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What happened? I obviously missed something. TL;DR version: -site was not profitable and was sold to a soulless "entrepreneur" -new management has not invested time and resources into the site nor do they understand/care to understand the community -slowly but surely, anyone who had any p...

meerkt wrote:

AnandTech by default.
For PSUs, Tom's Hardware is also an option. Bad site design but interesting PSU reviews.
Also JonnyGuru, though they don't review often these days.

I think Jonny got hired by Corsair.

JustAnEngineer wrote:

This is a great time to build a new PC. AMD RyZen 5000 CPUs are announced and go on sale this week. NVidia GeForce RTX 3000 graphics cards are announced but in short supply. AMD Radeon RX 6000 graphics cards are announced and due this month.

You were saying......................

lol

Vrock wrote:

I continue to be amazed at the lack of a 404 each time I log on.

lol same thing

I almost had to look up my logon creds it's been so long.

Sad times

I hang with Crispy at Techpowerup, see the odd post by JaE sometimes.

Wow. I still check the site about twice a week, and still the same. It's too bad that one of the best went to one of the most obsolete so fast. I used to visit tweakguides often but he closed up awhile ago also. If they shut down this site hopefully they will back it up like tweakguides https://twea...

Depends on budget and a lot of other things.

Router perhaps an Asus RT-AC68U or RT-AC86U.

Modems, usually provided by the ISP. Motorola got bought out ARRIS.

Look at small net builder website for in depth networking stuff.

ludi wrote:

notfred wrote:

My house was built in 2006

And the builder used multi-turn valves? Ugh.

Not to nit pick, but pretty much all valves are multi-turn, except ball/plug valves.

And does putting on the summer tires count?

lol squirrel you working right now? how do you have time for all that stuff? kids moved out? Good work though, like super dad. Odd seeing a breaker outside, here more of a disconnect outside and breaker inside. I got a pile of work, biggest priority gets the time, and other stuff gets the back burn...

lol squirrel you working right now? how do you have time for all that stuff? kids moved out? Good work though, like super dad. Odd seeing a breaker outside, here more of a disconnect outside and breaker inside. I got a pile of work, biggest priority gets the time, and other stuff gets the back burne...

I was wondering where Jonny Guru ended up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ_VV3UjEBY

Indeed, I haven't logged in here in awhile. Tweakguides also seemed to have pulled the pin on the website and articles and just has a twitter feed now. I mainly read frequent smallnetbuilder, techpowerup and tftcentral now, not much left out there compared to 10 years ago, the halcyon days of the PC...

https://www.techpowerup.com/download/prime95/

look at those changlelogs

someone will be happy

just brew it! wrote:

The last version of Office I actually purchased was 2003...

A classic, 2010 was decent also.

Instead of paying $13 every four years or so, Microsoft has decided that I should pay four times that amount... every year . :cry: https://hothardware.com/news/microsoft-drops-office-2019-from-home-use-program-subscription Ya seen that through work, now a 365 subscription, no thanks. My office 2013...

hmmm

"Renee Johnson is Editor-in-Chief of The Tech Report."

Hmmmmm

That Seth Colaner guy didn't last long, who picked him to take over???

I'm curious -- are there other tech sites people are spending more time at during this TR Dark Age? If so, which ones? I'm especially curious to know if folks know of another site with TR-esque discussion forums (I mean in terms of content/people, not the mechanics of the site)? I would say everyon...

Haven't checked this thread in over 2 weeks now, and from the last 3 pages it doesn't seem positive. Ben/Fish What direction is this headed? Will TR eventually get to looks something like this https://www.techpowerup.com/ or more similar to the original TR? Homepage is still pretty bland and doesn't...

I just did one as a trial. Apparently some videos are in 480 and some 720, forgot to check if i or p. MKV files from 1 full dvd was over 10GB!! A quick pass through handbrake at 1080p 30fps MP4 took about 50min and reduced size to ~600MB. Quality seemed ok, pc was an old 45nm Athlonx2 @3.1ghz. I sho...

meerkt wrote:

They're already low-quality, so I'd not re-encode them. A DVD is only 4.7 or 9GB, not too big.

I'd remux to MKV, for example with this:
https://www.makemkv.com/

Thanks. I was looking at that. That saves as an mkv correct? I guess after that if I wanted mp4 or avi then pass it through handbrake?

So I have a bunch of family videos on DVD from the old jvc camcorder. I would guess they are mpeg2 dvd files. Since dvd's seem to be going extinct I would like to back them up to another format, probably hdd on the NAS I guess. I'm just wondering what software will make this go quickly and keep qual...

Krogoth wrote:

Just got a new 8" Newtonian/Dobsonian mount telescope. The moon looks absolutely amazing. I just need to get a proper lunar filter/eyepiece.

Despite the near-tranquil facade, people were up there on the surface not that too long ago.

Is it made from a sonotube??

It looks like a(mostly) stock wordpress theme to me. It's almost as if ETL and base functionality was part 1 and design was part 2. Except that part 2 never really happened. I don't want to speculate too much though. Like I said, redesigns are hard, and every project is different. I don't want to b...

The front page needs borders, a darker color option and denser information. Before I could hit the home page and see hot forum threads and latest news with out scrolling or clicking. Running a 4k monitor I have massive white borders on each side of the page, almost 1/3 border, 1/3 content, 1/3 bord...

Gah

My retinas

Roll back
Roll back

If Clint Eastwood was a bit younger, he might make a good Geralt.

Not sure about Nolte or Busey?

Murica!!

Sadly I got rid of my consoles long ago, the nes, snes, and n64 along with all the games. Didn't play them in ages, now with kids, it would have been great to have them.

IIRC the electrical substation that powered Fermilab's Tevatron particle accelerator was taken out by a squirrel back in the day. "I don't think paralysis [of the electrical grid] is more likely by cyberattack than by natural disaster. And frankly the number-one threat experienced to date by t...

just brew it! wrote:

anotherengineer wrote:

POOPER-scooper

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxS2EAmE9NM

Warning: You will not be able to un-see or un-hear that.

LOL nice
was that steve urkel? lol