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Just copy your files to another drive so the update can't possibly mess with them.

I suspect it would be. A wall mount VESA arm thing is like $15 US https://www.amazon.com/Mounting-Dream-MD2463-Articulating-100x100mm/dp/B00ZKFRKIU/ I'm still looking for a desk option since it sounds like that's what you'd need, but I'd hope it wouldn't be too much more. That plus a monitor like this would do the job I should think: https://pcpartpicker.com/product/tkL7YJ/asus-monitor-vs228tp I'm not sure bumping up the monitor budget by $15 will net you one with a built in vertical stand option, but it's possible, I just don't know all options off hand. The problem is you can filter and sort by VESA options but not by the built in stand unfortunately, unless you know another site for this. As a total aside, this is why I wish monitors would just always have VESA, and then the included stand was just a VESA itself rather than being built in specifically in a proprietary way. That way the stand would still be useful for other displays, and you could rotate it without issues (if it was tall enough). Edit: This looks like one of the cheapest options https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07DHK5DHN/

Basically any monitor that you can mount vertically will do, doesn't need to be special. By default, TN are generally setup so that horizontal viewing angles are better than vertical viewing angles because they're wider so they need to be, and this means if you turn it vertically it will still work well in that axis, so long as it's pointed at you. If you get a VA or especially IPS then there also shouldn't be any issues in that regard. Cheapest option is probably to get the cheapest monitor you can find with a VESA mount, and then a compatible arm. Or, if you get lucky and find a cheap one with a fancy stand built in, that could work, but generally more advanced stands are reserved for higher end monitors which are going to cost more than you need to spend for this.

https://www.youtube.com/post/Ugyryy0KUnXUkd5-9yx4AaABCQ

I second the surface laptop, afaik it has that ratio and few others can say the same. It's also quite portable, and the new one appears to have figured out how to make things repairable and upgradable without sacrificing thinness and looks. Haven't looked into it closely enough to give a value judgment but I seem to recall being quite against that aspect of it when it launched though.

Ah I misunderstood, I thought you had purchased a separate unit to use as the "central hub" of your LAN, and just connected that to the ISP modem, but you are saying that the Dlink unit was an alternate ISP modem, correct? In that case I am even less surprised that it was still problematic. I would recommend doing something more like what I thought you meant. Any good quality router should be able to tie the APs together successfully without introducing additional issues, and when plugged into the ISP modem, it will only see one client more or less which it should be able to handle.

Interesting, yeah based on that it does sound like maybe the APs are fine but upgrading the central unit is the ticket. Personally I'd never use "D-link" and "better" in the same sentence, unless it was to say that something else is better than them perhaps that was why the plan didn't work. I would be curious to see if there's different results with another unit. I suppose it also wouldn't hurt to just try a super powered single (or 3) APs provided the store has a good return policy and you can take them back if it doesn't help.

I suspect that at the end of the day you'll get the best results with a separate AP in every room, or at least in a few different places. Getting one uber powerful unit to just blast through all the walls is probably not practical or possible. You should be able to seamlessly (or at least automatically) transition between APs if they all have the same name and password. It's strange that this option isn't working well for you already. Are they all wired in or is there some sort of mesh or wireless bridge?

Linus did a video on filling a concrete house with wifi a while back:

I thought there was two pieces to the specialized hardware - RT cores that specifically do the ray tracing, and then tensor cores that run the denoising code?

TVs have become remarkably cheap. That price point would only have gotten you trash not that long ago but these days I think it's quite workable. Perhaps something like this? https://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX79185 This is a Canadian site but by my calculations it should be roughly in budget.

I thought they used voice recognition to differentiate users automatically?

Technically it doesn't even need to be physically if you're ok cutting a bit of plastic...

You don't sound impressed but if you're achieving 50+ fps at 1440p doing ray tracing on a card that doesn't even officially support it, that's pretty huge considering how RTX benchmarks tend to run on non-RTX hardware. This could be, as some have speculated, a sign that the future of ray tracing is general compute + open APIs and not RTX.

I mean they may as well. If they can do it and no one else can, at least not as cleanly, that's the kind of thing that any company would want to show off, and rightly so.

Holy crap that price... I'm not in the mood to comment on if it's "worth it" or "fair" or not so I'll leave that to someone else, but I will just say that it's quite a shock. I for some reason thought this might be a "bring folding to the masses" sort of device that the average person could and would buy, but clearly I was mistaken.

This was mentioned before I'm not sure if this is even the only other article on it, it may not be since it was (is) a big deal