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    NicholeMattera got a reaction from GNU/Linus in Android on Nintendo Switch is AMAZING.   
    What is weird is when I watched it earlier the title and description were fine. But now it's all broken. Oof.
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    NicholeMattera got a reaction from GNU/Linus in Android on Nintendo Switch is AMAZING.   
    Absolutely thrilled to see the awesome work of CTCaer (Hekate) and the entire Switchroot team being put up on display from such a big channel. There is a few more things you can also do with this such as:
    Running Ubuntu Running Lakka (RetroArch on top of Linux) Running Atmosphere (A custom firmware made by team Reswitched) I'm a member of team AtlasNX. (Our guide is actually linked inside the XDA forum post.) We mainly write homebrew to enhance the custom firmware experience and create a bundle called Kosmos that comes with Hekate, Atmosphere, and some must have homebrew. Not sure if I'm allowed to post our Discord on here, but if anyone needs any help setting up your Switch our community is super helpful and friendly. (We do not support or condone piracy of any kind, so if you are looking for help with that you will have to look elsewhere.)
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    NicholeMattera got a reaction from Areous in Apple REFUSED to Fix our iMac Pro   
    Problem is even if you could find a replacement screen not through Apple you will probably run into the same issue that Macbook Pro users are currently running into with the latest update of High Sierra. Third-party replacement screens are unable to adjust their brightness due to the EDID chip on the screen not matching. RIP iMac Pro.
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    NicholeMattera reacted to DrMacintosh in Apple REFUSED to Fix our iMac Pro   
    I don’t care 
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    NicholeMattera reacted to Joel patton in Apple REFUSED to Fix our iMac Pro   
    https://www.thebookyard.com/product.php?manufacturers_id=14&products_id=19798 
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    NicholeMattera reacted to FL3XI in Apple REFUSED to Fix our iMac Pro   
    You should invite Louis Rossman to a hangout call in the wan show and interview him about apples repair policy.
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    NicholeMattera reacted to Diglio in Apple REFUSED to Fix our iMac Pro   
    I am part of an AASP company, and certified in all Apple Devices for repairs, and I want to start by saying that it is quite a nightmare to go through Repairs and get parts needed for repairs. 
     
    To start, just going through the process to get parts ordered takes forever. It doesn't matter if you know for certain which part is needed, you have to go through their troubleshooting guides which are both a nightmare in their wording, and send you in circles when it comes to testing. 
     
    Second, I have done a repair for the iMac pro recently (within the past 3 weeks) and was able to get a Logic Board, Screen and Power Supply without issue. Granted I am in NYC so it is possible they had a supplier close by. The repair process was a pain (as are most Apple Repairs) and the turn around time you have to do the repair is only 10 days. That means from the moment you receive the part, you have 10 days to install it, serialize it in the system and send the old part back for shipping. 10 days doesn't seem like a short amount of time, but when the part you ordered requires other parts that are broken to test, 10 days flies by. 
     
    Third, in my 5 years of doing Apple Repairs, I have never had them turn around and tell me they weren't able to receive the part and thus the repair would be decline. What most likely happened, and what I have seen in the past, is that the store had no certified employees for iMac Pro repairs, so none of them were able to order the needed parts. If that isn't the case, then you were straight up lied to. From the day the product is available for shipping, items are available for order (I have had this happen on multiple ocassions, including the day 1 release of the Mac Pro Trash Can video card recall). 
     
    Lastly, the parts you need to replace are a complete pain. With Apple's new Security in-place, and with High Sierra, getting everything to function properly blows. There are issues with screen brightness, drives not running at proper speeds, etc.. I wouldn't be surprised if you do get this thing repaired, that you won't have issues at a later date. 
     
    Hopefully you guys can find an AASP within a short drive of you to have the part(s) ordered and repaired. Granted, the repair cost for a screen, logic board and PSU are going to be pretty insane. 
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    NicholeMattera got a reaction from leyton1210 in Macro Keyboard   
    I do not have enough keyboards to test, but I have recompiled the interception drivers and replaced them in the "library" folder of the installer. Please give this a shot: https://github.com/StevenMattera/Interception/releases/tag/v1.0.1.1
     
    I had it working with Intercept with 3 different keyboards: Razer Blackwidow Ultimate, Logitech G710+, and Logitech K830. All keyboards worked with intercept.exe and was able to output "test1", "test2", and "test3" when I hit a button on each of the keyboards. Also though I only had 3 keyboards connected I had 17 HID devices in my device manager.
     
    Edit: The more I'm looking at this I'm wonder if the drivers are not what is limiting the number of devices, but the library that communicates with the drivers. Thus Intercept.exe needs to be recompiled with the new libraries I made. I will have a new copy of intercept.exe for you here shortly.
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    NicholeMattera reacted to MageTank in Best Left Handed Gaming Mouse   
    I just recently picked up the Steelseries Sensei 310 to try it out against my Logitech G403, and I kinda prefer it's overall shape. Being ambidextrous myself, it was extremely tedious to try to grip the G403 in my left hand due to the curvature, but the Sensei is perfectly symmetrical. The sensor is extremely comparable to the PWM3366 in the G403, and after hours of competitive Overwatch, I don't have hand fatigue on either hand, nor do I feel like the mouse is going to disintegrate under my giant meat claws.
     
    https://steelseries.com/gaming-mice/sensei-310
     
    Can't say anything about the software, since I only ever downloaded it to change default DPI (and then deleted shortly afterwards), so that part you will have to look for reviews on elsewhere. Still, the mouse half is extremely solid and gets my seal of approval. 
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    NicholeMattera reacted to cmptech in Best Left Handed Gaming Mouse   
    Stick with the Logitech g300s. It's less expensive than the razers and it's ambidextrous too. However, the Additional keys are located beside the left and right click buttons. There are no thumb buttons 
     
    I'm on my 2nd g300s (first one had problems with the left click). I just couldn't find a mouse within that price range that could compare.
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    NicholeMattera reacted to geo3 in Best Left Handed Gaming Mouse   
    The Zowie FK are a great option. Left handed or not.
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    NicholeMattera reacted to Nocte in Best Left Handed Gaming Mouse   
    The Zowie FK series is ambidextrous and good quality afaik.
    I have a Zowie EC2-A and I'm extremely happy with it.
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    NicholeMattera reacted to GoodBytes in switch modding   
    He took the WiiU version of the game, where WiiU emulator exists, and modded the game. Same applies to all mods and hacks that you see of the game.
    WiiU emulator are still new, but are much better working state than other console in the sense of "age of emulator vs how well it works", if you get what I am saying. This is really because the WiiU has the same hardware architecture as the XBox 360, and Wii, and the Wii is just a faster GameCube, with different controls system. So in other words, mass amount of work is already done, so despite emulators for the WiiY being failry new, they can play games OK state with some games, like Zelda BoTW pretty well. Now, getting the architecture differences that differ is the tricky part, and that usually takes a very long time, and this is when you'll see WiiU emulators start playing a wide range of games perfectly.
     
    Getting an emulator is legal in US and Canada and other countries (see your countries laws, I don't know behind US and Canada)
    Having an emulator run the game disk directly is a legal way to play games. Sadly, very few emulators support this, and it usually requires custom firmware replacement done on the optical drive of the system. For example, Game Cube disks are read on reverse than a normal disk would be. So you need an optical drive that has a controller and motors that can operate the way it needs to read GameCube disks, let alone have its firmware be extracted, modified and replaced.
     
    So usually, people simply download ISOs of the game, called ROMs (the term is coming from the cartridge based consoles, where games where stores in a ROM chip instead of disk). While making a ROMs / ISOs of a game disk is legal, uploading isn't (download might be illegal in your region). Publishers, and especially Nintendo, often times shutdowns many sites that distributes console games.
     
    Like on the PC, games that you acquire for your console is license based. When you agree to the terms and condition when you first setup the console, you agree that all games that you purchase for that system follows the same license agreement. Like on PC, the license states that you agree to not decompile or mod the game in any way. Basically, when you buy a console game, you really pay for the license, disk, and plastic box. Not the game itself. Like any software on PC.
     
    Why you always have a License and not the game/software in questions? You can thank bars and arcade places of the early days of video games. They were modifying arcade machines to make games harder to take more money from players (basically make the game harder) or buy hardware mods that modify the console to be another game. Many times they are knock off version of a new game that got released, So, instead of buying the new arcade machine supporting the devs, they get those shitty version of games on the cheap, and replaces all labels of the arcade cabinet (arcade machines are expensive as they contains specialized hardware design to run a specific game perfectly well. PCs where not powerful enough to play arcade games as smooth, and graphically rich, or required a serious beats of PC.. think like a $5,000 to $8,000 PC today to play a game). So because of these mods and fake version of games, this lead people not playing the real game or original as intended. And you can bet that many of these knock-offs are usually inferior, buggy, money grabbing, version of the original target game, miss representing a new game and studio. This is where it all started. So legal fights after legal fights, it led that, you don't buy games/software anymore, you buy a license that can be revoked. So you can think these cheap-asses for ruining your fun.
     
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    NicholeMattera reacted to Mira Yurizaki in The Best Modern 4K Monitor/TV for Retro Gaming?   
    http://www.rtings.com/tv/tests/inputs/input-lag
     
    That list might help narrow things down some.
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    NicholeMattera reacted to nicklmg in The TINIEST Nvidia SLI Setup EVER?   
    I thought it was pretty clear based on the thumbnail, but it seems like many people disagree with that.
    We have a pretty damn awesome SFF build coming later this week  SLI and everything, stay tuned...
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    NicholeMattera reacted to Octagoncow in SENTRY: Console-sized gaming PC case project   
    I asked about this on the [H]ardForum thread and SaperPL said: 
     
         "Yeah, that's right.
         It's an issue within indiegogo that not every country has a field for phone number - actually just a few have...
         That's why we're asking you to fill out your phone number within address line because there's no size limit in those fields."
     
    I'm just placing my phone number in the address 2 field. That seems like the most logical place to put it.
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    NicholeMattera reacted to nicklmg in Vector Desk Mini Review   
    "Wow GamersNexus made a video about PCIe lanes, Linus Tech Tips did that years ago, GamersNexus is #outofideas"

    Jk obviously... GamersNexus is  nicest dudes.

    Thanks for sharing that vid!!
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    NicholeMattera reacted to Master Disaster in WAN Show Document - April 7, 2017   
    Apple have offered Kepler & Maxwell support through external drivers for years now, its not like the Pascal drivers will be new drivers, they'll simply be adding Pascal support to the existing drivers.
     
    Also Apple are making a new Mac that will support swappable hardware, it will be released under the Mac Pro line at some point after mid 2018.
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    NicholeMattera reacted to Pat-Roner in Dell Inspiron Gaming 15 7567 (2017)   
    Why isn't this listed on youtube? @LinusTech
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    NicholeMattera got a reaction from looney in LTT Storage Rankings   
    Hardware
    SERVER: HP ProLiant MicroServer Gen8
    CASE: Stock case
    PSU: Stock power supply
    MB: Stock motherboard
    CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2
    HS: Stock Passive Heatsink using Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound
    RAM: 16GB ECC Unbuffered Memory (2x Corsair 8GB PC3L-12800 DIMM)
    RAID CARD: HP Dynamic Smart Array B120i
    SSD: Samsung 850 EVO 250GB
    HDD 1: 4x 4TB HGST NAS 7200 RPM
     
    Software and Configuration:
    For the OS, it’s running the latest version of UnRaid. When I was building it, I was considering using FreeNAS, however the more I read up on ZFS the more I learned about the memory requirements of it. I wanted this machine not just to be a NAS, but also a Plex server and anything else I may need. So, because 16GB was the max amount of RAM that this server can handle my decision was made to use UnRaid with it's lesser memory footprint. For the SSD I had to do some modification to the inside; the server is designed for a DVD drive on top and gives a 4-pin floppy power connector on the top for it. I simply bought a Molex to SATA converter off amazon, cut each of the connectors off, solder them together and applied some heat wrap. I also bought a license of iLO Advance so I can remote into the server at any time including into the bios at startup.
     
    Usage:
    Home NAS for storing all of my wife’s and my data. Hosting a Plex Server that is serving our Blu Ray and DVD collection that I’m still in the process of ripping. Last, but not least it’s also hosting a private ARK Survival Evolved server under a VM using Ubuntu Server 16.04 as the OS. This was originally being hosted under a CentOS 7 server, but started throwing segmentation faults, out of memory exceptions, and kernel panics. With switching to Ubuntu Server I'm able to run the VM with less memory with zero issues.
     
    Backup:
    We are currently using CrashPlan to backup our personal data to the cloud. (I'm not sure what their policy is on movies if anyone on here knows please let me know!)
     
    Additional info:
    This is my first server build. It’s probably a bit overkill for our needs, but that is what made it fun to make. My favorite part of this server is how small and quiet it is with a single 120mm fan at the back.
     
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    NicholeMattera reacted to edit1754 in Dell Inspiron Gaming 15 7567 (2017)   
    That would be nice.

    However do be aware that the 4K model of the 7559 used a PenTile not-true-4K display. The Inspiron 7567 fixed the 4K, but of course used a much worse screen for the 1080p than last year's 1080p.
     
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABaY5U2sqIc
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