relativestranger
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- Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices 2 weeks ago:
dell’s been going down the crapper for at least a decade… ever since dell and the vultures took it private ~ 2013.
- Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices 2 weeks ago:
‘entry level’ specs have been 4gb ram for over a decade, and they’re still selling shit-tier laptops with only that today.
- Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices 2 weeks ago:
that would require the software companies to actually spend money on competent developers instead of tossing peanuts at prompt writers.
- Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices 2 weeks ago:
an 8gb pc with win11 is today’s equivalent of running vista on 1gb.
- Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices 2 weeks ago:
there’s a number of laptops already that do have 8gb on the board and no sodimm slots.
- Comment on Whats the best use for 75 dollars? 2 weeks ago:
Not long ago that would feed you McDonald dinner for a month
in the 00s, that 75 dollars would have bought SEVENTY-ONE double cheeseburgers (including a typical sales tax rate of 5.5 percent). today, it would only get you seventeen of them.
- Comment on There should be a "last used combination" faucet handle for sinks so you don't have to balance hot and cold everytime during winter 1 month ago:
and when the hot water heater is two floors down and the pipe from there runs up unheated parts of the building, it takes a very long time to get even a hint of warmth out of the hot water faucets.
i’ve lived 3 minutes away from hot water for nearly thirty years now. it sucks. if i ever get money enough to own a house, or choose where i live with little regard to cost, it will have instant hot water (tankless water heaters).
- Comment on Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones 1 month ago:
people got lazy about plugging them in
always have been, here. the old cdma flip phone went about a month between charges, even when it was 5+ years old. the new volte one sucks. with a higher power draw and the shitty 4g signal here, i have to plug it in every few days. the only ‘plus’ is that i always know where a charger cable is now, because it’s usb-c and i use that for other things, too.
- Comment on YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs 2 months ago:
if you’re being paid to run windows software… that’s a little different.
- Comment on YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs 2 months ago:
i’ve run across a couple prebuilts where shift-f10 didn’t work at any screen of the oobe. those just got clean installs via rufus.
- Comment on YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs 2 months ago:
rufus can download the latest 10 or 11 iso direct from ms servers (incorporating the fido ps1 script, made by the same guy), so you only need rufus and a flash drive.
- Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes 2 months ago:
And no, 4k desktops do not “look nicer”, it is stupid and tiny for no reason. Unless you have like 250 shortcuts on your desktop what is the point?
if you have an ultra-high desktop resolution, you’re probably using a scaling factor to make everything look about the same size it would otherwise be at ~ 1080p… windows will even default to something around that… just no ‘jaggies’.
so yea, it does ‘look nicer’ and no, everything is not ‘stupid and tiny’.
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 2 months ago:
my sister (born in the late 1970s) graduated from high school and tech college without being able to tell time on a regular clock.
- Comment on What are some good uses the new ballroom can have after the Trump regime is over? 2 months ago:
fuck airbnb. rents have tripled here with so many apartments and homes taken off the market and turned into untaxed and unlicensed hotel rooms.
- Comment on What are some good uses the new ballroom can have after the Trump regime is over? 2 months ago:
demolished is the only answer.
it won’t be built to code. shortcuts will be taken as everybody looks to score some free cash along the way.
no one will know what ‘extra’ items were planted during its reconstruction. even more significant if the security bunkers underneath the demolished east wing are also rebuilt.
- Comment on How gamers were nickel and dimed in 80s and 90s (besides arcades) 2 months ago:
and the “DRM” of the day was typing in the third word of the second paragraph on page 6 of the printed booklet that came with the game.
- Comment on grocery shopping 2 months ago:
at the wm here, if you even look at the scanner cross-eyed, it sounds the alarms and halts the register until the babysitter can come over, review the footage and unlock it. if anything passes anywhere in the cameras’ very wide fov and a scan isn’t registered… anything… it stops.
they got sam’s club-like checkers at the exits, now, too. anything not in a bag gets ‘checked’… at least that’s what we’ve concluded is their criteria, based on when we have been stopped trying to leave.
me thinks they’ve had a slight uptick in ‘customer-applied discounts’ lately.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 2 months ago:
my ‘arch based’ system is a cinnamon-flavoured manjaro. manjaro gets shit on for reasons, one of them being they hold back updated packages for a bit… which is basically what you recommend, and it’s what i usually do anyway–defer updates for awhile (even on windows), unless it’s a super critical issue that could actually be a problem.
that manjaro desktop has been solid, never once messed-up an update even with the aur packages i have installed, and even if it’s been a month or two since it last updated.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 2 months ago:
2000 ran the best and was the most stable of all of them for me.
- Comment on Microsoft is making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC 2 months ago:
apple did their part by putting siri front-and-center on iphones.
- Comment on Microsoft is making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC 2 months ago:
opera has been owned by chinese company since 2016.
- Comment on GOG say their preservation program has been "harder than we thought", thanks to DRM and elusive creators 2 months ago:
just because one person you believe to be the keepers of the code says it’s ok. doesn’t mean it’s the correct person or all the persons permission is needed from, and modifying or distributing the code yourself is still quite risky.
- Comment on ParanoidAndroid was the perfect name for a privacy focused android custom rom 2 months ago:
it was… is PA still around?
- Comment on Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 10. Hackers Are Celebrating. 3 months ago:
yea. it might be a good time to buy ‘older’ hardware, but ‘refurbs’ that are blessed by microsoft (gen 8+) are already higher in price than they should be.
- Comment on Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 10. Hackers Are Celebrating. 3 months ago:
reads like an old copypasta.
- Comment on Microsoft is endorsing the use of personal Copilot in workplaces, frustrating IT admins 3 months ago:
- Comment on Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 10. Hackers Are Celebrating. 3 months ago:
the same tool that can… uh… ‘remove the waterMark’… yea, that’s it. can Also help keep your soon-to-be-abandoned windowS updated.
- Comment on does the quality of downloaded youtube video increase after being downloaded? 3 months ago:
it’s not happening ‘after’. ytdlp is likely downloading a higher quality file than what the browser or app is receiving for streaming.
- Comment on Can you please help me pick a gaming desktop for my son that can run Monster Hunter Wilds? 3 months ago:
either one meets or exceeds the requirements you posted for the game.
note that if you’re able to shop in person at microcenter, many more options are available, including their own brand of prebuilts (powerspec) and custom-builds assembled in-store.
- Comment on whatever happened to in-store coffee grinders? 3 months ago:
the only grocery around me that had one took it out when they quit selling coffee that way, a few months into covid.