The "ZFS for everything" religious phenomenon has been an interesting one on the timeline of modern computing. Off-topic, but ZFS is pretty much inescapable for anyone that's tried researching improving or expanding their storage. Just about every online guide, forum...
Elon is always working an angle - usually in service to some ulterior, master of the universe type powerplay in his head. I used to like the guy - Tesla and SpaceX seemed cool, his "working for the betterment of humanity" shtick seemed genuine. But in more recent years am finding him dangerous...
From what I understand, the vast majority of freebie hoarders don't ever play the games. The game is the dopamine hit you got adding a free game to the library; after that it's forgotten about in most cases.
Not that that's a bad thing, but "bribe people to come to my party" isn't great...
I do, it's great, but respectfully, I'm not sure how it would change what I mentioned.
Two things can be simultaneously true: Epic has talented and competent developers, some of who are linux users and run their development environment atop linux; and their CEO can be short-sighted, flippant...
Sweeney will once again just hang back, let Valve and others take all the risk, make all the investment, do all the heavy machinework boring a tunnel through the linux gaming mountain. And then he'll show up and decry "Steam's outrageous and unfair linux gaming monopoly" as he announces EGS for...
An overflowing toilet is impervious to scorn. And manufactured rumors is a dedicated Industry now with teams of employees and production budgets. I used to think MLID, AdoredTV etc were causes, but no, they're symptoms. Just like the degeneration of cable news (Right and Left) catering to and...
None of these are legit. The "resellers" here are keeping 100%. Zero goes to MS. Might as well just use KMS activation at that point.
The rot in this market goes far deeper than merely opportunists capitalizating on pricing disparities between regions, and it"s not what's happening with these...
This particular case with the app store is a head scratcher and seems like overreach, but to the EU's credit, the list of actions against MS, Google, Apple, etc that actually made these megacorps bend into slightly more consumer friendly positions is pretty long.
This thread was relevant to the early days of RTX 4000 when the cards had just launched and some needed a BIOS update for the issue described in OP. If your card has been sitting 14 months, all you can do is try running it and if it doesnt need the update, the update won't proceed.
Unclear why...
Yes, but it involves farm animals.
Probably not the answer you were looking for, I wish I had better news. It's a wild, wild west business. It cheapens us all.
As long as people understand it's not actually a warranty, it's a gamble that GHD doesn't disappear in the middle of the night, in which case you're SOL. Yes they've been around a long time, but still a gamble.
The bigger problems that keep me away from refurbers like GHD and ServerPartDeals is...
Havent really followed this game but this gameplay footage showed on my feed (Drewski) and gotta say gameplay looks fantastic.
Like a more evolved, graphically impressive mashup of Destiny and Remnant From The Ashes, with starwars helmets. 3P coop shooters are just fun.
https://youtu.be/N6F_aVqXuwU
They're so nice at MC that abusing the store would just feel like stealing from a friend. They're one of the last B&M's that haven't been ground in the gears of autonomous warehouse machinery and faceless, online-ordered-Amazon-everything.
Retailers' typical angle for these types of offers is
1. Engagement (get people into the store to buy something, knowing the statistical percentages and averages for people that do, how many items, types of items, average gross and net per receipt)
2. Margin (profit) on the new purchase you're...
Sidenote, there's this growing gap between UE5 games actually coming out (after almost 2yrs there's only Fortnite + 2 flops), and the flood of youtube vids showing UE5 demos and how easy it is for anyone with no prior experience to 1-click create videogames with it. Legitimate game dev cycles...
And yet they'll probably sell out and may even incur scalping like their predecessor. Why, because no other fan can alternate between telling you the time, and material of an adult nature (filth) involving bikinis and a car wash. Talk about a value-add for system builders and anime freaks just...
First shown at Computex, now all the world swoons before Lian Li's beautiful nightmares as they were suddenly, finally released to retail mere hours ago.
400x400 pixels. RGB-lit infinity mirrors around the edges. Available in black and white, 120mm and 140mm, plus a reversed-blade option...
Yeah I was waiting for the AI-translated part to begin and then realized it already had. The next brain melter was a side-by-side with the German + AI English, taking turns muting and unmuting each since I also understand the german version fluently. It's definitely surreal.
Not sure if you gave up yet, but did you try Disk Drill? www.cleverfiles.com/data-recovery-software.html
I'd forgotten to mention that one, but I've used it a few times recently and it has a few features that gives it an edge over some of the others (all these tools essentially do the same...
That was my sense too. Only reason it seemed worth bringing up was for people hoping the recent drops to the $200 mark on higher-end 4TB Gen4 consumer drives would keep dropping if they waited a bit more. That party is probably over - not overnight, but there's a timer on current pricing.
^ The April 2022 TomsHardware test on SN850 2TB isn't relevant to this thread, because
A) 4TB SN850X > 2TB SN850X > 2TB SN850, if the same tests were re-done today it'd look different.
B) 4TB models = 2x the pSLC cache of 2TB models
C) There have been WD firmware updates since April 2022...
Memory prices continue to rise, with the world’s top five memory chip manufacturers, including Western Digital (WDC), notifying their distributors and consumer customers on December 5th that they will shorten the quoting period for their two major products – HDD and NAND Flash memory. Instead...
Do you know what specifically was adjusted in which games, or is this just something you've heard repeated?
My (probably limited) understanding because I ultimately don't give a shit but facts matter, is one trivial line of NPC dialog (among hundreds of thousands) and one NPC spawnpoint were...
Hence "reportedly" - based on an internal leak earlier in the year about the budget.
But then $2 Bil is only 2.5 years of shark card profits just from GTA5 (RDR2 online also rakes it in but not GTA5 levels). People dont seem to realize the amounts of money R* games generate ongoing. Millions...
Fortunately there will be a package with bulletproof windows, but they'll be fixed and won't roll down.
Who is the target demographic? To quote the brochure and press kit, "Anyone that has experienced significant childhood trauma, was ever stuffed in a locker or otherwise made to feel small...
Your issue isn't necessarily lack of perfect sized thermal pads. Get *any* heatsink on it- the motherboard-supplied, or a cheap $10 from Amazon, plus the slightest amount of airflow - they really don't need much. Without the airflow, the heatsink is just a heat capacitor and not benefitting the...
Perspective, most expensive movie produced: Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($552 million, adj. for inflation)
GTA4 (2008) $100 million
GTA5 (2013) $200-240 million
RDR2 (2018) $170-240 million
Cyberpunk 2077 (2020): $174 million
Note: None of the above include marketing budgets, which were often...
You can set your watch to the grand declarations of "this isn't to my tastes no thank you I'm not lesbian" whenever there's a new high profile thing. In fairness, I know firsthand that aging out of gaming - or just certain types of games - is a thing, and it's something that won't hit some...
Like every silicon valley CEO these days, I think Lisa was under some pressure to "just go out there and say something about AI, talk about the AI plan". That might be how it all started. The shareholders and board of directors stuck a gun in her ribs and said "get up onto that stage and do the...
Saw this yesterday but passed on posting because it won't be sold outside of china. Maybe another brand does their own version, the form factor is perfect. Throw seven on a 7-slot x16 motherboard (WRX80, WRX90, W790 etc).
Because it's not a true HP product, but a Biwin product with licensed HP branding. They're also the OEM for Acer SSD and DDR modules. https://www.amazon.com/s?me=A37TNC2POOX0TX
Same drive under different badges:
Acer Predator GM7000 4TB https://www.amazon.com/B0BNTFVVGD/
XPG Gammix S70 Blade 4...
“Jensen sent out an email on Friday evening saying everything is going to deep learning, and that we were no longer a graphics company. By Monday morning, we were an AI company."
It’s no secret that Nvidia has quickly morphed into an AI company. Although it creates some of the best graphics...