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Let's stop with the dubious assumption that the Trident Z Royal is marketed towards women. If that wasn't brought up in the first place, no sociological discussion would have happened in this thread. I joked about healing crystal fanatics earlier, but anybody can have an affinity for rocks. If I was making a geode-themed PC build, I would consider this RAM with silver chrome heatspreaders. However, I personally care more about my internal hardware's performance than its looks, so I wouldn't go for it because it'll get swapped out in time anyway. The only lasting component in any build of mine is the case, as evidenced by my 26-year-old ATX case that has housed five different motherboards over that time. That doesn't mean the Trident Z Royal doesn't fill a niche, but it's not women. Custom Masterwork Computer: Geode – By Ironside IRONSIDECOMPUTERS.COM The vivid purple crystals in this one of a kind custom computer shine brightly. Only one was made, and it's found a good home. Check it out...

That's okay, the Ryzen 5 4500 identifies as a bougie cripple.

The important takeaways are that context matters and that we don't need to make mountains out of molehills. Gender in electronic component and cable connectors is derived more from biological sex. The male connector plugs into the female connector. I don't see anyone coming after electronic connectors because it's a battle that nobody asked for. The concept is based on biology, not social constructs. We don't need to go there, even as a joke, because it's a pointless exercise and not worth entertaining. However, what I did think of while reading this thread is how the woke police has already tried to target the Spanish language and arbitrarily assign the dumbass inclusive identifier of Latinx, while 95+% of native Spanish speakers think it's 1) effing stupid, 2) incongruent with the entire Spanish language, 3) not a privileged English speaker's business, and 4) just a woke version of colonialism, the exact thing these "inclusive" woke people claim to abhor but it's okay when they do it because they have their heads too far up their asses to recognize the hypocrisy. Also, as far as master/slave (although less to do with "slave"), that also comes up with the naming of bedrooms when you go house shopping now, especially new construction. It's now an owner's suite instead of a master bedroom. It's not a big deal to make that adjustment though. While I'd imagine most people probably don't think of "master" like that colloquially in reference to a master bedroom, the change makes sense and no normal person is going to be upset by the change. The point is that context matters as does the history and origin of our existing naming conventions. If they are problematic, by all means, change what needs to be changed in order to create a better experience for those who may be disenfranchised. But don't just change things for sake of feeling progressive while you inconvenience everyone but yourself, and to top it off, you don't even directly benefit from the change. That's what I see a good chunk of the efforts to alter language has amounted to thus far. All feelings and no logic nor context. Circling all the way back to the Trident Z Royal, I don't think that it necessarily appeals to women. It's kind of tacky, especially the version with the gold heatspreaders. I think it appeals more to nuts who are into healing crystals.

AMD's CPU naming scheme is a complete mess. This doesn't even account for their mobile processor line.

Nah, size matters.

Wait, you tried to brute force the grille? You know you didn't have to do it that way, right?

I have a friend with two indoor pet pigs. Nothing in this thread surprises me.

Will they sink into the subflooring though? You should still have a carpet pad layer in between the carpet and the subfloor, and that's quite a ways to go. Also, what is the subfloor made of? I have spiked speaker stands in carpet, but there's not that much weight on them. Even then, I don't think a static 70 lbs. will have that much impact if you don't move the speakers around all the time, especially when the weight is distributed across multiple points. Otherwise, you would need something that doesn't make full-surface contact like a flat board but has robust-enough feet or pads for some stability. If not spikes, then some small diameter solid steel pucks.

I haven't looked back since I started posting here. The mention of Reddit reminded me of a time probably a couple of years ago post-acquisition and pre-migration when I replied to a news post, some moron who had all the traits of a Reddit troll from r/wallstreetbets flamed me via PM for what I said in the news post thread, and then I reported his PM. All I remember thinking was that little chickenshit clearly has no idea how to communicate like a functioning adult since he was beefing with everyone in the thread. I think I made one more post in the thread calling out that clown and left it at that. If I cared, I'd go back to OCN to look up the details again, but I don't. That site is dead to me especially when the spirit of the community found a new home (here). OCN is just following the typical lifecycle and member exodus of many VS-acquired forums.

Can't go wrong with this and it needs no introduction.

I posted about that in my comment originally, but then I removed it after seeing the Vanced team claim on Twitter that the NFT was not the reason. I don't know whether it's true or not because they could just be in damage control mode right now. Either way, they're lacking in street smarts as far as keeping their operations under Google's radar.

The Vanced team claims that the reason is they were asked to refrain from using the YouTube name, which they've continued to do for years for some dumb reason. I have Vanced on my phone and tablet and I'm sure there will be third-parties that will re-upload the last version of Vanced and MicroG for quite some time. The developers might also grow some functioning brain cells and fork the project with a new name that doesn't include any Google trademarks. Another alternative is NewPipe, and Google has shown no indication of going after them. Best YouTube Vanced alternatives: NewPipe, SkyTube, LibreTube, & more! WWW.XDA-DEVELOPERS.COM If you're looking to hop off of YouTube Vanced and try something new, we have a list of some of the best Vanced alternatives around.

I'd like it if we could never refer to Facebook's feeble and unimaginative attempt at a Second Life successor again, thanks. Her time on Facebook doesn't mean much for being able to make sense of ExtremeHW or forums in general though. Facebook is the complete opposite of tech culture. You may as well have been showing her a screen of hieroglyphics.

You guys look at this forum on your phones? I limit my exposure here so I don't start thinking about how to spell "avocado" like I don't think about how to spell "ludicrous". Ludacris - Wikipedia EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG What I really should do is start pronouncing "Avacado" as "A-vay-kay-dough" in my head, as in, "I work a lot but I would love to find some time to take avacado."

There are several different manufacturers of laptop LCD panels for the same resolution and panel technology. 1920x1080 IPS screens are ubiquitous, so no, they are not all the same. LG, AU Optronics, and BOE are some common panel manufacturers that come to mind and even for a given model number, there are sometimes submodels that have different connectors and screen finishes. You won't be able to know what screen looks good for you without trying out the laptop yourself. If you want to know what panel you have in your Aspire E13, then this app might help with that, but you're not likely to find an identical panel in a newer laptop. Your best bet is to see if NotebookCheck has done a review of the same submodel of a laptop you're wanting to buy since their reviews are usually good about disclosing that info. MonitorInfoView - View Monitor Information (EDID) WWW.NIRSOFT.NET

I was going to bring up how much of a shame it was that Fry's is gone, but even if the owners weren't stealing from the company, running it into the ground, and turning the stores into consignment outfits, it turns out they never had as big of a nationwide presence as Micro Center. Fry's was primarily in California and Texas.

I watched the whole video. It definitely felt like Newegg was in damage control mode at the start, but it's good to see some positive actions come out of the meeting. Since most of the guys Steve met with were fairly new to the company, I'm curious how much knowledge they have of what led to the current situation with all of their customers (not just Steve) as well as what the corporate culture was like prior to their arrival that played into their complacency and customer-unfriendly policies. Also, it remains to be seen whether there will be any actual change in the corporate culture. Those VPs and directors need to be empowered to enact change themselves and the C-suite needs to promote proactive efforts to improve the customer experience across the organization instead of reacting when a YouTube channel as large as Gamers Nexus is victimized and has the resources to put things into focus. It's good that they are trying to put out these fires rather than letting them burn out of control which is truly the absolute worst outcome, but they need to invest resources in collecting customer feedback and acting on it at the lowest levels. Otherwise, this type of thing is destined to happen again.

The channel got famous with a character named Mahk who's basically a discount Mark Wahlberg lampooning Chevy's "Real People, Not Actors" ad campaign from the last several years, which is basically where Intel seems to have gotten inspiration for their recent "Go PC" ad campaign targeting Apple. The Intel Evo ads with Jamie and Corinne Foxx are pretty bad too.

It would be a perfect opportunity for Zebra Corner to revive their dormant YouTube channel since Intel clearly hired the marketing team responsible for Chevy's ads. And just as I type that and check Zebra Corner on YouTube...there's a new video out today.

No marketing would be better than some of the cringe-fest ads and delusional press events they've put out in recent years.

Clipping is what happens when you underpower your speakers and try to drive them at a volume beyond what the amp is capable of delivering. I wouldn't be concerned about that because your Logitechs are going to be (Should be? Better be. I don't trust anything once they started citing 10% THD numbers) matched out of the box. You didn't pick out a separate amp and set of speakers. However, it is something you'll pay attention to when you build a system later. I think this link explains it all in better detail than I can. Note that this is targeted towards mobile audio, where the subwoofer is often passive (standalone driver, not in an enclosure with a built-in amp, so you have to buy your own amp to match the driver). The same concepts apply for passive full-range speakers as well. Learn: Why subwoofers blow: slam, bang, pop, and sizzle WWW.CRUTCHFIELD.COM Too much power or distortion damages subwoofers

To add to what pioneerisloud said, 10% is what happens when you decide to send it with your audio gear, and then think it's appropriate to record those numbers and compare them to what honorable audio companies do. Companies like Yamaha, Onkyo, Pioneer, Denon, Marantz, and other mainstays of the industry will list the rated power output of their amplifiers with 0.06-0.08% THD, so their numbers are going to represent clean power rather than running the gear ragged so they can advertise how high the wattage it is. Some companies may play it a little more loose than others and list at 0.9% THD, but advertising your power rating at 10% THD is basically saying that you don't care about making a good product, you just want the high wattage number for marketing. You know, if it wasn't for Sony messing up my narrative at 0.9%, I would say you could think of THD and BAC similarly. I've never really regarded Sony that highly for amplifiers though, so whatever. Under 1% is fine.

Our perception of time is subject to recency bias and new developments in instruction sets have plateaued so 15-year-old equipment almost sounds reasonable. Until you realize it isn't. 15 years ago in 2022 is 2007. We had Intel Core 2 and AMD Phenom single-threaded, multi-core x64 CPUs. Still kind of usable, if only because of SATA SSDs, even though you'd be limited to 3 Gbps throughput and you can forget about any CPU-intensive performance seeing how meager they've benchmarked in our CPU-Z competition. Either way, not a very good user experience. 15 years ago in 2007 is 1992. We had the 486. Not usable in 2007. As an enterprise employee in software development, I get disgusted with companies that choose not to invest in their hardware and software, especially if for some reason they've taken to buying their hardware and software outright instead of leasing it. In 2020, I had to scrounge together three matching 22" 1080p TN monitors from 2006-07 that only had VGA and DVI connections and rather than wait for IT approval, I chose to buy my own HDMI-DVI adapters to make them work with the i7-4790 workstation that was purchased for me in 2015. I also had to have special permission to get a damn SSD installed in that workstation after two consecutive dead hard drives, both of which were already well-used before I got them. That SSD upgrade took close to a month because of IT's knuckledragging, during which time I used my own personal laptop for work. Since 2021, I've had brand new MacBook Pros sent to me prior to day one with two different companies. Point being, I don't believe software companies like Microsoft should go out of their way to support businesses that pinch pennies and don't accept that regular software and hardware updates should be a normal expense of running a business. If on the other hand, we're talking about a mom-and-pop shop that has one PC that also serves as a POS terminal, well, that's up to them, but I also don't think they're remotely concerned about running the latest OS in the first place, so this discussion is entirely moot for them. Hell, they don't even need desktops for that anymore when payment processing and POS is now done in the cloud with SaaS. I'm sure I've lost track of the point since the original article doesn't address the issues that we've brought up since, but much in the same vein as how I've said that any company in any industry that requires software to run needs to operate like a software company, a similar mindset should be in place with regard to the hardware the company uses. That's the cost of business. Deal with it or else enjoy inconveniencing your employees and/or your customers at your own risk.

When I first read this, I was thinking that it was another anti-consumer move by the Windows dev team, but after reading the actual tweet quoted in the article, I don't think there's much to make of this provided that their notifications don't become more obtrusive like the damn Get Windows 10 campaign was on Windows 7. This is a single line of text in system settings, not a desktop notification popup or an activation message in place of your wallpaper. From a software point of view, the challenge is not that far removed from legacy corporations and computer dummies in general who were stuck on Internet Explorer for the longest time preventing web-based software development from evolving. Obviously, CPUs, their instruction sets, chipsets, motherboards, and connected peripherals are drastically different from web browsers in that their technology stack is far less quickly evolving, but they do represent additional tests that QA teams need to run. It becomes a hindrance once you exceed a certain threshold, and in this case, they've chosen the age of the hardware rather than its performance. Not that there was ever any scenario where I would want Windows 11 on my current machine, but it's hard for me to get upset about this considering that I've had my motherboard for a personal best of nearly 11 years. After being okay with Windows updates for several years until one caused a boot problem and forced me to use System Restore, I'm fine with not updating my OS as long as there are no major issues or limitations from not doing so.