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Totally plug and play, no custom or aftermarket drivers necessary. Not sure if Windows inherently supports it or if it's pulling something down from Windows Update but it seems to be very "basic" in a good way.
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Tech tip for the day: Mini review of these things:
Generic no-name capture "card" from China, you can find them on amazon, ebay, etc. under a variety of names/brands, but they always look like this.
I ordered these a while ago but didn't want to comment on them until I'd tried it for myself.
Review from a decent source:
TL;DR:
- Good quality
- Up to 4K30 / 1080p60 input (have only tried 1080p60 myself)
- Up to 1080p30 / 720p60 output
- Low latency (though still a bit, you'll not want to game by watching the output)
Personal opinions:
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Testing on the output of a Raspberry Pi (desktop with text):
- 720p60 output is very crisp, leaves nothing to be desired in terms of sharpness. There are some jpg artifacts as you'd expect but it is minimal
- 1080p30 is noticeably softer, not quite what I was hoping but absolutely usable
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Testing on actual video content (cable TV, DSLR video output, etc.):
- 1080p30 is perfectly fine. When doing a A/B and looking for flaws, I can see them, but it is not a problem at all.
- As far as I can tell, audio is only captured as mono, which may be a problem depending on what you plan to use it for
- These are extremely affordable and as far as I can tell, in plentiful supply. $15 USD, as stated in the video above, is even a bit high - I got mine for $12.61 CAD including shipping (free). An Elgato CamLink goes for around $185 here, if you can even find one. Really, for the money, these are every bit as awesome as they've been hyped up to be, and especially if the choice is between this or nothing, it's great to have the option.
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@VegetableStu Based on what I've seen so far, I'd recommend it to anyone for whom these specs are sufficient. There is simply nothing else that I'm aware of that comes close in terms of price/performance ratio. I'm not saying that there is no point to better cards - they can offer higher quality and higher specs, which if necessary, make them, well, necessary, regardless of price - but if you don't need that, this is a great option from what I can tell.
@PonyBoyZ_ Please be aware of the output resolution/frame rate limitations - 1080p at 30 fps or 720p at 60 fps. If this is good enough for you then great! It may not be enough for all though. Please also be aware that this does not have a passthrough feature. This means you will either have to game by watching the output from this capture card (not recommended due to the latency), or use a separate splitter so one signal can go to your TV/monitor while the other is recorded using this device.
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Spider in Computer tower any idea how to remove it?
vanished replied to David Kadlec's topic in General Discussion
I don't know where you are so I will have to trust you can judge for yourself if this is safe or not. Where I am, it would be without a second thought, but in some places it certainly isn't. Just pick it up and put it outside, possibly using a tissue to help if necessary. No elaborate procedure or killing necessary. -
This reminds me, I did a little test a while back and never got around to posting the results, as least if I recall correctly. Basically I was closing down my usage of google services to a minimum and as part of that, I downloaded all my data so I could clear what I could without the risk of losing anything. Just for fun, I decided to have a look through the packages. Having read and seen many reports of people being freaked out by what they found, I was rather curious to see what was in there. Long story short, it was nothing of interest. It had everything I expected it to and nothing that I didn't - no surprises. No spooky action, no creeping, etc. Now, I can't know that my experience will be indicative of everyone or that larger things aren't at play simply because I didn't experience them, but I have a strong feeling that a lot of the fear and shock out there is not because Google's doing anything unreasonable and getting its fingers into areas it shouldn't, but rather just that people are so unaware of what they're giving up that when they finally see the truth it surprises them.
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Funny enough they already did a video on this and found that it doesn't actually make a difference
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First Ryzen with its chiplets, then just recently I saw some details about Intel's 5 core 1 big 4 little design, and now this... From what I've seen, any chip using an unconventional design (ie anything other than x number of equal cores with no differences in how they talk to each other or other system elements) doesn't achieve full performance until the OS has been updated to "understand" how to use it properly (which isn't surprising really, just something worth noting). I can see certain advantages to unconventional designs like this, but the downside is more work for whoever is doing that job, and more delay from launch to peak performance when new products come out that haven't yet had this optimization.
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I agree with the sentiment about "future proofing", but in the interest of not getting too hung up on the wording, I'll just interpret this as asking about which parts it makes sense to "invest" in rather than consider to be nearer the "disposable" end of the spectrum. I'll answer this in an inverted fashion since I think that's easiest. Linus has talked before about how things that change and improve quickly (like storage for example) should be bought with the mentality of just getting enough for now, because it's easy to add more later and by the time you'll want to, it will be cheaper to do so than if you'd just bought a lot more to begin with. Therefore, I suppose the answer is stuff that can be expected to last a long time, both in terms of reliability/durability, and in terms of not going obsolete. If you're looking at a kind of part that improves and changes quickly, don't spend more hoping to make it last longer. Just accept that it's something with high turnover.
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No problem In my experience returns to Amazon are quick, free, painless, and as near as makes no difference no questions asked (although not like you'd have any issues if they did ask though, this is pretty simple - it doesn't work). That would be my go to personally but perhaps Acer can give more specialized advice.
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Ok I'm rather confident it's an issue with the monitor then
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[Guide] Getting started with Raspberry Pi 3
vanished replied to vanished's topic in Guides and Tutorials
I've mainly approached this from the perspective of a complete novice, hoping to get them up and running at a familiar and functional level more easily than they could figure it out alone. Based on what I know about Kali and the intent/target audience, I feel anyone planning to do that can probably handle it themselves, and if not, it's probably not the right choice for them. -
Perhaps not, but it's worth a try, and it should at least be able to do 120 Hz I would think, which would be enough to see if it will do more on the laptop than it does on your desktop or not.
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Particularly if your other monitor is also 240 Hz and it's working, it makes me think that this new monitor is the issue. Why should this one fail at doing the same thing that the other one does fine? That suggests the PC is fine to me. Depending on the store, they may offer to test it right then and there, but if not, I might still go for an exchange unless you can test it yourself on another system to be certain.
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Does Intel still hold the Advantage in Adobe Programs?
vanished replied to gloop's topic in CPUs, Motherboards, and Memory
In that case I'd look primarily at the premiere and after effects scores, which I suspect heavily favour AMD due to much better multi-threaded performance. The slight loss to Intel in single-threaded is already small to begin with, and this is made even less significant if you are not doing those tasks often. -
Depending on what OP wants that might be a good option. I forgot to mention, I do want "markings" still, and more than that, the ability for a backlight to shine through, not just a sticker of the letter, but that's my problem and not his so I won't derail
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You can also find stand alone num pads With the right software these can be mapped to anything. If you want more macro/button knowledge, LTT's Taran has many videos on that
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I think most people would say it was already ugly
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me too
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dir or ls depending if you are on Windows or Linux/Unix/Mac respectively. You'll want to give the flag to be recursive.
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Just to point you in the right direction, this is what I'm referring to: https://www.amazon.ca/Mechanical-keyboard-stainless-non-plating-personality/dp/B07TGDKGC6/ Note that these show up all over under various names, so this particular listing is not necessarily the be all end all. You can find them on Amazon, eBay, etc.
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Does Intel still hold the Advantage in Adobe Programs?
vanished replied to gloop's topic in CPUs, Motherboards, and Memory
"Adobe programs" is far too vague. Some applications like Photoshop are single or lightly threaded and as such, I think Intel does technically hold a small lead there. Others like Premiere, After Effects, etc. are a very different story since they use many more cores and possibly GPU power as well, so you cannot lump them all together. As mentioned, Puget systems has great testing on all of them though if you want more details. -
Very interesting situation. Without knowing any other examples, I'd second the M65 mentioned above. I never knew such a thing even existed. Edit: perhaps the buttons could be covered in aluminum foil or something? Not exactly a luxury solution but perhaps it's better than nothing? For keyboards, I am somewhat in the same boat, hence why I'm posting. Though my reasoning for wanting this is different, I am also looking for some metal keycaps, which is definitely what you will want. It isn't that hard to find a metal frame keyboard but the frame isn't what you're typing on. I have found sets before that cover WASD or even the whole upper 8 (QWERASDF) but never all letters and certainly not the whole board sadly.
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Yeah it should, 1080p @ 144 Hz or at least 120 Hz isn't exactly cutting edge anymore and I really wouldn't expect issues. If this was 4K 240 Hz 10 bit HDR or something then yeah all bets are off but I am not sure what's going on here. Restore points are for rolling back settings and applications to a previous state. If this used to work but suddenly didn't anymore, it would be worth a shot, but since this monitor has never worked from the outset, I don't think there's much to be gained by that in this case. Is the other monitor you tested also high refresh rate? If so I'd be starting to think this is an issue with the monitor. Considering it is brand new and we've not seen it work yet at any point, it's possible it's just DOA as some parts are. If it had been working and then it stopped, again I'd be more likely to suspect a software change, but this should be more or less a plug and play experience, so for that not to happen makes me think it's the screen. If you have the option to test this monitor on another system, that might help confirm this theory. Again, if this was 4K 120+ it would be more difficult but 1080p @ 120 Hz is something nearly every half decent system should be able to at least output (even if it doesn't have the power to game well at that setting), so it should be possible to test.
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It does definitely seem like the 240 Hz selection is what's causing the problem, but that raises the question of why since it really should work. There is the possibility that something is wrong with the monitor, but it's hard to tell if it's that or a PC issue at this point.
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I assume the title is made in the typical joking manner. It is neat that it's even good enough to be passable for actual use in a real video, but it really is only just barely past that line. There is quite a significant amount of room left to improve for sure to the point where you'd want to actually rely on it rather than just doing a single experiment, and quite a lot further from there still to the point where it would have a chance of actually fooling anyone into thinking it's real.
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