xperia experience. I previously owned the Xperia 1 IV and now own an Xperia 1 V. Both phones were...

Never did I think a downgrade would be a welcome thing: gone is the super-tall 4K display, and a more conventional 1080p screen is in its place. It's not as brag-worthy, but let's be honest: hardly anything used 4K, the tall screen ratio hurt app...

Losing 21:9 was one thing but 1080P is another! No flagship device in 2024 should be less than QHD period. 4K defined Xperia and now that's gone. If it were $999 then maybe, but users wanting the Xperia experience weren't particularly concerned...

As someone who lives 5 minutes away from a MC, Fry's used to be so much better. MC had way fewer options and the place was a mess. Once Fry's went away, the local MC must have had a boon and they fixed it up and now it isn't a bad place. Glad to...

From elevated command prompt: manage-bde -off x: where x is the drive letter you want to decrypt. While it's running check out disk transfer rate in task manager. 🙃

Top left there takes the cake imo :)

The resistor is around a million ohms (1 meg OHM) limiting the power to around 15 milliwatts! (120V example). That's just over a tenth of a milliamp which is less than most people's threshold to feel it. To get 1W, the resistor would be around...

No, for 95% of business users most of their work is done in a browser anyway. My engineers are literally the only employees that use actual applications and require linux and windows. Logistics, sales, support, etc all live in cloud-based...

Sounds like a floating ground scenario where your case was not earthed. If it's plugged in (obviously it was as you said it was running), this should not happen as the PSU screws will ensure that part is indeed earthed as long as your power...

so i was just about to post about this situation from something i was reading in the steam forums according to someone that this IS a degradation issue that's been happening with 12-14th gen intel cpu's. i'm going to post his first post and link...

If Miami with all it's sketchyness turns out to be a great location I can't fathom Orlando not getting one. Orlando is a solid town with a lot of upper middle class residential.

Yes. Ideally you want the dissolved oxygen to be close to zero too. It's hard to get things near perfect in a home environment. Additives, in theory can help but without monitoring cycles of concentration, flow control and delta across devices...

I learned too late, I flushed it, cleaned the plastic and metal fragments out the best I could, sold it all, went with a series of AiOs, and likely won't go back.

Nostalgia. Same reason why some will pay $$$ for a scratchy old 78rpm Wurlitzer jukebox with bubble tubes when a phone and partybox would be louder and more detailed. ;-)

Just like oil additives (eg. Slick50) they are both un-necessary and will introduce problems of their own. KISS applies here with liquid cooling.

Yep, that's your answer right there. Purest water (ideally 18meg+ RODI) measuring 00000TDS is best. Keep it dark as possible (completely opaque hoses and reservoirs), NO boutique reservoirs (waterfalls, lighting, et al). Pure silver kill coil...

EK continues to masquerade as some high end (with high prices) watercooling company and people keep gobbling it up. Meanwhile they have some of the worst quality control and general quality I've seen whether it's their plating, quality of...

Always use Laing OEM parts and pure distilled water. 100s of k hours. But run dry and the bearing is toast. If you need higher flow and head use Iwaki RD30. They deliver the goods.

This. D5 pumps will last well past any Asetek junk. As long as you *never* let them run dry. Even cavitate.