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Plus if they're large enough the government will bail them out when they fail assuring there's less room for a better replacement to sprout up.

I'm actually surprised they could narrow it down even that much. The skylake and coffeelake iGPUs always seemed basically identical to the kabylake one.

Unfortunately, I bet a lot of this kind of cable is stapled down along the run. And with enough twist and turns I'm not confident the existing wire wouldn't break while being pulled, even without the staples.

Given the recent moves by Nvidia I wonder if they'd consider the holy grail of passthrough: Officially supporting (even a single) vGPU on linux so that you could use the card on the linux host and a guest.

The tech already seems possible since people have modded the enterprise drivers to do it, but that isn't official support. A few years ago I would have said there was no chance of this happening from nvidia. But I was also hopefully Intel's dedicated GPUs would support GVT-g back then!

Wow, I hadn't heard that AMD added that check. Between that and their unending reset problems that makes them a completely inferior choice for GPU passthrough. Before Nvidia stopped the passthrough blocking you could make a case that AMD was a better choice.

I remember reading an article about attempts to defeat counterfeiting of native American jewelry in the southwest. I guess people in Mexico were making their own versions cheaper and then shipping them in undercutting the people who made them on reservations. At first it was pretty easy to sort out the fakes but the Mexican manufacturers eventually improved their process so much no one could even tell the difference anymore. Which brought up some interesting questions about what authentic even is in this space.

There's an LGR video (probably under oddware) where he tests out one of the "smart home" systems from the 1980s that sounds similar.

My favorite is when Intel demoed the new ivybridge iGPU by having a guy fire up VLC player to play some footage of a racing game while he pretended to control it with a steering wheel controller.

I looked this up and it's actually even worse than than I thought. When called out he claimed it was being control from backstage.

https://www.techpowerup.com/158448/that-dodgy-intel-ivy-brid...

It's been awhile since I used ESXi but for awhile I was running an ESXi6 server and I'd connect to a VM on the server from my linux desktop with VMware Player (I believe you officially needed workstation to do this but there was a command line backdoor). Then in the client there was a redirect USB device option.

I do the same thing now with qemu/kvm server. I just fire up virt-manager, open the VM I want to use and pick redirect USB device from the menu. Then I can select a local USB device and send it through. I haven't used it for much besides flash drives though. It requires a couple tweaks to the VM settings and I think it needs spice tools but that's expected, VMware needed VMware tools for this as well.

I seem to remember once they finally found a way to wake up in the real alien world it was a bit different than the group had imagined it, which was a nice touch.

Certainly one of the creepier TNG episodes even if it was a one off meant to cash in on the popularity of alien abduction in media at the time.

Is that true? I thought I recall reading the Windows firewall resets itself and that come call homes use hard coded IPs.

libvirt/kvm sort of supports it, unless you want to use snapshots I guess. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1881850

That bug appears to be a duplicate, I use legacy bios type for all my VMs to get around this since it's been a problem for at least 5 or more years.

I remember using pkzip's spanning feature to transport MP3 files home from school with a few floppies. I certainly would have preferred using something more like laplink in that case.

There was a very weird period of time there where floppy drives stopped advancing in capacity but the average file size had continued to outgrown them for years. I remember the iomega zip disks, despite their faults, actually showing up in a lot computer labs before flash drives finally buried them.

Input latency, flexibility of native resolution (they don't really have one). It's been awhile since I've looked at them side by side, but I think they're still better on black levels. I suspect color reproduction has caught up though.

It's not surprising they fell out of favor though. Once the ghosting stopped being absolutely horrendous the LCD is just superior for office work. Uses less power, saves tons of desk space (and due to less weight, doesn't need a strong desk) and no flickering means a cheapo LCD is probably easier on the eyes than a cheapo CRT.

I bet the CRT wwould still be used more often if the supply chain to make them didn't fall apart when the demand disappeared.

I'd say if I have one big complaint about Steam, it's that it's update control needs work. I don't know if it's intentional or not but rolling back to an old version is...impossible? I'm vaguely aware there is an option to maintain the version you already have but I believe it's quite buried.

I've had updates completely change game balance, making character load outs I'd grinded up not work the way they did before. I've also had new linux versions break compatibility. This is understandable in multiplayer games, but I was playing these games single player.

I tried playing an old Ubisoft title recently, Farcry Blood Dragon. But it wants to connect to a long dead ubisoft server EVERY time I his Esc to go to the menu and takes 30 seconds to time out. Every time! I decided I just won't buy anymore Ubisoft games after that.

There was a very different attitude to budget offerings from nvidia back then, and despite a lot of complaints about them I'm not sure the new way is better.

Nvidia seemed to like to take their old hardware design and crank it up a bit, slap a new version on it and sell it as a budget offering. No new features, but it did a respectable job of playing older games which is what I think most people want out of a cheapo card. Later offerings usually featured super cut down cards that had more of the new features but not really enough power to actually turn them on and get playable framerates. And that is how things have sort of gone since then.

Like you said, the GF4 MX440 was actually a decent performing card. Sure, you were stuck with DX7 rendering path but it did a good job with it.

I bought one of these guys based on it's latency tests which showed up being pretty close to the lowest latency USB capture cards out there while having bottom of the barrel pricing. Of course, it lacks a lot of other features of the more expensive offerings but I actually found playing a game over it quite great.

It really bothers me my Brother laser printer only has wifi as a network connection.

You probably don't have a chronic pain condition, but a fair number of people do, especially as they get older.

Do you have the source information on the minecraft accounts? I'm about to fall on this grenade myself. Needless to say I've avoided an MS account like the plague but of course that didn't do much good in the end.

Can you play at all once banned?

That's a really bizarre choice of default setting.

I remember reading one guy who said he implemented a pre-screen before a call rang through. He said his first design was simple a voice message that said "Press 1 to continue" which he planned to ratchet up in complexity until spam calls stopped. He never ended up improving it because the "Press 1" message got the job done.

I don't have a source since I read it in a magazine at a doctors office 10 years ago, but I recall an article about how recommending diet and exercise had no meaningful increase in patients actually doing those things in a study. Combined with some patients being offended by the suggestion, the article made the case to no longer make the recommendation because it didn't work anyway!

I'm always the wrong guy to ask as a customer what business model to use to make money, but I remember reading some Call of Duty required people to buy maps or else you couldn't join multiplayer servers with them. There was a lot of predictable complaining that there weren't many players on the servers using the new maps. It honestly sounded exhausting to keep track of as a player to me and like it would server to repeatedly split the player base until the population died out.

Honestly, these are a lot closer to "Expansion Packs" of the old days than what a lot of people think of as DLC. It's maybe a distinction without a difference, but expansion packs didn't sell you horse armor they sold horse armor+a new campaign+some new player classes or something.

I've really been dreading the Microsoft account switch for Minecraft, which I run only on linux. Is it going to demand my phone number? A credit card (even though I already own the game)? I have no idea and I don't want to give them any of those things.

Odd. Since you get free delivery on Amazon for all orders over $25 without Prime, the delivery is the less interesting part of the bundle for me.

If I was stuck in a toxic house that I couldn't afford to fix that Zillow no contingency offer would be like a literal dream come true!

Not exactly an answer to your question but Linux Mint's Timeshift has saved me a couple times.