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ok weird one honest question. i have been waiting for teh next generatoin for two years with a aging mid range GPU. i mostly play competitive shooters. i finally have a strict 300 dollars ready. Part of me wants to buy today, part of me is scared of buyers…
long time lurker first post lol im trying to figure out if it's worth putting money into a used enterprise workstation for my home lab or if i should just buy new consumer parts 🔥 i've seen some crazy deals on old pro series machines, but i'm honestly…
long time lurker first post lol say ure a small team starting a greenfield project. u can build a modular monolith or a set of small services with separate deployments. splitting early promises independent deployments and clean boundaries... staying together…
hmmmm ok I mentor a couple of people who are new to programming, and teh question keeps coming up: should they use AI coding assistants while learnnig, or avoid them until theyve built fundamentals? i can see both…
help!! sooo i currently just use the default gateway from my isp but it's honestly struggling to handle everything when i start spinning up containers.., i was thinking about grabbing a dedicated router but idk if its actually worth the extra hardware cuz…
guys pls help im thinking about getting a laptop for my parent, who mainly uses a browser, email and video calls. Options are a new budget laptop or a refurbished business model a few years old for similar money.…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts let's go back in time 🤷 For me, computers will always mean a beige tower under the desk and a shareware shooter. i'd love to hear everyone's first machine story, the weird things you did with it, and the first time u…
long time lurker first post lol two things to check... hello everyone... i run a small business and manage our website and email myself, mostly by trial and error... im not technical by training, but Ive picked up…
Im a first time builder and i need a new desktop for video editing. Budget is a firm 800 dollars. Everyone online says building is easy and cheaper 🤦 Then i read horror stories about bent CPU pins and RAM not setaed properly. A prebuilt comes with a…
guys pls help genuine question, not a rant. Is a soldered SSD actually necessary for mdoern designs, or just convenient for manufacturers?? I'm buying a new ultrabook soon and I'm torn between a sleek sealed model and a slightly tihcker one that I could fix…
guys pls help first, i love this forum. Helpful ppl, no drama. One thing Id love: a weekly digest email, cuz i post logs and scripts alot 🤦 Im curious if others want teh same, or if theres smth else that would help more. Lets collect ideas in one place so…
Hi everyone! Im a university student. Ive been reading this forum for weeks while googling problems, and today i finally made an account. Honest reason: an open world RPG started crashing to desktop after sixty hours of play without issues. I'm not very…
im literally losing my mind here my mom handed me a box of hard drives and said this is everything. its thousands of RAW files. I want to set up something that will still be readable in twenty years and that protects against a cloud account getting locked.…
ugh. thread for the unpaid IT department of every family. My latest: my dad, the mouse stopped working, and a solution that involved one button nobody had noticed 😂 Share yours, and if u have tricks for making family tech easier, i want those too. Im…
Unpopular among my friends: i think consoles are the better choice for most people who play big story games. You sit down, press a button, play. PC is great if you enjoy teh tinkering, but most ppl dont. As a new parent, conveniecne wins. Who agrees and who…
I start nursing soon and my parents gave me about 700 dollars for a laptop... that is all I get for teh next four years, sooo I really cannot mess this up... everyone online seems to recommend whatever they personally own... my priorities: a light chassis,…
ugh. ive been tinkering with computers for five years and this one bugs me: laptops dont need to be thinner. Every review praises the opposite, every product launch doubles down, and i just dont see the benefit in my daily life. Maybe Im missing something.…
My entry level card from years ago has served me well, but story games at 1440p is turning into a slideshow on medium settings. I have up to 700 dollars set aside :/ Every time I am about to click buy, someone says new cards are coming and prices will drop.…
Unpopular among my friends: i think consoles are teh better choice for most people who play competitive shooters. You sit down, press a button, play. PC is great if you enjoy the tinkreing, but most people dont. As a person who travels for work, convenience…
ok so peak modern life: my smart dishwasher failed a software update, i came home and the app says teh device is offline. Im half laughing and half worried, because meal prep for the whole week depends on this thing working. Is there a standard way to…
guys pls help thread for honest, slightly spicy opinions... mine: dark mode is overrated. im not trolling, i genuinely think the industry pushes features that make specs sheets look good instead of making daily use better... after ten years of buying and…
ok so hey, i've been meaning to sort out my desk for ages... cables everywhere, monitor too low, keyboard at teh wrong height. before i spend money, Id like to hear about tweaks that made a real difference for people.…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts the game console shows connected to Wi Fi but no internet access. this happened right before movie night with friends, of course... i tried forgetting the network and joining again, no luck.. 😂 the router was replaced…
i've been a member for six months now and wanted to share some honest feedback. what i love most is teh off topic section. that's rare online. what i'd like to see is more people coming back to say what fixed their problem. too many threads end with silence.…
long time lurker first post lol hi admins! Love the forum, reporting a bug. Every time i open the search rseults page in Chrome on a tablet, teh tab dies with this. reloading sometimes works, sometimes not... other sites are fine. I can try other settings or…
