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- Comment on Newegg stock falls 17.7% after owner is detained by anti-corruption authorities in China 1 week ago:
They’ve been shit since they got bought out.
I’ve only bought from them twice since then, and both times have been awful.
- Comment on RAM Prices Got You Down? Try DDR3. Seriously! 1 week ago:
No
- Comment on If you have one, how much do you pay for a domain name? Any cheap registrar recommendations? 1 week ago:
Namecheap has random number only xyz domains for like a dollar so I have one of those.
- Comment on Should I replace my laptop battery, and are third-party batteries safe? 1 week ago:
3rd party batteries are rarely dangerous. They usually just kinda suck. They lie about their capacity, they degrade quicker than OEM.
Your battery is at the point where I’d start to consider getting a replacement. Just know that if you sort by price low to high you could get a battery worse than your current one. But buying expensive doesn’t mean you’ll get a good one either. They’re kinda just hit or miss.
- Comment on Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch 2 weeks ago:
The OS was kinda buggy, but vista changed a lot with drivers so probably most of the issues vista had were drivers. I bought a laptop with vista on it in 08 and it was rock solid.
- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 3 weeks ago:
Yeah. It’s not that hard.
I just did with that.
Also what are you typing blindly where punctuation actually matters?
- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 3 weeks ago:
I can blindly type with an on screen keyboard, it’s not that hard. What’s wrong with your phone where taps aren’t registering? And poor text prediction would be the same on physical vs on screen KB.
- Comment on Samsung, SK Reportedly Hike Server DRAM Prices 60-70% – Google, Microsoft in the Queue 4 weeks ago:
SK 8xing production is impressive. I know open ai bought ~40% of microns memory production. So increasing production by only 20% is pretty low. But like you said they had horribly low (for them) ram prices for a few years so they’re just trying to avoid that.
Sk must be banking on Micron not matching the spike.
- Comment on Dell admits consumers don’t care about AI PCs 4 weeks ago:
IBM has been all in on AI for like 20 years.
How long has Watson been out?
- Comment on Dell admits consumers don’t care about AI PCs 4 weeks ago:
I know Video editing software uses it for things like motion tracking.
It’s all stuff your GPU can do, but the NPU can do it for like 1/10th to 1/100th the power.
- Comment on My apartment building gives me free water but I pay for electricity. What if I run the faucet nonstop and rig up a hydro turbine in my bathtub to generate my power from it? 4 weeks ago:
Unless you live in a desert, or some other area where added humidity is a bonus then “swap coolers” are doing more harm than good.
- Comment on Speed test pits six generations of Windows against each other — Windows 11 placed dead last across most benchmarks, 8.1 emerges as unexpected winner in this unscientific comparison 4 weeks ago:
The atom is only gone in name. It’s now just “intel processor”. The N100 CPUs are in a ton of neat machines. And the E cores of Intel CPUs are just Atom cores.
- Comment on Speed test pits six generations of Windows against each other — Windows 11 placed dead last across most benchmarks, 8.1 emerges as unexpected winner in this unscientific comparison 4 weeks ago:
Windows 8 also had to run on atom CPUs with fire CPU performance and even more dire memory configs. So even once it was booted it needed to be relatively slim and quick. I actually preferred it at the time because it was faster than 7.
- Comment on Microsoft kills official way to activate windows without internet 4 weeks ago:
I’m not, but unless I call the phone support I can’t get my windows to activate.
- Comment on My friend is buying a new PC and he is deciding between air cooler and AIO, which should be get? 5 weeks ago:
I’ve gone through an FX8120, 4560k, 4790k, 1800x, 3700x, 5800x3d, and finally 9800x3d all on the same cooler. Even if I do a big upgrade why would I want to change it if it’s working fine?
Finally this weekend it’s getting demoted to my server and I’m upgrading to a D15 G2. But that’s only because I’m upgrading my server and it’s 10 year old heatsink doesn’t work on AM5.
- Comment on My friend is buying a new PC and he is deciding between air cooler and AIO, which should be get? 5 weeks ago:
No it’s not. 95c is the target temperature on anything 7000 series and newer. Google says the 5700x throttles at 90.
- Comment on My friend is buying a new PC and he is deciding between air cooler and AIO, which should be get? 5 weeks ago:
9800x3d is fine on air as lon as you get a nice cooler. I’m personally anti AIO because I don’t want to deal with the maintenance. I’m still using my NH-D14 after 15 years. Under absolute full load the CPU gets hot, but I only game on the computer so it never stays hot for long. An actually modern cooler would be plenty.
At work we have a 9950x running of a Thermalright Peerless Assassin 140 and under 100% load it cant maintain full boost speeds, but it hovers around its base clock speed.
- Comment on Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore 5 weeks ago:
Yeah it took me a bit after 7 came out. But having all my excel windows in one group is way more efficent than two excel windows over here, one in the middle, and a 4th way off at the end of all my windows.
- Comment on Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore 5 weeks ago:
It’s a USB connected video adapter. Not USB C DP alt mode. USB USB.
At the best of times it’s solidly OK. At the worst of times it’s absolutely horrendous.
- Comment on Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore 5 weeks ago:
I had a few issues with 25H2 on release, but they’re largely fixed now.
24H2 and 25H2 are the same thing, it’s just enabling a few different changes. But things like the new obnoxiously ugly start menu have started showing on my 24H2 machines so I don’t really know what the difference is.
- Comment on YSK Tempur Mattresses fail quickly and the warranty is fake 5 weeks ago:
I think the memory foam bed is actually only good for 4-5 years depending how big you are and you local humidity.
Yeah my Casper was noticeably worn in the center (single life) after about 3 years. I’m not onto like 4.5 and it’s really starting to annoy me. Trying to sleep on the sides makes me roll into the center lol.
- Comment on LG Electronics unveils 2026 Gram Laptop line with aerospace composite - up to 50% lighter than macbooks 5 weeks ago:
Exactly. I have tons of cheap (when new) laptops that still work perfectly. But that’s because I baby them. If I treated them like how I treat my ThinkPads or MacBooks they’d have been broken in a year or two. Plus who actually wants to type on a laptop that’s flexing more than the keys are moving?
- Comment on LG Electronics unveils 2026 Gram Laptop line with aerospace composite - up to 50% lighter than macbooks 5 weeks ago:
Well if it’s anything like their previous models then it probably feels like it’s a toy. I remembered playing with a display model when I was thinking of buy it and was amazing by how flimsy it was.
On paper they seem like good laptops. But in practice?
- Comment on YSK to get a passport in the US, you need to have access to information about your parents and most recent ex-spouse 5 weeks ago:
Is this new? When I filed for my passport in ~2021 I didn’t need that info.
- Comment on Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto? 5 weeks ago:
You probably can, just nobody bothers to do it. My Subaru has installable apps. Hell older Hondas (and possibly current ones) just run android. You can even get to the regular android UI on them.
- Comment on Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto? 5 weeks ago:
That’s nothing to do with android auto/car play and entirely down to the manufacturer of your car being an asshat.
Is it a Mazda? Mazda is one of the worst about this. I think they’ve gotten better in their latest cars, but that doesn’t fix the existing ones.
- Comment on Leaker Who Apple Is Suing Says 'Screw It,' Here's the Foldable iPhone Early 5 weeks ago:
…no they can’t. Do you realize just how thick modern camera bumps are? Even not including the bump phones nowadays are thicker than phones 5 years ago.
The iPhone X was 7.7mm thick. The iPhone 17 pro excluding the bump is 8.7.
- Comment on Leaker Who Apple Is Suing Says 'Screw It,' Here's the Foldable iPhone Early 5 weeks ago:
Phones 5 years ago have lightyears worse cameras than phones today.
- Comment on Leaker Who Apple Is Suing Says 'Screw It,' Here's the Foldable iPhone Early 5 weeks ago:
Yeah I have zero qualms with my phone running slower if it means it doesn’t randomly reboot. That was the whole reason why Apple implemented it in the first place.
- Comment on Latest tablet with AOSP? 1 month ago:
Lineage OS supports the Pixel tablet. But they don’t seem to be very cheap used even though it’s a couple years old.