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    Copilot or else! (for OEMs...eventually)

    With the investments Microsoft and others are doing, of course it's going to force it into Windows to pay for that investment. It's like the old Metallica song - "Harvester of data!" or something like that. I'm fine with having things like that, even on by default, but there really needs to be...
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    Walmart buying Vizio - $2.3B

    If it's for public sale, I don't think it would. I think it should be completely anonymous and no real user information, though. If it includes PII then it shouldn't be available for purchase without a warrant. It SHOULD be against the 4th Amendment but I don't think it is.
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    Walmart buying Vizio - $2.3B

    It's not skirting the 4th Amendment. Anyone with enough money can buy that data, private or public sector. We voluntarily give up that data and allow them to sell it to third parties. We allowed that to happen and it's all legal. If you don't consent to it and it's part of Amazon Sidewalk and...
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    Stremio + Torrentio + Real Debrid: Sick of transcoding and maintaining content libraries and streaming services?

    Adding to this (found another guide that's very similar: https://www.reddit.com/r/StremioAddons/comments/15agu2p/stremio_torrentio_debrid_a_howto_guide/ ) Installing CyberFlix: The Catalog Scrapper CyberFlix is an addon that will create categories for your Stremio homepage. It'll pull, for...
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    AI Accelerator Cards in Desktops?

    Let's see how it plays Global Thermonuclear War and then I'll decide. I only want it to reach one conclusion. I can see it working for gaming. A lot of gaming AI isn't that great. Some of it that is fairly good is still just decent but not great. Going up in difficulty doesn't make the AI...
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    Would you buy your video card from AliExpress?

    I'll buy fittings and lube there (explains the itch), but never a component. No CPU, GPU, PSU, RAM, anything of that nature. I don't care if it's legit or not, just not worth the chance. Could be a gold mine of value, but it's like tapping a hooker on her "first time"... Probably a load of...
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    Valari Gaming Pillow

    This is asked in pretty much every thread of his. So, yea. Someone has told him. Also, in for 2 pillows. If this doesn't increase my kill ratio, I'm fucking giving up. My last pillow had a little hole in it, though. I'm not seeing one in this one. Maybe a feature request?
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    What are you nerds playing this weekend?

    Just found NOLF (No One Lives Forever) has a revival, so I grabbed that and will be playing that this weekend! Fuck yea. http://nolfrevival.tk Great game from a while back. I miss some of those style of games from back in the day.
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    Kioxia reportedly kills off 30-year-old Plextor brand — icon of the optical drive days spins up its last SSD

    Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time. They were some of the best. I remember having rebadged ones (TDK 12x drive, I believe). So much better than the 4x I had before to where you couldn't touch the PC when it was burning a CD because it'd use too much memory and fuck the buffer up...
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    Vizio settles for $3M after saying 60 Hz TVs had 120 Hz “effective refresh rate” , get your $17!

    That's what I got from it without reading the article. Only applies in California... Some people are looking for a problem where none exists... I know my TCL for the bedroom has a similar thing. It's not an actual 120Hz, but it's an "effective" refresh rate. It was super cheap, I didn't expect...
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    RDNA 5 speculation

    If that "priced at $2000" wasn't there and it was a <$1K card, I'd say it would be a killer card. Beating a 4090 in 2025 at $2K? Ok. Not very excited. Not even "Meets or exceeds expectations". More of "Needs Improvement".
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    New Lian Uni Fan TL LCD Fans Have Screens On Them

    These look pretty cool. I'm sure some cases would have more use than I would for them. I'd probably just use one on the back of the case with a temp on there. No video, though. I'd just want the simple temperature gauge, which I could easily find elsewhere in other products.
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    Will you jump on 40xx Super Video cards or would you rather wait for 50xx series to come out?

    Coming from a GTX1070 and just got in a new CPU/MB/RAM (AMD 7800x3D, Taichi Lite, 32GB DDR5 CAS30), I'm going to grab a 4070 Super if it hits at <$600. I game at 1440p and really need a good upgrade that'll last me a few years. But, purchase time is around March/April so what's best at that $600...
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    how many guys in this forum are IT pros?

    30 years in the IT industry, from system admin to building PC's to security engineer and everything in between. Now, I'm building my own PC's and won't work on other people's computers for the most part (kids/family excluded, I'll help them out). Still not really an IT pro, though. Just a guy...
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    AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 Series Lineup Revealed

    No way I need something like this. I would never take advantage of it. But, I really want it. I'd be running so many things that I didn't need or would even utilize, but I'd have a real kick ass virtualization box with dozens of VM's just sitting there idle. :) I do see some old 10+ year old...
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