What modern activity did you get up to today?

Reply 1000 of 1335, by lti

Posted on 2024-03-20, 17:46

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Windows is nagging me to use the ad-supported New Outlook. I'm going to try whatever Linux distro is on one of the flash drives on my desk (probably Lubuntu 22.04 since that's the last one I installed on physical hardware). I'll have to check what's on that Sandisk Ultra Flair that gets too hot to touch. I need to clean the USB ports on my computer first because only a few ports work at USB 3.x speed instead of USB 2.0 (and one port on the USB hub in my monitor doesn't work at all).

Also, my oven door broke off again. I replaced it one year ago (I found the order confirmation email - genuine replacement parts, not Amazon "upgrades"), but it's made out of plastic that's more brittle than a '90s laptop. I'm going to treat it the same way I treat those old laptops - ABS pipe cement. I guess appliance repair is a retro activity, though. Today, even people who aren't affiliated with the manufacturers will tell you to just buy a new one without considering where the money needs to come from. When you mention the cost, reduced quality, and the occasional forced arbitration agreement that you're forced to accept before you can even open the box (see LG refrigerators with their extremely unreliable compressors and the fact that the person who delivered the appliance is the one opening the box, not you), you're told to just get over it and keep buying. Modern life sucks.

Reply 1001 of 1335, by TheChexWarrior

Posted on 2024-03-21, 14:49

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My new Fujicom curved screen. And Wise thin-pc with Windows 98 SE. Those combination are wonderful to my fillings!!!!

Reply 1002 of 1335, by twiz11

Posted on 2024-03-21, 18:02

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BitWrangler wrote on 2024-03-17, 23:24:

I take it "frozen tundra" is nowhere near Buffalo, guy on Craigslist has a bunch of cases $5 a pop.

I have seen ppl string up their boards on the wall though, like a dissected insect 🤣 nails/screws and zipties.

well im from the area and i got an empty case id let you have for the cost of shipping

Reply 1003 of 1335, by StriderTR

Posted on 2024-03-25, 08:06

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Built my new family "server" and installed Ubuntu 22.04. Worked on getting it configured.

Ryzen 2600. 16GB RAM. 512GB NVMe. Had most of the hardware on-hand already, not being used. Just needed a motherboard and that arrived Sunday.

Once it's all done, it will be somewhat "headless", controlled by remote desktop. Used for running small family game servers (5-10 players). Heavily modded Minecraft most of the time, and Ark Survival Evolved every so often.

This setup may be overkill for those uses, but better to have extra, and room to expand, than not enough. 😀

Old servers were an FX-8350 x 8GB and an old Phenom II x 8GB. This one replaces both, is more powerful, and more efficient. Win win in my book.

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Reply 1004 of 1335, by Bruninho

Posted on 2024-04-05, 00:49

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Steam had a bargain on entire Tomb Raider Survivor trilogy so I went for it...

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Reply 1005 of 1335, by Nexxen

Posted on 2024-04-05, 00:57

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Updated 3 machines: (all SSDs)

1) my main rig, Linux went well; 2ndary Linux was 3 months old and updated under 10 minutes;
Win10 took 2 hours and I got an error on 2024-01 update for lack of space on recovery partition (if that is the error) and then I left it for another day

2) Linux on a laptop; under 10 minutes for an 8 month period update.

3) laptop; Linux, 1.5 year updates: cool, 15 minutes; Win10 took forever, more than 4 hours, for a 1.5 year update; got same error as above

Why Win10 takes forever even on NVMEs?

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Reply 1006 of 1335, by StriderTR

Posted on 2024-04-05, 07:04

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Nexxen wrote on 2024-04-05, 00:57:

Why Win10 takes forever even on NVMEs?

I see I'm not the only one that can't stand the fact Windows is so insanely slow when updating. In all reality, if it wasn't for my software and DirectX needs, I would run Ubuntu on everything. As it is now, I only run Windows on my primary system, everything else is Linux.

As far as my modern activities...more printing. 😀

Have decided to invest in a 2nd printer, an Ender 3 V3 SE my wife can use to print and sell all the designs she's making for her Etsy page. It's faster than my "upgraded" original Ender 3 (Glass bed, dual-z axis drives, direct drive extruder, CR Touch, etc.). It can do about 80mms now, but the V3 SE can do closer to 250mms and only runs a little over $200. Seems like a good deal to me.

I'm thinking of doing something similar, but just for "retro PC" related things, and only as time permits since I work full time.

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Reply 1007 of 1335, by AmiSapphire

Posted on 2024-04-07, 02:37

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Messing with an old Seagate Momentus 7200.3 320GB hard drive with bad sectors... out of boredom. This WAS my original FTP Archives drive but I long moved the data off to a Hitachi 500GB hard drive, and that is now the FTP Archives drive. This data is also on my main NAS.

Speaking of the NAS, another 4TB hard drive will be added to the setup (ordered the drive and should arrive soon), though I will need to change the motherboard in order to do so.

Site update: cwcyrix.duckdns.org -> cwcyrix.nsupdate.info due to the former no longer working.

Reply 1008 of 1335, by lti

Posted on 2024-04-07, 16:28

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Nexxen wrote on 2024-04-05, 00:57:

Why Win10 takes forever even on NVMEs?

With my Internet connection, downloading the updates is what takes the most time, and it still takes much more time than updating Linux. I noticed that the progress indicator on cumulative updates goes to 100% when it's really about 50% complete, and the download speed starts throttling after some time period.

Reply 1009 of 1335, by Nexxen

Posted on 2024-04-07, 17:37

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lti wrote on 2024-04-07, 16:28:

Nexxen wrote on 2024-04-05, 00:57:

Why Win10 takes forever even on NVMEs?

With my Internet connection, downloading the updates is what takes the most time, and it still takes much more time than updating Linux. I noticed that the progress indicator on cumulative updates goes to 100% when it's really about 50% complete, and the download speed starts throttling after some time period.

So, the problem is on their end?
I have 2.5Gb fiber optics internet, and works @max speed most of the time (2.3 usually).

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Reply 1010 of 1335, by lti

Posted on 2024-04-07, 18:16

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They take a while to install as well, but when you're still on 15Mbps DSL (which was 9Mbps last year), downloading anything is a problem.

Reply 1011 of 1335, by AmiSapphire

Posted on 2024-04-08, 18:08

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The hard drive has arrived! Initial stats are good; will have to run some tests on it sometime later.

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smartctl stats

1ami-sapphire@FinalRun-Linux:~$ sudo smartctl -x /dev/sdb
2smartctl 7.3 2022-02-28 r5338 [x86_64-linux-6.5.0-26-generic] (local build)
3Copyright (C) 2002-22, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
4
5=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
6Model Family:     Toshiba 3.5" MG03ACAxxx(Y) Enterprise HDD
7Device Model:     TOSHIBA MG03ACA400
8Serial Number:    5777KLXIF
9LU WWN Device Id: 5 000039 7cba00dd7
10Firmware Version: FL1A
11User Capacity:    4,000,787,030,016 bytes [4.00 TB]
12Sector Size:      512 bytes logical/physical
13Rotation Rate:    7200 rpm
14Form Factor:      3.5 inches
15Device is:        In smartctl database 7.3/5319
16ATA Version is:   ATA8-ACS (minor revision not indicated)
17SATA Version is:  SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 3.0 Gb/s)
18Local Time is:    Mon Apr  8 13:44:53 2024 EDT
19SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
20SMART support is: Enabled
21AAM feature is:   Unavailable
22APM level is:     254 (maximum performance)
23Rd look-ahead is: Enabled
24Write cache is:   Enabled
25DSN feature is:   Unavailable
26ATA Security is:  Disabled, NOT FROZEN [SEC1]
27Wt Cache Reorder: Enabled
28
29=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
30SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
31
32General SMART Values:
33Offline data collection status:  (0x82) Offline data collection activity
34                                        was completed without error.
35                                        Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
36Self-test execution status:      (   0) The previous self-test routine completed
37                                        without error or no self-test has ever 
38                                        been run.
39Total time to complete Offline 
40data collection:                (  120) seconds.
41Offline data collection
42capabilities:                    (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
43                                        Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
44                                        Suspend Offline collection upon new
45                                        command.
46                                        Offline surface scan supported.
47                                        Self-test supported.
48                                        No Conveyance Self-test supported.
49                                        Selective Self-test supported.
50SMART capabilities:            (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
51                                        power-saving mode.
52                                        Supports SMART auto save timer.
53Error logging capability:        (0x01) Error logging supported.
54                                        General Purpose Logging supported.
55Short self-test routine 
56recommended polling time:        (   2) minutes.
57Extended self-test routine
58recommended polling time:        ( 619) minutes.
59SCT capabilities:              (0x003d) SCT Status supported.
60                                        SCT Error Recovery Control supported.

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61                                        SCT Feature Control supported.
62                                        SCT Data Table supported.
63
64SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
65Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
66ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAGS    VALUE WORST THRESH FAIL RAW_VALUE
67  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     PO-R--   100   100   050    -    0
68  2 Throughput_Performance  P-S---   100   100   050    -    0
69  3 Spin_Up_Time            POS--K   100   100   001    -    11761
70  4 Start_Stop_Count        -O--CK   100   100   000    -    38
71  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   PO--CK   100   100   050    -    0
72  7 Seek_Error_Rate         PO-R--   100   100   050    -    0
73  8 Seek_Time_Performance   P-S---   100   100   050    -    0
74  9 Power_On_Hours          -O--CK   015   015   000    -    34051
75 10 Spin_Retry_Count        PO--CK   100   100   030    -    0
76 12 Power_Cycle_Count       -O--CK   100   100   000    -    38
77191 G-Sense_Error_Rate      -O--CK   100   100   000    -    1
78192 Power-Off_Retract_Count -O--CK   100   100   000    -    31
79193 Load_Cycle_Count        -O--CK   100   100   000    -    4532
80194 Temperature_Celsius     -O---K   100   100   000    -    23 (Min/Max 17/51)
81196 Reallocated_Event_Count -O--CK   100   100   000    -    0
82197 Current_Pending_Sector  -O--CK   100   100   000    -    0
83198 Offline_Uncorrectable   ----CK   100   100   000    -    0
84199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    -O--CK   200   253   000    -    0
85220 Disk_Shift              -O----   100   100   000    -    0
86222 Loaded_Hours            -O--CK   023   023   000    -    30987
87223 Load_Retry_Count        -O--CK   100   100   000    -    0
88224 Load_Friction           -O---K   100   100   000    -    0
89226 Load-in_Time            -OS--K   100   100   000    -    503
90240 Head_Flying_Hours       P-----   100   100   001    -    0
91                            ||||||_ K auto-keep
92                            |||||__ C event count
93                            ||||___ R error rate
94                            |||____ S speed/performance
95                            ||_____ O updated online
96                            |______ P prefailure warning
97
98General Purpose Log Directory Version 1
99SMART           Log Directory Version 1 [multi-sector log support]
100Address    Access  R/W   Size  Description
1010x00       GPL,SL  R/O      1  Log Directory
1020x01           SL  R/O      1  Summary SMART error log
1030x02           SL  R/O     51  Comprehensive SMART error log
1040x03       GPL     R/O     64  Ext. Comprehensive SMART error log
1050x04       GPL,SL  R/O      8  Device Statistics log
1060x06           SL  R/O      1  SMART self-test log
1070x07       GPL     R/O      1  Extended self-test log
1080x08       GPL     R/O      2  Power Conditions log
1090x09           SL  R/W      1  Selective self-test log
1100x10       GPL     R/O      1  NCQ Command Error log
1110x11       GPL     R/O      1  SATA Phy Event Counters log
1120x80-0x9f  GPL,SL  R/W     16  Host vendor specific log
1130xe0       GPL,SL  R/W      1  SCT Command/Status
1140xe1       GPL,SL  R/W      1  SCT Data Transfer
115
116SMART Extended Comprehensive Error Log Version: 1 (64 sectors)
117No Errors Logged
118
119SMART Extended Self-test Log Version: 1 (1 sectors)
120Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining  LifeTime(hours)  LBA_of_first_error
121# 1  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     34051         -
122# 2  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     34051         -
123# 3  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     33897         -
124# 4  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     33729         -
125# 5  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     33561         -
126# 6  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     33393         -
127# 7  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     33225         -
128# 8  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     33057         -
129# 9  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     32889         -
130#10  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     32721         -
131#11  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     32554         -
132#12  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     32386         -
133#13  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     32218         -
134#14  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     32088         -
135#15  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     31920         -
136#16  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     31752         -
137#17  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     31584         -
138#18  Extended offline    Completed without error       00%     31549         -
139#19  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     31434         -
140
141SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
142 SPAN  MIN_LBA  MAX_LBA  CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
143    1        0        0  Not_testing
144    2        0        0  Not_testing
145    3        0        0  Not_testing
146    4        0        0  Not_testing
147    5        0        0  Not_testing
148Selective self-test flags (0x0):
149  After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
150If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
151
152SCT Status Version:                  2
153SCT Version (vendor specific):       1 (0x0001)
154Device State:                        Active (0)
155Current Temperature:                    22 Celsius
156Power Cycle Min/Max Temperature:     22/23 Celsius
157Lifetime    Min/Max Temperature:     17/51 Celsius
158Under/Over Temperature Limit Count:   0/0
159
160SCT Temperature History Version:     2
161Temperature Sampling Period:         1 minute
162Temperature Logging Interval:        1 minute
163Min/Max recommended Temperature:      5/55 Celsius
164Min/Max Temperature Limit:            5/55 Celsius
165Temperature History Size (Index):    478 (80)
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339SCT Error Recovery Control:
340           Read: Disabled
341          Write: Disabled
342
343Device Statistics (GP Log 0x04)
344Page  Offset Size        Value Flags Description
3450x01  =====  =               =  ===  == General Statistics (rev 2) ==
3460x01  0x008  4              38  ---  Lifetime Power-On Resets
3470x01  0x010  4           34051  ---  Power-on Hours
3480x01  0x018  6    441414957843  ---  Logical Sectors Written
3490x01  0x020  6       639164751  ---  Number of Write Commands
3500x01  0x028  6    744410986518  ---  Logical Sectors Read
3510x01  0x030  6      1428024883  ---  Number of Read Commands
3520x02  =====  =               =  ===  == Free-Fall Statistics (rev 1) ==
3530x02  0x010  4               1  ---  Overlimit Shock Events
3540x03  =====  =               =  ===  == Rotating Media Statistics (rev 1) ==
3550x03  0x008  4           34051  ---  Spindle Motor Power-on Hours
3560x03  0x010  4           30987  ---  Head Flying Hours
3570x03  0x018  4            4532  ---  Head Load Events
3580x03  0x020  4               0  ---  Number of Reallocated Logical Sectors
3590x03  0x028  4               0  ---  Read Recovery Attempts
3600x03  0x030  4               0  ---  Number of Mechanical Start Failures
3610x04  =====  =               =  ===  == General Errors Statistics (rev 1) ==
3620x04  0x008  4               0  ---  Number of Reported Uncorrectable Errors
3630x04  0x010  4               0  ---  Resets Between Cmd Acceptance and Completion
3640x05  =====  =               =  ===  == Temperature Statistics (rev 1) ==
3650x05  0x008  1              23  ---  Current Temperature
3660x05  0x010  1              25  N--  Average Short Term Temperature
3670x05  0x018  1              26  N--  Average Long Term Temperature
3680x05  0x020  1              51  ---  Highest Temperature
3690x05  0x028  1              17  ---  Lowest Temperature
3700x05  0x030  1              49  N--  Highest Average Short Term Temperature
3710x05  0x038  1              25  N--  Lowest Average Short Term Temperature
3720x05  0x040  1              32  N--  Highest Average Long Term Temperature
3730x05  0x048  1              26  N--  Lowest Average Long Term Temperature
3740x05  0x050  4               0  ---  Time in Over-Temperature
3750x05  0x058  1              55  ---  Specified Maximum Operating Temperature
3760x05  0x060  4               0  ---  Time in Under-Temperature
3770x05  0x068  1               5  ---  Specified Minimum Operating Temperature
3780x06  =====  =               =  ===  == Transport Statistics (rev 1) ==
3790x06  0x008  4            1242  ---  Number of Hardware Resets
3800x06  0x018  4               0  ---  Number of Interface CRC Errors
3810x07  =====  =               =  ===  == Solid State Device Statistics (rev 1) ==
3820x07  0x008  1              56  N--  Percentage Used Endurance Indicator
383                                |||_ C monitored condition met
384                                ||__ D supports DSN
385                                |___ N normalized value
386
387Pending Defects log (GP Log 0x0c) not supported
388
389SATA Phy Event Counters (GP Log 0x11)
390ID      Size     Value  Description
3910x0001  4            0  Command failed due to ICRC error
3920x0008  4            0  Device-to-host non-data FIS retries
3930x000a  4            0  Device-to-host register FISes sent due to a COMRESET
3940x000b  4            0  CRC errors within host-to-device FIS
3950x000d  4            0  Non-CRC errors within host-to-device FIS

Site update: cwcyrix.duckdns.org -> cwcyrix.nsupdate.info due to the former no longer working.

Reply 1012 of 1335, by StriderTR

Posted on 2024-04-08, 20:40

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Took a break from working on my new Ryzen 2600/Ubuntu powered "family game server" and enjoyed the effects from the 86% of the "Great North American Eclipse" I could see here in Wisconsin. 😜

The coolest part was seeing all the shadows turn into crescent shapes. Just wish I would have had the time to drive about 8 hours south to be in the path of totality, but, I've done that before, so missing this one wasn't so bad.

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Reply 1013 of 1335, by BitWrangler

Posted on 2024-04-08, 20:55

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I was under path of totality, but just got to see a crescent for a couple of seconds 5 mins before and after and a half second glimpse of corona through the clouds.

Unicorn herding operations are proceeding, but all the totes of hens teeth and barrels of rocking horse poop give them plenty of hiding spots.

Reply 1014 of 1335, by StriderTR

Posted on 2024-04-08, 21:00

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BitWrangler wrote on 2024-04-08, 20:55:

I was under path of totality, but just got to see a crescent for a couple of seconds 5 mins before and after and a half second glimpse of corona through the clouds.

Even with only 14% of the suns disk visible, it was still far too bright to see with anything other than proper solar viewing gear, that I don't have. So, I settled for the cool "dimming" effect, the wind picked up, and we seen those crescent shadows for several minutes up to and after max coverage. Was still an enjoyable experience.

Now, back to working on my server. 😀

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Reply 1015 of 1335, by lti

Posted on 2024-04-17, 14:55

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I woke up to my desktop wallpaper being replaced with a badly-scaled (blurry) and badly-cropped (the bottom was cut off under the taskbar) message about Windows 10's end of support (in a year and a half). It really didn't look like anything Microsoft themselves would do, but it had functioning buttons and Malwarebytes found nothing.

Why does all software now use language like "not now" or "maybe later" for a button that would have been labeled "No" in the past?

Now I need to look for a Linux replacement for the video software I've been running. I still use VirtualDub in combination with AviSynth for some video editing tasks. I thought of building a dedicated Windows 7 system, but I would need a CPU with good single-thread performance to run QTGMC (or find a better deinterlacing algorithm that is multi-threaded).

Reply 1016 of 1335, by StriderTR

Posted on 2024-04-17, 15:13

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lti wrote on 2024-04-17, 14:55:

I woke up to my desktop wallpaper being replaced with a badly-scaled (blurry) and badly-cropped (the bottom was cut off under the taskbar) message about Windows 10's end of support (in a year and a half). It really didn't look like anything Microsoft themselves would do, but it had functioning buttons and Malwarebytes found nothing.

Why does all software now use language like "not now" or "maybe later" for a button that would have been labeled "No" in the past?

Now I need to look for a Linux replacement for the video software I've been running. I still use VirtualDub in combination with AviSynth for some video editing tasks. I thought of building a dedicated Windows 7 system, but I would need a CPU with good single-thread performance to run QTGMC (or find a better deinterlacing algorithm that is multi-threaded).

No idea about the wallpaper change, that's not something I'm used to seeing on anything but managed machines, like those you use at work.

I also dislike the wording used on a lot of new software. It's all geared to persistently bug you, and I get some people need such reminders, but I for one don't. I often look for ways to disable any and all notifications from applications, and customize the ones I see in my OS. I've removed many apps that won't let me stop them from being intrusive. 😜

On a side note, I will likely still use Windows 10 after it's EOL. It's not like it stops working, it simply stops getting updates. I'm not worried much about security in the short-term because of how I have things setup. Still, I guess it will come down to how I feel when the time comes. I'm definitely not in any hurry to switch to 11. I didn't even move to 10 from 7 until it became necessary for software and games that I use.

As far as my modern activity for today. After years of lurking on Reddit, I finally created an account. 😀

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Reply 1017 of 1335, by konc

Posted on 2024-04-17, 15:22

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lti wrote on 2024-04-17, 14:55:

I woke up to my desktop wallpaper being replaced with a badly-scaled (blurry) and badly-cropped (the bottom was cut off under the taskbar) message about Windows 10's end of support (in a year and a half). It really didn't look like anything Microsoft themselves would do, but it had functioning buttons and Malwarebytes found nothing.

Wow I can't believe that MS really changed your background to tell you, in a sloppy way, that win10 will be simply unsupported a year later. I really can't, I'd do some more checks and googling to verify that this is legit.

Reply 1018 of 1335, by acl

Posted on 2024-04-17, 16:02

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TheChexWarrior wrote on 2024-03-21, 14:49:

My new Fujicom curved screen. And Wise thin-pc with Windows 98 SE. Those combination are wonderful to my fillings!!!!

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Reply 1019 of 1335, by ubiq

Posted on 2024-04-17, 20:05

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Had my HTPC/couch gaming PC on the bench today. The video was cutting out within seconds of booting up, and I was really hoping it wasn't my 2080 Super dying. Was hoping it was maybe a PSU issue. As it turned out, simply uninstalling the EVGA OC util I was using to manage the GPU fans seemed to fix it right up.

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Here's hoping it'll be good to go. I have no desire to plunk down for a new GPU any time soon. 😬😬😬

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