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Remember when Microsoft announced they discovered some issue where battery drivers that weren't deployed by OEMs could make it into Windows?
Did they remedy this in a recent update? I'm on hour 6 of using my old HP laptop that has literally never lasted this long away from a charger, even when new, and have 27% left. I was preparing to buy a new laptop (possibly switching to Mac OS... urghhh) because the whole right side of the touchscreen is cracked, the thing only has 8 GB of RAM, and the battery life was miserable in it's nearly 6 years of age... but this is a crazy surprise.
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Tbh I hate window management on Mac OS as well as the lack of Home, End, etc buttons on the keyboard. It feels very stifled when it comes to being actually productive.
I use an M3 Macbook Air at work during my lunch breaks to try to gaslight myself into liking Mac OS, but I cannot stand how Finder always seems to show up as a Cmd+Tab option when it isn't even open while I can't tab into apps that are minimized... like who the fuck thought that made any amount of sense? Why can't I do something akin to "never combine taskbar labels" on Mac OS so I can see app titles on the taskbar rather than hovering over the app icon/force clicking the app icon? Takes a good couple seconds per action and they're both jarring.
Only things I like about Mac OS are the hardware it comes with, plus the ability to use my iPhone as a camera for meetings. That's kind of it.
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49 minutes ago, STRMfrmXMN said:
I am semi hopeful that the Nvidia Spark stuff will make things better on the Windows size, but who knows.
NVIDIA would need to make a watch, a phone, earbuds, a tablet, a smart speaker and a smart tv box to come on apples level. Apple's ecosystem is just untouchable, any company will have to beat them on all other fronts.
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Hear me out here... Is fast startup disabled in Windows? AND whatever lockdown your BIOS may have on such a thing - can you disable that? Most IT admins will know to disable fast startup, but I've found it will sometimes prevent certain ports from working upon boot. I vaguely recall having to do this to get a Yubikey working eons ago. Also wondering if it works if you resume the PC from sleep. If the TV has different display modes (such as a game mode), try those. I'd be looking for things that put the TV into a mode where it potentially might have a handshake, checking if the attached device is compatible in some way. Does the laptop have an iGPU control panel that could potentially enable or disable features like HDR, multi monitor stuff, or power saving? Oh, if you end up with some sort of video switch inbetween, keep in mind that some of these devices or the TVs you're plugging into have anti-piracy measures built in that will prevent you from getting an image, and how they block an image can wildly vary in implementation. No video/brief video/garbled content may occur. Something like an HDMI over ethernet connection could be a good test for you.
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Been 9 months or so since I last made a status update. My old Legacy GT Wagon was sold off after a crash in it. It's now being parted out by the second owner since I sold it on FB marketplace, so I've now got myself a 2020 Mini Cooper JCW. Been applying to jobs in IT like crazy with little luck. Played tour guide around the west coast here with some friends from Australia. What about you all? Staying gainfully employed, I hope?
Also, a little side thought - a lot of the hardware in my desktop PC I bought in high school (circa 2017 or earlier) and still use to this day. Both monitors, my S340 case, my PSU is 10 frickin years old, my 850 EVO SSD, my Noctua D15, and I think I bought my DDR4 RAM with first gen Ryzen right after graduating, so that, too. Still have my JBL LSR305 that I got 11 years ago, still rocking the same LTT avatar...
Anything changed with you guys?
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I am so timely in my responses to y'all. I'm currently in the final stages of interviewing for an IT manager position at a nonprofit that looks like it'll be insanely busy and it would just be me, but that's kinda already my current IT gig, so I guess doing it but with a hefty pay raise will be nice.
On 6/22/2025 at 12:44 AM, iamdarkyoshi said:Unfortunately no, I lost my job in feburary and haven't had income or health insurance since.
It's been rough. Things should hopefully be getting better though
My 760Ti Succ Edition finally has a new home, which means I'm allowed to change my profile information finally (my current profile status is too long)
Really sorry to hear about that man. Is there much out there in Reno for jobs apart from in defense? My uncle lived in Sparks for a couple decades and recently retired (he was in defense), and he did tell me that his kid struggled to find work outside the realm of working at Home Depot. His daughter teaches at a college in Vegas where the market is more plentiful.
Also, don't think I've forgotten about that 4460S you sent me eons ago! I have no clue where it is now...l I think in the closet at my best friend's place since he upgraded his PC in 2021 or so, and I had given it to him ages ago.
On 6/22/2025 at 2:06 AM, BiotechBen said:Got a stone to my windshield the other day, $400 quote "not including taxes and service fees", and the crack has grown to about 18-20in directly across the drivers side. Repair is scheduled for the 26th, so we'll see how that gets dealt with. As with every unusual thing that has needed replacement on my Jetta, I'm just waiting for a "oh, it's a Volkswagen? Nah fam, gotta take it to the dealership to get it fixed."I've got the bare bones base model, the only "option" on it is an automatic transmission, and apparently a pinstripe down each side, so there aren't any sensors or anything embedded in the windshield that would require "pairing and calibration".
I'm curious how the rearview mirror is gonna be transferred over as well, or if it will just come as a full assembly.
Still not convinced it was a stone though, it hit with such force that my friend and I thought someone shot at us; I never saw anything hit or ricochet off the window. At first I thought it may have been a blowout, given the violence of the sound, but a crack raced across my vision showing me it was an impact.
$400 for a windshield sounds like the going rate, honestly. I've seen a couple of our master techs break windshields in cars here at Audi/Porsche when removing them for odd jobs like blend door actuators in convertible Audi A5s and stuff, and those repairs are in the 3 grand range! Hopefully your VW starts being a little more trusty.
On 6/23/2025 at 5:13 AM, TVwazhere said:Ah, a legend.
It's still kicking, and the lack of USB C hasn't convinced me enough to replace it. Fans all still work, front I/O still works, and it holds my components! No need to let it go to waste, I guess. I bought it at the now defunct Fry's Electronics.
On 7/17/2025 at 9:28 AM, Fred Castellum said:Glad to see your still kicking, hopefully you land a good job.
Still alive over here, trying to improve health/VO2 Max while cycling. Work is same old same old as well, stock market finally back up after months of being hammered by tariff news.Hey, get that cardio on! I've been staying fit a lot the last couple years and it really does wonders for your health. Hopefully your job has settled a bit. My work is definitely all over the place. Seems like we're busy as fuck in IT, but a lot of the sales guys are desperate for any sales right now. Service has been kinda slow, too, which makes sense for the summer, but we shouldn't have techs not working at all right now.
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2 hours ago, STRMfrmXMN said:Really sorry to hear about that man. Is there much out there in Reno for jobs apart from in defense? My uncle lived in Sparks for a couple decades and recently retired (he was in defense), and he did tell me that his kid struggled to find work outside the realm of working at Home Depot. His daughter teaches at a college in Vegas where the market is more plentiful.
I've actually moved back to south dakota with family. A house there costs the same as a crappy condo in nevada
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Hope y'all are well. I'm studying for the CCNA and getting over a cold. What about you guys?
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noice! I'm going for my JNCIE-ENT certification soon here's hoping for the both of us
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Hey glad to hear you're alive. Graduated and bought my first car.
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ASRock Z690 PG Riptide not resuming USB microphone from Sleep
STRMfrmXMN replied to STRMfrmXMN's topic in Troubleshooting
Just bumping this thread from months back because, even after contacting Asrock support and trying their fix (turning off Fast Startup in Windows 11), nothing has resolved this issue. Hoping somebody else has encountered it. -
Hey all, I'm an IT guy and am getting frustrated trying to make my own system at home work properly. I have a generic webcam from Amazon that I've had for several years. It's an EMEET 960 webcam. The actual camera works when resuming from sleep without issue. It's the mic that does not work unless I restart the PC or unplug the device and tell the application I need it for to switch to another source, then switch back after plugging it back in. This webcam's microphone had absolutely zero issues on my old 8600K system. Things I've tried: Going to ASRock's website to find chipset drivers for the motherboard. Per ASRock support, I installed the Intel INF drivers from the ASRock website. Disabling "Disable this device to save power" in Device Manager for every single audio and USB device. Finding a special driver for the webcam. There isn't one. Reinstalling Windows. I've had this issue with both Windows 10 and 11. Disable deeper sleep states in the BIOS. I see no options in the BIOS that would prevent this device from working upon resuming from sleep, and my mouse, keyboard, DAC, controller, etc., all work after waking. Things that work to "fix" it: Restart the PC every time I resume it from sleep. Unplug the webcam. Plug it back in. Switch sources in Discord/Zoom/etc. until it works.
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In the midst of the adblocker YouTube nonsense, I have found my unique workaround:
I have a Galaxy S22 with ReVanced installed
I use a Windows PC with Samsung DeX installed.
Plug phone into PC and run DeX. I now have fullscreen ad-less YouTube with dislikes and no adblocker notifications. I suppose this is just using the Android app with extra steps, but it makes it a lot easier to watch on a desktop as long as you can stand watching videos at around 30 FPS and slightly lower quality.
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14 hours ago, Dabombinable said:
My brother's PC has uBlock Origin and he received the message. While I didn't and I'm the one who installed it for him.
Has he tried "purge all caches" > "update now" > "apply changes" on the dashboard? I heard the anti-adblock thing will leak unless you did that, so I did just that before watching YT on PC again.
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Went ahead and decided (finally) on my CPU upgrade. Found a used 12700K on eBay for $180. Seemed too good to be true, but went forward with it. Simultaneously bought an MSI Z690 Tomahawk DDR4 board. Lo-and-behold, the price was too good to be true and the seller cancelled my order. Now waiting on a CPU from Atlanta, GA, and that hasn't shipped yet and is making me nervous. This one was a more believable $200.
Excited to not have stutters in Forza anymore. 8600K has served me well but modern games are starting to get tricky on these older hexacores.
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Am I crazy or is it way more common to actually need to check the memory QVL of modern motherboards? Back in the Haswell CPU days, I swear you could grab any RAM off the shelf and put it in any system, both AMD or Intel, turn on XMP, and boom, you were speedy. When Ryzen first came out, I ended up getting so frustrated trying different kits of RAM with my 1700X (and none ever getting anywhere close to their advertised speeds, even after checking the QVL on my Asus boards) that I sold it and bought my 8600K. Now it seems like 12th and 13th-gen Intel CPUs as well as Ryzen 7000 CPUs need a lot of double-checking to make sure they work with DDR5 kits.
Do CPUs or boards have looser memory controller tolerances or something? What changed?
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2 hours ago, STRMfrmXMN said:
Am I crazy or is it way more common to actually need to check the memory QVL of modern motherboards? Back in the Haswell CPU days, I swear you could grab any RAM off the shelf and put it in any system, both AMD or Intel, turn on XMP, and boom, you were speedy. When Ryzen first came out, I ended up getting so frustrated trying different kits of RAM with my 1700X (and none ever getting anywhere close to their advertised speeds, even after checking the QVL on my Asus boards) that I sold it and bought my 8600K. Now it seems like 12th and 13th-gen Intel CPUs as well as Ryzen 7000 CPUs need a lot of double-checking to make sure they work with DDR5 kits.
Do CPUs or boards have looser memory controller tolerances or something? What changed?
You clearly haven't worked with any of Gigabyte's LGA1155 and 1150 motherboards - they are extremely picky with miss-matched sticks. To the point with my friends PC that I had to install them in a particular order, making sure to boot into the BIOS after adding each stick. And they were the same model sticks, just separated by a few years.
Getting 20GB of RAM installed in my brother's LGA1155 PC was as bad, with added instability. -
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On 9/10/2023 at 1:57 AM, Dabombinable said:
You clearly haven't worked with any of Gigabyte's LGA1155 and 1150 motherboards - they are extremely picky with miss-matched sticks. To the point with my friends PC that I had to install them in a particular order, making sure to boot into the BIOS after adding each stick. And they were the same model sticks, just separated by a few years.
Getting 20GB of RAM installed in my brother's LGA1155 PC was as bad, with added instability.Lol, I've had like 7 motherboards on LGA1150 and legitimately every single one of them was a Gigabyte board. I've never had anything but Gigabyte boards with the exception of my Ryzen system which had a couple different Asus boards due to them having wildly superior VRMs at the time. Every one of those boards had no issues with RAM compatibility on LGA1150 (ignoring that one with the bent memory controller pins... whoops).
I'm surprised more people haven't had memory issues with how much I'm reading about them. Guess I have PTSD over first-gen Ryzen...
I just bought an i7 12700KF and my used MSI Z690 Tomahawk DDR4 board arrived today. I'm excited for the upgrade. Of course, being out of the loop as I am, I didn't realize the 12th gen CPU socket bending was a thing until after I had ordered the board. Oh well. Guessing that might be a smidge overblown?
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Why yes, of course I brought popcorn to the LTT forums this week.
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9900K (keep old Z390 board) or new(er) platform?
STRMfrmXMN replied to STRMfrmXMN's topic in CPUs, Motherboards, and Memory
I think the plan makes sense to go 12900K, but it seems like a heat brick. Will I have issues cooling it at stock clocks with a Noctua D15S? -
9900K (keep old Z390 board) or new(er) platform?
STRMfrmXMN replied to STRMfrmXMN's topic in CPUs, Motherboards, and Memory
I do have a D15S and it takes a seriously crazy amount of voltage for my 8600K to get to 100C, but I don't doubt a 9900K would trouble it a bit. It's a shame my 8600K requires 1.405V to run steady at 5 GHz, hence I run 4.9 @ 1.37. -
9900K (keep old Z390 board) or new(er) platform?
STRMfrmXMN replied to STRMfrmXMN's topic in CPUs, Motherboards, and Memory
Thanks all. It's insane how expensive the 9900K is on the used market. This would very much be a different discussion if that CPU weren't so expensive when i7s on the same platform can be had for around $100. Anyhoo. I think I'll be grabbing a 12900K here shortly! -
Hey all, hope you're well. I've been out of date with PC hardware for a bit, but my 8600K is starting to show its age and I need something a bit better. I run into performance issues in Forza when playing it at 144 Hz and running a Youtube video or the like in the background with CPU usage hitting 100% even while the CPU is overclocked. I have a Gigabyte Z390 UD ATX board and 3200 MHz Samsung B-die RAM. I'd ideally pop a 9900K in this system to keep it going but they're stupid expensive for how old they are and much better IPC comes with newer stuff while still allowing me to keep my DDR4. I'm eyeing a used 12900K for $250 and finding a used Z690/Z790 board with Wi-Fi 6/6E to pair it with as a potential replacement. It would probably cost $120 bucks more or so, but will absolutely eat power and is currently overkill for me, plus I'd need to get a new adapter plate for my Noctua cooler. A 9900K would be an easy drop-in but is nowhere worth it's price in performance. It still would do everything I'd need of it without issue (I'm rocking a 1660 Ti... so there are some other more serious bottlenecks to be found poking around in my system).
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My 8600k is starting to not cut it anymore, even at 4.9 GHz (mine is a dud overclocker). Do I spend $~250 for a used 9900K or do I buy a new/used platform? Currently eyeing a used 12900K for $250 and finding a used DDR4 LGA1700 board for it and keeping my Samsung B-die DDR4. What do y'all think? I'm just running into performance issues in Forza Horizon while running like a live stream or YouTube video in the background.
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5 hours ago, STRMfrmXMN said:
It's a huge multithread upgrade but the CPU is so old, so power hungry, so expensive, and I'd only upgrade to it because of the convenience. I don't really want a new board/platform but it may just make the most sense.
The 12900K consumes more power - so that's really a moot point. Also, DDR4 kind of kneecaps the 12000 series.
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As someone who's still on their 4790K, I couldnt imagine upgrading to the next gen (6700, pretending that's a compatible swap for a second) when I can get the same CPU price on a much newer gen for way more performance.
If the 9900K was $75-100 it'd be much more considerable. And completely understanding that you'd have to buy a new board, isn't the build process half of the fun of PC's? It sure is for me
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