Recent content by MadScientist

M
Your doctor’s office could be reading your blood pressure all wrong

Looks good for the price. Braun ExactFit 3 To check it's accuracy take it with you the next time you go see your doc and compare readings. I'm surprised CR did not test it. Their top picks: Link I had my anuual visit with my cardiologist on Monday. I compared the readings of my Omron 3 to...
- MadScientist
- Post #9
- Feb 6, 2025
- Forum: Health and Fitness
M
Your doctor’s office could be reading your blood pressure all wrong

@mindless1 Great post. I agree with almost all of your post. Yes, your real life blood pressure is what counts, but there should be at least a minimal base line set of conditions for taking blood pressure readings that doctors can make a diagnose from. These are from Health.org, a link referred...
- MadScientist
- Post #4
- Jan 27, 2025
- Forum: Health and Fitness
M
Your doctor’s office could be reading your blood pressure all wrong

This could be the reason why my blood pressure is all over the place when my doc's nurse takes it. Linky 1 Linky 2
- MadScientist
- Thread
- Jan 25, 2025
- Replies: 8
- Forum: Health and Fitness
M
Need plasma tv replacement

Nothing wrong with wanting something better if you can afford it, but after watching the Netflix movie, https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/30/business/video/netflix-documentary-buy-now-overconsumption-bagenal-nr-digvid, it changerd by buying habits from want to need. As suggested in the movie, before...
- MadScientist
- Post #17
- Jan 3, 2025
- Forum: TVs
M
Need plasma tv replacement

No. After calibrating my plasma it looks a lot better, brighter, colors are crisper, blacks are still very black, contrast looks good, and gamma is 2.2. Like I previously posted I'm keeping it for now. My viewing seat is ~80" from the TV so a 65" would be too big. So far in 11 years of daily use...
- MadScientist
- Post #10
- Dec 15, 2024
- Forum: TVs
M
Need plasma tv replacement

After watching this doc movie: Buy Now: The Shopping Conspiracy, now playing on Netflix, I decided, for now, to keep my Panasonic Plasma TV. It would probably end up in some large pile of electronic junk in Malaysia. Instead of using someone's calibration settings, I decided to calibrate it...
- MadScientist
- Post #8
- Dec 3, 2024
- Forum: TVs
M
Dell 27 Gaming Monitors - G2724D and G2725D, on sale for $150., free shipping from Dell

I received it this week and calibrated it with DisplayCal and a SpyderX Pro at 1440P and 165Hz refresh rate. Review at Rtings. In Custom Color mode my RGB gain calibration settings were 100-100-99. Gamma was 2.2 before and after calibration. For $150. the picture looks great right out of the box...
- MadScientist
- Thread
- Nov 27, 2024
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
M
Need plasma tv replacement

For the past few years around BF time I am tempted to replace my Panasonic TC-P55ST60 plasma TV which I purchased in 10/2013 with an OLED TV. Yeah, it's heavy, puts out about the same amount of heat as a small space heater, costs more to run than an OLED, it's not as bright as an OLED, and it...
- MadScientist
- Post #5
- Nov 10, 2024
- Forum: TVs
M
Win 11 24H2 is available.

The Disk Cleanup bug has been fixed with the KB5044384 update. I installed the update today before I ran a Disk Cleanup. On another subject, I installed the 24H2 update on my HTPC which has a AMD Ryzen 5 5600G CPU. I ran Cinebench CPU single and multi-core benchmarks before and after the...
- MadScientist
- Post #10
- Oct 25, 2024
- Forum: Operating Systems
M
Win 11 24H2 is available.

Yep, also ran another Disk Cleanup and the 8.63 GB is still there. Like I said, a 24H2 update bug.
- MadScientist
- Post #8
- Oct 21, 2024
- Forum: Operating Systems
M
Win 11 24H2 is available.

Thanks, I tried that but the 8.63 GB is still there, actually not there. It's a glitch in the 24H2 update. From Microsoft, "Next Steps: We are working on a resolution and will provide more information when it is available."
- MadScientist
- Post #6
- Oct 20, 2024
- Forum: Operating Systems
M
Win 11 24H2 is available.

The 24H2 update has some bugs. So far I have only come across this one on my desktop and laptop when doing a disk cleanup. No matter how many times you do it, it reports incorrectly that there is still files left when there is not.
- MadScientist
- Post #4
- Oct 20, 2024
- Forum: Operating Systems
M
Win 11 24H2 is available.

I've been reading this on several sites. "This update, which may be released as soon as October, will also improve performance on AMD's Zen 3 and Zen 4 chips, according to the chip maker (Zen 4 chips include its Ryzen 7000 series; Zen 3 consists of over a dozen Ryzen 5000 series chips as well as...
- MadScientist
- Post #3
- Oct 18, 2024
- Forum: Operating Systems
M
Win 11 x64 24H2 Upgrade on Old computer

My laptop is not as old as yours. Lenovo Ideapad 720S-14IKB, Intel Core i7-8550U Processor, Win 11 Home x64 23H2, Nvidia GeForce MX150, 16GB DDR4, 2400 MHz, 256GB SSD. I used the Windows Installation Assistant to upgrade it to 24H2. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows11 No...
- MadScientist
- Post #3
- Oct 18, 2024
- Forum: Operating Systems
M
wALMART bts SALE - Victus 15.6" FHD 144Hz FSync Prem. 8GB/512GB/4050 6GB $599

8 GB ram is not enough. If it will take more, not soldered, then an excellent buy. Thanks Larry for all the deals you have posted over the years, but hard to beat: https://slickdeals.net/laptop-deals/
- MadScientist
- Post #2
- Sep 1, 2024
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways

RESOURCES

Top Bottom