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Slow response from me, I know, but I appreciate the feedback. The SCUF Envision looks like a decent option, except for me the extra paddles and buttons are overkill. If they start offering Hall Effect, though - could be a deal maker. The Nacon having Xinput support is nice, as is the price, but it is a little odd that the manufacturer's site won't show it as an option when you select US for viewing the site. At least it is on Amazon. @Poinkachu are you saying that the electrical signal output from standard HE assemblies you buy is equivalent to that from the potentiometer sticks? If so, my dream of modding the Logitech might be a lot easier - especially since I now have 2 of them. My lady gifted me a new one for Christmas, delaying the urgency to find my holy grail of controllers, but now I have a spare with 1 85%+ good stick, and one floppy POS, that I can afford to tear into to mod.

I've been searching for what seems to be the unattainable holy grail of game controller to use on PC. I want hall effect sticks, Playstation style analog stick layout, Xinput support, in a wired controller. Seems like this is a combination of features nobody wants to make. Most PC controllers are Xbox analog stick layout. If I'm lucky enough to find one that is Playstation layout, it doesn't have hall effect sticks, and even the one Steel Series model that did, was wireless and doesn't seem to be in production anymore anyway. Why is this combination so impossible to find? Use a Playstation controller, right - I mean it is fairly well supported these days, right? Well, not exactly - they are Directinput, and thus don't interface well with PC games, which are nearly all natively Xinput. To work, the PS controllers use a translation layer that adds latency and lowers reliability. Even if I did use a PS controller, I'm still stuck with rheostat sticks, so stick drift is never too far away. I've already murdered the sticks on my Logitech F310, which checks every other box, but there doesn't seem to be a way to mod it with hall effect sensors. So, anybody know where this unicorn of a controller can be found? Come on Steel Series, Logitech, somebody - make this controller a reality!

Modern Macs are stupid durable. People don't appreciate that although the amount of real metal used in their construction is part of what balloons their price, the upshot is a chassis that won't flex for it's thinness, and won't crack if you lightly drop it or it does manage to get it to flex that much. Things that would gouge or ding or even deeply scratch a plastic body laptop hardly mark the metal chassis on a Mac. If you open up a Mac, you aren't breaking every tab holding it together, and it will fit like new, and not creak. In the real world of computer consumers and use, there's a giant swath of Windows laptops with plastic chassis, even some fairly expensive ones. Only in the lofty heights of the lineup do you regularly find real metal chassis, in the thin and light high end or 'elite' tier laptops. At this point, basically all the Macs are metal.

Do the fans always go full speed and whine a lot? If so, either something is wrong with it, you're really good at loading the utter crap out of it, or if you've only just started using it and it's been less than 24 hours, it could be running an absurd amount of updates. Often updates will cause the fans to go full blast, particularly the HP software updates. It will definitely go full blast on CMOS/BIOS updates, and other major firmware updates, but that's outside the normal Windows environment. I hope your first steps with your new laptop were to 'decrapify' it (uninstall all the bundled extraneous software and free trials), then run updates on Windows and all software you keep before installing your own software choices.

How about doing some Chrome OS Flex testing? It's out now and can be installed (or at least attempted to) on any machine out there.

This sounds like a power or thermal kind of failure.

The answer is a tree falling moves air, as does its impact with the ground. Sound is moving air. So yes, it makes a sound. But, that's not scientifically equivalent to how an Apple watch works. So.... To clarify on that topic of a SIM-less phone able to make 911 calls: the cell phone has a transceiver that can connect to a cell network all on its own. An Apple watch uses a phone as its proxy to connect to the cell network. It doesn't and can't make the call itself, without having its own cellular transceiver, in the way a SIM-less phone can. Making a phone call, though, is done via another layer beyond the cell network, though. Cellular calls don't bounce from tower to tower, they go tower to ground, and become a regular phone call, just like an old fashioned landline. When a call has to go to a cell phone, it has to be routed to the tower that the cell phone is connected to. Now, that wifi calling mentioned before works in a similar proxy fashion as the cell calls to the landline network, they just start from a wifi connection to the internet. So yes, if an Apple Watch can make a wifi call, it theoretically should also be able to make a 911 call all by itself, as long as it has a wifi connection.

I am guessing you intend to format the iMac hard drive and blow away the data and OS. You'll need to repartition, as HFS isn't gonna play nice with Windows. If you do mean a magnetic media spinning hard disk drive, and not an SSD in the form factor of a SATA hard drive, I also hope your iMac isn't so old that it has a SCSI HD in it. Not many systems other than servers and Macs used SCSI natively, and finding an expansion card to support one may not be easy, and being bootable is another gamble.

What does it offer in the boot order?

I like that idea. For cell phones, it would be tricky, and would have to be limited to unlocked devices, because of carrier differences based on country. You can buy devices directly from Apple, Samsung, and Google online. Similar thing would apply to audio gear. The upgrade hardware sources, like Newegg or Crucial or whatnot, could be a really like what we saw for whole system purchasing.

It was 2 years between the first two, and I think that's a good interval for such an undertaking. I think it is actually more fair to the SIs and OEMs they're shopping, because it can take that long to try to change processes and practices to resolve their issues. Maybe the secret shopper type of idea could be applied to some other product than gaming PCs? How about cell phones? Audio gear? Maybe even upgrade part sources, which right now would be the most relevant thing.

Summary Canon is being sued for disabling functions of its multifunction (printer/fax/scanner/copier aka PFSC) devices that don't rely on ink, when the printer is out of ink. Quotes My thoughts This could set precedent which could be used to push back against a number of dubious profiteering tactics used by device makers, including the inability to print in black and white only when color ink runs out. Sources https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/legal/canon-sued-for-disabling-scanner-when-printers-run-out-of-ink/

I've done a fair bit of UI modding over time. I've run alternate shells on Windows (multiple versions), messed with themes on Linux and Solaris, and done other UI hacks to make things work 'my way'. Solaris 10 x86: Windows 98SE with bbLean shell: Windows XP with bbLean shell: But basically these days I just try to have one aesthetic across all of my devices, with a very clean UI setup:

I think what some people are forgetting here is that we basically have the ear of a potentially major influence on the direction the company takes. In theory, and if they were really being wise, all of the companies LTT reviews would want to listen to the feedback and even considering using it to make changes to their products and the direction of their designs. We've seen that this isn't the case, and really is a classic example of the 'we already know that' which brings down companies in the long run. Why do you think brands like Compaq, Gateway, and others vanished or dissolved into some diluted form somewhere else? I've seen some mentions of other laptop designs Framework is working on, beyond this thin-and-light category machine. I look forward to those, because the T&L category is a lot tougher to engineer for. People discussing the difficulty fitting in an ethernet port, or DB9 serial port, are missing that it is already a challenge for any T&L machine. Just imagine how much easier and efficient it will be if they decide to make a desktop replacement or gaming laptop - two categories where being upgradeable will be MUCH more useful and relatively easy to do. I'm sure the gamer biased LTT core audience would find a laptop to be a real gaming option if they could upgrade the GPU regularly, and otherwise adapt new peripherals that may emerge in the gaming landscape.

Welcome to the world of UI modders, or even people who prefer to customize most of their UI experiences to be as similar to each other as possible. Doing it once ever 5+ years isn't the end of the world, though. Usually at most a day of work, for 1825 or more days of use.

Sitting here with my AMD A10 9620P powered HP laptop, which I play Portal, Portal 2, and older games like Star Wars: Battlefront (2004) on, I wonder just how new of a game a given platform could support? Alternatively, how old of a platform can support a given newer or current game? Might be interesting to do a video based around what integrated graphics will support game-wise, and what minimal graphics processing, integrated or not, would be needed for more current but still popular games. Rocket League is often used to show what can be done with even brand new systems, despite the fact it isn't the newest game around. People are still playing WoW, after all, and it doesn't demand much, and can be played on machines a couple of years old with integrated graphics fairly easily.

So uh, the new iMac is not the first time a desktop Mac has had an external power brick. The first generation (in terms of physical design) Mac mini used a power brick. Both of mine do, a 2005 PPC and 2007 Intel. I do find it interesting that they are putting the ethernet in the brick. I wonder, though - is that parallel conductors in the same cable (not great for signal noise induction), or are they modulating the network signal through the power conductors themselves somehow?

I posted on the Corridor Crew video where they used the old Mac with Photoshop 1 on it, but I'll reiterate here: Next collab with CC: They have to make a hacking scene that is both realistic and not completely boring. Linus judges it for both accuracy, and for enjoyment and engagement. Commenters have said Anthony should be CC's advisor, and I like this idea. We've all seen the cheesy hacking scenes, and some more plausible, but not many have been both seriously accurate and exciting to watch.

If you want to simplify the process of installing your programs other than Windows to your second drive, once Windows is installed, change the Program Files environment variable, and Windows and installers for programs will automatically assume you want everything installed there.

If you have the right graphics card, the capture function is built in. Not sure which models specifically do, off hand, but research will tell you. Even if you don't have such a card already, and can't afford or even find one right now, you can basically intercept the video you're already putting out via software, and capture that way. Yes, that will create more work for your system, but as noted you probably won't hurt it. A fair number of games are still single threaded, or won't use all of your cores, so there'll be resources free to do a 'soft capture' on the same machine. However, a second GPU or even capture card in the same system doesn't really reduce the load on the CPU and system in general. If you want that 'zero impact' capture, you need a whole second system to really do it right.

I'm guessing you know how dual channel RAM is supposed to be installed, and that your system is configured properly. I get running Discord, but not so much Spotify. I do hope you've shut down/disabled the lines of OneDrive and DropBox from running all the time in the background, if you don't actually use them constantly.

The sheer amount of people who think that falling for broadcast exploits like ads with malware, or games or apps with payloads, is being 'hacked' is staggering. They think if a device is compromised, there's some single person that did it, and that they are 'out to get them'. This ain't the movies, and you fell for a simple trap. Some sleazy company or group is just wanting to make money off of your ineptitude or naivete, not a villain specifically interested in attacking you personally. I think we need a better term for this kind of thing, and not abide people calling it being 'hacked'.

Considering you are under the impression the graphics card had 16gb of memory onboard, I'm guessing your specs are quoted from whomever sold you the system. Time to physically check a few things, like: 1. how much RAM you really have, and... 2. how many physical sticks of RAM you have, if you do show 16gb of system memory If you have 16gb of RAM, but in only one physical stick, the lack of dual channel could hurt you heavily. The other thing that should be obvious, is if you're not running a bunch of junk in the background, or at the same time as you are playing your Minecraft.

Ian Malcolm Why add latency and complexity to a good gaming keyboard and mouse, for extra money? Just buy a wireless gaming desktop set, at that rate. They don't have to be bluetooth to be wireless, you know.

Because Windows 7 has some serious functional differences 'under the hood' from Windows 10, I wouldn't suggest doing that. In some previous generations of Windows, you could do this by having both installs see the same partition with the Program Files folder pointed to it, but you usually had to install the program from within both OSs to set up all of the dependencies properly. A program doesn't just put everything it needs in its own installation folder - there are files that must be in the System folder, and registered there by the OS, to call on them properly. Even if a program can be installed in both OSs, the installer is often configured to do things differently based on checking what OS it is being installed to. That said, there are a few programs that should work fine, but you'll need to do your research. Anything that comes in a 'portable' version would work, because those are designed to keep all dependencies internalized to their own directory and files. Your example of Winamp might work OK for this, as it is a rather old piece of software, without many changes since Windows 7 came out. If you want that in both to make accessing your library easier, it could be worth it, but as a global solution for all your software, I wouldn't recommend it.