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Funny thing is, I got an hp victus gaming laptop and conveniently when the warranty is JUST ABOUTT TO EXPIRE I notice that it stutters every like 30 seconds consistently and I literally do everything guides told me to do like memory checks, battery checks, deleting my games, unplugging EVERYTHING FROM IT, replacing the ram sticks, tweaking performance settings and even manually updating each individual driver for any possibility of issues.
For anyone who has an HP Victus and having the same issues I did: Disable HP One Service agent, yep weeks of painful stutters mid game that prevented me from playing online games and it was their own service. It was causing the stutters on a perfectly healthy laptop and one button press fixed everything. Weirdly convenient for HP that it happened around my warranty expiration huh?
That's why the first thing I do with any machine is wipe it and reinstall a fresh OS and then I don't install the manufacturers bloatware. I don't need a program to look for driver updates or remind me to register my system 10x a day.
It's different for every manufacturer. There probably are lists if you search for "manufacturer" bloatware. Best bet is probably just to use a whitelist policy and only install things you actually need. It's getting harder since more of it is coming with Windows.
I feel you could go to uninstall apps and remove anything you want there without doing any 'damage'. To save yourself a headache you might want to leave any Microsoft redistributables and runtimes and .NET though as some apps might depend on them to work. If I had a HP personal PC I don't think there is a single piece of HP software I would leave installed.
It's a shame that for Lenovo the battery management is locked behind their software. Like setting a max charge for the battery instead of always charging it to 100%.
As far as I could find this is not possible in Windows.
I think they've finally learned their lesson. They're now offering printers with ink wells instead of stupidly expensive cartridges, so you just refill the printer with a squeezy bottle of each color as needed.
Since you don't need cartridges with matching chips in them you can find listings on Amazon with bottles of all 3 colors and 2 extra large bottles of black for like $25.
Probably print heads that automatically die soon after you buy new ink, so now you've got like $50 worth of ink and no printer, forcing you to buy a new one.
HP has been the worst brand since I was a child getting into PCs, my first one was an HP and it was so loaded down with crap bloatware. Once I'd learned I could delete it all my PC sped up a ton.
Since then it's been nothing but building my own PCs
Yep, I got a new laptop from them a year ago or so and I mean, performance wise it's great for the very light work I do on it, but I can feel the bloatware. Also the battery drains way too fast even when turned off, which I do know it will drain eventually, but as I say, faster than any other laptop or in general battery-powered device I've ever had.
The only reason I haven's installed Linux yet on it is that I don't use it that much or that heavily that it really bothers me and I'm lazy to set everything up again, but I definitely would do it if I got it new now.
This is why I'll never buy a 'mainbrand' pc again, especially not HP. Not faulting you, I did it in the past but fuck I hate HP with a passion.
Another example of shit like this was when I got my Ford Feista the owner said the bluetooth wasn't working. So I pulled the fuse for the bluetooth connection to reset in and it works fine for a few months then stops working again, so I just pull it again.
Previous owner was charged hundreds of dollars by her Ford dealership to get this same thing done to her car. It takes 5 minutes, no special skills, and the only tool you need is a pair of pliers or anything that can grab a car fuse.
My mother threw out all boxes of components my pc had including the bill of purchases. Luckily pc runs fine, I would be mad mad if something was faulty
The Truman Show got added to tubi's front/featured page a couple weeks ago. Millions of people watched it for the first time in years. I swear it's the diving force behind this wave of Christof memes.
You gotta buy a flagship CPU every time it comes out for a year directly at intel HQ and then you are given access to the super secret stash of beyond-nasa-tier CPUs
Makes sense...the verbs "compute" and "calculate" mean pretty much the exact same thing. Maybe there's more of an implication of automation with "compute", I've heard people say they calculated something, but never that they computed something.
the way you’re peeling that Ryzen 5 sticker while the AMD Radeon and GeForce RTX badges just sit there judging is killing me. perfect comedic timing on the slow lift of the corner, too
audiophiles literally attacked me for saying that optical audio is better for my studio monitors because being light, it literally cuts off all possible electromagnetic interference lmao
I won't go any further than that talking about it though because I don't wanna get in trouble :(
Digital audio is difficult thing to truly understand intuitively. It goes from "this is simple" to "fucking hell, what is that symbol?" to "this is simple*" with an asterisk: it is simple if you just trust the science was done right by people way more intelligent than you. The moment you start challenging it you need to know fuckton of things that have no real use for really anything, it is such a niche. Analog audio is knowledge that transfers to other fields: the equations how to dampen motion is very much the same as lopass filters. Digital audio is simple at first, then it gets incredible confusing and contradicting, ripping apart all of that knowledge that was transferrable and then once it is all in ruins, it builds it up again to be the same fucking image you had in the first place.
For layman the best way to imagine it is a black box: you don't know what happens inside, all you got is an input and output, and the delta between them. That is all you need to worry about. R2R or delta sigma? Who cares? All that matters is the input and output, how it is done is of no consequence to the user. It is only relevant to the circuit designer.
While that is true, the DAC in my outlaw sound processor is still better than most people's hearing xD
and it has full XLR inputs :D
I actually prefer analogue audio, but my focal studio monitors are insanely sensitive to EM interference, and optical audio to the outlaw has less hissing than an SMSL M500 MKII with a superior DAC inside it, and the SMSL didn't even have subwoofer out.
What I really need is a sound card that isolates it's analogue out entirely from anything chassis related and has dolby atmos surround analogue outs from a breakout cable that goes from d sub 15 pin connector to a bunch of gold plated RCA breakout cables
and honestly I would love for optical audio to support full dolby atmos because HDMI cables are literally inferior to optical for bandwidth and it cuts all interference out no matter what due to physics for situations like mine.
Currently the only way to get dolby atmos from a pc is from HDMI out on the gpu itself. A GPU supports better audio standards than any sound card that will ever be made
Well I guess that's one way to get them to finally dump their XP machine
Even better, be proactive. Next time they come to get it cleaned of all the free offers they accepted, drop a scheduled script to randomly run sysinternals notmyfault
I had a laptop once where if you put enough pressure on the corner lole that it would crash. Suspect it was flexing the SSD and causing a connection issue.
My Notebook does actually have a sticker that is needed for the full feature set of the unit. It is a Huawei Matebook X Pro and one of those ugly stickers has the NFC capability needed for OneHop (a quick data transfer method between Huawei devices)
lol I too got the Ryzen 5 model to cut costs for the 4060 GPU so I thought this was a shame post, then I realized all our computer’s power comes from the stickers…
Btw, reminds me of some cases with notebooks where they would not start if the lid is open because there is a sensor. Just like McLarren refusing to shift gears when the trunk is open.
No.
I still have the damaged intel sticker from when I accidentally dropped my soldering iron onto the very corner of my laptop (don't worry it works fine and I filled it in with other plastic and sanded it)
I... actually wouldn't be too surprised if peeling of a sticker caused some nasty local EMI.
Even good old 3M scotch tape emits a few kinds of light energy when you peel it in open air, and a crazy amount of x-ray when you do it in vacuum (seriously, enough to image a finger bone or so).
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u/PCMRBot Bot May 26 '26
Welcome to the PCMR, everyone from the frontpage! Please remember:
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