Optimus Prime died for us all, hedgehogs included.
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United 93 was a Transformer and the memorial in Pennsylvania hides an underground Autobot lab bunker. They donāt want you to know
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Lightning to USB C adapters are apparently real and do work. The real benefit for USBC iphones would be increased speed which I imagine apple will fuck up for iPhone SEs somehow anyways
Does anybody have any experience with the Asus ProArt monitors? Iāve been wanting to get a color-accurate monitor for design for a while and it looks like the ProArts are decently priced. The PA328CGV seems decent; thereās a 4k ProArt thatās the same size and about $40 more, but it has a lower refresh rate and brightness rating. Is there anything out there in the same price range (~$500) thatās also worth considering?
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vs code has randomly deleted all my extensions
i have settings sync on and all of my other settings are fine, just the extensions are gone
love computers!!!
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Does anyone recommend a dock that I could have monitors, a keyboard and mouse plugged into that I could use to swap between a work laptop and my personal desktop computer? Is this expecting too much?
would a KVM switch work in this situation?
oh it seems like thatās the kind of device I should look into.
KVMs really struggle in the age of extremely high bandwidth digital displays
There are lots of docks out there that use usb-c or thunderbolt to do both USB and video. I have a couple of usb hubs that let you switch which upstream port to use, itās not impossible that something like that could support video too though I donāt know of any off hand. If you donāt mind physically unplugging and plugging in a cable when you want to switch itās definitely doable. The big differences compared to an old-school KVM are
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port compatibility - they often rely on usb alternate modes and other fancy stuff that isnāt neatly captured in saying they support usb-c. Youād need to do some research or engage in trial and error to find one that has the right upstream port that works with both the desktop and laptop. You might even need to try different ports on your machine as often not all of the usb-c ports are wired with the same capabilities
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they donāt emulate always having a monitor/keyb/mouse attached, so every time you switch your computers will have to react to the hardware change. In my experience macos will lose its fucking mind about 5% of the time when you plug in a new display, especially if thereās already another display attached.
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your desktop might not be able to forward your video cardās output through a usb port, and given that youāre posting on a video games forum 3d acceleration might be important to you!
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not going to have keyboard shortcuts to swap like old kvms had
Other, simplest option if youāre willing to press two buttons and have a monitor with multiple inputs: get a switchable usb hub for peripherals and just hook the two computers up to different ports on your monitor (probably via a usb-c dock for your laptop)
There are also some monitors that have built in kvm-like functionality where they have a built in usb hub, usb-c out, and regular usb-a out, and can link switching the input source to which usb to output to. My experience with this and a(n old, intel) macbook has been extremely poor though, itās always felt like apple laptops are allergic to external displays and the way it would put the display to sleep and then wake up when the USB went away and blah blah blah drove me absolutely insane by constantly waking everything up and going to sleep. If it wasnāt a work-provided monitor I would have returned that shit asap
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Agreed with everything km said. I can add a specific rec for this USB-C dock if thatās part of what you want to go with, it works better than the other ones Iāve tried (with my 2019 Intel MBP)
I still use that one at work, but at home Iāve switched to my 2022 LG monitorās built-in USB-C dock, because it also turned out to work well, and itās able to switch the keyboard and mouse according to video input mode just like a traditional KVM.
reccing the Dell WD19S, which is kind of needlessly expensive and probably a bit old and requires a Dell AC adapter
but we use them at work and it works with everything Iāve plugged into it (work Intel laptop, my non-thunderbolt AMD laptop, a Steam Deck, an Apple Silicon Mac Mini)
Answering the question that nobody has been asking:
Do I Even Have A Sound Reason Anymore Why I should Be Getting Intel Or Zen Architecture Over The Other Arch?
Answer:
Or
Choose your poison, huh 
..... at least it is as good a reason as any for cracking jokes/recalling those times in university riffing on Kaiser Chiefs' 'I predict a riot' or elaborating on predicting the weather (and arguing about whether getting it wrong means someone got his facts out of order :smirk: )
i reinstalled them all
two days later theyāve gone again
microsoft!!!
(maybe donāt use github vsc sync?)
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To anyone who potioned this post the answer for the ROG Ally is Elden Ring is very good on it. VRR helps, but so does medium/low settings.
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Kubuntu with full disk encryption successfully installed on thinkpad
So now I have:
- Kubuntu with full disk encryption
- OpenBSD with full disk encryption
- Windows 10, on which I can enable BitLocker which is full disk encryption
Could still do some more fancy things (i7 upgrade, keyboard upgrade, monitor upgrade, custom BIOS) but will have to think heavily about the value
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Do it like me and leave it just kind of sitting around loose in there
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Very wild guess, but I think it wants you to turn the drive upside down and screw screws through the chassis frame holes on the top right into the bottom of the ssd
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wild guess #2:
i think it wants you to take the front off, and then you can install the drives directly on the metal frame housing (obviously not in front of the fan(?))ā¦ but considering the --verbose steps 5a-5d, that seems like a huge omissionā¦
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Iām just tossing these fuckers in there.
Now, does anyone have a recommended way to clone the contents of one SSD (my Windows install drive) to anew SSD?
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