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Seasonics have been rock-solid for me, they use quality components, they last a long time and are priced well too. I have an 850W in my rig, and a couple of 750W in the "kids" PCs.

Seems like a nice good quality efficient PSU (80 Plus Platinum)

Corsair PSUs are reliable in general too.

There is often a speed drop after 6pm as people start watching IP TV and streaming HD video content.

Residential ISPs often oversubscribe the capacity they have by 20-25 times, they cannot provide Gigabit speeds to all customers at once. It is more pronounced when you're using bandwidth to servers ...

Is your computer connected to a UPS? Battery/circuitry in those is sometimes flaky after a few years too.

The last few PSUs I've used were SeaSonic FOCUS, always lasted many years for me.
If I were to get one today, I'd get something like this one: https://amzn.to/4tqQPum (850 Watt)
There is also a ...

There is just no memory in stock.. So they jack up prices and leave it as an option for those few with corporate CCs and high spend limits, who don't care about 3-digit numbers. Or something like that, heh.

Both gold and silver prices seem like a short-term hype to me.
Still, the US economic climate feeds the flames.

If it is a school assignment it should be ok.. I would email the IT department, let them know about the assignment and ask what is acceptable?

Whoa, a gecko up her sleeve

I imagine sales of memory and SSDs are way down at these prices, so no reason to advertise them, heh.

I am glad I stocked up on Samsung Pros last year when I thought they're "cheap"... Bought a bunch for the servers (3ea. per server, 2ea.RAID1 mirrors + a spare 2TB Samsung 990 Pros), bought a ...

Heh, the way some people are brought up these days...

Yeah, did you tackle any thieves lately? Anyone stealing bikes in front?

Hi Humby!

Storage prices are not that drastic of a difference though, SSD prices did jump up but are still less than $100 difference for a PC build. DDR prices, otoh are ridiculous.

I came into this thread expecting to learn about Antonio Vivaldi's "Four Seasons"

Haven't tried that browser, I do check Brave and Firefox at times.

Hmm, this is getting ridiculous. SSDs and RAM will have to go down in price sometime imho.

Hmm, looking at it again you are right, this is likely some AI-generated bs. The source is shady, a bunch of recent videos.

I just stumbled on it, even though it sounds dark and the doomsday conclusions may be exaggerated, some of the timeline coinciding with silver prices looked plausible.

I ...

Interesting video on how Venezuelan silver and other resources were extracted, and the geopolitical implications of strategic resources control.

Edit: link removed, don't want to hype/link/promote AI content further.

If you're using a Microsoft account, make sure that Windows is activated with digital license to that account. Then, when login to the new Windows install, both Windows and office should reactivate automatically, as the key is linked to your MS account.

Changed your "purecomedy" account email to your gmail account. Let me know if you have trouble recovering password, I can change it for you. Your regular account should let you post attachments/images too, some people use imgur.com too.

Yes, it is normal for Windows to have 3-4 partitions: EFI ...

Happy New Year! Can't believe it's 2026 already, heh

Whoa, John!

You gotta stop by more often

Yeah, buying DDR5 at these prices does not make sense, that's why people are building more DDR4 PCs.

Sorry when I said internal I meant ones that are sold without enclosures, ones that you use with a docking station included.

WD Reds have worked well for me.

There are two types of hdds according to how they write on the platters, CMR and SMR. I would avoid the Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR ...

Internal or external? I usually buy internal WD Reds, and I have a USB3 docking station by my PC.

It is not "lost" if he didn't "find" it, hehe. FoMo (fear of missing out) has caused more loses than wins ;) I don't know people that bought at the bottom and sold at the top and just stopped, whether it was stocks, crypto, or whatever.

Yes, wider adoption of crypto has caused prices to skyrocket ...

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays !

Wishing everyone all the best!

DDR5 prices are even crazier than SSDs. I read that now DDR4 used Ryzen 7 CPUs sell for more than retail on the secondary market, just because DDR5 is so prohibitively expensive people are building DDR4-based PCs.

There is an option to edit your email and password in the User Control Panel once you're logged in, under "User Control Panel > Profile > Edit account settings"
If you can't login, and the recovery email is not available to you, the only process is through contacting us for restoring access I ...

I have one annoyance with the Ghostery UI... I don't like the number of operations it takes to turn it off for a site: click, then pull-down menu, select "always", OK... Too much work. Because of this I like Ublock Origin lite better (no pull-down menus, just a slider).

I did use Ghostery for a few ...

The 4TB went from $259 (w heatsink) to $359 (without heatsink).

Prices are out of whack, I would wait a few months. I think in 3-6 months it will normalize, but what do I know.

Bought a couple of Dell desktop office PCs for $850 ea, with Intel Core Ultra 7 265 CPU, 32Gb RAM, 2TB SSD, seems like a good deal.

I haven't done any real comparison to last year, but whoa, 25% is a lot!
I didn't do much shopping, seems to me Black Friday deals are generally watered down to "deals" you can find for most of November and major holidays.

I am done shopping for SSDs for a while, I got all I need for the time being.
I just need to find an office PC or two for a business I do IT work for at times, most of their stuff is Dell PCs so I may go that route again.

https://www.speedguide.net/news/cloudflare-outage-causes-error-messages-across-8700

Their malicious IPs config file "grew beyond an expected size of entries," and caused crashes, heh. This is another recent single point of failure of a huge cloud provider within the last month.

I have a personal ...

From what I've read, AI datacenter infrastructure has put upward pressure on memory and HDDs/SSD prices, LLMs (Large Language Models) require a lot of hardware.

Still, I think some companies will try to entice some buzz/hype/coverage in their retail sales, so there are always a few decent deals ...

I just saw a Cloudflare issue trying to read some news on my phone as well. There is definitely something going on with their services.

Ah cool, that makes sense. You can make a second PC into a NAS, or/and Linux experiment, etc.
I did put an USB 3 front panel on mine, and I also have a USB 3 hub that goes from a back port to my desk too.

TP-Link Deco (WiFi 6 nodes) are easy to setup and inexpensive, they are sold online and everywhere from electronics stores like Best Buy to Costco and Home Depot, the only downside being the US Government is considering sanctions against TP-Link.
For under $200, I would still consider Asus RT-AX86U ...

You are not missing anything, the details on what we know about those ports are listed in the online ports database.

The important thing is you have no open ports, no running servers you don't know about.
Seems like most of your ports are filtered (no response from your end to the test server ...

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