Recent content by Tahagomizer

"Premium" is very important because it makes people think the product is higher quality, therefore it fetches a higher price. What's actually important is the internal structure and shielding, but no price or marketing buzzword gives you any indication of the this. There are very few sources of...

What immediately comes to mind is the disk insists on entering power saving mode (idle spindown) which, from experience, often means a problem with heads, notably head opamps. It doesn't manifest itself in S.M.A.R.T until the controller can't see the heads any more and the drive is just dead. It...

One has to remember that nVidia is now an AI/datacenter company. They don't really care about yields all that much because they still have the GPU market to eat up partially damaged chips. With how fast their main market is moving, they might have concluded that farting around with disaggregated...

Some people relax playing caricaturally unrealistic, over the top shooters, some find them tediously boring. To each his own. This kind of structured and predictable prebuilt environment is very relaxing for many people

This is a noteworthy fallacy which seems to come from corporate narrative of painting income at any cost as the only indicator of success. Importantly: Income for the few, not improving conditions for the majority. To be fair, Europe is in the process of hitting a wall with considerable speed...

It seems like the price of copper in the heatsink will start to be a factor for the resale value.

One does not simply win this highly prestigious award. One can only buy it, in recent years the price, including media coverage from collaborating outlets, was between 5 and 10 thousand Euro. So much prestige for so little money...

Seems mildly interesting as a simple storage expansion for a NAS, but I had mostly negative experiences with USB to SATA bridges so I wonder how well does this one handle HDD power management, especially disk spindown. Most of USB bridges just ignore host commands and have their own...

One idea is to save the EULA as a pdf, give it to ChatGPT, ask it to be a lawyer specializing in software licensing and create a summary highlighting any parts pertaining to anti-consumer, possibly invasive privacy and data sharing policies. It does require the paid version, but works great for...

I would pay (slightly) more for hardware without "ai" capabilities. My reasoning is this capability only exists for two reasons: -spamming with marketing buzzwords, -running rudimentary local models for marketing purposes - like Microsoft undoubtedly does or will do with Windows 11. It will not...

The easiest way I can think of would be to just take a photo of the pattern, maybe use a free/online photo editing tool to improve contrast.

My mother uses Mint for around five years now. She's not technologically illiterate, but I'm certain she never saw a terminal window. Everything works well with only minor and increasingly rare interactions from my side. So I say it's definitely possible. Most popular distros went a long way...

A dream would be no monitor at all, just a direct connection to my visual cortex. Plus a direct connection to the auditory cortex for perfect sound reproduction. Come to think of it, why waste time using the squishy biological goo, just transfer my consciousness into the computer. That's the...

Anecdotally, my ex-wife is up there on a corporate finance ladder, only slightly below a CFO of a corporation near the top of Fortune 500 list. She is a very empathetic, open and reasonable person who freely admits that in a few years they will be able to cut most of entry level and a good...

It wouldn't work for me since my desk is almost in the middle of the room, with the wall behind me - in fact, I have a second desk/workbench behind me. I found a Colebrook Wishbone Plus - supports screens up to 24kg but someone from the company said that the real limit is the furniture you...