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  1. Grocery stores nickel and diming us by overcharging

    Happens all the time at the Walmart I frequent for groceries. It is not a large amount typically on each item, but it will be marked for $2.43, and ring up at $2.62. The problem isn't the 19 cents (it won't bankrupt me), it is that it ends up being many items just like this and it ends up...

  2. I'm off to the Nissan Dealership to get a bunch of major and minor repairs done.

    If you spend more than $2k on repairs to that car, that is money that is like lighting it on fire. I certainly understand spending money on routine maintenance to keep a vehicle on the road, but at 13 years it owes you nothing, and to spend more on repairs than what the vehicle is worth is...

  3. Question Why don't CPUs have an odd number of cores ?

    I am still running a Phenom II 720 (3 cores), with an unlocked 4th core for 12 years. It was a daily driver until 18 months ago. Now it just acts as a NAS storage device with large hard drives. It still is fine as a regular desktop PC for browsing/office types of tasks.

  4. Tacoma Frame Rust avoid altogether?

    I owned a 2001 Toyota 4Runner from brand new until last year(20 years). 4Runner's share the same frame as Tacoma's of that era. It was a secondary vehicle for me, so it was lightly driven, and only had 80k miles on it. The body, interior, engine, and transmission all looked like a well...

  5. Question What is the generational improvement between 2nd-Gen Core (Sandy Bridge) quads, and 6th-Gen (Skylake) quads?

    Fairly accurate according to this comparison of benchmarks of those two CPU's. https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i5-6600-vs-Intel-Core-i5-2400/3514vs803

  6. Question Need a cheap video card during RMA

    I am using a cheap GT 710 for normal office/browsing/Youtube/RDP sessions etc with zero issues on a pair of 27" 1920x1080 monitors/Windows 10. I don't game on PC, so for regular run of the mill desktop computing a GT 710 will work just fine in Windows 10. I paid about $40 for mine about 12...

  7. Spanx employees given $10k, and 2-first class plane tickets.

    And the employer can also potentially write these "gifts" off as a business expense for tax purposes as they can treat these as a "bonus". At the end of the day if the employee ends up with more money than you started with at the beginning of the day it is a net win...but most employers don't...

  8. Question Win 11 check said my cpu does not qualify

    I have a spare machine that I could use as a test workstation. If it did not work, nothing truly lost--just reinstall Windows 10 and 4 more years of updates. It is an old i5 3570 that is in a Dell Optiplex 3010 SFF. The computer meets zero of the Windows 11 requirements, and I was able to...

  9. Post your smartphone upgrade history

    Motorola Droid X Samsung S3 (16 GB) Motorola X Pure (64 GB) Motorola G Power (64 GB) The first Motorola Droid X was not very good in comparison to the last 3 (very early Android). I tend to keep my phones for 3-4 years until the battery craps out, or they just become too slow to run the...

  10. Recommend good android texting app?

    Textra is SMS based. My family all uses Android phones, and works perfectly. In laws all have iPhones, and I get all messages from them without issue. Money well spent to purchase the Textra app.

  11. Recommend good android texting app?

    I have been using Textra for years. Works perfectly for me.

  12. Anyone have an Etsy store?

    I think that you would store some data just to do business with someone(name, address, email address, etc)--so it is a bit trickier on the dealing with EU laws, when being in the USA and not keeping up to date with their laws. Not a deal breaker from a technical perspective...but something to...

  13. Anyone have an Etsy store?

    Take this for what it is worth, as I do not know if this will apply to your business or not, but selling things to people in the EU, and if any data is hosted by you might be worth doing some research if you go with the direct form of selling via a website hosted by you. There are alot of...

  14. What was the forum drama going on when you joined?

    I forgot all about that person!!! I was a lurker when he was posting.

  15. What was the forum drama going on when you joined?

    I actually started visiting here in 1998 doing research for my build using a Celeron 300a. I lurked for many, many years before signing up. Believe it or not, the "Hot Deals" section was invaluable over 20 years ago. There were so many hot deals during the original "dot com" bubble. Value...

  16. Any of you sign on to a new job recently? Did you have to sign a lot of paperwork forcing you to give up some privacy and freedom?

    That is standard "non-compete" clause. Assuming that the contract gig you may be hired for, the "client"; where you will actually work was happy with you in that position, they may want to hire you directly, instead of paying your contract company. What typically happens in that case is that...

  17. What are you buying with your $1200 check?

    Me either. Living in Taxland/Maryland it is just continue to pay high taxes at the state and local level, along with federal.

  18. Got burned water stains on glass stove top.

    If you have not tried baking soda powder give it a try, as almost everyone has some in their kitchen and even if you do not a box is like 40-50 cents at the grocery store. Worst case you put the small box in your refrigerator to reduce smells if it does not work for you to cleanup spills on the...

  19. Will windows 10 work on old dual core CPU

    I have Windows 10 installed on two AMD Phenom 720's with integrated motherboard graphics that are 10 plus year old platforms. The integrated graphics works fine for regular office types of applications, and for web browsing. I have two Intel platforms with integrated graphics that are also...

  20. The "Homework gap". Maybe we should get to donating some old PCs or something.

  21. 401k vesting

    I sure hope that does not happen, but I could see that as an easy thing for employers to cut, or reduce the matching percentages. Who would have thought 30 years ago that private pensions would disappear as quickly as they did. My father grilled it into me, and my brother that we needed to...

  22. 401k vesting

    I agree, assuming that the person actually saves that money. In reality most people will spend that $5k annual increase on their daily trip to Starbucks, and buying the latest and greatest iPhone each year instead of contributing to their retirement funds. Getting people to save for retirement...

  23. 401k vesting

    I agree! The sheep have been conditioned to accept less and less in their benefit packages as time has marched forward. I am one of those sheep, because something is better than nothing. I certainly am thankful to have what I have, but the brutal honesty is that employment benefits today are...

  24. 401k vesting

    I believe that for the most part 401k plans have been declining in what employers provide compared to what they were 20-30 years ago when they were first introduced as a replacement for pension systems. I am a Gen X'er, and fortunately my previous 401k plans for the first 25 years were...

  25. How long before Core2 becomes like Pentium4?

    The Windows 10 MDS patches have really taken a toll on my old AMD Phenom II 720. It still works fine for almost all tasks, but the CPU runs warmer,and at the higher frequencies, instead of idling at 800 mhz all the time (I have a fan that speeds up/speeds down as need be, so I can hear it ramp...

  26. Deciding on a motherboard - AMD - Windows 7

    I updated 5 Windows 7 workstations in the last 30 days. All of the installs updated to a digital license for Windows 10 Pro without any issues.

  27. Deciding on a motherboard - AMD - Windows 7

    Any particular reason to stick with Windows 7? The update to Windows 10 is still free on a licensed Windows 7 PC. I have personally recently updated 5 older Windows 7 workstations/laptops in the household on older systems (2 AMD Phenom 2 720's, 1 Intel i3-4150, 1 Intel i5-3470, and a AMD 3510...

  28. Common human behaviours that make you shake your head?

    You can think what you want to think. I have lived it. I saw all of the trash/litter everywhere as a young child, and then I saw an environment that "appeared" to be cleaner. Who knows if it was or not...but people did think twice about pitching their litter out the window, and it showed in...

  29. Common human behaviours that make you shake your head?

    I am depressed at how much litter is around these days. It is a personal pet peeve of mine, and I make every effort to clean up things in my own personal community. I am older gentleman, so I remember the commercial of the native American with a tear running down his face seeing the pollution...

  30. Solved! Windows 10 installation on AMD2+ Motherboard

    Fixed my own issue thru additional research, but figured I would post the solution in case anyone else has issues, or questions about older AMD hardware and getting the SSD to run in AHCI mode. (Faster, and more advanced options are available once running in AHCI mode, versus IDE) Opened up...

  31. Whom is still rocking an Athlon / Phenom II (even X6), or a Core2Duo/Quad? X58 users too.

    Thanks! I will try a format/reinstall to see if I can get the AHCI interface to install. I feel the same way about my old Phenom 720 (unlocked to 4 cores, and 3.2 Ghz), and 8 GB of RAM. It still plows thru everything with ease that I do (no gaming). I just want to be up to date with Windows...

  32. Solved! Windows 10 installation on AMD2+ Motherboard

    Has anyone successfully installed Windows 10 x64 Professional on an older AM2+ motherboard and SSD, and using AHCI drivers for SATA? I was able to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10, but my SSD is showing as an IDE device, and will not boot under AHCI mode for the SSD to run at its optimal...

  33. Whom is still rocking an Athlon / Phenom II (even X6), or a Core2Duo/Quad? X58 users too.

    Has anyone installed Windows 10 on an AM2+ motherboard and gotten ACHI drivers to work for a SSD? I have a Biostar TA 790 GXE (128 MB Radeon video card onboard).

  34. Anyone dislike corporate jobs? Am I the only one?

    Now that is some funny shit there! That is as corporate as it gets in IT!

  35. Whom is still rocking an Athlon / Phenom II (even X6), or a Core2Duo/Quad? X58 users too.

    I am like you in that I hate seeing something that still has a useful purpose being put into the landfill. My main daily use PC is 10 years old. I just can't get rid of it, as I see no reason to toss something that still works just fine. I drive a 19 year old SUV for the same reason. Sure it...

  36. Whom is still rocking an Athlon / Phenom II (even X6), or a Core2Duo/Quad? X58 users too.

    I have a Dell 3010 SFF (Small Form Factor), with a i5 3470, and 8 GB of RAM, with a 500 GB hard drive that I have connected directly to a 65" 4k TV via HDMI port. It is so small, it fits on a shelf on an entertainment center hardwired by Ethernet to my FIOS router. You could do something...

  37. Whom is still rocking an Athlon / Phenom II (even X6), or a Core2Duo/Quad? X58 users too.

    Finally found a local deal that I could not pass up. A brand new in unopened box (albeit several years old), Dell 3020 tower case with i3 4150 @ 3.5 Ghz, and 8 GB of RAM, 1 TB hard drive for $60. I popped in the 16 GB of DDR3 that I had laying around from the upgrade from 7 years ago, that I...

  38. Whom is still rocking an Athlon / Phenom II (even X6), or a Core2Duo/Quad? X58 users too.

    That is impressive! That is the exact scenario that I am in. I have a Samsung 830 SSD for the OS, and despite that the motherboard only supports SATA II, it still is hard to distinguish between my i5 at work, that also has a SSD. Sure that i5 will run laps around this old AMD in benchmarks...

  39. Whom is still rocking an Athlon / Phenom II (even X6), or a Core2Duo/Quad? X58 users too.

    Different strokes for different folks. I honestly never feel burdened, or waiting for anything with the Phenom II 720. But I don't play games. Just light office based tasks. I certainly realize that modern CPU's wipe the floor with this old AMD rig, but I don't do anything that is taxing CPU...

  40. Whom is still rocking an Athlon / Phenom II (even X6), or a Core2Duo/Quad? X58 users too.

    I am still rocking a Phenom II 720 x3 with 8 GB of DDR2 overclocked to 3.2 ghz as a daily computer. I have a Samsung 830 SSD for the OS, and several hard drives for 10 TB of storage. It unlocks to a quad core at 3.2 ghz, but I don't really need that extra core for anything I am doing as I...
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