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Yup... 6 months ago. I had a chocolate cake one in Canada that was really good. Then I tried some of their other stuff and it was all crap.

Lol great analogy. ...and people are willingly installing it. I'm still on 8.1 and will find a way to put it in a Linux VM, once I'm forced to. That's basically what happened to me. Plus, Linux would randomly update itself or something and randomly stop booting. Only real solution is a VM. 8's...

Excellent point. Also, people stop playing games after a few months to a few years. There are 90 year old movies that still get watched. Older movies are almost non-existent on streaming.

Amazon, Walmart and streaming services will be the winners here. I understand the convenience of streaming, but having the tech giants control what you see and hear is very short-sighted.

Thanks, but has anyone reviewed this command file that the short script executes? I don't have the 30-60 minutes to make sure that doesn't open a port or download something dangerous. It's either sketchy or they didn't host it on github for code review, because MS owns github (although why not...

You will be justified to know that the House (and soon Senate/President) reauthorized spying on Americans through warrantless FISA searches. Maybe you should think again about that mentality. Even if stolen, the police don't care about your $1500 phone, anyway.

Roughly coincides with the stimulus checks.

Lol's erek's title has me thinking "Hulk smash." Thanks for the entertainment. ;) Wow 61TB - hopefully they get the costs down. 25W for a hard drive is cooking.

intel has decades of technical expertise and billions in infrastructure that couldn't be replicated overnight, even if their patents were open source. Each chip and lith-tech is also more than one idea. Forget about patents - you're not building YOUR idea, because you don't have the tens of...

Doublespeak.

They do - physical media.

Same way China gets around our restrictions. Build a plant in Mexico (BYD), sell to US.

Realized that the chips said "Taiwan" and guessed right that the VSA-100 were made by TMSC. Kind of interesting that TMSC outlived 3Dfx and also manufactured NVidia's chips at the time - which is now the #3 largest company in the world. Wonder if they will outlive Nvidia? Also, I never knew...

The FX series may have been a hairdryer, but it was competitive with the ATi 9800 Pro's at the time. FX was better if you used AA. https://hothardware.com/reviews/ati-256mb-radeon-9800-pro-vs-geforce-fx-5900-ultra?page=2 For the record, I owned the ATi card. Whatever offers the best...

How much is it? I have some tough word processing to do.

I agree and I doubt that's true. Anything is better than flushing billions a dollar a day on inefficient wind/solar. We would have so much more money to devote to developing fusion or improving wind/solar efficiency, than putting the cart before the horse.

Tesla was once valued at more than most car makers - combined. They were also something like 1000x their P/E. It made no sense. Irrational optimism will take a stock a long way. AI is just getting started. I went to two bank websites today and instead of searching, the search was replaced with...

Drastic node leaps seems like it's destined for failure. Didn't they try that a few years ago? Seems like you would learn something important at each level, as electrons get closer together. intel needs to work their employees 24/7 like TSMC.

You got the expensive country like Japan, right. That's why people are willing to work themselves to death - they have to. Japan suffering from highest debt / GDP in the world - nearly double what the US has. Spending has consequences...

Sounds like you are closest to being right. Intel pushed these too close to the limit. Instead of +5% headroom, you really have -5% headroom. TH has always been an intel apologist. 100°C is where CPUs are going to crash - that's a chip/cooling problem (from 21 years of overclocking experience...

I agree with you... now can I have my Windows/Office pre-Ribbon menus back? You know, when it was just dropdowns in Office 2003 and 2 to 3-button hotkeys for all the main features? It went from a 2-button click, to 2-3 button clicks on shifting menus to access the same option. You could even...

OneNote is one of the best ways to take notes. You can organize with sections and click a new button to create a new tab - kind of like an Excel spreadsheet. Best of all, it is supremely searchable. Depending on the setup, it can also be accessed/synced on your phone, online or on your computer...

$1B was a slap on the wrist for Intel, with the untold billions in revenue they gained from cheating - why would they stop? Unfortunately for them, they squandered their money and performance advantage. No amount of cheating will help them gain back the crown. They need to do it the old...

I ditched HP after my printers kept have mysterious firmware permafailures exactly 1 month after the warranty expired. Hmm... Also got tired of the games I had to play to use non-OEM ink - scam. Bought a Brother multifunction laser printer years ago and have never looked back... Still going...

Wow, I heard the same when Windows 8 came out... and yet everyone migrated. ...and then migrated to Windows 10. You may not want it, but it will be forced onto the majority of people with the next laptop or PC they buy.

It also collects your phone number, IP and email - it knows who you are.

I always love the PC elitest that come along and say it's a "good" thing when a company forces you to pay more money for something that you don't need. They assume everyone has the money, time or desire to keep their PCs up to date. No, it's not a good thing when a near-monopoly forces you into...

Funny, I just started using Publisher about a year ago for newsletters. Word is definitely not a good alternative. Not sure of any alternatives that can publish out PDFs, easily layer images and retain the links. Any suggestions? Oh well, they are giving us 2 1/2 years to migrate to another...

Don't ask wife? She'll never know!

Mac had glory days?

First thing I looked at was the TDP. Steam Deck is half the TDP of this. Feel like this thing must get like 30min of battery life. Also thought this was post #2.

Too funny! :D

I switched to T-Mobile 5G Internet - should work wherever T-Mobile offers cell service. No regerts. I had the cheapest Xfinity plan at $20/month. Those mf'ers kept raising my rates ($45) to the point that it was only $5 more expensive to get T-Mobile. I even played the quit and rejoin in my...

One customer complains. Hires lawyers. Lawyers get other customers involved. Leeching lawyers make millions. Company raises price for everyone. There has to be a better system.

VIZIO - not LG. YGWYPF. Don't buy a Walmart Black Friday TV when you may have to live with that purchase for a long time.

If you work at a desk job, you are only hurting yourself. AI can be a massive time saver, for certain tasks. However, if you value your privacy, take steps to avoid providing it your phone number or account information or use a tool that does not require it.

Good call. Pretty much the same deal there, too.

Cool. I never thought of doing this. I guess it makes sense on most similar lines. Seems like buying/reselling would be easier. I have opened the case on a few laptops and swapping everything sounds like a major PITA. Still kind of fun, though.

It's not. Walmart is doing a pretty good job competing. Order X amount and free delivery. Get deliveries faster than Prime, now.

Management 101: set the bar extremely low - destroy that goal many times over. Considering, how many $1,000,000,000.00 of dollars we dump into NASA (...and now SpaceX), I would expect a remote control robot to last more than 3 months. I mean we have been mass producing RC cars for over 60 years...