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But seriously, what does the hamburger icon mean?

AMD does seem to be trying to goose PCIe 4.0 demand by making some of it's products perform best with it (which is a mistake IMO, since it makes their competitors products more appealing) but it seems like the 6500XT was originally a mobile chipset so it wasn't really meant for the DIY desktop market. But shortages meant it was pressed into this duty anyway.

I was reading a techpower article on the 6500XT recently, because their power usage testing is excellent aand the 6500XT has an incredibly low idle draw versus other desktop cards.

It's pretty hard to beat a monitor with multiple inputs combined with a cheap USB switch when it comes to price and reliability.

If you look up the prices of stand alone hdmi switches on amazon though I think the most likely explanation is these are now niche products so the price has gone up. Logically a decent vga USB KVM + an HDMI switch shouldn't require more cost than those two devices prices together.

There are/were standalone off the shelf USB devices that sort of did this, minute the network part which I had some interest in. I own an old one, but since my main machine is linux it's lack of linux drivers made it of dubious usefulness to me. I could control a linux machine with it, but the software that captures keystrokes/mouse and then sends them off through a simulated keyboard/mouse only had Windows/Mac versions.

I had a plan to run older period VMs or even period hardware to play older PC games, and use something like parsec to view them. Unfortunately, despite there being a number of desktop streaming solutions available I couldn't find any that supported even WindowsXP, much less 9x. Windows 7 was about the best I could do.

I worked briefly at a video store part time around 2000. There wasn't that brisk of a business from the little private room, at least not during the times when I worked (which included week days). But by this time home internet was broadly available, perhaps only dial up for many people in my area but it was still available. I wonder if the new competition for this subsidy business wasn't a bigger part of the fall of video stores than it seemed to be.

Although, most of the other staff were quite "judgey" so its possible that I just worked at a store that wasn't popular with those customers.

Sort of reminds me of the IT guy at my high school who was shipped a crate of AOL floppies (I guess to distribute to the kids) who just moved the tabs and slapped a new label on them when he needed one.

I'm using optical drives in case, so 5.25". But yes, I believe I'm going to end up removing USB from the equation entirely and just go straight SATA connection, possibly with a port multiplier solution.

> if you have a USB 3 hub plugged into a USB 3 port, multiple USB 2 devices plugged into it still cannot break through the USB 2 uplink limit of 480 MBps.

I had a weird project where I ran into this. Or rather, I was actually aware of it and tried to work around it. I wanted to attach a large number of optical drives with sata to USB converters to a single port, basically a hot attachable ripping tower kind of thing. To assure a single port would provide enough bandwidth I needed USB 3.0 throughout. But SATA to USB 3.0 converters that exist seem to have...shaky support for optical drives as they're only really meant for SSDs/HDDs. My project ended in at least temporarily failure due to that unreliability.

I remember reading about this device and not finding it a reasonable solution. In addition to not being easily available, I'd need one device per port to break the uplink limit. That wouldn't save me any money and it would be a cabling nightmare. If the chips were a reasonable price and easily available I might have looked into it more seriously anyway though.

I'm curious about this documentary but am not having much luck finding anything. Do you have a source or a name?

I actually think the same thing (designed for Southern California only) about self driving cars. My car comes with a bunch of pointless sensors that beep nonsense at me incessantly until I give up and disable them. The lane assist goes bananas while I dodge ample potholes or drive around road construction, so I turn that off. But even the panic breaking constantly complains it is no longer working (indicated by an irritating beep) because some combination of salt, road splash and maybe sun has disabled it. Heck, the backup camera requires frequent wipe downs due to salt otherwise I can't see anything out of it but a muddy blur.

I've never owned a self driving car, but I suspect they'll just throw up their hands and tell you to deal with it in the event of any inclement weather. Which would be about half the time around here!

I run the same setup for the same reasons. I also think having the TV disable itself until given network access (but waiting until after you've thrown the box away) or having prepaid 5G will come soon. It's disgusting but here we are.

I've actually come to appreciate the wireless keyboard though, it is awkward and bulky (even though it's a lightweight slim model) but the kids constantly lose the actual remote whereas the keyboard's size make losing it very difficult.

I've definitely created a new account recently over VPN, posted a single question in a linux forum and then found the account was shadow banned.

IIRC some one traveled under this bridge last year and took photographs of several of the metal supports which were entirely rusted through and not connected to anything.

Curious if that worked for you longer term. I remember getting stuck.

I know twitter and facebook will allow you to proceed but then lock your account "for security reasons" pretty much immediately unless you cough up the goods.

I do something similar but it doesn't help me with the built in microphone in the laptop. I'd have to disassemble the bezel and possibly snip a wire. It's much easier to Macgyver disable a webcam than a Microphone, even if you've got one of those webcams that can see through plastic with infrared. Best I can do so far is disable the device in device manager.

Although I wonder if the bios on this HP let's you disable it...

I had to turn this off (not sure how it ever got turned on) because the Microphone indicator was on 100% of the time it was running (as it should be) while it searched for nearby devices through some kind of audio communication.

A lot of people are of the opinion they wanted to put the squeeze to everyone using ARM, but based on reading that doesn't really seem super feasible to me.

I think nvidia is worried about being shut out of the x86 space so there's nowhere to sell their products. So they had a long term play to guide ARM development as an alternative platform. I could see that platform being useful as a hedge, but also giving nvidia a better way of competing in consoles and if they were really successful maybe eventually turning Intel/AMDs x86 advantage into a weakness.

Back when Intel killed off all third party motherboard chipsets nvidia won a lawsuit against Intel where they forced Intel to ensure a pcie bus for GPUs on all their platforms. That provision expired a few years ago. If nvidia is smart (and I believe they are) they've never let go of that worry that APUs might shove them out of the market. Their best bet is to remain so much better than the competition they cannot be ignored, but it would be wise to have a backup plan.

That's a decent reason to have Steam on Mac, which they do. But I don't see the incentive to build proton for Mac, which would just move them from one potential walled garden into another one.

Bunch of different options. I actually couldn't tell the difference in latency from through a monitor when I just used steam in home streaming / remote play as steam in box streaming / not really remote play.

I'd say in order of seamlessness: KVM switch or monitor input switch Looking-glass parsec, steam in home streaming

I have a KVM switch as well but I kind of prefer to run things in a window.

There's a couple quality of life things about running windows in a VM as well. When it goes on it's update parade I can just close the window and ignore it. And with snapshotting a bad update can just be rolled back.

Unfortunately, it seems that GVT-g is dead going forward. The word is it's not coming to the latest iGPUs and they plan to "replace is with SR-IOV" which isn't the same thing and I haven't even heard of anyone getting it to work anyway.

Really stinks because I was super interested in a GVT-g on their new discrete cards.

Nvidia recently removed the driver check on consumer cards making them the clear choice now.

I've actually had good luck with AMD cards, but the reset bug is truly bizarre. For instance I own an evga R7 360, no reset bug, very reliable. I had also purchased an XFX R7 360, never survived a reboot! My sapphire RX 470 also works fine with no special actions from me and I've heard people have issues with that one.

You're definitely correct regarding anti-cheats though, they are something you have to watch out for.