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Flash Drive that supports USB 3.0, eh? Things sure has advanced nowadays.
This reminds me in several years ago when one of the external hard drive that I bought happened to have USB 3.0 support, with different lights indicating the USB mode that it runs. Iirc, it's green for 2.0 and blue for 3.0. |
In other news, I managed to get a Dualshock 3 controller to work within Windows and Steam.
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Also, hello from new desktop! |
Ooh, so you got a new desktop now, Zach? That's nice :) Which OS did it run from?
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Windows 10 Pro!
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I see! I'm wondering if my next PC would have Windows 10 Pro though, considering I've tried the regular one at some point before, and I thought that it would run much better on my next PC if I managed to get one someday.
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Uh, I meant, I'm sure Windows 10 would run much better if I'm running on newer PCs, rather than running it on my laptop because I've tried that before. But then, one of the reasons I'm possibly thinking of getting Pro version is mainly for holding off automatic updates and all.
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Um, I had no idea that Cyanogenmod was essentially shut down until today...
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So for the past month, my iPhone had been cracked open up top because it fell to the ground from being in my hands while I got affected by a car accident. Well tonight, I managed to pull the shell open in half and get it snapped back into place! However, the inner lining had been cracked so that's the only apparent visible damage to the shell.
Also, I understand that this may sound hypocritical of me to say, but unless you are Apple-certified, I DO NOT recommend working on iPhones physically! They are fragile and if something goes wrong, the damage may not be covered under warranty. |
I renewed my domain today, yay!
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I have my own site, my friend started it then gave it over to me :3
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I have a domain and a site but it's offline, I was running it from a raspberry pi and I think the SD card got corrupted.
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I think I used to run several sites on the virtual server running through localhost in my old PC, even though it was more into testing stuffs like CMS or some MediaWiki stuffs.
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It's definitely better to run a local-side copy of web applications before you publish them, that way you can do internal testing to make sure it runs fine and won't crash before publishing it server-side and making it public. :)
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I ran my IRC server on my home server for a little over four years before switching it to a DigitalOcean droplet. |
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A part of me wants to buy a new 2-in-1 laptop/tablet and be done with it. Another part of me wants me to wait for a bit more just in case any new announcements happen.
The thing is, these 2-in-1s seem perfect as it is... I'm hard-pressed to see anything Kaby Lake could provide significantly better than what is already on Skylake CPUs. It's nice to be able to want things... sometimes I think the 2-in-1 models need a refresh badly. It's like for some reason it's lagging. |
Phew, after two hours of working on my site, I have my fingers crossed that I optimized the fuck out of it, and hope that it doesn't crash.
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The first-generation Surface RT is slow as molasses when visiting many web sites now. The gaming laptop I have, I rarely use it ever since I've gotten this desktop, and I don't really bring it out as much as I could due to its size and weight. Since I'm no longer having graphics power as a priority, a 2-in-1 running a Core m3 or i5 seems like the best fit now. It'd be smaller and lighter than a "normal" laptop, and I also can get rid of my tablet which is rapidly becoming dead weight due to lack of performance. Moving from tablet guts to laptop guts should also make it a lot less likely to be obsoleted, given that people can still do fine with a decade-old system today. In fact, if I could, I'd have already bought the Acer Switch Alpha 12. Think Surface Pro 3's everything, make it cheap, make it include the keyboard and stylus in the first place, and make it fan-less (despite running a 15W processor). I don't mind having a slightly less sharp (though still very high-resolution, given that it's still 2160x1440) display, or having 5 hours of battery life to 7, compared to the current-gen Surface Pro 4. The thing is, neither Acer nor Microsoft have gotten around to refreshing their Surface (clones) with Kaby Lake CPUs yet. Would be nice if I got myself a few hundred extra hertz and video chip. |
I just ordered my new phone (a refurb nexus 5) and I'm thinking of installing multiROM on it, and am curious if anyone here has used it before and if so if they have any tips installing it correctly?
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It's pretty hard trying to resist the urge of upgrading your desktop given all the hot new products that are just now coming out...
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I just wanted to remind anybody who may not be on Discord yet that we do have a channel on PC's Discord Server, known as #techtalk! So feel free to come chat with us if you want to. :)
https://discord.gg/ynhx2TU |
So effective for April, my monthly high-speed data allotment goes up from 3 GB to 6 GB!
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/r/windows10 this year's april fools: http://imgur.com/GOniKgU
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Being tempted to upgrading to new computer hardware is definitely a thing... been thinking of getting my CPU swapped out for an i7-4790K, or even just change the motherboard and RAM to support either a 7700K or the R7 1700. Hmm...
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I really need a new Android device. It seems my Nexus 7 is getting slow these days, and my Moto G barely has enough storage. |
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Perhaps one day I'll find an actual reason, but that day is not now. |
My Honor 7 Lite just updated today from EMUI 4.1.2 to 5.0. Holy hell, I have had everything from a Sony Ericsson to Sony, an LG and a Samsung, and I think this is the first time an android device has ran faster for me jumping up a generation in android versions on a previous year model, this is seriously impressive. Loving the pop up windows coming from the bottom, the rounded notification bubbles, and I also think the app drawer is pointless. The iOS style homescreen has grown on me, 4 simple folders and nothing else, its just so simple and minimalistic. Only thing annoying me is the recent app drawer, I want the carousel back, the stock cards are boring.
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I own an LG G4 and at first LG didn't even want to bring Nougat to this device.
They changed their mind after a "riot" on the XDA forums and honestly I don't blame them, how can you not bring Nougat on a device that's just 2 years old and that goes pretty strong still to this day? The problem is that now that LG has been forced to make this update I'm afraid that they will come up with something rushed and not well optimized, I hope not. |
Hi Odin.
How's the weather m8 I'm stuck with a S6 for now and I'm trying to decide between the ZTE Axon 7 or Oneplus 3 / T depending on budget. Trying to get one that has good development support. |
So for those that have web servers utilizing PHP and MySQL/MariaDB, I really recommend installing phpMyAdmin if y'all don't have it yet. It's a great and easy way to maintain databases and database tables on your server that way you don't have to go through all that command line shit.
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So how do you guys feel about us starting up an Experiment of the Week topic?
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So today, I'm starting a new challenge to see if I can go a week without using my iPhone. During this time, I'll be switched back to my Moto G. I've put LineageOS on it, rooted it, and cleaned it up a bit so hopefully it runs faster than when I last used it.
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But yeah, Android is so much more customizable and open that I don't even need to root it to do what I need and that is so much better and I think I'll stay on this side for a long time. :) |
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I ought to give rooting devices another go. There's a drawer in my room that's slowly becoming a phone graveyard with old Samsung Galaxy models, so I guess it wouldn't hurt to try and experiment.
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Just watch out for the dreaded warranties, especially on devices that are under contract. However, since you mention a drawer of devices, I'll assume that doesn't apply here. :P |
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I just leave my phone alone if I think I won't be needing anything special... not exactly feeling like rooting or flashing a custom ROM when it already does what I want it to do.
Looking at Asus's 200- (Intel) and 300-series (AMD) ROG Strix motherboards is making me want one... I think I definitely need all the CPU I can get now. The Strix B250H seems to go pretty well with an i7-7700... Shame I want anime goods for my birthday |
I'm still trying to get my hands on G-Skill's new RGB Ram series....those things look REALLY dope. I can't wait to finally get my new PC built so I can turn this old one into a poverty machine.
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I've repurposed an old desktop into a server, but it's now pretty much sitting turned on and collecting dust now that I have my own VPS.
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I have tried once to make my laptop as a server years ago for testing purposes, but I stopped when I learned that the server needs to stay online for long. I guess laptops are not quite suited to be one.
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(Seriously, I have several TVs in my room) Anyways, after a week of getting a new wireless adapter for my desktop (dual band and AC support), in addition to using an extender for some damn good speeds, I still think I need to get a router to supplement my ISP's gateway. The speeds can grow unstable, and one simple obstacle and/or movement of the unit can cause those speeds to really dwindle. |
That reminds me. I think the wifi card in my previous laptop is gradually dying, if that's possible. I can barely pick up a signal in my room now even when it's the only wi-fi enabled device turned on, whilst my other, newer devices are doing fine.
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Finally bit the bullet and bought myself a 2 TB WD Blue HDD, a Wacom Intuos drawing tablet, and a 650VA APC UPS.
Some of them are direly needed at this point... low storage, too many blackouts... And I guess I don't need a tablet PC now when a drawing tablet probably will work fine for my purposes. |
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UPSs are really useful, I'm glad I got one last summer.
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Today I got a new gaming keyboard! It's a Masione VMJ-05, and I got it on Amazon for $20, which is a sale price. So far, the keyboard seems nice, and I do like the seven colors you can cycle through on the backlight. However, I will say that some keys do appear darker than others.
It's not the best one, but it's something I could recommend as an affordable gaming keyboard. |
Well, I'm about to hit max on my free iCloud storage allocation. At least they are cheaper for 50 GB/month than OneDrive (whom I already pay monthly for to have more cloud storage).
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Meanwhile I just have a 4TB external hard drive... half full.
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I got 117 GB on Google Drive, but only because when I bought my LG G4 it came bundled with 2 years of 100 GB of storage space, plus the 2 GB that were given last year if you completed the security check, and finally the usual 15 GB.
At home I have a 2 TB external drive which I mostly use to store family memories, programs, Steam backups, and some ISOs... I also connected it to the LAN so every computer connected to the network can access it. |
So far, Google is the only of the major cloud services to offer 15 GB for free, afaik. Man, I remember back when Google Drive, OneDrive, and Dropbox all did that. xD
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I still have a decent amount with one drive. Box used to offer 50gb and I still have it.
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I used to use OneDrive a lot (at the time it was called SkyDrive)... good ol' days. :')
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I'd really rather not use Mega, especially after what happened with the last operation owned by Kim Dotcom.
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Yesterday I replaced the old HDD in my dad's laptop with a new Samsung SSD, it's like it's a new computer, god bless SSDs. (I'm now left with a spare 5400 RPM SATA II 500gb HDD, I don't know how I will use it yet lol, probably inside my desktop for even more storage).
The only thing left is to clean the little fan but with the complicated HP design, I will most likely have to take the whole thing apart. |
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Ahead of the storm, I charged all my devices overnight... or at least I thought it was all of them. -_- I woke up to see my Moto G didn't charge at all and now will have to wait for that to charge up.
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I think it's best to charge many devices early just in case of emergency like this, Zach. I guess I should remind myself to not delay the charging until it's quite too late, then. Because well, one of my phones seems to run out of juice much quicker once it drops to 15%.
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I hope you also have some power banks, very handy in situations like this one.
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Finally got a desktop computer. The screen is so big and beautiful. Now to transfer all my music over...
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I have a quick question that maybe you can help, and I don't think it deserves its own thread so... Here it goes ^-^ (and sorry for it being so dumb, I just don't know the English term for this).
What's the name of photos taken via satellite? Basically I want to search for more images like the wallpapers included in Nexus photos: https://wallpapersafari.com/w/8rSRnK/ http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5ZG0qvdT9AU/Vg6lfn-uy4I/AAAAAAAAF2E/_wJPvl61_WU/s1600/Nexus_5X.jpg https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/DKaeclxaCfXbj0Qxuqrvg2XO_V30OVclDJ0cIrah0fdPAHWsxs_0f7mtJ9Qsh_qP4Q=h900 I'm sucking at explaining myself here but I want photos taken FROM satellites. I have tried searching for "satellite images", "satellite imagery" and other similar terms and all I see are photos of actual satellites and antenna dishes, which is not what I want. I was able to get some results with "drone photography", but Satellite photography has bigger "range" if that makes any sense. Thank you anyone who can help ^-^ |
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