Recent content by wabbitslayer

Looking for a used car for my daughter (wife has yet to tell me whether we are "helping" her pay for it or we're just paying for it, I suspect the latter). I knew that Carfax had abandoned its subscription model (they could at least offer a one week or month unlimited option), but I guess...

OK, this may get me banned (or at least ridiculed), but.... gave my old 32" BenQ to my son and got a Hisense 43A6H to use as my monitor. Rtings gave it a 8.1 which is just below their choice of 43" tvs to use as a monitor, the Sony 43X80J, which they gave an 8.2; the problem is the Sony is...

So oldest son wanted help for his system which was a ryzen 1600 with a gtx1060 suffering from random freezes, occasional no-posts, etc. I've had a pile of parts that has been mocking me for motnhs and I swore I was snake-bit. However, after trying once more..... got something going. 3900x on...

Sick of work, been a long month. Can't bear to watch/read any news. So I'm sharing this. I just can never decide whether I like paprika on top or cayenne pepper. I may get crazy later on and make some with both.

So last fall my motherboard died, son's system died from a spill, and after new products, an RMA, several attempts at reassemling, a CPU pin-bending incident, a new laptop as a replacement and several unsuccessful re-assemblies....I gave up. Tired of browsing on my 2012 era laptop. and...

Came home on Friday and my system (in specs) had shut down. Turned it on, fans spin up, rgb lights up....no signal to monitor. Checked th hdmi cable and monitor they are ok. Debug LED shows "U0" on power up, never changes. Cleared CMOS, no change. Removed GPU, no change. Removed RAM, no change...

So Sunday, my k70 just quit. Maybe 3 or 4 keys were lighting up, not responsive at all. Plugged, unplugged, rebooted, DEAD. Ordered another one and will RMA the olde one. Got the new one today. Plugged it in, it lit up, flash drive plugged into usb port worked....but no response. I plugged it...

Wife says I'm having a mid-life crisis.

https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/528408-ups-ignoring-some-major-retailers-shipments-amid-pandemic-fueled-holiday-surge Love how they decide this AFTER Black Friday and Cyber Monday when thousands of people have ordered all this stuff.... I have orders from three differnt places that...

Need to get oldest son an unlocked GSM/CDMA phone, goal is a decent phone with a 12-18month lifespan for as cheap as possible. I had decided on a Samsung a51, the best prices I am finding are around $325. However, the Moto G Power at Amason caught my eye a few minutes ago at $180. That's...

If you work at all with redacted documents.... This morning I needed to convert a pdf into Word format. IWe don't have anything in our office to convert pdf files to Word files. Adobe wants a subscription for their service....however in searching for a solu8tion I found the adobe online...

Due to a tropical storm. I live 300 miles from the nearest coast. :hmm:

https://www.slashgear.com/this-aviar-r67-is-a-tesla-model-s-with-classic-mustang-styling-07632513/ OMG OMG OMG Pure Sechs :heart: :heart: :heart:

Trying to put a 1660 Super in my youngest son's system. It's a G3258 in a Z97 MSI motherboard with a Corsair CX600 psu. It has been running an r9 270 I got from the Caveman way back when... Anyway, uninstall drivers, swap the new card in and nothing....no signal at all. Car lights up white...

Getting oldest son a laptop as graduation present and for college this fall. I had in mind a 15 inch with 16gb RAM, a 1tb ssd with a 2060gpu. Best Buy carries an Asus ROB lappy with those specs with a 10750h cpu for $1450. Dell has a G5 model that I can get for about $1300. Asus is flashier...