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by vee-kay 10mo ago
For decades, the unofficial Microshit motto has been: Intel inside, Idiot outside. Because Microsoft treated users as if they were idiots. So basically tons of Windows related websites teach this infallible little trick as solution when a u
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by vee-kay 10mo ago
Valve changed its Steam Store's ToS, so officially it means Steam users no longer own the content they purchased in it, they merely bought a subscription to rent it for a while, until the game publisher decides to revoke the online con
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by vee-kay 10mo ago
Venezuelans already have been losing their natural resources. Venezuela's major exportable resource is oil, and guess what happened to that export industry? Sanctions, open-sea piracy (in the guise of drug raids) to seize Venezuelan o
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by vee-kay 10mo ago
This is cool. MS Windows (Win10 or Win11) has this dictate-speech-to-text feature built-in, but its accurate isn't up to the mark. Win11 users can use Win+H hotkeys for dictation: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us&#x2
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by vee-kay 10mo ago
Link is working for me
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by vee-kay 10mo ago
I just love it - what's the chance that some internet stranger cites some site (pub intended) of another strange on some random forum, and that site/blog's owner immediately chimes in (as a member of that forum, no less) to t
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by vee-kay 10mo ago
You need to compare relative prices and availability too, from a VFM (value for money (price vs quality+quantity)) perspective. A budget PC today at a certain price point (say, $500) would certainly have a lot more powerful CPU and faster d
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by vee-kay 10mo ago
Good luck fabricating new microchips. It is a very expensive and difficult proposition.
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by vee-kay 10mo ago
Quick.. list your favorite software and tell us how much GBs of space they use after installation and how many GBs of RAM they consume when running. You will find most of your fave programs struggle badly with 2-4GB of RAM, even on Linux. O
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by vee-kay 10mo ago
You must be surprised to learn that most of the personal/SOHO PC users use Windows as the default OS. In fact, Microsoft and Intel made a cutthroat monopoly of the PC market by their long-term WinTel nexus (MS Windows optimized to run
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by vee-kay 10mo ago
RAMageddon is here.. https://www.tomsguide.com/news/live/ram-price-crisis-updates Summary: * Massive spikes: Consumer RAM prices have skyrocketed due to a tight supply. Major PC companies have issued warnings of p
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by vee-kay 10mo ago
(Sharing a comment I recently posted on a similar thread..) For last 2+ years, I've noticed a worrying trend: the typical budget PCs (especially Laptops) are being sold at higher prices with lower RAM (just 8GB) and lower-end CPUs (and
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by vee-kay 10mo ago
Try Win11 on that old PC, and you'll really feel the need for more RAM and a better CPU. I sometimes feel M$ is deliberately making its Windows OS clunkier, so it can turn into a SaaS offering with a pricey subscription, like it has al
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by vee-kay 10mo ago
Win10 can work with 8GB DDR4 RAM. Win11, on the other hand, meh.. Though Win10 will stop getting updates, but M$ is mistaken if it thinks it can force customers to switch to more expensive, buggy, bad performance Win11. That's why I sw
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by vee-kay 10mo ago
Process Lasso worked for me few years back when I needed to do CPU cores restriction for an old program.
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by vee-kay 10mo ago
Dedicated GPUs in gaming laptops are a necessity for the IT industry, as it forces manufacturers, assemblers and software makers to be more creative and ambitious with power draw and graphics software, and better optimal usage of available
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by vee-kay 10mo ago
You can impose CPU restrictions in Windows 10 or 11 too... You can limit CPU usage for a program in Windows by adjusting the "Maximum processor state" in the power options to a lower percentage, such as 80%. Additionally, you can
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by vee-kay 10mo ago
There is another word for it: cartel. e.g., the Phoebus cartel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel
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by vee-kay 10mo ago
For last 2 years, I've noticed a worrying trend: the typical budget PCs (especially Laptops) are being sold at higher prices with lower RAM (just 8GB) and lower-end CPUs (and no dedicated GPUs). Industry mandate should have become 16GB
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by vee-kay 10mo ago
The popup on the page doesn't close. It's irritating. Please fix it.
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by vee-kay 10mo ago
Q.> I mean i would never dispute that India was enslaved, but I think characterizing it as they were enslaved and all there ideas were stolen is a stretch. If they were so innovative and advanced how were they enslaved? A.: It's bec
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by vee-kay 10mo ago
Ah, but you need to dig deeper, my friend. "Algorithm" is derived from Al-Khwarizmi, but only because he translated the ancient Indian/Hindu "Sulba Sutras" texts into Persian, especially in his "Al Jabr" t
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by vee-kay 10mo ago
The most novel feature of the Indian numerals is the use of the rounded zero symbol for the mathematical zero, so we all know it so well. The Indian numerals also covered all the basic numeral digits and fit perfectly into the decimal syste
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by vee-kay 10mo ago
Magnetic HDDs also tend to have inbuilt SMART features to monitor disk performance and health, so they can inform when they are beginning to give problems. So the advanced user can recover the data before the HDD fully fails. In my experien
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by vee-kay 10mo ago
Bottom of the barrel flash drives.. Many of us have old cheap flash drives, which may have some backups (family photos, videos, career files, etc.) we may not want to lose - so they may qualify for such periodic basic maintenance (just plug
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by vee-kay 10mo ago
Technically, that magnetic spinning HDD can work even after decades if maintained safely (no dust, no extreme heat) and without stress, even if it is not switched on for years. In fact, if a magnetic HDD crashes, you may still recover some
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by vee-kay 10mo ago
The word "Trigonometry" itself is of Sanskrit origin: Tri (three) + kona (corner/angle) + niti (measure). The word "meter" or "metre" is from Sanskrit "Miti" (मिती) (meaning: measure/measure
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by vee-kay 10mo ago
Cipher and "Arabic" numerals are not just loan words, they are loan concepts - from India. They originated from ancient India, because the Arabs adopted and translated those ideas and texts from the original texts written by ancie
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by vee-kay 10mo ago
Origin trivia: Originating from the Sanskrit word for zero शून्य (śuṇya), via the Arabic word صفر (ṣifr), the word "cipher" spread to Europe as part of the Arabic numeral system during the Middle Ages. https://www.etymo
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by vee-kay 10mo ago
Fun fact: zero and numerals were not invented by the Arabs. The Arabs learnt the concept & use of mathematical zero, numerals, decimal system, mathematical calculations, etc. from the ancient Hindus/Indians. And from the Arabs, the

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