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Post by sj on Nov 1, 2022 14:22:41 GMT -5
I still have an optical drive, one of the last times I used it was when my internet went out and I decided to put on some DVD movies. My case is the Lian Li PC-9F from around 2010-2014, they don't make them like this anymore. It has 2x USB 3.0's on the top/front panel, also an eSATA port which is interesting.I recall some of the older optical drives and hdd's allowed daisy-chaining the drives (along with specific cables designed for such a task).. but that's going way back in time to my earlier builds. My guess anyway. |
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Post by Coolverine on Nov 1, 2022 18:25:30 GMT -5
As far as I can tell, eSATA is an outdated thing that's not really used anymore. Between it and USB 3.0, the latter won out.
I saw a 4TB external hard drive on Amazon with both USB 3.0 and eSATA, the price seems kinda steep though ($129). As far as I know, the speed advantage of eSATA isn't much over USB 3.0. Probably why it never really took off.
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Post by sj on Nov 3, 2022 7:00:13 GMT -5
As far as I can tell, eSATA is an outdated thing that's not really used anymore. Between it and USB 3.0, the latter won out. I saw a 4TB external hard drive on Amazon with both USB 3.0 and eSATA, the price seems kinda steep though ($129). As far as I know, the speed advantage of eSATA isn't much over USB 3.0. Probably why it never really took off. I'm pretty sure I used eSATA for the hdd's in my last build (with an RTX 1080 gpu), I bought a few hdd's and daisy chained them using eSATA (or something) and special cable with multiple connectors on it. Well, maybe it was something else (other than eSATA) because this was many years ago and I only used that type of cable/connection one time in my life. I do recall that daisy chaining the hdd's didn't work with RAID and I don't know why (maybe it's just not engineered to work that way). I ended up continuing to use my laptop/s most of the time, so I'll probably never do that again (ie. build a desktop PC). Once you get accustomed to using a portable laptop, it's tough to go back to desktops. |
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Post by sj on Nov 3, 2022 7:10:45 GMT -5
For ppl on a budget and waiting for prices to come down (like Cop), an Xbox Series S and Gamepass subscription (which includes a ton of games, including AAA titles) isn't a bad idea. You could do that for a while, basically rent a massive game library for dirt cheap, until you're ready to move back to PC. PS4/PS5 has something similar, but the general consensus is that Gamepass has a better selection of games.
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Post by Coolverine on Nov 3, 2022 18:56:44 GMT -5
^Oh yeah, GamePass is a great plan. Only $10 a month and lots of great games, the only real downside is the folders and files for the games are hidden behind a bunch of security and they aren't moddable as far as I can tell.
Also I had a problem once or twice where after I uninstalled the game from the Xbox app, it was still taking up space and then the app thought it was installed again. Then I tried to uninstall it again, and it was just an endless loop of the same. No doubt it's because of all that security crap that Microsoft put on the games folder, to get around it I had to go into safemode to delete it. That was the main reason I stopped using it, but it might be better now. Even after it was out of beta on PC, it was still problematic at times.
I'm sure it works just fine on the Xbox.
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Post by ForRealTho on Nov 3, 2022 23:30:24 GMT -5
As far as I can tell, eSATA is an outdated thing that's not really used anymore. Between it and USB 3.0, the latter won out. I saw a 4TB external hard drive on Amazon with both USB 3.0 and eSATA, the price seems kinda steep though ($129). As far as I know, the speed advantage of eSATA isn't much over USB 3.0. Probably why it never really took off. My old job we had a box full of eSATA peripherals that they got for laptops for the higher ups and then nobody every used them so they had been gathering dust for 10+ years. |
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Post by Coolverine on Nov 6, 2022 16:43:18 GMT -5
As far as I can tell, eSATA is an outdated thing that's not really used anymore. Between it and USB 3.0, the latter won out. I saw a 4TB external hard drive on Amazon with both USB 3.0 and eSATA, the price seems kinda steep though ($129). As far as I know, the speed advantage of eSATA isn't much over USB 3.0. Probably why it never really took off. My old job we had a box full of eSATA peripherals that they got for laptops for the higher ups and then nobody every used them so they had been gathering dust for 10+ years. It's a cool thing but it's certainly not as convenient as USB already is. I think eSATA hard drives also require their own power which requires either a USB cable anyway, or a wall adapter. I'm pretty sure in certain situations eSATA's a good thing to have though. One application I've seen that it might be good for is connecting a DVR. I actually have that port disconnected internally just to have 1 less wire to route. |
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Post by sj on Nov 6, 2022 19:37:14 GMT -5
My old job we had a box full of eSATA peripherals that they got for laptops for the higher ups and then nobody every used them so they had been gathering dust for 10+ years. It's a cool thing but it's certainly not as convenient as USB already is. I think eSATA hard drives also require their own power which requires either a USB cable anyway, or a wall adapter. I'm pretty sure in certain situations eSATA's a good thing to have though. One application I've seen that it might be good for is connecting a DVR. I actually have that port disconnected internally just to have 1 less wire to route. eSATA had a theoretical speed advantage over USB 2.0, then USB 3.0 made it obsolete. It may have not had a real speed advantage in most scenarios tho, since ssd's were very expensive at the time and most people were still using hdd's (which couldn't take advantage of eSATA speeds anyway). It was a poorly timed technology/product. I think that's why I (wrongly) assumed that daisy chaining hdd's (with eSATA) and setting up RAID might actually work, since the tech had gobbs more throughput than hdd's needed. |
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Post by sj on Dec 3, 2022 14:33:15 GMT -5
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Post by ForRealTho on Dec 3, 2022 21:38:59 GMT -5
On of my previous IT jobs I was a Field Tech, my work machine was a Macbook Air and it made me really appreciate that when you close a lid on a Mac it will turn off 100% of the time. I have lost count how many times I have closed the lid on Windows laptops and they keep on running, didn't happen a single time on my Air |
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Post by sj on Dec 4, 2022 12:06:02 GMT -5
On of my previous IT jobs I was a Field Tech, my work machine was a Macbook Air and it made me really appreciate that when you close a lid on a Mac it will turn off 100% of the time. I have lost count how many times I have closed the lid on Windows laptops and they keep on running, didn't happen a single time on my Air Linus pointed out that, rather than fixing the problem, Microsoft has blocked workarounds at least a few times. What makes anyone think this isn't an intentional unofficial feature and Microsoft wants our laptops/PC's in an always on state? imo, there's clear motive because the licensing agreement gives them rights to do whatever with your data and the longer your PC is on, the more data can be collected (such as location data) and transferred. Seems there are always new problems with Microsoft products. For software developers, tools such as Integration Services are broken in Visual Studio 2022. They're making it more difficult (or impossible) to use on-premises software tools and applications, probably because they want everybody to convert to their cloud (Azure) platforms, since that would mean a continuous steady stream of fees and profit. |
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Post by Coolverine on Dec 4, 2022 20:02:17 GMT -5
If they do track location, I'm glad I sprung for VPN.
I think it's actually prevented DDoS a few times.
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Post by sj on Dec 9, 2022 18:47:04 GMT -5
They do. Microsoft doesn't protect your data or privacy.
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Post by Coolverine on Feb 13, 2023 8:34:06 GMT -5
I paid for a year of this service called Incogni, they're supposed to find any databases that personal information appears on and then request the removal of it. Apparently companies out there take your personal data without consent and build a consumer profile on you so they can target you with marketing and other stuff, which is a constitutional violation of some kind, but these companies lobby the government every year to keep getting away with their bs. It's funny too, cause they warned that these data brokerage companies might contact me personally and try to coerce or otherwise convince me to not have my data removed which I've gotten a few already. All I have to do is reply to them to reach out to Incogni and attach them on it.
I've noticed since I got this service I'm getting a lot less unknown and scammer calls, they've all but completely stopped. I do kinda miss getting those scammer calls though, was always fun to mess with them.
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Post by sj on Feb 13, 2023 9:30:48 GMT -5
I paid for a year of this service called Incogni, they're supposed to find any databases that personal information appears on and then request the removal of it. Apparently companies out there take your personal data without consent and build a consumer profile on you so they can target you with marketing and other stuff, which is a constitutional violation of some kind, but these companies lobby the government every year to keep getting away with their bs. It's funny too, cause they warned that these data brokerage companies might contact me personally and try to coerce or otherwise convince me to not have my data removed which I've gotten a few already. All I have to do is reply to them to reach out to Incogni and attach them on it. I've noticed since I got this service I'm getting a lot less unknown and scammer calls, they've all but completely stopped. I do kinda miss getting those scammer calls though, was always fun to mess with them. Corruption & crime rule here (the further up the chain you go, the worse it gets, and the more they get away with), while Constitutional rights of ordinary citizens are being ignored and eroded. Consider Epstein's clientele - the elite billionaires and powerful politicians - protected and allowed to roam free despite committing felonies against underage minors. Versus, if you're an average citizen who can't afford a hot-shot lawyer, they'd throw the book at you for some relatively small things that harm noone. |
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Post by sj on Feb 13, 2023 9:36:04 GMT -5
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Post by ForRealTho on Feb 13, 2023 11:24:49 GMT -5
I always think its cool when people repurpose old hardware like that. One of my old roommates back in the day wanted to get back into gaming, he hadn't really played computer games since middle school. He got a top of the line Xeon system from 2006 in 2011 when his company decommissioned it, he got it completely free. It had two CPU slots with two physical CPUs, both 4 cores 4 threads. I put my old GeForce 8800 in it since it was just sitting gathering dust, and he has a machine that ran older titles flawlessly and newer ones limited by the gfx card. I put Stalker Call of Pripyat on that Xeon PC and it ran flawlessly on his 1024x768 monitor, same with the original Bioshock. IIRC he thought Stalker looked really cool but was way too difficult for someone who hadn't played FPS in over 10 years, he liked Bioshock a lot tho. |
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Post by Emig5m on Mar 6, 2023 0:15:02 GMT -5
I paid for a year of this service called Incogni, they're supposed to find any databases that personal information appears on and then request the removal of it. Apparently companies out there take your personal data without consent and build a consumer profile on you so they can target you with marketing and other stuff, which is a constitutional violation of some kind, but these companies lobby the government every year to keep getting away with their bs. It's funny too, cause they warned that these data brokerage companies might contact me personally and try to coerce or otherwise convince me to not have my data removed which I've gotten a few already. All I have to do is reply to them to reach out to Incogni and attach them on it. I've noticed since I got this service I'm getting a lot less unknown and scammer calls, they've all but completely stopped. I do kinda miss getting those scammer calls though, was always fun to mess with them. Corruption & crime rule here (the further up the chain you go, the worse it gets, and the more they get away with), while Constitutional rights of ordinary citizens are being ignored and eroded. Consider Epstein's clientele - the elite billionaires and powerful politicians - protected and allowed to roam free despite committing felonies against underage minors. Versus, if you're an average citizen who can't afford a hot-shot lawyer, they'd throw the book at you for some relatively small things that harm noone. Truer words have never been said.... don't you just love our free and fair society? |
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Post by Cop on Mar 6, 2023 10:53:52 GMT -5
Trump could've set all of that straight, but they wouldn't let him...
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Post by sj on Mar 6, 2023 13:45:26 GMT -5
Trump could've set all of that straight, but they wouldn't let him... He said he would ("drain the swamp") and, of course, didn't. JFK gave firey speeches, vowing to gut corruption out of government, but was assassinated by a lone wolf Communist according to the official reports. |
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Post by sj on Mar 6, 2023 13:49:48 GMT -5
The corruption is so systemic, if anybody had a chance of ending it, he/she would certainly be taken out. Look at Epstein.. he probably had the dirt to take down many high ranking officials and billionaires, and was rubbed out of existence.
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Post by ForRealTho on Mar 6, 2023 14:04:14 GMT -5
JFK gave firey speeches, vowing to gut corruption out of government, but was assassinated by a lone wolf Communist according to the official reports. JFK, RFK, & Martin Luther King. Martin Luther King was in the middle of pivoting from black Civil Rights when he died. His new thing was combating poverty: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor_People%27s_CampaignRacism became a religion in the South pushed by the elites to distract from 99% of the wealth being controlled by the 1% slave owning elite class. The Civil War can be viewed as the last war against Feudalism. You keep poor whites focused on reinforcing the racist hierarchy and they won't notice the economic hierarchy: "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." -Lyndon B. Johnson Martin Luther King's new thing was bringing ALL poor people together regardless of race to combat economic inequality. Poor blacks and poor whites together. That scared the crap out of the elite classes because that is getting scarily close to proletariat uprising. The same reason why "social justice" and "wokeism" is demonized today. You used to be able to pay for college working part time: www.intelligent.com/1970-v-2020-how-working-through-college-has-changed/CEOs make absolutely insane amounts of money compared to the average worker: www.epi.org/publication/ceo-pay-in-2021/However if you point that out it makes you a whiney "woke SJW" with green hair and a nose ring. A caricature not to be taken seriously at all. |
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