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Thanks! I picked one up at Wal-mart today, for $19.99 + tax. Setting it up wasn't that easy, though. The Disney Plus and Hulu apps were installed at the beginning, and when I tried to open them, they both balked, saying that there was no internet connection, even though other apps such as...

Well now... I bought a Roku Express three years ago, so that I could stream the Peacock channel, in order to watch a Notre Dame football game on it that was only streaming on that channel. I did this, because when I tried to add the Peacock channel to my old Roku express, it came back with...

What's the CPU?

Maybe I'm just getting up there in my years, but I always preferred reading an article, as opposed to listening to someone trying to sensationalize or demonize something with emotional vocal statements. Yes, yes, I know that personal bias will still show up in the written articles, but when...

Unless you know someone working at Facebook, it's highly unlikely your friend will get the account back. One of my friends had his account hijacked, and had even provided Facebook all of the documentation showing that he is who he claims he is, etc., along with showing how the profile...

All search engines report results from "aefgygfy.shop" to be connected to some entity named "Xindang 2024." If I were a betting man, I'd gladly wager dollars to dimes that it's a scammer looking to sucker in someone desperate for a low price. You'd have better luck buying stuff from that...

The first system I overclocked was my Am 486 DX-40 system where I bumped it up to 50 MHz. Being able to play Doom 2 in full screen mode at high resolution was quite fun. The only downside was when I tried to run pure 16 bit apps, the system would lock up. Something like Wolfenstein 3D would...

Back when I was trying to find a stable set of drivers for my AMD K6 platform, I kept a small hard drive with just the OS on it as a source drive / emergency drive. I didn't have any drive cloning software available to me at the time, and when a "new" driver basically "broke" the Windows 98...

Dell has always been a right hand man of Intel's throughout the decades. Even though they do offer AMD CPU's these days, it's limited in terms of either their U-series Ryzens (for a single model of all-in-one computer), or workstations with Threadrippers when it comes to desktops (including...

Is it really any different that places that let you rent furniture? It has been 15 years since I looked at the numbers, but at the time I met my ex-wife, she was renting furniture at her place, and she could simply have bought the darn furniture with the equivalent of 24 months of renting it...

I'm happy with my top end AM4 right now, thanks to another fellow [H]ardForum member here. However, I also acknowledge that with AM5 now being the mainstream, it's only going to be a matter of time before I'll have to upgrade, whether it be due to a motherboard failure or a CPU failure. I...

It seemed as if the vast majority of players in the original CounterStrike cheated in some way, shape, or form, whether it were due to aimbots or wallhacking. You couldn't poke your head around a corner and not have it instantly annihilated due to a combination of the wallhacking and aimbots...

ENIAC was worse... The specs on power consumption was on the order of 150 kW, and those vacuum tubes used in them had to be replaced very frequently, where the hapless tech would be stuck replacing dozens of them every day. Anyways, the CPU I considered the worst on its own was the Cx 486...

I certainly sympathize... When I was a dirt-poor grad student for my first two years at a substandard place with no assistantship my first year, my "office chair" and desk consisted of a $29.99 clearance desk unit, and a 5 dollar resin patio chair. At least the two of them combined didn't take...

Ryzen was a big step in the right direction, where AMD CPU's could compete with Intel's CPU's on a more level basis. It's no surprise that the increase in AMD's share of the market came with the introduction of Ryzen. Prior to this, CPU's on the AM3 platform were rather underwhelming when it...

Yes. I tried every combination of resetting available on the phone, from network reset, to factory reset, and no bueno. I ended up paying the buyout, and getting a Samsung S24, my cell phone bill being the same (minus having paid the buyout fee, but also getting some money back in the way of...

Update... Trying the Android 15 Beta didn't fix things, although the phone did feel a bit more responsive after it. None of the reputable local 3rd party repair centers said that they could work on it, or even open it up, that they could only send it to Google, and have them take a look...

At this point, I'm mulling over trying the Android 15 Beta. The Google rep emphatically said something on the order of "No! Don't do it!" but at this point, what difference does it make? Another chat from this morning with Google gave the same response, where the only other option they'd...

I'm not sure if the Pro models are affected. For that matter, I'm not sure if all regular 7's are affected either, but looking at the rather angry discussions, this has been going on all April, as the updates were released on a rolling basis. My update occurred later than the others.

It seems that it's specific to Pixel 7's. I really don't want to give up this phone, since it has been great for me. I may try to "sidegrade" the phone using the Android tool kit, to see if I can restore the firmware to back to an older version. I'll wait for a few days, though, to see if...

I just got the kiss of death after my Pixel 7 received an "update" from Google. The phone was working perfectly fine this morning until the "update," after which there's no cell phone reception at all. Apparently, according to some of the forums, the cursed update kills the internal antenna...

This is dead-on. End users cannot purchase Enterprise licenses, since only businesses or academic entities are allowed to buy them via subscription. As an academic user, I have Enterprise licenses for all of my lab's computers, and they all have to be authenticated through the central server...

Back in the CentOS days, I ran KDE for 5.x since it was exactly as I wanted it to be, having come up on Red Hat and later, Fedora. I even used it during my CentOS 6.x days, but once I switched to 7.x, it seems that they really dumbed down the interface to the point where it became an...

Aw heck, it's an honor to finally know someone who made that video. I remember seeing that video decades ago, and getting a good chuckle out of it. I only wish that they would have done that for real to some of the cheaters in the Team Fortress Classic community. It would have done me a lot...

If you think you'll get significantly better performance out of the RTX 4070, and if the bang / buck is worth it, then you can't really go wrong with it. You should be getting about a 50% boost in overall performance. There will still be a decent market for that used 6750 XT, and you'll be...

Brother RHL-L2320D arrived yesterday, and it works beautifully with either the starter toner cartridge, or the 3rd party cartridge I bought off eBay. The 3rd party cartridge is about 90% as dark as the OEM toner, which is good enough for my grunt work printing. Not bad for 70 bucks...

My HP Officejet 7000 just bit the dust for good. I've been using it for over 8 years now for my dojo, and it was used by the previous owner for several years as well. I was only using it to print 8.5" x 11" rank certificates for my dojo, and have long switched to greyscale only. The third...

Those who do take those jobs with their heads in the clouds find out quickly, that they'll hit the bottom pretty quickly. A minimum wage fast food job isn't what it used to be. Before the craziness had set in, a fast food employee would typically be given an assignment for the day, whether it...

I've finished converting almost all of my computers to use SSD only. The main PC at home (for gaming, as well as work) now has a Crucial MX500 2 TB SSD drive, using the SATA ports as its only hard drive. The main work PC has a 2 TB Intel M2 SSD drive. The secondary work PC has a 1 TB Kodak...

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There's a chance it could be legit, but the odds are so minuscule, that it's almost entirely likely a scam. If you're willing to spend that much for such a card, get it form a reliable member here, and the above link to sk3tch's ad is a good one.

Yes indeed. If you were trying to do too many things with your system at one time, you would get a buffer underrun and make a coaster. Or, if your burner were a POS, and if you tried to do anything at all, even if the screensaver popped up, then you'd generate a coaster. Most of the time...

My first CD-ROM drive was a Plextor 4-Plex drive, with 1 MB of memory. I never had any incidents of stuttering on it, even with other processes running in the background, and this was on a Pentium 90 system with 16 MB of memory. I kept that drive for about 6 years, even using it as a source...

I'm still running my Antec Truepower Trio 650 watt unit (Seasonic build) in one of my office PC's. I think I got this power supply either in late 2007 or early 2008, and there was no worries about there being any of those satanic Fuhjyuu capacitors in it. Voltages are stable, and it's still...

I've had great luck with G2A, for Windows 10/11 Pro, as well as Office 2016 and 2019. None of my licenses have been deactivated even after several years.

Parts of Toshiba will probably be liquidated or sold off, closed down, etc. It will still exist as a company, just in private hands, and maybe this is a good thing to make them leaner and meaner. I hope they can emerge from this a stronger company. With regards to their electronics, there...

No big deal, as far as most Threadripper owners would see. The way I see it, if you can afford a Threadripper CPU, then you're either going to take care of it and run it as it should be run, or you have enough money to blow that you don't care about the cost of replacing it.

Valuable indeed. You can get tire changes done, a gallon of gasoline in case if you run dry in your tank, or locksmith services for your vehicle. You can also get towing. Just keep in mind, though, that the "basic" membership only covers up to 3 miles of towing. Anything beyond that and...

I was using AT&T DSL, that had an 18 mbps download, 2 mbps upload, and until last week, that was the only internet option in my neighborhood aside from Spectrum, which I absolutely hate. I just got my AT&T Internet Air installed. So far, it's pretty smooth, and I don't notice any real...

Former professional... While I was in grad school, I worked a side job at my friend's computer store, where we were often times doing wholesale jobs as well. If there were anything wrong with computers from the DOS 6.22 / Win 3.11 For Workgroups / Windows 95 / Windows 98, I could always...