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I have my 2-channel system sorted in my room, but I have a home theater setup in the living room that needs a CD player, so off to eBay I went. Picked-up an older Philips CDC-935 5-disc changer for a song, even has coaxial digital out so I can use the DAC in my receiver. This will mostly be to have something playing while I cook, so not a real critical music experience, but being able to queue-up a few hours of CDs is nice. Seller says it’s tested and working. It is a somewhat risky purchase because it’s being shipped, but eBay offered a 2-year warranty for $5, so it’s covered. Less than $50 shipped with warranty, which is cheaper than a thrift store around here and that has basically no guarantee.

I live just a few miles from the path of totality, but the weather here looks like it will be raining and completely overcast. There's a possibility that a hundred-ish miles away an area in the path will be clear, but won't know until closer to the day.

I thought for sure at least one manufacturer did, but all of the ones I’m seeing for sale use the nvidia proprietary connector. I have zero interest in using that connector, because the two options are the ugly short included adapter, or having to buy an $80 cable extension to make it look half-decent.

This was a fun video to watch, and Jessica is hilarious; LTT has so many genuinely funny people working there, it’s awesome.

We don’t have social credit scores here. It’s very different and most people realize it’s very different. As a U.S. citizen I can still go buy any of those ‘banned’ books in a bookstore, I still have access to all of the world’s major news sources via the internet; They are not the same, it’s clear you’re extremely biased against the U.S. Also, I can complain about the U.S. government and I don’t get hauled-off to prison, so…you can probably understand why I think your insinuation that they’re similar is not reasonable.

I thought my phone had gone crazy for a minute until I considered April Fools.

Just going to re-up this thread as I am getting closer to needing a solution for this. Dropbox seemed like a good candidate at first, but it doesn’t seem to work well with ‘live’ file access, which is a necessity. Many of the other solutions seem to support this but only as a service on your own centralized hardware, which is something I want to avoid.

Just got the album on CD, so actually listening to the entire thing.

Money. Money is the reason bridges and other infrastructure isn’t built and/or maintained like it should be. Paying a structural engineer to inspect a bridge isn’t that much, getting ahead of a catastrophic failure by preemptively replacing gussets, cables, and rivets is very expensive, especially when public perception is ‘road closed = bad’ even though it’s necessary to facilitate that maintenance. The last twenty years of my life I’ve worked in commercial architecture, mostly on medical facilities like hospitals. Even extremely necessary facilities like that have to ‘value-engineer’ aspects of them and reduce project scope to fit a budget. It might be cheaper plumbing fixtures or wall finishes, something innocuous, but if they can put less shutoff valves in med gas lines and save $75k, they’ll do it even if it makes a potential future expansion much more difficult. Money rules everything, even the most important things.

There’s been a welcome flood of these types of network devices recently, what other equipment are you planning on running with this? I’d like to move most of my stuff to 2.5gb, and I am building an opnsense router with a dual SFP+ 10gb Intel card to run one or two unmanaged 2.5/10gb switches like the one you bought. I know SFP+ equipment can be finicky with the direct-attach cables you use.

It’s specifically that taxes are not taught at all, the level of math involved is quite basic compared to the algebra and geometry every student gets. Even in my college economics courses there was basically no mention of taxes. Having to get all the way into business school or taking accounting-specific courses before you learn about taxes is really ridiculous. I’m not disparaging the efforts to give people a well-rounded education, but instead of trying to get everyone to memorize atomic weights in the entire periodic table of elements, or the capitol city of each country on the planet, maybe learning about taxes that basically everyone will need to experience in their lives is a more worthwhile topic.

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I’ve been building Windows gaming machines since the late-90’s, but gaming isn’t the only measure of what a computer does. I don’t care if my workstation at my office has 120hz OLED gaming performance, just like I don’t care if my laptop does; I don’t game on either of them so it’s irrelevant. You’re not the arbiter of what all people use computers for, in the case of someone looking to put a laptop on a table for hours on end with little fuss, an Apple Silicon MacBook will absolutely dominate a modern Windows machine for the reasons I listed above. You squawking about this being a hardware forum…as if people don’t have different hardware requirements for different types of work. The person that needs to ‘get real’ here, is you.

I hear that on the time. Whenever I can get a few things out of the way at the same time I will, especially if I'm having to pull fairings off. A lot of jobs are really about 10 minutes, but taking all the cladding and seats off the motorcycle and re-installing it all is more than a half hour. The Grom is cake: Air filter, oil, spark plug, valve rocker adjuster covers, brake reservoirs (at least the front) are all right at the surface level. Then again, the Grom has to be convinced quite a bit to go 60mph, so with most roads around here being highways it'll be years before it needs more than very basic maintenance.

By what measurement? After using Windows laptops for literally decades I bought an Apple Silicon MacBook Pro and I wouldn’t go back for a portable machine. The MacBook gets within spitting-distance of advertised battery life, it’s wild how no Windows laptop ever seems to do that. I never worry about some proprietary hardware (usually video) driver wrecking my system and having to do a restore or waste an hour of my day getting it back working. The MacBook is thin, it’s quiet, has plenty of power and can VM routine software in any OS I could need to, the WiFi is excellent, and with the shitstorm of Windows Modern Standby and the fact that many laptop manufacturers have removed deeper sleep states, I know my laptop will have a charge when I get it out of the case.

Damn, the service on those really is quite involved! Is the chain and sprocket replacement just a factory service interval due to materials, or did you see wear? I have a couple of smaller motorcycles, a Honda CB500F and a Grom, The Grom doesn’t have many miles on it yet but I did have to do my chain on the 500 at roughly 34k miles; The front and rear sprockets are steel and showed almost no appreciable wear though. i always loved the Multistrada but I’m short AF with a 28” inseam, and there’s just no hope of me straddling something that tall in my daily commute.

In my quest for getting my stereo fully-functional again, I needed a remote for my 1989-vintage Denon DCD-820 CD player. As with many of the audio components I’ve had over the years I bought this at a pawn shop, so no remote. ‘Couldn’t you just go push the buttons on it?’ I can hear the questions now… No! As much as I like this player, it had one feature I was unaware of: The RCA-type audio outputs on this unit, unlike any other media player like this I’ve had, are actually variable. And wouldn’t you know it those controls exist nowhere on the unit itself, and are instead solely on the remote. I had unplugged this CD player from power for long enough that this setting reset to the factory default, which is about 10% of total output power. But eBay to the rescue, after finding the owners manual online and verifying the model of remote needed, I got one for less than $20 shipped. So far I’ve had Tool, The Police, Genesis, and Rush propelled into my earholes; CD’s are back in business over here.

Ok? If the U.S. government was cataloging data for social credit scores and broadly removing access to common news and information, you might have a point. But the two are not the same, the Chinese government is one of the least trustworthy to collect data on foreign citizens.

A Sony STR-DH190 stereo receiver was my last recent tech purchase. After owning it personally since about 2005, and being originally manufactured in 1986, my ADCOM stereo preamp finally had a problem cleaning the potentiometers and re-seating components couldn’t fix. This made me a bit sad because it is really difficult to find new (affordable) equipment with a phono stage these days, but an extremely budget-friendly Sony option exists. It doesn’t offer all the options my ADCOM did, but works with the common type of turntable cartridges, and has the added benefit of remote control, and Bluetooth pairing for my music library on my phone; All the options. Specs claim it has 100w continuous per channel even at an 8ohm load, potent enough for the small room I’m in, and more than enough to drive the Paradigm Titan V4 speakers I use. I don’t know if my old preamp had degraded some even before the problems, but the clarity is admirable for something this value-conscious. For $149 US it was hard to beat. Not sure if anyone will buy my old power amp, but I gave the ADCOM to someone that works on stereos to see if they can fix it, and if so can sell it.

Windows 8 ‘Metro’ has to be the most unintuitive interface I ever had to fumble through. The one machine I had with that on it was upgraded to Windows 10 as soon as I could.

I have only ever owned iPhones as far as "smart" phones are concerned; The Apple ecosystem works great and I don't mind staying in it. I also don't mind being 'confined' to validated and verified apps through Apple's own marketplace, VS getting random 3rd party stuff elsewhere like you can on an Android-based phone. Also, SMS text issues between Android and Apple devices simply doesn't matter to me; I have friends with Android phones and they can send me a photo if they need to and it still works. I also like that as an iPhone user, my OS support is going to be longer than most Android devices, and since I take care of my phone I can keep them for quite a few years without worrying about it. I'm not a 'green bubble hater' or anything, but the Android people I know buy garbage-tier phones that are basically worthless in a short period of time, but they think they're getting a great deal because they're cheap. They could keep an iPhone SE over a longer duration of time than several of those cheap Androids, spend less money in that period of time, and not have a bad experience soon after they open the box. I think a lot of Android support comes from people that believe buying cheap crap is good because it's cheap, a phone isn't an investment but just like buying computer parts, getting the cheapest thing on the market is rarely a good deal.

I have changed from the default D3D11 to OpenGL, and so far this looks promising. I will do a little more YouTube watching and testing.

I'll try a DDU, haven't done that yet. The only extension I have is Nord VPN but it's not active when this issue is happening. nvidia has released a slightly newer driver, so I'm going to install that instead. Just as an aside: The GTX 750 and 750 Ti are still supported in Windows 11, which is shocking to me.

I had this problem in Windows 10 for a while and recently updated this machine to Windows 11, the problem has persisted. I have a 3060 Ti running the newest released drivers and Chrome is updated. YouTube videos have vertical jitter when playing back unless I turn hardware acceleration off. That works but absolutely goes wild on a few cores of my 5900X and so my fans ramp-up, the processor doing this work should not be necessary. Is there an extension or something else to fix this? My Macs have zero issues with this in Chrome so I know it's not Chrome as a whole, I do not have any modern AMD-graphics systems to test it on. Also, I have a bunch of things integrated into Chrome so I'm not looking to change browsers.