Are there any other cases you can think of where a custom-printed item is better than the myriad of mass-produced plastic items?

None at all. 3D prints are almost always worse than injection moulded plastic. Only if you need a very specific custom thing. Or it’s just convenient/fun to make your own.

It’s a security thing to have that warning. You’re not supposed to be able to bypass it for a reason.

If you don’t have the warning you can just relock the bootloader, but updates probably won’t work.

The atom is only gone in name. It’s now just “intel processor”. The N100 CPUs are in a ton of neat machines. And the E cores of Intel CPUs are just Atom cores.

Windows 8 also had to run on atom CPUs with dire CPU performance and even more dire memory configs. So even once it was booted it needed to be relatively slim and quick. I actually preferred it at the time because it was faster than 7.

Relock the bootloader.

I’m not, but unless I call the phone support I can’t get my windows to activate.

I’ve gone through an FX8120, 4560k, 4790k, 1800x, 3700x, 5800x3d, and finally 9800x3d all on the same cooler. Even if I do a big upgrade why would I want to change it if it’s working fine?

Finally this weekend it’s getting demoted to my server and I’m upgrading to a D15 G2. But that’s only because I’m upgrading my server and it’s 10 year old heatsink doesn’t work on AM5.

No it’s not. 95c is the target temperature on anything 7000 series and newer. Google says the 5700x throttles at 90.

9800x3d is fine on air as lon as you get a nice cooler. I’m personally anti AIO because I don’t want to deal with the maintenance. I’m still using my NH-D14 after 15 years. Under absolute full load the CPU gets hot, but I only game on the computer so it never stays hot for long. An actually modern cooler would be plenty.

At work we have a 9950x running of a Thermalright Peerless Assassin 140 and under 100% load it cant maintain full boost speeds, but it hovers around its base clock speed.

Yeah it took me a bit after 7 came out. But having all my excel windows in one group is way more efficent than two excel windows over here, one in the middle, and a 4th way off at the end of all my windows.

It’s a USB connected video adapter. Not USB C DP alt mode. USB USB.

At the best of times it’s solidly OK. At the worst of times it’s absolutely horrendous.

I had a few issues with 25H2 on release, but they’re largely fixed now.

24H2 and 25H2 are the same thing, it’s just enabling a few different changes. But things like the new obnoxiously ugly start menu have started showing on my 24H2 machines so I don’t really know what the difference is.

I think the memory foam bed is actually only good for 4-5 years depending how big you are and you local humidity.

Yeah my Casper was noticeably worn in the center (single life) after about 3 years. I’m now onto like 4.5 and it’s really starting to annoy me. Trying to sleep on the sides makes me roll into the center lol.

Exactly. I have tons of cheap (when new) laptops that still work perfectly. But that’s because I baby them. If I treated them like how I treat my ThinkPads or MacBooks they’d have been broken in a year or two. Plus who actually wants to type on a laptop that’s flexing more than the keys are moving?

Well if it’s anything like their previous models then it probably feels like it’s a toy. I remembered playing with a display model when I was thinking of buy it and was amazing by how flimsy it was.

On paper they seem like good laptops. But in practice?

Is this new? When I filed for my passport in ~2021 I didn’t need that info.

Considering that wage theft is the biggest form of theft, It’s not good to dilute the word.

That reminds me. I was working on 3d printing an attachment to launch bottle rockets (and possibly roman candles) off my drone. I should finish working on that.

No, avoid flash storage at all costs for any sort of archival.

The charge in the nand chips diminishes over time when they’re not plugged in. In my experience flash drives tend to lose their contents after about 5-10 years. Better drives will probably last longer, but they’re not suitable that.

Core 100 series was out at the end of 2023. The LPE cores shouldn’t have been an issue.