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Monkey Dust

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  1. I guess maybe they don't have any optimism about selling a new phone to iPhone X, and earlier, users. I have an 11, and honestly a 15 still feels like a meh upgrade considering the cost. The biggest deal feels like USB-C charging, and being able to get rid of my lighting cables. I'll probably stick with the 11 until it stops receiving security updates.
  2. Another vote for Keychron for ISO boards. Shipping from China to the UK took 6 weeks for me, and was really expensive, to Germany could be similar. But if you don't want one of the fancy Q-series boards, you can get the K and K Pro series boards on Amazon much faster. Just make sure you get a hot-swap board, not all K boards are hot-swap.
  3. To be fair, the Indian government would have a lot of data to check. Makes a mockery of the argument that the Chinese government is harvesting data on westerners via TikTok, and that ByteDance should sell it. If the Chinese really want our viewing habits, they could just buy it off a data broker.
  4. Go Norfolk! Not something I thought I'd ever say.
  5. All cases in ye olden days had sharp edges & no cable management features. The hardest semi-recently was a Silverstone SG10. It was a compact mATX case, very clever design, well-made and the best dust filters I've ever used. But like all super compact PC cases, it was a challenging build. Unfortunately, the PC I built in it was a temperamental PITA and the case made it difficult and time-consuming every time I had to open it up. I now have a normal-sized case, it's easier, but feels like such a waste of space.
  6. To be fair, one of the reasons you recommend iPhone to ageing relatives is that it's quite hard to screw up. If they could start downloading apps from links in malicious messages & emails, it would undermine iPhone as the 'safe' option. Yes, Apple are restricting it for revenue reasons, not customer friendly ones. But all big companies, and most small ones, put profit ahead of customers interests. That's capitalism.
  7. They are pushing TikTok shop hard, diversifying away from advertising. I guess with the ad-pocalypse, lots of ad supported platforms will be exploring options. It's hard to say if TikTok profitable now, unless ByteDance have broken down the figures? I suspect it isn't, streaming video is an expensive business. Aren't Google cagey about if YouTube turns a profit too?
  8. I think AI filling the internet with nonsense, and seriously harming the usefulness of the web, is a pretty likely outcome over the next couple of years. It will probably break the ad supported model too, as there will be so much content with ads, each ad will be virtually worthless.
  9. My last PC ran a 1070, and it could run RDR2 without crashing. I don't think the GPU is the problem. I'd first try turning textures down from ultra, that is maybe causing you to run out of VRAM? Seems unlikely, though. Next, I'd try reinstalling the game and the Nvidia drivers. Do you have crashing problems in any other games?
  10. As another long term PC gamer, I have to say PC gaming is so much easier than it used to be. New games pretty much just work. Old games and modding is where long frustrating troubleshooting comes in. Old games and ultrawide monitors can be a real headache. For some old games, it might be worth rebuying them off GOG. A lot of the old games on there have compatibility patches for newer versions of Windows.
  11. They're not super useful, and may only work if you use the keyboard in wired mode. Even wired, they are likely USB 2 speed at best, and may not deliver much power either. I'd experiment with it, but keep expectations low.
  12. 12GB should be enough, at least for gaming. I'd pick whichever card the games you play today run best on. In general, AMD cards tend to age better than Nvidia. But it's impossible to predict exactly which will work out best for you a few years down the line, so just go with what will work best for you now.
  13. The first successful POST is accompanied by relief.
  14. Yeah, this doesn't sound for competition in our market. Though if Tech Retail wanted Box, they could well buy it out of administration, at reduced cost. I guess Tactus's problems go back to the great GPU shortage when very few people were building new PCs.
  15. I think W10's support will be extended, at least for security updates. Windows is slowly losing market share. I doubt MS will want users, especially business users, exploring other options. IIRC XP had its EOL date pushed back due to poor uptake of its replacement, and possibly 7 did too?
  16. Big companies don't disappear overnight. They all have time to adjust to the new market, but some choose not to. It takes inflexible management to kill a big company, not a changing market. Boeing will be fine, eventually. They are still profitable and the US government wouldn't let them collapse for various reasons. Also, their main competitor, Airbus, can't ramp up production fast enough to take all of Boeing's business. They have a pretty captive market as one half of a near duopoly.
  17. Taking it back to the original topic. I enjoy Mac Address too. The chilled out presenting style and calling Apple out when necessary, being the main reasons. I find a lot of other Apple focused channels just fawn over the products, making it hard to tell the good from the good, but overpriced, from the crap. There may even be some willing to defend 'that' mouse.
  18. Assuming he could raise this kind of money, what is he planning to spend it on? Where would you find that many employees to reach that kind of wage bill? Even if this was funding for initially 10 years, that's a burn rate of 500-700 billion a year. Even if he employed 1 million people on an average of 200k a year, that's 200 billion a year. Leaving 300-500 billion of capital investment a year. The odds of being able to spend that much without massive, massive waste is zero. It would be cheaper and quicker for him to just buy Nvidia.
  19. Apart from avoiding a random brand you've never heard of, it's rarely worth stepping up from the cheapest version, IMO. The performance improvement for the more expensive versions is only noticeable if you really look for it, and have a stock clocked card to compare too. The more expensive versions might run a little cooler and quieter, but are you really going to notice when it's in your case? The cheaper card is more likely to have a less absurdly large cooler, too.
  20. Yeah, the rumours are mounting and MS are doing nothing to dispel them. Not going to be great for the industry if they bow out.
  21. I find the USD MSRP normally comes out at about the GBP price with the VAT included. The Euro conversion won't be so neat. The UK prices too bad, when you consider the VAT is included, but availability of some products can be an issue. Guess our population density partially compensates for our smaller efficiencies of scale vs the US. I would have thought the big EU countries would be similar? Not Scandinavia though, everything is expensive in Scandinavia.
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