I spent all damn day building that formd t1 case
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I’m in limbo waiting for the Formd Evo case now
from Q1 2021 to Q1 2022
computer just sits in a box all the time so who cares if it’s a nice box?
I care
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I saw a forum post of the guy saying he was now looking into making the case with transparent aluminum or some shit and decided I’d just get the t1 and see how that evo thing turns out when it finally comes out in 2029
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yeah that was…not encouraging
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VR hardware is in a really weird spot, I’ve realized from people asking me what to buy – it feels like the “good value entry point” has changed more or less annually since 2017 despite none of the HMDs really being obsoleted or unsupported, because it depends so much on who’s subsidizing it at the time
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One thing I wouldn’t have predicted is that a global pandemic wouldn’t really be that good for the popularization of VR, coinciding as it did with a GPU shortage and a general lull in the VR hype/subsidization cycle
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Facebook as the only inexpensive hardware due to obvious malfeasance sucks. The Index is also too expensive for its aging specs and pain-in-the-ass UX, but the HP G2 is stuck with Microsoft’s inside-out. Not only is there nothing good now, I can’t imagine a headset I want to buy.
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PSVR and WMR (both of which I own) were worth buying when they were like $250 each. right now the only thing in that category is facebook, which… like you said
I’m curious to the extent Facebook will brick my Rift S after the account link deadline. Maybe I’ll officiously offer to be a plaintiff.
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Hey sup, the photography studio that did my wedding put all our photos on an external drive we provided them with. They’re a Mac shop and they formatted the external drive accordingly, which is now causing us some consternation because we can’t access the drive using anything other than my wife’s work laptop which is Mac.
We can’t reformat the drive because we’ll lose our wedding photos, and not being able to access the drive with anything other than a Mac is a bit of a hassle.
Any suggestions? I see there’s some paid software which can apparently allow a Windows machine read/write to a Mac-formatted drive, are those worth it?
the Paragon HFS+ driver for $20 or whatever is well-supported and not exorbitantly priced, there’s also a read-only driver that you can find and install manually if you search for it that was actually provided by Apple’s Boot Camp at one point but isn’t officially supported other than on Macs though it works fine in my experience
do not use “MacDrive”
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Melissa found some driver on Seagate’s website which has apparently done the trick
oh yeah, Seagate actually relicenses the Paragon driver and redistributes it for free for their drives only
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there are credible-sounding rumors at this point that 5nm AMD is going to go back to including iGPUs standard on desktop by sometime around the end of next year, which I’m happy about, because I didn’t love the idea of being limited to four outputs on the dGPU again on my next build or having to fuss about importing an APU and blocking PCIe lanes &c. &c.
should also accompany DDR5/PCIe5
swear2god this is gonna get me to finally upgrade
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in further “preparing for an upgrade from 2013 hardware that will seemingly never come” news, there is now a mesh wifi 6e router that I would consider upgrading to from my archer c2600 (current street price about $50):
it is $1200!
cool!
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Is your place very spread out? Even in my folks’ 2000ish square foot one story place a single 801.22ac reaches to the edges.
coverage is good here with a single 802.11ac (about 1000 sqft on one floor including the deck) but the 5ghz at the far end of the space (bathrooms through two walls) is at the very edge of what I’d like (it’s like -60 or -65 RSSI) and since a) my wife already tells me all the time that I’m overfilling our space with junk, b) I’m not really expecting there to be a wifi 7 that merits home adoption at this rate, and c) even regular wifi 6e routers cost a ridiculous amount, I think I may as well go mesh when I finally upgrade.
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someone had a field day with this article, seriously!
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Bold accusations coming from a subsidiary of radio free asia 
Lawyers haven’t caught up with the absurd volume of evidence that phones create yet
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Re: power supplies
- How important is SFX vs SFX-L? I want to keep as much flexibility for cases in the future but it’s not an issue with the current case.
- Why would you need 750W in an SFX form factor? Might I? Most calculators put my 95W CPU and ~300W GPU comfortably within a 600W’s range but I see the latest/greatest from Silverstone and Corsair are 700W and 750W respectively. I’m having trouble imagining the system that pushes that envelope in an ITX/SFF.
I can buy almost any model near MSRP, thanks Microcenter, just looking for something to last and give my case breathing room clearance vs the ATX supply in it now.