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Some of you may remember a post I made long ago about performing a Windows 10 feature update on a system with very limited free space on C, and how it was able to utilize a spare flash drive as extra working room to accomplish the update when it would not have otherwise been possible. A cool feature for sure, but apparently no longer necessary. I just ran the 2004 update on that same machine (which to be clear has been reinstalled since then and kept lean), and not only did it not require a helper drive, it didn't even make a significant net change to my free space at all, and in fact once the update was complete, a "disk cleanup" was able to free a good 3 - 4 GB that were previously required by the OS.
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Between the numerous limitations on how and when you could use it, the questionable performance benefits, and above all, the abysmal degradation to image quality, I'm sure few have forgotten the disaster that was DLSS on launch, but as badly as it failed, I think the new and improved DLSS 2.0 is poised to succeed. I had a look at some example images and video earlier today and it is truly astonishing, not only how far they've come from what it was, but what they've achieved outright. Despite improving performance by at least an entire "tier" (think 2060 -> 2070) if not more, the image quality is not only at least as good as native but in many cases actually superior! The only thing more confusing than the fact they've accomplished this is the fact it isn't getting more mainstream coverage from places like LTT. Or, perhaps I've just missed it somehow?
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I'm sure we've all seen cheap knock-offs of a popular product at one time or another, but what may not be quite as well-known is the process of starting with an existing cheap item, marking up the price, slapping a new logo on it, and marketing the heck out of it. Whether it's watches, wireless earbuds, or any number of other things, I think it's important to be aware of this because once you are, you can either take what you would have spent on that and get something much better for the price, or, if their quality was sufficient, just go directly to their supplier on ebay/aliexpress/etc. and pick up the same item (sans logo) for 1/2, or even 1/100 the price.
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Agreed! Reminds me of the original Kove bluetooth speaker, it was just a rebranded nameless Chinese speaker (you could find the same speaker under a lot of different name on eBay and Aliexpress even before Kove started marketing heavily) and they were selling theirs at a huge markup (that's why they were always offering 50% off links/coupons on sponsored videos).
Not sure about their current line up, but big discounts like this should be an automatic red flag IMO (just like how on Wish you see and 'original price' and then a 'discounted price' ... yeah, I'm sure your crappy 16bit gaming console full of pirated ROMs is worth $250 originally but is magically discounted to $29 !!!
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