Tuesday, November 23
Daily News Stuff 23 November 2021
Mounting A Scratch Monkey Edition
Disclaimer: Do as I do - but only if you're prepared to clean up afterwards.
Mounting A Scratch Monkey Edition
Top Story
- To shuck or not to shuck? (Tom's Hardware)
With graphics cards still absurdly overpriced, it's tempting to get a prebuilt server from some place like Dell, pull the graphics card, and sell the rest on eBay.
Dell did have an XPS desktop model with a 3070 that was good value for this, though the machine itself sucks. But that model has disappeared and the best they offer in Australia right now is a 3060 Ti, and the pricing there is marginal at best.
Tech News
- Windows on Arm sucks. Qualcomm's chips for Windows on Arm suck. Qualcomm has an exclusivity deal with Microsoft for Windows on Arm. (XDA Developers)
Two bad tastes that taste bad together.
That's coming to an end soon which might mean Windows on Arm Macs. (9to5Mac)
Or not.
- The best Windows laptops for 2021. (ZDNet)
Four of them I wouldn't recommend - missing the Four Essential Keys, soldered RAM, Arm CPUs, or all of the above - and the fifth isn't sold anymore.
The new Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 4, though, is worth a look. Not cheap, but worth a look.
- South Australia achieved energy sufficiency with just renewable power and small local generators. (RenewEconomy)
On a sunny spring day.
For five minutes.
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Shucking OEM systems for GPUs: you have to be careful about this. Gamers Nexus did a review of a Dell prebuilt a month or so ago, and the OEM version of whatever card they got was the worst-performing model of that card they'd tested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DMg6hUudHE
Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, November 24 2021 12:48 AM (Z0GF0)
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For me, the only computer games I would want to play again that came out after 1996 or so would be Diablo 2 & Civ III, and those run fine under Wine on 10+ year-old integrated graphics.
I really do like Elite, and F:E2 & F:FE were also fun; but again: you don't need anything more than a potato for those.
I really do like Elite, and F:E2 & F:FE were also fun; but again: you don't need anything more than a potato for those.
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