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While I generally agree with the sentiment, I would point out that you would see the same ads on a $10k and $10 TVs. The solution in the case of a smartphone is to avoid YT or pay for their ad-free service. Again, if the stipulation is that a notional $1500 Android device should include ad-free YT, I agree in principle, knowing full well it's not realistic as YT has essentially no competition - a corollary from which is that their main competitor Apple wouldn't be able to offer ad-free YT (or equivalent) either.

$1500 for an Android device is more on the extreme end. Sounds more like Apple pricing target, although these days there is indeed little difference. Bear in mind, that while your smartphone use is minimal, for many (if not most) people the device has become a daily driver and a main camera, and a fashion item, hence the pricing. To be fair, I doubt anyone stable particularly likes ads, and an Android device doesn't really display them other than in the browser and YouTube (both are platform independent). It's just that most people see no choice but to hand over their privacy in exchange for access to what they find to be essential services....

The proposal to get rid of Enterprise and just offer everything in Pro (as currently priced) would sound good. As long as they don't remove Pro and start charging people who would like the basics such as remote desktop, basic encryption or bitlocker $500 for an Enterprise licence. Or rather it would be great if they did that, as the resulting pain would likely motivate more people to break free of the shackles :)

Well, Pro is definitely preferable to Home, but I would not require any features offered by Enterprise on a personal device. They should just scrap Home, as this is essentially nothing more than dumbed down Pro (or merge Pro and Home if you like) to reinforce the renewed sense of Windows' purpose in the world ;)

I tried updating XTU recently, and the garbage OS Windows 11 wouldn't let me because it couldn't find an uninstaller of the earlier version (which probably got deleted by M$'s own system cleanup utility). Whatevs.

All of that would be kind of understandable if Windows was free. So, now Microsoft figured they can charge for the OS and stuff it with ads too. Nice.

Firewater may have been involved 😉

Anyone else feeling the renewed sense of Windows' role in the world?

MATE desktop is really nice (and super-lightweight), worth checking out if someone hasn't had a chance.

I assume the current would increase with the length of the cable (Ohm's law), but not sure what absolute levels we are talking about here. Bear in mind, the individual wires are quite thin. BTW way back you'd need a special crossover cable to connect computer to a computer, but it shouldn't matter these days, assuming the other PC is reasonably recent.

The length might have something to do with it, but it's way off the max supported length (300ft+). Nice riddle. Perhaps some conductive debris got into the socket and caused a short... Edit: way back you'd need a special crossover cable to connect computer to a computer, but it shouldn't matter these days, assuming the other PC is reasonably recent.

Crazy. No PoE, so damaged cable is just about the last thing that springs to mind. Do you have a dog?

Bizarre, glad you managed to avoid a disaster. Any PoE switches?

Lawyers always win 😉

I was quite skeptical too (and still am a bit suspicious, but many people claim lifetime is good too). Well, it's a Chinese paste, so things can get cheap. Phobya is German I believe. It seems rather like the 12/13th gen contact frames. Der8auer (invented?) made one costing $30+, Thermaltake made a $7 or so version. Thermaltake version actually outperforms Der8auer's according to Gamers Nexus.... (and works wonders for me). It's tough out there, but it is what it is. As an aside, unless something is patented, it can be copied freely (not suggesting the SYY paste is a copy of Phobya NGE, although they look similar). TBH I prefer this to a bit bogus products with redundant packaging such as some of the recent pastes released by name brands.

I was kind of forced to move to Win 11 a few months ago. Felt like an open beta, definitely less stable than Win 10, more bloatware. Large businesses will be upgrading to this in 2030 if at all. The quality of this fine OS motivated me to move to Linux. Doesn't seem like I will be looking back.

I believe the technical term is "sponsored leak" 😉

Spending your semi-retirement time as you please is your prerogative, though this is understandable: there is indeed little point in pursuing Linux installation without reasonable motivation. Even a very modest PC will do fine for light use on Windows, and gaming - if that's relevant - is still Windows' domain presumably. More precisely, it's safe to assume you understand the needs of the very small subset of business users you have come across throughout your career going back to the respectable 1982. It is also safe to assume you have had a more limited exposure to business activity in the last decade. It is interesting that you are not aware of the limitation of your experience and call that small subset of business users "real business users" (I suppose that makes me an unreal business user, I'm happy with that 😊 ). Furthermore, the above is mostly an elaborate objection to the designations "casual" and "light". I would actually sustain the latter term as accurate enough. If a person works 8 hours/day mostly in MS Office and the browser, they don't need powerful laptop/desktop hardware, and sticking with a Windows desktop for these users is very reasonable, especially in a large organization built around Microsoft software. In fact, in some large corporations these days they would just get a virtual desktop terminal. I should clarify "light" in this context is not to be confused with "lightweight", or worse still "intellectually so".

I recall reports of people using 2 eGPUs in AGA AW machines. Just a wild guess: perhaps you were running AW Nvidia drivers? I would try the latest directly from NV. Can't think of a reason why this wouldn't work other than some dodgy drivers or AW cancerware.

I gave the SYY-157 a go. Good first impressions, I think it pretty closely matches Phobya Nanogrease Extreme. The applicator kit is quite handy. Keeping it on the CPU. Question is: how long will it last?

A bit of a positive update: I managed to get the SSD out, and now it's clear what went wrong - I must have pushed the latch too far counter-clockwise (I guess thinking that would secure the SSD well). The mechanism works as intended if the latch is operated exactly as per the manual. Too bad it's possible to operate it another way and jam it. Also seeing almost 50% improvement in some benchmarks with the 13900K + boosted RAM vs 12900KS. Pretty impressive. It's worth noting though that about half of the RAM clock/CL boost was enabled by a BIOS update, even before I swapped the CPUs.

HDR is not DV. All the "Dolby Vision" YT videos show up as HDR for me (LG), although to be fair I would struggle to tell the difference. All look stunning, 4K works fine.

Confusing naming perhaps? Should we try "Apple Bashing" instead? 🤣

Maybe it was a temporary pilot or something. How exactly did you determine you were looking at DV YT content? Do you happen to have a link to the video?

Do those eGPU setups work with other host machines?