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Whether it's glue or epoxy, I never seem to have luck with liquid adhesives, and cheap super glues are among the worst of them all in terms of durability. However, a product like this might work. Industrieklebstoff, Industriekleber PASCO PASCOFIX.DE Der PASCOFIX Industrieklebstoff wurde ausschließlich für unsere Firma gemäß unserem Auftrag entwickelt und ist in seiner Art und Qualität... I've used it on a bracket that holds the computer on my washing machine to the front trim panel and it's been holding up fine so far after a few months of minimum twice-weekly use. I applied some excess glue and filler and then sanded it down flat, so the bond is a bit stronger than what you would normally be able to achieve with the cheaper stuff.

That's brutal. That's more than the going rate for a used 1080, which is unfortunately looking like my most realistic GPU upgrade for the next couple of years. Maybe I'll swing for a 1080 Ti. Really kicking myself now for not getting a $500 2080 Ti when the bottom fell out right after the RTX 30 series debut.

I see, that makes a little more sense. With few exceptions, once I sell a position, I'm not looking back, so I don't even want to watch them anymore, much less own any part of them. I've made enough bad purchases in the past that were usually attempts at swing trades for a quick buck, and almost all of them backfired on me. In four years, I've only ever reopened positions three times, all with the intent of long-term capital gains because I knew I screwed up when I sold them the first time: NVDA, DXCM, and SHOP. Even between those three though, I was on the fence with continuing to hold DXCM until their big spike at the end of July, but I also recognize them for what they are: a market leader in their sector with a solid business model and reliable revenue stream. My biggest regret (aside from ever selling SHOP in the first place because my original cost basis per share was under $100) was not buying back into SHOP right after the pandemic cratered the market in 2020 and still holding onto garbage like IBIO thinking that they could be a lottery ticket for the vaccine. That bad gamble spooked me off of far better COVID plays last summer like MRNA when it was still under $100 a share, which I even recommended to someone else. Meanwhile, SHOP was on my watch list to buy back into in late-2019 and early-2020, and if I wasn't screwing around with penny stocks, I could have gotten back in at under $500 a share instead of the $992 at which I did eventually buy back in. At least I was smart enough to pick up NVDA for the second time and buy more AMZN during that period. Stocks that were supposed to be short-term plays like airlines and cruises that ended up getting extended into long-term holds due to the continuing effects of the pandemic were a complete waste of time. I've held DAL for a year and a half now for a pathetic 8.4% return and it's going to be the first thing I sell when I decide on what my next purchase is going to be. Unless your timing is perfect and prescient to pull off a day or swing trade, putting that money into the less exciting FAANG+M over the same period of time would have been a far better move.

In the US. They have a more complete platform in the UK that includes stocks, ETFs, commodities, and forex. Based on some quick reading about their UK platform, I don't recommend their copy trading features because most people are idiots and you don't want to copy their portfolios, and it provides a potentially detrimental shortcut to performing your own research. Also, having looked through the previous posts in the thread, in the spirit of trying to help you optimize your portfolio, you have more ticker symbols than what I'd feel comfortable tracking. 28 symbols is probably double or maybe even triple the amount of what most people would consider manageable, and a lot of those single-share stocks you have are serving as clutter rather than diversification. You're spreading yourself too thin at the bottom end to the point where, for example, even if cruise lines have an exceptionally good day, you've still gained less than $10. However, you're also too top-heavy with MSFT to the point where your portfolio basically goes in whatever direction Microsoft takes it.

I'm not familiar with the details of this regulation but the Lexus LS in the US never got those fender side markers. At one point, I looked into making the bumper running lights on my GS work with the blinkers, but I opted for side marker mirror housings instead. I never paid any real attention to what Toyota/Lexus was doing with those side markers, but it seems that only their cars that weren't bound for North America got them. Fender side markers were a staple on BMWs of that era, but not so much for other makes appearing in the US market, domestic or import.

I missed this feature from the old site. This implementation looks much better too!

If microstuttering in games, sluggish multitasking, laggy VR playback, high CPU usage on 4K, and a general desire to keep stalling because my greedy ass wants a Ryzen 9 on AM5 despite the obviously predictable supply shortage that will exist after its launch all isn't going to get me to upgrade my i7-2600K now, Windows 11 certainly won't push me over the edge.

Who wants 10-year-old source code anyway? ?

And with the way things have been going, they'll be just as readily available to consumers as high-end GPUs when they debut. I bought a new 10 TB Seagate BarraCuda Pro for $210 a couple of years ago. It now sells for $300 new. Not that I need it, but I can't upgrade to 12-16 TB right now without paying something stupid.

The Apple of iPhone battery throttling infamy is involved after all. You can safely assume the other side would be in favor of the consumers.

I say get the Michelin Pilot Sport 4S and don't look back. I think Lexus was probably more attentive to ensuring good NVH qualities with the LS considering how iconic the wine glass pyramid TV advert was, but I can tell you that Michelin Pilot Sports often end up being the last piece needed to solve the vibration puzzle for many GS owners.

I think that was the G5 where they introduced their LG friends gimmick. I vaguely recall one of the contraptions was some kind of BB-8-looking robot and I don't really care enough to Google it any further because that's how uninterested I was and still am with that concept. I bought the G4 on launch, then got another G4 as a warranty replacement for the first one, and the replacement G4 died about a year later. Both failed due to the notorious bootloop issue. I currently own a pair of rooted V20 phones that I'll probably keep around as long as I can because of the second screen, built-in DAC, 3.5 mm jack, removable storage, and removable battery. Even after they reach EOL as phones, they're still fantastic portable music players because of the DAC. LG's problem was a mixture of a few things: Poor quality control, poor product life cycle support barely supporting one major Android OS update after release, and not understanding that they were never going to succeed by playing me-too with Samsung. They tried a bunch of experimental features with their products but didn't keep the ones that worked and got rid of others that would have helped them stand out. The second screen on the V20 is one of my favorite features because I use it to quickly access my home automation apps and my music. Then they got rid of it as well as removable batteries in later V-series phones. The V20 was the first flagship phone to ship with Android Nougat, but LG took forever to roll out Oreo for it, and even then it was only 8.0 instead of 8.1 and the update broke a few features on the phone that were never fixed. In some ways, LG reminds me of HTC from 10 years ago. They made some innovative products that gained an enthusiast following, then squandered that userbase with a series of bad decisions and an incoherent vision of what they wanted their products to be. I'll probably keep the V20 as my phone until LTE networks begin to be retired or apps stop working on Nougat. By then, I suppose I'll look at anyone who makes a phone that includes everything except a removable battery, since that's about the only thing that seems to be universally off-limits to flagship devices. Recent Motorola and Asus flagships have been one feature away from ticking all my checkboxes. Compared to Europe, the right-to-repair movement is nearly nonexistent in the US, so I can't even consider options like the Shift 6mq or mu.

I've worked in software since 2012. Not all of the companies I've worked for understood or accepted that was their contemporary function regardless of their supposed primary industry, but as a company, you're not serious about technology if you don't invest in it. I've been fighting the SSD fight for 8+ years now. Only two out of the five places I've worked for in the last nine years had any respect or understanding of their employees' needs, especially for their software development operations. That includes getting your employees hardware that won't be a bottleneck to their productivity. With the first of these companies I worked for in 2012-13, I got on very good terms with the IT support guy and he told me privately that a salesperson wanted to swap out their 256 GB SSD for higher capacity storage in their laptop. Since management was too broke and too ignorant to spend money on hardware, he offered to swap that Samsung 830 into my workstation after hours one evening as long as I stayed quiet about it. No problem, but that said a lot about how miserly and clueless that company was. They were in the telecommunications industry, for what it's worth. The next place I worked for in 2013-14, I got a new 2013 MacBook Pro 13" when I started. There was never a chance for me to be concerned about slow storage or the company not spending money on their employees considering I was just a contractor and they did that for me. The next place I worked at from 2015 until last year, I got a brand new HP workstation with an i7-4790, 12 GB RAM, and...a damn hard drive. Like seriously? Once again, this company was in the telecom industry and was obstinately regressive when it came to software development. I got a brand new workstation bogged down by a tired and used 320 GB WD Blue from IT's spare parts bucket, which unsurprisingly ate dirt within the following year. IT then replaced it with a 1 TB Seagate, which also eventually ate dirt because it probably also exceeded its rated MTBF by a factor of 10 before it was installed in my machine. Now with my workstation out of commission, I finally had a request for a new SSD approved in 2017, but it took over a month for someone in IT to get off their ass to install it, forcing me to use my own personal ThinkPad at the office for a month in the meantime. I consulted at a place last year that didn't have an SSD in my workstation at first, but I was also working remotely for a couple of weeks due to COVID-19. By the time I was actually using the workstation, it had a 256 GB SSD installed with a cloned image of Windows 10 from the hard drive that was in it previously, meaning that there was about 10 GB free on that SSD. All of the workstations there were bargain bin builder PCs. I remember the case of my workstation only had three feet, so I leaned it against the wall so it would stand up straight. It had either an i7-4770 or 4790, but it also had a GTX 970 in it for no logical reason. In hindsight, I wish I had snuck the 970 out of the machine after hours one night and resold it this year along with my personal EVGA 980 Ti Classified to make an upgrade to a 2080 Ti seem at least halfway reasonable in cost. This year, I got a new 2020 MacBook Pro M1 from my new company upon starting. Companies should have stopped dumpster diving for their software development operations before I was building my parents a new i3-6100 machine with a 480 GB Micron M500 SSD in 2016. It's completely inexcusable now.

The way Apple operates, if it's officially announced, it's for sale. I may not be a big fan of buying Apple products (other than their stock) for my own personal use, but I am a fan of their "no paper launch" strategy. As for the MBP M1, I will say that its battery life is phenomenal. I can easily get more than two workdays of regular business productivity use without charging. That's a bigger deal to me than it having the fastest CPU in my household right now out of five computers.

The article only mentions the M1, so that's the current-gen chip. Here's another article that talks about leaked benchmarks for an M1X, but that appears to be a 12-core variant of the M1 also clocked at 3.2 GHz, so its single-thread is the same. https://www.macworld.co.uk/news/m1x-mac-3801943/ https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/cpu-apple_m1x-1898

End of the year? I'm staring at my work MBP M1 right now.

Oh, this is precious. ?

I have a Pioneer AVIC-W8500NEX which was their flagship 2019 model. The indexing isn't that big of a deal since it only happens when you insert an SD card or USB, but it's there. Once indexed, it's cached until the head unit detects a change in the file listing which would only happen if I removed the SD/USB, added/removed files on it from my PC, and put it back in the head unit. When it does have to refresh though, it's slow with a 45 MB/s SD card full of MP3s and AACs. Even if I get a faster SDXC card, it's still getting capped at a theoretical 60 MB/s over USB 2.0.

I still do this. One of my cars' head units can play FLAC, but the reason I don't load it with FLAC is because I know I can't hear the difference between 320 Kbps MP3 and FLAC while driving—if at all, to be honest. Also, the head unit's interface for its USB ports and SDXC card slot is USB 2.0. Indexing all FLAC files would take forever. If the head unit were USB 3.0, then maybe.

The title length issue on the home page is pretty straightforward. I'm guessing the same code is used on the forum index page, but I haven't checked that page specifically. .info a { display: -webkit-box; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; } Anyway, the display: -webkit-box; CSS property causes the latest activity columns to have equal height (which looks clean) and the next two properties cause the thread titles to be width of the container and then display overflowing text as ellipses. I think text-overflow: ellipsis; is being set elsewhere other than .info a because toggling that doesn't flip the text overflow style between ellipsis and clip. Since the -webkit-box display property is proprietary, I wasn't seeing it happen in Gecko-based Waterfox which I use more frequently than Blink-based Vivaldi. Widening the largest viewport for the home page which Diffident suggested above isn't a great solution because that involves making changes to the theme's grid system, and also wouldn't directly address the fact that the three-column layout for that component is used all the way down to a viewport width of 768px. The collapse into a single column should happen at a higher breakpoint. Playing around with the font size of the thread titles and/or the height of div.topic would be a better way to go. WebKit/Blink-based browser: Gecko-based browser:

I think my memories of D2 are better left as memories, although to be honest, if it weren't for the 90-day login rule on the old Battle.net, I'd still give my old characters a brief run every now and then. I had a 96 javazon, 96 spearazon, and a party-favorite 95 freeze/immolate max attack speed M'avina's bowazon that I rebuilt once from 95 before the stat reallocation patch. All three of them were built to solo Uber Diablo and the javazon and spearazon could facetank him. I farmed so many Annihilus charms and later Hellfire Torches to fund my trading for some ridiculously valuable items including enough high runes to re-roll my spearazon's ethereal Breath of the Dying +3 Matriarchal Pike to 390% and create Chains of Honor and Enigma runeword armors, as many 40/15 jewels as I needed to outfit my characters' open-socketed items, and an ethereal 199% damage/9% leech Titan's Revenge (the ethereal 200/9 was a non-permed dupe, so I made sure I traded for a safe one). I also had some rare dual leech jewelry from D2 classic, some that I found myself and some that were permed dupes I got when a guy quitting the game gave away his stuff. I had so much fun with my spearazon especially that my weapon switch was an ethereal Lacerator in order to cast amp damage so even physical immune monsters were no problem. Any of my three amazons could solo hell difficulty with no regard for monster immunity and I even gave my Act 2 hirelings runewords like Delirium, Doom, Eternity, and Infinity. I wrote so much damn jargon in the previous paragraph that it's obvious I basically broke the game and had fun doing it. Those were some great memories that I haven't thought of in years. Nowadays, I don't really have time for online gaming anymore, but I no longer trust Blizzard to do anything right anyway. There isn't as much for them to possibly screw up in Diablo II Resurrected, but still...I read about the Warcraft III Reforged fiasco, quietly SMH at the PR gaffe that was the Diablo Immortal reveal, and am still bitter over how I quit D3. The clowns running D3 didn't synchronize the end of the first ladder season with the new game-changing patch at the time, which screwed all of season 1's greater rift rankings up to that point because everyone who got the ideal post-patch loot drops were suddenly able to gain another 5-10 tiers in the greater rifts with less than a couple of weeks left in the ladder season. Therefore, I got knocked off the leaderboards with what would have otherwise been a ticket easily punched into the Battle.net record books. At least I still got screenshots. I wish I had screenshots from D2 way more though.

There are several use cases where a hard drive still makes more sense. I hit on three of them myself: Ultra-high capacity storage, file backup, and continuous writing. I have a 10 TB Seagate BarraCuda Pro for storage, a 6 TB HGST Ultrastar for backup, and I'm planning on a 4 TB WD Purple for my NVR setup hopefully later this year. My backup drive is almost always an older repurposed drive I formerly bought for storage. Anything that has to do with loading applications into memory rightfully gets put on an SSD, but transfer speed and seek times aren't always the most important factors.

If you guys really want to see how far back this cascading effect reaches, I bought an EVGA 980 Ti Classified for $297 including shipping in May 2017. Out of six 980 Ti Classified cards sold on eBay US so far this month, including shipping, four of them have sold for more. The range is $260-327. Also, sales tax is now mandatory as well, which I didn't have to pay on eBay back in 2017. Of course now I wish I had snagged a 2080 Ti when they cratered down to $500.

It's kind of funny how bringing back rounded corners is such a big deal with Windows 10 and that's what they call a major design overhaul. The Metro design language is a lot of things, but attractive is not one of them. They took flat UI to the extreme in Windows 10. It's clean, but it's also lifeless. Adding rounded corners will help, but the UI still has very little visual depth or interest. Before I installed 10 for the first time on my gaming laptop, I already planned to run Open Shell and Glass8. Now I can't daily drive 10 without them.

Oh for sure, definitely just a tangential thought I had and not what you were suggesting. I do recommend getting some shares in AAPL for any new investor though, and it's also a fine choice for the times when you want to buy into a stock and don't know which one to buy. It's funny because it's not an exciting pick and it's not a pure growth stock, but it still behaves like one thanks to Apple being so damn big and a market leader in a outperforming sector. I wish I had simply bought more AAPL instead of making some of the dumb experimental picks I've made over the past few years.