BF2S Forums Tech: Open thread

i'm sure the keyboard itself is fine, the apple keyboards have been great since their butterfly-switch experiment/debacle.

but a very disappointing aesthetic. it looks like they've taken one of those budget $20 rubber-dome keyboards from walmart and just dumped it into the middle of their chassis.

lots of reviewers are calling it 'nostalgic' and celebrating it. ugh. i am not nostalgic for large, bulky tech.

DesertFox- wrote:

*quickly glances around for anyone else who also uses HDMI all the time*

i mean, every monitor i've bought and used in the last couple years has supported USB-C/lightning capability. while i initially resented having to buy a tonne of USB-C cables, having it as a 'universal' cable for so many things, with the ability to daisy-chain multiple devices, carry power charge, deliver audio+video, etc, just made it a superior high-bandwidth cable.

HDMI, by contrast, feels really bulky – as in the cable itself is thicccc, the port is large, higher in fact than both of my recent retina macbook models – and a giant step backwards. with a USB-C cable you can do multiple things, whereas carrying a HDMI cable adds to your 'mobile' laptop set-up. this is one thing i'm actually happy to see relegated to a dongle or simple cable-convertor (like ethernet, for example, which has plenty of USB adaptor solutions).

Last edited by uziq (2021-12-06 20:42:42)

I think my current monitor has DP 2.

It really didn't like my ATI card at all, failed to notice the computer had shut down so I had to shut it down manually using the stupid samsung joystick thing which died twice and had to be repaired twice under warranty, seems a lot happier with the Quadro.

My sisters $16,000 Pioneer plasma is still going, after a few repairs - the local tech shop guy is a Pioneer enthusiast or something and is able to repair it for, er, about the cost of a nw TV.... - now its connected via HDMI the picture is even better but we can't change the aspect ratio.

Still like the plasma picture, OLED is painfully sharp. Each time the Pioneer has a hiccup I have to research alternatives and Sony Bravia QLED seems to be the current pick.

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

4k at 240hz sounds beautiful, anyway.

Sorry to hear that, though it reminds me to run a backup soon. Been a bit, most of my drives are old, and it would be my own darn fault at this point if I lost data.

I think I have a copy of my laptop stuff, on a copy of my Windows 7 stuff, on the side drive of my current W10 installation. Kept them around in case I'd need anything off them. I haven't touched them I think since ever.

Def will be in my next build. I think my current mobo predates those. Funny seeing their prices go down while graphics cards are still $$$$$$$$$$$.

First SSD is like 10+ now as the Windows drive (same age for the 4TB mechanical), second maybe 5-6 where I put demanding applications. I think I've been rather lucky with this PC, aside from Microsoft's blunders and RMAs of early video cards I had in it. I think I RMAd the RAM I'd initially put into it as well.

The more I think about it, the more I don't feel like putting together a new PC. It's not like I have racks of this stuff I can grab off the shelf while I wait for the RMA to go through.

16 GB of RAM is causing me to max out and crash when running some application combos. More or less idling with my browser and some background processes up, around 25%. Last I checked, some DDR3 was as much if not more than DDR4. So much for the idea of upgrading to 32GB later. I should have done that years ago.

The longer I can hold on, the better equipment I can replace it with, and the more mature Windows 11 will be. As it stands now, I don't meet the requirements for the new OS.

I took the twin HD I had in RAID out of my PC and bought one of those external expansion things. I would suggest you get one of those instead. You don't want to be locked out of your porn stash when your computer dies. You don't want to have to yank out your HDs before you take your PC to microcenter right?

IT guys shouldn't really be making a habit of digging through other people's personal files. It's appreciated by some though if clients do them the courtesy of not having that stuff as a desktop wallpaper.

Some of those guys probably have more wild kinks than you. In any case, it would be a little like worrying about a doctor seeing your balls during a physical. Nothing they haven't seen before.

lol