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In the wake of the recent channel compromise, I would like you to turn your attention to a small little checkbox that is unchecked by default on Windows 10 and 11, which is how bad actors can easily trick lots of people into running malicious scripts they might have downloaded. ThioJoe had mentioned this, but only by setting the Layout into "Details". However, not everyone prefers to set their Layout into "Details" and I'm pretty sure this still leaves a hole yet to be plugged. Introducing, "File name extensions", a small little checkbox in the "Show/hide" category under the "View" tab in Windows 10, and in the "Show" sub-dropbox under the "View" dropbox button in Windows 11. This way, whenever you see something like "Filename.pdf.exe" or some other actual extensions such as ".cmd", you could better see what the actual nature of that "file" is. I've attached photos below so you can see what it looks like, both for Windows 10 and 11, as well as a demonstration of a file with and without that option checked. I've used this trick to edit config files in Notepad by changing the file extension to ".txt". Windows 10 Windows 11 Examples, left is checked, right is unchecked

Exactly, that pissed me off badly

After reinstalling Windows while trying to solve 0xc00000e which popped up on my friend's laptop, I installed Intel RST only to discover that the store my friend had bought the laptop from paired the two drives in RAID 1, which somehow rendered 800GB of capacity in his hard drive unusable. The most ironic part was he told me they were "activating" the 1TB drive that was already in the system, since the warranty sticker was untouched. For now it seems that the SSD triggered the error, as RST indicates that the drive had failed.

Technically, you're correct, but not everyone around the world can do this. I can't because either from where I am, or due to Google and Google Chrome being my defaults, or Cortana not being enabled, I tried to replicate the units and measurements feature on my Search and it's basically blank. Anyway all these kinds of stuff I just slap them on my Chrome address bar since I'm more into the Google ecosystem (all-Android, single family account) No hate here though, everyone should have an opinion.

Go have a try, been searching for BOTH the standoff and the screw, and plus shipping costs, I'd rather not use the M.2 slot. I do have the P/N for the standoff, but for the screw I don't.

That is, if you can find the standoff and screw kit, since Acer doesn't sell that, and it isn't installed on my laptop. My laptop does have that slot, but I would need to resort to hunting dead F5/E5 laptops for the screw kit at Sim Lim Square (I live in Singapore) As for the HDD caddy thing, well the laptop doesn't have a third SATA combo slot, and the other SATA port uses a smaller power connector and to use it would mean having to sacrifice my DVD drive.

I have a laptop similar to this including the CPU and GPU (F5-573G), and even after modding the thermals with Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut recently, there's not much significant gains in terms of raw performance. But thermals definitely improved (I didn't setup a baseline, oops) The limitation is rather the 7200U and/or the 940MX. I have a much bigger limitation which is a pure hard drive for boot and programs, which I do intend to upgrade to a 500GB SSD (trading some capacity but I have a rig to store the rest of my archive) to keep it going. AND, the screws Acer used are really shitty, as I actually shaved off 2 of the small Philips screwheads (one of which was on the GPU mount) after using brute force to unscrew them, which is mostly due to the excessive use of threadlockers, and I had to resort to the jankiest way to get the heatpipe off, which risked breaking the mobo, which luckily it didn't. If you wanna know what I did, I basically rotated the heatpipe till the screw came loose, which it did and managed to remove it in one piece.

Here's a gif of @LinusTech twerking to sadness over Jibo's death. You're welcome.

Well I hate to break the bad news but even I couldn't find an entry point to open up the mouse. I'm also an owner of both the wired and wireless variant. Maybe the sensor picked up dust or basically died somehow. They could be underneath the 2 contact pads (googling it would be the best) . Grab yourself a small-sized (don't know how small yet) Phillips-head screwdriver.

Get it RMA'ed. It's the best option I could come up with. Try another mouse to see if the scrolling funcitonality on your PC is still working.

I'm a Singaporean myself, and here's my opinion. The most hilarious irony ever. Alot of you might not know this, but Donald Trump himself, convinced Broadcom CEO Hock E. Tan to shift Broadcom's headquarters from Singapore to Irvine, California in the US (I dug deep, decided to reedit this section). Now Trump himself backstabbed the entire company. I'd rather have them stay in Singapore. The Singaporean community is also quite torn, especially those on Facebook. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ By the way, here's an article from our local tech site HardwareZone via NY Times (basically you ain't gonna go through that dumb soft paywall) https://www.hardwarezone.com.sg/tech-news-president-trump-may-just-have-killed-broadcom-s-bid-qualcomm

Ars Technica link: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/11/intel-will-ship-processors-with-integrated-amd-graphics-and-memory/ AnandTech: https://www.anandtech.com/show/12003/intel-to-create-new-8th-generation-cpus-with-amd-radeon-graphics-with-hbm2-using-emib

If ASUS can make the Threadripper version of this (assuming AMD can come up with a chipset derived from X399 that supports TWO or even FOUR)... This is some serious challenge against Intel's dominance in dual/quad CPU market.

I'm currently using the Acer F15-573G i5 7200U and GeForce 940MX which I bought it on offer at S$899 (3204.2 pesos) This laptop can game on casual titles but not at too high settings because the laptop's thermals are quite weak to hold on. But if you can, spend on a GTX 1050/1050 Ti. Linus recently reviewed the Dell Inspiron 7000 (7567) with the GTX 1050 Ti inside. P.S: After your college, get a PC, it can last you longer. Video:

Badass, if I had that I would take it out to parties and play games with a console or laptop! #SingaporeanJoiningTheRace (Twitter handle is lovefilming_)