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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.

I can recommend both Fidelity and Vanguard. Sure, their UIs aren't as simple and easy like Robinhood, but honestly, Robinhood is a terrible brokerage on many levels. It took a kid committing suicide for them to get their heads out of their asses and stop dishing out margin accounts like subprime mortgage-backed securities in 2007. They've had inexplicable service outages. Their app is buggy and exploitable. They ran out of liquidity during the recent GameStop fiasco and their CEO looked like a complete idiot trying to talk his way out of the mess they got themselves into by being as disingenuous as possible on TV. Maybe I'm being a bit old school and elitist, but I see Robinhood as a toy for trading. I need multiple browser tabs and windows open to handle my investing and research, not a tiny phone screen. No serious investor uses Robinhood and they further tanked their own business with their recent self-inflicted PR wounds. The only real change they brought to the industry was making trades free and forcing traditional brokerages to adapt to the same model. Everything else about them has been a circus since day one. You know, that has me thinking, even though it flies in the face of every piece of traditional investing advice, I can't really argue against someone treating AAPL as their bank account and going all in on it. There are quite a few people who have done that. I can't recommend it as a strategy, but it works if you have the stomach for it.

In terms of sectors, beyond just battery technology, I think there are growth opportunities in green energy in general. I went with Enphase Energy as a solar play last April. Without having done a whole lot of research at the moment that I'm typing this, I'd look into green energy ETFs and look at what their top holdings are. That could be a starting point for researching the individual stocks, or I might simply buy the ETF itself. I'm not an investing expert and my risk tolerance is probably higher than a lot of people (even though it's nowhere near the YOLO insanity of wallstreetbets), but I do feel like green energy has more growth potential than the entire market for the foreseeable future. I'd also be game to try to invest up to $1K per crypto (the minuscule amount of BTC I put into a crypto wallet at $8K USD/BTC for playing around two years ago doesn't count), but if I were making a move right now, I wouldn't like seeing them at all-time highs.

Thanks. I got PayPal back in 2017 when it was still $43. My thought at the time was Venmo was going to be a huge driver of their future growth especially with the Gen Z crowd. Meanwhile, PayPal was still growing with e-commerce, even if they were going to eventually part ways with eBay. Every online checkout other than Amazon has PayPal as an option right next to the credit cards. Their move into crypto payments was always a possibility, but I hadn't imagined it having the impact it did. Square occupies a similar space as PayPal and Shopify in consumer payments, but they're all a bit overbought at this point. Even at their current prices though, I think those three are not bad buys in smaller quantities over the next year, but they won't have the explosive growth and returns they've had for the past 3-4 years.

You can't get too bogged down on the what if scenarios, especially with a stock that was part of the retail meme stock movement a couple of weeks ago. You might not have quintupled your money, but you did almost triple it, and you certainly didn't lose like most people who jumped on the bandwagon late did. I have to tell myself this or have a friend remind me every time I think of when I had a stop loss that triggered on Shopify in 2019 and I passed on a couple of opportunities to buy back in. I originally bought at around $100 a share in 2017 and the stock got up to around $380 in late 2019. At that time, I set a stop loss at $320 thinking it would be safe, but it triggered one morning and I continued to sit it out for another year. I really never should have set that stop loss. I was worried about a short-driven downtrend triggered by the infamous Andrew Left of Citron Research, but I really didn't need the money at any point between then and now. I still didn't re-buy Shopify at the start of the pandemic when it dipped back under $400. I finally bought back in at $992, but I missed a large chunk of growth. I did triple my original investment in them and now they're up to $1300+ so I'm decently ahead on Shopify again after buying back in. I do lament missing out on that growth in the mid and upper-hundreds that would have made it the biggest holding in my portfolio now, but at least I still made money on it. The other way I keep myself grounded about missing opportunities is by telling myself that I could otherwise have all my non-retirement account investments in a high-yield savings account instead, where a pathetic 0.5% APY counts as high-yield these days. Seeing the performance of AMD throughout 2016 was also what got me into investing, but I didn't buy AMD. As much as I'd like to believe that Ryzen's success was predictable, they were getting trounced by Intel and Nvidia on different fronts at the time. I bought Nvidia instead because their moat is bigger with their hands in datacenters, AI, autonomous driving, graphics cards, and now CPUs with ARM. My portfolio is heavy in semiconductors and half of FAANG+M in large part due to years of familiarity with computer hardware and software, but my biggest and most successful holdings by far right now are Enphase Energy and PayPal.

The theoretical limit of copper as a medium is effectively irrelevant for home networks both today and for the foreseeable future. Cat 8 cable supports 40 Gbps over a maximum channel length of 30 meters. Switches that cannot do 10 Gbps are still the overwhelming majority of the consumer market. I agree with tictoc in that 10 Gbps gear probably won't gain mainstream consumer adoption for up to another decade if not longer.