For years I’ve been using a pair of middle-of-the-road JBL studio monitor speakers with my computer. I got them used on the cheap and they sound pretty good. I’ve always just had them sitting on my desk as bookshelf speakers.
Yesterday, in order to make room on my desk for a second monitor, I got some stands to put those speakers on. I’d heard that moving speakers from a desk to stands can improve sound quality, but I did not expect such a dramatic difference! They sound way better now! Much clearer audio, especially the bass. Plus now that they’re a little further from each other, I can hear the stereo sound space much more clearly. It looks pretty cool too, makes me feel like I’m in someone’s recording studio or something.
I haven’t even gotten the new monitor yet and I’m already pretty jazzed!
My mom needs a new computer and a laptop would work best for her, and she’s already got all apple stuff and windows 11 would be new anyway so I’m looking at getting her a macbook air
I know this is not a new observation but the upcharge for storage is ludicrous, $200 for 8gb of dram is robbery
Anybody want a cheapo wifi extender? We had this one in our apartment to help us leech off our landlord’s wifi and get better coverage. I felt it performed admirably enough for its low price point. Would be happy to part with it for $15, $20 or something along those lines. Don’t need it anymore because our ISP router seems to be adequate for the whole house now.
windows on my thinkpad always takes a couple of minutes to get internet on a cold boot. like it’ll connect to wifi and i can browse my mapped smb share and ping other stuff on the lan but i have to wait for internet. not a huge deal but very odd, didn’t happen on linux either!!! is this a known quirk?
Not something I’ve seen before specifically, but it sounds like your copy of Windows doesn’t “get along” with your router or its configuration in some way.
I guess it’s either DNS, DHCP or NAT configuration. I would try to gather more information to see which one it is: for example, if your windows machine’s IP address changes after those 2 minutes, it’s probably a DHCP issue, and if you can successfully ping an internet address by IP number right after booting, it’s probably a DNS issue. And you could try working around those possible issues by setting a fixed LAN IP address in the appropriate subnet and/or a fixed DNS resolver like Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1
yeah i was thinking dns as i have a very neckbeard solution i’ve cludged together - pihole/cloudflared in docker, with my router brute forcing everything on port 53 in that direction for iot shit with hardcoded google dns, but i’m a bit lost debugging stuff like this on modern windows! and my windows desktop with ethernet is fine
(though the more i think about it, forcing everything to the pihole is a shitty solution and i should just block 8.8.8.8)
check the pihole logs to see what it’s requesting after it boots. vague memories of Windows phoning home on startup to suspicious hosts to check for upgrades/internet availability/new ads to show
two minutes sounds an awful lot like waiting for a network connection to some silently blocked host to timeout
How exactly does a cloud-based desktop operating system work? Like, what does that even mean?
E: Microsoft doesn’t know either.
October 6 Update: A newly published report has clarified that the discovered code bits are not related to Windows “12.” Also, the next-gen Windows version will not require a subscription.
I’m trying to find a (or maybe a couple) good 2.1 hdmi cable(s) to run about 25ft to an av receiver (and maybe a ps5) in a tatami space next to my living room. According to random YouTube video, I need an “AOC” hdmi cable for that length and it needs to be “cl2/cl3 rated” to run it through a wall.
Having trouble finding reputable and affordable cables with those specific labels in Japan. There are lots of fiber optic hdmi cables on Amazon.jp and the like - is that the same thing? How necessary is the cl2/cl3 rating? The electronics staff people I talked said that people tend to just run “normal” hdmi cables all of the time. (Also worth note I’m not installing this from scratch; our housemaker has installed a plastic tube to pass the hdmi cables through, so there is no chance they’ll run into other wiring back there).
