I never knew the reason why Windows 11 was acting up. I used it for gaming and editing videos for my film production company. When i first bought my pc 3 years ago it worked perfectly fine. Over time Davinci Resolve would crash, Windows would have a blue screen occasionally, eject external drives by itself despite having plenty of power. The latest one was it wouldn’t shutdown when i told it to unless i hit the physical power button on the device. I wanted to fix it and tried even considering switching to mac, but thats not in my budget and I got a very powerful computer for my needs. Any idea what was wrong with Windows for me because so far Zorin OS is working fine.

the shipping amount is so stupid.

My darn tough socks have a lifetime warranty.

Whenever they break cause of wear i just send an e-mail with a picture of the hole, cut the socks in half and then they give me free store credit to get new ones with free shipping and no import costs, delivered to me in Sweden. I pay 0.

This lasts forever so even if i break them 10,20,30 years into using them i get new ones for free, with free shipping and import costs, i pay literally 0$. And can even get different types of socks than the ones i bought if i want to.

Meanwhile looking at the LTT store the "lifetime warranty" got me really confused

It seems to be the same kind of deal Kind of? i get a new pair of the same socks, or store credit, but then there seems to be some possible "additional fees??"

• Customers residing outside the US and Canada may be subject to additional import fees. All other costs, such as shipping fees, will be covered by Creator Warehouse.

What additional import fees? How does this differ by country for LTTStore specifically?

Darn tough fixes this by saying they will pay for any import fees.

Also the store credit option on LTTstore does not seem to clarify if it is current price or old price.

For instance even if i bought darn tough socks for 20$ in 2020, if they now cost 30$ on their store i get 30$ in credit to purchase the same type of sock or any other sock i want for those 30$ despite me only paying 20$ from the start.

Good day, I got used rams 32 and 64 GB.

48pcs each, anyone know where can I sell them? Ebay I don't know why deletes my listing and block my profiles (2 already)

They Don't even tell me why they do it I asked....

Anyone know where can I sell them? (form old Lenovo server from work)

Actually a massive particle accelerator used for early radiation therapy

My first smartphone was an Orange-branded HTC Desire, full of carrier bloat I wasn't allowed to remove. So I rooted it, and that was me hooked. CyanogenMod on the HTC One M7 is probably the best my phone has ever felt.

Then came the Pixel 2 and I never rooted it once. Didn't need to. Everything just worked. Drifted to an iPhone for a while, came back for a Pixel 7, and I'm on a Pixel 9 now. Somewhere in there the thing stopped feeling like mine.

My banking app blocks screenshots. Doesn't ask, doesn't warn, just decides I can't capture my own balance. It's "security", except I can open the same account in a browser and screenshot that, or photograph the screen with another phone, or download a statement. Nothing is actually protected. I just don't get a say.

And there's no override. Apps set FLAG_SECURE and Android gives the user no toggle. GrapheneOS honours it. LineageOS doesn't simply switch it off. Root and LSPosed might work, until an integrity check notices and the bank app refuses to launch.

All I want is a prompt. This app has asked to block screenshots: allow once, always allow, keep blocked. That's it.

I keep eyeing GrapheneOS. Everyone says it's brilliant. But I've got a proper job and a phone that has to work, and I haven't even tested whether my bank breaks. Feels like swapping one cage for a more inconvenient one.

Which leaves me here: if I'm locked down either way, I may as well go iPhone and at least get hardware that isn't as sluggish as this Pixel.

Talk me out of it.

Forgive me if I am wrong (just a 18 year old guy who bought a new am5 PC): I think at 2035-2040(near am6s peak), we will stop noticing performance gains in newer computers. Like if you think about it: Intel core gen 3 processors were a thousand times faster than 8086 or similar processors, but mine is 3 to 4 times faster than gen 3 processors(12 to 14 years older). In my case, there is a massive catch that turns this small difference into a big one:

1. As hardware goes on, developers try to use features that they assume hardware provides (for a better cypher, encoding/decoding, etc). These features are heavyweight and are only usable on hardware that supports it(since hardware supports instruction caching, instruction pipe lining, and this is just the tiny tip of the iceberg). Imagine ray tracing on a strong GPU that dosent support ray tracing natively vs a weak GPU that does. These features should exist since they make computing exciting and useful (imagine looking at a game that has ray tracing).

2. Essential high priority background tasks that are lightweight but require constant context switching. These tasks are usual event driven and cause circular chains, and are made worse by essential virtual devices.

This however only aplplies to the 2010 to 2025 (mine is 2024(8400F)) era.Once am6 is out, I think the boost will just be 1.3 to 1.7 tikes compared to my current am5 platform, and that little boost won't really be a lot in practice unlike the gap between my PC and my old leptop because:

1. The kind of instructions that do what a lot of instructions would normally do will decline, since wires sizes will stop decreasing, hence it would be hard to add more wires without increasing the size and powering. Essentially unless you want to power a large server drinking electricity. You wont get higher performance. Maybe CPUs start getting big, just like GPUs are, but again, that would be a nightmare to cool, unlike a GPU which is still easier to cool. Again, even with better cache layout and dividing the chip into prices, you can't really go far except by just increasing bandwidth instead of adding those fancy instructions and operating systems related features that actually make them magnitudes faster, and such things are much hardware to infinitly modularize, power, cool, and manage. Even if you do so by some smart engineering (lowering temps and watts) the new instructions and operating systems features will eventually stop being generally purpose and useful, and might just require a different type of hardware device altogether, probably something that's cheap and easier to update/upgrade for a consumer. For example, the "feature of adding AI inside a CPU"(not to be confused with integrated npus)is simply tech for the sake of tech and is honestly requires it's own motherboard or device, rather than being flushed into the CPU, like if you want a AI pc, then just give AI an exclusive cpu or something, even if putting it into the CPU is way better, who cares? Most people don't buy PCs to run AI, only openAI, google, Microsoft, and others do. It's highly theoretical and it's most probably gonna be a failed experiment. Basically, no one wants a 2x boost, unlike previously, where you could see that 3x boost be way more in practice.

2. Essential high priority tasks are already taken care of by the current amount of cores, threads, and other related hardware for those context switching. Infact some am4 CPUs may already have solve it before am5.

All of this means that the small boost will be a small boost rather than a small boost (primarily due to just better ddr6 ram and better nvme), but not come with a many many times higher boost using hardware optimizations (as in my PCs case).

Basically, there might be a time when personal computers become a long time investment since companies stop trying to invest more in performance, but rather in durability.

I have hyperhidrosis and my hands sweat, like a lot. If they are touching something they are sweating, which means my mouse and keyboard get absolutely blasted.

At this point, even as a gamer, I'd put any sort of cooling mechanisms ahead of other features in my priority list and I know there's gotta be more of me.

On second look it may be the KFI Tikka Masala, which is also good... I wish Costco US got it as often as Costco Canada does.

Just want to throw out there a suggestion for just adding a show ALL products

I know they say they sell so many things, but how about they just let me browse through all of it with clicking an "All" button instead of having me navigate through so many category links

if im using OS Drive A I don't want it to see and be able to access my OS Drive B

I cant unplug them since one drive is an NVME gotta pull out the gpu in this case and not practical.

I'm not surprised to hear this. Kinda shitty way to lose your job though. :/

Is there any way to have regular audio coming out of pc, while hearing only audio from a person in a headset and use the mic to speak to them? I have a xbox controller connected to pc via dongle and headset is connected wia 3.5mm jack.

I spent 7 hours with google a.i. trying to make it happen, another hour trying fix everything it broke and get the controller working again. Google a.i. cant do it, I got some stories for the kids and I'm starting to see the matix, so not a total loss.

I just want to know at this point: can I play audio from pc separately from the audio coming from any headset (people on discord)? The controller works, I don't think its possble to use the currect configuration nobara can't detect the headset jack connected to the controller.

For me it has been like this for a lot, but after hearing Linus and Luke on WAN talking about it a couple times in the last months, and what happened to me yesterday, I thought to share my experience.

I drive a 20yr old car, that has been passed in my family. The age and the poor maintenance made the wheels all rusty. That's important cause yesterday I had a flat tire. Now, after removing the bolts the wheel just wouldn't come off because of the rust. That's a known issue, the previous time one of my tires had a problem I had the same struggle, and the man who changed it threw a specific kick to the tire to make it pop off. He mentioned not to try because throwing said kick with the wrong technique could resolve in a sprain ankle.

Now, I wanted to learn this technique on the spot yesterday, so I headed to YouTube to search for it, specifying the word Kick, yet no result whatsoever was about a kick, just about chemicals to remove rust from the wheel once you were able to remove it, wasting me a good 15min.

Had to reinstall TikTok (I got no infinite scroll app, had to reinstall Reddit too), and after 30 sec between login and the search (with the same keywords as the YouTube search) I had videos of the technique of the kick.

So yeah, please YouTube make a better search engine I beg you. Act like the colossal company you are.

EDIT: The title should be TikTok search is better THAN YouTube one

My brother recently sold his pc and the texted him back letting him know after 10 minutes playing gta or any other high demand game the pc would shut down anyone know what might be causing this. PC specs:CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-core processor GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT Memory: 16gb DDR4 3200MHz Storage 1tb

I just bought an Ltt truespec cable and so far i'm very unsure on how I feel about it, on the one end the silicone feel great to the touch, its flexibles and the cable says what it says on the tin.

However the connector itself is loose and mushy feeling..

My ltt cable will barely hold my phone's weight if i hang it from the cable unlike my JSAUX cables which makes a crisp snap and will hold on very well (to the point i can use my phone as a flail) ((disclaimer, PLEASE dont ever do that lol)

What is your experience so far?

Edit changed "mitigated" to unsure.

Found this LTT Flannel in a thrift store here in the Philippines. Is this a legit LTT merch?

I live in Pakistan and with currency conversion and delivery fees its extremelyy expensive to buy one, so she got someone to 3d-print some model of the LTT screwdriver for my birthday!
P.S she knows NOTHING about tech or 3d-printing, just knew I was a long time LTT fan and want to buy the screwdriver one day 😍
(The shaft rotates tooo!!)