Circuit City on the Edge of Forever

speaking from experience, you’d want to do this if you

  • are extremely stupid
  • have forgotten everything terrible about previous beta program participation
  • need a new source of computer-related stress in your life
  • idk a new terminal?

there might be some performance improvements coming eventually but nothing new right now

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I am extremely stupid, but perhaps the wrong kind of stupid for this. I don’t want to think about my computer more than I have to.

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The only glowing review that I can give 11 is that I didn’t immediately go back to 10. I wouldn’t recommend it to anybody over 10, but it’s doing everything I need it to do now.

I got a free copy of 11 Enterprise, a new hard drive, and an actual couple of days off, so I went for it thinking I’d just go back to 10 if something really pissed me off. Windows computing feels like clown world computing no matter what version you’re using.

The only frustration I have is the context menu ridiculousness. I’ve just been using more keyboard shortcuts. Maybe I’ll fix it with a third party tool eventually.

Good Windows versions:

3.11
98SE
2000/XP
7
10

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Windows Terminal is installable in 10 tho

I didn’t even realize 11 comes with wt. I grabbed it through chocolatey. :skull:

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i like to see all the new shit, that’s my excuse. i guess i could pretend it is to stay on top of work shit

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Multiple monitor management is significantly improved on windows 11 and that alone made it worth the upgrade for my specific use case (two desk monitors, a vertical 13” text reader, and a 20 foot hdmi cable to my tv across the room)

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the Newegg.ca Boxing Day sales on hard drives were good enough I’ll be doubling the storage on our NAS early in the new year

anyone in reasonable sneakering or shipping distance from Vancouver interested in a pair of used 4TB Seagate IronWolves?

the nuraloop is my travelling pair for all the reasons you stated. my ears might not be weird in the same way as yours but on me these kind of make a seal at the entrance to my ear canal rather than going deep into it which is way more comfortable than any alternatives (otherwise it’s a total toss-up whether ‘large’ or ‘small’ sized earpieces will come closer to fitting my ears)

the like driver bits look big but they don’t strain my uh ear cups to have on, and i found the cheap monoprice set that everyone loved about a decade ago to be basically unwearable because that bit was too big

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I doubt this is cost-competitive or even a particularly practical design, but… man it’s nice to see a computer case that looks a little wacky

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i’m a sucker for electronics with handles

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Right? The GameCube looms large in my aesthetic preferences

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It’s actually not bad at all compared to other boutique ITX cases, even the SFFpc (small form factor) nerds like it. Only caveat is limited GPU support compared to other SFF cases and wondering who’s into Teenage Engineering that isn’t looking at a $550 M1 Mac mini

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What is this bizzaro square monitor

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might be this one?

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16:18? Oh ho ho no thank you ma’am

1:1

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i miss 16:10

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I guess they don’t wanna call it 8:9 aspect?
I’m kinda bummed the EV2730Q-BK is not longer sold anywhere. That thing rules.

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I think having that 16 in there makes everything comparable for folks that don’t fuck with fractions.

This is great but looks like it’s probably priced for hospitals and the like.

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Half a dozen posts and no one is asking about how it rotates. FYI it’d be a nice 2160x1920 rotated which would be ~150px margins on the top and bottom of a 4:3 window. It wouldn’t be a super crisp integer scale for NES/SNESy stuff, but at over 8x that doesn’t matter.

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