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Wacom tablet parallax is annoying, even on calibrated systems.

Had to use a computer with a hard disk today after spending the last year on my SSD-equipped laptop. Never before has a computer felt so slow.

Think to buying more ram because of 50+ hentai tab on chrome

Had to use a computer with a hard disk today after spending the last year on my SSD-equipped laptop. Never before has a computer felt so slow.

I've never owned a computer with a single SSD, because I like having warning signs before my storage media dies.

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Interdasting.

I've never owned a computer with a single SSD, because I like having warning signs before my storage media dies.

The mtbf is lower and the failrate is like 10-20x higher for traditional drives compared to Intel or Samsung SSDs?

Occassionally windows or smart will give you a heads up right before the drive fails, but with SSD unless its a firmware issue or a shit brand with a shit controller then usually the failure will be slower.

Most of my ssds became obsolete before they came close to failing. Can't even remember how many platter drives have failed. Bittorrent just ate hard drives alive back in the day.

I wouldn't touch budget brands or sandforce controllers though.

The mtbf is lower and the failrate is like 10-20x higher for traditional drives compared to Intel or Samsung SSDs?

Occassionally windows or smart will give you a heads up right before the drive fails, but with SSD unless its a firmware issue or a shit brand with a shit controller then usually the failure will be slower.

Most of my ssds became obsolete before they came close to failing. Can't even remember how many platter drives have failed. Bittorrent just ate hard drives alive back in the day.

I wouldn't touch budget brands or sandforce controllers though.

You can say that, but in my personal experience I've never had a hard drive fail except for once in an ipod classic which got banged around a bunch.

My Amiga 500 has a SCSI drive from 1991 that still works.

Meanwhile three friends have come to me to try to get me to help them recover data from dead SSD's, only to find that we can't even detect the presence of a SATA device when they are plugged into my desktop.

HDD's also give indications if they're about to die. Noises, SMART warnings/errors, etc.

This is all anecdotal evidence, obviously. But I'm not sold on SSD's.

Support for AV1 format has been added to VLC & MPC-HC. All we need to wait now is decoding hardware and an optimized software encoder.

I've had many HDD's die, some slow & silent, some grindy or clicky and some fast and sudden.

I think i got a dozen or more dead HDD's, the last one died 3 years ago, it was a 750GB PATA one. Ironically it was my last IDE legacy drive and also the newest bought one.

Now everything is on SATA2/3 and my largest SSD is a Crucial MX300 2.5" 525GB SATA III TLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) CT525MX300SSD1.
It had good r/w speeds and the price/GB was right, i also got a bunch of small SSD's but those are useless and not used.

Support for AV1 format has been added to VLC & MPC-HC. All we need to wait now is decoding hardware and an optimized software encoder.

Since MPC-HC, while good, is now abandoned development-wise, if you're talking about another program that restarted from the available source code, you should give the full name allowing to find it.

My DAC died after a power outage, ain't that just fuckin' dandy. Oh well, at least now I have a reason buy a new one, with DSD support and all that. But it'll take at least a week to arrive, so I'm stuck with headphones for now. Ugh.

Meanwhile three friends have come to me to try to get me to help them recover data from dead SSD's, only to find that we can't even detect the presence of a SATA device when they are plugged into my desktop.

Smells like OCZ Agility drives?

Support for AV1 format has been added to VLC & MPC-HC. All we need to wait now is decoding hardware and an optimized software encoder.

We don't even have an optimized (free) h265 software encoder that's not shit yet, so I'm not particularly enthusiastic about an even slower encoding time than that.

For people with super beefy machines, though, great.

BTW ffmpeg has supported AV1 for four months, so I'm surprised VLC only now supports it since it uses ffmpeg.

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I bought a new ps vita today off of Amazon for about 225 us dollars--not including shipping and currency exchange rates, which would beef up the price to about 300 dollars in my country's currency--because my previous ps vita broke from over use and old age, and I don't want to sell the over 1000 dollars I invested in ps vita games for pennies at Eb games. The ps vita I bought was in brand-new condition, and it is expected to arrive at my home in roughly 2 weeks from today. I look forward to playing it when it gets home.

What's a free writing program for Mac?

What's a free writing program for Mac?

Libreoffice

Claimed customer account security is of "highest importance" yet stored their passwords in plain text.

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