Mr. Fox

Doesn't hardinfo (system profiler and benchmark) provide the info?

The same people have surprised looks on their faces when the turdbook they bought, that is as cute as a bug on a rug, overheats, thermal throttles, has lackluster performance, is difficult to service, dies prematurely and costs a fortune to repair because they have to buy a mobo, CPU and GPU even though only one of them is dead.

You can get a refund on a shipping label purchased that is not used.

Yes, you are exactly right. Goofball wusses and panty-waisted crybabies whining and moaning about things being "too thick" and "too heavy" ruined everything for everyone in the normal and enthusiast camps. And, they've gotten progressively worse, not better. I am so glad that I do not need to rely on a laptop any more. I would be extremely dissatisfied and unhappy with what is available, even if I hadn't already washed my hands and moved back to desktops.

"the political machinery in Arizona is determined to make the state business friendly." This is one of the big reasons I find it puzzling that Micro Center (or any other business) would avoid Arizona. Everything about the state is geared toward making things easy for business to thrive. Texas is very similar. Thriving business is good for companies, employees and consumers. Property values keep going up, taxes stay lower than normal, so the return on the investment is also better and comes easier than most (not all, but close,) of the states where they operate. In most cases, the exact opposite of all the above is true. I could speculate why the owners of the company deliberately choose to operate in places that are hostile toward business vibrance, free enterprise and capitalism, but we won't go there.

As long as sheeple keep buying whatever garbage they put out there, the scurvy notebook OEM/ODM losers will never do things well or proper. And, why should they if the majority of the ignorant suckers buying it accept that like good little lambs? The industry is built around the idea of doing as little as possible, to whatever extent consumers will put up with it. There is no pride in product, just misleading marketing rhetoric. They haven't found the bottom yet and, unfortunately, the same scummy-bastard brain cancer is starting to corrupt the desktop space. They build for a pauper, price for a prince, and the peasants keep coming back for more.

Nope, never as far as I can tell. I have my Precision 17 for when my only option is to stoop to using a laptop. Otherwise, I am done with laptops forever. In my book they are all garbage now and there is no going back. I don't think anyone could produce one that I would be interested in owning.

Word! I used to help them and lecture them, and use it as a basis to say, "See, I told you so." But, I don't usually help them anymore unless they come to me with, "I wish I would have listened to you. Please help me fix it so I can get rid of it." More often than not, I just tell them that I hope they learned a lesson and what they are asking me to fix is an example of why I told them to buy something else. I tell them they will need to pay someone a stupid amount of money to fix their mess because don't have time or the desire to fix it for them.

I am an advocate and supporter of companies that make products (generally software) that block or defeat the ability to receive financial support from advertisements and data collection. I honestly don't care if they (Google, Facepoot, Twatter, Micro$lop, crApple, etc.) go broke and shutter their operations. Good riddance. Life would be better without their trashy misinformation, trashy products, trashy agenda and trashy people. Please God, let that happen... dust in the wind. It's all gonna burn, but hopefully sooner than later. I often help friends and relatives with problems that are a direct result of their idiocy or failure to follow instructions. In part out of love for them, in other part out of pity. The exception is when they expect it. There are usually strings attached to the assistance, meaning they need to pull their head out. Help is limited to those who are victims of their own ignorance. None is offered when the underlying behavior was deliberate. Too bad. So sad. Not your dad.

As long as I can deprive them of the ability to extract the funds they crave, while simultaneously eliminating the opportunity for me to be burdened or inconvenienced by their filth and exempting myself from being part of their process, I am fine with the lowest common denominators being tolerant of the stupidity. As they say, "Birds of a feather..." But, it is very true that we should not underestimate the power of stupid people that ban together to advance a stupid cause. It is scary how much power they have over people who are not stupid, but seriously outnumbered.

I totally forgot that AMD is doing stuff here now. Not sure how that slipped my mind. Kind of ironic to have so much chip fab stuff going on in a literal 'silicon (sand) valley' LOL. Kind of like making lemonade when life is filled with lemons.

Yes, it is very puzzling and I do appreciate the inquiry on my behalf. Seems like a no-brainer to me, but I have a personal interest in seeing it happen that is entirely selfish by nature. I do have theory/wild guess that is purely speculation. And, if even it were accurate calling it out might be unpopular with a few people, so I will just keep it to myself. 😉

Well that sucks real bad for guys like me, and for them too. Thanks for asking. I appreciate it. Maybe they just don't want to be in the same metropolitan area where other big tech providers have taken refuge with an operations or manufacturing presence such as TSMC, Intel, AMD, Amazon, Apple, Motorola, IBM, Honeywell, Qualcomm, Western Digital, Broadcom, Microsoft (hardware division), Ingram Micro, Micron, Oracle, Google, Dell (IT Services), PayPal, GoDaddy, Fujitsu, Marvell, Norton, CDW, General Dynamics, Hewlitt Packard Enterprise Services, etc. (Seems like AZ and TX are rapidly becoming Silicon Valley replacements as tech companies discover they can be more profitable by moving to places that are a Mecca for business that does not punish them for success.)

I don't know. Just got lucky that I had it as I normally do not use XTU. Yes, their driver and software policy sucks and is deplorable, just like the Redmond Retards and AMD and NVIDIA. They all suck. The current look and feel of XTU is totally trash. Everything in the UI is bloated to be nice for use by touchscreen smartphone, tablet and modern UI filth for Kool-Aid drinking sissy-boys. Here is a link to an archive with all the versions that I have saved. https://1drv.ms/u/s!AtvVypqAtWDahYkhQ4EyJcoRuUgeGg?e=xIvHEh Here is a link to an archive with installable backups of my Z490 and Z690 Windows 7 drivers. https://1drv.ms/u/s!AtvVypqAtWDahYkldHtAektSLFapLw?e=aLI6HI Remember to spam F8 and select the option disable DSE because some are unsigned. Or, just disable it permanently using an admin command prompt, then run the Test Mode Watermark Disabler script. (The latter is the best way... one and done.) bcdedit /set loadoptions DISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS bcdedit /set TESTSIGNING ON bcdedit.exe /set nointegritychecks on

XTUSetup_7.9.0.24.zip

They may have. I have been using them for so long I can't remember now. Edit: Oh man, what an understatement. I said 5+ years ago and when you mentioned 2008 and showed the photo from back then I got curious. I checked my account and saw things I uploaded as many years ago, LOL. Wow... time flies when you're having fun, and even when you aren't.

All of his pictures posted in the thread around that time are gone and have that same thumbnail as a placeholder. I don't know if the image host is down or if they got deleted. That's why I only use imgur and postimg.org. I have images saved 5+ years ago that are still accessible. Photobucket and Imageshack were terrible about deleting images after a while of not being viewed.

I think what Mr. Nutella was actually saying is: "Windows has always stood for sovereignty for creators and agency for consumers, and with Windows 11 we have a renewed sense of Windows' role in the world as supreme dictator." But yeah... I "felt it" LOL. Kind of like this...

Now yeah, that would be possible. Hadn't thought of that. It wasn't that long ago that it might have gotten wet even if it was not evident at the time. That was a lot of condensation on the water block a few weeks ago.

So, now we will need Adguard to protect us from Windows itself? LoL... apparently telemetry and identity theft wasn't enough to keep them fat and sassy.

Given that the outer metal housing around the end of the connector is what looks to have been shorted, it almost looks like it was putting power to ground.

But, it is still not clear how or why the ethernet port itself would be carrying enough current to cause what happened. Very strange.