I was saying to my partner “Microsoft’s case for upgrading to Windows 11 is basically taking the form of slamming Windows 10 as ridiculously insecure. It’s good to finally hear from MS themselves what I had already surmised about Windows 10’s questionable security.”
Then she asked “So you think I should upgrade to Windows 11 on my laptop now?” and I replied “Absolutely not”
there are a bunch of registry settings to tweak the appearance/behaviour of the Start menu/task bar, but GitHub - valinet/ExplorerPatcher: This project aims to enhance the working environment on Windows puts a handy UI in front of them
Feel like I’ll be on Win10 for like 3 years after they stop doing security updates
has anyone figured out if windows 11 recognizes dates older than 1980
I’m kicking myself for not getting another 18tb drive when they were arbitrarily a hundred dollars cheaper recently, but I can’t ever tell when the prices on these things are temporary or not and for how long. these things did used to get cheaper every year
Windows 3.11 does 
Not sure we’ll ever move past strings with spaces breaking things
oh lord
Microcenter has the 12700k for 300 bucks and I just got my yearly bonus
Jesus take the wheel
Who else used to enjoy defragging?
Ah, that feeling of virtue I get just sitting there staring at it. It’s not quite the same without the clicking noises tho
proto-Idle Game
(it’s dangerous to me and my ability to work when there’s a progress bar in the vicinity)
Is there a cleaning-themed idle game? I’m imagining like a top-down view of a mansion full of dust and cobwebs and misplaced furniture, and you watch a team go in and gradually make it spic-n-span
defragging doesn’t work unless I can hear the drive clicking and whirling
New Kinesis dropped
I literally pog’d at this
Omg it’s everything I wrote in the survey response
I got fiber installed today in the exact wrong part of the house I’m renting. What do I do?
My computer is about 50 paces away, down a flight of stairs and around a corner from the Nokia WiFi Gateway 3 modem/router they gave me. I have an Archer C7 I might be able to do something with, though I’m pretty dumb about networks and would rather a plug-and-play solution. I’ll probably be moving to a different house soon too, so I guess I need something adaptable.
For color: the guy who came by for the install seemed old and was complaining about the day he had, so I didn’t want to make him trench around the house. But then he started in about woke culture and revealed that my noon appointment was his last for the day and I felt bamboozled.
a C7 is going to waste fibre to an extent, you want at least a dual core 4x4 router if it’s Wifi 5 at that point
So last time I could be bothered to check in on the AMD vs Intel wars, AMD was killing it and getting a Ryzen 3rd Gen was a no brainer. I am actually looking into upgrading my computer now, and a cursory look through what is available indicates that things may have changed? From what I can tell, Intel has been churning out new tech, while AMD hasn’t released anything for what is eons in tech time, so direct comparisons aren’t fair in that sense, but the point stands that it looks like if I am going to be ordering parts within the next week, I might want to go Intel? What is the story these days, and what should I be looking at?
I saw that the latest 12th Gen Intel CPUs have this crazy P+E core design. Is it worth my money getting that crap, or am I better off just buying an 11th Gen of more traditional architecture and saving a bit of money? Will the P+E core differential confuse my games into running on the “wrong” core, and have weird software glitches, or is the whole thing pretty stable?
As general background, I definitely game and want something performative, I stay away from “budget” brackets like i3/Ryzen 3. I typically go with the midrange i5s and such, but if there was an extremely discounted (i/Ryzen)7 I could maybe be convinced to step it up, if the price incline isn’t too steep. Basically, I’ve finally reached the point where my gaming is being bottlenecked by my CPU/RAM, so I suppose while I wait whatever inordinate amount of time it takes for GPU prices to normalize, I can upgrade the rest of my computer.
If it’s at all relevant, my current CPU is a Core i5-6600 @3.30GHz (Skylake / 6th Gen).
Intel has marginally better single threaded performance until Ryzen 5nm, but very marginally, and they’re way more power hungry and hotter. AMD still isn’t doing iGPUs standard until next generation either which I personally find annoying and is part of why I’ve kept waiting.
I’m not sure what the going rate on a 5900X is right now but that would influence my decision to wait until 5nm Ryzen
How long are we waiting though? There’s always something around the corner, isn’t there? I’m not really hung up on having the bleeding edge tech day of release, and generally can’t afford to. Just looking for a solid performer to upgrade to now that my PC has run long in the tooth. Is there something special about this particular phase in CPU tech that makes it worth waiting, compared to other points?
The benchmarks show Intel’s 12th Gen far surpassing AMD’s Ryzen 5600’s, but I am aware those benchmarks often hold little correlation to real world use cases.
Anyways, you seem to be saying that despite the benchmarks and surface numbers, Ryzen’s current gen lineup is close enough to Intel’s, and significantly cooler?