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Not saying it would necessarily work for you, but have you looked into one of the vertical mouse options? I've used the bluetooth version of the Evoluent Vertical Mouse 4, as well as one from Anker. My issue was oncoming carpal tunnel, but they both did fairly well at keeping my wrist in a more natu...

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Oh, speaking of... you mentioned that your TV tuner wasn't working. I'd scan through the output of 'dmesg | grep saa' and look for information about your tuner card. The Happauge HVR2250 is based on an SAA7164 chip which requires you to install some firmware on the filesystem. Mine looks similar to:...

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So, I need some advice on making the switch. After fighting shared folders over the network from Windows 7 to 10, I am giving up. I believe I will go to a linux distro and just no longer fight the fight. <snip> I think using Ubuntu would be the simplest distro to work with. I also want to configure...

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Do I want Ubuntu Desktop or Server? I suspect server as I want to run it headless, but I have no idea the options in desktop. If desktop will give me read/write access to folders as well as let me log in remotely, do I really need Server? I'd recommend grabbing the desktop version as someone else a...

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About NTFS, I dunno. I've never tried it. My Google-fu tells me there's support for it, but if you're not going to be dual-booting there's no real reason to keep the drives as NTFS. I'm sitting in gnome right now with my shared NTFS drive mounted... Been using an NTFS partition to share data betwee...

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I have memories of swapping out the many floppies to install Win95 on a friend's 386 way back when. Can definitely confirm it worked... but can't say it was pleasant.

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For those discussing latency... From the luna site comparing their solution versus Duet at https://lunadisplay.com/pages/luna-disp ... et-display

Luna typically sees latency of 16 to 32ms over WiFi.

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Yeah, so far I'm perfectly happy being one of the token devs there who is more comfortable with C/C++ and Python. Kinda keeps me out of the center of the storm, I think. Meh, it pays the bills.... although I have a lot more fun after-hours doing C dev on things like the mesa project. On Topic: You ...

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Ah, and I was still confused because the A4-7300 is actually a chip that belongs in 6000-series APU naming. :-? They probably still had too much stock of one of the older chips. It's confirmable as Terascale because AMD's pages for the GCN-based APUs note DX12 support. Yeah, AMD's radeon model numb...

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The A4-7300 is claimed as TeraScale 3 (Richland, released in 2013, with a piledriver CPU) and that page links to the AMD product page: https://products.amd.com/en-us/search/APU/AMD-A-Series-Processors/AMD-A4-Series-APU-for-Desktops/A4-7300-with-Radeon%E2%84%A2-HD-8470D/30 Most of the hits I'm findi...

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I had been using wikipedia as my source for the CPU/GPU combination: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_accelerated_processing_unit_microprocessors The A4-7300 is claimed as TeraScale 3 (Richland, released in 2013 2014, with a piledriver CPU) and that page links to the AMD product page: https...

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As was said earlier (thanks JBI for the step-by-step), you'll need to actually execute the file you downloaded from a terminal using 'sh'/'bash' or just setting the executable bits and running it. The old AMD drivers (and maybe the new ones too) are packaged as a self-extracting executable shell scr...

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Looks like Dells 13.3" Ryzen builds just hit the market...a couple I definitely would've wanted just showed up at my local BB. Those look really promising. 13", IPS, officially supports 16GB ram but I suspect that they can go to 32GB, 256GB SSD, Mixture of HDMI, USB-C, and USB-A, with an ...

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I've got a 2009 Macbook Pro 13" that is really starting to show its age, and an AMD-based equivalent to the T440p that I have at work, but with faster graphics, would be wonderful. Hopefully Apple will update the MacBook Pro lineup with 8th gen Intel soon. A 13" MacBook Pro with a quad co...

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Completely agree that AMD's partners are really screwing up with the Ryzen APU landscape. The IdeaPad 720s was almost perfect for my needs until I saw that it was single-channel. I'm really hoping that the ThinkPad A485 (Q3 supposedly) ends up hitting all of the right checkboxes, or I may just give ...

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Ditto. Might need to get myself one of those. You hit the end with a hammer which drives the bit down in the screw head and also torques the screw to undo it. Mainly used on automotive stuff, I wouldn't be using something like that on anything like computers! Agreed. But it still looks like a reall...

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Sometimes, putting a thin piece of rubber - cut a piece from a balloon - between the screwdriver bit and the screw head helps. Ooh, I like that one. Also, in reply to the OP: Occasionally if I've got a stubborn screw that refuses to come out where the bit is the right size for the screw head, but m...

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I had a couple nokias and a flip phone or two before I started my smartphone history. iPhone 8GB (original model, dad has that now as a glorified iPod) iPhone 4 32GB (currently functioning as a music player in an iPod dock for the kids) Nexus 5 32GB That Nexus 5 is currently almost 3 years old, and ...

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I have to agree with JBI, there's something wrong with your heatsink/fan/thermal-paste. That CPU should not be getting that hot if your cooling system is working correctly (and isn't undersized for the CPU you've got installed).

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Lithium batteries wear out faster when they're flat. Keep them topped up when possible and if you can, avoid running them all the way down to zero. I've heard conflicting advice about this. Everyone seems to agree (and my experience confirms) that leaving them sit in a discharged state for extended...

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The first is that Linux prefers the system clock to be UTC and Windows prefers it to be local. It's easier to fix the Linux side, but I don't care enough, so Windows just thinks my time zone is UTC. No big deal. You can configure windows to recognize and work with a system clock that is set to UTC ...

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I was forced to replace the previous array of 2TB Greens (now called Blues) because of the awful head-parking issue that I didn't realise until after the damage was done. Silly question, but why don't you replace the Reds with newer Blues, and just disable (or extend the time of) the head parking? ...

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No drive is guaranteed not to break. If you have valuable data, you need to keep multiple copies in multiple physical locations. This. If you have just one copy, there's nothing preventing you from accidentally deleting/overwriting your only copy while you're working someday. There's also no guaran...

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Re Windows vs Linux for embedded... The last three embedded projects I was involved in all used toolchains which were well-supported on Linux. There was no need to use Windows at all on the development side, and I prefer to work in Linux anyway, so the decision was easy. The two jobs I had prior to...

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Removing features that people rely on as part of their workflow is bad. Taking away user choice and simply decreeing "you can't configure this any more because we know what's best for you" is bad. Providing ostensibly "helpful" behaviors that are ultimately more annoying than us...

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I never lived in a rental (Chicago and New England) that didn't have some amount of allocated basement storage, certainly at least enough for a set of wheels/tires. Is that not the norm in other parts of the country? I've never heard of having allocated storage if that gives you an idea. Pretty we...

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One other feature (though it's entirely separate from Virtualbox) of VirtualBox is Vagrant. Agreed. We use it at work quite extensively for development. Our engineers (including myself) run a combination of Linux/Windows/MacOS depending on personal preference. We use vagrant+VBox to get a consisten...

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Currently drinking a cup of Steep & Brew's Buttercrunch Delight. Then there's several more cups-worth waiting in the pot. Happy Sunday to all.

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2. Sister-in-law dropped off a dead PC for me to take a look at. I just popped the side off a few minutes ago, and I'm staring into its dust- and cat-hair-caked guts right now. I see a couple of caps that look questionable. It claims to be an HP Pavillion 9905, which tells me almost nothing since H...

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Several repairs that needed doing: At the in-laws: 1) Fix a Dell XPS 1530M with a bad built-in Nvidia GPU... Used the blowtorch method to re-flow the solder and it booted like a charm. 2) Cleaned crapware off of a new Brazos-based laptop. 3) Synchronized business files between 2 XP laptops and a Mac...

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